gradenko_2000 posted:

What would be a set of goals to set for oneself as the UK in terms of keeping close to or beating historical performance? I get what most other countries need to do (Germany wins WW1/dismantles France/has a colonial empire, Russia industrializes/doesn't go Communist/goes super-Communist, France doesn't fall behind everyone else/dismantles Germany).

But for the UK, aside from establishing African and Asian colonies (and maybe the Crimean War and of course re-winning WW1) it seems like all of the interesting stuff happened before or after the time period covered: The US has already been independent for quite some time, and the Empire didn't break up until after the cost of WW2. What am I missing as a to-do checklist?

LordPants posted:

Hot drat Mount and Blade is a terrific game by the way. Just sayin'.

WeaponGradeSadness posted:

How does a kingdom become a theocracy in CK2? I was playing as Brittany, spent a little time taking over Normandy and bits of Ireland and then I decided to look down and see what France was up to since they've had more-or-less constant internal strife since the beginning and suddenly they had a King-Bishop or something and their title was Theocracy of France. I've never seen that happen before

NEED TOILET PAPER posted:

So now that we're touching on military composition chat, I might as well ask away: I've finally gone past 1900 in my Vicky 2 game for the first time in HoD, and I've been wondering what my army composition should look like once tanks and airplanes become available. Up until now, my armies have looked something like this: 4 regulars, 2 guards, 4 artillery, 2 engineers, and one each of hussars, cuirassiers, and dragoons, for a grand total of 15 units. I understand that cavalry are supposed to be phased out in favor of the technologically newer units, but I'm not sure how the presence tanks and aircraft should be proportioned according to the other unit numbers.

Pakled posted:

If I remember correctly, Johan said that Paradox's next big project after EU4 was something totally new.

Baloogan posted:

How about a space empires game?

Winter Stormer posted:

There could be a button on the character profile page for 'trace relationship' or something so it'd only compute it for characters where I'm actually curious, so as not to lag when I'm just looking through my court or whatever.

gradenko_2000 posted:

It's possible to gain cores on places that you've arbitrarily conquered which would then remove the additional militancy, but you can't really count on this as it takes a long time and just happens randomly.

Alchenar posted:

Yes. The problem is that the warscore appears to be capped at 100. The warscore needed to achieve all my aims is more than 100. I can occupy all of Mexico and it seems not get the peace I want.

az jan jananam posted:

Are the Great War mechanics in HoD completely borked? I am playing as Germany, and I was allied with the UK against a coalition of five states led by Russia. I was destroying Russia, had occupied the Caucasus up to St. Petersburg, etc, when they gave me a peace offer containing some of the demands I wanted and a "5x Great War Capitulation". I left the war, leaving the UK to it (still winning, obviously). Later on, a Russian ally (Netherlands) peaced out by offering a "15x Great War Capitulation" which I assume applied to the UK and all its allies, and then Hungary (another Russian ally) repeated the same. Even though both countries were destroyed, had no armies, etc. Why did that happen? Doesn't the capitulation basically destroy a country (disarming, reparations, etc?).

edit: At the end of the war, another Russia ally peaced out by imposing the 15x Capitulation on the UK, and then Russia surrendered by accepting a Capitulation

Fintilgin posted:

I was going to say I didn't see the need for V2s economy system in a Cold War game (Our Craftsmen have produced 45.6 Sega Genesis systems today!), but I don't see the need for it in V2 either, so I'm biased and will bow out on that argument.

SkySteak posted:

I spent way too much time trying to get a similar look in the Ruler Designer

Baloogan posted:

Which one was Chris King? Was he the annoying guy on the streams?

Rejected Fate posted:

I'd guess at another Rome game.

quadrophrenic posted:

Is the HoI series one of those things that you have to play ahistorically to have fun, or what? Because if not, count me as one of those people who doesn't get the appeal of those games. I've played vanilla 2 and 3 and DD and it seemed like every game was just about building IC and quickly-obsolete reserves for years and years and doing nothing else except watching tech go up, then having a big fuckoff war that could easily go wrong if not completely micromanaged.

Did I miss something? Is there a mod for either game that makes it more exciting, or are they just the kinds of games where you're supposed to make althistory fanfic if you want to have fun for the first few years.

Soup du Jour posted:

Nope, gotta stay true to "the creator's original intentions"

uPen posted:

Because they're the most expensive unit in the game barring dreadnoughts so you want as many as possible to inflate your mil score.

Gorgo Primus posted:

The answer is that is that Johan has no clue what socialism/communism is. The gulag is literally a retooled Katorga, which Stalin revived in the late 1920s and 1930s; and it's silly to assume that the first worker's state that is the Revolutionary Socialist Republic of Mexico (for example) would suddenly set up Tsarist work camps - or what this really is in V2 - pick out a group to set up for chattel slavery.

gradenko_2000 posted:

Then the problem is that the system may be a bit too generic. I mean, we do know why Communism is allowed to reinstate Slavery under the game mechanics, the criticism is that the game mechanics shouldn't work like that.

Gorgo Primus posted:

Perhaps a more generous assessment would be that the entire political reform system is broken and dumb and that communist parties seem to get the brunt of the shittiness for various reasons.

fspades posted:

I don't understand why each ideology can not support (or oppose) specific reforms or support certain reforms when they are in opposition but oppose when they are in power.

The Narrator posted:

Australia's well set up. I've always wanted, but unfortunately never really seen, a divided Australia.

Darkrenown posted:

Well, the centre of the Orthodox faith is a lot more likely to be Russia than Byzantium in this period. Unless you're playing BYZ

John Charity Spring posted:

I'm always confused about people who say that - and you're not the only one in this thread who says it regularly - because in vanilla EU3, in all the expansions, and from extensive experience with Miscmods Divine Wind, I've seen both Russia and Spain form in the majority of my games. Spain almost always ends up eating Portugal, too, and becoming one of the most powerful nations; Russia is less stable and I've seen it fall apart again after formation a fair few times.

A Buttery Pastry posted:

I'm in the process of making a map (probably other things eventually as well) mod for EU4, but I've realized something: Coming up with province names is a real chore. Sure, I can just use the original ones for places that are pretty much the same as in real life*, but what about the places that are nothing like real life? Anyone got some excellent resources for names that fit specific cultures/languages? Stuff like how Salzburg is literally Salt Fortress in German, but, you know, just a long list of nouns and poo poo that I can mash together to create plausible names.

*Many of those names are probably also younger than when history diverges, but that's not really a big deal.

Kersch posted:

Their speed actually isn't any faster than infantry, I think . I actually tried using a stack of nothing but cavalry for rebel hunting after replacing all my hussars with airplanes. It didn't work out that well, though. They definitely darted around the map faster than a regular army, but it took them so much longer to win the battle that I don't think it was worth it.

ExtraNoise posted:

I've been thinking about releasing an update for Scythlyr in his absence (it's been a little over a week since anyone has heard from him as far as I'm aware) and it would fix a lot of this kind of stuff, in addition to my handful of visual improvements thus far.

The one that really bothers me the most is that the Yankee culture was changed to "American" but they didn't add that new culture to the localisation file so now it shows up as "noculture" in the game and the US quickly becomes all African-American.

I got to thinking about it, and there's no reason that various new cultures couldn't be added for the US. We have Yankee and Dixie, of course, that can carry over - but we also have like Midwestern, Texan, Cajun, Latino, Mormon, New England, Appalachian, Cascadian, and Californian off the top of my head.

There are dozens and dozens of cultures in the base game for Europe and I think it could be justified the creation of more for North America (not just the US as I mentioned) for the Modern Age mod.

YouTuber posted:

There is a huge cultural difference between "red states" and "blue states." Generally blue states are all urban centers and full of liberal people while red are either small town or agrarian based leading to conservative types. The Yankee/Dixie divide just merely took on a different name and swapped political parties after the Civil Rights issues.

Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:

Paradox's marketing is loving weird.

ExtraNoise posted:

Here's the percentage breakdown from what I could figure out based on the base game:

code:

Urban Percentages

aristocrats = 0.2% - 1%
capitalists = 0.2% - 2%
bureaucrats = 0.2% - 4%
officers = 0% - 3%
clergymen = 2% - 3%
clerks = 1% - 4%
craftsmen = 20% - 30%
artisans = 30% - 40%
soldiers = 1% - 5%
farmers = 20% - 30%


Rural Percentages

aristocrats = 0%
capitalists = 0% - 1%
bureaucrats = 1% - 2%
officers = 0% - 1%
clergymen = 1% - 3%
clerks = 0% - 2%
craftsmen = 0% - 4%
artisans = 40% - 60%
soldiers = 2% - 5%
farmers = 40% - 60%

I'm hoping this will save a lot of time.

Beamed posted:

However, I still hold that there's going to need to be a new type of POP to adequately handle modern economies effectively, and thus some sort of tie-in to the RGO system. Just as a limitation of the Vicky engine

RagnarokAngel posted:

I should note that in 3 though slaves were one of the least profitable commodities, and there weren't like events that talked about it or anything.

uPen posted:

With how trading has changed in EU4 I hope it has. It wouldn't make a whole lot of sense to be shipping slaves to your European trading port.

ArchangeI posted:

Aren't slaves hard coded to not be allowed to vote?

Alchenar posted:

Honestly I don't care. The Americas are there to be interesting from the perspective of people trying to colonise them, not interesting to play in their own right.

A Buttery Pastry posted:

That's the cache right? The one that's calculated based on the map? The formula for calculating that is half the discussion we're having. (Specifically whether it acknowledges that the map is purely a representation of the world, or if it calculates distances as if the map itself is the world.)

Fister Roboto posted:

Well, if I'm wrong and province distances are actually based on province position, then making the map into a sphere would increase the game's workload significantly. Cartesian coordinates and vectors are a hell of a lot easier to calculate than spherical surface coordinates and great circle paths.

ExtraNoise posted:

What I think you mean is that Victoria III should come with an EU4 to V3 converter!

Waffles Inc. posted:

Well...



A culturally Welsh Catholic middle-east seems like a good place to start EU4

RagnarokAngel posted:

A lot of people don't like it from a gameplay perspective because it just dumps a bunch of doomstacks on the west coast and says have fun. There's no real challenge to it if you get hit by the aztecs, you just either game the system or die.

That's a legitimate criticism even if I don't necessarily agree it's a deal breaker.

Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:

When I was watching the Idle Thumbs' CK2 streams (which are pretty great, they're totally clueless about the game and just roll with it) one of the AI characters actually assassinated someone out of spite. It made me realize how far their AI and general gameplay as come. The game reacted to an absurd situation in an almost perfect manner. (the situation in question)

Autonomous Monster posted:

A Buttery Pastry posted:

What kind of music were you thinking here? Actual period music, or just additional "classical" music? I'm already in the process of making a mod that changes the music to match the period you're in in-game, though actually listening through all those Creative Commons recordings I've downloaded is taking some time. It's not like every piece of music is really suited for the purpose, a lot of them are long as gently caress, or just far too slow. Anyway, if that was what you had in mind, it might be easier to team up than make the same mod twice? Just throwing it out there.

Autonomous Monster posted:

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Shimrra Jamaane posted:

I wonder what the next Paradox game will be. It's been 4 years since HoI 3, so can we expect a return to that series?

NihilCredo posted:

This is all in .mp3s, does EUIV support those or should we convert them to .ogg first?