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Will there be any option to allow players to increase the number of turns per year (to 6, or 12, for example)?

Any thoughts on how research and production would scale to a year with more turns?

Will research and production rates be moddable to be slower to scale correctly, if year turn-length is moddable?

Only Joel would be able to say for sure whether that's moddable or hard coded. In either event, my sense is that turns that short are out of scale with the game. You'd need a lot more provinces (i.e., new map art and map data) to address the change in scale.

Nice idea, but I can imagine how difficult it would be to support and test. 4 turns a year over a 7 year period, doesn't sounds like it takes a long time to play a game. That was my main concern when I first heard about 3 month turns, but the game looks like it has enough detail to keep you busy each turn (and you can't waste a turn.) How long does turn take? How long does a game take?

-Billy

Turns take varying amounts of time. I tend to obsess over my turns (moreso in PBEMs).

You could take one country and probably finish a game in a night if you rushed through it. My game against the AI (posted in the AAR forum) has, on the other hand, probably taken over 9 hours just to get to the halfway point, because I'm obsessive and I'm also posting the AAR.

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Will there be any option to allow players to increase the number of turns per year (to 6, or 12, for example)?

Any thoughts on how research and production would scale to a year with more turns?

Will research and production rates be moddable to be slower to scale correctly, if year turn-length is moddable?

turn length is not moddable, Research and Production costs are moddable.

I may have missed this information in the other postings (if so I apologize). Will the end of game turn be moddable (i.e. extend out to 1950+)?

You can turn on an option that removes the turn/time limit.

You can also mod the end date if you want to have a different end date. I've taken as long as 60-90 minutes to make an alliance move in a tense 2 player PBEM game (but I can obsess too). I've also played entire games against the AI as one player in 4-5 hours (that's about 10 minutes per complete turn).

Could we get a primer on what is moddable and how to do it? Maybe give us some ideas for a 1939 scenario, or a Cold War game, or whatever. What can we do and what can't we do?