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kill your families, then yourselves. edit: not the guys on the last page, just everyone reading in general.
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Well I mean if yall really want to start this derail over again whatever, but you can't complain about it.
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Dec 13, 2014 17:12
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The Westernization debate was way more interesting than the "is 'Developing Country' PC or not?" derail, because (speaking for myself) I actually learned some interesting things about the way technologies and cultures spread and adapted.
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Kanthulhu posted:You know... What really triggers me is using "The West" to describe first world nations. I live in Brazil, it's located in the west but no one is thinking about Brazil when they use that term. What a loving bullshit terminology is that? Australia and New Zealand probably get pretty pissy about "Global South" too.
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Dec 13, 2014 17:16
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Kanthulhu posted:You know... What really triggers me is using "The West" to describe first world nations. I live in Brazil, it's located in the west but no one is thinking about Brazil when they use that term. What a loving bullshit terminology is that? It means the cultures that existed in the sphere of influence of Rome rather than Constantinople. The term kind of loses its meaning when you are standing the north america.
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Rutibex posted:It means the cultures that existed in the sphere of influence of Rome rather than Constantinople. The term kind of loses its meaning when you are standing the north america. Brazil is not in North America, dude. Also, Brazil inherited a lot of things from the sphere of influence of Rome instead of Constantinople so how does that help?
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Dec 13, 2014 17:38
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Isn't Brazil in China?
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vyelkin posted:Australia and New Zealand probably get pretty pissy about "Global South" too. To be fair, its really easy to forget their existence entirely.
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Dec 13, 2014 17:43
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Mans posted:It's called Developing Reich, not Third Reich! resisting urge to add this as Albert Speer's flavor description text
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Westminster System posted:Isn't Brazil in China? Easy mistake to make.
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Dec 13, 2014 17:53
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ExtraNoise posted:The folks who did the first Balance of Power games were part of a community I was on before I joined Something Awful. Way long time ago. I honestly didn't like that game very much though. Oh man, I click on the link to the first HotW thread and I'm the second post in all my 9th grade glory. That brings back memories. I think one of the biggest reasons I registered in the fist place was for the forum games people used to run in GBS, I'm really excited at the prospect of being able to play in another one of yours five years later.
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Kanthulhu posted:You know... What really triggers me is using "The West" to describe first world nations. I live in Brazil, it's located in the west but no one is thinking about Brazil when they use that term. What a loving bullshit terminology is that? People like you just keep making GBS threads BRICs for no reason.
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podcat posted:resisting urge to add this as Albert Speer's flavor description text Just do it man.
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Rutibex posted:It means the cultures that existed in the sphere of influence of Rome rather than Constantinople. The term kind of loses its meaning when you are standing the north america. That might be the meaning the word had back in the time of the Great Schism but it clearly isn't what people use it like nowadays so you cannot claim it isn't an imperialist term.
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Dec 13, 2014 18:45
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So when is someone gonna make the Cold War game of my dreams 
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Top Hats Monthly posted:So when is someone gonna make the Cold War game of my dreams I'm sure reddit or 4chan is still working on that broken rear end East vs West leak. You never said the dreams couldn't be nightmares. 
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Top Hats Monthly posted:So when is someone gonna make the Cold War game of my dreams http://www.vassalengine.org/wiki/Module:Twilight_Struggle You're welcome. YF-23 posted:That might be the meaning the word had back in the time of the Great Schism but it clearly isn't what people use it like nowadays so you cannot claim it isn't an imperialist term. What I'm saying: if your culture speaks some derivation of Latin and when you go into "Ancient History" class in highschool the teacher starts talking about Julius Caesar then you are in a "western" culture. Geography is meaningless after the age of colonization. Rutibex fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Dec 13, 2014 |
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Dec 13, 2014 19:58
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Twilight Struggle is one of the best board games ever made and there's a digital version coming out if you absolutely can't make friends.
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Kanthulhu posted:You know... What really triggers me is using "The West" to describe first world nations. I live in Brazil, it's located in the west but no one is thinking about Brazil when they use that term. What a loving bullshit terminology is that? See this is why global core vs global periphery is a much more useful way of talking!
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Mans posted:It's called Developing Reich, not Third Reich! New thread title, right here.
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Speaking of the cold war, I remember that HOI2l:DD and AoD had the 'Doomsday' scenario, which was essentially the Allied powers vs Proto-Pact. I just remember it being terrible. Is there a mod for DH or any other HOI that actually makes a decent Operation Unthinkable scenario? Secondly is there any mod for DH that balances the combat so that infantry is decent but not god king like it normally is>?
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Dec 14, 2014 00:06
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What's a good country to first play in March of the Eagles to get an idea of how to play? I'm really terrible at combat in Paradox games FYI
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Dec 14, 2014 10:24
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France.
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Morholt posted:France. gently caress.
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:What's a good country to first play in March of the Eagles to get an idea of how to play? I'm really terrible at combat in Paradox games FYI I had a bit of fun as Sweden, beating up Norway and Denmark. But invariably one of three things would happen: -Napoleon would come and ruin my day. -Britain would, for some reason, declare war on Norway and beat me to some of their provinces. -Russia would randomly DoW me.
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Generation Internet posted:Oh man, I click on the link to the first HotW thread and I'm the second post in all my 9th grade glory. That brings back memories. I think one of the biggest reasons I registered in the fist place was for the forum games people used to run in GBS, I'm really excited at the prospect of being able to play in another one of yours five years later. Good to hear! Making and running the games is one of my favorite things but I haven't done it in so long. I've decided to call the game "Destiny of Nations" and it should be up and running sometime in January (hopefully). Right now I'm working on all of the art assets. There's 300 playable nations, meaning that there's 300 flags to make:  (Still more to go!)
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:What's a good country to first play in March of the Eagles to get an idea of how to play? I'm really terrible at combat in Paradox games FYI I think Russia is the most forgiving.
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Thanks for all the strategies, however MotE doesn't seem to want to load for me. I hit play and then it acts like its loading something up then... nothing happens.
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:What's a good country to first play in March of the Eagles to get an idea of how to play? I'm really terrible at combat in Paradox games FYI I did Egypt for my first successful game; it's really easy to gently caress the Ottomans hard if they get into a huge war with Russia or Austria (although early on you should play it safe and only take 2-3 provinces per war), you have lots of smaller neighbors to the west you can stomp the poo poo out of if the Ottomans refuse to commit suicide-by-superpower, and you only have like 2 generals to manage.
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SeaTard posted:I think Russia is the most forgiving. Seconding this-- although I'm not super experienced with MotE and need a lot more practice, from the games I started Russia seemed like the best learning country, since it's surrounded by enemies of varying levels of strength you can work your way up through as you learn the game's systems.
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ExtraNoise posted:Good to hear! Making and running the games is one of my favorite things but I haven't done it in so long. I've decided to call the game "Destiny of Nations" and it should be up and running sometime in January (hopefully). Right now I'm working on all of the art assets. There's 300 playable nations, meaning that there's 300 flags to make: This looks great, best of luck with it!
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:Thanks for all the strategies, however MotE doesn't seem to want to load for me. I hit play and then it acts like its loading something up then... nothing happens. Make sure you have the various .net frameworks installed, and an updated version of directx (dx9 I think)
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I got some vicky 1 questions, I'm just getting into this game a decade or so behind the times. Paradoxian wiki is pretty good but hasnt answered everything. Can I check my colonial / naval range? Is there a way of finding which provinces I need to form a colony state? I took the 3 claim buildings south of morocco, but they seem to be attached to a province named Benito which is about 1500 miles south east of there. I bought that, but still can't claim the colony. Any way to check the stats or tech level of enemy armies? Seems to make a big difference. I know you can convert CK2 to EU4 (or could if the converter worked), but can you convert EU4 to Vic 2, and then onto the Hearts of Iron thats in development? I want an uber game, possibly with adolf karling as the ultimate bad guy.
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There have been some attempts to make a V2 converter (eg, secret Denmark). None really work well. We did some theorycrafting in this thread before, and the main difficulty is generating the POPs in a way that makes sense. Someone was going to make a converter for a degree project, not sure what happened with that.
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Bitter Mushroom posted:I know you can convert CK2 to EU4 (or could if the converter worked), but can you convert EU4 to Vic 2, and then onto the Hearts of Iron thats in development? I want an uber game, possibly with adolf karling as the ultimate bad guy. You can use the older games to make a mega-chain game. CK1 -> EU2 -> Vic1 -> HoI2
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Morholt posted:There have been some attempts to make a V2 converter (eg, secret Denmark). None really work well. Its still being worked on http://www.reddit.com/r/paradoxplaza/comments/2me5v6/eu4_to_v2_04a_now_released/
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When I converted my EU3 game into Vic 2 there was still a lot of work managing pops, but given the amount of tools there are now its not too difficult - just time consuming.
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With tools like PopAdjuster and the Clausewitz map editor, hand-converting an EU4 game to V2 wasn't really that bad. There was a lot of busywork, but it was still less work than converting my CK2 game to EU4 (and I had a CK2 converter export to use as a base there, too).
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 I found something kinda fascinating: some kind of Japanese-made Gundam total conversion mod for HoI2. Even with some kind of map thing to handle the war in space, apparently. But the real kicker is that there appears to be a series of videos on nicovideo featuring an in-character narrative AAR. I'm kind of amazed it exists.
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Takanago posted:
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