ericbabe
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Actually I think total victory just doubles the required number of victory points, which should extend the game a few more years, but I don't think it extends the game indefinitely. Most people who wanted longer games seem to be satisfied with this option. If, after playing a few games, you still think this isn't enough I could see making this aspect moddable (it may already be, I can't remember offhand). I don't want to be officially responsible for trying to balance out games that last 20 years. In a very long game at some point the economic and unit rules are going to breakdown since there aren't long-term counter-balancing rules to keep certain things in check, then people will complain about the historicity of the game at that point. This happened to us with Crown of Glory. The longest campaign scenario we designed and tested was the 10 year scenario from 1805-1815. After the game shipped there was a request from many players that we add a longer campaign from 1792-1820. We did this simply by increasing the time limit on the 1792 starting conditions. However there many play balance and historical balance problems with the longer campaign that were not problems in our shorter 10 year campaign. In the 28 year campaign, for instance, players could support much larger armies than we'd seen with the testing of the 10 year campaign, and certain nations, such as Turkey, could become much more powerful than we'd ever been able to do in the 10 year campaign. Also some rules that were only minor parts of the 10 year campaign (such as the economic waste rule) came to dominate play in the larger campaign in ways we had not seen during testing. People would then cite all of these problems with the 28 year scenario as reasons not to play COG. So I'm not enthusiastic about allowing people to play out the Civil War indefinitely for this reason, and if we did allow it I would want it to be in some very unofficial way, such as through a game mod.
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