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IncredibleIgloo posted:Here is some livestream of the PDX's newest title! Starts about 6:45 I can't help but feel that Marvin got stuck in an ugly echo-chamber.
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Wiz is just trying to create a crowd of rabid fans to back his Patreon! (Seriously though, the patreon user "Sakimi-Chan" makes over 25k a month for doing Hentai/pin-ups/etc.....)
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how can you complain about an anime of the best/worst ruler of sweden
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Ghost of Mussolini posted:are we down the rabbit hole enough that its "funny" to quasi-lampoon borderline hentai games or Absolutely.
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Also, the game does look legitimately interesting. I've felt for a while that the time-budgeting game format has room for interesting challenges - worked on a project myself about the life of Vlad Dracul - and the card game has potential. It could be actually, unironically fun! Imagine...
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Zombiepop posted:And can someone ask some paradox person why the hell they dont use kickstarter? like at all? or am I wrong? I want Victoria 3 and I am willing to pay.
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Sindai posted:There's no reason to if you already have the money to finance future games?
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Sindai posted:There's no reason to if you already have the money to finance future games? Like literally this
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What the guy actually wants is just us telling what our secret projects are, which he for some reason thinks that Kickstarting it would make it come quicker. Or he seriously think that we don't have the money to start our own projects? 
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Groogy posted:What the guy actually wants is just us telling what our secret projects are, which he for some reason thinks that Kickstarting it would make it come quicker. Shame you guys didn't release that Cities Skylines game, you could have made a mint.
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Groogy posted:What the guy actually wants is just us telling what our secret projects are, which he for some reason thinks that Kickstarting it would make it come quicker. Your shameful impoverishment is known to all. After failures like CK2 and EU4, well, it's hardly surprising people would expect you to go out, cap in hand, begging for change.
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Paradox wouldn't be in this problem if they adopted the Battlefront "10 dollars a patch" plan.
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He just wants Rome 2 & Vicky 3 Groogy 
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Gauges interest, gives you more money, lets you set goals that people can buy into. Forces you to post regular updates which only serve to waste your time, forces you to provide a schedule which will inevitably slip, locks you into shipping with all of the features you propose regardless of whether they prove to be good ideas after implementation, allows you to overpromise via stretch goals which aren't actually feasible in your proposed time line
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Paradox is probably swimming in money, they have enough to pay random mod dev teams to make spinoffs of their games, let them run for a year or two, shut them down for no reason, and then steal the features for their own games.
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Kickstarter Backer Reward: Pledge 1,000 or more and you can dress up as a Soviet General and have an in game leader portrait!
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I'll kickstart for whatever amount of money if I get to set the Germans tank stats to lower values than everyone else's in hoi4
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GrossMurpel posted:Paradox is probably swimming in money, they have enough to pay random mod dev teams to make spinoffs of their games, let them run for a year or two, shut them down for no reason, and then steal the features for their own games. Still waiting on a good Cold War game...
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GrossMurpel posted:Paradox is probably swimming in money, they have enough to pay random mod dev teams to make spinoffs of their games, let them run for a year or two, shut them down for no reason, and then steal the features for their own games. Not sure if unironic or not....
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b0lt posted:Forces you to post regular updates which only serve to waste your time, forces you to provide a schedule which will inevitably slip, locks you into shipping with all of the features you propose regardless of whether they prove to be good ideas after implementation, allows you to overpromise via stretch goals which aren't actually feasible in your proposed time line
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Jan 1, 2017 19:31
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Groogy posted:Not sure if unironic or not.... You have to admit, you'd never have been able to put so much loving care into straits without the code from East vs. West.
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Zero One posted:Still waiting on a good Cold War game... I'm hoping HoI 4 eventually goes down that path with enough expansions - I don't know why considering there is virtually no evidence to support a theory that they will but they did a lot of things with HoI 2 so I'd like to think they'll try again with 4 after 3 tripped out of the gate and suffered badly for it. Also I want them to piss off everyone who is still salty over East vs. West. In other news, it looks as though Paradox is indeed swimming in money as all of their major releases from 2016 (and some from earlier) all made Steam's top 100 sales list for 2016; Stellaris came in at 13th, EUIV at 29th and HoI 4 is 39th. Hell even Cities: Skylines came in at 33rd. I guess it helps that they compete in genres that don't have a lot of other options unless you're willing to drive into the grognard rabbit hole but here's hoping they keep up the good work.
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Jazerus posted:You have to admit, you'd never have been able to put so much loving care into straits without the code from East vs. West. Straits didn't get much love, I think it is just the hoi3 straits ported over right? (Never played a lot of hoi3, I prefer good games) edit: Oh I get the joke now, heh. 
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Psychotic Weasel posted:I'm hoping HoI 4 eventually goes down that path with enough expansions - I don't know why considering there is virtually no evidence to support a theory that they will but they did a lot of things with HoI 2 so I'd like to think they'll try again with 4 after 3 tripped out of the gate and suffered badly for it. Also I want them to piss off everyone who is still salty over East vs. West. Psychotic Weasel posted:In other news, it looks as though Paradox is indeed swimming in money as all of their major releases from 2016 (and some from earlier) all made Steam's top 100 sales list for 2016; Stellaris came in at 13th, EUIV at 29th and HoI 4 is 39th. Hell even Cities: Skylines came in at 33rd. I guess it helps that they compete in genres that don't have a lot of other options unless you're willing to drive into the grognard rabbit hole but here's hoping they keep up the good work.
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Hasnt HoI4 tripped really badly too? I have heard from a number of friends that have played it that it is something that needs a year of patches before it will be playable, just like HoI3 was. Not at all. At worst there's some dumb stuff the AI does, and the air and naval game are kind of poo poo, micro-y and sort of pointless, but it's definitely playable and fun. Nothing like HOI3's launch.
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If I had artistic skills, I'd draw 'The perfidious gaming swede, sitting on his pile of ill gotten gains as he refuses to make Victoria 3 solely to wound the hearts of the world'. Alas, alas, my manual dexterity is lacking
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Hasnt HoI4 tripped really badly too? I have heard from a number of friends that have played it that it is something that needs a year of patches before it will be playable, just like HoI3 was. There's a big difference, there's bunch of people not happy with how HOI4 turned out to not be HOI3 2.0 and is saying it needs a year of patches to fix that. HOI3 you couldn't play for a year because it wouldn't start, and if it did start it would crash at random intervals.
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HoI3 was my first Paradox game. It's a legitimate miracle I bothered with any of the others.
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Jazerus posted:HoI3 was my first Paradox game. You got all my respect and sympathies.
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Jazerus posted:HoI3 was my first Paradox game. Hoi 3 is pretty alright if you treat it as a Spanish Civil War game.
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Victoria II was my first PDS game, followed by HoI3 (I have 2 laying around somewhere but never really played it). Despite both games being "bad" they still scratched an itch that nothing else did and I had somehow managed to pour close to 200 hours into Vicky and some 450+ into HoI3. I may have a problem. That said, HoI4 has some problems - some of which are worse than others - but but it is still far ahead of the issues that plagued 3 and I have hope they'll be ironed out before long. HoI3 had some pretty fundamental flaws from what it never really could recover from in the end.
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Vicky 2 is not bad, it's just misunderstood. 
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Not at all. At worst there's some dumb stuff the AI does, and the air and naval game are kind of poo poo, micro-y and sort of pointless, but it's definitely playable and fun. Nothing like HOI3's launch. Groogy posted:There's a big difference, there's bunch of people not happy with how HOI4 turned out to not be HOI3 2.0 and is saying it needs a year of patches to fix that. HOI3 you couldn't play for a year because it wouldn't start, and if it did start it would crash at random intervals.
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Vicky 2 is not bad, it's just misunderstood. A grumpy teen is misunderstood, Vicky 2 is the abusive husband I keep going back to even though my family and friends tells me I am worth better.
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Huh, I've been told that, for example, the German AI will throw away 100% of its manpower at the Maginot line if it is well defended (e.g. there is any player involvement). Then, because of time passing, Italy will get involved and throw away 100% of its manpower at the French Alps. On top of the naval and air control being backwards and micro heavy and the AI is really bad at that, too. It's a lot better than that now that the first couple of patches have hit. Now most of the dumb ai poo poo will be with your allies putting too many planes in your airfields, or garrison ai moving troops around your country on boats that inevitably get sunk, when they could have just used trains. Hugely annoying stuff when it happens, but still nothing like HOI3s brokenness.
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My first Paradox game was HoI2, the original version. Then I got Victoria once Revolutions came out. Both were such good games, but I'm so glad Paradox has realized that games can be simplified in parts and complex in others.
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Why is it totally impossible to get immigrants as democratic Mexico? USA gets about 6k immigrants, British satellite Canada and Brazil both over 4k, but my democratic Mexico with literally all social and political reforms enacted, no militancy and plenty of available jobs both in factories and RGOs gets 0. Literally no-one wants to move here. I get that USA is more attractive but Canada and Brazil are both monarchies, with zero social progress since game start. Brazil still allows slavery and still it's almost as attractive as USA. I've looked over the wiki, but I can't find any reason why everyone hates Mexico. 
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My first Paradox game was Svea Rike 3  But then I think EU2 was on the same cd? So I played that shortly afterwards.
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Chickpea Roar posted:Why is it totally impossible to get immigrants as democratic Mexico? Someone has a liberty national value, and it isn't Mexico
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Chickpea Roar posted:Why is it totally impossible to get immigrants as democratic Mexico? Because there is tons of hard coding for how people should migrate and move in the scripts. Just like how it is hard coded that all of Italy's population should be exterminated in case you don't form Italy. Or my favorite, get instant game over because an AI pressed the "Form Germany" button. I think you are gonna need a war to break out somewhere in high populated areas if you want to get immigrants. It's not until CK2 we started being way more dynamic with how we design our scripts and go on more values than directly "You are USA so here is a +1000% migration bonus". TL;DR: If you are playing Vicky2 and not one of the big name nations then expect to not be playing by the same rules like everyone else. Also you will probably be majorly hosed if you are not good at exploiting the game mechanics. Groogy fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Jan 1, 2017 |
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