Vivian Darkbloom posted:

What's the general feeling about Cossacks, worth it for $15? Looks like a fun set of features, nothing amazing, and I guess estates were a really polarizing addition?

Defeatist Elitist posted:

There is an excellent community of mp playing goons for paradox games, and games are held very regularly. Come play with us my lord~

Stairmaster posted:

tbf they're the only group of goons that actually plays this multiplayer so the bar is really low.

FreudianSlippers posted:

Paradox should make a game set in Africa starting in the 50s and 60s where you play a newly independent former colony. You wouldn't be painting the continent with your colour but more dealing with both your own internal politics and the world politics of the Cold War. Being a Mega-Mugabe kleptocrat should be just as viable of a playstyle as actually trying, and probably failing, to improve things despite everything.

Khisanth Magus posted:

Every time people say that we are approaching the theoretical limit of increased CPU performance using the methods that have been getting used, someone comes up with a brand new method to further improve them. Intel just came out with an entire new architecture, although it is only an incremental improvement under Intel's cpu strategy of doing incremental improvement - major improvement - incremental - big.

Vanilla Mint Ice posted:

Like I can't believe you even think you can throw that at argument at me as if it's a clever gotcha

In EU4 you have complete control over the tools of how you want to decide your battles. You can see other countries's informations on what ideas they have, ideas they completed, what their military capacities are and the tech level they are on. This allows you to make an informed decision of whether or not you want to fight them and if you do what your current odds of winning are. Then you go into the actual battle and can see if the numbers add up to do what they say to do as you calculated

In Stellaris what the gently caress do you have. You fight and numbers go up in the battle screen about damage done to hull or shields or whatever but what does this mean. I'm doing 10k hull damage with big torpedoes okay cool what frame of reference can I use this for. I don't know their ship weapon or armor layout. Did they do repeatable techs to increase their armor by 10%? Did they even put armor on? They're technologically superior to me but what of it? Are my battleships using all their guns to target their battleships or are they targeting their destroyers or what? Are my missile corvettes hanging out at the back at their max range or are they standing still in this mash pile getting hit by kinetic weapons? The closest piece of intel stellaris provides is the debris at the end of the battle but even if you want to vaguely act on it good luck refitting your fleet one at a time for full price and waiting time of the upgrades one ship at a time per starport. So you just slap on your highest tech on your ship and pray the black box spits back out some good news

Westminster System posted:

Though frankly I'm not playing a paradox game for the combat.

PrinceRandom posted:

i try and go entire games in Victoria 2 without a war

Takanago posted:

Give Rome 2 a co-op mode that lets people play competing dynasties/factions within a country.

Then run a giant Crete MP game.

fermun posted:

March of the Eagles had a lot of really cool things going for it and it was a really tight 10-hour weekend multiplayer game. It unfortunately only had about 5 good playthroughs worth of material for a single-player game, but it was a game you could do multiplayer in a weekend and have a definite endpoint giving a clear winner, which has a bit of its own appeal, but how many Paradox players actually do multiplayer.

Enjoy posted:

It was a passive-aggressive joke about his joke not being funny enough to recognise as a joke, if you must know!

corn in the bible posted:

unlike the current model where you have to buy the ability to be pagan

YF-23 posted:

When DLC is doing that, adding systems to an already existing feature of a subset of countries, that works great. Giving trade republics unique trade mechanics works great. Giving the Hindu countries religious mechanics works great. And that works well because systems on top of those features are always "tacked on". The Catholic cardinal game is "tacked on" on Catholics, but doesn't feel like it stretches them, because it's a subset of a feature (religion) rather than something fundamental.

With features like Estates, because it's a DLC feature it has to be tacked on for the game to work without it, even if it's something that should be fundamental (internal management). The limitations of DLC features do not mesh well with user expectations or ambitious development. And, having played with estates a few times (in multiplayer at any rate), I wouldn't say they're as bad as people here like to say, but rather underwhelming instead.

Then you have stuff like CK2's conclave which actually manages to knock it out of the park by being super well integrated into the game's fundamental mechanics. But CK2 is also less of a boardgame so comparison is actually not all that easy.

DStecks posted:

Trying to get into Endless Legend has revealed that what I really want is Stellaris, but for fantasy instead of Sci-Fi. I just find all the of the factions kinda less than interesting, and it's always them in every game. Stellaris definitely solved the "Oh hey it's the Drengin" problem, and it would be amazing to see that applied to a fantasy setting somehow.

Drone posted:

HOI4 isn't his game. He does CK2 only afaik.

inkwell posted:

incomplete holy american empire flag im working on

DrSunshine posted:

Cantorsdust posted:

When it comes out I will also buy it and post a trip report. Even if it sucks I love my modern day strategy games.

Paradox get on your poo poo and make Modern Day America Universalis please!

Ofaloaf posted:

The golden ticket fangathering yesterday was pretty dang fun, and there's some real cool & chill dudes around who were an absolute delight to talk to. The devs themselves present were superb conversationalists- shoutout to Groogy, who had a circle around him listening intently the entire time- and I ended up in a back corner of the gathering with Jamor, the current project lead for Stellaris, who spent most of the time talking about Hearts of Iron mechanics.

There was, however, also man wearing a MLP sweatshirt and a dogtag with nothing but a fasces on it, talking about how much he loves playing as communists in HoI4.

ZearothK posted:

It can even be a feature mentioned in the previews that never ends up implemented, like cadet dynasties in CK2 or fun in Stellaris! I like it.