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It's us. We're the Big Blue Blob. I'm super looking forward to seeing how this universe shapes up for CK2, and what you'll be doing narratively with the 300 years between the end of this game and the start of that one.
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It'd actually be kinda neat if Ofaloaf did it as a multiplayer thing instead of just going up against the AI (since I don't think that's been done?), but logistically that would be a nightmare.
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Is the converter even still up-to-date? I mean it's about to become obsolete until they patch it again with the new EU4/CK2 expansions coming out, but did they ever even update it to work post-Art of War?
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Also remember that there will be around 300 years of history between the end of Attila and the beginning of CK2. I have a seriously hard time believing that Greco-Roman paganism is going to honestly survive that in anything more than sporadic OPM holdouts. Islands might give them a fighting chance, since they're slightly easier to defend. Crete or Malta or something.
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Or Gothia could be one of those countries that didn't develop a parliamentary tradition until well into the modern era (we really COULD be France!) Actually yeah, have we had an LP where the majority of the game was played in an absolutist way until a bloody France-style revolution around 1800? Wiz's Azerbaijan had revolution but it was as a client state and forced upon them by Russia, and Hohenzollern was a conservative bastion. And I'm far too behind on some of the more recent LP's like Byzantium or Hansa.
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GunnerJ posted:Speaking of which, there was also that creepy "OUR JEWS" stuff that was funny for like a page. But Azeri did result in some very good Kelly-style political cartoons from... who was it, kangol?
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Jun 11, 2015 15:30
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 This guy, but give them Elective law, or a Republic because why the hell not.
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Jun 11, 2015 20:30
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Merdifex posted:
This is spiffy and it evokes a natural evolution from SPQR in my mind. But why the upside-down crucifix?
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Merdifex posted:In that case, I'd modify RowansWarden's proposal a bit to include specifics: Yep, this is my vote.
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I voted for Byzlam and I fully admit that it's a stupid idea and if I were running an LP and something similar happened, I'd probably just veto it but find some way of working it into the narrative. I'd rather Ofaloaf tell the story he wants to tell and continue giving us an excellent, passionate LP than us have our goofy alt-history wanking.
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Jun 14, 2015 14:37
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Ofaloaf posted:
I had a pretty cool one where I saw an AI Byzantine Emperor who was also simultaneously the Orthodox Patriarch. Is that sometimes supposed to happen or did I witness the birth of a God-Emperor?
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Jun 14, 2015 15:31
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Oh c'mon guys, slavic Britain is ridiculous, even relative to Byzlam. Ofaloaf, would the British Romance language be something sorta Romanian in character, insofar as the grammar itself is Romantic but a lot of vocabulary/phonology would be based on something non-Romance (like Romanian is a Romance language with a fairly heavy Slavic influence)?
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sheep-dodger posted:
This one.
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Jun 16, 2015 07:31
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Merdifex posted:The Byzantine Bishops don't recognize the Pope as legitimate, as I understand it, so it makes it obvious why they'd want to prop up Vladimirus or whoever as true Roman Emperor. But is the Schism as we know it even going to take place to divide Christianity into Orthodox and Roman Catholic?
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Jun 16, 2015 09:22
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So Constantinople really is gonna be Tsargrad then?
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Can we make the next round of voting be on whether or not Merdifex just goes off to make his own mega-LP instead of backseat driving this one? Since he seems to have Very Strong Opinions On Mapgames and just a dash of I'm Just Speaking On Ofaloaf's Behalf, Guys. vvvvvvvvvvvvv quote:Merdifex hosed around with this message at Jun 17, 2015 around 10:13 Drone fucked around with this message at 09:19 on Jun 17, 2015 |
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Merdifex posted:You're getting me wrong, I never said to overturn the Slavic takeover scenario. I just think that down the line, in CK2 & EUIV the interaction of Slavic ruler and Greek ruled will lead to different cultural situation than what we started with. Other's said that it'd end up one "Helleno-Slavic" culture but I think that's a bit simplistic, and more of a sprachbund and cultural continuum will emerge. Do you F5 the thread waiting to swoop in with walls of text or what?
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Merdifex posted:I remember deciding to check out the threads for my favorite LPs on LPArchive and they were shittier than I could ever imagine. You registered a month ago and did not follow the universally-accepted advice of "lurk more." You don't understand the anatomy of a good post, and you don't understand why your posts are bad. You refuse to understand that others may think your posts are bad. And this admission makes it pretty clear that you don't really understand Something Awful either. This is why you should lurk more. vvv lol it took you less than 5 minutes to reply, you really need to get outside more Drone fucked around with this message at 12:57 on Jun 19, 2015 |
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Unwise_Cashew posted:our Denmark would be best Denmark Ain't no Denmark better than Secret Denmark.
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Jun 19, 2015 18:25
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That Britain looks goddamn awesome.
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Jun 23, 2015 08:15
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Can we get a culture mapmode shot of western Europe? The only one included in the update was for some of central + eastern. I'm super excited for this LP to continue now that the conversion is done! Edit: are there any countries that start out with cool government forms (elective) by default, and are there any republics? Drone fucked around with this message at 10:52 on Aug 10, 2015 |
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Ofaloaf posted:Are the hyperlinks inserted in the middle of the text distracting at all? I sperged out a bit about placenames, so I've been worried about people not recognizing toponyms and getting confused about where things are happening. No, they're great, please keep doing this!
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Aug 11, 2015 06:59
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YF-23 posted:The King and his wife are still young - hell, they've only had one kid so far - so succession is not an issue yet except in the case of accident. Long live princess Glorja! Agnatic-only succession.  King Thiudareiks needs a son (or brother... do we actually have any more male members of the dynasty?)
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Aug 11, 2015 11:06
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Ofaloaf posted:That's why most of the placenames are just reverted to Latin in the scenario atm. I'm sure you could just outsource these to certain LP readers of sufficient sperg-level.
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Aug 12, 2015 06:57
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Ofaloaf, are you going to be playing the dynasty, or the country? I mean this is the story of the Gothic people after all. What I mean is, if we lose the title, will you continue playing as the dynasty that takes it over? Or follow normal CK2 mechanics and play as Armorica?
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Kanthulhu posted:Our borders are looking awful. Kanthulhu has founded the 'Pretty Borders' Faction.
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mythomanic posted:What religion are the nubians? Judging by the shields, some variety of Christian probably.
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Oct 25, 2015 07:40
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Ofaloaf, have you changed the Gothic-now-Gautés names file to account for the culture shift or are we going to have a Thiudareiks XVIII at some point?
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Nov 9, 2015 13:54
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Elective is the best form of government in CK2, do it.
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Nov 9, 2015 14:50
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I think Ofaloaf has more than earned our trust for control of his narrative. He'll keep it interesting.
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Nov 9, 2015 20:35
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Fantastic.
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Nov 14, 2015 22:48
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Yay for elective succession in the empire, boo for continuing to beat up Britain. Having non-anglicized place names like Schwaben on the map while referring to them as Swabia in the narrative is really weird to me (and the hole mod trend of using individually-localized country names when the game itself is run in English is just kinda galling to me).
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Ofaloaf posted:I just like sperging about names but don't want to bog down the narrative explaining each and every change. Oh yeah I totally get it, especially for places where the English toponyms that we know today wouldn't exist in this timeline (since it's not likely that the English language itself will even exist in this timeline). Might I suggest a way forward that would give this LP a ton more flavor and also be in keeping with your awesome linguistic background for the LP too: instead of using English toponyms as the standard, use Gautish ones! I'm sure the people of Gautya would have names for important non-Gautish cities like London/Nova Cartago/etc, and use those in the narrative.
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It all started off innocently enough- I didn't want all of Gaul to just use French names- and then well without the Arabic invasion, obviously the Arab-derived toponyms in Spain couldn't exist, so Spanish toponyms had to change, and well since there weren't invasions in North Africa those had to change, and then without the Anglo-Saxons starting off in England some toponyms couldn't exist, and then, and then, and then...
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I seriously doubt it's dead dude. We're just now coming out of holiday season and not everyone has the time to dedicate to a massive LP while balancing those things.
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Good update, but still sad about the conversion of Druidic Britain. 'Twas not to last, I suppose. What were their required holy sites anyway, just out of curiosity?
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An-Cap would certainly be interesting to see, but I think even the world's strongest economy in Victoria 2 (Great Britain) gets pretty much ruined by ancaps. So a good simulation of reality, really. The Danubian Federation Kaiserreich LP went full-on free market though, which was pretty fun itself.
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Lord Cyrahzax posted:Kim Jongism Okay it's decided, Gothia is going Juche when we get to the HOI era.
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