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I've put hundreds upon hundreds of hours in CK2 and EU4 and I still close HOI3 within 5 minutes of opening it every time.
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QuarkJets posted:
It wasn't really until CK2 and EU4 that Paradox games started having learning curves rather than 90 degree learning walls.
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Dec 9, 2015 10:19
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This is the best mod.
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Dec 9, 2015 10:43
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I don't know. HoI2 was really straightforward to jump into, for me. After a few false starts I got familiar enough with the system to do a World Conquest with a friend playing Germany. I still haven't figured HoI3 out all that well. I think it's more of a problem HoI3 and Vicky II had than the other Paradox games.
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Dec 9, 2015 10:46
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IRONMAN COMPATIBLE!
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Dec 9, 2015 11:02
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Man I am loving loving the Threaten War option. It actually makes it possible to sort of leapfrog provinces in order to get close enough to get claims on the province/nation that you actually want to fight. It's nice to not have to fight a pointless war for land you don't really want just to open up a path that lets you get close enough to fabricate a claim on someone. Still waiting on that "Fabricate claim on neighboring province for +X% Liberty Desire" vassal interaction though 
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Dec 9, 2015 11:39
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VDay posted:Man I am loving loving the Threaten War option. It actually makes it possible to sort of leapfrog provinces in order to get close enough to get claims on the province/nation that you actually want to fight. It's nice to not have to fight a pointless war for land you don't really want just to open up a path that lets you get close enough to fabricate a claim on someone. I had just taken Scandinavian land across the water from Danzig which had been released and eaten by Pommerania quickly. Was planning my strategy for fighting super Austria coming to the defense when... oh it looks like I can just threaten for it because Pomm isn't considering Austria in their strength of alliances. Poland broke that alliance fast.
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Dec 9, 2015 12:18
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Yo Wiz, et al, you guys fixing the fog of war bug? It feels like the AI know where my army is, even if I'm six provinces deep away from their prying eyes, or even in allied territory not adjacent to any of their land. They just have an uncanny ability to seek out my army and ruin it. I can't bait them or split them up or any tactics: they just send the doomstack after me now matter how I try to duck and weave.
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Dec 9, 2015 13:05
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What are good idea sets of Ireland? I'm attempting a luck of the Irish run and have a fairly good start.
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Dec 9, 2015 13:09
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Roadie posted:I feel like it would produce less silly results by default if it was much, much more weighted towards continents. As it is, you rarely get anything with enough landmass to actually be comparable to the Americas, but "I only got a bunch of islands / two continents the size of Australia" should be a lot rarer instead of pretty much the default. I think there needs to be a bunch more continent tiles to support that. I think Wiz said they plan to add a bunch, and mods should add even more once people get going. As soon as I get some more free time I'm going to make a bunch of tiles myself.
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Dec 9, 2015 14:46
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Koramei posted:Yeah I feel the same, I have 40+ hours now and I haven't even gotten it once, and I've dipped into the disasters countless times. I feel like people see the scary red fire and think it's game over, but there's an 80 month timer on it. Unless you went utterly nuts with the influence, you'll almost certainly get an event or something that puts you in the green again. I disagree with this, estates aren't really planning, unless you call "never go above 60 influence and pray to rng you don't get hosed if you do" planning. This also means most events don't leave you with an actual choice, you have to pick the option that gives influence to the faction with the least influence. And if you ever do gently caress it up and RNG pisses on you, then you get to enjoy 10+ lovely years until those influence modifiers run out, there's nothing you can actively do to reduce influence apart from pulling all their estates, which tanks loyalty and gives revolts. An other fun bit, theocracies have +20 base influence for the clergy, have fun with that. I don't get how you people manage to milk the estates for benefits, all those actions reduce either loyalty or increase influence, the moment I use those I get RNG hosed. Is there some secret to decrease influence?
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Dec 9, 2015 14:50
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Frogfingers posted:Yo Wiz, et al, you guys fixing the fog of war bug? It feels like the AI know where my army is, even if I'm six provinces deep away from their prying eyes, or even in allied territory not adjacent to any of their land. They just have an uncanny ability to seek out my army and ruin it. I can't bait them or split them up or any tactics: they just send the doomstack after me now matter how I try to duck and weave. Pretty sure that Wiz has said that the AI doesn't cheat with regards to fog of war.
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Dec 9, 2015 15:06
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Dec 9, 2015 15:09
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Deltasquid posted:What are good idea sets of Ireland? I'm attempting a luck of the Irish run and have a fairly good start. Depends on your "fairly good start". If you can get a province in Iceland you can grab Exploration and reach the New World before Diplo 7. Otherwise in an ideal situation you won't have a chance to grab very many ideas before you're either breaking apart England into its constituent nations (better to release them as vassals as opposed to just independent nations because if France allies them it's going to get so much harder) or getting your face kicked in. Eej fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Dec 9, 2015 |
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Dec 9, 2015 15:18
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Smiling Knight posted:Pretty sure that Wiz has said that the AI doesn't cheat with regards to fog of war. The AI can see more than you in terms of fog of war, however it does not act on that knowledge. the man himself, wiz posted:- AI can see through fog of war, but pretends it can't in most cases. The AI being able to see that information but not acting on it is almost the exact same as them not seeing on it in the first place, as they do not have the same strategising brain that a human has, unless Wiz has been working on the first real artificial intelligence that can learn and decided the best use for it was map games. You can tell the AI does not take notice of what it can actually see because it is totally content to walk a 30 stack through a mountainous province that is under siege by 80k other men already and take the 5% attrition on the chin, despite the fact that it could see that was happening miles away. Likely what is happening to the OP is that they are either not taking full advantage of fortresses, or are trying to mount a siege offensive before softening up the AI armies. Another Person fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Dec 9, 2015 |
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Dec 9, 2015 15:32
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Gorelab posted:Exploration or Expansion for Muscovy? I'm kinda leaning Exploration so I can take religious second, but I have no clue. In my most recent game I took Exploration, but only bought the first two ideas so I could get a jump start colonizing Siberia. Once I had enough other ideas to have Admin below 50%, I dropped Exploration and bought Expansion because I like the bonuses there better.
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Dec 9, 2015 15:44
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Any advice on how to start a For Odin run? I started taking a bunch of English stuff including London as my starting 5 but I'm still badly outgunned at the start and everyone hates me. I've contemplated starting in New World but I feel like it's easier to grab those high value provinces initially.
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Dec 9, 2015 16:01
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Palleon posted:Any advice on how to start a For Odin run? I started taking a bunch of English stuff including London as my starting 5 but I'm still badly outgunned at the start and everyone hates me. Consider starting on Ireland. It is more defensible, and your AE is less likely to leak onto the continent there. You should get an easy chance to take out Scotland once France gets dragged into a nasty war with Burgundy or England. Take advantage of that.
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Dec 9, 2015 16:06
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Eej posted:Depends on your "fairly good start". If you can get a province in Iceland you can grab Exploration and reach the New World before Diplo 7. Otherwise in an ideal situation you won't have a chance to grab very many ideas before you're either breaking apart England into its constituent nations (better to release them as vassals as opposed to just independent nations because if France allies them it's going to get so much harder) or getting your face kicked in. I have most of Ireland + Scotland with a Scottish OPM march for some extra troops. Allied to recently independent Sweden, buttering up France for the inevitable showdown against the English. Ended up taking exploration and then quantity. I'm a bit in a financial pickly, though. Gotta juggle the estates while trying to stay above 1 ducat/month so I can get my colonies up and running.
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Dec 9, 2015 16:45
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GreyPowerVan posted:You don't have to buy cossacks for the rnw updates, I think. You need to have purchased conquest of paradise, however.
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Dec 9, 2015 17:03
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I should try and just never hand anything out to the estates, ever, and see if the occasional low loyalty rebellions are any worse than random event ones. Having an autonomy floor on any province triggers my brain AIDS and causes me to try to do insane Austria-style snaking to fix it.
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Dec 9, 2015 17:04
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Larry Parrish posted:I should try and just never hand anything out to the estates, ever, and see if the occasional low loyalty rebellions are any worse than random event ones. Having an autonomy floor on any province triggers my brain AIDS and causes me to try to do insane Austria-style snaking to fix it. I did that in one of my nogai games, there's a penalty for having 0 influence depending on the faction but for the tribes it wasn't bad. The rebels from removing the estates weren't bad, stacks of 7-10. vvvv Tribes are worth it for roughly the first 50 years, after that they're not needed anymore and just annoying as hell, especially on accepted culture land. Tahirovic fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Dec 9, 2015 |
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Dec 9, 2015 17:18
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But as a Horde the extra manpower from having tribes land seems a lot more useful than the small amount of money that you don't care about...? I would give all my land to the tribes if I could.
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Dec 9, 2015 17:25
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I'm having trouble with downloading from the workshop. I'm subscribed to like 3 or 4 mods but none of them are like even being acknowledged by steam for downloading.
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Dec 9, 2015 17:51
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PrinceRandom posted:I'm having trouble with downloading from the workshop. I'm subscribed to like 3 or 4 mods but none of them are like even being acknowledged by steam for downloading. I could never get EUIV mods to download from Steam unless I enabled Steam cloud. Even though it worked for some other games with cloud off.
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Dec 9, 2015 18:40
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Palleon posted:Any advice on how to start a For Odin run? I started taking a bunch of English stuff including London as my starting 5 but I'm still badly outgunned at the start and everyone hates me. Trujillo posted:There are probably 1000 ways to do it but what I did was start as a republic with a leader with 5 mil, London, Essex, Marches, the province south of Marches, and Meath, plus 5% discipline and a land forcelimit modifier and pick the deity that gives you 5% discipline. The first 5 tries I didn't take London but took some other 5 provinces in Ireland/Scotland because London is so expensive but each time England would eventually crush me so you need London to weaken them. England starts with a 0/0/0 ruler and will probably have trouble early on with France/civil war/lollards and you when you get 2 mil techs ahead of them. You'll probably get a mission to take over something in Ireland at the start. Take it and start a claim on another Irish country and take over Ireland, leaving one or two of the Irish countries as vassals if you want to cut back on rebels. From there you'll be a decent size to be able to take out Scotland or England depending on what happens diplomatically. As for allies, try raising relations with Sweden. Once you're big enough and they're free of Denmark they were friendly every time for me. You don't have to start in Britain but it's the safest place for a non-Christian to be in Europe once you get a navy and England is the single biggest roadblock to getting the achievement so destroying them from the inside at the start makes sense. The English and Scottish both had better generals but it didn't matter. This is how your early battles will go with all your military bonuses:   The end, although I could've gotten it probably 100 years sooner if I went after Sweden earlier but I waited. They were knocked over by a gentle breeze so I felt pretty dumb for waiting. Canada is free because Greenland counts as Scandinavia but is also in the Canadian CN region so you'll have to release them and take it if you colonize.  I think something may be wrong with cultural unions when becoming an empire for custom nations. I should've gotten the British cultural union but Irish is still red for some reason.  
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Dec 9, 2015 19:36
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I really wish you could toggle custom nations to primarily use female rulers instead. You can set the current ruler and heir but after that it's only going to be guys, and with governments without heirs you don't even get more than the first ruler. Having Amazon Amazons in the Amazons would be fun. Please? 
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Dec 9, 2015 20:02
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You can change that in defines.lua. Can even make it exclusively women if you want. in other news the leaderboard finally updated. I was frozen in 115th place for like a week and I think I should have screenshotted that 'cause looking at the scores now there is no way I'll get there ever again 
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Dec 9, 2015 20:17
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Poil posted:I really wish you could toggle custom nations to primarily use female rulers instead. You can set the current ruler and heir but after that it's only going to be guys, and with governments without heirs you don't even get more than the first ruler. Having Amazon Amazons in the Amazons would be fun. Please?
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Dec 9, 2015 20:18
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Trujillo posted:I think something may be wrong with cultural unions when becoming an empire for custom nations. I should've gotten the British cultural union but Irish is still red for some reason.
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Dec 9, 2015 20:24
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Funky Valentine posted:...Irish is under Celtic. ... Didn't even know that was a group. I assumed British meant like the British isles... ... ...
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Dec 9, 2015 21:13
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Yet Another Hotfix:quote:- Rewrote monarch leader code in a fashion that should prevent any further crashes from this. Bunch of fixes and what seems like a fairly nice fix/change to getting estates in newly conquered provinces.
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Dec 9, 2015 21:22
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Dibujante posted:The last time I set my ruler and heir to female, I got primarily (but not exclusively) female rulers over the course of the game. Possibly a coincidence.
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Dec 9, 2015 21:23
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I'm having a weird issue where I'm playing as a custom theocracy and I keep losing and regaining the merchant guild estates. Suddenly they disappear from the estate tabs and just as suddenly they are back and whining about being disloyal again. Then they go away again. It's a bit strange.Koramei posted:You can change that in defines.lua. Can even make it exclusively women if you want. quote:ALL_FEMALE_MALE_CHANCE = 0, -- Chance for males if starting ruler and heir were both female.
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Dec 9, 2015 21:27
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Trujillo posted:... http://www.eu4wiki.com/Culture#List_of_culture_groups Commit it all to memory and then realize that a lot of culture groups are too small to make the union matter.
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Dec 9, 2015 21:28
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Poil posted:Um, how the heck does this work? Does this mean it is already going to give me only female rulers? These are the default values by the way. If you start with both male ruler/heir you will only get males. If you start with both female ruler/heir you will get only females.
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Dec 9, 2015 21:33
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Pellisworth posted:If you start with both male ruler/heir you will only get males. If you start with both female ruler/heir you will get only females. edit It might do something with the small custom nation I dropped over the Iberian owned islands too since I might have left the gender settings the same when making it. A small three island Ibadi pirate nation works really nicely there in my opinion. 
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Dec 9, 2015 21:35
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Did you guys ever wanna see all the old world adviser portraits clumped next to each other? No? Well here it is anyway Interesting that for the cossack advisers they tried to keep a color scheme in common with the default ones, I hope they'll keep doing that in future. Funky Valentine posted:http://www.eu4wiki.com/Culture#List_of_culture_groups Miao cultural union 4ever
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Dec 9, 2015 22:02
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I am kind of disappointed in myself that I know what each of these advisers does from their pictures alone.
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Deltasquid posted:I have most of Ireland + Scotland with a Scottish OPM march for some extra troops. Allied to recently independent Sweden, buttering up France for the inevitable showdown against the English. Quantity is probably not gonna help you as your second idea unless you have a really good monarch. You're just gonna be poor forever until you can get some colonies up and running (but England will get stronger as well) or you can take some land from them and start projecting trade power into the Channel.
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