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Senor Dog posted:I'd rather have my sokotan soldier pops taking the casualties than my basque craftsmen or whatever I mean you can (and I usually do) build a decent amount of unaccepted infantry for when I don't wanna be mobilizing. But here your mobilized pops usually don't end up taking too many losses due to the fact you'll always have a crazy arty advantage that'll make most fights a complete blowout. Decision/click to build +1 fort/naval base/railroad nationwide when?
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The real strat for large multicultural empires is to snag as much of the pacific as possible. They get ahistorical population growth and immigration, and since they're in Oceania they'll all assimilate to your main pop.
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Ofaloaf posted:Johan was staring at the ground during most of his presentation on the history of Europa Universalis' development, but that was okay since it was still an interesting presentation with lots of neat info and stories. Just, you know, no eye contact. If you had stolen that many secrets from canceled spin-offs, your eyes would be weighed down with guilt as well.
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Patter Song posted:Constitutional Monarchies (HM's Government) ended up massively overpowered in V2 because it has all the trappings of democracy yet still lets the player arbitrarily dismiss the government and replace it with the ruling party of his/her choice. By the time royal authority diminishes to the point where HM's Government applies, royals don't just randomly dismiss governments anymore. It's a shame you can't mechanically appoint the Communist party as a way for your king to sneakily abdicate the throne
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Aug 13, 2017 20:06
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High tarrifs in the early game would hurt a smaller country (even considering inefficiency) if that country didn't produce enough to eat or something. China can do whatever the gently caress it wants because it's like half of the worlds entire market at start and can manipulate the world economy at will.
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Athaboros posted:I always found these interesting. Is there any kind of published "rulebook" for them anywhere? They were all destroyed in the great Hoxhaist purge of 2015
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What about bilingual or trilingual pops? How many different literary rates could we add?
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Aug 28, 2017 05:08
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Stellaris 2 may be fun and good
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Palleon posted:He got in too deep with Victoria's Secret. (((deep))) research expedition
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disjoe posted:I still play Vicky 2 whatever I'm not afraid to admit it fight me There are thousands of us Paradox! Hear our cry!
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Problem is with all QOL stuff like that, then they have to backport it 
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Still Waiting On Victoria III
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Raskolnikov38 posted:and do it as Luxembourg Top tier formable, you can incorporate the French too!
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Generally you want to keep factories open as long as possible to build up your industrial base -- you can slowly transition away from unprofitable megafactories when you get some breathing room. Having tarrifs that high for that long kills your industry (as a smaller power) and your populace (generally) as they can't fulfill their needs from imports. Also trying to 1v1 Prussia as Bavaria generally isn't a winning move even with a tech advantage, they've got way more manpower than you so even if you stocked up on soldier pops before the war you'd be hard pressed to get anything that wasn't Pyrrhic out of it. You also don't need to fully fund educational/admin -- in fact its often better that you don't, to prevent massive bloated sectors from creeping up. Also get both expansion packs if you haven't already, it's an old pdox game that makes them almost mandatory.
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The Cheshire Cat posted:I would legitimately love to do this if I felt like it was even possible but I just don't see how. I know you can propel basically any nation to GP status by rushing prestige techs, but since warfare is basically the only way you're going to be able to take german cores out of Prussia or Austria's spheres, what can Luxembourg even do? Even by making an alliance with Russia or something, you'll have to rely entirely on the AI to win the war for you and that is generally not a great option. Use Prussia to bully the Netherlands into giving you Java, build up a decent colonial empire, ship the troops back to mainland Europe, occupy Prussia for 1000 years, become the grossest Deutchland.
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Clearly yall have never fought a war as the underdog where you had to maintain static defensive lines just to survive. Granted the winning strat for that is to just bait their entire army into one battle and then surround them while you rotate your mans in and out based on the end of the month reinforcement tick, but still.
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Klingon w Bowl Cut posted:Anyone having short wars in Vicky 2 needs to play multiplayer. Our Great Wars put the real WWI to shame. Nothing better than finally putting together a coalition to knock the socks off the resident world police.
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Ideally you don't want to be sitting on a huge surplus (as that's money that could be given to your pops to fulfill needs), but especially as lower tier nations you'll need some saved up to weather weird market fluctuations or to buy goods from the market to build up your infrastructure/pay for military spending.
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Alternatively, put your trust in a couple kids because managing a family of 50, and having them balloon out and constantly be a thorn in your main lines side is a good way to get a knife in the back
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I think there's also a factory bonus to having it fully staffed, but I forget which imput (prolly throughput as well). Although throughput isn't anything to knock, having that extra ability to produce large quantities -- especially in the early game when there aren't as many stacking bonuses -- can really let you price others out the market and secure a chunk of the market with less of a burden on your subsidies.
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Evil Agita posted:Excellent, thanks I'm downloading it now. Open to other suggestions too- I have 4 days off! We've been running a multiplayer v2 game on Fridays over at mapgoons based on the divergences of darkness mod, which is pretty fun. I'd post the link but SA keeps switching it to video for some reason.
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algebra testes posted:Victoria 3 could literally kill IRL capitalists when you have a glorious communist revolution and i'd still be disappointed. I mean, lets not get carried away here
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TheMcD posted:Christ, there's some choice stuff in there. Japan, iirc. No way an AI Japan takes a chunk of Australia
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Having the modular dlc and one or two big expansions that tie them all together seems like it might be a decent compromise? I'd love to see the design docs for the latter to even attempt to pull that off, at least
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Beautiful. The German exclave in belerussia is top tier. What country were you playing & you have a world map?
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GrossMurpel posted:If you really want to, you could just add them as accepted cultures in your savefile. Keep in mind that pretty much breaks the game though. The real move here is to conquer as much of Oceana as possible, and keep them & your mainland posessions the same administrative type (colony/state) so there is intermigration. Not only will the islands in Oceana not have cores blocking your Manchu and Korean subjects from zapping into proper Japanese, they actually get a bonus for doing so. This also works if you start grabbing land in the Americas, which obviously may present some other difficulties along with it.
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If the game had an event based or decision based way to annex uncivs in your sphere as you encroach on them (I know some exist, but generally so that it was more consistent), the game would be a bit more solid. Nothing more satisfying than freeing giant chunks of land to uncivs then swooping in five years later to take it for yourself.
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Influence increases with the amount of loans a country has taken, a bankrupty gives you an
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Remember when you could literally depopulate an entire country in Victoria 2 for a patch? That was fun times, occupy France as Germany and sit on em for a decade, hello country with slightly more POPs than Jan Mayern.
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Paradox Grand Strategy: Victoria's Secret Clubhouse VV No pops in the new v3 confirmed 
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Groogy posted:That if it isn't just a re-release of Vicky2 then you will just say it is a dumbed downed version with manas. Is it really genocide if I spend some Polish mana to get more German Craftsman mana?
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If there isn't a cadre of goons liveposting then starting the revolt when it isn't v3 I will....uh....cut funding to infrastructure?
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When you kill a soldier pop in a war, do you ever consider the fact that you're lowkey killing the wife and average of two kids that the pop also represented?
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Almost 1855 and you still have no industry? 
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If they end up expanding out the tail end of the era you could see the Han start to push into central asia a bit
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Casually hating non-nazi furries in 2018 
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DrSunshine posted:I don't quite "get" people playing HOI4->Stellaris campaigns. Whatever the state of the world is when you leave it at HOI4, it's still got to be just one civilization by the time you get to Stellaris. You may as well just start as the Commonwealth of Man or the United Nations of Earth in Stellaris, and ditch the mega-campaign before then. I don't quite "get" people playing spore from the civilization -> space campaign. Whatever the state of the world is when you leave it, its still just one space ship by the time you get to Space. You may as well just start in Space as your creation, and ditch the rest of the game before it.
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Remember barely being able to see yourself if you played in Iceland?
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The answer is always "conquer & sphere as much as possible, subsidize everything (especially if its overproduced) just to drive everyone else's economy into the ground." Bonus points if you fully occupy the industrial heartlands of any rival power long enough to shatter their supply chains and steal their profitabilty.
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