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having a prewritten op as a dev is cheating, mods??
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Fister Roboto posted:Nobody did. False, the way you play vicky 2 is NF to bueaucrats->clergymen->soldiers->craftsmen 
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May 22, 2021 18:29
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From what I was reading it sounded like migration was way less deterministic, and was more a result of relative standards of living and freedoms, with crises like the irish potato famine happening as an organic result of gameplay
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May 23, 2021 01:38
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Will you be able to start diplomatic warfare over reforms in other countries (i.e. force the US to end slavery in 1840 as UK)
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May 23, 2021 15:10
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ilitarist posted:
This is still in (and universal to all countries as a generic event), and is also lowkey the reason im really glad that language is getting modled for pops
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May 23, 2021 15:25
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ilitarist posted:Vicky 3 probably ends around 1936. 9 years before the first nuclear weapon use. Depending on how the things go it's not outlandish to imagine people having nukes a decade earlier. A greatly delayed ww1 leading to nuclear bombs to assist an attempted breakthrough on the western front 
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May 23, 2021 19:42
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A date with Queen Vicky and a pointy boi
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May 23, 2021 21:33
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The obvious takeaway was that Versaillis was too lenient, i'm gonna shatter germany
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May 23, 2021 22:21
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Japan is very fun and chill, it's full sandbox mode
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May 24, 2021 20:55
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SnoochtotheNooch posted:Are you hosed if you get sphered? All of my money as Russia came from tariffs. How do you not get sphered? Japan is hard to sphere because they have high pop. They also have a bunch of decent to good rgos that should print enough money to float you until you civilize and break into GP status. But no, not really being sphered for a lil as Japan is fine
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May 24, 2021 21:04
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Depends on what country you are, any decent GP at start should be able to take them (at least to a limited degree) so that it's more obnoxious to fight them than life threatening
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May 24, 2021 21:44
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Oh hey actual good question for Wiz: Will the peru-bolivia confederation be modled at game start? Also first game as substate Tibet, you already start pretty tall so it can't be hard to play it ThatBasqueGuy fucked around with this message at 03:25 on May 25, 2021 |
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May 25, 2021 03:20
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If you do a Haití Game, use the greater flavor mod. They have a way better starting position and can reclaim french América and eventually expel the anglos from the new world
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May 26, 2021 01:33
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Multi shogun Japan rules bc u can just day 1 puppet them and shatter the shogunate system, preventing a united Japan for the rest of the game
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May 26, 2021 02:49
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Jazerus posted:the factories are supposed to be "unprofitable". they are being run for the benefit of the people not the state, to produce goods for internal consumption. feeding internal consumption and getting industrial points to become/stay a GP are by far the most important role factories play throughout most of the campaign for most tags in V2; you might make more in tax revenue from a late-game LF economy, but it's not flatly superior because the capitalists are very stupid and producing for profit is very volatile so factories close all the time and have to be reopened by pouring money in, which also takes them back to level 1, wasting even more money, and your craftsmen will be constantly facing cycles of unemployment that waste the potential of their labor. admittedly i haven't played as a top-5 great power like the UK or Prussia in years so maybe the conditions are there for a smoothly running LF economy in those tags, but that's a rare exception founded more on the fruits of imperialism than anything superior about LF itself yeah basically the only way L-F works for you is if you already industrialize a solid enough base that your factories become a large enough portion of the production of any given good that they're too big (and efficient) to fail, and that their collapse would herald the end times of the global economy
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May 29, 2021 17:34
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CharlestheHammer posted:Actually thinking about it you didn’t meaningfully interact with your pops in Vicky 2 no matter your government which is weird. Actually I think you'll find that mobilizing my country and killing off a million pops over a useless slice of land counts as an interaction
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May 29, 2021 19:40
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Vasukhani posted:the whole point was getting 0.1% Capitalists 2% Clergy 5% Soldiers 0.2% Officers 1% Beauracrats 4% clergy and .7% capitalist or bust (Also 4% clerks for rp)
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May 29, 2021 21:13
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just conquer bengal and/or use console to fix poo poo ez
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Jun 1, 2021 18:33
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AnoHito posted:Gonna make a "Ford's Nightmare" mod, which will do to trade goods what Voltaire's Nightmare did to the HRE. if each nations railroad don't have different gauges with varying small stat changes requiring special tooling factories, I will lose my ability to feel human
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Jun 23, 2021 22:55
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yellow prussia or riot
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Aug 4, 2021 16:34
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DaysBefore posted:Did Prussia get inherent army buffs? I know they got a few extra technologies at start and that really good research focus but I have no idea if there's some background calculation where 'if = Prussian then +5 Attack' or whatever. I hope not cause that's lame. outside of the good tech school and getting some good generals, I don't think so
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Aug 4, 2021 18:38
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World economy crashing because a majority of the worlds cotton fields are active warzones causing revolution in the UK
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Aug 6, 2021 02:16
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Gonna occupy the entire world so we can finally abolish Jobs once and for all
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Aug 20, 2021 01:12
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War is often harder on the aggressor than the aggressed
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Aug 21, 2021 00:01
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Having played dozens of MP games at this point I can pretty confidently say that scenario is rare, and requires (as someone upthread said) a game of five players where the two weakest are on Prussia/Italy. Also you underestimate how much a cascade of minor conflicts can end up distracting folks long enough for the have-nots to slip through the cracks
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Aug 23, 2021 01:34
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The classic reasoning is to make frontlines slowly emerge from a more eu4 stack system as you research miltechs and develop your officer staff/battle plans, which I hope they pull something similar
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Aug 23, 2021 07:09
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Occupying those sort of states is crippiling to a war economy and house rules exist in v2 games too?
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Aug 23, 2021 17:51
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ilitarist posted:This is beyond the point. But I think I wasn't clear enough. Cortez was one of the lucky adventurers who survived and remembered. Hundreds of similar guys had limited success or have failed throughout history. Before modern states, a king could have afforded similar behaviour because their death and loss of their troops rarely meant an existential threat to most of the elites and communities but rather a change of management. In EU4 we talk about almost modern states. You never play as Cortez, you play as Spain. Historical Spain sent dudes to conquer New World but never conquered Portugal which was its historical rival for a long time. For Spanish elites gambles in the New World were safe: you won't lose more than you invest. Directly attacking Portugal on the continent might have meant the end of Spain. They could have successfully do that and become a hegemony but the risk was to high. this is Reino Unido erasure
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Aug 23, 2021 19:18
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You have the basics down, you just need to keep in mind value chains (coal making glass making liquor) in securing resources. Getting a source of tea, for example, isn't necessarily awful or anything but it's just a raw commodity that goes straight from the farmers to the consumers, and as such wont help you build up an industrial base the same way securing that west african coal would. Also specifically as Sweden/Scandinavia you'll always be struggling to get enough pops to actually fill the factories to where they have enough workers to compete on the global market against other industrial powers that have similar literacy/tech (UK, France, Germany, etc...) but far more pops to actually staff them.
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Aug 23, 2021 20:50
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deltah posted:The population thing is something I was wondering about. As far as I can tell, I can't load a save without first resigning. The interesting thing about resigning is realizing my population was like 1.5M (you're right, I'm Scandinavia not Sweden) while the people who had way higher industrial scores had 10's of millions of pops. That made me wonder if I was rushing industrialization by trying to chase scores of countries playing very different games from me. My recommendation as a scandi player is to try and conquer other civilized states so that you can create internal migration from somewhere like haiti to stockholm to boost your numbers. As for the RGO size, unfortunately there really isnt a good way to tell other than experience or console bullshit. It's still worth it to industrialze to a reasonable degree as scandi tho, because you won't become stronger by being an RGO exporter for other nations to industrialze off
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Aug 23, 2021 21:22
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Or so we hope, at least
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Aug 28, 2021 02:18
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swap basic food and intoxicants and you'd have my monthly budget
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Sep 2, 2021 22:37
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deltah posted:Victoria 2 noob question. I'm playing Belgium to learn more about factories. Belgium starts with iron and coal and this seems useful, but what I'm running into is that iron and coal based products seem to sell for poo poo. For instance steel has been in low demand from the start to now 1868. I also made a machine parts factory thinking this would be better ... but it isn't. Instead the demand fluctuates and I have to subsidize the factory to keep it afloat. This seems true for most of the low volume products: artillery, cement, small arms, canned food, etc. Have you tried mastermining some large conflicts to spike demand in your arms?
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Sep 4, 2021 01:54
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You should conquer the rhineland to corner the coal market and gain a monopoly over core industrial goods
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Sep 4, 2021 04:09
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The only thing that I could think of fitting that mold is some wildly successful russian Empire pushing panslavism to it's maximum extent
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Sep 24, 2021 21:32
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ANOTHER SCORCHER posted:Renaming my successful Sokoto state that kicked the Europeans out of Africa “CAPTAIN AMERICA 2 (THE FALCON)” to show how much I respect Black people.
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Oct 5, 2021 18:35
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Can't wait to bully other people in MP games for making dumb decisions, which causes them to enter in a spiral of capitulation between foreign interests and local interest groups until their country collapses and I can eat the remains
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Oct 21, 2021 19:13
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Tokyo to Casablanca
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Nov 14, 2021 21:29
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SnoochtotheNooch posted:Is there a strategy in Vicky2 to splitting up two great power alliances. As japan I want to Ally NGF or britain but theyre allied to each other and will never accept my alliance offer. Spam navy and beat them both to poo poo in a great war so one falls to rebels, easy
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Nov 20, 2021 01:11
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Just make sure to let them open as many soup clinics as possible. Dunno why fascists are putting aphrodesiacs in them, but it works
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