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Deceitful Penguin posted:I actually thought about how to fix this in a bunch of ways, some of which was to allow tribals to actually generate prestige via events and decisions, rebates to the upgrades as time goes on and how if certain regions get big chunks taken out of them, the rest get an event where they receive a free upgrade, to show how the people fleeing those places or whatever have come to try and help the rest. That's one of the things I played with in my all-tribal mod. I liked the craziness that was an entire world of single province tribes, but I needed to find a way to make it easier for the AI to upgrade them. Eventually I settled on something where they can upgrade for free after 1000AD, but it would probably be better to make regional upgrade events like you are talking about.
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Cutting down tribal upgrade time would also let you actually use the glut you sometimes end up with. 3 years to upgrade a single thing that provides such marginal benefits is ehhh. And I swear construction doesn't actually lower the cost/buildtime on the prestige cost ones, which are usually the ones you actually are able to do. Some sorta cheap festival to turn piety into prestige and a tournament equivalent for all levels would be neat. Events having to do with visitors would also be cool; the Sagas often mention how "ring-givers" and people who were hospitable were greatly respected. I don't know enough about steppe or defensive tribals, but some variation of "we had a great fishing haul/ great farm year/ great foalings/ hunt/ time fleecing tourists" for added money & prestige, maybe something small like 25 each, combined with event that cost you one or the other would be neat. You host a visitor and he's rude, so either you beat him and pay the fine for prestige or let him be boorish and lose prestige. And I know there's already events for when certain titles are held by wrong religion/culture just for an announcement, but can you tie things to them? It still always sorta makes me sad that there aren't like, mines, like there were in the old total war games, because the added money boost to W-African pagans would totally change how they operated. Them having lotsa-cash would make it more likely that they could actually upgrade and break out; it would also encourage the AI to actually go down there in a timely manner. Hitlers Gay Secret posted:They're neat if you aren't trying to mod/cheat in titles. Which is all I do, so All provinces including alt names. I use it for when I want to revolt places, change religion or other shenanigans.
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May 4, 2015 18:12
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Deceitful Penguin posted:Hmmm. It wouldn't be too hard to just translate the Germanic place-names and other stuff to Norse honestly, though the further off places would be pure fiction. The same would probs apply to welsh and finnish, dunno about the rest. Greek - Replace 'c' with 'k' and append an -os at the end Italian - Take the old Roman name, remove the -um or -us. Maybe throw a 'z' in there somewhere. The assorted FInno-Ugric folk - Mash hands on keyboard, but make sure that most vowels are doubled Nahuatl - Consult Classical Nahuatl Wikipedia
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May 4, 2015 19:01
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Deceitful Penguin posted:http://www.ckiiwiki.com/Provinces I can't load that page without Firefox crashing so that's moot.
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May 4, 2015 19:43
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They should really just have the 'real' province name show up in the tooltip for the province (if they don't already) and then yeah, go ahead and localize everything into Nahuatl.
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May 4, 2015 20:06
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Fintilgin posted:They should really just have the 'real' province name show up in the tooltip for the province (if they don't already) and then yeah, go ahead and localize everything into Nahuatl. They do this for the tooltips on titles with dynastic names, so maybe a similar system with province names could help.
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May 4, 2015 20:08
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:I can't load that page without Firefox crashing so that's moot. Try Chrome. I'm not joking that page is fab. It has the county ID, what duchy, kingdom and empire it belongs to, culture, religion and number of holdings.
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May 4, 2015 22:13
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I've been playing CK2 lately and I've come to the realisation that the Charlemagne start plays pretty much how I hoped that EU: Rome would play. My biggest gripes with that game is the half-hearted implementation of politics and dynastic prestige. As well as the barbarians. Goddamn the barbarians. The tribes in CK2 Do more or less the same thing but just function so much better. I would really be interested in a Rome 2 based of off CK2 with some tweaks.
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May 4, 2015 22:40
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Paradox, you are sadistic bastards. You're doing a week long preview for Magicka 2 while I'm out of town and won't have access to a computer that can run it. I seriously hate everyone who works there now.
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May 5, 2015 19:06
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Hey Darkrenown/Wiz/Johan/Groogy/podcat, have you guys decided if you're doing another FanFest at Gamescom this year? I'm trying to decide if I want to buy tickets and for how many days and that factors into the decision. Last year's was cool and one of the highlights of my Gamescom. Oh hey, apparently this was stealthily announced. Guess I'm going then. https://www.paradoxplaza.com/paradox-fan-gathering-2015 Drone fucked around with this message at 11:41 on May 6, 2015 |
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May 6, 2015 11:38
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Not sure if I am going (Not gonna be at GDC/Gamescon as far as I know, but they might fly us out for the party), but Wiz/Podcat/Johan should be there.
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Darkrenown posted:Not sure if I am going (Not gonna be at GDC/Gamescon as far as I know, but they might fly us out for the party), but Wiz/Podcat/Johan should be there. Too busy working on Victoria 3 to get away? I understand.
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May 6, 2015 13:38
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I think the best part of Vicky 3 will be the music, the current iteration of the game engine lets us have music play more frequently in some situations, or not at all, so we can have socialist anthems after the revolution and imperial marches in absolute monarchies
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May 6, 2015 13:41
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Enjoy posted:I think the best part of Vicky 3 will be the music, the current iteration of the game engine lets us have music play more frequently in some situations, or not at all, so we can have socialist anthems after the revolution and imperial marches in absolute monarchies And it can play clown music for certain countries.
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May 6, 2015 15:10
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Enjoy posted:I think the best part of Vicky 3 will be the music, the current iteration of the game engine lets us have music play more frequently in some situations, or not at all, so we can have socialist anthems after the revolution and imperial marches in absolute monarchies Kersch posted:And it can play clown music for certain countries. 
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May 6, 2015 15:14
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Funky Valentine posted:I like the incomprehensible Welsh names for everything in Great Britain.    Invading India as a Welsh Norsemen is so much fun (if there isnt a big megablob there that instantly crushes me).
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May 6, 2015 17:23
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Thats always the sucky part about playing a EU4/CK2 minor. You end up having to restart a lot when you get randomly crushed and game over'd in one war. At least it's usually in the first hour or so if that's going to happen.
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May 6, 2015 18:58
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Funky Valentine posted:I like the incomprehensible Welsh names for everything in Great Britain. I didn't know there were Welsh names for the rest of Britain
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Kersch posted:Too busy working on Victoria 3 to get away? I understand. It's the Rome II converter that's the tricky part.
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Kersch posted:And it can play clown music for certain countries. The official soundtrack for the Zulu Kingdom will be Yakety Sax.
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May 6, 2015 21:06
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I picked up Rome on steam after reading through the Crete let's play and I have to say that it's a lot more fun, and hard, than I expected. Playing with wiz's mod though, since it seemed quite empty otherwise.
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May 6, 2015 21:58
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Darkrenown posted:Not sure if I am going (Not gonna be at GDC/Gamescon as far as I know, but they might fly us out for the party), but Wiz/Podcat/Johan should be there. No wiz.. He managed to book his holiday that week.
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May 7, 2015 05:26
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Enjoy posted:I didn't know there were Welsh names for the rest of Britain IIRC there's a different name for Britannia for each culture. I think. I know Scotland becomes Alba if you are Irish, probably becomes stuff if you are Welsh too.
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May 7, 2015 06:49
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pdxjohan posted:No wiz.. He managed to book his holiday that week. 
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I once spent and embarrassingly long time researching Norse names for places in Britain so I could rename my conquests there as Norse Norway in CK2. For those places I couldn't find anything historical for I tried to find and translate the literal meaning.  
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frankenfreak posted:Where will he spend it? I hear Cologne is beautiful that time of year. Why not scenic Memel?
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Larry Parrish posted:IIRC there's a different name for Britannia for each culture. I think. I know Scotland becomes Alba if you are Irish, probably becomes stuff if you are Welsh too. Looking at what they are is what made me decide to make a Cornish mod. Then I went and changed it so that every name for Britannia and its constituent kingdoms (and Brittany) was relatively accurate. I sorta pride myself on not doing that for every single county and duchy, but honestly I feel little better than the weird Byzantophiles who insist it's Basileia Romanion.
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catlord posted:I sorta pride myself on not doing that for every single county and duchy, I did, that's why I was worried I'd made a superfluous mod http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=415639991
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I don't know if anyone bothered discussing this article when it came out: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/02/28/subverting-the-nazis-alternative-hearts-of-iron-playstyles/ But for some reason I got excited thinking about Hearts of Iron 4 a few days ago and remembered it. Anyone here ever take an alternate path with Germany in 2 or 3? Edit- just saw the entry on National Focuses for HoI4. I hope there's a way to mod in new national focus trees for other nations 
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So I'm going to try a game of HoI 3 as Germany, and see if I can go an alternate history route. I modified my leaders so I didn't have to have Hitler or any of his more odious gang looking back at me from the politics screen, so picking through the leaders file and spot checking some of them on wikipedia, I went with: Head of government- Konrad Adenauer Head of State- Theodor Heuss foreign minister -Albert Dufour-Feronce armament minister - Ludwig Erhard minister of security - Gustav Heinemann minister of intelligence- Oskar von Hindenburg chief of staff - Ludwig Beck chief of army - Werner von Fritsch chief of navy - Erich Raeder chief of air - Ernst Udet Adenauer and Huess are probably out of place the most leading Germany in '36, but there aren't a ton of leaders to chose from in the game that aren't Nazis or Fascists in general. The rest seem like either general autocrats or old German military types...so I guess that makes sense as a Conservative/anti-communist coalition that's growing out of the Wiemar? Trying to decide on goals though is difficult. I guess in General, my goal is to re-build/re-establish Germany as a major power and also have a strong anti-Communist stance. The reality of resources also means I need to get a reliable supply of metal, oil and rare metals going fairly early in the game. And finally, I'd like to see if I can keep at least the US out of a war with me. I know that it's possible to get the US to go Axis, but I'd like to just see if I can keep them non-Allies. So to those ends, I'm thinking -Try to get Nationalist China in the Axis instead of Japan. I think the numbers bear out Japan as a more valuable ally (not much less in manpower, more resources and way more leadership and IC), but- and I've never played a faction leader before so maybe I'm wrong- I'm wondering if not bringing them into the Axis avoids the chance of being forced into a war with America due to a Day of Infamy decision? -Also, bring Persia in to the Axis. I think Persia's a popular alternate route for Germany players since it's out of the way but provides a nice source of oil and window into central Asia. Also I'd like to see if I can encourage them to take Iraq, and maybe Saudi Arabia? -In both cases I bet somehow the neutrality/threat mechanics will get in my way. I suspect raising Russia's threat could get Persia to join me? I'm assuming/hoping China might join up because of Japan. -While I'll see if I can still add Austria and Czechoslovakia to Germany without a fight, I suspect I may have messed those decisions up by removing the Nazis from power. I think the Austria one requires the Nazis to be at some popularity/organization level that I can't reach... -Instead of attacking Poland and triggering WW-2, I'm wondering if I can do a limited war with the Netherlands and avoid getting France/UK involved? The Netherlands themselves aren't worth a ton, but taking Indonesia would go a long way to solving my resource problems Assuming I accomplish all that, I'd assume I'll still have to go to war with the Allies at some point. I imagine Italy will trigger something. So maybe instead of taking France I could do a sneak invasion of England? land an invasion force before they know what hit them? I guess I could test the limits of air-supplying an invasion force, since I'm pretty sure I'll be screwed trying to supply them from a port. Also will be interesting to see if/how Russia handles not being given the M-R pact.
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Slime Bro Helpdesk posted:So I'm going to try a game of HoI 3 as Germany, and see if I can go an alternate history route. I modified my leaders so I didn't have to have Hitler or any of his more odious gang looking back at me from the politics screen, so picking through the leaders file and spot checking some of them on wikipedia, I went with: Franz von Papen would probably still factor into any theoretical rightist-but-not-quite-Nazi-yet government in '36. There's also those two mods (Democratic Germany and its successor mod, Communist Germany) for Darkest Hour that includes a bunch of reasonably plausible ministers and events for a variety of different Germanys, you could probably download it and peek into the ministers folder for inspiration. And the problem with annexing Austria is that you're likely to run into a similar problem that Hitler nearly faced: namely, Austria's fascist government is endorsed and protected by Mussolini. Unless you go the historical route and buddy-buddy up with Il Duce, you're gonna have issues. Drone fucked around with this message at 06:23 on May 8, 2015 |
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Drone posted:Franz von Papen would probably still factor into any theoretical rightist-but-not-quite-Nazi-yet government in '36. There's also those two mods (Democratic Germany and its successor mod, Communist Germany) for Darkest Hour that includes a bunch of reasonably plausible ministers and events for a variety of different Germanys, you could probably download it and peek into the ministers folder for inspiration. Sounds interesting, I'll take a look at them. Yeah I'm trying to decide if I should link up with Italy. I guess if Hitler's not in power, there's nobody in the German government getting all goo-goo over Mussolini, and while they're an easy pick up for the Axis and technically not a drag on the faction the way they kind of were in reality, there is that "well we had to have them last time so let the Axis have them now" mentality...and like I said I suspect they'll start a war with France somehow. On the other, other hand though I guess Italy starting a war with the Allies does give me a reason to fight a war with the Allies. I imagine it's not a ton of fun playing a WW-2 grand strategy game where you avoid starting a World War ever
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Slime Bro Helpdesk posted:On the other, other hand though I guess Italy starting a war with the Allies does give me a reason to fight a war with the Allies. I imagine it's not a ton of fun playing a WW-2 grand strategy game where you avoid starting a World War ever I think it probably makes more sense that you'd fight the Allies than the Soviets. Weimar Germany and the USSR had a complicated but not adversarial relationship.
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Drone posted:And the problem with annexing Austria is that you're likely to run into a similar problem that Hitler nearly faced: namely, Austria's fascist government is endorsed and protected by Mussolini. This is odd when you think about it, considering Süd-Tirol. ♥
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Drone posted:I think it probably makes more sense that you'd fight the Allies than the Soviets. Weimar Germany and the USSR had a complicated but not adversarial relationship. I do love how Paradox games force me to discover smaller details of history I had never heard of- like the Treaty of Rapallo I wonder if I could go to war with the Allies, take over/puppet France, and then try to pursue peace with England.
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Phlegmish posted:This is odd when you think about it, considering Süd-Tirol. ♥ A bunch of small countries that are no challenge to you on your borders is better than a big guy that can smash you to bits.
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New HoI DD.
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How do HoI 4 ideologies map to the old system? Or will we see that when elections are covered?
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Will neutral nations still have some kind of government description to let us know in which direction they are drifting, or will they just all be designated flat-out "Neutral"? I mean if Poland is a Neutral nation but is being influence toward the Allies, it would be described as something like "Social Conservative".
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