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OK this has me convincedquote:PI have filed a couple of trademarks that don't correspond to current games. Two of them, Stellaris (filed 30th of June 2015), and Coriolis, fits a space game. Coriolis is a book set in space published by PI. It's set in the same world as a table-top RPG developed by people linked to PI. They describe the world like this: "The RPG is set in a world of Byzantine intrigue, gigantic spaceships and secret remains of earlier civilizations".
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OK guys I'm willing to accept that this could be better than another Rome game so don't let me down.
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Aug 1, 2015 10:39
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So... it's basically a knockoff empire of the fading suns universe? ...If it is, it is going to be so great.
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Aug 1, 2015 10:53
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fermun posted:The expansions had an absolutely massive effect on it, and it's a whole lot better, but it is still a deeply flawed game. HOI3 in its current state is primarily handing 90% of your forces off to AI control, then you create and hold pockets while the AI digests them, or on the defense you handle your 10% of elite forces as a firesquad going to wherever a critical defense is. It's flawed for smaller nations who can't support the sort of army required to have a unit in every province plus a few to back them up. You can absolutely play it and have fun, but it's flawed enough that it's a game worth sinking dozens of hours into instead of EU4's hundreds of hours of fun replayability. It's perfectly fine to control your army manually, "I put it on automatic so it's poo poo and boring" is a silly point to make.
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Aug 1, 2015 10:54
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Larry Parrish posted:The problem is the Aurora isn't a game so much as a data set generator So is the Football Manager series and yet it's the best goddamn game out there.
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Aug 1, 2015 12:27
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Mans posted:So is the Football Manager series and yet it's the best goddamn game out there. 
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Aug 1, 2015 13:10
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Mans posted:So is the Football Manager series and yet it's the best goddamn game out there. Probably not the thread to ask this but is FM2015 worth picking up? I mean it looks decent but all the reviews are saying how horrible the game is and how you should play the previous entry/skip it.
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Aug 1, 2015 14:42
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SkySteak posted:Probably not the thread to ask this but is FM2015 worth picking up? I mean it looks decent but all the reviews are saying how horrible the game is and how you should play the previous entry/skip it.
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Aug 1, 2015 14:54
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SkySteak posted:Probably not the thread to ask this but is FM2015 worth picking up? I mean it looks decent but all the reviews are saying how horrible the game is and how you should play the previous entry/skip it. 2016 will be coming out in like a month.
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Aug 1, 2015 14:54
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Drone posted:2016 will be coming out in like a month. Ah so it would be better to hold off until then, or is the price of 2015 good enough to have a go at now? I mean I tried a bit of 2014 and I didn't find it completely overwhelming.
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Aug 1, 2015 17:37
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Actually yeah they're right, just wait for FM16. I forgot it was that close to release. £10 is a decent price, but the FM games always have some silly discount somewhere like a month or so after release.
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Aug 1, 2015 17:49
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the problem with FM16 is that it might be released next month but it will only be playable around february
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Aug 1, 2015 19:04
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fermun posted:The expansions had an absolutely massive effect on it, and it's a whole lot better, but it is still a deeply flawed game. HOI3 in its current state is primarily handing 90% of your forces off to AI control, then you create and hold pockets while the AI digests them, or on the defense you handle your 10% of elite forces as a firesquad going to wherever a critical defense is. It's flawed for smaller nations who can't support the sort of army required to have a unit in every province plus a few to back them up. You can absolutely play it and have fun, but it's flawed enough that it's a game worth sinking dozens of hours into instead of EU4's hundreds of hours of fun replayability. Heh. Yeah. Hundreds. Just hundreds. 
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Aug 1, 2015 19:26
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Thousands are just really big hundreds.
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Aug 1, 2015 20:08
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Think if the number 100 was a person, then someone walks up to 100 and says the words "one hundred!". And 100 goes "Wow, that's a big number!" That's 1000. You're welcome.
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Aug 1, 2015 20:23
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V for Vegas posted:OK this has me convinced quote:The RPG is set in a world of Byzantine intrigue, gigantic spaceships and secret remains of earlier civilizations quote:a world of Byzantine intrigue quote:Byzantine intrigue quote:Byzantine Rome 2 confirmed.
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Aug 1, 2015 20:27
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omg it's literally Rome 2. Like, the second Rome.
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Aug 1, 2015 20:29
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If they do go away from historical settings for this game I wonder how long until I can patch in Great Serbia?
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Aug 1, 2015 23:55
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The Seventh Rome, Alpha Centauri Bb
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Aug 2, 2015 00:49
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The Seven solar systems of Rome.
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Aug 2, 2015 05:12
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RestRoomLiterature- posted:If they do go away from historical settings for this game I wonder how long until I can patch in Great Serbia? Great Serbia and Grand Old Bulgaria transcend the frabric of space and time.
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Aug 2, 2015 15:01
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To tide me over until then, does anyone know of any decent space strategy games with the Dune-like feel of feudal politics and interstellar warfare? Emperor of the Fading Suns is the obvious answer, but it's bloody heartbreaking to play it and see all the squandered potential.
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Aug 2, 2015 17:55
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Russia is such a beast in Vicky 2 if you just get over the first hump. I've dismantled every continental European power at least once and gotten most of the non-great powers in Europe in my SoI. Still working on getting Greece and Italy in my sphere though (Greece left after a fascist rebellion). Only GB is still a credible competitor to the Russian monster. 
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Aug 2, 2015 21:49
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Star posted:Russia is such a beast in Vicky 2 if you just get over the first hump. I've dismantled every continental European power at least once and gotten most of the non-great powers in Europe in my SoI. Still working on getting Greece and Italy in my sphere though (Greece left after a fascist rebellion). Only GB is still a credible competitor to the Russian monster. Your population is only 38 million? What did you do?
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Aug 2, 2015 22:04
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Don't you usually get a CB when fascist/communist rebellions happen and they nationalize your poo poo? I made Poland into my puppet as socialist Germany that way, at least I think.
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Aug 2, 2015 22:12
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Athas posted:Your population is only 38 million? What did you do? In V2, one unit of population in a POP represents an able-bodied working age male. The actual population of a country is reckoned by Paradox to be four times the "population" that the game tracks. Pakled fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Aug 2, 2015 |
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Aug 2, 2015 22:20
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Pakled posted:In V2, one unit of population in a POP represents an able-bodied working age male. The actual population of a country is reckoned by Paradox to be four times the "population" that the game tracks. You can actually mouse over the population to see the full number. Also I don't THINK it counts puppeted nations towards your own population, so Turkey/Scandanavia/The Balkans there wouldn't be contributing towards that number.
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Aug 3, 2015 06:05
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Star posted:Russia is such a beast in Vicky 2 if you just get over the first hump. I've dismantled every continental European power at least once and gotten most of the non-great powers in Europe in my SoI. Still working on getting Greece and Italy in my sphere though (Greece left after a fascist rebellion). Only GB is still a credible competitor to the Russian monster. And GB is still a close second. God, that's pretty much my most hated thing about Vicky. Not any UI concerns or lack of information or anything like that, it's that GB drives the game and is this unassailable juggernaut literally from the get go. I ought to try a Prussia or France game where I suicide into a fat-infamy war from the onset to try to destroy them just to see what happens.
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Aug 3, 2015 07:04
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A good Prussia can get pretty far (This is pre-HoD save loaded in HoD though, they got nerfed a little by tech-locking some CBs)
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Aug 3, 2015 07:14
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Gamerofthegame posted:And GB is still a close second. That's good, it means the economic components are working and they give a high enough score to be important. Britain had lots of factories and factory workers, the only way you should be able to stop her being powerful is winning the naval war and blockading her for a decade to starve her industries.
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Aug 3, 2015 07:16
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I've always wanted to see a successful Luxembourg to Franco-German Union but I'm pretty sure it's impossible to pull off.
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Aug 3, 2015 07:17
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Nah, I've done it before. It's similar to a good Danzig-Poland playthrough, basically revolving around allying around a good punching bag(France) and taking them to war at opportune times to get yourself some land.
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Aug 3, 2015 07:29
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Gamerofthegame posted:And GB is still a close second. Kill their fleet with ironclads before they modernize it. And even later on, you can easily land 300+ brigades on their island and the AI can't do poo poo to you because it can't handle artillery.
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Aug 3, 2015 09:39
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GrossMurpel posted:Kill their fleet with ironclads before they modernize it. The best thing about V2 is how going on a mass dreadnought building programme boosts your economy both through stimulating internal demand but also by making people want to buy your country's stuff more.
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Aug 3, 2015 09:42
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The worst part though is how if you forget to stockpile stuff like steel and lumber and try to build railroads they just sit unstarted for years sometimes because the trade AI is retarded
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Aug 3, 2015 09:44
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Gamerofthegame posted:God, that's pretty much my most hated thing about Vicky. Not any UI concerns or lack of information or anything like that, it's that GB drives the game and is this unassailable juggernaut literally from the get go. I ought to try a Prussia or France game where I suicide into a fat-infamy war from the onset to try to destroy them just to see what happens. 100% historically accurate  If you want a weak GB the game probably starts fifty years too late. Or too early.
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Aug 3, 2015 10:31
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The main weakness of GB is that their land is so spread out that their military is rated really highly, but their actual core territory is very small and so if you can actually get troops on to the British isles you can rack up a TON of warscore against them with very little resistance. Of course it's an entirely different story getting past their navy to do that but as others have mentioned, if you can beat them to ironclads or dreadnaughts you can sweep them up pretty easily since the AI usually doesn't rush to build that stuff (which is kind of ironic given that when the dreadnaught was invented in real life everybody absolutely DID rush to build as many as possible and that was one of the major tensions leading to WW1).
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Aug 3, 2015 11:18
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Larry Parrish posted:The worst part though is how if you forget to stockpile stuff like steel and lumber and try to build railroads they just sit unstarted for years sometimes because the trade AI is retarded That's not the trade AI, that's everyone else buying it before you can.
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Aug 3, 2015 13:13
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New teaser Space game? I have tried a few but usually giving up after a few hours just because they haven't been much fun, but made by Paradox it could be amazing.
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Aug 3, 2015 14:05
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That is clearly a Nubian, Rome 2 confirmed.
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