Glorious Great Game - a PoN MP AAR

[Respenus]

Here's something to bring up the spirits of my eastern neighbour

[Betonov]

To be honest, I'd also stab an empire in the back to get Istra

[Betonov]

Another turn, another production site seized by some 5th grade latin state
Largest army in Europe and I can't use it

[Respenus]

Originally Posted by Betonov

Another turn, another production site seized by some 5th grade latin state
Largest army in Europe and I can't use it

Technically you can invade if you want, but you will not be able to lay claim to anything, so it would only be a waste of soldiers.

Try building up your relations first. Promise them local support, which brings up relations 3-5 points per use. You can do that twice a year, plus you may get lucky with state visits (although those are usually rejected). Once you have relations of 25+, you can start building without any concerns and if you can get a commercial agreement with them, then even better.

But yeah, I understand your anger/frustration completely. As mentioned before, I too have lost highly expensive investments and have run out of things to invest in in Italy (until Garibaldi moves his behind that is), so you have my sympathies. I recommend you try and get in the good graces of China. They have a lot of unused potential and you could become the world's foremost silk or tea producer.

[Respenus]

Hunter, you are the luckiest PoN player that has ever walked the Earth. The probability for the North German Confederation event to fire is set at 25, which with an end date of 1875, should mean late 60s, early 70s, not 1861!

Furthermore, Germany has once again proven its high work effectiveness by taking its first step toward unification before Italy even managed to wake up to the possibility. It's a damn shame that the original game does not include events for a South German Confederation or we would have a really interesting alt-history on our hands (well, even more than we have right now).

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by Respenus

the North German Confederation .

[Reads history books]

[Oberon]

Ah crap

Any chance that I can unlock the Mark V tank a few decades early?

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Ah crap

Any chance that I can unlock the Mark V tank a few decades early?

You got a stretch of water and France in between, I got a land border

Public announcement, any troop movements observed in Austria are merely stress tests for the railway system, please ignore

[Betonov]

@Respenus, sorry I dissapeared from teamspeak, I went to walk the dog and didn't logged out

[Respenus]

Originally Posted by Betonov

@Respenus, sorry I dissapeared from teamspeak, I went to walk the dog and didn't logged out

Don't worry. As long as it involves a dog, all is forgiven

[HunterICX]

Achtung!


http://www.ageod-forum.com/showthrea...o-Version-1-04!

Time to upgrade?

[Betonov]

It says nothing about fixing that small problem when opressed peasants with no other right but to die for the Sovereign get angry over 0% taxes

[Respenus]

Based on the forum posts and my own experience, I would recommend waiting for a while before upgrading your game.

Several files are missing from the current version and identified bugs have not been fixed. Thankfully, the AGEod team is rather fast and they should have a hotfix or updated version out shortly.

If you have PoN on Steam, try and find a way of stopping the patch being applied. I do not think that we can play with different game versions. This applies especially to our host, Raptor.

[Betonov]

Sun von Tzu says:
wait long enough, the Italians will screw something up

[Respenus]

In light of all the economic crises that we have been having, I have to ask:

What are you hoarding your money for?!

A crisis only erupts if the major nations have on average more than 2000 capital (private money). I know I was around 3000 because I had nothing to spend it on (having already made all non-industrial investments possible in what little territory I control and not wanting Brazil to keep stealing my plantations), but I know that you guys still have massive development potential. Furthermore, France and UK have colonies, while the USA has lost southern territories and should probably be compensating by re-building certain elements of its economy.

I know that too much private capital is a problem later on with games that start in 1850, but I did not think we would be confronted with this issue only a decade into the game.

In summary, less Germany, more France and SPEND!!!