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Paradox publishes many grand strategy games that focus upon different eras and regions. These programs appear to convert the game save files between different
by II2II 5y ago
Paradox publishes many grand strategy games that focus upon different eras and regions. These programs appear to convert the game save files between different titles so people can play megacampaigns. I don't know what this actually looks like since it's the first time I've heard of it, but it sounds like an interesting concept.
- Groxx 5y agoKinda makes me wonder what an equivalent save-file quine would be. A multi-game playthrough where you always finish with the same score, use the previous save to start the next game, and finally produce the original save-file by completing the last game and converting back to the first?
- presidentender 5y agoThat doesn't quite apply here, because the games cover different (but overlapping and consecutive) time periods. So you take a world shaped by the alternate medieval history of your Crusader Kings playthrough, run it through the converter and load it as a Europa Universalis game, and carry it forward to the modern day in Victoria and Hearts of Iron. There's not a reasonable way to go back and say "after the second world war, it's the year 867 again, and the world operates under feudal politics."
- labster 5y agoMaybe if we add an option in Stellaris to bomb a planet back to the Stone Age? Or Iron Age would be more useful.
- a_e_k 5y agoWell, there is the "Outside Context" achievement in Stellaris that might work for something like that: "Invade pre-FTL Earth while it is in the midst of a world war."
- HappySweeney 5y agoI think it's bugged currently, but "Armageddon Bombardment" is a thing. It turns the planet (after several years) into a tomb world.
- labster 5y ago> bugged currently Yep, sounds like a Paradox game.
- jareklupinski 5y agolike a game of the egg story? http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
- bmn__ 5y agoPlay strategy games in historic order; at the conclusion of a game, export the game state for import into the next one. • Imperator (antiquity) • Crusader Kings 2/3 (middle ages) • Europa Universalis 4 (renaissance/early modernity) • Victoria 2 (modernity/Great War) • Hearts of Iron 4 (World War 2/Cold War) • Stellaris (galaxy colonisation) Example videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfYx9rQgpqU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfYx9rQgpqU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj3UqbhHckE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj3UqbhHckE