Paradox Grand Strategy: Tim Cook? How many divisions has he got?

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wukkar: Nov 27, 2009

How many different renamings of Monarch Power will HOI4 have?

# ¿ Sep 28, 2015 19:04

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 22:09

wukkar: Nov 27, 2009

PleasingFungus posted:

What is your reaction to this image?

What exactly does the 'colonial service' checkbox impact?

# ¿ Oct 20, 2015 18:13

wukkar: Nov 27, 2009

A disturbing lack of bookshelf wallpaper. Preorder canceled, lost ability to feel human.

# ¿ Oct 27, 2015 21:40

wukkar: Nov 27, 2009

Was it socialist vacation days dooming us to a disabled AI Finland stream on Wednesday? :argh:

Just as the UK & Germany one was about to be more than "I completed researching X. I am now researching Y.".

# ¿ Dec 19, 2015 06:58

wukkar: Nov 27, 2009

SkySteak posted:

In the HOIV, who will teach me how to play in the tutorial?

Sounds like a job for Turing.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2016 04:31

wukkar: Nov 27, 2009

the WWW German player seems to enjoy throwing soldiers into the Maginot Line for inexplicable reasons.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2016 02:50

wukkar: Nov 27, 2009

Then they have captain twitch chat in their ear every 30 seconds "hey we have a question from chat about how nukes work. Can you neglect your front and explain to them, even though this is 1940 and there is nothing you can do besides say 'the research path starts on this screen' ".

wukkar fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Jan 21, 2016

# ¿ Jan 21, 2016 23:07

wukkar: Nov 27, 2009

I'm really confused with diplomatic choices being in the HOI4 focus trees. They appear to conflict with the standard diplomacy buttons. They seem like dead branches which smart players will never pick over some of the other ones that give material things like '5 free factories', etc.

If Germany brings Italy into the Axis in 1936 through the standard 'Invite To Faction' button instead of using the German focus for it, is there any point to taking it later?
If China is in already in the Allies, does the German focus of 'Befriend China' do anything?
If China is in already in the Axis, does the Japanese focus of 'Sever Sino-German ties' do anything?

How do any of these diplomatic foci work in multiplayer? If the German player triggers the Molotov-Ribb Pact focus, can the Soviet player refuse?

# ¿ Feb 26, 2016 23:10

wukkar: Nov 27, 2009

V for Vegas posted:

I recall someone at paradox saying they wanted to look at making markets regional instead of global, which reduces the problem down to balancing a dozen markets instead of one.

As poo poo as Ageod's Pride of Nations was at many things, this is one thing that is actually worth Paradox stealing from it.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2017 17:06

wukkar: Nov 27, 2009

Jeoh posted:

As long as it doesn't turn out like loving EU4, with the twelve million different tabs and counters you need to keep track of.

We all know that Stellaris is destined to have a few dozen "slowly building mana bar to be spent on temporary modifiers" mechanics stapled onto it.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2017 18:59

wukkar: Nov 27, 2009

If the word Tariff appears anywhere in the V3 design doc then Paradox are fools.

# ¿ Sep 10, 2017 21:10

wukkar: Nov 27, 2009

Pinterest Mom posted:

The Victoria II crisis system: the single best Paradox mechanic or system???

It had two flaws:

- The status-quo result when the aggressor had great powers backing it, but no great power stepped up for the defender.

- Not being able to bribe great powers to your side by promising them your own stuff. Ex: Plombi�res Agreement

# ¿ Nov 29, 2017 20:53

wukkar: Nov 27, 2009

It's whatever time period had Old Great Bulgaria.

# ¿ May 16, 2018 16:05

wukkar: Nov 27, 2009

Am I irrational to fear that Rome's design won't be sufficiently Wizified? Manually promoting pops c'mon son.

What exactly Citizens and Freemen represent will be another collectivism debate.

# ¿ Jun 25, 2018 15:31

wukkar: Nov 27, 2009

Release a game that spans 1820-1821. Then release a different game that spans 1821-1822 with different core mechanics. Repeat this 100 times. Absolutely no save file converters. Unique names and a dozen DLC for each.

# ¿ Jul 26, 2018 22:52

wukkar: Nov 27, 2009

So we're really doing the misguided 'Roman art was colorless' UI thing, huh?

# ¿ Jan 15, 2019 04:55

wukkar: Nov 27, 2009

groogy please buy Stronghold thanks.

# ¿ Mar 30, 2019 23:26

wukkar: Nov 27, 2009

PoN did markets and economy well. It did everything else astoundingly badly.

# ¿ Aug 24, 2019 18:44

wukkar: Nov 27, 2009

YF-23 posted:

The ability to create some sort of "outpost" in a (native-held) province that would over time give you the ability to actually take over the province, rather than just sending a colonist to paint the map your colour. These outposts could give their owners trade income and act as a pre-requisite for doing war and diplomacy with natives.

Some kind of modelling for provincial infrastructure for land travel. From the presence of rideable animals like horses to the quality of roads. It should be a pain to expand over these long distances over land otherwise.

So, Pride of Nations then.

# ¿ Oct 30, 2019 19:13

wukkar: Nov 27, 2009

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Games > Paradox Grand Strategy: and bugs are THE REASON THIS GAME IS FUN

# ¿ Apr 29, 2021 21:57

wukkar: Nov 27, 2009

So much of that reddit info dump read to me as "I took the good parts of Pride Of Nations" and as "I actually get why people like Victoria".

I am rock hard.

# ¿ May 21, 2021 23:44

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 22:09

wukkar: Nov 27, 2009

If we're publishing a stellaris mod then when are we publishing the ck3 asoiaf guys

# ¿ Jun 16, 2023 16:58

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