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Slim Jim Pickens posted:The AI empires and hordes that already exist in Stellaris are "off" unless you trigger something, in which case they come and invariably beat you up (unless its late game). The latecomers are never going to be a threat. The AI of these entities are not important for game balance. You ignored part of my post and managed to be wrong even beyond that. Congratulation, I guess
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Elendil004 posted:Also another LP from a guy I like, Stakuyi, he does longer stuff but cuts all the chaff. Huh, apparently you can undo or stop the Trail of Tears with the right laws?
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Yvonmukluk posted:Huh, apparently you can undo or stop the Trail of Tears with the right laws? so granted i havent watched it yet, but really not sure how you can undo a genocide >_>''
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By returning people their land and stopping the forced removals then still ongoing.
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i guess im just thinking of the thousands of lives lost before the game had even begun
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Elendil004 posted:Don't ask how he pronounced Hegemony though. *apart from the hosed-up politics of a lot of them seem to have.
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Elendil004 posted:Don't ask how he pronounced Hegemony though. that's how it is pronounced. he might have had a bit of the usual american vowel-blending in there i guess
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pdxjohan posted:He failed the programmer skill tests, but i liked his passion so hired him as an AI dev. The community must misinterpret it as "Paradox hires people who can't code to write AI" just like we've twisted the quote about balancing EU4 for MP. TwoQuestions posted:Other than that, I'm seriously at a loss. I also keep hearing about how it's supposedly a knockoff Anno game, but it doesn't have any of the political intrigue that Victoria does. I want a good game. I think a lot of games are hampered by the idea of what you must include in the game of this genre, so I think it's a good sign devs are willing to throw out troop control. I also don't buy into "wide as an ocean deep as a puddle" arguments. The worst kind of game to me is the one that seem to have great ideas and systems hampered but issues with balance or AI that usually seem to be just an issue of polish.
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ilitarist posted:The community must misinterpret it as "Paradox hires people who can't code to write AI" just like we've twisted the quote about balancing EU4 for MP. for the latter - the twisting isn't the problem so much as misunderstanding that paradox games against the AI -are still multiplayer- in a balance sense.
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Programming interviews are garbage anyway. Nobody actually programs like they interview!
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ilitarist posted:The worst kind of game to me is the one that seem to have great ideas and systems hampered but issues with balance or AI that usually seem to be just an issue of polish. Yeah, this is the absolute worst. If a game totally sucks who cares, if it has 95% of what's needed to be really fun but has one major balance issue or AI weakness which removes the challenge it's just frustrating.
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It's time. Signups for the first ever Victoria 3 Saturday game, 8PM UTC, are now live on the Discord!
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Dorstein posted:Programming interviews are garbage anyway. Nobody actually programs like they interview! Yeah this. I know its hard to come up with a relatively quick and universal test to gauge someone's career-long expertise in a topic, but pretty much every programming test Ive seen (in the games industry anyway) is more about catching people out on some obscure point of OOP that they will probably never encounter in the real world (or if they do, they will have the benefit of the internet to figure it out).
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Myssu posted:Yeah this. I know its hard to come up with a relatively quick and universal test to gauge someone's career-long expertise in a topic, but pretty much every programming test Ive seen (in the games industry anyway) is more about catching people out on some obscure point of OOP that they will probably never encounter in the real world (or if they do, they will have the benefit of the internet to figure it out). One day I will have to implement my own HashMap for some insane reason and then the knowledge of its inner workings burned into my brain by all the interviews will finally be useful. Waifu Radia posted:i dont think the former is something we knew before, don't weirdly speculate like that lol My English fails me, of course I've jokingly meant that the community will surely interpret Johan's message in a wrong way.
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Joined and for the saturday game and for possible pop up games on tuesday. Lets goooooo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sluN63A_Nhg mexico stream
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Waifu Radia posted:i dont think the former is something we knew before, don't weirdly speculate like that lol i don’t think so. the AI in paradox games isn’t there to try to “win”. it would be cool to have a feature where a country or three would run a player-like AI, but also an insanely expensive feature that most people would ignore because the sandbox AI is fun
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Elendil004 posted:Also another LP from a guy I like, Stakuyi, he does longer stuff but cuts all the chaff. A little uncanny that you can reform a government manually when there’s an election without changing the president. It’s like they had a breakdown, said “gently caress this” and switched parties mid-term.
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guidoanselmi posted:A little uncanny that you can reform a government manually when there’s an election without changing the president. It’s like they had a breakdown, said “gently caress this” and switched parties mid-term. That's a thing that can happen in the US system, see e.g. Jim Jeffords. (It's unlikely to happen at the scale the game represents, of course).
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guidoanselmi posted:A little uncanny that you can reform a government manually when there’s an election without changing the president. It’s like they had a breakdown, said “gently caress this” and switched parties mid-term. I think it's supposed to represent shifts in thought or dominance of certain factions within an existing government, but sometimes it doesn't really make sense
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I think those are presidential elections and parties in power are not supposed to be parliament per se but a more general sense of who's in power. The game doesn't simulate any elections apart from the president.
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Maybe they can patch in a legitimacy & radicalism debuff later based on leader personality (Jackson was Radical) and IG clouts. Sure it can happen but it’s not going to be consequence-free. ^ just gotta wait for the America DLC
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Dammit Fanatical give me my key.
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guidoanselmi posted:Maybe they can patch in a legitimacy & radicalism debuff later based on leader personality (Jackson was Radical) and IG clouts. Sure it can happen but it’s not going to be consequence-free. I bet they could hammer the pop system into a legitimate system of intra-/inter-party politics, complete with coalition forming, coalition breaking, primary elections and more. The "Parliamentary Politics" DLC would be a sure-fire win, imo.
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ilitarist posted:One day I will have to implement my own HashMap for some insane reason and then the knowledge of its inner workings burned into my brain by all the interviews will finally be useful. I once got asked in an interview the "how would you detect a cycle in a linked list?" question, I struggled for a bit to come up with an answer that wasn't "use an array?" but didn't manage to. Later when I googled the questions, I think I asked about it in the SA job interview thread, I learned that this question was basically impossible to guess the correct answer to if you never encountered it before or otherwise weren't crunching interview questions/leetcode. They accepted that answer and eventually actually hired me, but I wonder if I somehow managed to filibuster the question to the point they couldn't follow up with "no an array uses memory" or if they didn't know the point of the question was to try to get the "use two pointers" solution. Maybe they didn't care and just wanted to know what solution I'd come up with. I thought I bombed that interview.  I worked there foe three years!
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I have bought Victoria 3. Hype levels at max.
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Got my steam key. Now at what time does the game unlock?
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VictualSquid posted:I am sold: lmao GOTY.
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I love the way war appears to work in this game. It's pretty much everything I've ever wanted from a Paradox game - I hate micromanaging stacks during wars. Should be interesting to see how everything shakes out in the actual game.
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Dirk the Average posted:I love the way war appears to work in this game. It's pretty much everything I've ever wanted from a Paradox game - I hate micromanaging stacks during wars. Should be interesting to see how everything shakes out in the actual game. how does it feel to be part of the masses for whom the game was dumbed down? 
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Popoto posted:how does it feel to be part of the masses for whom the game was dumbed down? Pretty good!
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VictualSquid posted:I am sold: 
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Popoto posted:how does it feel to be part of the masses for whom the game was dumbed down? Fantastic! And I know your comment is in jest, but a "dumbed down" system isn't a bad thing here because the AI also has to use the system. I love the idea of focusing on the big-picture economic management and diplomatic maneuvering while the generals do the actual fighting for me. It's just so much better than needing to individually move every single army to the point where my wrist starts to hurt after a couple of hours of playing.
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I mean I don’t think it’s dumbed down it just kind of takes your hand out of war and makes it much less in your control. Which some people like I guess but I prefer to control what happens in war and the economy
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cool av posted:i don’t think so. the AI in paradox games isn’t there to try to “win”. Add a PVP enabled setting, where another player can dark souls into your session and take control of an AI country.
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