Time Schedule (CET/UTC+1)
3rd Session: Sunday, 1st March, Start: 1 pm
2nd Session: Sunday, 23rd Feb, 1 pm - 8 pm
1st Session: Sunday, 16h Feb, 4 pm - 9 pm

Please be here a bit before the session starts, so we can actually start the session at the given time.
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Newspaper
The Janissary's Chronicle #1 - 1444 to 1498[imgur.com]

World Maps
July 1638[imgur.com]
August 1577[imgur.com]
April 1498[imgur.com]

Nations
Europe
Austria - Amos
Brandenburg - Thugtrain
Castile - ŊЏ | professional Castile player
England - ŊЏ | Ðeagle
France - ŊЏ | European Union
Milan - SminT
Muscovy - Ray
Ottomans - Lemieux
Africa
Morocco - Atradis
Asia
Bengal - ayos
Hosokawa - BlueMonday
Malacca - KarlMarx™
Vijayanagar - HeldOhneGeld

Game Settings
- Normal AI difficulty
- No lucky nations
- Limited ledger
- Only host and observers can save the game

Rules (currently under construction and open to discussion)

Game Hosts: ŊЏ | Ðeagle, Lemieux

Game hosts will adjudicate in cases of disagreement. In cases in which a host is involved in the dispute, the other host will make judgement. In cases in which this is not possible, impartiality and fairness will be applied and will be confirmed by second opinion.

Warfare

In player wars;

1.1 - You cannot request a positive peace deal without fulfilling the war goal. This applies to defenders also. The war goal must be demanded in the final peace deal.

1.2 - With respect to the above, with an incomplete war goal, a white peace is the only choice.

1.3 - You cannot demand more than your current war score in a peace deal unless agreed by the defender due to war exhaustion or other factors. If a player surrenders at 100% war score you must accept. In no circumstances must the peace deal be greater than 100%.

1.4 - You cannot peace out separately in player-player wars in circumstances which clearly circumvent the war score limit – use a separate war.

1.5 - If a player surrenders in a war, all parties involved must communicate a peace deal with the game paused. The victorious party may claim up to the greater of their current war score or 50%, and must satisfy all other rules. A player may not surrender prematurely to avoid a 100% war score. This will be judged case by case.

1.6 - A secondary combatant (i.e not the war leader) may only request in a peace deal a territory or state of the defender player nation if it is of their primary culture or they have a claim or core. This does not apply to colonies, trade companies, vassals, personal unions or for territories which are not connected to the capital of either nation by land.

1.7 - A great power, irrespective of rank, cannot call human allies into an offensive war if the total development of the offensive nations exceeds the resultant total development of the defender and his war allies. This rule will be waived in certain circumstances where the alliance is necessary and the development does not reflect the power balance. For example, naval wars against the UK. This will be decided by one of the game hosts with impartiality and fairness.

1.8 - A great power cannot call another great power into an offensive war with a player of lesser power unless in the case of the below.

1.9 - Offensive allies in wars against lesser or equal powers may only be called in as a response (and a means to regain balance) to a defender gaining a new war ally, in either the same war, or a blatant mutual war.

1.10 - No condottieris between player nations – join as a war ally.

1.11 - No declaring a war on absent players who were unable to find a sub. You may defend your allies against the AIs actions but it is forbidden to take anything other than a white peace.

Alliances and Diplomacy

2.1 - No massive block alliances - alliances should be kept dynamic at all times to ensure a good experience for everyone.

2.2 - No hidden alliances - do it publicly and in the game.

2.3 - If another player has a PU over you, follow his order or declare an independence war - unless your liberty desire is higher than 50%.

Gameflow

3.1 - Game speed will usually be 2x, but can be increased up to 5x if all players agree (preferred speed of 3x in peace times)

3.2 - No pausing, except if someone is away from keyboard, for peace deals or other emergencies

3.3 - If you can not play one or several sessions, please let us know in advance and if possible, try to ask one of your friends to play for you. We will be giving it our best to find someone to sub for you, but if we can not find someone the game will go on anyways if not too many players are missing (Notice: If you know already in the session that you can not come next time, please press ESC and modify the AI settings according to your needs (!!!) in case AI takes over)

Soft Rules

- Territorial gains from other players are discouraged, unless for reaons such as: missions, strategic gains, cores, culture, religion and victory cards

- Limited wars instead of global wars are encouraged

- Try to keep alliances limited to nations with genuine mutual interests, and not "oh they have a big army they will keep me safe or allow me to expand".

- Roleplay, at least a bit: Do remember that you are the ruler of your nation. Try to act accordingly. Do not ally or mercy someone just because they are your friend. Learn to accept losing: It is the nature of Empires to rise and fall. If your nation gets severly ruined, you can always repick your nation (Picked idea groups can be adapted in the save file)

- Please don't troll too hard with your subject, province, king names: Prefer sane names that suit your nation please x)


Thanks to Lemieux for creating the newspapers and world maps :)