…and now I must play

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I've only had time for one full playthrough, but if you play the game and at least manage to stay alive, you're guaranteed at least two or three awesome stories by the end of it.

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Ah the times of Feudalism, when a man could just be a man.

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It even has a real-life loathing for gays! Bishops and the Pope will hate you so hardcore if you turn out gay.

God, just talking about the game makes me want to play it again.

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It's something like Civilization, transfixed on a specific period with more detail, yes?

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While they are both strategy games, they are significantly different from one another.

Civilization's game design has been streamlined into understandable quantities, technology trees and predictable behaviors. Civilization is a very enjoyable timesink of a game.

Crusader Kings however, is a simulator. For instance, CK2 boasts the ability to let you play as literally anyone of standing. You can play as an Emperor, king, duke or count. Any level of government where you at least control one patch of land, is free for you to play out whether or not you end up being a vassal of a king or whatever because internal politics makes up more than half the game.

Now note, that when you do make up your mind as to where you want to start off and commence your scheming and warring. EVERY other person you could have played as is being simulated as well. You could be playing as the King of France, fending off the on-and-off advances of the English and on the other side of the world, the Byzantine Empire will be dealing with a series of assassinations and rebellions that will leave it fractured and a shadow of its former power. Now the chances of you ever actually dealing with the remnants of the Byzantine Empire are miniscule because you are only playing out a few hundred years of time, but regardless of whether you're there or not, every noble in every court at every level of government have simulated personalities, ambitions, likes and dislikes and will act accordingly.

It is a pretty difficult game to get into (though by Paradox Interactive standards, it's probably the most approachable) and I'm always unsure of what the best way to handle a situation is, but like I said before, that's okay because even when you fuck up, you still get exciting results.

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So...is this section almost completely dead Rp-wise? I've just actually browsed through ooc threads and it seems like everyone has migrated?

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I've kinda gone to another site for my RP needs x:

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Which site?

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Makes me melancholy to see one active Rp on the first page

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Tis' indeed a shame.

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I remember the days when overnight you would miss 3-4 whole pages of posts...

Now you'll be lucky to get 1 post in a week.

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We need more people.

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Stufflikehearts - He is a Sith Lord. I love Blood Lord :3
Jeffffey - Blood, you look at the information someone says, look over what really happened, and reply in a way that makes them realize what they were really thinking.
Mythrrinthael - Blood Lord, our local expert in interpretation of The Grim Tales from Down Below!
Fievel - Numerous campaigns and conquests, countless bodies decaying after the abandonment of victorious battlefields. Such is the life of Blood Lord.
Dusk_Imp - Blood Lord is like a celebrity here. Everything he does is pure awesome. ALL HAIL BLOOD LORD
Doctress Who - Why couldn't there be a Blood Lord in every forum? It would make life so much easier.
Snafu's Mercypostle.

Yup *wistful sigh*

I feel like a lot of people kinda gave up on this place, and that feeling sucks.

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At this point the only two active sections are spam and bleedman, if you're not into spam's particular branch of humour and/or aren't obsessed with Bleedman's stuff, there's not much reason to stick around.

Plenty of RP'ing in other places. I'm not even an RP'er and I know of forums with active RP sections.

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Are the other rp sites as easy to get roleplays accepted? I know that RPG Dreamer's forum has very strict and difficult processes for consideration.

...ok? I mean, I obviously know other places have active rp sections.

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While jumping ship is always fun, why not try to save this one instead?

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Stufflikehearts - He is a Sith Lord. I love Blood Lord :3
Jeffffey - Blood, you look at the information someone says, look over what really happened, and reply in a way that makes them realize what they were really thinking.
Mythrrinthael - Blood Lord, our local expert in interpretation of The Grim Tales from Down Below!
Fievel - Numerous campaigns and conquests, countless bodies decaying after the abandonment of victorious battlefields. Such is the life of Blood Lord.
Dusk_Imp - Blood Lord is like a celebrity here. Everything he does is pure awesome. ALL HAIL BLOOD LORD
Doctress Who - Why couldn't there be a Blood Lord in every forum? It would make life so much easier.
Snafu's Mercypostle.

What I meant with that is that it's very easy to find places to migrate to without even searching much, which explains why people leave.

And obviously I don't enter these sections, if that's what you're surprised about, I judge them as active based on how often I see new posts on the board index.

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I wasn't surprised, I was trying to figure out your point. I suppose it is easy to leave but then I wonder why it took so long for most people to do so. Meh, I guess I'm being nostalgic

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I miss the days where I didn't feel like the only person who wanted to post in a RP after the initial hype. Unless a bunch of you migrate some where in particular I probably won't actively seek out another forum.

Edit: Actually I almost miss the days when GMs would disappear/lose interest in their RPs before the players did.

That was always good for a chuckle

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I've done that here and there... Sometimes you just don't know to proceed so you just yell 'fuck it' and never appear again.

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I remember when I first joined and all of the sections had a fair degree of activity (save DP). Now its this. Its saddens me.

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Stufflikehearts - He is a Sith Lord. I love Blood Lord :3
Jeffffey - Blood, you look at the information someone says, look over what really happened, and reply in a way that makes them realize what they were really thinking.
Mythrrinthael - Blood Lord, our local expert in interpretation of The Grim Tales from Down Below!
Fievel - Numerous campaigns and conquests, countless bodies decaying after the abandonment of victorious battlefields. Such is the life of Blood Lord.
Dusk_Imp - Blood Lord is like a celebrity here. Everything he does is pure awesome. ALL HAIL BLOOD LORD
Doctress Who - Why couldn't there be a Blood Lord in every forum? It would make life so much easier.
Snafu's Mercypostle.

I would be fairly more active in this section, but college work. Now that I think about it, I never really advertised this site as having an RP section... I should probably maybe do that.

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