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Thread Name Master has made a powerful enemy today.
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Drone posted:Tim Cook? How many divisions has he got? 
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Drone posted:Tim Cook? How many divisions has he got?
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Drone posted:Tim Cook? How many divisions has he got? lol
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Dec 21, 2021 16:34
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Also answer: Arguably quite a lot of divisions, but those divisions are more focused around marketing, developing variants of the iPhone, and so on instead of throwing the Hun out of the Rodina.
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Dec 21, 2021 17:08
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What's the largest sovereign country Tim Cook could successfully invade if he spends his personal wealth on an army?
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GrossMurpel posted:What's the largest sovereign country Tim Cook could successfully invade if he spends his personal wealth on an army? Costa Rica?
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GrossMurpel posted:What's the largest sovereign country Tim Cook could successfully invade if he spends his personal wealth on an army? Tim Cook has a net worth of 1.4 billion USD. If we assume military assets depreciate over 10 years, that corresponds to an annual budget of 140 million USD, which is the military budget of Nicaragua according to the Internet. That doesn't mean he can invade anything. I assume Nicaragua could conscript hundreds of thousands of soldiers if invaded by a lunatic US billionaire, and I don't think Tim Cook's mercenary army would have very robust supply lines or much ability to deploy overseas. Defending is much easier than succesfully invading.
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Dec 21, 2021 19:43
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He could start with Nauru, as a test run. If it succeeds, then there's a base to do logistics from when he attacks, I dunno, Tuvalu. Doubling your dev and provinces in two wars seems good to me!
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Buying enough Senators that they let you borrow the Marines is historically way cheaper than building a personal army, let all the rubes paying taxes handle the day to day upkeep.
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Pretty sure this Tim Cook event chain can actually trigger in Paradox's Dawn of Chaos IV
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Athas posted:Tim Cook has a net worth of 1.4 billion USD. If we assume military assets depreciate over 10 years, that corresponds to an annual budget of 140 million USD, which is the military budget of Nicaragua according to the Internet. Not to mention he needs to keep enough troops at home to avoid being invaded by other tech companies. Let alone rebellions from Bay Area natives who can't afford rent due to the tech companies driving up housing prices.
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Dec 21, 2021 21:15
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ilitarist posted:Thread Name Master has made a powerful enemy today. I'll fess up, it was me that asked for the name change both times lol
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I have discovered the anbennar mod and it has consumed my life. He is there so much content? Is there an eu4 thread? The link in the op sends you to Stellaris.
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JosefStalinator posted:I have discovered the anbennar mod and it has consumed my life. He is there so much content? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3840754
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So I really haven’t been following any of the development of Victoria three, but is there any even a remote ETA on when it will be out like say 2022 or is 2023 (yeah kind of feels weird typing those as dates that are in the near future.
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It's already gone gold, but Everytime someone asks for release they push it back
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As much as I'd love Q3/Q4 2022 I feel like it's going to be Q1 2023, but I also haven't been following things extremely closely.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:So I really haven’t been following any of the development of Victoria three, but is there any even a remote ETA on when it will be out like say 2022 or is 2023 (yeah kind of feels weird typing those as dates that are in the near future. Nobody knows yet. The fact that war still had strictly mockup UI in the dev diaries in the past month or so makes me suspect it won't be soon.
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The best Paradox games are the ones that haven't been released yet, so hopefully V3 never is.
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Release isn't even technically confirmed because there's yet to be any diaries on straits
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I'm hoping 23 at the earliest, otherwise it will probably be a half-baked disaster.
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I'm not sure V3 will be great at launch, but Stellaris went from fairly mediocre to my most played Paradox game, so I'm pretty confident V3 will eventually be great. It helps that I really like the period, and really liked all previous Victorić.
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I'm gonna bet September 2022 for V3
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It'll be released the day Elizabeth II kicks the bucket.
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Jeoh posted:It'll be released the day Elizabeth II kicks the bucket.
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Jeoh posted:It'll be released the day Elizabeth II kicks the bucket. I'm checking the Steam page but you still can't buy it??
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I played EU4 for like 70 hours over the course of 3 weeks, most of which I had off from work. And then a bunch of CK3 with my fiance. But now I just keep opening either game, starting a new game and then staring at the opening screen for a while, maybe making some decisions, and then quitting. I burned myself out I guess but at the same time really want to play another game and get the magic back 
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blue squares posted:I played EU4 for like 70 hours over the course of 3 weeks, most of which I had off from work. And then a bunch of CK3 with my fiance. But now I just keep opening either game, starting a new game and then staring at the opening screen for a while, maybe making some decisions, and then quitting. I burned myself out I guess but at the same time really want to play another game and get the magic back This happens to me too. Sometimes, I can look at the achievements list and find one that interests me enough to get back into it.
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There's nothing wrong with being done with a game, even open-ended strategy/sim games like EU4 and CK3 have a limit on what enjoyment you can get out of them.
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People in the EU4 thread are always talking about a fantasy-themed total conversion mod called Anbennar. Maybe trying that out would help reignite your EU4 interest. I haven't tried it but I had a hard time getting in to Hearts of Iron 4 until I got really into the Fallout TC mod.
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Yep, I put it off for a long time since I didn't think it would be much good but it really has completely reinvigorated EU4 for me. It's truly remarkable what they've done with the base mechanics of EU4, and in a certain sense the gamey abstractions of EU4 feel more appropriate to fantasy settings. The way stuff gets mixed and matched is really cool, so for example, the religion that uses the catholicism mechanics doesn't spring up until around 1650 when an enlightenment-influenced monotheistic religious movement with a single centralised church springs up. The new world also ends up much more interesting, as adventuring companies and settlers from various places strike out on their own and establish independent countries very early into the colonisation process, so you have a much more diverse place that means it's not just an endless parade of sending colonist after colonist. My first game I took the Goblin tribe squatting in the Central Station of the dwarven railway and turned them into a nation of Victoria 2 players, obsessed with trains, factroys, and political reforms. Now I'm Corintar, on a holy mission to honour their risen goddess, building bridges between the Human and Orcish communities of Escann, and one day soon, waging war on the Emperor of Anbennar to secure Corin' receives the support she needs to win the war in the heavens. It's a good mod.
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Can confirm that Anbennar is fun as hell and got me back into EU4 after kinda burning out on the base game.
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Nthing that anbennar rules. I'd easily put 20 hours into it over break and remained amazed by how ingenious and smooth the integration of DND and EU4 was.
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I haven't explored CK3's mod scene so I dunno if there's anything like it out there yet but all the various total conversion mods for CK2 really expanded its lifetime for me. After The End was amazing.
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A Wheel of Time mod would be pretty sweet.
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Pakled posted:I haven't explored CK3's mod scene so I dunno if there's anything like it out there yet but all the various total conversion mods for CK2 really expanded its lifetime for me. After The End was amazing. As far as I know the scene doesn't really exist yet. There's people who have put out some cool mods with new mechanics for Rome and the Islamic World, but no big conversions yet that I've seen. I think everybody is waiting for the new DLC with all the court and culture stuff. E: there is a pretty cool looking LOTR mod for ck3 PittTheElder fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Jan 7, 2022 |
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There are a lot of cool in-development TCs if you check out the CK3 modding discord. But only a couple of them are “out”, and then usually in some form of beta. After the End included. I’m sure waiting for RC is part of it, but I assume it’s also just taking awhile to get all the character stuff done. But there are some very impressive results out there. 
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The guy who started TNO is making a fantasy mod for CK3 but I don't know if he's gotten past world-building yet Edit: Also I think the Game of Thrones mod is getting ported too? I spent like half my time in CK2 just in that mod
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