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the dev push edict is p good and also the -5 unrest or whatever that's age of discovery only
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Holy poo poo. EU4 is such a pile of rear end now. It just seems like the game goes out of its way to drop a never ending pile of poo poo on the player. The bias against the player is insane. I get that it's about trying to make the game challenging but it just seems like there's no respite from it at all. Even the so called 'pro' players like florryworry and the like regularly use CTRL+ALT+DEL end process to circumvent the more annoying parts of the game. What the gently caress.
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Jan 26, 2018 10:55
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source you’re quotes
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Yeah ever since they made the game always start with the same RNG seed and even force it when you load a new save EU4 just hasnt felt the same. It was cool to try a hard start and get that blessed Friendly Austria or whatever. And whenever I play with ironman on i want to scream because any battle where i dont have at least equal tech and 10k more troops is a guaranteed loss
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Jan 26, 2018 13:16
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i hate to be the guy responding to criticism with get good but come on
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Jan 26, 2018 14:39
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It just feels like the game never gives you a break any more.
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Jan 27, 2018 02:14
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Larry Parrish posted:Yeah ever since they made the game always start with the same RNG seed this is straight up not true, every time you start the game you'll get a different setup of rivals, so ???
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Larry Parrish posted:It just feels like the game never gives you a break any more. when i was playing austria the event flagged where i randomly inherited hungary just as i was making my plans to actually engage in the PU war so the game still does nice stuff to players, it is just punishing as well
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Jan 27, 2018 15:55
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oh cool now great britain will be as loving monstrous as russia. also fuuu waking the tiger is only on march
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I've started playing Endless Legend, because the interface makes more sense to me than Paradox games, and I'm doing very badly. I haven't spent a lot of time with 4x games. How do I tell if I'm where I should be at a certain point in the game? It takes a long time and I never have any sense if I'm doing well or not.
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Jan 31, 2018 23:38
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Endless Legend loving sucked. Space 2 is a legit game though. Probably the only good modern space 4X
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Plutonis posted:Endless Legend loving sucked. Space 2 is a legit game though. Probably the only good modern space 4X What makes EL bad and ES2 good?
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I want to like Endless space 2 but I don't get it. Very slick looking game but I get the overwhelming feeling when I play it there is very little going on in the background.
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Feb 2, 2018 00:04
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Stellaris on the other hand assaults you with how little is going on so its less deceptive. Better game.
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ES2 and Stellaris all pale in comparison to Distant Worlds imo
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corn in the bible posted:ES2 and Stellaris all pale in comparison to Distant Worlds imo If distant worlds had enemy AI that bothered to attack your victory goals instead of just your economy it would be the best 4x ever.
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Major Isoor posted:(wall of text about my immortal king) Oh wow, I've only just noticed that in my game, the Jains of all people, rose up and formed an Indian empire in 1062! It's now 1236 and they've still got control over it, and have nearly wiped Hinduism off the map. In other news, unfortunately the Mongol empire has absorbed the huge Arabian empire, so now my holdings in the Kingdom of Jerusalem are probably looking like a pretty tantalizing target, right about now... 
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I'm loving that France+Aquitaine mess also holy gently caress those mongols ofc
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Also, there's been an interesting development; in the last 20-30 years it seemed like EVERYONE was suddenly getting the "sympathy for Islam" trait, (which I thought was curious at the time, but wasn't overly concerned - it seemed to help me get recruits for the Assassins, after all) and now half my vassals and a heap of other rulers, etc. are openly converting to become Sunni. Like, our lands are all still Catholic, but I'm not sure about how long that'll last, until the rulers have their I'm not sure whether to be happy about this or not, since Haraldr is a Shi'a worshiper! I'm thinking I might openly convert at some point a bit later on, when the Papacy is weakened, then try turning England into a bastion of the Shi'a faith - since I'm starting to grow concerned about the ultimate fate of the Catholics. The Mongols/steppes region is almost entirely Sunni now, (the Tengri are all but a distant memory) so over half the map is Sunni.
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corn in the bible posted:ES2 and Stellaris all pale in comparison to Distant Worlds imo did they make stellaris actually fun to play yet or is it it still boring numbers going up bullshit
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A human heart posted:did they make stellaris actually fun to play yet or is it it still boring numbers going up bullshit the next patch will fix everything!
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BgRdMchne posted:the next patch will fix everything! did the patch fix everything
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PleasingFungus posted:did the patch fix everything gently caress if i know. haven’t played it since about three weeks after it came out.
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it was more of a thread-wide question
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Its apparently made multiplayer desync a lot?
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Feb 24, 2018 16:51
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A human heart posted:did they make stellaris actually fun to play yet or is it it still boring numbers going up bullshit I tried the new patch and indeed they did not make it fun to play.
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Its still boring trash but at least wars are a little less frustrating. Planets and starbases should be limited only by your economy though. gently caress off with this poo poo paradox.
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consensus among my mapgaming pals is that stellaris is way more fun after the last patch. The early game is more of a balancing act than the old rush to expand, and borders/wars are more intuitive. Advance planning (wide fleet deployment, static defenses, etc.) makes a huge difference now, so I imagine a bunch of people are pissy because their old doomstacking strat is suboptimal.
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mostly i'm pissy that i have to pay more attention to ship design now. gently caress you wiz. also, the enemy AI is still brain damaged and i haven't played any MP yet so i'm gonna go ahead and say the changes are meaningless overall
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stellaris is more interesting but still suffers a really boring midgame where all you’re doing is clicking upgrade on your buildings/ships and filling in all the uncolonised space you have in preparation for the endgame crises and/or war in heaven. in fairness it’s the same issue all paradox games run into once you get out of the early game - you’ve become powerful enough that the decisions (about whether to build here or there, whether to declare war or wait for a better window) aren’t that important any more - but because stellaris lacks the historical window dressing of ck, eu, hoi etc. the midgame drag is more prominent. 2.0 is a big improvement systems wise - expansion, fleet building, war, combat are much better, but there’s still not enough content imo
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One thing I will say is that it seems like someone missed a decimal place somewhere in the war exhaustion code. You will be automatically white peaced out of winnable wars pretty goddamn quick.
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Eugene V. Dubstep posted:One thing I will say is that it seems like someone missed a decimal place somewhere in the war exhaustion code. You will be automatically white peaced out of winnable wars pretty goddamn quick. they're apparently patching in the upcoming hotfix.
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So what's the best space game currently out? Distant Worlds?
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a7m2 posted:So what's the best space game currently out? Distant Worlds? Master of Orion (1993)
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GorfZaplen posted:Master of Orion (1993) I never played the first one. What’s different from the sequel?
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a7m2 posted:So what's the best space game currently out? Distant Worlds? yeah
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How difficult is DW to get into, by the way? I've always been tempted to try it, but I'm not sure how intuitive its systems are, since I haven't really heard a lot about it. (Also, it doesn't have multiplayer, right? Since that was also something that drew me to Stellaris over DW, initially)
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the game is actually less complex than it first appears, but it has a cool system where the taxes you raise are based on how good your civilian economy is doing, which can be hosed up by enemy raiders. i have no idea how the land combat system works in general. or, really, anything other than space combat. its very paradox game where its actually fairly simplistic but there's 10,000 stats modifying actions that make it look really in-depth
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Larry Parrish posted:the game is actually less complex than it first appears, but it has a cool system where the taxes you raise are based on how good your civilian economy is doing, which can be hosed up by enemy raiders. i have no idea how the land combat system works in general. or, really, anything other than space combat. its very paradox game where its actually fairly simplistic but there's 10,000 stats modifying actions that make it look really in-depth Huh, OK that sounds pretty interesting. So like, while your main fleet is duking it out with the enemy's in various battles/skirmishes, can you have 'commerce raiders' behind enemy lines attacking civilian shipping? (Like what happened a bit during the 1900s, as well as in earlier centuries) Or are there no civilian ships like in Stellaris, so in order to impact the economy you'd need to blockade or invade worlds, directly? Either way, it sounds very interesting - I wish I had looked into DW more deeply, sooner. Might need to pick it up during the next sale, seeing as everyone here has been saying that Stellaris still needs fleshing-out. (Haven't bought the latest expansion, myself)
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Major Isoor posted:Huh, OK that sounds pretty interesting. So like, while your main fleet is duking it out with the enemy's in various battles/skirmishes, can you have 'commerce raiders' behind enemy lines attacking civilian shipping? (Like what happened a bit during the 1900s, as well as in earlier centuries) Or are there no civilian ships like in Stellaris, so in order to impact the economy you'd need to blockade or invade worlds, directly? Basically there's an entire automated civillian economy that runs freighters, passenger liners, independent miners, etc running in the back ground. You collect taxes off of their activities, as well as lump sums from them using your shipyards to build their ships. Its a cool system. Cant wait to see what the dev does in distant worlds 2
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