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Luigi Thirty posted:Didn't Paradox have to turn down religious assimilation so the Jews wouldn't go extinct by 1900? catlord posted:PC Gamer has a preview for East Vs. West. EVW Preview. Still mostly talking about war, but it does mention a few other things, and the politics screen looks like Vic2 to me. I can't remember if it was shown off in a Dev Diary though. Still excited for it though.
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Raneman posted:Is there any reason I wouldn't be able to back a side in a crisis as a #7 great power? It's not working for me, I'm playing Belgium if that matters. Was the crisis on a different continent? If I remember right, there was some sort of continental restriction (ie: great power China can't join in crisis over random lands in Greece or something like that).
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Drone posted:Was the crisis on a different continent? If I remember right, there was some sort of continental restriction (ie: great power China can't join in crisis over random lands in Greece or something like that). As USA it let me join in a crisis in Europe.
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Drone posted:Was the crisis on a different continent? If I remember right, there was some sort of continental restriction (ie: great power China can't join in crisis over random lands in Greece or something like that). You can join, you just aren't penalized for not joining, as you are for a crisis on your 'home' continent.
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Someone explain the sphere of influence thing to me. So I get stuff up to sphered. Will the country always stay sphered? Can other countries take it from me?
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Cantorsdust posted:Someone explain the sphere of influence thing to me. So I get stuff up to sphered. Will the country always stay sphered? Can other countries take it from me? Sphering is mostly an economic thing - it forces the country to sell its goods to you first and buy needed goods from you first, and prevents them from competing with you on the world market. Sphered countries also can't declare war on you or on any other country in your sphere. Other Great Powers can wage war to steal a country from your sphere, the country itself can try to leave your sphere in certain circumstances, and a successful revolution in a country will result in it either leaving your sphere peacefully or starting a war to do so, depending on whether you allow it to leave or not.
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Drone posted:Was the crisis on a different continent? If I remember right, there was some sort of continental restriction (ie: great power China can't join in crisis over random lands in Greece or something like that).
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Cantorsdust posted:Someone explain the sphere of influence thing to me. So I get stuff up to sphered. Will the country always stay sphered? Can other countries take it from me? GPs can also influence countries up to friendly and if they hit 100 influence while friendly with a country that is in your sphere they can remove it from your sphere (much like you can to countries other GPs have sphered).
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Mirdini posted:GPs can also influence countries up to friendly and if they hit 100 influence while friendly with a country that is in your sphere they can remove it from your sphere (much like you can to countries other GPs have sphered).
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Watching the EUIV stream it did strike me that it might be nice and possibly useful(?) to have a visual representation of how much money is flowing along any given trade route line. Like maybe pack the arrows more tightly for a rich trade route and space them out more for a poor one?
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What are some good "goals" for playing Oranje, Transvaal, or South Africa (Satellite or not)? I just go bankrupt within the first month or so, and I'm not sure if I should be increasing taxes or lowering spending on military/Edu/Admin, etc.
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MooselanderII posted:Hey, I am thinking of getting back into EU3. Does Wiz's mod work with miscmods and the other mods listed in the OP? I think EU3+ is standalone, but the gameplay tweaks make it worth not having the other mods. I think someone (Kersch?) modded the alt-starts of MiscMods into an EU3+ submod, if that's what you're looking for.
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Ugh I got halfway through my first Sweden game and just now figured out 1) that the +/- 200 relations scale, 0-100 influence scale and friendly/cordial/neutral opinion scale are three different but related things and 2) how to use priority to actually gain influence where you want in a reasonable amount of time. Now that makes me want to start a new game. I suppose that's an excuse to buy HoD. The economy is still inscrutable -- I don't suppose there's some key piece of knowledge to make sense of it like the above does for diplomacy? I understand the basics of industrializing and achieved more-or-less solvency in the grand scheme of things, but still faced pretty big fluctuations from day to day and month to month and I feel like there's simultaneously too much and not enough information to figure out why.
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Old Gods is looking incredible. I'm amazed by HOW GOOD ck2 is. I've been kind of a sucker for even the worst of the Paradox games, preordered eu:r and hoi3 and everything, but they have their good moments which are just so incredible that no other game can do. Also, I realize I'm late to the party, but if anyone is still doing the signup to the eu4 thing, here's mine: http://signup.europauniversalis4.com/r/d6ce22383c5
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A Violence Gang posted:Ugh I got halfway through my first Sweden game and just now figured out 1) that the +/- 200 relations scale, 0-100 influence scale and friendly/cordial/neutral opinion scale are three different but related things and 2) how to use priority to actually gain influence where you want in a reasonable amount of time. Now that makes me want to start a new game. I suppose that's an excuse to buy HoD. The lack of long term statistics for your economy is one of the most frustrating things about Victoria 2. It really is a drat mess, you just kinda end up building stuff and hoping it works out most of the time.
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the night dad posted:What are some good "goals" for playing Oranje, Transvaal, or South Africa (Satellite or not)? I just go bankrupt within the first month or so, and I'm not sure if I should be increasing taxes or lowering spending on military/Edu/Admin, etc. Short term? Conquer the other European states down there. Medium term? Gobble up as much of Africa as you can. Long term? Take over the British Isles. Always max taxes because the efficiency is so bad you don't get a penalty at the start (unless they fixed that). Research your core trade techs as much as possible to get maximum output from the diamond mines that will start to pop up.
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Ragg posted:The lack of long term statistics for your economy is one of the most frustrating things about Victoria 2. It really is a drat mess, you just kinda end up building stuff and hoping it works out most of the time. Asia's even better. Johore in particular is a pinata filled with gold.
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Raneman posted:Is there any reason I wouldn't be able to back a side in a crisis as a #7 great power? It's not working for me, I'm playing Belgium if that matters. Are you at war? Related, I really think Great Powers at war should be able to join in crises if they want to. Fighting some unimportant country like Sweden shouldn't stop them throwing their weight around and getting into other fights.
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I've been playing a game starting as Prussia in HoD, the year is 1879 and it's been going fairly well, despite some difficult hurdles with Austria allying with France and refusing to allow me to gain their spheres by influence forcing me to go through an early two-front war to get cultural hegemony, there also was the problem of Bavaria temporarily gaining GP status, as Turkey declined but that solved itself in time as they were overtaken by the Netherlands who had annexed Belgium some time earlier. I've mostly completely avoided rebels by giving in to the desired reforms of the most militant movements, and often simply co-opting them. I also got a few events that led me to institute the next highest levels of minimum wage and schooling instantly, all these reforms eventually caused my tag to shift from German Empire to Germany. I also seized on the decline of the Ottomans and sphered them, and in the process also sphered Egypt which gave me the opportuntity to build the Suez Canal, which I did, setting up my first colonial state. There's been another war with France (and Russia, they've been allies ever since France ditched Austria) which ended with me seizing North Madagascar from them, I used this and Suez as a springboard to establish German colonies in East Africa once I got colonial negotiations. Most of the world has been going pretty much as one would expect, Japan is entering the world stage having been in and out of GP status once, but now they seem to hold it. Spain has annexed parts of Arabia. But North America is pretty interesting as the US lost the civil war, it looks like the CSA occupied Washington soon after the war started and managed to destroy most of their military, ending the war with a white peace by 1863 (started late 1860), two years later the US saw a revolution and became a "bourgeois dictatorship" under the Radical Party, they did not manage to do very well in rebuilding the military and the CSA took West Virginia from them and a few years after that democracy was restored in the US, they've now fought the CSA (they tried to take Missouri, almost succeeding) to a standstill and have some military superiority now. Also interesting in this situation is that Mexico still controls the entire Southwest and West Coast, making America split between three roughly equal secondary powers (though only the US has an actual industrial base, the CSA has zilch, though they have abolished slavery) I'm wondering what my next steps should be. Should I continue expanding German East Africa, should I focus on the Middle East (Persia has westernized, and I've been thinking of sphering them and investing heavily in Persian industry) setting up a German controlled "prosperity-sphere", I could also add issuing the Balfour declaration though I fear that might just end with Israel sphered by France and Russia who always go against me in these crises (and they can now also add Italy to their GP anti-Germany club), there also is the possiblity of sphering USCA and building the Panama canal, as the US is no longer a great power and won't interfere here. In any case I will need a larger navy, at the moment I seem to be vastly outclassed by both the UK and Russia on that scene, though it seems I can easily beat Russia on land, at the moment I have a standing army of some 600,000 men. EDIT: Socialists are seeing pretty decent growth in Germany, making up some 25% of the electorate now, though I am at the moment loathe to relinquish the Conservative party from government, I've had stints where Liberals won the election, but their crining at taxes, tariffs and spending wasn't for me, not to mention that my industry rating dropped some 50 points and I got thousands of unemployed workers from not being able to subsidize factories having a hard time. Those upstarts got ousted pretty quick. ANOTHER EDIT: I also have a free national focus after having just gotten Revolution and Counter-revolution, all my other ones are currently encouraging craftsmen. Is there anyone of them that are particularly useful for colonies? If so I might consider doing something in East Africa, otherwise I'm just gonna encourage more craftsmen, possibly soldiers (but more soldiers isn't critical right now, though having a million man army before 1900 would be a cool goal) Randarkman fucked around with this message at 11:06 on Apr 26, 2013 |
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EU4 Dev Diary: Scotland, Hansa, The Reformation. A fairly information-rich dev diary this time. The Scottish NIs sound really strong and I will probably play a game as them some time (I've never done so in EU3) and the Hanseatic League has taken over Venice as my planned first ever EU4 game in order to learn the new trade mechanics. The new Reformation stuff sounds interesting but it's going to be one of those 'wait and see' things as to how well it works in practice but at least they're putting some effort into it. As an aside if anyone wants to use my EU4 signup referral that would be great http://signup.europauniversalis4.com/r/3eb9a34ebf9 
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Ahahaha, like the callout. I wonder if there's any particular reasoning behind Scotland getting the bonus other than general gameplay balance?
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Tomn posted:Ahahaha, like the callout. I wonder if there's any particular reasoning behind Scotland getting the bonus other than general gameplay balance? Scots are excellent scientists.
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I think they've answered this, but I can't remember. What happens if you form a new tag, like Scottish Great Britain, or whatever? Do you keep your old national idea track, or get a new one?
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Hey fellas, is there a good Kersch Ireland CK2-style LP for me to get the ropes of V2 and HoD? I've always loved the HoI games and have spent tons of time on CK2, but Vicky 1 & 2 have always been kind of inaccessible to me. With HoD out now I'd really like to try to get the hang of it.
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RabidWeasel posted:EU4 Dev Diary: Scotland, Hansa, The Reformation. A fairly information-rich dev diary this time. The Scottish NIs sound really strong and I will probably play a game as them some time (I've never done so in EU3) and the Hanseatic League has taken over Venice as my planned first ever EU4 game in order to learn the new trade mechanics. The new Reformation stuff sounds interesting but it's going to be one of those 'wait and see' things as to how well it works in practice but at least they're putting some effort into it.  (Unless the in-game stuff in the call to arms video is old.)
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DrPop posted:Hey fellas, is there a good Kersch Ireland CK2-style LP for me to get the ropes of V2 and HoD? I've always loved the HoI games and have spent tons of time on CK2, but Vicky 1 & 2 have always been kind of inaccessible to me. With HoD out now I'd really like to try to get the hang of it. This successfully got me engaged with V2 last week. Caveats: it's good but not quite Kersch quality. It's for AHD, not HoD. And it's for Japan, which starts uncivilized so the early posts are all geared toward the Westernization process, which is irrelevant to a lot of the countries you'll want to play, significantly changed in HoD and simply not that fun (at least for my experience in AHD). I tried playing along with it and kinda lost interest when I simultaneously got hit by the UK ganking all the minor conquests I'd made and reactionaries undoing the progress I'd made toward civilizing. That said, it absolutely bootstrapped my ability to enjoy the game like I'd never been able to before. So definitely read it, but maybe don't actually use Japan for your first game. And probably read farther than I did, cause I stopped before the LP explained some basic but non-obvious information about the influence system that I wish I'd known earlier.
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You know, the funny thing is that I don't think I've ever played a European country in V2. I've played a fair share of Western Hemisphere nations, and a lot of East Asian nations, and a few nations in the Middle East, but not a single country in Europe. Which is funny, considering that Europe is supposed to be the main center of action in this game. I guess none of them seem that appealing to me, the way I like to play. What are some European countries that are fun? I'm the sort of guy who's always liked to start with some small underdog and build them up into a superpower, or at least, as far as I can go with them. And I have an allergy to militarism, but I love building and researching. DrSunshine fucked around with this message at 15:22 on Apr 26, 2013 |
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DrSunshine posted:You know, the funny thing is that I don't think I've ever played a European country in V2. I've played a fair share of Western Hemisphere nations, and a lot of East Asian nations, and a few nations in the Middle East, but not a single country in Europe. Which is funny, considering that Europe is supposed to be the main center of action in this game. I guess none of them seem that appealing to me, the way I like to play. Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, and Sardinia-Piedmont would all be good for that. The first two are going to be colonial games, while the second two are working towards colonies but also a culture union.
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DrSunshine posted:What are some European countries that are fun? I'm the sort of guy who's always liked to start with some small underdog and build them up into a superpower, or at least, as far as I can go with them. You can't get smaller or underdoggier than Krakow. It's the only democracy in Europe I think, and since you only have 1 province getting the party you want in power is very easy. You'll need to depend on Russia or Austria to get you your first coastal state, but if you can get Russia to conquer Suzhou and/or Huizhou for you you'll be mostly self reliant. After attaining Great Power status you'll get cultural unification CBs on a huge amount of states, so you'll have plenty of stuff to do in the later parts of the game.
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DrSunshine posted:You know, the funny thing is that I don't think I've ever played a European country in V2. I've played a fair share of Western Hemisphere nations, and a lot of East Asian nations, and a few nations in the Middle East, but not a single country in Europe. Which is funny, considering that Europe is supposed to be the main center of action in this game. I guess none of them seem that appealing to me, the way I like to play. In addition to the nations DerLeo stated, which are pretty good at fulfilling your criteria, you could alternatively try the challenge of the Ottomans and the Russians - both of them are large and in some ways powerful, but they're giants with clay feet with serious internal issues that could cripple them in the long run if not fixed - there's a reason why both of them tend to drop out of the Great Power rankings early. Or alternatively you could try seeing if you can restore the glory of Spain. None of these are as absolutely peaceful as the options already mentioned, but could provide an interesting challenge if you don't want to just play Prussians and jackboot all over Europe.
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Nightblade posted:You can't get smaller or underdoggier than Krakow. It's the only democracy in Europe I think, and since you only have 1 province getting the party you want in power is very easy. You'll need to depend on Russia or Austria to get you your first coastal state, but if you can get Russia to conquer Suzhou and/or Huizhou for you you'll be mostly self reliant. After attaining Great Power status you'll get cultural unification CBs on a huge amount of states, so you'll have plenty of stuff to do in the later parts of the game. That sounds like some long rear end odds.  I think I'll do that one!As an aside, where's the threshold for Laissez-Faire being not completely lovely? I've built up a decent starting industrial base with state capitalism, encouraged about 3000 capitalists, got literacy up to about 45%, lowered taxes on the rich and middle class, subsidized imports and researched about 20 technologies in Industry and Commerce. And it still bankrupts the nation and chokes the industry when I switch to Laissez Faire! Basically the capitalists just build a few railroads, one at a time, and then sit around twiddling their fat fingers! I thought this capitalism stuff was supposed to make you rich! EDIT: As an aside, is there a furniture store anywhere called "Ottoman Empire"? Because that would, like, totally be a kick-rear end name. Someone should open it! DrSunshine fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Apr 26, 2013 |
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RabidWeasel posted:EU4 Dev Diary: Scotland, Hansa, The Reformation. A fairly information-rich dev diary this time. The Scottish NIs sound really strong and I will probably play a game as them some time (I've never done so in EU3) and the Hanseatic League has taken over Venice as my planned first ever EU4 game in order to learn the new trade mechanics. The new Reformation stuff sounds interesting but it's going to be one of those 'wait and see' things as to how well it works in practice but at least they're putting some effort into it. As someone who is like one-half Scottish-American, I'm digging this.  I'm glad to see they're including stuff like John Knox, the Doron, and so on, since most people's perception of Scotland is "those barbarian dudes from Braveheart." Which is a pretty kick-rear end stereotype as far as those go, but it's nice to see attention paid to Scotland's contributions to political thought, science, and so on.DrSunshine posted:You know, the funny thing is that I don't think I've ever played a European country in V2. I've played a fair share of Western Hemisphere nations, and a lot of East Asian nations, and a few nations in the Middle East, but not a single country in Europe. Which is funny, considering that Europe is supposed to be the main center of action in this game. I guess none of them seem that appealing to me, the way I like to play. It doesn't really fit your requirements but the only European nation I really have fun with is France. They have a strong military which I like because I like kicking everyone's asses up and down the street and a good economy, but their colonial power's limited in the early game and many of the other European powers are arrayed against them so they still have a bit of an underdog feel to them without being too weak. They also have a really good position for expansion into Africa through Algeria, and if you can beat the Spanish to Morocco you can lock out other European nations from North Africa. Generally I prefer to play as the USA, the Ottomans, or Persia but if I want to play Europe, its always France. 
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Is there any way to mod the "encourage bureaucrats" NI to only work on people of your accepted culture? I've been trying to boost my admin in some states for years and found it's not really going up. Yet about 5% of the population are bureaucrats. Yes, I'm paying a vast army of non-culture civil servants to do nothing because we're racist against them. Same problem in my colonies, I have massively unbalanced numbers of bureaucrats from my colonial cultures. Also any way to make the encourage party loyalty... stronger? At the rate it goes it seems nearly useless. I spent an entire game from the moment communists became active with every state having an encourage communist loyalty NI and by the end of the game they controlled 6% of the upper house....
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Baronjutter posted:Is there any way to mod the "encourage bureaucrats" NI to only work on people of your accepted culture? I've been trying to boost my admin in some states for years and found it's not really going up. Yet about 5% of the population are bureaucrats. Yes, I'm paying a vast army of non-culture civil servants to do nothing because we're racist against them. Same problem in my colonies, I have massively unbalanced numbers of bureaucrats from my colonial cultures. I don't know if there is a way, but if you did that, you'd be allowing yourself and the AI to convert colonies to states very quickly, and there wouldn't be any negative impact to conquest beyond the infamy cost. It's an intentional design choice and changing it could have some unpredictable balance issues. Also for your second question, here's yet another thing that new players don't usually pick up on because of poor documentation: encouraging party loyalty only makes POPs more likely to vote for that party. It does nothing to change their ideology. So if you encourage communist loyalty, you'll get a bunch of POPs who will vote for the communist party, but they won't necessarily identify as communists. And since upper house composition is based on ideology, not electoral vote, encouraging party loyalty won't affect the upper house.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Perhaps only if they're actually winning whatever war they're in? Being a Great Power does not mean you're immune to overstretch, and even an "unimportant" country like Sweden could be a real liability if it meant dividing your forces between different theaters. If you're unable to force a decisive end to whatever war you're in, why should anyone else really care how you feel about whatever crisis?
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Ticking warscore, I love you so. Poor Ottomans only joined to defend their ally, Spain - (former) owner of that ugly erect penis thrusting into my rump.
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Jabu posted:Ticking warscore, I love you so. Such a simple change that made the game so much more fun. I used to absolutely hate warfare in this game but now I think I might actually enjoy it.
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