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Fintilgin posted:If we're talking non-history driven fantasy Paradox projects, I'd honestly I'd be much more interested in the Paradox studio trying their hand at space grand strategy (Empire of the Fading Suns scale?) or an XCOM inspired game or something. An Empire of the Fading Suns that wasn't hideously broken/unfinished would be amazing. I would love to see a space strategy game that isn't about the triumphant march of scientific progress so much as it is about personal relations between semi-feudal lords scrabbling in the wreckage of lost glories for power and prestige - but with lasers. More Dune, and less Star Trek, damnit! Edit: Re: a new SimAnt, what would a new and improved SimAnt have to offer that the original doesn't, exactly? Honest question, the original seemed pretty complete to me and aside from updated graphics and compatibility I'm drawing a bit of a blank. Tomn fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Oct 17, 2014 |
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"Sir, the enemy planet has surrendered without a fight, should we proceed and activate the tectonic disruptors?" -No, spare the populace. We have no qualms with the common people -Let's not forget! Fill the cargo holds with slaves first! - Give it a good tumble In all seriousness, both paradox simant and a space 4x appeal to me. (What I really want is Vicky in space)
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Tomn posted:Re: a new SimAnt, what would a new and improved SimAnt have to offer that the original doesn't, exactly? Honest question, the original seemed pretty complete to me and aside from updated graphics and compatibility I'm drawing a bit of a blank. Updated graphics and compatibility would be huge, but there's tons of ant stuff to sperg out about. Varying species of ants are a big one since the original only dealt with common urban ants, and leafcutters, slavemakers and so on have completely different societies. There's also the possibility of different environments and materials for building  3D colonies, better colony AI, pseudo-physics focused on surface tension rather than gravity and oh god look what you've done now I'm excited for a game that's never going to be made
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Fighting giant insects and spiders should be like climbing cyclopses in Dragon's Dogma.
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Guildencrantz posted:Well, that French Empire game is pretty much won. The German Empire is no more, Syndicalism on the trashheap of history, I own most of Africa personally and have most of Europe as fragmented puppet states. I could beat down the Habsburgs, Spain etc. but it'd just be boring, and taking over as someone else to bring down the monster I've created would be all but impossible. Time for a break and then another challenge, I'd forgotten how good DH is compared to the awfulness of HoI3. Have you tried to play the American civil war? It can be quite challening as you have to quickly build up an army of militia to and fight a threeway free for all for the US, and you often have a far longer frontline than you have troop numbers so at times you can actually have to be forced to sacrifice land to obtain a better position to defend or strike out from. For syndicalists you have the CSA, but they are generally acknowledged to be the easiest of the American factions (if you discount the PSA which can largely stay out of fighting all together), if you want a challenge though you should go for the AUS as they have the most vulnerable position and the weakest industrial position and you may be able to wet your leftist appetitie as, after the civil war, you can take a hard turn to the left (ending up as a social democracy or radical socialist) if you choose to consistently implement Huey Long's policies and be somewhat lenient towards the vanquished Syndicalists. The problem ofcourse with doing this as the AUS is that it seems the KR devs didn't really test this scenario out fully, and that going over to the left changes out all your ministers to left wing and liberal politicians (of which the AUS has painfully few, so it is very limited and shallow, and you lose Huey Long), which really makes no sense especially as its the result of events representing the policy of the leader of the AUS, so if you want to do that I'd recommend that you either edit the ministers list for the AUS to atleast include a Social Democratic, Social Liberal or Radical Socialist version of Huey Long and maybe a few of the other politicians so that you can actually do this (I have done a bit of modding there myself to attempt to fix this, so I guess if you want to do this I could send you the files).
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Guildencrantz posted:Updated graphics and compatibility would be huge, but there's tons of ant stuff to sperg out about. Varying species of ants are a big one since the original only dealt with common urban ants, and leafcutters, slavemakers and so on have completely different societies. There's also the possibility of different environments and materials for building Also zombie fungus. I don't remember that being in the original SimAnt.
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Tomn posted:An Empire of the Fading Suns that wasn't hideously broken/unfinished would be amazing. I would love to see a space strategy game that isn't about the triumphant march of scientific progress so much as it is about personal relations between semi-feudal lords scrabbling in the wreckage of lost glories for power and prestige - but with lasers. More Dune, and less Star Trek, damnit! Id like one to ape Asimov's Foundation series. Your a ruling council/warlord who scrambling for land, resources, and technology before The Empire collapses and your launched into a technological dark age.
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quote:Workers of the attacked nest can fight or flee. In the host species Proformica, the most common behaviour is flight, probably because hosts almost always lose fights.[5] Most studies on the raiding behavior of species in the F. sanguinea complex confirm that slave raiders usually rout their opponents, who typically flee in a state of panic alarm, and that aggressive encounters, when they occur, are brief and do not result in the death of adult individuals from either species. However, when large colonies of slave species offer resistance during raids, prolonged fighting is possible, and many workers of both species can be killed.[9] quote:However, in some cases, the slave ants rebel against their slave-maker ants, killing a large number of the slave-maker ant offspring.[12] The reason behind this is because "slaves can gain indirect fitness benefits by reducing parasite pressure on nearby host colonies, because these are often closely related to the slaves".[12] Thus, the slave ants protect their native colonies from further raids by slave-maker ants.[12]  I want to play this game.
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Ants would probably fit well into the existing map engine, too! Supercolonies quote:Until 2000, the largest known ant supercolony was on the Ishikari coast of Hokkaidō, Japan. The colony was estimated to contain 306 million worker ants and one million queen ants living in 45,000 nests interconnected by underground passages over an area of 2.7 km2 (670 acres).[2] In 2000, an enormous supercolony of Argentine ants was found in Southern Europe (report published in 2002). Of 33 ant populations nested along the 6,004-kilometre (3,731 mi) stretch along the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts in Southern Europe, 30 belonged to one supercolony with estimated millions of nests and billions of workers, interspersed with three populations of another supercolony.[3] The researchers[which?] claim that this case of unicoloniality cannot be explained by loss of their genetic diversity due to the genetic bottleneck of the imported ants.[citation needed] In 2009, it was demonstrated that the largest Japanese, Californian and European Argentine ant supercolonies were in fact part of a single global "megacolony".[4]
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Ants completely dispel our ideas about being the dominant species on Earth, if evolution was a Paradox game they'd already have the world conquest achievement and humanity would be the annoying rebel stacks. The little dudes came up with complex societies, architecture, pastoralism and agriculture, all by imprinting it into their loving DNA, well before our ancestors diverged from what was to become chimps. Fuckin' ants, man.
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Guildencrantz posted:Ants completely dispel our ideas about being the dominant species on Earth, if evolution was a Paradox game they'd already have the world conquest achievement and humanity would be the annoying rebel stacks. The little dudes came up with complex societies, architecture, pastoralism and agriculture, all by imprinting it into their loving DNA, well before our ancestors diverged from what was to become chimps. So long, and thanks for all the
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I guess this has been asked before, but what are the recommended new player starts for KR? I've played a tiny amount of Darkest Hour.
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Ants got nothing on hornets, especially not when it comes to murder, well at least bees got nothing on hornets probably because murdering tens of thousdands (largely because the hornets' natural armor is too thick ffor the bee stingers to reliably penetrate, and that the hornets release an attack pheromone which triggers a murder frenzy where they just grab any bee standing in their way and decapitate them adn throw away their lifeless corpes, each one can kill about 30-40 bees a minute this way) of them in a few hours gets those flying murder machines a crapoload of delicious honey and larvae. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P7Q1ncgcoY An insects strategy game where you could play between various hive species and such would be pretty badass, make hornets a mongol horde (though there would really only need to be some tens of them) that just comes in and kills everything in a murderous decapitating frenzy for what seems seemingly no reason. e: This might be better because it describes the hornets' attack pheromone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ1eAM8CChc Also termites are pretty cool Wikipedia posted:The specialization of the soldier caste is principally a defence against predation by ants. Ants represent the single biggest threat to termite mounds and nests. Soldier Termite species armed with enlarged heads and powerful jaws can provide only limited defense and delay to a determined ant attack. Ants are more agile, often have functioning eyesight, and attack in an orchestrated and cooperative manner. Termite soldiers are not evolved in this way, and defend the mound individually against multiple attacking ants resulting in an obvious and observable disadvantage. Ant species, such as the Formica, can deliver paralyzing stings in addition to their own powerful mandibles. Though powerful and formidable many species of termite soldiers can provide only a suicidal delay to an ant invasion,but one that observably results in preservation of the mound by industrious workers who react quickly to close off tunnels vital to access the deep interior of the mound. The wide range of jaw types and phragmotic heads provides methods that effectively block narrow termite tunnels against ant entry. A tunnel-blocking soldier can rebuff attacks from many ants. Usually more soldiers stand by behind the initial soldier so once the first one falls another soldier will take the place. In cases where the intrusion is coming from a breach that is larger than the soldier's head, defence requires special formations where soldiers form a phalanx-like formation around the breach and bite at intruders or exude toxins from the nasus or fontanelle. This formation involves self-sacrifice because once the workers have repaired the breach during fighting, no return is provided, thus leading to the death of all defenders. Another form of self-sacrifice is performed by Southeast Asian tar baby termites (Globitermes sulphureus). The soldiers of this species commit suicide by autothysis—rupturing a large gland just beneath the surface of their cuticles. The thick, yellow fluid in the gland becomes very sticky on contact with the air, entangling ants or other insects which are trying to invade the nest. also, ant stuff wikipedia posted:Myrmecophilous (ant-loving) caterpillars of the butterfly family Lycaenidae (e.g., blues, coppers, or hairstreaks) are herded by the ants, led to feeding areas in the daytime, and brought inside the ants' nest at night. The caterpillars have a gland which secretes honeydew when the ants massage them. Some caterpillars produce vibrations and sounds that are perceived by the ants. Randarkman fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Oct 18, 2014 |
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Obliterati posted:I guess this has been asked before, but what are the recommended new player starts for KR? I've played a tiny amount of Darkest Hour. Russia, Union of Britain, USA, Japan, Commune of France.
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I did like Spain as a brief tutorial on "how do i fight war"
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Guys I need help, I'm fighting this termite colony but my colony raiding brigades keep getting mauled by the loving "Suicide Phalanx" tactic, which gives them something like +100% defense damage on the melee round, what is the best composition for fighting termites?
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Just use a full Raid! retinue.
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Just wait a while. The "Cordyceps Mutation" event should fire and the termites will get wrecked by a plague and brought down a bit.
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The real problem with a new SimAnt is that it would be made by EA. Buy the Queen DLC to unlock the queen for exciting new queen missions and weapons!
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In Kaiserreich, what are the requirements to activate the "Women's Role in the Army" decision? The box is colored red but the tooltip doesn't actually tell me what I need to do to make it green (is this a bug?). Playing the most recent version as Commune of France.
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Cantorsdust posted:Ants would probably fit well into the existing map engine, too! Requesting a picture of Europe in CK2 with a giant blob titled ANTS taking over everything
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I remember reading an article years ago about ants from Spain marching through southern France to attack ants in Northern Italy. It was a full blown war with billions of soldiers and alliances of multiple supercolonies. I'm a bit fuzzy on the details and for the life of me cannot find that article right now.
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VostokProgram posted:In Kaiserreich, what are the requirements to activate the "Women's Role in the Army" decision? The box is colored red but the tooltip doesn't actually tell me what I need to do to make it green (is this a bug?). Playing the most recent version as Commune of France. I believe you only need to be at war (and perhaps below a certain amount of available manpower)?
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Drone posted:I believe you only need to be at war (and perhaps below a certain amount of available manpower)? You also need to be a dirty Communist.
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You have to have below 150 MP to do it no matter what and either be at war or be a leftist government.
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Chief Savage Man posted:You have to have below 150 MP to do it no matter what and either be at war or be a leftist government. I'm pretty sure it's "at war, below 150 manpower, and either totalist, syndie, socialist, or social democrat"
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VostokProgram posted:In Kaiserreich, what are the requirements to activate the "Women's Role in the Army" decision? The box is colored red but the tooltip doesn't actually tell me what I need to do to make it green (is this a bug?). Playing the most recent version as Commune of France. It's a dumb GUI issue but if you hover over the checkbox in the corner of the decision instead of the rest of the decision it will tell what conditions have to be met.
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StashAugustine posted:I'm pretty sure it's "at war, below 150 manpower, and either totalist, syndie, socialist, or social democrat" Yeah, it's this.
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I am pretty sure the requirement to be below 150 manpower meant I never got to take it in a soviet game I played once  . Not that I needed it, I guess? But it is fun.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:It's a dumb GUI issue but if you hover over the checkbox in the corner of the decision instead of the rest of the decision it will tell what conditions have to be met. Jesus Christ, I've been playing DH for more than 200 hours and I had absolutely no idea this was something you could do. It's a great game but the UI really could be better!
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GSD posted:I am pretty sure the requirement to be below 150 manpower meant I never got to take it in a soviet game I played once I always queue up a hundred divisions of infantry at once to lower my manpower to fire the decision before canceling them. Yeah I don't need the manpower but ~immersion~
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Hah, my last game I don't think I ever went above 100 manpower, so I guess if you want to go Maximum Feminism, play France. You'll need it, the IC-MP ratio is atrocious.
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Guildencrantz posted:Hah, my last game I don't think I ever went above 100 manpower, so I guess if you want to go Maximum Feminism, play France. You'll need it, the IC-MP ratio is atrocious. No, if you want to go Maximum Feminism, you play Union of Britain. Due to a fuckup in the files, you can allow women to serve in the army just like men twice, leading to a double 50% manpower boost. It's loving ridiculous. Then you conquer the USA, put in the best manpower ministers, take the Soviet doctrine and spam militia because gently caress you.
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TheMcD posted:No, if you want to go Maximum Feminism, you play Union of Britain. Due to a fuckup in the files, you can allow women to serve in the army just like men twice, leading to a double 50% manpower boost. It's loving ridiculous. Then you conquer the USA, put in the best manpower ministers, take the Soviet doctrine and spam militia because gently caress you. I wish combat wasnt so imbalanced towards infantry. I build tanks and artillery and stuff anyway because its world war 2 and I cant not be mechanized, but still.
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Agean90 posted:I wish combat wasnt so imbalanced towards infantry.
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I'm gonna try an AUS game in KR. How do I make them as powerful as possible when I play USA before the civil war?
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Agean90 posted:I wish combat wasnt so imbalanced towards infantry. Have you played Arsenal of Democracy? They got the balance between infantry and mechanized perfectly there in my opinion. I really wish the decision mechanics and map were in AoD, along with Kaiserreich. It's likely I'd never play another HoI.
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ArchRanger posted:Have you played Arsenal of Democracy? They got the balance between infantry and mechanized perfectly there in my opinion. I really wish the decision mechanics and map were in AoD, along with Kaiserreich. It's likely I'd never play another HoI. Yeah, Arsenal of Democracy is SO much better about some really essential things. Too bad absolutely nobody seems to play it anymore, nowadays. And since all the new, interested people are told to buy Darkest Hour instead, that's never going to change, either. 
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oscarthewilde posted:Jesus Christ, I've been playing DH for more than 200 hours and I had absolutely no idea this was something you could do. It's a great game but the UI really could be better! They've done wonders with it considering how HoI2:DD was. Non-native resolutions and no space bar to pause. 
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Gimmick Account posted:Yeah, Arsenal of Democracy is SO much better about some really essential things. Too bad absolutely nobody seems to play it anymore, nowadays. And since all the new, interested people are told to buy Darkest Hour instead, that's never going to change, either. Well darkest hour does run like twice as fast.
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