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So, for those who saw the announcement yesterday about doing another community event, here's the follow up details.
I'm going to be hosting this on my Twitch profile, while being active in both #soylent on IRC (please hightlight my nick to get my attention), and the integrated Twitch chat itself. I'm looking for some members of the community who'd be interested in joining on a Skype call. As previous mentioned, the game of choice is Europa Universals IV, and at the start of the stream, I'll give a crash course of the game mechanics. As of writing, I've been leading towards playing as Aragon or Venice, though I'll be glad to take other suggestions.
I'm currently planning to stream between 5PM Eastern (50 minutes after this goes up) to 9PM, fielding whatever questions the SoylentNews community has for me, and will be inviting both members of the staff and those active on the stream to join me as host.
As an aside, I did experiment with EUIV's multiplayer functionality after posting the last topic. As I found, while it is functional, it is very likely to desync at high speeds, and thus causes large amounts of waiting periods, which I think would be uninteresting for folks to watch. Sorry about that. ~ NCommander
(Score: 2) by richtopia on Friday July 24 2015, @10:35PM
Good choices, both large enough to do something but historically weaker powers in this era.
I would suggest starting the game with a quirky end goal. Aragon is a good choice for this as they have some Lord of the Rings missions to strive for (Become King of Gonder).
If you aren't familiar with EU4, it is a world conquest game where no one strives for world conquest. It is difficult, but more importantly very tedious managing an empire that large. Games of building a nation with a catch are a lot more fun typically, some of my favourites have been rebuilding the Roman Empire at Byzantium, and earning the largest income as the Dutch off of a sparse trade empire.