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If this is not irony but a question, then now we have accepted the rule to make a turn of at least 1 in weeks.We made 20 turns.Perhaps in the future, we will further reduce the allowable time for a turn.
I understand your hint that we have been playing at such a speed for several decades, but the game process is much more interesting than the result, no matter how trivial this phrase was.
We constantly conduct diplomatic correspondence, weave conspiracies against each other and create alliances - all this is much more interesting than a high-speed race.
So what is the Game date now in mid Dec 2019?
Trying to do 1 game year per week would take 3 turns a day with a couple of extra turns on the week end, or 3 turns per day would take 8 days (slightly longer than a week). So even at that rate it will take over a year real time.
When I played PON solitaire, one game year might take me at least 6 to 8 hours of time on my computer, and that was playing Great Britain with a lot to do. My most recent game (3 or 4 years ago) got up into 1856 which is when big problems happen to GB in India.
I am organizing mp games, playing pon alone is boring and stupid.
This is the only turn-based game that allows you to create such a large multiplayer campaign.
We are played by 14 people from all over the world, in all time zones, and the fastest game, IN PERFECT SITUATION, will be 1 turn in 2 days. This is 9 years !!! What the hell speed, you have to enjoy the game!
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I just tried starting a New game of PON in solitaire mode, so I could take a look at Mexico, and I could not even figure out how to play the game as Mexico. There was no option to play Mexico. Does it take starting a game in multi player mode to do it?
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I tried starting a game of Victoria 2 as Mexico. My big problem was graphics, I recently bought a 4k HD TV and made it my Computer Monitor with 4k graphics on Steam using my NVidia GeForce 1050 Ti card with 4 GB Video RAM. I ended up with the Map for Victoria 2 taking up slighly less than 1/4 of my TV screen, the rest of the screen was of Steam.
Would I have graphics problems with PON as Mexico with a 4k Monitor and graphics card?
Here it is described how to unlock any country for human play -
http://www.ageod-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=300&t=22738
Also there I created and added a small mod that adds up to 36 countries to the country selection screen and a script file with 36 countries unlocked - enjoy
https://avatars.mds.yandex.net/get-zen_doc/1899089/pub_5ddd7609416f067d9b431e90_5e149e303d5f6900b6bfb92c/scale_600
We already have 15 participants!We have a player for Brazil. Also, after the disappearance of the player for Portugal, a new player also appeared there!
Russians and Austrians captured almost all of the Balkans and make their way to Istanbul.
After the disruption of the last English attempt at a truce between Russia-Austria and Turkey (which both parties didn’t really want) -In October, Britain entered into a defensive pact with France and declared war on Russia ! But Austria ( as an ally of Russia) did not respond to declare war on Britain. Over the past months, only British and Russian warships have attacked each other's merchant ships. The attack of the Russian raiders on the British merchant fleet in the trading zone of North America led to a harsh statement by the US government - America is gradually starting to get involved in the European war.!
The British Army is concentrated in Istanbul.All hope of Turkey and Britain for the early entry into the war of Prussia and France.
So what is going on in the middle north of Europe, i.e. the German States and Prussia, as well as the far North, Sweden and Norway, etc. ? France and GB do not have any border with Russia. So it would seem that which way (if any) Prussia goes will be critical.
Sweden, could be interesting. But it would be under a lot pressure to choose a side! It would be interesting to see what it could do as an independent.
I doubt that I know any of the human players, since my multiplayer days were in play by mail games in the 1980s.
But I know almost nothing about Swedish names, history, and political figures of the time. The same regarding Mexico.
By ancestry, I am 1/4 Western German (or Dutch) (We have my great grandfather's medals from the Franco Prussian and Austrian Prussian Wars, he was born about 1842. My grandfather in 1888 in the USA, I was born in 1953 in the USA), 1/4 Alsace-Lorraine (probably German), 1/4 Scotch Irish, and 1/4 English (via Canada). So I know little about Sweden or Mexico.
Mexico could try to keep peace with the USA while Mexico expands into Central America and/or the Gulf of Mexico and Carribean. But it could easily have problems with Spain, perhaps Portugal, and almost certainly Brazil, and the USA in those areas. It could expand its economy during the 1850s, while waiting for the chance to profit from the American Civil War. Remember, it was Texas and the slave holding South that dragged the USA into the Mexican American War of 1846-1847, and who wanted annex large parts of Mexico as additional slave holding states, besides California, and the areas that became New Mexico and Arizona. I can easily see Mexico trying to take back those territories in the American Civil War, either by direct unilateral military action or by an agreement with the North in return for help against Texas and the Confederacy.
Or for a different course of action, Mexico could try to position itself to supply the cotton sales to Great Britain and the northern USA after the American Civil War cuts off the cotton supplies from the Confederate States. That could be an interesting peaceful route to take, at least initially, in the American Civil War. If Mexico worked at it another 9 years, I bet they could build a lot of cotton production and maybe tobacco production. What if Mexico controlled Cuba at the start of the American Civil War? I am not sure about Coffee as a commodity in PON, but Mexico might be able profit a lot off of it as well, either in it's own territories and by taking parts of Central America.
A possible, although unlikely course, would be for Mexico to support the Confederacy in the American Civil War in order to keep them independent and weaken the North. The problem is the likely future friction between Mexico and a surviving Confederacy. But Mexico could threaten to support the Confederacy, if the North did not make concessions to them at the expense of Confederate territory.
The problem that an American (USA) player has in PON during the 1850s, is that most of what he(it) could try to do in taking new territories, could be lost quickly to the Confederacy when the American Civil War starts. So an American player is between a rock and a hard place during the 1850s (until the American Civil War is finished). I think than American Player would be better advised to undertake internal development, and keep all war making industries out of the soon to be Confederate States.
The USA is not really strong enough yet to meddle seriously in European affairs, and it certainly does not want to create any enemies who would want to intervene in the American Civil War to help the Confederacy when it starts. Any intervention in European affairs will always involve multiple sides and countries, and will almost be guranteed to leave an unhappy enemy(s) who might/will intervene in the American Civil War when it starts, no matter who they back in a European Great War. Turkey might trouble have retaliating against the USA, but Russia might have ways. Remember that they own Alaska and have holdings in the Pacific as well as the Atlantic, possibly even in the Indian Ocean depending on how the Great Game between Russia and England goes, in the areas near India and southern Asia, and even China. Plus of course England and France are historic rivals and may have trouble maintaining their alliance defending Turkey against the Russians. If I was the USA, I would not want to open the door to the Great War in Europe, spreading into mainland USA, either now or in the American Civil War.
How about an Mexican Russian Alliance to kick the USA/Confederacy off the West Coast (of North America)? It sounds possible to me, if the USA is weak enough or takes enough losses fighting in Europe, or is in the American Civil War.
If the USA entered the Great War, and the French British Alliance ever splits, the USA could find itself allied with one against the other, not a desirable idea with American Civil War coming.
Plus of course the potential Problems with Spain and Brazil. The USA has plenty to do internally. The problem is the Monroe Doctrine and keeping the Europeans out of the Americas (North, Central, and South).
Remember that for much of the 1830s, 1840s and 1850s the American government, i.e. the Presidency, was either Southern or inclined to support South rather than the North and the (New England) Yankees (who were disliked by large parts of country). After the death of the Whig Party, the eventual Republican party took most of the 1850s to put together an alliance/coalition of political interests that could win the Presidency (they lost in 1852 (when the Republican Party as such did not even exist yet) and 1856) over the pro Southern bias in Washington DC and the federal government. (I am not pro South or Slavery, I am just discussing actual history). (for example read "The Cousins' Wars").
I am not sure how things will work out in PON game mechanics regarding political Party control of the American government, and the actions available to a Player controlling the USA. Maybe the American Civil War can be avoided in PON, i.e. the Confederacy secceding, but on the other hand it was not impossible that the North (or New England) could have secceded instead, if they could not win the elections (it was discussed in the North in real history) (I do not know if this is possible in PON game mechanics). It was even possible for the USA to split 3 or 4 ways historically. We forget how bitterly the USA was divided into more than 2 interests during that time period. We also forgot how weak the Federal Government was and how strong the States could be, with drasticly different interests, goals, economics, and policies.
I see that you are well versed in history, it’s interesting to read you, but I ask you in this discussion to write specifically about this game.
Also what have the smaller European Powers/Players (Spain, Portugal, Belgium) been doing? Are they trying to stay out of the Great War of Russia+Austria versus Turkey and friends (UK, France, Prussia, and Sardinia/Italy)?
Brazil - just entered the game in this turn. U.S. - the player is not involved in European affairs and frankly misses (often misses his turn)
A very strange situation in the Far East - a Japanese player constantly misses turns but says that he will play further. At the same time, the Chinese player has already captured half of Japan.
My royal fleet blocked all ports of Russia and forced Russian merchant ships to leave all merchant boxes.On land, there was no combat with the Russians.
Now we have put forward a new ultimatum for Russia and Austria.If they do not stop aggression against Turkey, then Britain, Prussia and Sardinia immediately declare war on Austria.
We still have 14 players.
Despite the winter months, a great war began in Europe.
Great Britain, Prussia, and Sardinia declared war on Austria. The Prussian army launched an offensive and laid siege to Vienna, the Sardinians defeated Radetsky's Austrian army and captured Lombardy.
Things went wrong with my British Royal Navy - blocking squadrons in the Gulf of Finland and the Black Sea were suddenly attacked by Russian fleets and almost destroyed, the losses amounted to almost 50 (!!!!) ships. A terrible blow for prestige of the British Navy and for me as a player, I even wanted to leave the game but changed my mind a bit.)The national morality of Britain dropped to 88 and Russia increased to more 120. The player for the Russian Empire turned out to be a very strong adversary and expert on the fleet.
China leisurely continues to capture the Japanese islands - it seems that the Japanese player will soon have nothing to control.
The new player for the Brazilian empire disappeared without starting the game, and we again had to transfer Brazil to AI control. Now we will take a stricter approach to the candidates to participate in the campaign.