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A new thread for a new year - though the old one certainly had highlights to be missed. Nice work on the OP, too. I only wonder if this thread will even have the opportunity to see the sort of  madness that the collapse of MM entailed.
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Tomn posted:Related question - has anyone ever managed to play EU3 all the way to the end? I think the only game I've ever hit the end date in was in DW with the MiscMods Peace of God scenario. Took Alexandria to owning most of Africa, the Middle East and large chunks of Russia, haven't felt interested enough in a game to take it to completion since. European countries just get really, really tedious as you get closer to the end date and every war is filled with massive armies where you have to pay minute attention to which army is heading where or lose 30-40 regiments instantly. e: evidently did a bit more than just that, digging up a post I made about the game somewhere else ages ago through the magic of google: "Expanded my Alexandrian empire to encompass the entirety of the Middle East, Eastern and Southern Africa, Australia and Indonesia. Eventually took most of the Caucasus/Maghreb/southwestern Africa, as well as the southern half of Italy (including Rome, which was a pain with the Austrian Holy Roman Emperor siding with the Pope in my grab for it but the orthodox missionary bonus was a godsend)." Mirdini fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Jan 14, 2013 |
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Jan 14, 2013 01:30
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Funnily enough what I find most interesting in that screenshot is that we apparently get to earn nicknames for our nation's leaders Re: the opinion/diplomacy changes they definitely look like a step in the right direction, and I'm hopeful that Paradox will manage to balance it well. Though even if they don't there's always modding.
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Jan 18, 2013 12:42
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:I wouldn't call Sengoku garbage, that's really excessive. It's certainly underwhelming, though. These are good points. Pre-ordering everything blindly because the company tosses you a five dollar discount isn't a good habit. But that's a derail there's probably already an argument about in some other thread somewhere. While I really regret buying Sengoku it certainly wasn't garbage, just a disappointment. I mean, the game still worked which is more than you can say about a lot of things out there. e: Mirdini I'm trying to think of a game I was more annoyed at myself for buying after the fact and I can't come up with one actually (don't buy Sengoku people) Mirdini fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Feb 18, 2013 |
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Feb 18, 2013 04:12
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Gorgo Primus posted:I think Sengoku was garbage, and that it worked because there was so little in it in terms of gameplay and features that to not work would be impossible short of it crashing on load-up. I concede this point.
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Feb 18, 2013 04:25
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nutranurse posted:Yeah, if it gets good feedback I think this will be the first pdox game I get primarily for the multiplayer. Same deal here, the intrigue of multiplayer will probably add a huge amount of value to it. Hopefully there's value below that in the first place. Mirdini fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Feb 18, 2013 |
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Feb 18, 2013 19:17
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Darkrenown posted:WotR just got/or is getting a Brian Blessed voiced DLC, we should have had him record a few more lines. Having him bellow "WE HAVE BUILT A RAILWAY" at you as each province upgrades would have been magical. Missed opportunities I would pay so much money for this
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Mar 10, 2013 10:59
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So if anyone was following it and then unsubscribed when it turned into Tropico 4/Crete chat central have I got news for you: Azerbaijan is back, baby.
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Mar 31, 2013 03:28
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WeaponGradeSadness posted:My favorite Empire AI issue is that at launch they couldn't storm buildings, so a hopeless defense could turn into a glorious victory as long as you had a couple units garrisoned in buildings, put the game on triple speed, and then went to make yourself a sandwich or whatever until the time ran out. I spent far too much time in Empire for how buggy the game was. Despite all those flaws the fun you could have with cannons and musket-armed infantry somehow overcame all that and had me sink hundreds of hours into the thing. Didn't even pick up Napoleon until a few years after that came out since I felt I was having enough fun with Empire (still regret that decision but ah well). While it probably didn't deserve the spot that doesn't change the fact that it was my most-played game in 2009. Certainly a different experience from EU3, but no less valuable in my eyes.
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Apr 3, 2013 23:57
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Viscardus posted:
 For those who might be interested but aren't following it Patter Song is going to at least try to brave the depths of WORLD STAGE and bring back a coherent report in the Steppe Wolfe LP thread.
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Apr 5, 2013 09:39
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RagnarokAngel posted:It specifically says it's an AI thing. Players aren't affected. Pretty sure that while (thankfully) the event chain that kicks the Low Countries out of Burgundy can only happen to the AI player-controlled Burgundies still take the 33% heir chance hit? At least that's what the dev diary seems to say when I read it. Then again I read it wrong the first time around and thought the event was possible for players too so I might be wrong here as well? But I only see AI control referenced when talking about the event chain, not about the NI itself.
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Apr 12, 2013 17:09
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MC2552John posted:Can a Steam copy of CK2 play with a Gamersgate copy of CK2? Yep!
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Apr 13, 2013 06:18
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YouTuber posted:I must be insane because I started playing Vicky 2 on my first run with my EUIII save. Aside from a few great powers Europe is totally balkanized and the USA isn't even a continuous country along the Eastern coast. It's hard to tell what the hell is going on since there is so much conflict. Nearly every power could easily defeat the great powers in a slug fest at the start of the game. Dang this looks ridiculous. Any chance you'd publish the save/scenario so the rest of us can try it out? As nice as the regular 1836 start is I love batshit scenarios like this so much more.
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Apr 20, 2013 17:46
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Quantumfate posted:For what it's worth, I actually have a release state for a Victoria 2 HoD mod I've been putting together. It adds some new nations and re-adjusts others. Europe is pretty balkanized now, and the americas are interesting. If you want to check out some wonky alt-history stuff, here it is! Can't get enough of cool alt-history, thanks for this! I'll see if I can't get around to playing a game and replying sometime this week. (also thanks to Youtuber for putting his scenario up too)
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Apr 21, 2013 13:26
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Cynic Jester posted:armies of nothing but guards and artillery and hussars. Good times. You probably want to get at least some engis and regular infantry in that mixture in HoD, the changes to land war make running only guards/arty/hussars not nearly as efficient as it once was (relevant point is about 8 images in). The composition actually probably works really well against Russia with their hundreds of thousands of conscripts but if you find yourself in a fight with France/Prussia your guards are going to do a ton of damage but break a lot faster than regular infantry would, potentially leaving the arty open to get slaughtered. Engineers meanwhile are the only unit that improve siege efficiency before tanks, and having two-three of them in every army speeds up sieges by a remarkable amount 
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Apr 24, 2013 15:21
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DerLeo posted:Started a HoD game as China and westernized, all's going well except... I have a population loss of 40k/month to immigration Not really, you're kinda hosed in that regard. Your best bet is to try to get socialists in power asap and pass healthcare reforms for the population boost, when you hit the higher levels your boosted pop growth means that even with that massive emigration you'll still be gaining 20,000 people a month or so. Passing liberal reforms and shifting into democracy should also slow that down somewhat as DrProsek said. (Have to say seeing Colorado something like 70% Nanfaren at one point in my China game was pretty silly).
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Apr 24, 2013 16:04
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Is there any reasonable way to get this down so I don't hover at the same population for half a century?
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Major Isoor posted:Ok, I've just got another quick CK2 question (boy this thread moves quickly; my old question was pages ago now): How come the small arsenal I built in my republic a little while ago (the republic of Cyprus. I should be fine unless I invest all my gold into internet monopoly money, eh?) disappear when a new Grand Mayor took charge? I'm sure that didn't happen in my old Gotland game, so I'm not certain about what's up. I don't suppose anyone here knows? Yeah I've run into this as well, seems like a bug, would sadly recommend just never building arsenals as a Republic unless it gets fixed.
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Apr 25, 2013 17:05
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Cantorsdust posted:Someone explain the sphere of influence thing to me. So I get stuff up to sphered. Will the country always stay sphered? Can other countries take it from me? GPs can also influence countries up to friendly and if they hit 100 influence while friendly with a country that is in your sphere they can remove it from your sphere (much like you can to countries other GPs have sphered).
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Apr 26, 2013 02:39
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Star posted:Does anyone have a screenshot of the "build a factroy" sentence?  e: f;b
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Apr 27, 2013 20:03
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gfanikf posted:Imagine my surprise reading about CK2 being that game....even more that it was the Steam Midweek Madness title (which is how I tend to get all my Paradox titles, along with seasonal sales). If you're interested in some CK2-specific advice the new thread for that is this way. (Also a general announcement for anyone not constantly following the CK2 thread)
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May 28, 2013 22:30
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Just have to post to say that I am thoroughly in favor and eagerly await the results of your shenanigans Westminster. Shine on, you crazy modder.
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Jul 3, 2013 00:18
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ExtraNoise posted:This is exactly how I play. I stick generally on levels 2-3 depending on what's happening. "Wiener Allgemeine Beitung" is a typo. Should be Zeitung/WAZ instead of Beitung/WAB. Additionally the sub-header for the Volkszeitung (fascist) says Weiner instead of Wiener. e; fb on the first one ExtraNoise posted:Wow, really? I hate old timey script sometimes. It looks nothing like the letters I think it should. This was what I was working from: WAZ (Great effort though, this is going to make the mod even more amazing) Mirdini fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Jul 19, 2013 |
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Jul 19, 2013 03:38
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ArchangeI posted:It should also be "Die Reichspost", not "Der Reichspost". Unless Austrian German runs on different rules. Riso posted:The commie paper should also be Österreichische Volksstimme. In any case, there's an S missing in the latter word. yeah these are also both correct corrections
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pdxjohan posted:Here's an exclusive EU4 screenshot for you guys.. I'd been holding out on preordering. That is no longer the case.
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