Damn. I was interested, just not committed. Victorian is a weird era imo, I don't like world campaigns, just Europe-sized campaigns. And no, "Europe is in this, too!" doesn't cut it, late period games are just about fighting for colonies and making backstabs in Europe, I find that really boring. If it was medieval, when Europe looked like shattered glass, then hell yes.
Guns and cannons and resources need to be basic and scarce for things to be interesting, imo.
Germany and Italy are shattered glass and almost Austria-Hungary but uhhhhh
yeah
Plus it's the time of revolutions in a lot of countries' histories so it could become even more shattered glass
GB is whole, Spain is whole, Austria and Russia are empires that swallowed up all these small regional ethnicities. Italy is basically 4 countries, and Germany is basically 5 (7 including the Netherlands and Belgium, which are long since independent from HRE). Inb4 "nuh uh," yes, Italy is basically three countries: Sardinia, Tuscany, the Papal States, and Sicily, and Germany is essentially just Prussia, Bavaria, Hanover, Hesse, and Mecklenburg. Every other minor ass country gets swallowed up 2 days into the game, and that's why it's not shattered glass.
Compare Germany and Italy in 1500 to Germany and Italy in 1850. Ignore HRE.
No, Volk, I doubt a BoP where simplicity is a core backbone will allow for revolutions that splinter nations. The fuck?
rather so something New that im interested in instead of trying to appeal to people
Doing something you want to do > doing something others want to do
Huh.
Medieval may not be the consensus of the people in this thread currently, but months ago when that big poll of all the different themes was up, medieval was either the top or second top voted by a large margin. It's a good time period because big changes weren't usually devised by a hand full of people, that's why the Napoleonic era is a shitty timeframe for a BoP--France just wins as long as the player is competent, or players play proactively and straight up unfairly target France from the start, and GB or Russia will swoop in to save the day at some point. That's why I prefer the medieval period, you can be as creative and ruthless and ambitious and practical as you want.
Either way, I think it's worth introducing wincons to BoPs regardless of the time period. Games sort of just end because all players feel like they can do is fight wars, and that's all there really is. But there's no evaluation at any point of how well a player/nation is actually doing at any given time. There's no system of points to value how much land someone controls, how valuable that land is, how protected those lands are, how efficient their military is at preventing threats from happening and eliminating them when they do, etc. Civilization for instance was definitely a game where you had to fight battles, but towards the end of the game there were WAY more ways to win than just fight everyone. Something to seriously consider, imo.