How many hours/days can one game last?

[MaximB]

I read that the game begins around 1400 and ends around 1800, which gives us less than 400 years to play. how much time those 400 years in real life? how many hours or days can we play one game (one country)?

[Mithrandir3]

I don't know, but in Crusader KiIngs 2, which had approximately the same duration before the Old Gods patch / DLC, one game can last for 100 hours.

[Fudd]

I would imagine it depends on the speed you play at, minium, maxed, etc and how long you spend paused.

[MaximB]

I mean in "normal" speed with minimum pauses.
Long time ago I used to play Civ2 (I actually had the original disk), and when I was about to conquer the whole world the game ended at year 2000 and wouldn't let me continue, and all I needed is one more week.

Thats the major problem with "time based games", you don't have enough time to finish it.
So I'm very afraid that after investing hours upon hours in this game, I wouldn't be able to finish it.
if so, what's the point of playing?

[cheesy123456789]

Who knows for EU IV, but in EU III if you knew what you were doing you could easily rule the world in 400 years. If you run out of time, that means you're not yet good enough at the game.

[Mithrandir3]

Originally posted by MaximB:

Thats the major problem with "time based games", you don't have enough time to finish it.

In EU IV or CK 2 "finishing" the game has no real meaning. The goal of these games are those you fix yourself, and surely not conquering the world at all costs.

[Fudd]

I don't know if it will work in EU IV, but in EU 3 all you had to do was go into defines and change the end date.

[Torhrolfr]

i just change the end time to 9999 all the time

[MaximB]

@Lennart: on EU4?

[Tupfel]

You will probably be able to change the end date in EU4 aswell.

[3])]

There's probably going to be a mod of some type to alleviate this issue.

[Holy Athena]

It says right in the games main window for steam, that this game will be very mod friendly.. swear to god people fail so hard.. /facepalm

[Emperor Marcus]

What the hell is this "normal speed" you mean like first lvl? one >? Thats like every day is like i think around 5 seconds. Times that by 400+ years and you get hmm around 12,166.6667 hours. But your insane if you want to run it at the slowest speed. I regularly do it like >> or >>> during wartime and at max during peace. Pause whenever i need to do alot of tasks at once.

[Holy Athena]

Basically a few days. All of my Paradox games take several days to complete, though I do tend to pause and think at times, and role play while I play. Otherwise I have it running at the fastest speed 24/7, and it still takes me several days to complete while playing 4+ hrs each day.

Since you can also edit the end date, it won't really matter either, as you can force the game to keep going.

Ontop of that, its also supposed to be very mod friendly, unlike the past games, so you should be able to make it go past the end date even easier.

[Shin]

My average game is roughly 40-80 hours. It REALLY depends what nation I'm playing. My Saxony game where I conquered all of Germany is slowing down quite a bit because whenever I go to war, I fight all of Europe. So, if you're at war a lot, then sometimes you need to run at 1-2 speed to manage all the battles both ground/sea.

If I'm France or England it's a face roll as they're the easiest nations to play. I never speed 5 though, I don't like missing out on opportunities... and on speed 5 you usually miss out on tiny conflicts you could have jumped in on.

[itsDeems]

I LAN regularly, and geez...we're still on the same game from mid-May?

Depends on play, because hundreds of hours over months rocks to me, some like it all at once.