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Jacada posted:This key has been taken, the lurker who decided to grab it didn't want to take the twenty seconds to let everyone else know. Thought I'd save everyone else half a minute trying to use it because I'm nice like that!
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Urdnot Fire posted:Yeah, I'd suggest only ever posting codes here, since it's only ever visible to Goons and thus decreases the chance of lurking a little. Or SteamGifts, which eliminates that threat completely. I put it in spoilers because I thought only registered users could see spoilers. Unless that was removed at some point anyway. Ah well.
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Pakled posted:So, Paradox just sent out a newsletter commemorating 500,000 members by giving away a free copy of EU3: Chronicles for Steam to all 500,000 of us. That's pretty nice of them. Holy crap, I had already trashed the email without reading when I saw your post. Thank you for this.
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Yeah I posted a code for Don't Starve and got e-mailed about it but still aren't sure if it was a goon or not so PM me for this code.
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:Galleys are only useful in Seas. The Mediterranean, Black Sea, Baltic Sea, and maybe the Channel are the only seas that actually count as seas. Maybe the Yellow Sea too? Outside of them, Galleys will always get eaten alive by Medium and Big ships, and play no real supporting role. Only use them if you're poor. Even in seas, they're still outclassed, but not by nearly as much, and they serve as a decent cost-efficient ship early on. For EU3 DW? Small ships matter in DW for sure; I never figured out the ratios but I know people who have and they only lost when the difference was in Admirals by a point of 1, its a little ridiculous because it means one side loses their entire navy and the other lost only 1 ship. EU3 badly needs to have its tradition and naval system's severely rebalanced, I think back when for a single patch ships were massively expensive was probably the way to go.
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Raenir Salazar posted:For EU3 DW? Small ships matter in DW for sure; I never figured out the ratios but I know people who have and they only lost when the difference was in Admirals by a point of 1, its a little ridiculous because it means one side loses their entire navy and the other lost only 1 ship. They killed that because they couldn't rebalance the AI to account for it. England would go bankrupt and fall apart in just a few years solely from their (Rather large) starting navy.
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Chronicles! I remember how many manly tears I shed when I bought "complete", thank you paradox!
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I've never bought a Paradox game on Steam before, so I'd like to ask: How good is Steam with keeping the game up to date with beta patches, and how does it play with modding? I think I'd use my code myself if it guaranteed I'd never have to go into their tech support forums again. Not that there's anything wrong with their forums, but downloading and unpacking and installing the patches myself is a fair bit of effort I could do without.
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EU3 Chronicles Steam code: When's EU4 due anyway? Also, I need another HOI that's good like 2 and not poo poo like 3. Get on it Paradox. GhostDog fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Jan 21, 2013 |
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I remember EU II and how complex it was and I left it. I guess a free game is a good chance to try again. I'm getting all Civ V'd out! I'm hoping the diplomacy works better than Civ, where it's pretty useless (to me at least).
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Just used that key. Thanks GhostDog! I've been waiting for a chance to move past CK2 and further explore the Paradox Family of Products.
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GhostDog posted:When's EU4 due anyway? Also, I need another HOI that's good like 2 and not poo poo like 3. Get on it Paradox. Q3 2013 So this is a great way to get people hyped up for it.
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gradenko_2000 posted:I've never bought a Paradox game on Steam before, so I'd like to ask: How good is Steam with keeping the game up to date with beta patches, and how does it play with modding? I think I'd use my code myself if it guaranteed I'd never have to go into their tech support forums again. Not that there's anything wrong with their forums, but downloading and unpacking and installing the patches myself is a fair bit of effort I could do without. Steam keeps up to date with regular patches, but you still have to install beta patches the old-fashioned way (y'know, because they're still under development and not ready for general release and all that). Mods work fine, although launching EU3 from Steam launches the base game rather than the launcher, so you'll have to launch the launcher separately if you want to play a mod. Everything else I've tried (DH, Vic2, CK2) launches the launcher when launched from Steam, though.
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As I already got Complete with Divine Wind attached I am willing to give my code to anyone who PM's me. EDIT: Code sent! Supeerme fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Jan 21, 2013 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:I've never bought a Paradox game on Steam before, so I'd like to ask: How good is Steam with keeping the game up to date with beta patches, and how does it play with modding? I think I'd use my code myself if it guaranteed I'd never have to go into their tech support forums again. Not that there's anything wrong with their forums, but downloading and unpacking and installing the patches myself is a fair bit of effort I could do without. I have CK2 and DH on Steam and they're both fine. As Friend Commuter says, though, you do have to install beta patches yourself if you want to be at the bleeding edge of patches.
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If someone PMs me they can get my extra copy as well, since I tried to go into the gift zone here but I can't figure out how you add cd-keys to steam gifts.
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Lord Tywin posted:If someone PMs me they can get my extra copy as well, since I tried to go into the gift zone here but I can't figure out how you add cd-keys to steam gifts.
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Urdnot Fire posted:You don't, you just email them or otherwise get them to the winner. That explains it, well it will still take some time before I am accepted into the steam group so if anyone wants the game just send me a PM.
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Just activated my EU3. Really nice of Paradox to give away the latest iteration of their flagship franchise.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Not that there's anything wrong with their forums, but downloading and unpacking and installing the patches myself is a fair bit of effort I could do without. Hey man, if you want to be at the bleeding edge, you gotta be willing to shed a bit of blood.
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I see they've decided to celebrate this new high in forum registration by having the forums crash entirely.
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Gort posted:Crusader Kings 2 also has this sound that accompanies 90% of the events that I wouldn't mind never hearing again... CK2 sounds are in individual .wav files in \sounds\, so you could just rename the offender or replace it with a blank file.
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NihilCredo posted:CK2 sounds are in individual .wav files in \sounds\, so you could just rename the offender or replace it with a blank file. Easiest way to get rid of sounds is actually to open interface/sounds.sfx in a text editor, find the offending sound and add volume=0 to it. I disable court/religion screen music because music on top of music rarely sounds good.
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Wiz posted:Easiest way to get rid of sounds is actually to open interface/sounds.sfx in a text editor, find the offending sound and add volume=0 to it. I disable court/religion screen music because music on top of music rarely sounds good. I guess it's unsurprising given that I almost always play CK2+ but I didn't even know that those screens had music. Vegetable posted:Doesn't Switzerland have really terrible attrition? Just let them siege a province for a month or two before jumping them. In vanilla EU3 it was easily the worst place to use doomstacks. Someone's never invaded Ethiopia and then tried to deal with rebels in those provinces. The attrition is incredible.
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Friend Commuter posted:Steam keeps up to date with regular patches, but you still have to install beta patches the old-fashioned way (y'know, because they're still under development and not ready for general release and all that). Mods work fine, although launching EU3 from Steam launches the base game rather than the launcher, so you'll have to launch the launcher separately if you want to play a mod. Everything else I've tried (DH, Vic2, CK2) launches the launcher when launched from Steam, though. And like all(?) paradox games on steam it doesn't have any DRM, so you can just make a copy of it and place it wherever you want and not have to deal with steam if you don't want to.
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gradenko_2000 posted:I've never bought a Paradox game on Steam before, so I'd like to ask: How good is Steam with keeping the game up to date with beta patches, and how does it play with modding? I think I'd use my code myself if it guaranteed I'd never have to go into their tech support forums again. Not that there's anything wrong with their forums, but downloading and unpacking and installing the patches myself is a fair bit of effort I could do without. EU3, Victoria 2, and HOI3 I think have trouble keeping up with regular patches as well. CK2 doesn't have this problem, at least. Antinumeric posted:After the clusterfuck that was the Republic release I'm not surprised. What clusterfuck? (The CK2 thread is gigantic  )
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Farecoal posted:What clusterfuck? (The CK2 thread is gigantic I think it came to steam a couple of days later than it was supposed to, unless you got lucky and bought a steam key from another retailer before they ran out. I don't know how steam managed to gently caress that up. I got one of those early keys and played it on steam the day it was released, but a lot of other people got quite angry, especially those who bought a key from gmg after they stopped giving them out and didn't get any reply from them.
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Wiz posted:Easiest way to get rid of sounds is actually to open interface/sounds.sfx in a text editor, find the offending sound and add volume=0 to it. I disable court/religion screen music because music on top of music rarely sounds good. Can you make this a part of your Paradox+ ensemble? I never want to hear a baby being born or a boat being built again. And most of your clientele wouldn't even think of messing around with back-end sound settings.
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Thank you Paradox! I'll make sure this copy of EU3 Chronicles finds a good home.
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Vodos posted:I tried a game of EU3 MEIOU over the weekend. They added a lot more bonuses and penalties to sliders, NIs, advisors and buildings, making all that stuff more interesting at first, it just gets too much after a while. Some of the bonuses even break the tooltips when you get a sizable country (which is bound to happen since they added hundreds of provinces). For example the tooltip for government tech research can't tell me what research is coming up anymore since every tier 2 government building adds 0.3 to the research and all I can see now is a huge list of +0.3 that goes to the bottom of my screen. Same for magistrates/merchants/missionaries, I can't see how many I get per year because some trade building / monk orders add 0.1 each. When I tried MEIOU a few months ago, it seemed like all colonies started at 1 tax base but you'd intermittently get the option to just increase the tax base in specific colonies with a small investment or with the acceptance of additional revolt risk there or something. Also, I think that their trade goods could possibly change to something more valuable later.
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I'd be willing to trade my EU3: Chronicles key for Crusader Kings 2: The Republic. I don't have the money to buy it right now, so all I have to offer is this nice, shiny EU3.
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Guess who spent over $100 on CK2/EU3 + Addons last night?
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ten dollar bitcoin posted:Guess who spent over $100 on CK2/EU3 + Addons last night? yeah i'm really glad i decided not to re-buy EUIII:Complete and HTTT on steam recently, since Gamersgate is such a pain. Now I don't have to, and I have Divine Wind as well too! Paradox is seriously the best development studio ever.
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You know it's sort of counter intuitive, but it's poo poo like this that makes me to blindly buy every Paradox Game.
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Raenir Salazar posted:Sorry for the Do I need the Republic expansion for this?
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QuoProQuid posted:Do I need the Republic expansion for this? If I'm not mistaken, for multiplayer games you get all the benefits of DLC that the host has.
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