oggbogg2 said:
About ideas how to decide how long to play in the other games, what about a decade each? January first the next decade we switch player. That will perhaps be best in vicki. In Europe universalis we could perhaps use the rulers as in ck, and in HOI we could go for 2 years of playing time. Or perhaps only one year?
Brings up a good point, since we will have to start thinking about that eventually. I suppose it all depends on the government dynamics that occur during the course of EU2. EU2, of course, can continue in the fashion that we have established: 1 ruler, 1 player. For Ricky, if our country has free elections then we can just run on the election cycle; in order to find a proper middle ground for length of play we can establish American term limits, i.e. if a party is reelected for a 2nd term, the player may continue until the next election, leaving each player with a maximum play time of 2 election cycles (on average this will be 8 years) and will provide a deterrent to constantly calling for elections in hopes of establishing a more favorable party. If your party loses the election after only 1 term, however, so be it; if your party is gone, so are you. For the purposes of this scenario "your party" will be the party you begin with, much as "your ruler" here is the ruler you begin with.
If the great state of Sweden ends up as a monarchy or dictatorship, however, then we will have to rethink things. 10 years is a rather arbitrary number and seems low historically. However, in the absence of any better alternatives, I'm for it.
1-2 years seems pretty reasonable for HOI2. I'm willing to leave that open for debate, given that we have quite some time until that happens. We'll have to survive 800 years of history before then and, given our dynasty's tendency of producing bastard children, we can't take that for granted.
One last point: should we consider moving this thread to other boards during the natural progression from game to game? No doubt we'll have quite a few more volunteers on EU2 and Vicky boards. That being said, I do think that, at the very least, we should start over and run through the player list again upon the successful conclusion of each export. Again, open for debate. We have plenty of time to decide.
