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I have no idea why imgur made the thumbnails so god drat small, sorry.
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This expansion pack rules. Stuff actually happens now. My current game as the US has gone weird. Peru devoured Equador along with parts of Bolivia and Columbia, and Im currently at war with britain over Montana. And then I got attacked by Mexico because they wanted Texas back.
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Apr 17, 2013 22:23
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I want to become a marxist or democratic socialist country as argentina, or barring that, a really nice social-democracy. At the moment I'm a presidential dictatorship and I can only be the reactionary party. What do I do to free up all the reforms? I want to give my people top-notch education and health care and keep them safe and happy from cradle to grave.
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Apr 17, 2013 22:25
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So how the hell do you make your non-US country attractive for immigrants? I have Texas,Chile and Haiti but nothing seems to get me immigrants. I try to become as liberal as possible by using my national focus to make people loyal to the liberal party, trying to increase militancy and consciousness unsuccessfully. But I hardly get any reforms through at all and by the time I start getting close to 50 % consistent support for the liberals the loving socialists show up taking alot of the support and apparently they hate political reforms. I dunno what I'm doing wrong since I remember in previous games before HOD where I had a much easier time getting immigrants.
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Apr 17, 2013 22:29
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Baronjutter posted:I want to become a marxist or democratic socialist country as argentina, or barring that, a really nice social-democracy. At the moment I'm a presidential dictatorship and I can only be the reactionary party. What do I do to free up all the reforms? I want to give my people top-notch education and health care and keep them safe and happy from cradle to grave. You'll have to either: 1.) become a democracy and then get the socialist or communist party in power, or 2.) have a successful socialist/communist revolution. Basically whenever you get Jacobin or socialist/communist rebels, withdraw your armies to some backwater province, never engage the rebels, and then eventually let them take over your capital and hold it for 120 days.
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Apr 17, 2013 22:35
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Baronjutter posted:I want to become a marxist or democratic socialist country as argentina, or barring that, a really nice social-democracy. At the moment I'm a presidential dictatorship and I can only be the reactionary party. What do I do to free up all the reforms? I want to give my people top-notch education and health care and keep them safe and happy from cradle to grave. I just pumped communist support as soon as communism was available, then went for the tech that gives vanguard party eventually. I had a large base of communists ready, but not arming themselves. Once vanguard party kicked in, divisions started to arm, and I think 180 divisions ended up popping up and turned my Russian Empire into the USSR. Also, anyone have any tips for fighting China without wanting to blow my head off from fighting all the goddamn armies they have?
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Apr 17, 2013 22:38
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Lord Tywin posted:So how the hell do you make your non-US country attractive for immigrants? I have Texas,Chile and Haiti but nothing seems to get me immigrants. I try to become as liberal as possible by using my national focus to make people loyal to the liberal party, trying to increase militancy and consciousness unsuccessfully. But I hardly get any reforms through at all and by the time I start getting close to 50 % consistent support for the liberals the loving socialists show up taking alot of the support and apparently they hate political reforms. I dunno what I'm doing wrong since I remember in previous games before HOD where I had a much easier time getting immigrants. I can't remember - is it socialist reforms that increase immigrant attraction, or political reforms, or both?
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Apr 17, 2013 22:45
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Baronjutter posted:I want to become a marxist or democratic socialist country as argentina, or barring that, a really nice social-democracy. At the moment I'm a presidential dictatorship and I can only be the reactionary party. What do I do to free up all the reforms? I want to give my people top-notch education and health care and keep them safe and happy from cradle to grave. You need to pump up militancy by having high-militancy events, not enacting a lot of reforms, being brutally repressive, suppressing reform movements, etc. That way either you'll get pissed-off rebels who will bring the socialist revolution if you let them win, or the legislature will be frightened enough to vote for reforms. It's a little more complicated than that - you have to piss off the right pops so you get the right rebels, and generally the socialist rebels only start occurring around the mid-game (before that it's Jacobins and the like, who are cool with political reforms but not social reforms). The general rule of thumb in Vicky is that if you want a really progressive, left-leaning state, you need to rule as a cruel repressive right-wing dictator. If you want a moderate or a conservative state that survives, you want to rule like a moderate, not repress people, and make lots of concessions. And then the other thing you can do is research, I believe, the second-from-last technology in the Politics chain - Revolution and Counterrevolution - which makes communist revolutionaries go crazy. If I recall correctly the last event in that chain does the same thing for fascists.
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Apr 17, 2013 22:48
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So there's no way to just force through change, despite being a dictator? It seems odd that a Presidential Dictatorship can't just have its president decree that there is now education funding, or health care.
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Apr 17, 2013 22:53
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Tomn posted:I can't remember - is it socialist reforms that increase immigrant attraction, or political reforms, or both? Baronjutter posted:So there's no way to just force through change, despite being a dictator? It seems odd that a Presidential Dictatorship can't just have its president decree that there is now education funding, or health care.
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Apr 17, 2013 23:01
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Baronjutter posted:So there's no way to just force through change, despite being a dictator? It seems odd that a Presidential Dictatorship can't just have its president decree that there is now education funding, or health care. I guess it's partially a gameplay balance thing - if a presidential dictatorship can shove through any reforms he wanted, the best way to reform into ANYTHING would be to become a dictatorship, decree that everyone is now living in a communist paradise, and then step down. Though, thinking about it, if you COULD shove through that many reforms at once, you should probably run the risk of turning a pretty large swathe of the population into reactionaries who want none of this radical nonsense. Probably end up putting down rebellions for a good long time afterwards.
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Apr 17, 2013 23:03
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Baronjutter posted:So there's no way to just force through change, despite being a dictator? It seems odd that a Presidential Dictatorship can't just have its president decree that there is now education funding, or health care. Presidential Dictatorships are, by definition, reactionary, so it'd be weird if they suddenly adopted progressive ideas. Fascist and Proletarian dictatorships can do social reforms though.
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Apr 17, 2013 23:04
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Did the time for a revolution to trigger change? I had my capital occupied for what must have been two months at most and now suddenly I'm communist.
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Apr 17, 2013 23:10
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A weird thing is happening in my Austria game. I'm at war with Italy, who has 18 land techs researched while I have 23, and they are somehow hitting me with gas when I can't hit them back- not only that, but the 'Gas Defense' invention is stuck at 0% despite the fact that they're clearly killing the poo poo out of me with the stuff. Will I eventually get Gas defense? Is this some kind of weird bug? I don;'t normally get this far into the game and it's really depressing seeing my soldiers melt like butter against a numerically and technologically inferior foe.
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Apr 17, 2013 23:17
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DerLeo posted:Did the time for a revolution to trigger change? I had my capital occupied for what must have been two months at most and now suddenly I'm communist. Rebels received massive massive buffs. I don't know why paradox made the change, I don't remember people clamoring for more powerful rebels. I've almost got half a mind to disable rebels till paradox fixes them.
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Apr 17, 2013 23:17
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Oh god Paradox makes the best
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Apr 17, 2013 23:37
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Ferrosol posted:Oh god Paradox makes the best This is pretty much the greatest game trailer for a boat simulator ever.
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Apr 17, 2013 23:47
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Almost as many "likes" as views on that video :p
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Apr 17, 2013 23:51
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Ferrosol posted:Oh god Paradox makes the best I can't stop smiling.
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Apr 17, 2013 23:51
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Ferrosol posted:Oh god Paradox makes the best That's a really good trailer, also I want it now.
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Apr 17, 2013 23:59
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Is it cool to buy Vicky 2 through Steam w/r/t mod compatibility and poo poo? I know CK2 is fine, but just wanted to double check before I bought.
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Apr 18, 2013 00:02
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Baloogan posted:Rebels received massive massive buffs. I don't know why paradox made the change, I don't remember people clamoring for more powerful rebels. I swear paradox does this just so they can make the same "rebels with a cause" joke for at least one expansion per game. Edit: goddamn, that trailer. Is that paradox as a publisher or developer? Reveilled fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Apr 18, 2013 |
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Apr 18, 2013 00:03
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Mister Adequate posted:Newspapers are amazing (I had something about Russians complaining something called "Dead souls" is too difficult). Nice, two references for the price of one. [edit] I shouldn't forget about posts in the reply window for ages... Munin fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Apr 18, 2013 |
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Apr 18, 2013 00:04
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DrPop posted:Is it cool to buy Vicky 2 through Steam w/r/t mod compatibility and poo poo? I know CK2 is fine, but just wanted to double check before I bought. Vicky 2 is the same as CK2 for mods, really. Plop them in your My Documents\Paradox Interactive\Victoria 2 folder and select them at launch. No Steam issues whatsoever. And like all Paradox games even when you buy it through Steam, you don't have to have Steam open to actually run it.
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Apr 18, 2013 00:06
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Ferrosol posted:Oh god Paradox makes the best I didn't care at all about this game, but now I want to buy it and invite a girl to a date where we play it. Whoever had this idea deserves a promotion.
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Apr 18, 2013 00:15
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Puella Magissima posted:Presidential Dictatorships are, by definition, reactionary, so it'd be weird if they suddenly adopted progressive ideas. Fascist and Proletarian dictatorships can do social reforms though. Shouldn't a reactionary revolution turn the country into an absolute monarchy? That should be a thing, I want to play as the Glorious Kingdom of Chile or something. That boat game looks legit cool, though.
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Apr 18, 2013 00:23
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ZearothK posted:I didn't care at all about this game, but now I want to buy it and invite a girl to a date where we play it. Whoever had this idea deserves a promotion. With the statement that they "saved money on voiceovers" and put that into the game instead, though, they basically said "the coolest thing about this trailer will not be in the final product".
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Apr 18, 2013 00:24
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enuma elish posted:The general rule of thumb in Vicky is that if you want a really progressive, left-leaning state, you need to rule as a cruel repressive right-wing dictator. If you want a moderate or a conservative state that survives, you want to rule like a moderate, not repress people, and make lots of concessions. Actually, in my recent California playthrough, I got the Socialist party elected sometime around 1850 and proceeded to win elections for the next 70 years. I ended up with all of the social and political reforms set to their most liberal and socialist, just through building popular support and making reforms incrementally. This, plus adopting the national value "Freedom" resulted in pretty astonishing levels of immigration -- I think I was pulling in like 15,000 immigrants a day by the end.
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Apr 18, 2013 00:30
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DrSunshine posted:Actually, in my recent California playthrough, I got the Socialist party elected sometime around 1850 and proceeded to win elections for the next 70 years. I ended up with all of the social and political reforms set to their most liberal and socialist, just through building popular support and making reforms incrementally. This, plus adopting the national value "Freedom" resulted in pretty astonishing levels of immigration -- I think I was pulling in like 15,000 immigrants a day by the end. I was able to do pretty much the exact same thing as the USCA, albeit with very slightly less ridiculous numbers of immigrants. The Reactionaries overthrew the government and instituted a presidential dictatorship in the early 1840s which was itself overthrown by a Militant Socialist revolution in 1865 or so. After that, the resulting democracy was governed by the Socialists as an effective one-party state right up to the end of the game, and they gradually reformed the country into a glorious workers' utopia one piece of legislation at a time. I ended up with every single political and social reform, full womens' suffrage, and even got the Maya up to accepted culture status so I didn't assimilate them out of existence. I adopted the national value 'Unity' which kept Con and Mil down nicely, jacked Plurality up, and generally made everyone love each other, even the huge numbers of immigrants. There were so many people fleeing the constant wars in China that my population was 26% Mahayana Buddhist by game end. The only thing that kept the game from being perfect is that, as soon as I took Panama from Colombia so I could build the canal, the USA sphered me and threatened war if I didn't immediately hand it over. gently caress the USA.
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Apr 18, 2013 00:44
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Okay, so I looked into it a bit and apparently inventing Gas Attacks gave me -3 edit: one trick you can do as a monarchy to trigger rebellion is change the leading party whenever you can; each time the whole government is shuffled around there is like a .5 general mil increase. Scrree fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Apr 18, 2013 |
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Apr 18, 2013 00:49
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Scrree posted:Okay, so I looked into it a bit and apparently inventing Gas Attacks gave me -3 defense instead of +3 attack. Italy does not have the tech needed researched nor the invention, so it's not just a lack of defense on my part. Anyone know what file I need to dig through to find out how to fix this? This is in the base game? edit: Only thing I could find was \inventions\army_inventions.txt enabling gas_attack, but it had nothing about stats. Looks like it's hard coded. Cantorsdust fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Apr 18, 2013 |
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Apr 18, 2013 00:51
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Farecoal posted:Shouldn't a reactionary revolution turn the country into an absolute monarchy? That should be a thing, I want to play as the Glorious Kingdom of Chile or something. It is a thing. There's a Kingdom of Argentina in my current Germany game. It's in rather poor shape...France took part of it. I'm kind of tempted to DOW France to force them to give back that chunk of Argentina because seriously.
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Apr 18, 2013 00:58
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Cantorsdust posted:This is in the base game? Yep; the number even pops up red like other negative modifiers.
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Apr 18, 2013 01:03
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Patter Song posted:It is a thing. There's a Kingdom of Argentina in my current Germany game. It's in rather poor shape...France took part of it. I'm kind of tempted to DOW France to force them to give back that chunk of Argentina because seriously. Tempted to do a playthrough with the goal of making the United Kingdom of America, or the Kingdom of Texas.
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Apr 18, 2013 01:08
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DrSunshine posted:Actually, in my recent California playthrough, I got the Socialist party elected sometime around 1850 and proceeded to win elections for the next 70 years. I ended up with all of the social and political reforms set to their most liberal and socialist, just through building popular support and making reforms incrementally. This, plus adopting the national value "Freedom" resulted in pretty astonishing levels of immigration -- I think I was pulling in like 15,000 immigrants a day by the end.
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Apr 18, 2013 01:28
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Wolfgang Pauli posted:Was China civil warring all over the place? It usually leaks pops like a sieve when there's a war going on, and they all go straight to America because that's where immigrants always go. I don't really remember, as I rarely looked out of my own neck of the world. Mostly I was too concerned with taking over South and Central America and containing the USA, so I never really glanced at what was going on in China. China did modernize and become a GP as Beiyang China, though, sometime around the 1910s.
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Apr 18, 2013 01:42
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Ferrosol posted:Oh god Paradox makes the best Well sure, I'll buy it.
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Apr 18, 2013 02:06
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Do I need to be spending on Military National Stockpile to reinforce my troops? The new occupation mechanics are making it difficult to deal with rebel-occupied provinces, by the way.
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Apr 18, 2013 02:26
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There is a government where the head of state has total control of your country: Fascists will support the pass or repeal any reform you want as long as they're the ruling party. The downsides being that they go full Republican and block doing everythin when they're out of power and failure is the only way they popular support.
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Wolfgang Pauli posted:If you're going to make a Gogol joke -- and that alone should be sending up red flags -- why not go after the fact that he hated teaching so much that he would fake tooth aches to get out of lecturing? Or that writing the sequel to Dead Souls stressed him out so much that he went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem to "find himself", went insane, burned his manuscript, and killed himself? "It's so hard even the Russians don't get it" is... well it's not even really a joke, innit? Okay, I definitely think this expansion's a bit unstable and dominions is a bit weird (but definitely not gamebreaking, seriously guys?), but criticizing Paradox for making a Dark Souls joke? Really?
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