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Sampatrick posted:Actually no, that's a direct quote from what someone said. Yeah. They can be that ridiculous. It's a direct quote but it wasn't a serious post. 
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I usually start most Paradox games as Castille (or Spain), dating back to HoI2 when I did a game as Franco. No real reason.
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Jan 27, 2013 04:30
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Beamed posted:It's a direct quote but it wasn't a serious post. We can't be sure of this.
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Jan 27, 2013 05:26
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Sampatrick posted:We can't be sure of this. I'm aware it was a direct quote - that's why I suggested that people Google it to find the original post. I sincerely doubt it's serious, though, given that the person in question has a grand total of eight posts to his name including that one, and how he failed to participate any further in the thread after posting. Also, this: quote:The pain I felt from this betrayal has destroyed me on an emotional level, and has deprived me of my primary source of entertainment. No longer can I play Grand Strategy games without remembering the day I ceased mattering to people I devoted myself to. Paradox had not just destroyed me or their company, they had destroyed the one force of stability in the world: Trust. Granted, it's not as blatant as the guy talking about how he formed deeper, richer emotional connections with his CK2 characters than he did with anyone in real life, but it's still pretty over the top. Edit: In case anyone is curious, here's the "rich emotional connections" guy I was talking about. Tomn fucked around with this message at 05:44 on Jan 27, 2013 |
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Jan 27, 2013 05:38
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Tomn posted:I'm aware it was a direct quote - that's why I suggested that people Google it to find the original post. I sincerely doubt it's serious, though, given that the person in question has a grand total of eight posts to his name including that one, and how he failed to participate any further in the thread after posting. Also, this: That is literally the single best post on the entirety of the Paradox forums.
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Jan 27, 2013 05:56
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Tomn posted:Edit: In case anyone is curious, here's the "rich emotional connections" guy I was talking about. I like how the dude just completely handwaves away spending any development time on fleshing out Africa.
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Jan 27, 2013 06:00
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I have absolutely no ability to tell if that's serious or a perfect mockery 
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Jan 27, 2013 06:04
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ten dollar bitcoin posted:I like how the dude just completely handwaves away spending any development time on fleshing out Africa. That dude brought up Serbia (the fourth Rome) as a huge (but tolerable) mistake on paradox's part. There is no way that is a serious post.
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Jan 27, 2013 06:07
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Yeah, I mean, look at what he said:that guy posted:Yet, for many of us, CKII is no laughing matter. It is serious business. Even if the stuff about Serbia and the Balkans wasn't obvious, you can't possibly take this line seriously. Still funny though.
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Jan 27, 2013 06:12
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CharlestheHammer posted:That dude brought up Serbia (the fourth Rome) as a huge (but tolerable) mistake on paradox's part. There is no way that is a serious post. That was the most believable bit though...
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What, are you guys saying Paradox developers don't spend all their spare time studying liberation theology and reading Maoist-Third Worldist blogs? It's pretty well known that Johan is a huge fan of Monkey Smashes Heaven.
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^^^^ I don't know what that has to do with anything.Graham Gremlin posted:That was the most believable bit though... If it was believable he would not have tolerated such injustice.
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Jan 27, 2013 06:16
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I will admit for having a degree in history Medieval to Enlightenment era Balkan states aren't exactly my forte, but how what the hell is up with the fixation on Serbia? Especially to the point of it being a "true successor" to Rome?
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Jan 27, 2013 06:19
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CharlestheHammer posted:^^^^ I don't know what that has to do with anything. fakeposting dude on the paradox forums posted:I call on my fellow CKII fans to boycott any and all Paradox products until the devs put down their Latin American liberation theology books and stop visiting those Maoist Third World-ist blogs and instead go back to their meatballs and house mafias or whatever else they have in Sweden -- AND GIVE US, THE CONSUMERS, what we are asking you for!!! It is not hard!!! It's not unreasonable to want you to do what we ask you to do!!! And to stop being so selfish and glib about making video games!!! Give us the video games!!!
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Jakse posted:I will admit for having a degree in history Medieval to Enlightenment era Balkan states aren't exactly my forte, but how what the hell is up with the fixation on Serbia? Especially to the point of it being a "true successor" to Rome? Paradox Plaza has a lot of balkan nationalists. I dont think anyone considers it the true successor that's just a joke that's grown as people keep exxagerating how much people are crazy for Serbja.
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I missed that part. Though I can still say I don't know what that had to do with anything. It seemed randomly put in there.
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CharlestheHammer posted:I missed that part. Though I can still say I don't know what that had to do with anything. It seemed randomly put in there. He had a few points making fun of the idea that Sunset Invasion (and the addition of West Africa and the African faces DLC, among other things) means Paradox isn't being Eurocentric enough, which I guess some people are probably upset about.
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CharlestheHammer posted:I missed that part. Though I can still say I don't know what that had to do with anything. It seemed randomly put in there. There was a line of argument over on the Paradox forums that Sunset Invasion was "political correctness gone mad," allowing the Native Americans a "revenge fantasy" of sorts upon Europe and that it wasn't appropriate somehow for that reason - because, I suppose, Paradox needed to stick to the real history and real facts of Europe overrunning the entire world and not indulge in such fripperies as Native Americans being more than a speedbump for Europeans. It was not, to be fair, a very COMMON line of argument, but yeah.
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Jan 27, 2013 06:41
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Jakse posted:I will admit for having a degree in history Medieval to Enlightenment era Balkan states aren't exactly my forte, but how what the hell is up with the fixation on Serbia? Especially to the point of it being a "true successor" to Rome?
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telcontar posted:It's just a longrunning joke about Balkan nationalism which started with a LF Victoria 1 Let's Play. Holy crap, link? I'd love to see a legitimate Vicky 1/2 Serbia LP - just because being able to do it right sounds like it takes a lot of skill
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I know it's a strange question to ask in the paradox thread but are there any pirate themed games that have are at all remotely like ck2 in strategy? Now that I've finally figured out how to play this game... I really want to play more like it... and I kind of think a piracy/carribean themed game would be perfect.
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I can't really think of any, honestly. Most recent Pirate games, as in the last decade, have been mostly RPG in nature. The only strategy pirate games I can think of are the Port Royale games on GoG. They're the 17th century Caribbean counterpart to the patrician games. The other game is one I never played. I believe it was called Cutthroats. It was some kind of real time strategy is memory serves.
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that's a shame.. it seems like a good theme for a strategy game.. managing ports and ships, trading across, deciding who your first mate is and ultimately who'll take over for you. I dunno
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Mr. Showtime posted:Speaking of Darkest Hour + Kaiserreich, has anyone else had problems registering the game so that you can download the beta patch? I bought it from the Paradox web store a few days ago; Steam has no option to view my CD key and the Steam key mailed to me in my receipt doesn't work on the Paradox forums. I've put in a ticket, but while I'm waiting for a response I thought I'd ask if anyone else has had this problem and in exactly which way I'm missing something blindingly obvious. You need to have Darkest Hour installed on Steam in order to see the CD-Key. I had the same problem when I bought DH there but already had it installed from somewhere else.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:First Denmark because nationalism, and because no matter how badly I do I'm going to outperform history. Outperforming danish national history = Easy, you just have to make the right choice just once :P
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Zip posted:that's a shame.. it seems like a good theme for a strategy game.. managing ports and ships, trading across, deciding who your first mate is and ultimately who'll take over for you. I dunno Tropico 2. Less fun version: Port Royale 1/2/3.
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SickZip posted:It was really really dumb and a bad precedent. CK2 is fun but already crazy ahistorical, it doesnt need to be moreso. PITY WE FORCE YOU TO BUY IT SO YOU HAVE NO CHOICE ABOUT IT! OH poo poo, NOW WE CAN'T DO ANY MORE HISTORICAL STUFF DUE TO THE PRECEDENT!  Raenir Salazar posted:In a thread discussing multiplayer balance and how the faction systems made Ming empirically a worse country to play a dev said "Playing Ming in mp is like playing a OPM." Which was hilarious as a OPM has a better ability to compete with France than Ming ever will. In the absence of of any link or context I'll go out on a limb and say it was an analogy to say playing Ming in MP vs European major players is giving the Ming player an extra challenge, akin to the extra challenge of playing a OPM. Some countries won't fare as well as others in a competitive MP game. Not that Ming is literally a OPM.
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Darkrenown posted:PITY WE FORCE YOU TO BUY IT SO YOU HAVE NO CHOICE ABOUT IT! OH poo poo, NOW WE CAN'T DO ANY MORE HISTORICAL STUFF DUE TO THE PRECEDENT! Reposting to the Paradox forums right now! jk
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DrProsek posted:I believe it was Miscmods that did that, I remember seeing 300 years per core but it would never take that long unless you were conquering say Japan as France and never converted the locals. donzwei posted:Outperforming danish national history = Easy, you just have to make the right choice just once :P
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Darkrenown posted:PITY WE FORCE YOU TO BUY IT SO YOU HAVE NO CHOICE ABOUT IT! OH poo poo, NOW WE CAN'T DO ANY MORE HISTORICAL STUFF DUE TO THE PRECEDENT! You know we're not supposed to talk about what we do at work, now you've all but given away the 'Rise of the Old Ones' DLC!
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I was going to make both of those jokes. drat you Paradox Devs! drat you to Hell!
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gradenko_2000 posted:Which EU3 mod was it that sets the base core time to several hundred years, but instead triggers core gains dynamically by event, checking several factors to reduce the MTTH? MEIOU does it. Think a few others might as well. I'm going to be totally boring and nationalistic when EU4 comes out and just go straight for England. Although the new trade mechanics and the neccessity to have a large navy that you actually USE will be interesting. The new colonisation system they've got going sounds nice, but I hope somewhere down the line, either in development or expansions/DLC they change even more.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Yeah, pretty much the only states which are easier to outperform with are ones like Poland. Or in the extension of Denmark, the Duchy of Schleswig and the Duchy of Holstein, now there's a history which from the start only goes down hill. But i don't think they will be playable though 
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DinoUniversais eh? I will take that as confirmation on the next-next DLC being "Sunset Invasion II: Aztec Dinosaur Cavalry" e: Followed by Sunset Invasion III: Aztecs vs Vikings I'd buy it  Pimpmust fucked around with this message at 13:20 on Jan 27, 2013 |
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Pimpmust posted:DinoUniversais eh? I will take that as confirmation on the next-next DLC being "Sunset Invasion II: Aztec Dinosaur Cavalry" 
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Hahaha! quote:You can literally become the character you play as. For months now, I have "lived" as a King of Italy, a Duke of Lombardy, a Count of Bourbon, developing relationships with historical and fictional characters with their own unique personalities and character traits. I have formed friendships and even romances as prevalent and intense as any you could find in real life. I have shed true tears for the wives I've wed and lost, the sons and daughters I've raised and seen taken away too early. My heart has swelled with pride as I've bestowed titles upon the progeny that has made me proudest and witnessed my soul crushed by the necessity of having to "take care of" an unsuitable heir. Dude has some serious problems, if you ask me!
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Personally, my favorite part was when he compared the Paradox devs to a grown man frolicking naked in a hundred pounds of chocolate pudding.
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Tomn posted:Personally, my favorite part was when he compared the Paradox devs to a grown man frolicking naked in a hundred pounds of chocolate pudding. That's called 'Friday afternoon' around the office.
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Darkrenown posted:Eh, as long as we keep DinoUniversais under wraps it's all good. No worries. I canned it this morning so you could be put on the Austrian Painting School game..
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