Can you continue playing a EU game after it's "won"

[MrB]

Or timed out. 'cuse my ignorance of the mechanics if neither of these possibilities is a game outcome. But can you keep playing after it's normally finished like with Civ?

I've always wanted to play these sort of games through to a conclusion (no one but yourself left), and never quit a Civ game when I'm just up to scoring. Imperialism was a bit of a let down for me because you couldn't continue.

So, can you with EU? Or EU2?

Thanks.

[uglyduck]

The Grand Campaign period in EU1 is 1492 to 1792 and in EU2 from 1419 to 1820.
If you set your play rate at 1minute = 1 month then it will take you around 80hours (not counting pauses!) continuing play to reach the "time out".
The victory conditions can be pretty much as you want them to be from simply annexing all of Spain to conquering the entire known world.
It would be very difficult with EU2 to conquer all the world so there is plenty of play there.
Might I suggest that you have a look here:-

http://www.europa-universalis.com/eu2.asp

and read thro the forums for more information

[Dauphin]

Stop stealing Poly's new recruits uglyduck.

[Grunthex]

But to answer the original question, no you can't play after the time ends (1820 for EU2). On the other hand, given it takes days to get there even if you have no life, and weeks if you do, that's ok. You can start a new game as one of 99 other countries.

[MrB]

Cheers

Thanks for the info guys... I have little life, but many other great games. So I reckon things should balance out well enough for a good long play time.

I hear EU2 needs a bit of patchwork and as it's not out here yet it'll be EU for Christmas

[Shadowstrike]

Generally, you can get through 30 years or so in 2 hrs in a single sitting.... I've been playing the same GC for about a month @ about an hour a day and more on weekends... I'm closing on the end and still have a few mroe goals to reach.... Grr... Constantinople must fall....

[WFHermans]

You could try to hack the savegame file and set the date back when you come close to 1820.
I hate it too when you cant play on! I dont care about victory points or whatever, i just want to rule my country and see what happens.

Imperialism I (and civ 3) are even worse than EU in this respect. At least in EU you can play until the end of the scenario. But in Imperialism everything was goung fine until suddenly the message appeared "The Council of Europe" (or whatever it was called) decided that you have won, or lost or whatever, both equally irritating because the game had stopped.

This is a reason i never play scenarios in EU because after playing lets say the Seven Years War the game stops. It should at least give you the possibility of playing on. I liked that about Civ II.