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AG3 posted:The fact that the DLC is still in the top sellers list on Steam and that the number of reviews are increasing (but the average score is not) says a lot about people who buy, play and complain about Paradox games and Paradox's DLC policy. I think it's mindboggling that Paradox has not put out an official statement and even deleted the terrible apology by Johan - and that they have not pulled the product. They are pissing away a lot of their goodwill they have built the last few years with relatively stable releases, with this shitshow. Pump it up! Do it! fucked around with this message at 15:23 on Apr 29, 2021 |
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It's still so fuckin hilarious tho "We made the expansion wrong. As a joke."-my dream version of Johan
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Reveilled posted:Am I right in remembering that Paradox announced their new studio in Barcelona on like the very next day after agreeing a collective bargaining agreement with their Swedish employees? If so, the Stockholm employees have got to be licking their lips right about now. "Oh, so you can just outsource everything anytime you want, you say?"
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Apr 29, 2021 15:21
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I just want them to not fix the Native mega-cities, they own. The Iroquois cheevo is harder now since you have to form Iroquois first.
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Apr 29, 2021 15:24
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Unions always win.
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Apr 29, 2021 16:28
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The uncolonized world bug just ate Florryworry's game on stream  , good times
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Ah shucks it looks like steam wiped all the funny user tags for leviathan. rip
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BONGHITZ posted:Unions always win. Don't swedish workers in particular rely on strong unions because the government itself has barely and regulations on hours or wages? USA-looks-good-tier labour law? sketch poo poo, laughs aside
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Don't swedish workers in particular rely on strong unions because the government itself has barely and regulations on hours or wages? USA-looks-good-tier labour law? I think it's kind of the inverse, where Sweden has such strong legal protection and support for unions that they don't need a minimum wage because almost every worker gets union-negotiated wages. And they do have a legal 40-hour workweek apparently
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1.30 is hilarious and immediately developing northern Italy to 100 dev/province by 1460 is the most fun I've had in this game for a while. Possibly since the last DLC dropped and Austria could get all of Europe into the Empire by 1475. e: I have to fight the temptation to savescum when my new monarch comes back with a meager 32 monarch points in a category. All your rulers come in at over 100 years old so you get a new guy every 2-3 years. Cockblocktopus fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Apr 29, 2021 |
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Apr 29, 2021 17:59
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What's the exploit everyone is using to do these 100 dev provinces?
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PittTheElder posted:What's the exploit everyone is using to do these 100 dev provinces? its not an exploit. its just the concentrate development mechanic they added in the dlc.
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Apr 29, 2021 18:09
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Also, just be a native and abuse Tribal Development.
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Davincie posted:its not an exploit. its just the concentrate development mechanic they added in the dlc. laughing that it's not even a bug but a new DLC feature lmao
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Davincie posted:its not an exploit. its just the concentrate development mechanic they added in the dlc. You can also go military dictatorship as milan and a few other tags which results in your generals being appointed ruler with insane overflow stats (like the screenshot a few posts up) and just dev provinces using your endless mana
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To be fair to the person who was pointing out that the DLC is selling well despite the incredible review situation, in actuality I am more tempted to come back to EU4 and get this DLC thanks to the hilarious bugs being reported. At least three different ways to skyrocket development, for a start? Hell yeah that rules lmfao
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Magissima posted:I think it's kind of the inverse, where Sweden has such strong legal protection and support for unions that they don't need a minimum wage because almost every worker gets union-negotiated wages. And they do have a legal 40-hour workweek apparently Exactly this. In Sweden, Norway and Denmark, the rule of thumb is that unions and employers organizations negotiate almost everything, with little-to-no government intervention. That's been the case many decades now (in Sweden since 1938, Norway 1935, Denmark 1899). This does mean that, if you look purely on legal protections, we Scandinavians look like we've got rear end workplaces. That's not how things work out in practice though, for example here in Denmark the work week is 37 hours long. Generally speaking, the gov't only gets involved with negotiations for public employees, and even then in its role as employer rather than as lawmaker.
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Caustic Soda posted:Exactly this. In Sweden, Norway and Denmark, the rule of thumb is that unions and employers organizations negotiate almost everything, with little-to-no government intervention. That's been the case many decades now (in Sweden since 1938, Norway 1935, Denmark 1899). This does mean that, if you look purely on legal protections, we Scandinavians look like we've got rear end workplaces. That's not how things work out in practice though, for example here in Denmark the work week is 37 hours long. Generally speaking, the gov't only gets involved with negotiations for public employees, and even then in its role as employer rather than as lawmaker. That only raises further sketchy questions about Paradox employees needing to struggle to get in a union and the move 
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Ms Adequate posted:To be fair to the person who was pointing out that the DLC is selling well despite the incredible review situation, in actuality I am more tempted to come back to EU4 and get this DLC thanks to the hilarious bugs being reported. At least three different ways to skyrocket development, for a start? Hell yeah that rules lmfao Does the "top selling" thing account for refunds? I bought it after the patch and while I didn't run into any huge bugs: it did make saves/loads take at least twice as long as before the patch. Performance across the board seemed to tank for me, but I haven't heard anyone else mention that. EDIT: Forgot to mention that I did refund it, but will probably pick it up again once it's sufficiently patched. George Sex - REAL fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Apr 29, 2021 |
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Caustic Soda posted:Exactly this. In Sweden, Norway and Denmark, the rule of thumb is that unions and employers organizations negotiate almost everything, with little-to-no government intervention. That's been the case many decades now (in Sweden since 1938, Norway 1935, Denmark 1899). This does mean that, if you look purely on legal protections, we Scandinavians look like we've got rear end workplaces. That's not how things work out in practice though, for example here in Denmark the work week is 37 hours long. Generally speaking, the gov't only gets involved with negotiations for public employees, and even then in its role as employer rather than as lawmaker. Yeah. On the flipside, though, there's some room for really skeevy practices in 1) industries that utilize a lot of foreign workers and 2) IT-related stuff.
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I remember when it wasnt long ago that I would cream my pants when I got a 1% increase in some stat like discipline, but now its all ball to the wall 25% here and 400% there
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Dorkopotamis posted:Does the "top selling" thing account for refunds? I bought it after the patch and while I didn't run into any huge bugs: it did make saves/loads take at least twice as long as before the patch. Performance across the board seemed to tank for me, but I haven't heard anyone else mention that. Performance seems to have taken a nasty hit from all the curry favor interactions, but that might just be my wonky pre-patch save.
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Oh wow, I was wondering how Leviathan turned out. Yikes. ilitarist posted:And it's not like GSG is a unique genre. It shares a lot of DNA with 4X and empire builder games. We have Old World now which has a lot of CK influence in it. Indeed, it even has a CK dev  Reveilled posted:Am I right in remembering that Paradox announced their new studio in Barcelona on like the very next day after agreeing a collective bargaining agreement with their Swedish employees? Yes. Edgar Allen Ho posted:Don't swedish workers in particular rely on strong unions because the government itself has barely and regulations on hours or wages? USA-looks-good-tier labour law? Magissima posted:I think it's kind of the inverse, where Sweden has such strong legal protection and support for unions that they don't need a minimum wage because almost every worker gets union-negotiated wages. And they do have a legal 40-hour workweek apparently Edgar is correct, although sadly union membership rates have been steadily falling overall, and some industries like games are mostly ununionized. Paradox fought tooth and nail against people unionizing too, including leaving their own industry-union suddenly when it was pointed out this went against their values. I'm not sure exactly what the work week laws are, but we certainly exceeded 40/week when [required] crunching. Johan's post seems to have been deleted too. I can't find it on the PDS forums. Wondered how downvoted it was.
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Groke posted:Yeah. On the flipside, though, there's some room for really skeevy practices in 1) industries that utilize a lot of foreign workers and 2) IT-related stuff. Yep, the Scandinavian system works great for like 80% of workers here but it falls as flat as any other for the worst case scenarios, mainly related to imported labor. Here in Norway there has been a lot of issues with this, in particular with workers from Poland but also from other eastern-European countries, who can get in easily through EU-membership. Seasonal industries like anything that needs to be harvested + construction suffer the most from this. Workers get treated like poo poo, and get paid like poo poo, and because the companies get away with that there is no incentive to treat Norwegian workers competitively compared to other occupations, but they would do things like 'think they have Actual Rights' or 'get attention in the media/parliament' if they were treated anywhere near similarly. Resulting in locals avoid these branches like the plague, leading both to severe brain-drain (most relevant in construction) and a lack of reasonable options in manual labor fields for those who are inclined to seek work there. Let this not take away from the fact that: dlc bad.
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Darkrenown posted:Oh wow, I was wondering how Leviathan turned out. Yikes. Did you leave Paradox?
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This has to be the best time to roll out your subscription service. Finally loaded the game up, and offering it is the first thing that comes up.
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V for Vegas posted:Did you leave Paradox? Some time ago (Dec 2019), yes 
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I did an Inca playthrough recently maxed out defense tree and when the European armies showed up they just all died to attrition sieging forts
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Dorkopotamis posted:Performance across the board seemed to tank for me, but I haven't heard anyone else mention that. It was noticeably slower from day 1 of the short game I played before refunding. I’ve seen it mentioned a couple of times on the paradox forums and steam reviews. I think bad performance is just such a generic issue everybody forgets to even mention it with all the other glaring/wacky/hilarious issues there are to talk about
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https://twitter.com/TheWesterFront/status/1387679038962032641 idk man
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huh i just found out paradox has a studio in berkeley. what do they work on?
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Raskolnikov38 posted:huh i just found out paradox has a studio in berkeley. what do they work on? No one knows yet, and it’s still a very small studio. It’s helmed by Rod Humble who did a lot of work on The Sims and was the CEO of the Second Life folks for a few years, so maybe it’ll be life-sim of some sort.
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Anno posted:No one knows yet, and it’s still a very small studio. It’s helmed by Rod Humble who did a lot of work on The Sims and was the CEO of the Second Life folks for a few years, so maybe it’ll be life-sim of some sort. EU5 but it's an MMO set in 16th century Dortmund and you can be a furry landsknecht
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For the 1.30.X Emperor versions, was it ever clear why the AI had such trouble filling up their building slots? Not just that the AI makes bad choices, but also that they don't build or upgrade a lot of the buildings that would make them stronger. I don't mind that the HRE isn't full of level 8 forts but are the AI countries just broke all the time?
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