Fr idk why bro had to go so hard into that direction with this one, like I understand going full on white supremacist religiously fanatic US is topical but goddamn he did not need to go all in on it. Wild!
meh, I wasn't going for anything topical. It was just the place the campaign went as I was spurred on by both memes, and my chat during the stream (it's definitely true that when I stream, I do more unhinged stuff compared to pre-recorded videos lol)
I've had a idea for a megacampaign for starting as a remote country whose border's haven't changed a lot through history (iceland or something) and try to influence history to look as close to our world's history as you can. Might be fun
I would not recommend starting at imperator. Removing the roman empire from history or making a worse one than irl through the game mechanics fucks with the game way too much to the point that nothing makes sense. Also would like to give you an idea. In my last megacampaign i started as the mongol empire and conquered europe and pretty much rebuilt europe. I choose christianity and jurchen culture which led to cool names and shit. Choose european heritages to not fuck with the culture mapmode in eu4 and then played a nice campaign in ck3 with lots of switches and obviously lore since europe was connected through my budget gengis khan. Conquering lots of land and then remaking it and giving it away is a must have skill to enjoy a megacampaign and this strat starts with that from the get go. And since you made all the nations jumping around is easy too because its not a new nation but instead the austrian branch or the french branch or the german one.
The plan I have for Imperator is to play a handful of nations for a while, but then, once the game hits maybe 0 AD, I'm going to go into observer mode until about 500 AD, then convert to CK3 for 867, and edit the game to simulate an additional 300 or so years of history, accounting for the rise of Islam and so on. It'll be a lot of work but I think I can do it. I'll be using Invictus, and timeline extender (which the converter does support) so Christianity will spawn in like normal. I'll have to do Islam manually though, which is fine.
@@Tarkusarkusar Is the grand campaign possible with total conversion mods? Because it could be cool to play the Bronze Age, Imperium Universalis, and Fallen Eagle which covers most of the time in between vanilla pdx games.
@Tarkusarkusar ive seen a lot of imperator megacampaign timelapses and ill just say that you have a ton of work cut out for you if you want to fix the mess the ai makes
In your next mega-campaign. You should host a multiplayer ck3 game where everyone plays landless characters in ck3 then transition that into eu4 but remove the multiplayer aspect for the rest of the campaign. The reason for this is eu4 is really map-painty and having players in control will just make that worse. Maybe in the ck3 campaign you can just observe? Also instead of converting, you could also make an entirely new mod which is what happened with the tommykay megacampaign. This takes more time but it produces more consistent and interesting results.
I did something like this for the Vic 3 section. When the converter did its thing, I used the conversion as a base to mod the game. I didn't do a ton, but one example was that no one in America was enslaved off the bat in the conversion, so I modded in a bunch of slave pops for America, and I changed over some laws for particular countries. I did the same in EU4 but less-so, as I added in stuff like the French appanages and made Palestine/Arabia a crusader state and so on. I want to expand on the idea and make more robust mods for the future for sure.
Vic 3 converter rn now is a bit undercooked due to it's early stage,but I'd advise to turn off anything Eurocentric stuff off and allow nations that existed in Africa during previous games (Ghana, Kongo and etc.) to exist on a map as an actual nations, not decentralized ones. Would that hinder the Scramble for Africa? Yes. Would that be more cohesive in terms of the world's history that you play through? Absolutely. And I choose the second option over Scramble of Africa. So do turn off Eurocentric stuff off when converting. Will await for the next Mega Campaign. And if you wanna hear commonly used unwritten rules of Mega Campaign, I will tell, but only if you wanna hear them and how people usually go about this genre, while playing the single nation throughout all games.
I'll keep that in mind for sure. I experimented a lot with tweaking the amount of industry that gets spawned in stuff, but eventually went in manually to change government types and industry levels and stuff. If you've got advice for the Vic 3 converter you want to share, I'm definitely open to it. Feel free to DM me on Discord or something, if that works best.
