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ilitarist posted:Maybe eventually they add some sort of espionage system which is probably on a checklist of things you should represent about the era. This might give some additional indirect control over the army, maybe it can cover developing plans for the attack etc. I really like the idea of hands-off warfare. Maybe I won't after I play the actual game but I don't want devs to compromise on it.
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Oct 25, 2022 15:22
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DaysBefore posted:But Paradox espionage systems are, without exception, useless at best and game breakingly awful at worst. They should just stop making them.  Espionage is like Stellaris ship designer, one of those features everyone says they wants but is actually inevitably hot rear end
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Oct 25, 2022 15:22
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The US should have hilariously bad espionage like they did in real life during this time period.
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Oct 25, 2022 15:23
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RabidWeasel posted:
Real Espionage and Real ship designer have never been tried.
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Oct 25, 2022 15:25
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Good espionage at the very least requires the game to lie to the player, which we've discussed (at length) why that's almost always a bad idea. I've not seen a game do it well other than games specifically about espionage. Stellaris I think was the best way to do it by saying "we don't know" about the other Empires until you got better intel.
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Oct 25, 2022 15:26
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Espionage designer, choose the colour of trenchcoat your spy wears, the quality of their shoes (cheaper wingtips are more easily detected!), and the amount of cigarettes they smoke while following their mark down a hazy alleyway
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Oct 25, 2022 15:27
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The Chad Jihad posted:Hope game good its good, OP
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Oct 25, 2022 15:30
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Pylons posted:The US should have hilariously bad espionage like they did in real life during this time period. Same with Germany- every time they try something sneaky they should have a localized Zimmerman telegram event.
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Oct 25, 2022 15:46
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i'm gonna play v3 until the factories do care about my feelings
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Oct 25, 2022 15:47
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Pump it up! Do it! posted:I don't understand the obsession with the war system for the kind of game that Victoria is and having your tiny men move around on the map, the war system was extremely tedious in Vicky 2. The fun I got from these games is taking some random small country and painting the world my color and that's harder to do if you only have indirect control over what happens in wars. So I'm really leery about their changes if they're making it effectively impossible to fight the british as e.g. the sikhs because you can't win by luring stacks into mountains anymore.
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Oct 25, 2022 15:52
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didn't think i'd be this hype but here we are
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Oct 25, 2022 15:56
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One hour-ish to go. Question is if I have the patience to do the tutorials to get the basics or if it’s just better to dive right in.
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Oct 25, 2022 15:57
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Janissary Hop posted:The fun I got from these games is taking some random small country and painting the world my color and that's harder to do if you only have indirect control over what happens in wars. So I'm really leery about their changes if they're making it effectively impossible to fight the british as e.g. the sikhs because you can't win by luring stacks into mountains anymore. You can set your armies to defensive and have generals with defensive traits which should make them try to force battle in favourable terrain I think. But generally speaking the idea is that maybe you shouldn't be able to win that war.
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Oct 25, 2022 15:58
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Victoria 3 then!
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Oct 25, 2022 16:00
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Star posted:One hour-ish to go. Question is if I have the patience to do the tutorials to get the basics or if it’s just better to dive right in. My understanding is that the tutorials basically ARE just diving right in, just with explanatory journals and the like that you’re free to ignore or take at your own pace.
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Oct 25, 2022 16:00
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hit the button!
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Oct 25, 2022 16:01
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oh I thought it was coming out now lol Steam said "less than an hour" I guess it's another hour? They're still just chilling on the release stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tPpU0s4xcI
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Oct 25, 2022 16:04
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I..... shall be the Ottomans
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Oct 25, 2022 16:05
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Pump it up! Do it! posted:I don't understand the obsession with the war system for the kind of game that Victoria is and having your tiny men move around on the map, the war system was extremely tedious in Vicky 2. Same, OP. I just ran out of steam in my EU IV game last night trying to pick apart some opms with my mens on the map. I am unreasonably excited for this game and cannot wait to influence my nation to greatness.
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Oct 25, 2022 16:05
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Vicky 3 top seller on Steam right now, beating out Modern Warfare for that modern not warfare action.
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Oct 25, 2022 16:05
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Is Rome formable?
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Tomn posted:My understanding is that the tutorials basically ARE just diving right in, just with explanatory journals and the like that you’re free to ignore or take at your own pace. Oh, alright. That sounds like a good compromise. Have to think about which country to play then.
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Oct 25, 2022 16:06
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Gaius Marius posted:Is Rome formable? Yes, if you turn on the game option "allow forming what shouldn't be allowed to form".
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Oct 25, 2022 16:07
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Dandywalken posted:I..... shall be the Ottomans I think that's gonna be my second run, right after I smash the Southern Aristocracy as USA, and make the cradle-to-grave socialist state of my dreams. Also, I think Steam had the release as an hour earlier than it actually was.
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Oct 25, 2022 16:08
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Gaius Marius posted:Is Rome formable? Quality username-post combo.
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Oct 25, 2022 16:09
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Cantorsdust posted:Vicky 3 top seller on Steam right now, beating out Modern Warfare for that modern not warfare action. holy poo poo congrats
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Oct 25, 2022 16:10
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Janissary Hop posted:The fun I got from these games is taking some random small country and painting the world my color and that's harder to do if you only have indirect control over what happens in wars. So I'm really leery about their changes if they're making it effectively impossible to fight the british as e.g. the sikhs because you can't win by luring stacks into mountains anymore. Spiff put out a video where he took over all of capitalism and humiliated the Russian Empire in a war without fighting in said war as a released Jan Mayen. I think you will do just fine.
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Oct 25, 2022 16:15
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Gaius Marius posted:Is Rome formable? Rome wasn’t formed on Day 1, sorry
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Oct 25, 2022 16:15
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espionage: Civ V did it well in Gods & Kings.
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Oct 25, 2022 16:17
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What do you mean I can't pre-install to play during my lunch break!?
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Oct 25, 2022 16:18
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Two Beans posted:Spiff put out a video where he took over all of capitalism and humiliated the Russian Empire in a war without fighting in said war as a released Jan Mayen. I think you will do just fine. To be fair, I think a lot of that boiled down to the overpopulation debuffs being too small. In theory an overcrowded area suffers -100% pop growth (after a certain point), but Spiff had so many positive bonuses that he overwhelmed the -100% and crowded hundreds of thousands of people onto an island with a modern-day population of 35. Some of that stuff will probably shake out better in the future as balancing passes start to remove edge cases like that. Also the funny thing about the war is that Russia shot itself in the foot badly by mobilizing. They just didn't have the economy to actually do what they wanted to do, and Spiff set himself up to exploit the Russian raw resource production by building factories in his highly educated island nation and then turn those goods back around to Russia for a massive profit.
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Oct 25, 2022 16:23
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Pylons posted:The US should have hilariously bad espionage like they did in real life during this time period. Is there a time period where that isn't true?
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Oct 25, 2022 16:23
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Steam told me an hour ago the game would come out an hour from then. I cannot press the button. Why can I not press the button? I would like to press the button. 
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Oct 25, 2022 16:28
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drat I'll have to wait until 7PM before I can play due to work, can't wait to crash and burn as Belgium.
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Oct 25, 2022 16:29
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Did they push the release button yet?
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Oct 25, 2022 16:29
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SnoochtotheNooch posted:Steam told me an hour ago the game would come out an hour from then. I cannot press the button. Why can I not press the button? 1 steam hour = 2 real life hours.. easy math
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Oct 25, 2022 16:34
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so victoria 3 is a game that it is real and exists and going to be launched like soon holy poo poo
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Oct 25, 2022 16:34
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I have about 4 hours of completely free time the next 2 evenings after work, no kids or wife, yessssssssssssssss
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Reddit says Steam was wrong and the actual release time is 1800 CEST so that's about 25 minutes from this post
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