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Riso posted:You guys remember that dreadful Sengoku game? I love how there's whole cultures literally living in the sea. 
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Riso posted:You know, I think I might be getting somewhere. Well, it looks like you've got your work cut out for you! Maybe you could find some sufficiently  history goons to help you with finding some of the names for defining baronies? Also, I find that Text Mechanic is really helpful for doing long lists of things, like for localizations.csv and such.
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Jan 3, 2013 23:17
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Is it, like, impossible to get anywhere as an "Uncivilized" (How ... Eurocentric) nation in Victoria II? I decided to play as Vietnam and it's like 1856 and I've only managed to get a single reform. 
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Jan 5, 2013 16:28
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DrProsek posted:Right after the trade = { ... } giant section in a nation's section, there should be a civilized = yes/no setting, flip it to yes and you should have a civilized nation. Personally though I get the focus of the game is the 'civilized' nations, but they're so boring I say the game gets a lot more fun when you just swap every unciv to civ in in 1880. Maybe leave the African ones because it might mess with the Scramble for Africa event in APD but if it doesn't conflict, just change every unciv to a civ and you'll be behind enough the Euopeans will still maintain the edge they had historically. At first I thought that you meant "Swap every nation in terms of civilization", and laughed. So Great Britain, the USA, etc. are suddenly uncivilized, while the nations of Africa and Asia are suddenly civilized! 19th Century Imperialism in reverse! The Scramble for Europe!
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Jan 6, 2013 05:06
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Why is  SERBIA a thing? Is it because of the fierce nationalism of some of the people on Paradox's forums or something?
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Jan 7, 2013 15:23
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DrProsek posted:The greatest moment I feel of this is deciding to invade France by just charging through the Maginot Line. There's no moment of that that's not amazing, but that made it hilarious for me. It almost makes me want to try to learn to play HoI3 well, but production and manually controlling forces are still a nightmare for me Every time I've fired up HOI3 and looked at the troop deployments and theatre management webs, my eyes sort of glazed over and I started to feel very stupid. I like managing the politics and tech research stuff, but holy crap is that other stuff a mess. Where do you even start learning? Hence why I asked for a Kersch-like educational LP back a couple pages. You know, it would be really nice if Paradox ever got to the modern day, and made something more like a political / economic simulator with a lessened military aspect. So, something following where HOI4 will leave off, at the end of the Cold War. I imagine that managing a modern political state, especially if it was sort of character-based, would be pretty interesting. Imagine trying to get your Senator elected president, with a periodic election map, making campaign promises, etc. Or how about instead of playing as a particular leader or the nation as a whole, you played as a party? So you'd have to do all sorts of CK2-like backroom dealings with political figures, lobbyists and PACs, corporations, and the like. DrSunshine fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Jan 8, 2013 |
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Jan 8, 2013 04:34
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I'm playing EU3+ 1.04 as the Ming Dynasty in China. One thing I can't quite figure out is the conditions for getting the Colonial Aspiration decision. What are the "Northern" or "Southern" Expeditionary Ports (if I recall the name correctly)?
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Jan 9, 2013 18:43
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run DNC posted:They are in Europe. France/England and Iberia/North Africa respectively. Oh.  So I can't become a colonial power as the Ming. I'm kind of disappointed! You'd have figured that with the "Divine Wind" expansion and all, they'd have given you the option to do the voyages of Zheng He and his treasure feet. EDIT: Man, this is kind of depressing. Seems like all I do is worry about the steppe nomads and squash internal rebellions all the time, constantly praying that the stability doesn't drop below 2. On the other hand, that sounds exactly like Chinese history. Hah! DrSunshine fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Jan 9, 2013 |
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Jan 9, 2013 22:34
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DrProsek posted:That gameplay mechanic was actually added in EUIII+, normally you just need your colonial range to extend to America and then get colonists from something (vanilla EUIII; yearly you get 1 if you're Catholic, a bunch of national ideas give you colonists, and bordering hordes gives you colonists. EUIII+; yearly you get 1 for doing the colonial decision and then that unlocks the NIs you can also take for more). I think it was to prevent things like Poland dominating North America while AI Portugal hasn't even grabbed Azores. I'd also been wondering about that. How do I get colonists? Do I just need Naval Tech 16 then? Or do I need to build something, adopt a certain naval idea, or click a certain decision?
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Jan 9, 2013 23:00
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Viscardus posted:You can still become a colonial power as Ming if you really want to, the Europeans will just have a head start. All you need to do is take the "Colonial Initiative" decision once you qualify for it. That is what DrProsek was referring to regarding Naval Tech 16, which is presumably the tech level required if you don't own a European exploration port (I don't remember it off the top of my head, so I'm assuming DrProsek is correct). Once you do that, Quest for the New World and other colonial/naval ideas will naturally help you colonize, as can a few decisions you should be able to see the requirements for once you enact the Colonial Initiative decision. Ah, okay, alright! Thanks for the advice!
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Jan 9, 2013 23:14
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I had a completely  moment this afternoon, playing as the Ming Empire. I had absorbed Dai Viet several decades ago in a peaceful annexation. Periodically, the provinces would be afflicted by some minor rebellions, but this time something like 25 regiments rose up eventually while my armies were occupied in dealing with Manchu rebels in the far northeast.So I march an army down and it gets defeated. No problem I'll just raise a bunch of longspear infantry and cavalry archers to crush these rebels, an army so large that they'll surely be crushed. Imagine my surprise when a stack of 92 regiments is defeated by a plucky band of mere 17,000 Vietnamese patriots. I was frustrated by this constant persistence but, as a Vietnamese person, I couldn't help but feel a bit of pride. 
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Jan 10, 2013 02:58
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Jabarto posted:Don't forget how they kicked the Mongols out on three separate occasions. Being one of the few countries that actually managed to resist the Mongols, apparently! But then again, I suppose that jungle fighting is hell no matter what century you're in. And plus we're just incredibly stubborn and independent. I wonder if Paradox programmed in different values for rebelliousness for different cultures?
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Jan 10, 2013 03:28
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DrProsek posted:if the Protestant Reformation in your game doesn't happen in Germany, the name of your Martin Luther changes; so if it starts in Poland you get Martin Kowalski, if it's in France you get Martin De Anjou, if things go really bad you get Martin Di Roma and if things go really strange you get Martin Kasperov. Napoleon wouldn't really work because it's a really French name, but Martin seems common enough that you could at least find a local version of the name that's recognizably similar. What if you, by some freak happenstance of history, were to play as Catholic China? When the reformation rolls around, would you find Martin Chang or Martin Li popping up? 
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Jan 14, 2013 22:39
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gradenko_2000 posted:So basically this, the PC game. I love how this  is one of the images they use to sell it. Boy, for the low price of $400 this could be me!!!
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Jan 17, 2013 04:09
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The more I think about the upcoming East vs. West game, the more I am convinced that it would be very interesting to play a Paradox political simulator-type game that takes place from around 1970 up to the first decade of the 21st century, with a lesser focus on military matters than HOI3, and more of a focus on politics and economics. It might be like Victoria 2 with the focus on economics, and CK2 with its political intrigue and backroom dealing. I thought the whole election and political party thing with Victoria 2 was pretty neat, and had more potential, but they could've gone even deeper with it. Plus, the forty years between 1970 and 2010 were decades of such massive change. I'd be really interested to play through economic globalization, preside over the 1973 Oil Crisis, the rise of the Internet, the industrialization of China, or the Great Recession. It would be awesome to deal with all sorts of things like extremist terrorist groups, multinational corporations, and Intergovernment organizations like the E.U. or the U.N. Imagine trying to win the 2008 US election as the Republican Party! Or try playing as Thailand during the Asian Financial Crisis! Or successfully invade Kuwait as Saddam Hussein. 
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Jan 18, 2013 07:22
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Has there been any talk hereabouts about March of the Eagles? Seems like a Napoleonic-era game focused more on warfare. I hadn't heard of it at all till I wandered past Paradox's main website on a whim today. Any opinions on this? Is it basically "Paradox's take on Napoleon: Total War"?
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Jan 19, 2013 02:26
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What?? How do you even make a very abstracted grand strategy game like Sengoku or any other Paradox game into a hentai game? Games with 3-d models I can imagine, like all those perverted mods for Skyrim and such, but this is just silly!
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Jan 26, 2013 19:47
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KoldPT posted:Sengoku Rance is basically a combination between a SPRG and a visual novel. It's far from being a 'Rape Simulator', stop sounding like Fox News Oh. I mistakenly thought it was a mod for Sengoku.
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Jan 26, 2013 19:56
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I'm going to be China, so I can live out the alternate history scenario of "What if the Ming had been expansionist and progressive instead of isolationist and conservative?"! 
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Jan 26, 2013 21:54
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Raenir Salazar posted:Same here, gonna see just what sort of clusterfuck Asia is and figure out what edits it needs for the megacampaign. I don't know! My historical knowledge of pre-modern China is pretty spotty, but I still think it's very interesting. I really ought to check out more books. v  v
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Jan 26, 2013 22:33
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Raenir Salazar posted:In a thread discussing multiplayer balance and how the faction systems made Ming empirically a worse country to play a dev said "Playing Ming in mp is like playing a OPM." Which was hilarious as a OPM has a better ability to compete with France than Ming ever will. That would be a silly thing to do in a game which claims to allow you to play any country in any time period. ...Or was that line "almost" any country? 
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Jan 27, 2013 01:13
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DrProsek posted:EV IV 1.01 Patch Notes: Aw damnit, the East Asian Dimensional Rift DLC was terrible, definitely the worst!! NihilVerumNisiMors posted:The Paradox forums sure did. Because an Aztec invasion is totally ahistorical and stupid to have in an alt-history game. Wow, really? In every game where I enabled the Sunset Invasion DLC, the Aztecs have always shown up on schedule around 1250. This was ultimately the reason why I gave up on my glorious Islamic Republic of Syria (née Granada) game. The empire had collapsed after I declared independence, I couldn't swear fealty to any emperors, the mouth-breathing French and Germans were rolling down towards us from the Pyrenees, and the Aztecs pretty much ate up what was left of my Iberian holdings.
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Jan 27, 2013 01:58
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Hahaha! quote:You can literally become the character you play as. For months now, I have "lived" as a King of Italy, a Duke of Lombardy, a Count of Bourbon, developing relationships with historical and fictional characters with their own unique personalities and character traits. I have formed friendships and even romances as prevalent and intense as any you could find in real life. I have shed true tears for the wives I've wed and lost, the sons and daughters I've raised and seen taken away too early. My heart has swelled with pride as I've bestowed titles upon the progeny that has made me proudest and witnessed my soul crushed by the necessity of having to "take care of" an unsuitable heir. Dude has some serious problems, if you ask me!
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Clapham Omnibus posted:Pretty shortly it looks like it will be changed to allow elder daughters to inherit over sons, mainly because ~Wills and Kate~ are going to have a baby: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21119034. Still not allowing any dirty papists however. They keep talking about "unintended consequences" of allowing eldest daughters to inherit. What exactly do you suppose they mean by that? Do they mean the crown passing out of the House of Windsor if the eldest daughter should marry and take her husband's name? Also, why would it even matter anymore whose family held the crown in a constitutional monarchy where Parliament decides things?
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I wonder if there will be international politics you can participate in? Like the U.N., NATO, and the like. It'd be really cool to be able to form nonmilitary IGOs as well, like the EU, ASEAN, NAFTA, etc. Hopefully EvW won't be totally focused on the military angle, because I've always preferred the cultural and political simulation side of Paradox games to the military side. Or maybe I'll have to wait for the sequel that takes it up to the present day. It'd be really interesting to play as China and go through the Cultural Revolution, the end of the Mao Period, the reforms of Deng Xiaoping and the free market reforms and double-digit growth of the 90s. It'd be fascinating to start as a developing country and aspire to superpower status. DrSunshine fucked around with this message at 09:51 on Feb 22, 2013 |
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YF-23 posted:For a few seconds I didn't realise those were trees and I was wondering why a good chunk of Stockholm was covered by such a thick dust cloud. A fire occurred near the heavy industry zones, unleashing a noxious cloud, but they didn't have any fire stations with coverage over the area. 
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Feb 23, 2013 14:43
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DrProsek posted:Paradox please make your next game Stockholm Universalis, where you play as a city planner fighting against the other city planners of Stockholm tia Wait, so basically "Paradox Development Studios Does Their Take on SimCity"? Hell yeah! Build a city in any place in the world and watch it grow through the centuries, from a dilapidated fishing village by the river in 1400 to a bustling 21st century metropolis, through some of the most tumultuous years of human history! EDIT: I can imagine a lot of players rage-quitting after their precious town gets razed in the World War 2 event. "Playing as Nagasaki, how do I survive getting nuked?"
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PleasingFungus posted:It's possible that you, a person who does not like Hearts of Iron 3, are not the target audience for "Hearts of Iron 3: East vs. West". I guess we'll just have to wait for their next grand strategy title for our 1945-Present Day geopolitical simulation game.  Give me the Cultural Revolution, Arab Spring, the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the rise of the Internet! Let me be Mikhail Gorbachev and try to lead the USSR through perestroika and glastnost. Let me fiddle with interest rates, or land a Mars rover, navigate a global financial crisis, develop into a first-world country, get my nation on the Security Council of the UN or form the European Union! Let me topple a government and install a friendly dictator, or sponsor a local insurgent group to fight for my cause! DrSunshine fucked around with this message at 07:12 on Mar 1, 2013 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:The Naval Combat Dev Diary for Heart of Darkness is up: Heh. Hearts of Darkness? More like Hearts of Iron, am I right? 
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I think it would be kind of silly. I get enough things like "Our town is under seige!" "Yes Milord!" from games like Warcraft or Command and Conquer, I don't need every single army in my 200K manpower empire saying that every time I order them around!
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Mar 9, 2013 23:44
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I really hope they don't go with the "Westernization" thing for EU4, where the more close to Western you are, the better, because it just stinks of Eurocentrism. Like being Western is the greatest thing in the world! Somebody really ought to give the Paradox devs a copy of Guns, Germs and Steel.
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Mar 11, 2013 23:40
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Why not have trade bring in bonuses to research or chances to gain advances as well, depending on the volume of trade that goes through? I can see this easily as a way to represent valuable knowledge and goods being exchanged on trade routes.
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Mar 12, 2013 07:17
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Yeah, if those don't exist then the problem is practically solved anyway! (and America suddenly becomes harder to conquer.) I thought about this some more, and the more I think about it, the more it makes sense. Let's say that in 1400, China has the relative advantage in terms of technological advancement in comparison to Europe, in most technologies. But the more trade you have, the more likely you may experience diffusion of ideas, etc., that may reduce stability. So China closes down its trade. By then, many of its technologies have already diffused to its nearest neighbors in India and the Middle East, so by the time China closes up, Europe starts to get trade idea diffusion from the Middle East and starts to rapidly technologically advance. Meanwhile, because European countries are so close and interlinked, ideas diffuse rapidly along the many trade routes that they have with each other, so Europe quickly starts to catch up to the isolationist China. I think this would be a great system to model the technological stagnation of isolationist powers, like the relatively slow advancement of Japan. Also, this way it gives the players a way to directly influence the progress of their society without straitjacketing them into arbitrary (and somewhat racist) groups based on proximity to "The West".
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A Buttery Pastry posted:You wouldn't need a slider really, not for the player at least. Just have higher volumes of trade cause more instability, while also increasing tech gain. Right, the role of the player would be to create or close trade routes with countries that have access to the techs they want. So, for example, if you have X amount of trade volume with a certain neighboring country, it increases the tech growth in areas that they have that are higher than yours by +0.0X a month or what have you. I think that'd be a lot more interesting, because there's something more than just abstract boxes to check or whatever, something where you can interact with the map and other countries. So you could cut off trade to try to monopolize techs that you have an advantage in, but it'd have disadvantages in decreasing income and decreasing the chances of you getting other advances.
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Rannos22 posted:Christ, we could really use a proper Kersch style tutorial LP of Vicky2. Especially if Heart of Dorkness makes it more of a game. Yeah, seriously. I tried to get in on V2, playing as Brazil, but after a couple of hours of messing around not really sure what I was doing, Great Britain came in and just kicked my face in for no good reason, and I was completely helpless.
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I decided to give V2 another shot, with all the talk recently. In Victoria 2: A House Divided, how do you win the Civil War as the Confederacy? I tried two or three times and got crushed every time.
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Thanks for the tips, DrProsek! I'm playing with the Pop Divided mod. And, actually, as it happens, I managed to win the Civil War somehow, mostly by practicing the tactics you described to me. I did the King Cotton decision two three days into the simulation, but Britain and Mexico didn't declare war on the USA until like 2 years after. On independence, I used the "Second Declaration of Independence" decision to make all the states into Confederate cores, so no 5-year clockwork wars. After about ten years of peace, I declared war on Mexico and made them my puppet, but just a year ago they suffered a major revolution and threw off my influence. How do I gain influence, anyway?Also, now I'm not really sure what to do! It's like 1876, and things are going... well, I guess? I don't really know what long-term goals I should be setting myself, as it's not quite straightforward the way Crusader Kings 2 is. I've been gradually steering the CSA on the road towards abolition and socialism, though. It's really funny to see! After independence in 1863, the upper house was pretty much controlled by the Whigs, but by 1876 under my guidance, it's this messed-up plurality where the Conservative party only has a 30% plurality over all the others, which includes Liberals, Socialists, Anarcho-Liberals, Reactionaries and even 8% Communists!
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Does it have to be done by revolution? Or is there any way to gradually foment more support for the socialist party and oust the Whigs in an election? I was hoping to accomplish a peaceful socialist reform, revolutions sound scary. The way I was going about was slowly getting the majorities required to pass political reform measures and encouraging membership in left-wing parties among high-density areas. The idea was to eventually work my way up to abolishing slavery and giving enfranchisement to all the poor, minorities, and women, who by then would hopefully vote Socialist.
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Mar 21, 2013 22:32
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DrProsek posted:Oh yeah, you can totally go socialist or even communist without a single bullet being fired. Making their lives poo poo is what drives them to become socialists, but in this case don't bother raising MIL, just keep driving up local support and making their working conditions bad enough so they will want to vote socialist. In this case, just maintain a strong army near your capital so if the rebels do come you're in a good position to shoot them down. Oh good! Phew. I'm glad about that option being available, it fits more in line with my idealistic vision of social progress. After playing a bit more in V2... does anyone else wish that someone would come out with a steampunk mod? I think that'd be lovely. Research "Phlogiston Energy", or "Dirigibles" or "Difference Engines"!
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One more V2 thing-- what good does it do to have a country in your Sphere of Influence? Also, what's the benefit of having a country as your puppet? Do they pay tribute to you?
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