V for Vegas posted:

gradenko_2000 posted:

This is now the fourth time I've bought Paradox's games:

The first was from Gamersgate when I was first dipping my toes into digital distribution

The second was when I wanted to re-buy everything on Steam for my convenience

And then I moved out of my parents's house last year after getting married, and left my desktop there, but I didn't want to take my Steam account with it because my dad is using that computer now, so I bought the Europa engine games on GOG

And just now I bought the Paradox pack again as a daily deal for my second Steam account

lamentable dustman posted:

Finally getting around to playing Vic2, played around a bit with Brazil and really liking it. Any good tutorials on the game? Trade and production never clicked. I got the idea of using focus and tax policy to create craftman and to implement full communism now to build factories but didn't get past that yet.

Admiral Joeslop posted:

Is there a nice strategy guide for getting started in Victoria II? I played some about a year ago but I've already forgotten everything and need a primer.

ThatBasqueGuy posted:

The key is to build nothing but arty/recon and use the mobilized troops as your only/main source of infantry. They take the highest casualties anyways, don't want your main pops getting mowed down on the front lines.

uPen posted:

It should have been a 19th century industrialization/colonization simulator.

Fellblade posted:

Yet again goons are confused by seeing a face that isn't their own reflected in their monitor, "Why isn't he emoting like my favourite anime? Based on the expression he must be a serial killer".

Enjoy posted:

No that's a pretty dumb reason to dislike a game, if something important is happening in real life you should just quit the game

Koramei posted:

It'd give you a free super-general for most of the campaign wouldn't it? Odds for death in battle are pretty low. Considering it's written into the trait explicitly to not do this, I think being punished for using your immortal god ruler as a general makes a lot of sense.

I'm not necessarily against it being changed either way (or made moddable at least, so you can have a truly immortal god-king/queen- making it so death even as a general is impossible would be cool too) but it seems like a really peculiar thing to get so irate about.

Koramei posted:

people use those settings, dumbo. why are you so angry about this?

Vanilla Mint Ice posted:

Ah the lost art of using the word literally. Let's see a random example:
They were so bloodthirsty that I had to wave a white flag for them to end the war [in a multiplayer LAN game].
vs
They were so bloodthirsty that I had to literally wave a white flag for them to end the war.

The first statement you could take with multiple meanings, he could've referred to jumping up and down while waving his arms and yelling stop, or telling everyone that they concede. But in the second one there is no other way to interpret the statement, the writer had to, quite literally, wave a white flag for the jerks to stop vaporizing all his manpower.

Now let's look at an example of misusing the word:
you literally have to buy a 20 euro DLC to join an alliance if you are a minor power in HoI4

Why was the word literally used here? Nevermind the accuracy of the statement because who cares, was there anything wrong with just saying 'you have to buy a blah blah to bleh bleh bleh'? What was that man trying to say? Was he showing off his low level of education by being unable to use the correct words to show emphasis? Or did he for the sake of comedy harm his own argument by making it sound ridiculous?

Goa Tse-tung posted:

they releade full baked games, are literally crazy?

Panama Red posted:

How is Vic2 now with the two expansions? The time period is appealing to me but a lot of the negative reviews scared me off, but it's not clear to me how much of that was the usual reaction to a half-baked Paradox game at launch. It also looks rather ugly (not as ugly as HoI3, however). Am I better off just waiting for Vic3 and hoping it doesn't suck?

YF-23 posted:

They do migrate, but not to *your* capital, but to the state capitals. Provinces are grouped up in states, and one province in each state acts as the state capital (so for instance if there's a New York state in the US, the province of New York City acts as the capital for that state). The soldier pops that are generated in the New York state will merge together in the New York City province. Or something to that effect.

DrSunshine posted:

Can't you adjust those settings in HOI4? I remember there's some kind of button that lets you tweak when you get notifications and for what things.

Skwirl posted:

I don't think I understand the reference, is it a joke about the Colin Farrell movie In Bruges?

Gort posted:

Vicky 3 wouldn't be that different from Europa 4. Replace the market insanity with money from resources to make having an empire worthwhile, tie religion/race/politics to pops instead of provinces, ditch the "This regiment is from Cardiff" crap for the manpower system Europa already has, and you have most of the major mechanics in place.

ThatBasqueGuy posted:

(((deep))) research expedition

Fintilgin posted:

guys, c'mon

They're never going to spontaneously announce a new major title on twitter. There will be media build up well in advance.

Psychotic Weasel posted:

How does it send a signal that V3 is coming? This isn't even the first time this year that Victoia 2 has been on sale this year...

Crazycryodude posted:

Conversely, HoI4 and Stellaris didn't....

V for Vegas posted:

I was not aware of there being an AI in Paradox games.

AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:

Ahahaha whaaaat? This is so loving bizarro. I may just go read those Dev Diaries for the laughs. This is good poo poo.

Deceitful Penguin posted:

Can't exactly say that our buddies at Pdox have been slacking content wise

Beamed posted:

Isn't that next week? Why would you play HoI4 instead of DH???

Deceitful Penguin posted:

Back when I played, that feature was "Go after their fleet, unless you find a DASTARDLY MINING STATION drat I HATE THEM THEN BLOW IT UP!" which has apparently been fixed.

It was, admittedly, always amusing to blow up fallen empire mining stations and salvaging their super tech that way, way before you should, but yeah.
I uhh, definitely feel this is one of those "just patch it in" things. Getting into EUIV, it's loving intolerable how random the placement of game mechanics is and how hodgepodge it all feels

At least CK2 doesn't have anything on that level; the only things I can think of are retinues and custom titles

Vivian Darkbloom posted:

I mean, the required DLC thing is a big issue with both EU4 and CK2. I can see it being a real annoyance for new players of either title.

Fintilgin posted:

(Wester is the CEO of Paradox)

Seriously, though, I'm curious when we'll see the next product announcement from the internal studio. The gap between EUIV and Stellaris was 3 years, so I'm not holding my breath.

AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:

Are you saying I should kill myself?!? (joking) Or did I get whooshed when he asked that question?

VostokProgram posted:

Come on man, don't be an rear end. They've said time and again that many of them actually do like Vicky, and that they'll make it when someone at pdx actually comes up with a vision for what the game looks like. Their teasing is not at all malicious or mean spirited

AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:

Do you still feel human?