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is meiou the mod with the never ending "PIRATES!" pop up?
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Mans posted:is meiou the mod with the never ending "PIRATES!" pop up? That was Magna Mundi for EU3.
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Reveilled posted:That was Magna Mundi for EU3. The days before Ubik went utterly insane. Good times. He was still already insane
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Rynoto posted:The days before Ubik went utterly insane. Good times. He was still already insane I remember Ubik getting institutionalized at some point. Is it known what happened to him afterward? He was very obviously not well from the very beginning, as you said.
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May 11, 2021 18:52
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Gigau streams Mayo and Texas on twitch nowadays. He seems super sweet and chill. Also the mod rules except for the UI.
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That's rad, and it's true.Gimmick Account posted:I remember Ubik getting institutionalized at some point. Is it known what happened to him afterward? He was very obviously not well from the very beginning, as you said. As a guy who had had personal communication with him before Magna Mundi the Game was a thing, he did not strike me as obviously unwell. But yeah actually developing a game does not seem to have done good things for his psyche, but I don't think we have any details about him post-commitment. Hopefully he's doing ok.
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Johan posted:Leviathan was one of the worst releases we have had, and follows a long trail of low quality releases starting back with Golden Century for EU4. I mean, I appreciate the sentiment, and that he didn't throw the Barcelona team under the bus.
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May 11, 2021 19:16
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:I mean, I appreciate the sentiment, and that he didn't throw the Barcelona team under the bus. If Leviathan was intended to be the final expansion and their plans were to fix bugs and wrap up...not delaying seems like an extremely odd choice. Honestly just gives me more questions.
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Zeron posted:If Leviathan was intended to be the final expansion and their plans were to fix bugs and wrap up...not delaying seems like an extremely odd choice. Honestly just gives me more questions. It was never supposed to be the last one.
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Zeron posted:If Leviathan was intended to be the final expansion and their plans were to fix bugs and wrap up...not delaying seems like an extremely odd choice. Honestly just gives me more questions. It wasn't, he's saying that Tinto is going to do more expansions but they're now going to push back them back to prioritize bugfixes first. edit: drat, beat by the OP himself
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pdxjohan posted:It was never supposed to be the last one.
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pdxjohan posted:It was never supposed to be the last one. Ah my bad, sorry. Thanks for the statement.
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pdxjohan posted:It was never supposed to be the last one. Wait, does that mean it's now the last one?
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PittTheElder posted:Wait, does that mean it's now the last one? ...No? Not sure where you got that from.
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I mean I'm 80% sure I'm reading too much into it, but just that sentence kinda sounds like it might be.
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if anything, leviathan is proof the barcelona studio absolutely needs to cut their teeth on at least another expansion before they switch to eu5.
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PittTheElder posted:I mean I'm 80% sure I'm reading too much into it, but just that sentence kinda sounds like it might be. I think the intended reading is "we were originally planning to do a big bugfix release as a sendoff for the game after whatever the last expansion ended up being - we've changed our plans and will instead be doing a big series of bugfix releases right now, before we get back to doing expansions". I say "I think" because I agree that it's not totally clear, but I think the interpretation I've written above gels with Johan's clarifying statements.
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Gimmick Account posted:I remember Ubik getting institutionalized at some point. Is it known what happened to him afterward? He was very obviously not well from the very beginning, as you said. He was never literally insane, he just dedicated way too many man-hours into the project and was spending inheritance money that the rest of the family didn't like so they had him institutionalized. He got out a few years back, after spending a year or two pretending to take pills. He only got released after he stopped resisting the psychiatrists and started to admit he was crazy and slowly felt "improvements" over time. Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:...No? Not sure where you got that from. It should. Game doesn't need more DLC, it's bloated enough as it is. Bug fix all the wonky stuff and prepare for a new release imo.
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https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/while-1-31-3-is-in-final-testing-here-is-patchnotes-to-read.1473617/ Patchnotes! Mans posted:He was never literally insane, he just dedicated way too many man-hours into the project and was spending inheritance money that the rest of the family didn't like so they had him institutionalized. So in Portugal, you can be sane and spend few years in a psycho ward because your family says you're crazy? Hmm.
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you don't have to be crazy to be institutionalized here.... but it helps !! 🤪
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ilitarist posted:So in Portugal, you can be sane and spend few years in a psycho ward because your family says you're crazy? Hmm. there are many countries in the world where you can be involuntarily institutionalized, yes. in fact it's often disturbingly easy for your parents to get it done even if you are a grown-rear end person in your 40s like ubik was
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Wasn't there a mental hospital in the US that you could pay to admit your relatives?
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Mans posted:He was never literally insane, he just dedicated way too many man-hours into the project and was spending inheritance money that the rest of the family didn't like so they had him institutionalized. What were these improvments??? tell us, let us know
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Ash Crimson posted:What were these improvments??? tell us, let us know When he stopped working on total conversion mods for EU, they figured they'd cured the worst of it 
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This patch is pretty decent, by the way. Still some bugs and oversights (the "can always vassalize your war target in a subjugation war regardless of warscore cost" change applies to every single country in the war lol), but I think if it shipped like this, there wouldn't have been a large backlash or anything. The monuments are reasonably balanced, most of the unfinished-feeling rough edges have been touched up, and it's just much less buggy in general. They still haven't balanced the concentrate development feature, though. I assume that's coming next.
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May 14, 2021 06:20
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That was a super nicely done apology, and with PDX being listed I can appreciate how difficult it probably was to get everyone aligned on releasing it.
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Mans posted:He only got released after he stopped resisting the psychiatrists and started to admit he was crazy and slowly felt "improvements" over time. Uh, as somebody who was in such institution, I really hate that. If you say to the psychiatrist that you feel terrible, you might get extra drugs and certainly get marked as "uncooperative" - meaning zero privileges for you. Punishments will continue until morale improves.
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Some AI weirdness left though. Am up to the early 1500s in a Mongolia game and the Ottos have done Jack poo poo except for annexing Crimea. I mean, they haven't even tried attacking Byzantium, who survives as an OPM in Constantinople. (Naples took Morea).
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Yeah the current AIs will release vassals when over governing capacity, then annex them as soon as possible after a decade, only to immediately re-release. It's most noticeable with Ming. The true main faction of Leviathan is the eternal Xi. Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 19:43 on May 14, 2021 |
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:I mean, I appreciate the sentiment, and that he didn't throw the Barcelona team under the bus. I dunno, "follows a long trail of low quality releases starting back with Golden Century for EU4" reads as "hey, I inherited this mess." True to an extent, but is Golden Century and Emperor really a "long trail" especially when Golden Century is a fan base whipping boy more for failing to meet expectations than being buggy or broken? I'm not sure what he could be referring to outside of EUIV content, but CK3 was certainly not low quality by any means.
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Francis posted:I dunno, "follows a long trail of low quality releases starting back with Golden Century for EU4" reads as "hey, I inherited this mess." True to an extent, but is Golden Century and Emperor really a "long trail" especially when Golden Century is a fan base whipping boy more for failing to meet expectations than being buggy or broken? I'm not sure what he could be referring to outside of EUIV content, but CK3 was certainly not low quality by any means. Paradox should probably just announce eu5 already, their policy of announcing rubbish dlc is predatory and wrong
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Francis posted:I dunno, "follows a long trail of low quality releases starting back with Golden Century for EU4" reads as "hey, I inherited this mess." True to an extent, but is Golden Century and Emperor really a "long trail" especially when Golden Century is a fan base whipping boy more for failing to meet expectations than being buggy or broken? I'm not sure what he could be referring to outside of EUIV content, but CK3 was certainly not low quality by any means. Yeah, I thought the only reason people complained about Golden Century was because it didn't rework the entirety of South America, and it got some provinces in Portugal in the wrong places? There are so many nationalists in the Paradox fanbase that it's hard to parse legit complaints from people whining about their home country not getting a 20% discipline tradition or whatever.
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Red Bones posted:Yeah, I thought the only reason people complained about Golden Century was because it didn't rework the entirety of South America, and it got some provinces in Portugal in the wrong places? There are so many nationalists in the Paradox fanbase that it's hard to parse legit complaints from people whining about their home country not getting a 20% discipline tradition or whatever. I think the iberians have legit complaints. Half of "their" dlc was pirates and poo poo. Expel minorities was ludicrous and the opposite of what Spain actually did. So basically the only thing they got was extremely powerful mission trees for Castile and Aragon.
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The changes in the last couple of patches to the Maori iwi (tribes) in New Zealand and the South Island redraw were good. They came in response to a couple of Maori dudes posting on the forums saying "hey the way we're represented is pretty messed up, these tags are mythological, here's some actual history" and the dev who did NZ had some good discussion with them and implemented most or all of what they were asking for. Also the South Island provinces actually make sense now and reflect the landscape a lot better instead of being completely arbitrary squiggles drawn by some EU3 dev.
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Wafflecopper posted:The changes in the last couple of patches to the Maori iwi (tribes) in New Zealand and the South Island redraw were good. They came in response to a couple of Maori dudes posting on the forums saying "hey the way we're represented is pretty messed up, these tags are mythological, here's some actual history" and the dev who did NZ had some good discussion with them and implemented most or all of what they were asking for. Also the South Island provinces actually make sense now and reflect the landscape a lot better instead of being completely arbitrary squiggles drawn by some EU3 dev. Bugs aside messing around in that area is really fun. I know the representation of the Pacific tags as organized states is iffy but it's clearly a passion project and a nice change from fighting over Europe and the med for the fifteen thousandth go around. The new canoe sprites not having people in them is disconcerting though.
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I have been trying out Leviathan now that the last of the bugs have been cleared up and Majapahit is crazy strong once you navigate the initial unrest period (which is not very hard, especially on the current patch because the collapse disaster doesn't fire at game start, it only triggers when you reload a save for the first time). Mostly because now that the region is a lot more fractured than it was in 1.30, the 'major' Indonesian powers have a hard time getting started - you can box Brunei in by allying the Hindu states on its southern and northern borders and Malacca isn't strong enough to overcome the alliance networks around it immediately. Once you clear the disaster and turn the four starting tributaries into vassals you're one of the strongest in the region, and then you can pick up the Campaigns CB and at that point you can declare war on anyone in Indonesia without needing to border them - and there's enough tiny states in the region that it's pretty easy to take advantage of that to pick up little countries when they're weak, to get footholds in the different archipelagos. The straits have also been changed - there's now a strait between the island arc to the east of Java, and there's no strait between Java and Sumatra anymore, so with a solid Navy you're in a much better position to protect yourself from invasions from mainland Asia. Also if you conquer ternate and tidore, vassalise one of them because once there's only one of the pair remaining on the map, it gets an event that gives it a colonist, so you can leave it to colonise for you. I tried out the Maori states too, but forming Aotearoa didn't seem to give me any new ideas (I'm not sure if this is a bug?) and the mission tree is kind of skewed. There's a bunch of missions relating to conquering the other tribes, but the AI doesn't build to force limit because it is so short on money, so it's trivial to conquer all the surrounding Maori tribes in the first decade of the game, way before you need to use any of the missions that are meant to sort of lead you down that route.
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Red Bones posted:I have been trying out Leviathan now that the last of the bugs have been cleared up and Majapahit is crazy strong once you navigate the initial unrest period (which is not very hard, especially on the current patch because the collapse disaster doesn't fire at game start, it only triggers when you reload a save for the first time). Well clearly not all bugs have been fixed then. *Just found that sentence a bit funny. I know you meant the major bugs.
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Hryme posted:Well clearly not all bugs have been fixed then. Yeah I should have said, the last of the bugs that make the game so broken it's unplayable. Now there's just regular bugs left. Some of the remaining balance decisions are baffling, though. Mount Fuji is a monument with a dev cost and tax revenue modifier for that singular province if you upgrade it to the highest level. It's just a mountain province producing cows. It's not even in a chokepoint where you would want to put a fort in it and dev it up. It should give an extra missionary or something, it's a Shinto holy site.
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