|
Man I know you guys said EU: Rome is really silly, but uh, I'm kinda getting tired of barbarians attacking me every time I get a province to 50 civilization and setting it back to 35. The campaign is going to end before I ever expand beyond 2 provinces.
|
#
?
Jul 1, 2015 10:58
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 29, 2024 08:48 |
|
|
Larry Parrish posted:Man I know you guys said EU: Rome is really silly, but uh, I'm kinda getting tired of barbarians attacking me every time I get a province to 50 civilization and setting it back to 35. The campaign is going to end before I ever expand beyond 2 provinces. Don't play it without WizMod
|
|
#
?
Jul 1, 2015 11:16
|
|
|
For EU:Rome one thing I actually do quite like is how they handled trade. Well conceptually I like it, imports and exports for varying provinces and all. In implementation it became a massive, massive pain to manually set it on a province-by-province basis if you were a country of any real size. Like Rome. Also the Platypus of the Month in the most recent Paradox news letter is an Echidna. Don't you guys playtest AT ALL? 
|
|
#
?
Jul 1, 2015 11:27
|
|
|
Quantumfate posted:For EU:Rome one thing I actually do quite like is how they handled trade. Well conceptually I like it, imports and exports for varying provinces and all. In implementation it became a massive, massive pain to manually set it on a province-by-province basis if you were a country of any real size. Like Rome. Not to mention other countries with empty slots are randomly just like 'nah, not trading with your dirty rear end even though it'll make me richer than anyone else can'
|
|
#
?
Jul 1, 2015 11:39
|
|
|
If you're still playing Rome in 2015 somehow, you should use Wiz's Reign of the Ancients. Only bug I noticed is that the bonuses you get for controlling a region are broken for everything called superior or inferior because Wiz did a replace all of every "or" with "and". Easily fixed.
|
|
#
?
Jul 1, 2015 12:30
|
|
|
ToxicAcne posted:so the devs of Victoria Ultimate intend to charge 5 bucks for it. Aka he wont be charging poo poo if he doesn't want Pdox breathing down his neck.
|
|
#
?
Jul 1, 2015 16:02
|
|
|
Hitlers Gay Secret posted:Aka he wont be charging poo poo if he doesn't want Pdox breathing down his neck. What if he purchased the Clausewitz engine from Ubik?
|
|
#
?
Jul 1, 2015 16:10
|
|
|
Hitlers Gay Secret posted:Aka he wont be charging poo poo if he doesn't want Pdox breathing down his neck. Yeah I was about to say that doesn't sound entirely legal.
|
|
#
?
Jul 1, 2015 16:19
|
|
|
Larry Parrish posted:Man I know you guys said EU: Rome is really silly, but uh, I'm kinda getting tired of barbarians attacking me every time I get a province to 50 civilization and setting it back to 35. The campaign is going to end before I ever expand beyond 2 provinces. It's just realism. Don't want to spoil too much, but I wouldn't get too attached to the Roman Empire.
|
|
#
?
Jul 1, 2015 16:40
|
|
|
There was a HOI4 dev diary yesterday: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/hearts-of-iron-iv-19th-development-diary-3rd-of-july-2015.867684/
|
|
#
?
Jul 4, 2015 22:25
|
|
|
fermun posted:There was a HOI4 dev diary yesterday: Is the British Empire taking the place of the Third Reich in those pics? 
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2015 02:00
|
|
Hitlers Gay Secret posted:Is the British Empire taking the place of the Third Reich in those pics? Well, it's in January of 1936, so I presume it was simply a console command to change Britain to fascist to tease dynamic flag changes and not actually something organic.
|
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2015 02:04
|
|
|
Hitlers Gay Secret posted:Is the British Empire taking the place of the Third Reich in those pics? Looks like they've just had the United Kingdom go fascist. Same thing could happen in Vicky2. I want to play this game yesterday, and Paradox is going on vacation for half the summer.
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2015 02:12
|
|
|
Phlegmish posted:I still listen to Finska Rytteriets Marsch or King Cotton from time to time. I love that bombastic stuff. I love Victoria and Victoria 2. Panzeh's av says wargames let him be Hitler. Victoria basically lets me become the platonic ideal from which people like Cecil Rhodes were cut. It's like I'm a human incarnation of the New Imperialism, or of the system of Modernity itself. I get a weird sense of accomplishment when the portion of the country that represents my nationality increases, as though proving their inherent superiority and productivity and showing the benighted minorities in my country embracing Civilisation. (Whomever "they" happens to be is completely irrelevant.)
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2015 02:56
|
|
|
some dude in the hoi4 dev diary thread posted:Amazing--you appear to believe in historical determinism. The USA, a representative republic, during this period had started becoming the fascist nation it today is; however, it didn't need to happen. I'm sure in the last 40-years many would have said this couldn't happen to the USA. Oh paradox plaza. You truly are the gift that just keeps on giving. 
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2015 05:18
|
|
|
David Corbett posted:I love Victoria and Victoria 2. Panzeh's av says wargames let him be Hitler. Victoria basically lets me become the platonic ideal from which people like Cecil Rhodes were cut. It's like I'm a human incarnation of the New Imperialism, or of the system of Modernity itself. As does "our" identity! I can just as happily be Ethiopia and ensure all of Siam converts to our glorious culture as I can the reverse.
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2015 05:28
|
|
|
Return of Glorious Fascist Babylon????????GSD posted:Oh paradox plaza. You truly are the gift that just keeps on giving. That's not surprising, Pdox plaza's American population is disproportionately made up of teenage idiots who really like using the words "fascist", "police state", "iron-fisted", and "1984" to refer to their country.
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2015 05:50
|
|
|
If the USA wasn't a fascist dictatorship, why would people laugh at it. 
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2015 05:52
|
|
|
Funky Valentine posted:That's not surprising, Pdox plaza's American population is disproportionately made up of teenage idiots who really like using the words "fascist", "police state", "iron-fisted", and "1984" to refer to their country. There are also a surprising number of ultra-conservative older folks there. I'm using "ultra-conservative" loosely though. Funnily enough, some still harp on liberals in the US despite being in like the Netherlands. It's bizarre some of the things you will find there.
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2015 06:56
|
|
|
I'm fond of Kilrain, myself; the Swede who has accepted Ron Paul as his personal lord and saviour. Also refuses to eat anything but white bread.
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2015 11:20
|
|
|
Autonomous Monster posted:I'm fond of Kilrain, myself; the Swede who has accepted Ron Paul as his personal lord and saviour. Also refuses to eat anything but white bread.  Like, white bread is the only bread he will eat, or he won't eat any food at all except white bread?Don't these people worry that they'll be making GBS threads out a hole in their side for the latter half of their lives? 
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2015 11:28
|
|
|
Defeatist Elitist posted:he won't eat any food at all except white bread? Apparently. I don''t know if I actually believe him, as he's been talking about it for years now and he's not dead yet.
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2015 11:31
|
|
|
Paradox Forums.txt would be the greatest twitter account.
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2015 11:34
|
|
|
Autonomous Monster posted:Apparently. I don''t know if I actually believe him, as he's been talking about it for years now and he's not dead yet. I'm sure this is the obvious question, but why? I assume he's given a reason if he constantly brings it up. Is it related to his political views in any way?
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2015 11:39
|
|
|
Defeatist Elitist posted:I'm sure this is the obvious question, but why? I assume he's given a reason if he constantly brings it up. Is it related to his political views in any way?
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2015 11:45
|
|
|
quote:Not true, I've lived exclusively on bread (white bread with nothing on it, no butter, cheese or anything, just bread) and milk since I was about five. quote:I don't do it to keep healthy. I don't know why. It's just the way things are On the topic of wholegrain: quote:Can't eat that. It has to be white (pure) wheat bread. Just the smell of something that coarse would make me gag. Not to mention the seeds... 
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2015 11:55
|
|
|
David Corbett posted:I love Victoria and Victoria 2. Panzeh's av says wargames let him be Hitler. Victoria basically lets me become the platonic ideal from which people like Cecil Rhodes were cut. It's like I'm a human incarnation of the New Imperialism, or of the system of Modernity itself. Agreed, it really captures the mindset of the establishment at the peak of liberal modernity very well. You're trying to safeguard your newly uniformized nation-state from any remaining reactionary Ancien Régime elements while at the same attempting to keep the budding socialist movement from becoming too powerful or nationalism from overheating and turning into fascism. All while you're on an unstoppable march towards progress and enlightenment that will inevitably uplift the lower classes and the uncivilized races - provided they know their place. Paradox, please make Victoria III, but less hands-off than Victoria II. Autonomous Monster posted:On the topic of wholegrain: You know what, gently caress it, I'm going to disregard all nutritional advice from now on. Someone like that hasn't dropped dead yet, so obviously it doesn't matter what you eat.
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2015 12:07
|
|
|
I live on bread, but only the most tasteless bread because I'm a three chromosome ascetic in the modern age.
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2015 12:14
|
|
|
I'll admit I prefer white bread, but only because it's the best base for delicious spreads. I'd never eat it by itself.
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2015 12:25
|
|
|
If he's drinking Milk aswell, that explains how he's still alive: unsurprisingly, something for babies to drink has all the vital nutrients you need.
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2015 12:38
|
|
|
But how does he poop??? 
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2015 15:24
|
|
|
Not sure, but it sounds like Normandy when he does.
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2015 15:32
|
|
|
So despite the posts in here saying not to play HoI3, I did enjoy it last time I played but that was years ago and I never bought the Their Finest Hour expansion. If I'm going to play the game again regardless, does TFH improve/change things enough to be worth buying? Also are there any mods worth using?
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2015 17:36
|
|
|
Fellblade posted:So despite the posts in here saying not to play HoI3, I did enjoy it last time I played but that was years ago and I never bought the Their Finest Hour expansion. Main goodies for TFH are the Country Editor, which gives you greater control over your pre-war set-up, and better representation of leader tactics. If those seem nice to you, go for it (but wait for a sale, etc etc) FWIW I also enjoyed HOI3 a fair bit (after Semper Fi) and TFH reignited my interest when it was released.
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2015 18:36
|
|
|
I used to really dislike HOI3, but I've spent about ten hours on my current Italy runthrough over the past couple weeks and I'm, strangely, finding myself having fun.
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2015 18:44
|
|
|
The awfulness of HoI3 tends to be overstated in this thread, especially when we view it through the lens of the post-HoI3 Paradox games. Its execution failed to match its ambition and it never became as polished as HoI2/Darkest Hour, but there's still enough game to be fun. It's probably the most unique title Paradox has released. Definitely worth taking a look at if you can get it on sale.
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2015 19:06
|
|
|
I like HOI3 much in the same way that I like grognard games such as War in the Pacific: I have a solid grasp of what I need to be doing to achieve my objectives, but I get to the unit and province count and a feeling of ennui just sets in something awful and I move off to something that's easier to control. Certainly I've taken quite a few games where I play a minor European power, carve out a sizable holding for myself, then start a new game by the time I need to start challenging Russia.
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2015 19:15
|
|
|
I wouldn't really describe HoI2 or DH as polished either for that matter.
|
|
#
?
Jul 6, 2015 02:45
|
|
|
Phlegmish posted:Agreed, it really captures the mindset of the establishment at the peak of liberal modernity very well. You're trying to safeguard your newly uniformized nation-state from any remaining reactionary Ancien Régime elements while at the same attempting to keep the budding socialist movement from becoming too powerful or nationalism from overheating and turning into fascism. All while you're on an unstoppable march towards progress and enlightenment that will inevitably uplift the lower classes and the uncivilized races - provided they know their place. That puts it perfectly: when you play Victoria, you become the platonic ideal of The Man. I don't think that you really get that experience in any other Paradox game. David Corbett fucked around with this message at 03:17 on Jul 6, 2015 |
|
#
?
Jul 6, 2015 03:12
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 29, 2024 08:48 |
|
|
I just read the HoI 4 dev diaries and I'd really appreciate anyone at Paradox sending me a PM of any heinous crimes/foul rituals I need to perform to make it come out sooner.
|
|
#
?
Jul 6, 2015 04:20
|
|
