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Rolling around in 100lbs of chocolate pudding here, I could not care less 
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Apr 16, 2013 19:36
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Did I say the last one was Worldstage.jpg? Because this one takes message settings issues to a new level.
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Apr 16, 2013 19:40
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Hey, I could be bitching about wallpaper. 
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Apr 16, 2013 19:43
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Darkrenown posted:It's not ideal of course, I just think declaring this a return to the bad old days is going a bit far. The AHD install was a different installation that I forgot I had. I got the game to work by running the HoD exe without steam once to get a working mapcache and now I can run it through steam fine.
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Apr 16, 2013 19:44
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I think the expansion is a lot of fun. Sorry
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Apr 16, 2013 19:45
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Darkrenown posted:It's the button to declare interest if you are a GP. So, if it's a European crisis, and I'm America and click that guy to 'declare interest', do I lose prestige if I don't take a side, whereas I don't lose anything if I don't 'declare interest'? I'm not clear on why it's there, as joining a side seems like enough of taking interest, is it a way of saying 'I'm open to being bribed to join in'?
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Apr 16, 2013 19:46
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dipwood posted:Delete the OTHER map cache as well. There's 2 of them, one in your regular folder and one in documents. The one in the regular folder (in Steam for me) did the trick. So try this.
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Apr 16, 2013 19:51
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Patter Song posted:Did I say the last one was Worldstage.jpg? Because this one takes message settings issues to a new level. was trolling by spinning the bad things people were saying about the demo into good things. He was banned when the forum admins found out his IP address is the same as Ubik's. 
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Apr 16, 2013 19:57
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Fintilgin posted:So, if it's a European crisis, and I'm America and click that guy to 'declare interest', do I lose prestige if I don't take a side, whereas I don't lose anything if I don't 'declare interest'? If you join in and then don't pick a side you DO lose prestige, yes. It's can show you're willing to be bribed in, and a bit of a gamble that you will either pick a winning side or wuss out with the prestige hit.
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Apr 16, 2013 19:59
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Darkrenown posted:If you join in and then don't pick a side you DO lose prestige, yes. It's can show you're willing to be bribed in, and a bit of a gamble that you will either pick a winning side or wuss out with the prestige hit. Right, okay. I was a tad confused.  James The 1st posted:Speaking of MM, there was a thread about M, err World Stage in the Paradox OT forum. One guy named Homero Hahah. Dude's a nut. Still surprised that the World Stage page is still up. 
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Apr 16, 2013 20:09
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James The 1st posted:Speaking of MM, there was a thread about M, err World Stage in the Paradox OT forum. One guy named Homero Worth pointing out that the same guy was around the forums when Magna Mundi was cancelled. He was particularly annoyed when people characterized Ubik's actions as insane and kept accusing everyone doing so of lacking moral character.
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Apr 16, 2013 20:09
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I have yet to be given a bribe to join a side, just empty offers, are they normally pretty rare? Also I just noticed the battle plan option and spent 15 minutes doodling all over then map. Giving moustaches to Britain and so drawing kraken in the ocean, best feature ever.
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Apr 16, 2013 20:16
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Pooned posted:I think the expansion is a lot of fun. Sorry Yes but what about my pretty map borders how dare you Paradox! You will go the way of the Ouya! Way to go this is Pre-EU1 days of programming! 
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Apr 16, 2013 20:23
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Im now 99% certain that the dominions thing was done intentionally to make the  MY BORDERS people meltdown.
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Apr 16, 2013 20:27
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Greatest expansion ever, or merely excellent?
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Apr 16, 2013 20:28
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How do you increase the number of possible brigades you can create besides maxing military spending? I'm playing as the USA and despite maxing military spending my potential brigade number hasn't gone up at all. e: Oh, and how can I prevent Britain from gobbling up the Pacific Northwest? It seems like there's nothing I can do to stop them either during or after their colonization effort. e2: Ahaha, and like a minute after I post I suddenly gain 3 brigades. Well, still want to know what I can do to get Washington, Oregon and Idaho from those dirty Brits. Miles Vorkosigan fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Apr 16, 2013 |
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Apr 16, 2013 20:32
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Drone posted:Admin efficiency determines how effective you are at collecting tax and profit in your country. If you do what I did, your very first step will be getting 100% administrative efficiency in your largest states (at the 1836 start I think that's Buenos Aires and Entre Rios). Until you get 100% admin efficiency in both states, your budget is going to be as austere as possible. Place your national focus in both of those states to Encourage Bureaucrats. Max out the bureaucracy slicer in your budget though, as this will passively slightly encourage bureaucrats in all of your other states as well. Nuclearmonkee posted:A lot of countries start with financial issues. First things first, get your admin efficiency up to 100% for your nation and in all of your core provinces by encouraging bureaucrats. Prioritize researching some economic techs that benefit you the most. Don't remember what Argentina specializes in, but if it's like Brazil, go for farming and RGO boosts since you are primarily agrarian and un-industrialized to begin. In the meantime, tax the poo poo out of your populace, hike your tariffs and cut military funding. As your administrative efficiency improves and some econ techs come in, you can ease up on tariffs and taxes. Thanks for this. I made my NF clergy and kept losing money. I'll try it again after work tonight!
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Apr 16, 2013 20:35
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Yeah, be careful with clergy though, since your education costs go up with the number of clergymen you have.
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Apr 16, 2013 20:39
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Miles Vorkosigan posted:How do you increase the number of possible brigades you can create besides maxing military spending? I'm playing as the USA and despite maxing military spending my potential brigade number hasn't gone up at all. Military spending will do it but it will take some time to do it - it doesn't directly increase your manpower, it increases the number of soldiers that you have among your pops. So it will take a while to for the number of soldiers to increase to the point where you're going to be able to build additional brigades, but over time it should have a substantial effect. It's not immediate. The other thing you can do is use one of your NFs to promote soldiers in a state. But that will also similarly take some time.
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Apr 16, 2013 20:40
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I'm a bit of a min/maxer in games like this, but V2 always turned me off because I always felt so lost and not in full control. For instance I'd always be worried about having a good tax efficiency but I'd also be worried about having too many bureaucrats. Clearly everyone wants as close to 100% efficiency as possible, so with only 1 desired state or outcome why not just make the process automatic? Yes still have them have to train up and migrate and such, but just have some target rate for bureaucrats and the game would automatically do the rest. Let the national focus just speed this process up, and then you'd get a little notification once the state was "done" so you aren't wasting your focus. There's a lot of things in V2 like this, that could be simplified, abstracted, or automated to a higher degree as there's generally always 1 "best" outcome and attaining it is just fussy micro-management and interface slog or simply remembering what you were doing.
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Apr 16, 2013 20:50
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I'm not sure there is a better strategy game that puts you in control of the growth of a nation-state's economy.
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Apr 16, 2013 20:55
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Miles Vorkosigan posted:How do you increase the number of possible brigades you can create besides maxing military spending? I'm playing as the USA and despite maxing military spending my potential brigade number hasn't gone up at all. Use Promote Soldiers National Focuses on your largest states and keep military expenditure high, but not so high that you end up with an excess of officers.
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Apr 16, 2013 21:00
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Wolfgang Pauli posted:Amazon is selling an "Online Game Code". Is it seriously Steam only? With no digital download? I bought the other two off Amazon and now I have to give money to Gamersgate (which I really don't want to do) just to get this expansion? At least let me migrate my previous purchases to Steam if you're going to pull this poo poo. That's odd, there was a listing for direct download from Amazon before release that I posted a link to earlier in the thread and was separate from the Online Game Code, which was listed as a different product. Now clicking the link in my earlier post leads to the Game Code page. I wonder why they changed that? Regardless, Gamersgate is a perfectly good service, so I wouldn't sweat it too hard. I'm just upset that I've got a group project I was supposed to be working on all semester that I'm now going to have to do in one day by myself, so I can't afford HoD distractions. I guess I'm living vicariously through y'all until tomorrow.
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Apr 16, 2013 21:01
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After bumping up the rate at which my NF builds tension to .6 instead of .15, I'm having a lot of fun. This will probably be gamebreaking or something late game but  . I've gotten Russia to hand over much of Poland without firing a bullet. Looks like they will fight me over Ukraine though.
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Apr 16, 2013 21:05
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 HoD has made small nations more suicidal, i just saw the papal states attempt to humiliate Austria on its own, Belgium trying to cut Prussia down to size.
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Apr 16, 2013 21:06
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James The 1st posted:Speaking of MM, there was a thread about M, err World Stage in the Paradox OT forum. One guy named Homero You can't just post something like this without providing quotes
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Apr 16, 2013 21:14
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Yep have spent all day with HoD and can confirm that it's great. I hope they never fix wacky dominions, either
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Apr 16, 2013 21:33
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Just bought AHD, but I'm a cheap motherfucker who can't afford to make a $20 purchase with rent and utilities on the way.  So, what is the most terrible country to play for a first game? I like playing as a confusing mess the first time around because it gives me more reason to just cheat at the start to get the formula and mechanics down without too much trouble. Call it a tutorial if you will.
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Beamed posted:You can't just post something like this without providing quotes There aren't too many good quotes that don't require a fair amount of context. Here's the best I could find - Ubik? posted:In fact, jhanso once wrote about the "...failure tourists" who are just lurking around this forum in the hope they can make themselves and each feel better by abusing far away people. Mob culture is a common phenomenon and while is not to be condoned in any setting, it is understandable how someone of little intellectual depth or self awareness could fall into such a trap..." Note: jhanso was a random poster in the Magna Mundi Cancelled thread last year. Also, here's the biggest of his misquotes, with the original added in for comparison: Ubik? posted:Donīt exaggerate. Original Quote posted:Demo looks promising, but a long ways off from being ready. Some clear improvements over eu3, with a lot of cool features, but I can't see how they expect to release this in April. Super glitchy couldn't select my army when laying siege/fighting, army kept on laying siege and running away, had no idea why. Needs a lot of polish too, when you declare war you see flags of the countries that will join a side but can't mouse over for names/probability, when you change sliders you you don't get any real notification of what happened. Diplomacy is a bit confusing (can't propose an alliance until I have at a certain amount of influence in the capital? whut?). Got a quest from my faction but had no idea how to view it, it expired before I got a chance to act on it. Hover for information popup only works half the time. Understandable that paradox gave this the axe, seems closer to alpha than rc. Other notable antics include constantly talking about how all the problems in the World Stage demo could be fixed with patches months after release, arguing with someone over a post the other guy made back in July 2012, "It's only MY OPINION that World Stage will be released and patched, why do you insist on providing evidence that MY OPINION is wrong?", and of course, constantly trying to argue people into agreeing that the demo was playable and fun.
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Tomn posted:There aren't too many good quotes that don't require a fair amount of context. Here's the best I could find - quote:And I think everyone has had their say and as the only protagonist on one side of the "discussion" is now taking a short break due to his repeated trolling I think we can safely close this thread for now.
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Apr 16, 2013 21:51
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Darkrenown posted:It's not poorly tested, it's just not a big issue. Sure, we'll tweak it so it doesn't spin off so many, but if AI dominions are the biggest problem people have with HoD I'd be pretty pleased. But you're right, it's not a big deal. Mostly just a funny one. So don't take this as a serious complaint.
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Apr 16, 2013 22:06
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WTF you guys! Nothing wrong with a pile of dominions. I sometimes will switch between the major powers releasing as many nations as possible. Makes the world more interesting. Jesus christ don't hassle the devs over something so minor. So for I love HoD. Haven't colonized anywhere but just being able to divide up my national stockpile spending is worth 20bux.
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Apr 16, 2013 22:10
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What is next for DLC for V2? When does it come out?
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James The 1st posted:Here the one where he was banned. drat, that could just mean they're both Portuguese and not the same person. Still, here's hoping. 
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Apr 16, 2013 22:14
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Beamed posted:drat, that could just mean they're both Portuguese and not the same person. Still, here's hoping. Yes, as is known we have one IP address for the whole of Lisbon
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Apr 16, 2013 22:21
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Playing as France in V2 HoD. Is there any 'easy' way to dismantle/conquer Egypt? I took Palestine and Sinai in the first war, and the two states need to 'isolate' the Egyptian capital state, but I still can't request the capital province (Lower Egypt?). There aren't any little sub-states like Syria or Jordan to release, so am I just stuck fighting half a dozen wars over 30-40 years to get them down to below five states to annex? Also, not sure if there's something wrong with the Egyptian army. It basically didn't show up to either war. I killed one stack of ~12 strength in the first war and occupied all of modern day Egypt/Syria/Jordan etc in the second war and never saw an Egyptian army.  KoldPT posted:Yes, as is known we have one IP address for the whole of Lisbon If you go back and look at that guys posts back when he started posting he has an argument/discussion with Ubik at one point. But a lot of his other posts 'sound' like Ubik, and I wouldn't put it past him to have a 'debate' with his own sock-puppet for some crazy/rhetorical reason. 
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Vodos posted:I wanted to mess around with the dynamic dominions and used the console to grab much of Africa. The result isn't quite as expected. Tomn posted:Worth pointing out that the same guy was around the forums when Magna Mundi was cancelled. He was particularly annoyed when people characterized Ubik's actions as insane and kept accusing everyone doing so of lacking moral character.  WeaponGradeSadness posted:That's odd, there was a listing for direct download from Amazon before release that I posted a link to earlier in the thread and was separate from the Online Game Code, which was listed as a different product. Now clicking the link in my earlier post leads to the Game Code page. I wonder why they changed that? Regardless, Gamersgate is a perfectly good service, so I wouldn't sweat it too hard. Baloogan posted:What is next for DLC for V2? When does it come out?
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Yeah the same ISP basically means as much as saying "Both Ubik and that poster have a T-Mobile phone" or "Both drive Mazdas". Sure it kinda narrows it down but even if it's an ISP that only serves clients in Lisbon, that still doesn't really mean it has to be Ubik, and if it's not unique to Lisbon, then it basically means nothing.
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