#game-narrative — Public Fediverse posts

Meanwhile Spain Manifest-destinied their way to the Pacific on the land route. Since the east coast is sorted from Newfoundland in the north to the Rio Pindare in the South.
(without conquistadores, btw. just regular warfare and the somewhat broken 'colonisation' of unincorporated areas.)

mare nostrum indeed.
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Because the English got a third of France but mysteriously lost their attempts at Colony in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and so far hasn't managed to even become a united Britain. (Scotland tries its luck as part of the Hungarian Union with Milan on board as well)
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The situation started to get a bit out of hand when some people where confused if the mare in question was the Mediterranean or the Atlantic.

This was quickly resolved with an enthusiastic "yes!".
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The thing is that the Spanish had heard of 'mare nostrum' and said: "Yes, please! We'll have one."

It's certainly a project.
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The year is 1643, we are supposed to be close to the peak of the Ottoman Empire, but in this timeline (and without any contribution from me) they rather fizzled out early and the Byzantine Empire is still around and an independent Egypt has imperial ambitions.
But so has the Empress(*) of Spain, the Holy Roman Empress, Queen of Sicily, Sardinia, Bohemia and recently Countess of Ródos. And she(*)'s more successful at the moment
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Did I just defend the Ottoman Sultanate against the Sultanate of Egyptian when I really didn't need to?
Technically yes!
Practically, it was a situation of my rival is distracted and I can barge in, take advantage and abscond with Ródos, Karia and Lykia in Mikrà Asía.

A single country still had the "State Piracy" modifier. I asked them nicely and now no country has that. I wonder if the game will throw up any curveballs when the situation is defused before it really kicks off

*duck*
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"New Situation: Golden Age of Piracy [...] Endless war for dominance [...]"

My dudes, what are you talking about? The coast from Newfoundland in the North to the Amazon in the South is controlled by just my empire. There is no chaos and warfare, just well organised subjects with a mighty Jamaica sorting out the Caribbean.

It seems I may have gotten way ahead of history. Also taking out Portuguese, English and French colonisation before they even started.

I mean, I did get it sorted out by now and the rest is mostly mopping up. But it was way harder than expected for a little rebellion in the south. I even had all my vassals on my side for once. #EU5 #GameNarrative

#EU5 is when you have the largest standing army on the planet and still get your arse kicked hard because you got a bit careless. #GameNarrative

The "Stone of Scone" on the other hand will be displayed in the soon to be erected Spanish Museum in Valladolid
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I have bad news: "Romeo and Juliet" was destroyed in the Siege
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it has come to this: The Siege of London (1599)

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which in itself comes from a tricky set of incentives. I want strong vassals on my borders to defend me, but not so strong that they can rebel. So I occasionally need to get someone else to reduce their strength #EU5 #GameNarrative

It's doubly backstabby as some of my vassals in the region of France are disloyal while being protected on all sides and now are suddenly directly on the front lines #EU5 #GameNarrative

Today I learned that #EU5 has an extremely backstabby mechanic: I told one of my colonies to attack the colony of an ally, the ally joined their colony and I intervened on behalf of my colony and boom: 37 former friends at war.
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I learned how to conduct a winter war and how to get my tropical-hardened troops to handle Norway.

Related: Say hi to Spanish Newfoundland.
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You know you're playing it correctly when Spain has a shared border with Norway. #EU5 #GameNarrative

After Two Hundred Years of the (second) Hundred Year's War, it finally runs out of time after nobody achieved the winning conditions. England controls 131 locations, France has 83 and some upstart Iberian kingdom has control over 106 locations (plus 33 with an ally). The remainder of France has no access to the sea. Their locations are incredibly fragmented making it inefficient to control and defend which is not foreshadowing at all
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*sigh* I couldn't get myself an entire Sicily (yet)

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*sigh* we're in the 190th year of the Hundred Year's War, England just announced the 8th phase and we're doing this again.

At this point it feels a bit like beating a dead horse. But I need to go along because a) I probably end up Lutheran (as Spain!) and b) I got my own plans to turn the Two Sicilies into 'My Sicily'.
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Big ooof. 60k vs 210k. Who makes decisions in this version of France? Do they throw dice?
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https://chaos.social/@jay_peper/116352116804717106

So I decided to look elsewhere, leave France alone, etc.

Al Habat could do with some expansion into Fez, so new adventure in Morocco (testing our new ally, the Two Siciies).

So France sees Spain distracted with all armies in North Africa, England in Civil War, so they attacked. Well, fast forward, France lost another 19 locations.

And after a short truce, this time no one distracted? What does France do? Attack again. Well 7th phase of 100y war, here we go. #EU5 #GameNarrative

I really wanna stop picking on France, they're clearly the underdog now. But they just won't let me. #EU5 #GameNarrative

Hmm, I made a boo boo with cultural acceptance and now the Aragonese and Catalan don't like me that much any more, which hits the Accepted Cultures capacity. The Problem is that I'm the dominant country for Aragonese myself and there doesn't seem to be a mechanic for asking myself. The dominant country for Catalan is the Duchy of Athens of all places.
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what they did was some semi-successful hit-and-run, which is how I lost quite a lot of troops, especially on the smaller front in Southeastern France and with big battles near Paris when their big army moved around my concentrated troops and threatened the unprotected sieges.
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anyway, this is what France (the region) now looks like and France (the nation) is smaller again
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Anyone able to point me toward any long-form discussions on story in 2D platformers?

I'm especially interested in elements of plot, pacing, character, and methods of communicating the narrative to the player!

Bonus points if the discussion never uses the word "subversive"

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