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Calling it now. PoE will harness all the power of the crazy that Ubik and the EvW team left in their wake. A truly marvelous train wreck awaits. (Yes I know Obsidian is running all of it besides the distribution and such, but I want the crazy to happen  )
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I once desecrated the EULA in front of a mirror and a svenska magister summoned me across the baltic ocean into a domkyrka, true story
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Obfuscation posted:I once desecrated the EULA in front of a mirror and a svenska magister summoned me across the baltic ocean into a domkyrka, true story Guess we know what really happened to Ubik, then. Oh, PI might have taken the piety hit to make it look like an accident, but...
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Darkrenown posted:
Are EULA's even legally enforceable in the EU? Last time it came up I remember the legal precedents said no.
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As far as I know they have never really been tested by courts, so no one is quite sure, but possibly not. Even assuming they are rock solid, why on earth we would ever want to call some random user of our games to court in Sweden is beyond me.
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Mar 19, 2014 11:02
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Darkrenown posted:Also:
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Darkrenown posted:As far as I know they have never really been tested by courts, so no one is quite sure, but possibly not. Even assuming they are rock solid, why on earth we would ever want to call some random user of our games to court in Sweden is beyond me. Where else are you going to get sacrifices for the blot? 
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Mar 19, 2014 11:47
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That's EULA's for you. They're legally binding, as long as no-one bothers to try to actually enforce them in a non-nebulous way.
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- Paradox announce EU4 and kill MM to steal its ideas - Paradox announce HoI4 and steal EvW to steal its ideas - Paradox announce Runemaster and publish PoE I feel bad for all the Kickstarter backers who actually thought it would ever come out. RIP Pillars of Eternity. At least we'll see all its ideas in Runemaster.
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GrossMurpel posted:- Paradox announce EU4 and kill MM to steal its ideas Yeah, we'll probably scoop up all PoEs ideas. But we won't publish them before we've dumbed them down so our casual playerbase can understand them.
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An excellent parody post 
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Mar 19, 2014 13:53
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If someone's crazy enough to spend time reading EULA then they're crazy enough to draw crazy conclusions from it. Crazy.
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Mar 19, 2014 15:12
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Mount and Blade was developed by Taleworlds and then published by PI. It was fine, but I remember reading very similar things like thisDarkrenown posted:With Paradox on board, how much input will they have into the EULA for PoE? on their forums.
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Disco Infiva posted:Mount and Blade was developed by Taleworlds and then published by PI. It was fine, but I remember reading very similar things like this What kind of people read EULAs
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I've never realized until now that we live in an age when even small companies can enforce international law. Why, at this rate we should be able to solve climate change within about a decade or less! Oh brave new world!
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Elias_Maluco posted:What kind of people read EULAs is the new "what's up with airplane food?"
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What isn't up with airline food? I'm so terribly witty today.
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Mar 19, 2014 18:41
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The worst ones are the ones you actually have to drag the bar down to the bottom so you can pretend you 'read' it before it will let you click 'continue'. I'm waiting for one to give me a multiple choice reading comprehension questionnaire.
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Mar 19, 2014 18:42
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A Buttery Pastry posted:They're just doing this to wreck a competitor, like they did Magna Mundi and East vs. West. Knowing Obsidian's track record involving Publishers this might just happen.
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Mar 19, 2014 19:28
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No it will be a repeat of Obsidian + Bethesda. Paradox will offer a bonus for a high score on Metacritic while also paying for all the bug testing. Then Paradox
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All joking aside, congrats to PI for this deal 
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I want this deal to cause Project Cartel to turn into Alpha Protocol 2 so badly
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Just wait, they're gonna make a grand strategy game with a story by Obsidian. You thought the crusades were real before?
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"What of the Romans?" "They shall die a death that shall last millennia, until all that remains is their code, their history, and the shell of their armor on the shell of a man, too easily slain by
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In regards to Darkest Hour, when it comes to upgrading units ,is it better to spend most of your available IC to the upgrading, or is it better to forgo them completely and just have more units? For example, should the USSR be upgrading it's legion of obsolete units, or should it be spewing more? Speaking of which, when it comes to high dissent, is it better to spend all your IC possible to get that down or just some of it?
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SkySteak posted:In regards to Darkest Hour, when it comes to upgrading units ,is it better to spend most of your available IC to the upgrading, or is it better to forgo them completely and just have more units? For example, should the USSR be upgrading it's legion of obsolete units, or should it be spewing more? If you're not upgrading your units you might as well not do research, keep your army in tip top shape and make sure you prioritise your important front line units for that (there's a button). As for dissent just add some extra consumer goods, 5 or 10 IC usually does it for me. Dissent won't really go up much by itself except through the odd events and if you just keep on top of it with a trickle of fancy shoes and fridges you'll be fine.
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Demiurge4 posted:If you're not upgrading your units you might as well not do research, keep your army in tip top shape and make sure you prioritise your important front line units for that (there's a button). As for dissent just add some extra consumer goods, 5 or 10 IC usually does it for me. Dissent won't really go up much by itself except through the odd events and if you just keep on top of it with a trickle of fancy shoes and fridges you'll be fine. I was just wondering because for example, USSR, has a shitton of un-upgraded crap, while getting whacked by massive dissent events. Wouldn't it be worth the IC to reduce that massive dissent penalty as quickly as possible so you have IC to spend on useful things like units? Also is factory building still worth it or still vital, or should I just focus on building actual units/defences?
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In general good tips for USSR seem hard to come by for vanilla Darkest Hour, since apparently no one plays that and only plays Kaisserreich. The only tactic I've seen so far is 'Spam infantry'. Also, what do you do if Hitler decides May 1940 is the Best Date to invade? Because he sure loves to do that.
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Fintilgin posted:The worst ones are the ones you actually have to drag the bar down to the bottom so you can pretend you 'read' it before it will let you click I've been waiting to meet one which enforces a veeeery slow automatic scroll through the entire EULA before you can click Accept. e; Soviets in DH can be a bitch if Hitler does decide it's Go Time ahead of schedule, which he is indeed fond of doing because often enough he'll roll through Benelux in August 1939 and take Paris before the year is out. The dissent events are sheer murder and take years to pay off. What I tend to do is trade my raw materials for supplies so that I can devote more IC elsewhere, then just spam fuckloads of IC until 1938/39. Then I switch to upgrading units, because you have a LOT of them and it's much cheaper than building new ones. Abandon all naval ambitions entirely, place a handful of units in the Far East in case of Japan, then stack every other unit you have on the front with the fascists. Take some up to kick in Finland's teeth during the Winter War, which is also when you should work on reinforcements thanks to the magic of event manpower, and only after that start building significant amounts of new units. Once the war breaks out it'll get easier to bring dissent down and build new units, so just play it like Stalin did - fall back as slowly as possible and bleed German manpower dry. If you can spare the IC, forts along the Dneiper are an especially good defensive line. Hide behind your defenses as you build armored forces and a fuckhuge air force, then crush them. Of course I am terrible at DH as the Nazis and Soviets both, for some reason, so my advice should be taken with more than a pinch of salt. On the other hand, if you do get forced into the Bitter Peace you could try to hold the country together, put down the revolts, and figure out a way to roll back westwards, but unless the Western Allies pull off D-Day that's a hell of an ask if you don't just use ICBMs. Ms Adequate fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Mar 20, 2014 |
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The starting Soviet units are not nearly enough to stop Grrmany, even with upgrades. Prioritising building units over upgrading is vital.
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Upgrading units in DH is something you should only be spending IC on as a last resort. This goes double if you're a Central Planning economy like Germany or the USSR. Build shitloads of new units. Infantry is overpowered in DH, so get tons of that and enough HQs to cover your frontlines (five or six should do - note that you start with about that many, then you get purged down to just one). Another consideration here is that units that are damaged will also upgrade a bit as they repair, so keeping your army up-to-date means you miss out on these free upgrades. Your Manpower doctrine also gives you discounts to building infantry, so use them. Prioritising upgrades over quantity, thinking you have to put attached brigades on everything, and using lots of specialist units (like entire armies of mountaineers) are some common newbie mistakes in DH. Don't do any of them.
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The logic I always go by is that one new infantry division could save me in a lovely situation while an upgraded infantry division is only somewhat better. So always build new units, if you've got some spare IC you could spend it on upgrading, but upgrading through reinforcement is usually enough if you've got high Central Planing. I also spend everything into consumer goods when I get any dissent. Since dissent lowers your total IC you're going to want that back ASAP, and the extra money really doesn't hurt.
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lullelulle posted:I also spend everything into consumer goods when I get any dissent. Since dissent lowers your total IC you're going to want that back ASAP, and the extra money really doesn't hurt. This is generally a good strategy, though it's worth learning if your nation has any dissent-lowering events and "saving up" your dissent for those. Mostly Germany gets them - stuff like the Munich Agreement gives you -10% dissent which it's a shame to waste.
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Gort posted:This is generally a good strategy, though it's worth learning if your nation has any dissent-lowering events and "saving up" your dissent for those. Mostly Germany gets them - stuff like the Munich Agreement gives you -10% dissent which it's a shame to waste. Does the USSR get any specific dissent lowering events?
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SkySteak posted:Does the USSR get any specific dissent lowering events? You get minus 1 if the republicans win the civil war.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:You get minus 1 if the republicans win the civil war. Asuming that is really it, is the USSR just event sparse or something? I mean yeah you get the SCW, the purges, The Winter War and Barbarossa but do you get any cool stuff for say, taking German/Berlin and anything beyond that?
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SkySteak posted:Does the USSR get any specific dissent lowering events? The USSR just got an extra 10 dissent from your suggestion that it may have dissent reducing events. No.
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I just want to say that Warlock 2: The Exiled is a fantastic game and you should all try it.
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A Tartan Tory posted:I just want to say that Warlock 2: The Exiled is a fantastic game and you should all try it. Is it very different from the first game? I really didn't like the civilization lite aspects of it and none of the LP videos have impressed me.
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I'm way shaky on Vicky 2 versus Ricky. I have a game as Russia, and aside from maybe putting money into stockpile (not sure what this is vs a Ricky game mechanic) and lowering taxes on the rich, not sure how to start the process of industrialization. Don't really wanna switch away from Slavophile yet though. Any tips?
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