What should the EUV Start Date(s) be?

[Johan]

I only know that if Byzantium is not on the map, there will be very unhappy people here.

 

[Johan]

3 start dates (but no more):

The likelihood of us making a game with multiple startdates again is slim to none though.

 

[Johan]

What do you think of our proposal to split the game in two?

Bad from both business and development perspectives.

 

[Johan]

I’m curious why you say that.

3 quick reasons, can probably list loads more.

1) 2 seperate games = 2 seperate teams, needing double the amount of people.
2) creating a new brand is a high risk, not all work out well.
3) making a "reduced" eu in the eyes of a part of the community can be a PR disaster.

 

[Johan]

Can't do a HOI approach and Victoria 3 approach isn't suited.

Neither will be in any eu game. Its an era on armies, sieges and set battles.

 

[Johan]

Why would pops cause lag?

I've made the design and the software architecture for 4 different pop systems, in Vicky1, EU: Rome, Vicky 2 & Imperator.

There are a few rulers you would need to follow to avoid performance issues.

• Limit the amount of splitting of actual pops to as a few factors as possible. Type, Culture and Religion is probably the maximum. If I had redesigned Victoria 2 with my knowledge now, I would probably have removed religion as an indentifier and treated it like the Ideology data.
• Process some data on the amalgation of the pops instead of on individual pops.