This might not work, but if it doesn't I'm going to blame the participants, delete the thread and never speak about it again.
I'm going to try something in the vein of my old Football Manager Experiments, but with another game. The game is
Europa Universalis 4, a grand strategy game. This is basically what it looks like:
It's basically an imperialism and religious war simulator, which seems right up RedCafe's alley. The world is divided into provinces with varying values (and cultures, religions, etc), and as time progresses the world changes, with new technology and new fancy stuff like colonizing - but not
explicitly genociding - other parts of the world.
My plan is that
I add everyone who wants to participate as a country in Europe (including Turkey, North Africa and I guess the Levant), where the country name is the person's name on RedCafe (to make it easier to figure out who is doing what).
Then I let the game run itself and do regular updates, perhaps every 50 years (the game runs from 1444 to 1821), and I'm thinking maybe small updates in between (just a screenshot of something and a sentence about what is going on). Unlike the old FM Experiments I'm not going to do regular individual updates for everyone (just an initial one), and there's less information to add, so I don't have to limit it too much. The size of the country (number of provinces) will basically depend on how many people sign up (and which provinces you get, since good provinces are worth more).
Every nation in this game has its own
national ideas, basically the thing that makes them different from everyone else. There are way too many possible ideas to make you guys pick, so at least this time I'm just going to
mostly randomize a set of ideas when I create your countries. It's not going to be balanced. This being Europe in the 15th century, some of you
are going to get conquered, maybe a lot of you by the time the game ends. This is more of a test, so I'm not going to need as much information as with the FM Experiments.
Here's what I need from you, if you want to see your virtual self wage war on a fellow Cafite (or maybe marry them):
- Where do you want your capital (either a specific province or a general area - you can use this if you want to. Please spread around a bit. If you all pick England I am going to make you tiny. If you don't care I can choose. @Welsh Wonder has already claimed Wales, for some reason)
- What are one or two things you want your country to be good at? (I'll try to pick a couple of national ideas to match)
- What colour do you want on the map? (there are 100 to pick from but there's no RGB or Hex or anything, so I'll just try to eyeball it and make sure there's a bit of variation)
- The name of your ruler (the dynasty will be your nickname, we'll see if there are any dynasties left by the time we're done)
I guess add yourself to this list? I added a few people who expressed interest already. If they withdraw that interest I'll still add them but make their countries really bad. We can do like 30, easily. More if there's demand.
- BD - Lisboa
- Dr. Dwayne - Kolberg
- Crackers - Porto
- Solius - Madrid
- altodevil - Lothian
- Welsh Wonder - Morgannwg
- Vidyoyo - Stockholm
- Samid - Vilnius
- Abizzz - Baden
- V.O - Inntal
- P-Nut - Verona
- Denis79 - Bosnia
- hobbers - Constantinople
- VeevaVee - Roma
- KirkDuyt - Den Haag
- PSV - Warszawa
- Eboue - Paris
- Salt Bailly - X
- Organic Potatoes - Cork
- RedSky - Bordeaux
- Dan - Dresden
- Grib - Athens
- Igor Drefljak - Agdesiden
- AnotherLondonManc - Càller
- Stobzilla - Tunis
- BootsyCollins - Nyland
- adexkola - Dortmund
- x
- x
- x
Here's a map of the currently taken capitals.