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OK, so the Galactic Civilizations 2 LP is currently inactive. That's not me losing interest, that's me not having much time. I'll try to grab some in the next few days to put out another update. This is for the summer. Then, I'll have plenty of time. Plenty of time to start up a second LP while I'm at it. But I used up my only really obvious choice with GalCiv2. So, I'm going to list out the games I think i can make an LP out of, and there will be a vote, where you can pick your favorite two options. Two. Two votes each. Anyway:

1. Paradox Megacampaign. Anyone who's played many of the games of Paradox Interactive has probably heard of this one. You take the four of their games that happen in a series- in this case, Crusader Kings: Deus Vult, Europa Universalis 3: Heir to the Throne, Victoria 2, and Hearts of Iron 3. Then you use fan-made (no, they really work) save game converters to carry over one game from one to the next, letting you run a single nation from 1066 A.D. to the mid 20th century. I propose we use Ireland, because it'll let us have some fun unifying the place, and drunken crusades should entertain people until we get some actual internal humor going.

2. Ascendancy. An old space strategy game from 1995, I think. Runs in DOSbox. Has twenty or so really nicely detailed races all with their own nice special abilities. Only problems: AI sucks, and there's no human race.

3. Fragile Allegiance. Another fun DOS game from the same time frame, in the glamorous world of deep-space asteroid mining. Only the nice corporations have Avatar style "security forces"... minus the restrictions against WMDs. There are nukes. There are bio-weapons. There are big attack fleets. There are asteroid-killer missiles. There is taking a mined-out asteroid, slapping an engine on, arming it up, and going to war. Kill the hippy space elves! (Not really, but it'd be nice.)

4. Evil Genius. Anyone heard of Dungeon Keeper? That, but with James Bond. Maybe the Evil Genius could be Herr Doktor von Evilstein, after his work with the Zenobian space program, from PeZook's current LP? Also, the campaign is less "individual skirmishes all welded together" and more "long and continous operations out of a single base". With freezers for the pils of agent corpses we'll build up. Lots of freezers...

And these next two are... distinctly unorthodox. As in, they're MMOs. I'll explain how they might work afterwards.

5. A little game called Haven & Hearth. I've actually mentioned it on this board before. This one would presumeably be about the rise of a little empire. With killing, looting, and burning. Lots of all three.

6. Eve Online, with lots of crazed attempts to conquer the universe. And piracy, not the software kind. Arr, me maties!

As to how the MMOs would work... I was thinking like this. People who wanted in could either be disembodied little advisor voices that may or may not be collective schizophrenia, or I would set a time for play, during which people who wanted to join in directly, and me of course, would actually play the game. Regretfully, this would rule out some members of the board from direct involvement due to time zone issues. Also, as a note: H&H is free to play, and there's a way involving three characters with max research agents each can passively make Eve Online free to play as well, via genertaing enough cash to buy the time codes people sell in-game for currency. So they wouldn't costy much, if anything, for the players. Just thought I'd mention that.

Cast your votes! (I voted megacampaign and fragile allegiance, fyi, but evil genius is way up there too.)

Rome: Total War! Specifically the Roma Surrectum II mod! If you don't have that, Paradox, but you suck if you don't have that. Best damn strategy game ever made.

I have Rome:TW, but I assume I'd need the expansion for the mod. I can get it, I'd just rather not spend the cash if it isn't really popular.

EDIT: So we presently have a three-way tie between the Megacampaign, Evil Genius, and me sucking. Well, I put those in for a reason. They win, I'll either go with the most popular actual game, or nothing at all if the previling mood seems to be other than "I picked you suck because you don't have the specific game I want, but here's my other option." Out of curiosity, there appear to be two votes for me sucking and one for the second me sucking. One of the first is Vortex, I assume, but I'm guessing one person did both others. Anyone in particular? i'd like to hear your reasoning, please!

EDIT, AGAIN: And now two people seem to think I really do suck. Why, cruel board? Why? Sorry, couldn't resist. but really, why?

Voted for Paradox and Evil Genius with preference for Paradox campaign.

Well, this is going to be open for... quite a while. Unless a mod decides to shut it for some reason. I'm not able to actually start for a few weeks, so I decided to start now to get mountains of opinions ahead of time so I'm actually ready to go when I have time.

EDIT: The one thing I find surprising is the anomalous vote for Eve Online. Who the hell... Seriously, someone, fess up. Who was it? I'm interested in knowing who voted for what, and if it's an anomaly, why.

Dammit, I want to vote for three - the Megacampaign, Fragile Allegiance, and Evil Genius. I own Evil Genius, and I'd like to see someone else playing it, as that may get me past my block... I'd LOVE to see a world-colonising and -conquering Ireland, even if most of the world's industry would be converted to alcohol production... but Fragile Allegiance sounds really interesting and cool, the sort of game I'd like to see so I could think about ...acquiring it. Plus hey, we could have the miners distilling rocket fuel alcohol, leading to a kind of drunken one-upmanship that culminates in slapping engines on and arming a small moon.

I'll have to think about this.

It's abandonware anyway. Acquiring it is not an issue.

I think R:TW would be pretty cool too.

As for sucking... this is SDN, did you expect something else? It's not serious, really; I don't think anyone actually wants to castrate Straha, after all.

I could be wrong though.

I know it's not serious. Thus the "Sorry, couldn't resist." And if I thought people were seriously going to go after me for this, I wouldn't have posted it in the first place.

Two things:

1: HA, RecklessPrudence! I'm trying an LP of Evil genius to get me past my block! Of course, mine is a stumbling block, called bankruptcy.

2: May I suggest a compromise, people? We pick a shorter one for now, say Evil Genius or Fragile Allegiance, and i use that to get better at writing these things, so that when I get around to the very long Megacampaign I'm actually able to write decent LPs. To vote for this option you'll have to vote by post, unless a mod cares to edit it in, assuming they can do that.

I should mention that no, you do not need the expansions for Roma Surrectum. So there is that option.

I voted for Evil Genius and the Megacampaign. There's nothing like being a minion for a Bond villain.

I voted for Eve, because while I haven't particularly enjoyed playing EVE, I find reading about it hilarious.
Also, the Paradox Megacampaign.

Voted for EVE, because I want to see how an LP for that would work. Also for Evil Genius, for reasons which I should hope the title makes obvious.

Evil Genius sounds like good, clean fun.
I also voted H&H because it would be interesting to see how you do an MMO LP. I might even try to join in on the fun if it goes well.

So At the time being, in the running we have:

1. Evil Genius with 9 votes.

2. A three-way tie between the Megacampaign, and me sucking.

3. Eve Online. Wow.

4. Fragile Allegiance. Okay, so no asteroid mining for the time being unless the mood changes dramatically... like it did with Eve, I guess!

5. Ascendancy.

6. Haven & Hearth.

Okay, so other options off the list have been mentioned as well. They are, respectively:

9. Rome: Total War.

10. My compromise idea: something short like FA or EG, then the Megacampaign so we all know I can write by then.

Verbal votes are allowed for these. Well, "verbal" in the posting sense, but you get the idea...

I voted for EVE Online as well, along with Evil Genius.

If you don't feel that confortable with either of your ideas on how to do an LP of EVE, and you really want to include board members, then you can always have them as part of the crew. Although the schizophrenia idea would be funny.

Yeah, the crew members bit for Eve is definitely an option. Although since I was going to have to portray all the capsuleers as crazy anyway, in order to deal with nobody RPing anything, schizophrenia is very much an option that makes sense.

Shit, I thought Paradox was the name of the game. I voted Evil Genius but I want Megacampaign.

Ah, the joys of the Megacampaign...

Let's see, major powers that shouldn't be... Kingdom of Jerusalem... Scottish Union... Holy Roman Empire...

Yeah, all sorts of weird alternate history can pop up. In this case, the goal would be an Irish world state. On the bright side, no Al Capone- he really got gelling selling illegal alchohol, remembers. And alchohol would never be illegal in this world state.

Holy Roman Empire...

Umm.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire
What?

This. The HRE, as a nuclear hyperpower.

EDIT: Also, look at the Bhutan sections of it- they're listed near the end I think. Fear the "Pale Invaders"!

Oh I see... yes, that is slightly different.

I voted for Evil Genius and Fragile Allegiance, but what I really want is a short game - Fragile Allegiance preferably, Evil Genius otherwise - and then the megacampaign.

barnest2 wrote:Oh I see... yes, that is slightly different.

Wait until you see some Hearts of Iron III games. I was playing as Germany and was throwing spies at the United Kingdom and then I get a prompt telling me Israel has seceded from the United Kingdom. Mouse over to Israel's nation profile and their government type is... National Socialist!?

Oh, we'll see the sort of crap HoI3 throws around, assuming the Irish Empire survives that long,, and we wind up actually doing that LP. But Nazi Israel is a new low, even for that sort of game.