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DrSunshine posted:That's red title material if I ever saw it. Can't wait. Wire brush and Dettol for me.
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Paradox Grand Strategy: I can't remember the last time I used soap
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Jul 29, 2014 19:27
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Cartoon depictions of big breasted history, and the failure to use soap. I'll be back after HOI4 drops.
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Jul 29, 2014 19:30
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How accessible is Victoria 2 to a relative newbie to Paradox? I picked up HoI3 about 2 weeks ago and generally understood it, although I wasn't great at war* and wanted to play as an economic or political super-power anyways. *I was able to figure out the Spanish Civil War as Republican Spain after a bit, and was able to then use my advanced knowledge to get a bunch of Spanish Troops killed trying to keep Germany from taking France in '39 
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Jul 29, 2014 19:48
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Slime Bro Helpdesk posted:How accessible is Victoria 2 to a relative newbie to Paradox? "Accessible" and Victoria 2 don't belong in the same sentence, really. There's a shitload of obscure mechanics to learn and no tutorial to speak of. Prepare to spend a lot of time reading wikis and experimenting with various ways to play it, inevitably crashing and burning with your first few countries, and ruining the entire economy because you accidentally allowed some capitalists to build an artillery factory instead of a glass factory. Then as soon as you think you've got a handle on things everyone starts murdering each other with poison gas because of a global rubber shortage. What I'm saying is it's insanely fun, provided you enjoy spergy games that take some figuring out before the actual gameplay begins. I don't think any Vic 2 fan really understands it, but we love it for what it is.
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gently caress, as far as I'm concerned, if you could understand Hearts of Iron 3 you can do anything.
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Gort posted:gently caress, as far as I'm concerned, if you could understand Hearts of Iron 3 you can do anything. I don't want to pretend like I understood everything- at best I was able to generally figure out there were probably multiple reasons I was sucking rear end.
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Jul 29, 2014 21:42
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Trial and error is the way to figure out Victoria II.
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Gort posted:gently caress, as far as I'm concerned, if you could understand Hearts of Iron 3 you can do anything. I'm at the point where I understand V2 enough to play as almost any civ or any major unciv and get to great power status by 1880, but I can't play HoI3 unless I basically stay out of WWII altogether as Afghanistan.
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The difference between Victoria 2 and Hearts of Iron 3 is that in Victoria 2 you don't know what to do, while in Hearts of Iron 3 you do know what you have to do but it's a complete pain in the rear end to do all of it.
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DrProsek posted:I'm at the point where I understand V2 enough to play as almost any civ or any major unciv and get to great power status by 1880, but I can't play HoI3 unless I basically stay out of WWII altogether as Afghanistan. I can't play HOI3 full stop because I turn the game off as soon as I realize I'm playing HoI3.
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Jul 30, 2014 05:05
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Ok so first obstacle with Victoria 2- in crashes when it tries to load up the map logic, looking for a file it cannot find. Common issue? Bought through Steam, not sure if I should re-install?
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Jul 30, 2014 06:28
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delete your map cache Go to your documents folder: Documents\Paradox Interactive\Victoria II\map and delete the cache folder.
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I can't figure out why people hate hoi3 so much. I really liked it. Never won a game as anyone who wasn't Germany but it was pretty drat fun to play as Russia from 1936 and try to get a handle on things and then watch it inevitsbly coming crashing down around your ears. I hated it when it first came out but when the automate trade button got implemented all of my complaints were wrapped up, really.
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Antinumeric posted:This is just incredibly depressing. Ask me about the 800 letters from starving Victorian Catholics begging for enough money to buy food/buy back the clothes they sold to buy food/begging for a ticket to a hospital (poor people had to hope a rich patron of a hospital would give them a ticket, otherwise gently caress you and your consumption), that I spent the last 6 months processing for a new archive catalogue. Ask me about the established "charities" of the time, that demanded if you were a catholic you sent your children to Protestant schools or even to live with Protestant families before you could get any help. Ask me about the literal prisons for poor people that were the Union Workhouses. 
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 East vs. West is working pretty well, only two crashes so far. edit: Spies are amazing. 
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A Handed Missus posted:
Anything of note besides Haakon VII's missing picture?
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Kavak posted:Anything of note besides Haakon VII's missing picture? Norway is well-known as an oppressive police state with... fully granted civil liberties?
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Drone posted:Norway is well-known as an oppressive police state with... fully granted civil liberties? You'd think certain policy options would lock out others, but that would mean coding something other than boats.
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I've obviously changed some of the policies, but Norway does have the oppressive policy from the start. At least in the 1946 scenario. Norway is also one of the few nations with a missing picture for HoS, another one is Bhutan. The UK has 4 nuclear warheads in 1946, the US and the USSR have 0. Other than that, some weird buttons like DIP_SELF. And a regency council took Gustav's place after he was killed, so that's neat. edit: EvW crashes whenever there's an election. A Handed Missus fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Jul 30, 2014 |
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One thing I do not fully understand in these games is "cores". I kinda get they're a claim on the territory/people a Fidel Cuckstro fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Jul 30, 2014 |
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Jul 30, 2014 15:32
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It's a "belongs to this nation" marker. Provinces may have multiple cores for multiple nations-- these tend to be contested areas. Additionally in certain games (EUIV), cored provinces may provide better tax income or have lower revolt risk.
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Slime Bro Helpdesk posted:One thing I do not fully understand in these games is "cores". I kinda get they're a claim on the territory/people a In EU4 terms, cores are more than just claims. If you claim a province you just say "yo my border should include this province". Cores are your de jure territory and if you take it, no one will have a problem with it (in EU3 at least, nationalism got cancelled out by cores).
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I have and love CK2, and I have EU3 but haven't played much of it. What huge differences / learning curves would I expect from getting EU4?
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EU4 really has the easiest learning curve of any Paradox release so far. If you're familiar with CK2, moving to EU4 shouldn't be a problem at all. The biggest differences are probably the shift in focus away from characters and dynasties to nation states, and how omnipresent Monarch Points are whenever you want to do anything. With the recent patches that make expansion a little harder, it might take a while before you get an instinct on the sweet spot between going to war and taking some downtime without getting kicked around by coalitions.
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Kor posted:EU4 really has the easiest learning curve of any Paradox release so far. If you're familiar with CK2, moving to EU4 shouldn't be a problem at all. The biggest differences are probably the shift in focus away from characters and dynasties to nation states, and how omnipresent Monarch Points are whenever you want to do anything. With the recent patches that make expansion a little harder, it might take a while before you get an instinct on the sweet spot between going to war and taking some downtime without getting kicked around by coalitions. Should I play around in vanilla first before jumping into any DLCs?
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COOL CORN posted:Should I play around in vanilla first before jumping into any DLCs? Sure, but only for the sake of not spending too much money if you end up not liking the game. There aren't any content DLCs for EU4 I'd recommend against, all of them make the game better. If the money isn't important, then there's no reason not to get all the content DLC.
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At the same time none of the DLC are really mandatory either. None of them alter the game in any truly radical way, so you can skip them if you just want to play the game and see how you and it go along.
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Yeah, the DLCs are a bit like the ones from Crusader Kings - they mostly enrich certain sectors of the game. You could play a full game as Muscovy and not notice any DLC interactions at all, but if you played a North American tribe then the Conquest of Paradise would completely transform your game.
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A Handed Missus posted:edit: EvW crashes whenever there's an election. Immediately toggle options on the Political menu until you're allowed to click Suspend elections. After changing a couple settings it will become available. If you don't suspend elections, the game crashes.
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Patter Song posted:Immediately toggle options on the Political menu until you're allowed to click Suspend elections. After changing a couple settings it will become available. If you don't suspend elections, the game crashes. I've been having a crappy morning, but now my day is made. I love this piece of poo poo. 
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YF-23 posted:At the same time none of the DLC are really mandatory either. None of them alter the game in any truly radical way, so you can skip them if you just want to play the game and see how you and it go along. I'd say Res Publica is pretty mandatory if only for the National Focus mechanic. Though it's still bugged.
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Ok got Victoria 2 to run tonight. Those are some giant rear end menus with very bad font...
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It's been a really long time since anyone got to say this but:quote:1.7.3 - Hotfix Released - Checksum 7d7e Oh Paradox
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Oh paradox indeedParadox Newsletter posted:Yo, dawg, we heard you like expanding your empire, so we released a game expansion so you can expand while you expand. Res Publica is out now for Europa Universalis IV, allowing you to add a wealth of content that will make you more content with your wealth! Manipulate merchant republics, create new trade posts, and try your hand at ruling through a Republican Dictatorship! View the game through a new Dutch angle as you exploit the struggles within the Dutch Republic!
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V for Vegas posted:Oh paradox indeed You heard wrong, I much prefer internal management. Paradox! 
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Ok another Vicki2 question: I'm playing as Argentina, and I can't change my government. It's a Presidential Dictatorship with the Reactionary Party, and while there are 2 other parties hanging out, my government doesn't let me appoint/select conservative or liberal parties. Is this normal? I don't see any decisions or anything that suggests I'll be able to change the government in the near future either?
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You will have to wait for your government to get enough liberal senators/ministers or whatever (as shown in the politics screen) to start reforms to get you out of a dictatorship. You can accomplish this by educating your public via increasing the number of clergy POPs or by spamming elections. You cant select what party in is power manually unless you're a monarchy of some kind. WELCOME TO VICKY 2 
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Agean90 posted:You will have to wait for your government to get enough liberal senators/ministers or whatever (as shown in the politics screen) to start reforms to get you out of a dictatorship. You can accomplish this by educating your public via increasing the number of clergy POPs or by spamming elections. You cant select what party in is power manually unless you're a monarchy of some kind. Ah, ok thanks
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Agean90 posted:You will have to wait for your government to get enough liberal senators/ministers or whatever (as shown in the politics screen) to start reforms to get you out of a dictatorship. You can accomplish this by educating your public via increasing the number of clergy POPs or by spamming elections. You cant select what party in is power manually unless you're a monarchy of some kind. He can't do that, though, he's a republican dictatorship with no elections. The only way out is either revolution or some sort of bizarre shenanigans to turn on voting, at which point the game goes "you allow voting, ergo you're not a dictatorship." EDIT: IIRC Argentina also starts out as Ruling Party Only for Upper House, though I might be misremembering there.
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