Mister Bates posted:

-The American Civil War didn't start until 1875, and the Confederacy inexplicably took over and cored the Mexican state of Chihuahua at some point. The Union ended up defeating them decisively and annexing them, and Chihuahua has been an American state ever since. My pretty borders!

Gorgo Primus posted:

Was gonna say... with all the mechanics you'd need to cover all that, you'd almost certainly end up with a slightly more polished Steppe Wolfe. There is just no way to code for the Roman Empire, and 1400s France, and 19th century Prussian, and the USSR, and the modern US without having tons of abstraction (and we already have Civilization) and/or being utterly unplayable horrible.

I honestly don't know why anyone would want something like that.

DrSunshine posted:

I was frustrated by this constant persistence but, as a Vietnamese person, I couldn't help but feel a bit of pride.

Wiz posted:

Out of curiousity, why have you left the central/south american natives alone? You're missing out on a lot of gold.

Quantumfate posted:

Different subject though, have we heard anything about the music they're doing for EU IV? I'm genuinely curious to see what direction they take it because I loved some of the tunes in ck2 and eu2 had the perfect soundtrack for this game. Ideally I'd like to see paradox code in a different soundtrack for different eras, reneissance music for 1400-1500, baroque for 1600-1700, classical for 1700-1800 etc. One of the fondest memories I have from eu2 is waging a napoleonic period battle as bohemia with vivaldi's summer blaring and making me cry because I couldn't micromanage fast enough for the music.

gradenko_2000 posted:

By the by, is Kaiserreich compatible with the latest casualty-tracking DH patch? And is there a way to turn Japan into a Syndicalist country? The new LP got me thinking.

Cowcatcher posted:

As a person from the Balkans, I feel my worldview was shattered by your snappy reply. You have shown me the error of my nationalistic ways. I will strive to be like you in every regard.

Lum_ posted:

Oh, that is NOTHING. Remember, at the time people wanted BIGGER.

So you had Objective: Moscow, the entire USSR (including the useless Siberian bits):

Tomn posted:

Isn't that the Chinese Republican flag? Why would they even have that at this point in time? I don't think the basic concepts informing its design are even in place yet.

gradenko_2000 posted:

I've never bought a Paradox game on Steam before, so I'd like to ask: How good is Steam with keeping the game up to date with beta patches, and how does it play with modding? I think I'd use my code myself if it guaranteed I'd never have to go into their tech support forums again. Not that there's anything wrong with their forums, but downloading and unpacking and installing the patches myself is a fair bit of effort I could do without.

Antinumeric posted:

After the clusterfuck that was the Republic release I'm not surprised.

ThePutty posted:

Well, have faith in a DLC/patch. I take it they're adopting the CKII DLC policy for EUIV so we'll probably end up getting a bunch of new content revamping poo poo. Still really don't want horde mechanics back though.

Kavak posted:

4. You'll almost certainly defeat Poland and France, but you will probably get destroyed the first time you try to invade the Soviet Union. That's normal, and also you deserve it because you're playing the loving Nazis.

DrProsek posted:

2) How do I increase literacy quickly? It's the 1870s and I'm still at 25% literacy and so my research is awful. My research points were actually far higher as Krakow when I had 50% literacy. I have 2% of my population as clergy and I just passed public education, should I just kick back and wait more?

Nolanar posted:

My goals when I played as Dublin consisted entirely of "blob relentlessly." Forged claims, de jure wars, eventually learning the intricacies of black-widow marriages to claimants, holy wars, everything. My current game goal is "figure out how republics work," though tonight I will probably abandon it for a muslim republican CK2+ game, where "form the Islamic Republic of Italy and get a monopoly on Mediterranean trade" will be the goal. There's always picking a hard starting point with the goal of "survive," if you feel like hanging out in Axum or Eastern Europe.

Jon Joe posted:

I've never played UE3 before, is Steppe Wolfe actually fun or is it like watching a trainwreck?

catlord posted:

Just played some Kaiserreich as the Philippines. I did practically nothing. Canada hated me so I never got into their alliance, despite the Australasia Confederation loving the poo poo outta me. Russia went Soviet, so Germany got their poo poo kicked in, and eventually the Canadian alliance got called in (Germany ended up in their alliance, leaving Mitteleuropa as only Burma), but by the mid-late 1940's things had completely stalled, with nobody making any headway at all. I just sat there researching stuff (I was aiming for some Naval superiority, but I think I was absurdly behind the times anyway) and building some boats until I finally quit in 1951. This was also only the second time I saw someone other than the CSA win the war, with the USA winning, and becoming an alliance with the PSA and New England.

I know there are some mod-mods for Kaiserreich, are any of them good?

FadingChord posted:

There's a series of decisions you can take to voluntarily transform into the USSR a year or two into the game if you basically go hard left in a couple key decisions. I've never seen the AI take it (but then again Russia is my favorite country in Kaiserreich so...), but it is doable.

Bishop Rodan posted:

That's only if they win the Civil War though, which I've only seen happen when Russia gets completely ganked by every event possible (for example, Siberia declaring independence forcibly while they're at war with the Soviets, forcing them to fight a two-front war).

Patter Song posted:

The Khazars, by 867 had a Jewish Khagan, a partially-Judaized partially-Tengriist ruling class, and a mostly-Tengriist common population remarkably accepting of Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike, which doesn't strike me as that hard to model in a character-driven game like CK2. A Jewish ruler whose vassals are ~50/50 Tengriist and Jewish and whose provinces are Tengriist faith.

A Buttery Pastry posted:

Welfare states imply Capitalism, which would mean the satellites would just devolve into neoliberal states eventually anyway, especially with the threat of the USSR gone. Though I'll give you that it's preferable to just going full tilt neoliberal from day one.

Mans posted:

But don't you see, the USSR actually impeded the rise of true Socialism. With the stigma of it gone Social Democratic states can democratically and voluntarily reach Socialism through shared prosperity and peace

Raskolnikov38 posted:

Really liking mt. Tumor in the middle of Bohemia.

Wiz posted:

Only if I can name the highest level of Overextension "Jesus christ, just stop conquering provinces you don't need already".

Patter Song posted:

EDIT: This is from the same China game as before. I'm up to 1913 and China's #1 in the world! But I can't get any reforms passed whatsoever so I'm the most reactionary GP too. It's me, I am the evil reactionary.

Smirr posted:

It was pretty funny when the Steam version of The Republic was released 24 hours late because of [SCENE MISSING],

Top Hats Monthly posted:

Trick it out anyway you want, Pimp my Nimitz.

esquilax posted:

I, for one, love how accessible the paradox devs are, and that we get actual responses instead of 'we appreciate your concern, Paradox Interactive strives to give the best gaming experience available.'

Also, the overly sensitive flame war posting style frankly fits in very well in this thread.

Darkrenown posted:

Freudian posted:

Check it out, it's not really functional but it has good ideas and I'm sure Wiz wouldn't mind people taking inspiration from it.

DivineCoffeeBinge posted:

I would play this game so hard. I would pay serious money to play this game. I would build Boston to make sense from day one. I know this will never happen but ohhhhhh, I want it to.

Fintilgin posted:

Who hasn't wanted to nerve staple their pops now and then?

Wiz posted:

I could do another V2 drunkstream. The last one was pretty popular.

Guildencrantz posted:

But Sunset Invasion was firmly in the latter camp and had no pretensions of being anywhere near the former

Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:

I forget, do deaths in rebel stacks decrease population in V2, too? 800,000 deaths is an awful lot.

Fister Roboto posted:

They probably removed it. I know APD experimented with having 1000-man brigades back before AHD came out, and I think it had some weird unintended consequences.

Wolfgang Pauli posted:

*edit*
I'm not sure if it's APD or AHD itself, but my wargoals have been outright breaking. Wales never got released and I'm missing one of the Indian states. When I peaced out with Austria half my wargoals, all of which released Hungary, just never happened. I had to tag into KUK and release Hungary myself.

Drone posted:

I wanna know what percentage of people who love Paradox games go on to study history/become historians. I mean I won't say it was a deciding factor for me or anything, but I played Vicky/Ricky for a couple years before I started a bachelor's degree in history.

DrSunshine posted:

Is this some kind of preorganized event? Can I disable it?

ZearothK posted:

This is one of those jokes that will actually be turned into content after enough people pester them about it, isn't it?