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Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade
Just bought vicky 2 on steam and it keeps crashing on initialising maplogic, I've tried verifying the local files on steam but no dice, is there any thing I can do?

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Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade
Whats a good nation to start with in vicky 2, is it better to start with a small nation so as not to get overwhelmed or a large one so you have more options?

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade
Any tips for establishing a balanced budget straight off?

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

Farecoal posted:

I always end up making my country the most reactionary no matter what Paradox game I'm playing. I wonder what that means

It means you are literally Hitler :colbert:

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade
If anyone wants to play CK2+ reign of princes multiplayer then join the ck2 channel on This mumble server before 10 gmt 5 est to join in.

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

DrSunshine posted:

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. :ohdear: 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.

well I managed to get a substantail about of socilist support in one of my prussia game enought to pass all the social reforms and to actually get a socialist government in for a single term, though that was mostly due to having 3 or 4 socialist parties.

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

podcat posted:

I assume by "too many wargoals" you mean AI response for offers to join your side? They will check what you have and if its worth too much know that you will cheat them out of the goals if it turns to war so wont accept. Perhaps offering smaller, cheaper goals instead would have worked.

I've had that malus at the start of a crisis when both nations only had one war goal normally colony ones but only on the uk not the usa

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

Wiz posted:

The tooltip might be a misleading, it basically refers to any wargoals added as a way to bribe the GPs. I will be toning down its effects a bit though.

Yeah but no extra war goals were added and the -50 malus was still there.

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade
I came in to paradox games to late to play a lot of EU3 but I can see my self playing much more of 4

heres mine
http://signup.europauniversalis4.com/r/247d7b211a3

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

Janissary Hop posted:

I won the war and now I'm getting double reparations. :newlol:

Now you can afford to pay your drat loans back.

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

Tomn posted:

Ahahaha, like the callout. I wonder if there's any particular reasoning behind Scotland getting the bonus other than general gameplay balance?

Scots are excellent scientists.

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

DrProsek posted:

Help Wiz, or help the field of artificial intelligence leap forward 20 years or so?

Do it Wiz, take one for the team and make an AI that can learn and code itself, if you get the time :razz:.

Hmm a learning AI designed to play grand strategy games god help us if it goes rogue.

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

Necroneocon posted:

Agreed, Leviathan Warships is a pretty bad game that some people fell for because of the trailer.


We moved on already. Other people posted the same opinion as mine in this thread. You can move on too now.

and other people think your an arrogant prick so by your logic you are.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

Patter Song posted:

I suppose I'll be LPing East vs West at some point.
A striking condemnation of a game if ever I heard one.

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

Dj Vulvio posted:

If inflation is caused by loans and gold production alone (no more minting) is Spain doomed to collapse under extreme inflation after conquering every single civilization in the Americas?

Sounds right to me.

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

Ofaloaf posted:

Warr-cess-terr-shy-err. Pretty straighforward.

I will punch you.. :D

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

V for Vegas posted:

How will national ideas work in a CK2 - EU4 game? If there is no France but a large Kingdom of Brittany, will it get France's NIs or just a generic set?

Hopefully you'll be able to set custom NIs for anomalously successful countries, though I'm guessing the Aztec and Roman empire's will have baked in NIs

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

Kersch posted:

:siren: It sounds like if you have CK2 specifically from Gamersgate, you'll need to preorder EU4 from GG as well in order to have the included preorder CK2-EU4 converter work with your GG copy of CK2.

I thought that they were going steam only with eu4 what with the multiplayer being handled by steam

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade
I think the answer to both the war issues is the fact that the war score in the window seems to be only YOUR personal war-score against the enemy

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

Kainser posted:

Paradox is doing AMA over at reddit. Most important part:

Nope most important part is to expect EU:Rome 2, Vicky 3, and HoI4 before 2020

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

NihilCredo posted:

I'm sorry, but is there any reason at all to suppose that the Holiday Countdown is to a PDS-developed title? The page only has a Paradox Interactive logo, so I would suppose it's just a PI-published game, which could be literally anything.

(Seriously, Paradox, start using different names for the publisher and developer.)

Na there's pds logos on some of the teasers plus they have been talking about a secret project for a few months now

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

Kavak posted:

New update on East vs. West


Bold emphasis my own. Did he just let slip that the game may be cancelled?

I think we all saw this coming.

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

JGBeagle posted:

But the problem is these games are meant to represent reality somewhat. In reality, nuclear war would pretty much mean the end of the world. Radiation would make it next to impossible to rebuild after an attack. It wouldn't make any sense from game standpoint to be able to keep fighting after your country is nuked. I mean even if you put in nuclear winter mechanics the game would still end after a few years because either your surviving people rebel and tear the remaining country apart or humanity falls to extinction.

And if you just choose to ignore the effects of actual nuclear war then what's the loving point of making a Cold War game?

Carrier hard points.

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

Riso posted:

That's a bad idea. England had historically pretty much no famines from at least the 11th century because of the private free farmers vs continental serfs.

In your model the English would just steam ahead full speed while the rest of Europe just rediscovered Greek thought.

What's your point? :britain:

But seriously isn't that one of the reasons why much of the industrial revolution occurred in the UK rather than in France or Spain.

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

Disco Infiva posted:

Nope! I'm arguing that they had the means and ambition to try it! They failed of course, but they could have succeeded.

Then why didn't they?

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

maev posted:

Marx, right, I get it now.

Don't sink to this level even if you disagree with his politics its still a valid historical perspective.

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

DrSunshine posted:

At this point, we may as well just move this thread to D&D! :v:

Then we'll be over run by Marxists.

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

Tomn posted:

What you ought to do is to make Morporkia Universalis. A fully 3D map of a flat world balanced upon four elephants who balance atop a giant turtle, who swims through space.

This exists

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

PBJ posted:

ftfy

But seriously, pretty much every major civilization in the region, from Rome to the British Empire, relied on these same mechanics to grow and prosper. The Caliphates were simply another cog in the machine, because that's just how empires are built. Did they have some dodgy practices? Yes. Did they contribute immensely to the sum of human tradition? Also, yes.

Yet we only decry the Europeans just because they're the most recent.

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

YF-23 posted:

EU3 and EU4 are both on Clausewitz so HoI4 won't mark any such point.

But ever since CK2 they've been using a much more refined version of the engine so their games since then have been on "Clausewitz 2.0".

Well yeah Ubrik owns original flavour Clausewitz so they have to make the distinction.

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

Patter Song posted:

http://vicult.wix.com/ultimate

Fair goons (and Paradox devs that read the thread), you have likely already heard about Victoria Wolfe, AKA Victoria II Ultimate. Here is your chance to try what may well be the ultimate V2 mod for yourselves.

...

I'm going to have to do a run in this mod for my thread, aren't I?

Why do you do this to yourself, I mean we love you for it but why.

E: How broken and offensive to all concerned is the 9/11 event chain do you think.

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade
Well its a given that a mod of this type will run like rear end and given they are adding pop types for Reformation to future space colonisation scenarios I don't have much hope for any decent performance but miracles can happen.

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade
Yeah maybe if you set some insane assimilation into targets like Asian american or British Indian.

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade
And then there is Steppe Vicky Victoria Ultimate.

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade
Yeah you'll want to keep the cores there for culture permanence and potential Balklanising but not a a permanent war goal.

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

Morholt posted:

Guess who ELSE liked ARBITRARY limitations in his GRAND STRATEGY GAMES!? :hitler:
You're saying that as if the core paradox fans see that as a bad thing.

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

Panzeh posted:

I really don't want every game to be a family management sim. I hate that crap.

Yeah well your in the minority there.

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

Patter Song posted:

That's the part of Algeria that successfully gained independence in the Algerian war. The French kept the rest of it.

So...from a 1948 start, in 1956, exactly one country has nuclear weapons: the UK with its four bombs. It looks like the US willfully switched to a civilian applications only policy towards nuclear power and the Soviets never got there to begin with.

Oh that is music to my ears :britain:

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade
Yeah but when its something that is a minor problem in single player but makes multiplayer unfun the decision is easy 15% is two big a customer base to just throw under the bus.

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Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade
Just play EU4 there is no point playing 3 anymore.

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