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RagnarokAngel posted:Id love it if it went up to CK2's Old Gods start date. Have events representing the fall of rome and maybe this time you can stop it. And then it converts to CK2 
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I really, really want EVW to be good, since a Paradox Cold War game would be the raddest thing ever, but I know it's going to be absolute poo poo. 
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Sep 18, 2013 06:40
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So I just got Vicky II and I have no idea why I'm making or losing money. I'll look at my budget and discover that sometimes I'm losing 20 pounds a day and sometimes I'm gaining 20 pounds and I don't know why. I've got a fabric mill running in Rio, it's mostly staffed, it sometimes loses me money and sometimes it's solvent but I realized that it's not paying me anything. Taxes and tariffs are as high as they go, I can't really identify where I'm leaking money and I don't even know if it's rising costs or losing income that's hurting me.
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Oct 1, 2013 06:22
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So I've stabilized out mostly, but I have a problem- my factories are basically only surviving on subsidies. It's taking huge chunks out of my money, but I don't have much choice since I'm going for Great Power status and I need all the industry I can get. I've got pretty good tech for factories, is there a simple answer to "how should I manipulate the economy to make factories more profitable?" Right now it's a cycle of build factories-drain treasury-cancel subsidies-industrial rating plummets-raise subsidies-build factories.
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Oct 1, 2013 20:40
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gradenko_2000 posted:You should actually NOT subsidize your factories. Capitalists will only build more factories if the current ones are something like 70% full or none are open, but if a factory is unprofitable and is only being kept alive by subsidies, then you're just preventing your Capitalists from trying out a different factory until get to one that actually makes money. Too big to fail, let the free market decide and all that. Yeah, I've got admin efficiency at 100% and literacy at 70% (it;s about 1900), and I'm dividing my foci between clerks and soldier. I'll see about cutting subsidies. Is there a 'don't subsidize new factories' button? I keep having new factories get built and not noticing I'm paying for them, but I'd like to stay interventionist.
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Oct 1, 2013 21:08
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Is there a mechanic similar to diplo-annex in EU, or am I gonna have to physically conquer all of Mexico?
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Oct 2, 2013 04:24
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I have to say, despite the fiddlyness and terrible UI, Victoria is a pretty great game. Nothing like taking a peek at a spreadsheet and discovering the two Ashkenazi families living in Des Moines.
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Oct 2, 2013 07:48
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Wolfgang Pauli posted:Conspicuous consumption is regrettably not a thing in Vicky 2. I'd love if it spending habits would be more dynamic, but holy poo poo would that slow the game to a crawl. Yeah, one thing I didn't like is how fast cultures assimilate in immigration, be nice if you could get hyphenated cultures. I was pretty disappointed when I looked at the US and it's basically all Yankee/Dixie culture with a few Indians and Mexicans. Also, is it just me or are Great Power alliances really, really fluid?
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Oct 3, 2013 05:40
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In Vicky 2, is there any way to force a government change on another country?
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Oct 20, 2013 03:31
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So I'm in a Great War with England and Germany as the USA (jumped in on France and Austria's side), tossed in a few wargoals to make them give up their holdings in the Americas, completely smash them, and then the war ends and I get nothing. What happened?
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Oct 20, 2013 05:03
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Well that's really bullshit especially since I'm the only reason they won the loving war in the first place. I might load up an old save and just jump on Britain's poo poo as soon as the war ends. Overall, though, V2 wars just aren't as fun as CK2, never mind EU4. I feel it's just 'hit the doomstack with your doomstack, kill the terrible AI, then spend half an hour besieging provinces.'
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Oct 20, 2013 06:16
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SickZip posted:I maintain that Vicky wars are honestly the best of all 3. It's way more involved and complicated than CK2 or EU4 with more room for skill. Maybe it's just that I jumped in late (as an American should) but the war seemed to me to be no more involved than a very serious revolt, just with navies. I cleaned up their army in a few months with poison gas, and then there wasn't much to do but add wargoals. The only serious wars I have to judge with are that and an incredibly boring Civil War. A tight war with no margin for error might be more enjoyable, I didn't 'click' on CK2 fighting until I beat the Seljuks at 5:1 odds by abusing attrition and the Carpathian mountains.
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Oct 20, 2013 07:46
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Dauntasa posted:4: 2 happens and then Muslims/Norse/Tengri arrive Is there a good changelog for CK2+ since the very beginning? All I've been able to find is the most recent updates. Also, where does that "When Paradox announced their new DLC..." joke come from? I thought it was a SA thing, but somebody quoted it on the Paradox forums.
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Oct 21, 2013 21:49
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Green Wing posted:I bought EU4, finally, in the weekend 50% off deal on steam (a couple more hours left if people haven't got it). Are there any mods considered indispensable? The only one I use. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=175530327
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Nov 26, 2013 04:55
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Necroneocon posted:A game based only on Judaism so your forums melt down. The Arab-Israeli Wars 
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Dec 15, 2013 05:15
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Do we know when we'll get more announcements (ie features, release dates)?
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Jan 23, 2014 17:24
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India's not exactly my bag, but my wishlist for CK2 is basically all stuff that can be fixed in a patch (decadence, papal mechanics, factions, more events) so I'm not really worried. EU4 expansion and the Viking RPG look neat, and HOI4 could be good.DStecks posted:If I were you, I'd try to capitalize on the fact that Rajas is probably the first major Western game release to focus on India. I backed a Kickstarter RPG set in fantasy India but it's pretty low-budget and half the dev team is Indian. Fintilgin posted:The game will be a little... weird if every province you grab outside your home continent gets handed over to a colonial/trade company "nation". Honestly, I'd be fine if they just expanded the CoP mechanics for westernization and colonization in the Americas everywhere with some tweaks to fit the region (ie no liberty desire or migrations, rename the ideas, and so on).
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Jan 23, 2014 23:58
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vyelkin posted:Hey guys, question about CK2. Are extra empires besides the HRE and Byzantium (i.e. Brittania, etc.) a mod thing, CK2+ maybe? I ask because I've formed the kingdoms of England, Wales and Ireland and gotten no prompt that more titles are available to create for a long time. It's a pain having to manage so many elections and dukes, it would be much easier if I could just be pawning off king titles. CK2 should now have empire titles everywhere, they require 80% territory. Either title search for Brittania or look at the de jure screen for your titles.
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Jan 26, 2014 18:01
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Patter Song posted:Should a war between a nuclear power and a non-nuclear power (say...apartheid South Africa nuking a Mugabe-run Zimbabwe) end the game for everyone else? The "nuclear weapons end the game" rules seem like they would lead to silly game overs, I actually prefer their decision to let you keep playing. Possibly a 'nuclear winter' thing that only fires if a lot of nukes get shot off in short succession, so a limited minor country exchange, terrorism, or tactical nuclear weapons wouldn't immediately end the game.
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Jan 31, 2014 20:35
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Yeah, the issue with the Westernization system is that no one can agree *why* Europe took off when everyone else didn't, so Paradox just says "gently caress it, we're just doing determinism."
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Feb 8, 2014 04:37
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I do think that it would be a decent idea to lift the 'border on Westerners' restriction and open it up, maybe to trading or diplomatic contact. Also, minor reforms like the Native Americans got should really be standard for sub-Muslim tech groups.
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Feb 8, 2014 07:06
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fspades posted:Literal Nazis are one thing, but what's up with Paradox forums and self-proclaimed "monarchists". Who the hell are these people? Do they live with us here in the 21st century? Why do I never encounter them in the real world? I'm actually friends with a bunch of Americans who are legit monarchists. They're all right-wing Catholics who reacted to the "everything was poo poo" popular misconception about the Middle Ages by saying "no, everything was sunshine and roses and it's been downhill since the 1500s." (They're nice people but very crazy.)
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Feb 11, 2014 17:06
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Can we get back to talking about Paradox games here? Has anything been said about Runemaster yet?
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Feb 13, 2014 21:07
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DStecks posted:Welp, there goes my standby "colonize as anybody but Portugal and Castille" plans. Conquer Iceland 
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Feb 20, 2014 19:14
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Just adapt Twilight Struggle into a video game already.
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Feb 26, 2014 06:02
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I'm super psyched for that- if it works out we've got over 1000 years of game give or take a decade in the 1800s. I've really wanted to see how some EU4 games turned out in the Industrial Revolution.
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Feb 27, 2014 02:04
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I'm fairly certain it's not yet finished, too. They're (hopefully) going to be going through and hand-converting those countries.
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Mar 5, 2014 22:31
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"What of the Romans?" "They shall die a death that shall last millennia, until all that remains is their code, their history, and the shell of their armor on the shell of a man, too easily slain by
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Mar 19, 2014 21:55
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BBJoey posted:Hello friends let's go on a trip to the Paradox forums! I didn't realize Pat Buchanan played Paradox games.
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Mar 27, 2014 19:13
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And if you think that's a drawback you havent been reading the Paradox forums 
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Apr 10, 2014 17:44
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RIESING It was Vicky 1 that had factroys, right?
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Apr 11, 2014 06:37
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Wheelchair guy with a panzerfaust 
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Apr 11, 2014 19:01
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I would play a gimmick of exterminating all the whites in Germany.
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Apr 13, 2014 05:42
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Started playing the demo of March of the Eagles, assigned Prussia and immediately began kicking the poo poo out of Denmark for Baltic ports. Three big questions: First, how does supply work? Not the traditional supply limit/attrition mechanics, but I seem to have supply brigades and once got a significant 'out of supply' penalty. Do I need supply routes? Secondly, are sieges decided the same way as in EU? The screen is very opaque. Thirdly, does controlling non-city provinces matter at all?
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Apr 21, 2014 03:17
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Autonomous Monster posted:Yeah, I don't know how you sell that one to the troops. Or the public. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieppe_Raid
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Apr 21, 2014 22:04
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SeaTard posted:There are huge periods of sitting around doing nothing in ck2 as well, unless you've decided to conquer the known world. EU4 is a very different game, but it has about the same ratio of doing stuff to waiting as CK2 does. The difference is that the break on expansion in CK2 is the internal political struggles which are a lot more interesting than waiting for cores and AE to decay.
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Apr 23, 2014 21:55
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Hey it's okay if Alaska is kinda hosed up, it's not like is has to be well-represented in a WWII game, right?
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Apr 28, 2014 20:34
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uPen posted:It doesn't really matter in the big picture but my major problem with the HoI3 map is it's just plain ugly. This might just be me and my preferences but I don't enjoy looking at that map. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleutian_Islands_Campaign (  )
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Apr 28, 2014 22:48
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Westernization argument that went on for like ten loving pages. e: started off with a map from the 1800s of how 'civilized' the world was, somebody made a joke about how it looked like EU4's westernization, there were like five or six pages of heated discussion and then somebody came in and said it was all the Muslims' fault and it went downhill fast. StashAugustine fucked around with this message at 04:28 on May 1, 2014 |
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It's kinda looking like Norse Mount & Blade.
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