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January 6 Survivor posted:Do you guys have some suggestions on wargames that are a) playable on potato computers, b) not ridiculously complex and c) seriously, not ridiculously complex, I've never played a strategy game more complicated than Advance Wars before? Actually that reminds me, if it's turn based, all the better. There's Unity of Command which is relatively more approachable but more puzzle-like (and bit of an RNG fest if you're going for best victory) compared to others in the grog game category. Rule the Waves 3 is coming to steam and should be playable on super potato computers. But it requires some knowledge of naval history and technology in order to get super high prestige. You could probably muddle through without said naval history knowledge.
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i picked up that rebel inc game and the main takeaways i got from it (pretty certain it was unintentionally too) was that the economist sucked rear end and that NGOs are the devil's tools and should never be trusted unrelatedly i got that afghanistan '11 and vietnam '75 games off the steam sale but haven't played them yet.
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Jul 13, 2022 23:38
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 it's pretty satisfying to watch everything click together in dyson sphere program just ignore the bottlenecks and power shortages when it's nighttime 
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Jul 22, 2022 09:39
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i got vietnam '75 and afghanistan '11 on the cheap should i try to learn through steam guides and lps or should i just go in with no earth clue what to do
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Grey Hunter did an LP for FoG:E and it looked pretty interesting to me.
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Aug 8, 2022 23:51
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:Edit: a useful inspiration for the long-form gameplay loop would be the factory/assembly line style games that are pretty popular currently: you are essentially trying to pave over a multifaceted local society to create the most effective state machine for extracting resources and using them. tangentially related, it would be cool and funny to just pave over the entire english channel and then invade england that way
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Aug 9, 2022 01:04
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gradenko_2000 posted:I assume the reds are fully playable and supported? im guessing 'asiatic hordes' repeated ad nauseum to make a german who was political in the thirties and forties blush
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Aug 18, 2022 18:41
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https://twitter.com/obsidianstatue1/status/1560484628867284992 Emperor, Stronghold, and Civ 3 basically formed the basis for my understanding of economics before discovering Marx. Probably was also the reason why I didn't perform well in economics classes because why the gently caress would you sell off production chains for important poo poo to focus on services or super specialize into growing wine when you're going to need wheat to eat.
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Aug 26, 2022 10:19
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gradenko_2000 posted:trip report on Augustus: having only played emperor i found that i can recognize warehouses, clay pits, etc. on sight
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Aug 29, 2022 19:08
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Zeppelin Insanity posted:It's actually really funny how the only way to make a capitalist system in a game is to wave a magic wand and not simulate anything I wonder how many economic majors have played Sim City and think that's how economies work.
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gradenko_2000 posted:here's the full video to expound on the point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_51_YJQpeg0 Magnasanti (as mentioned in that video) being the extreme example of an ideal SimCity has got me thinking. IRL both parties in America are pretty much cop supporters with the George Floyd protests after all being sparked by police behavior in a Dem city in a Dem state. And in Magnasanti, extreme police funding is how the city is able to sustain itself despite being a satanic charnel house. It would not surprise me if SimCity would have came up in the childhood memories of the middle and lower functionaries of the two-party-for-one-party-state and they have absorbed the assumptions postulated by SimCity into the real world. Magnasanti in that respect would seem like the logical endpoint of what our neoliberal elites would love. On the other hand, the other necessary city funding to keep Magansanti afloat is public transportation. It has absolutely abolished streets, parking, etc. and hence relies completely on subways to move population around (though apparently underutilized in the simulation). Destroying a high-value industrial sector is too much to ask of our neoliberal elites and SimCity's non-simulation of the movement and production of goods also means that Magnasanti wouldn't be economically viable. Magnasanti is an extreme example but it does expose what's desirable in an education system that will incorporate SimCity in the teaching of its youth.
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Aug 30, 2022 09:12
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/529340/Victoria_3/ Victoria 3 up for pre-purchase.
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NWS and Matrix Games join forces to launch Rule the Waves III quote:NWS and Matrix Games join forces to launch Rule the Waves III biggest thing out of this partnership is that rule the waves 3 is now on steam and other digital store fronts
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https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/victoria-3-dev-diary-57-the-journey-so-far.1540349/quote:One system we thought we'd knocked out of the park on the first attempt was the algorithm for determining which states would rise up against you in case of a revolution. The number would be largely based on the total Political Strength share of the revolting Interest Groups, so if 25% of the Political Strength was against you and your country had eight states, two of them would revolt. Furthermore they would tend to revolt in a cluster, so you wouldn't be fighting on a number of fronts against individual states but as a unified force. The state with the highest proportion of revolutionary Political Strength would be selected as the epicenter, with states neighboring the epicenter likely to follow them. hilariously funny mental image ngl gotland will rise again
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Sep 1, 2022 23:22
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gradenko_2000 posted:Gunner, Heat, PC! is now out on Steam Early Access: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1705180/Gunner_HEAT_PC/ It looks like a single player War Thunder with modern gear and without the F2P stuff ngl.
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Took a closer look at the screenshot of the abrams in GHPC and it looks like a 105mm version. I guess the 120mm version will come along with the Warpact tank getting ERA?
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KomradeX posted:I saw someone say that the inevitable Cold War mod dor Vic 3 is going to be phenomenal and I'm now kind of more excited for this theoretical mod than Vic 3 itself It'll probably end up anti-communist as gently caress though unless there are more secret tankie modders than it seems in the paradox community.
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Sep 16, 2022 18:49
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I kinda wish that economic victories in the Amplitude 4xs was more about diverting the economic production and benefits of the rest of the players towards you instead of being about hitting an arbitrary currency limit that says "You've Won, Congratulations!" I kinda get that they're educated in a liberal worldview and such but it would make for greater impact if capital-I Imperialism was how economic victory is explicitly attained with the implicit assumption of having enough military and industrial strength to ward off anyone trying to upset you.
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Sep 22, 2022 07:20
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John Charity Spring posted:Leana Hafer tends to have at least some idea of what she's talking about so this is promising. I gave the demo a try a few months ago and it was impressive and intriguing although extremely lib-brained in its geopolitics (I've posted about it before, possibly even in this thread, I can't be bothered to check). I'm looking forward to giving it a shot. I think it was in the Grognard games thread in the Games forum where people complained about the Democracy Meter or Index a lot.
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Sep 23, 2022 19:08
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Lostconfused posted:I watched two or three hours of the Victoria 3 stream, and it's super fiddly. I played the leak and that version had the same issue in V2 where sometimes the AI wouldn't (or couldn't) develop super important industrial inputs so the only practical way to get more was to conquer territories that had those resources. The socioeconomic tinkering was really fun to slowly grasp once I got past that pesky issue.
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Frosted Flake posted:Nerf Wars: On downgrading Russian systems & units in Command what the commenters want is to reenact war porn on their favorite videogame and not assess or accurately recreate the conditions for failure and/or success
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Oct 3, 2022 21:45
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how many war thunder accounts can federal money buy
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gradenko_2000 posted:Thread content: Ozymandias was released yesterday That armies and fleet thing sounds like what Paradox is doing for Vicky 3 but adapted for 4x turn based format.
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Oct 12, 2022 19:16
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gradenko_2000 posted:Victoria 3 will finally settle the question of whether Ukrainian is a separate ethnicity Nah it's obviously about settling the matter between reform or revolution in achieving Communism.
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Oct 21, 2022 02:28
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkbyzbKkrxc victoria 3 comes out in two days
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 I made it in  .Successfully reforming the Qing to the PRC otoh well haven't done it yet.
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quick question how do i ban the import of opium into china tia
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Anarcho-liberal praxis is stuffing the ballots: It took a bit to get the right color but I managed to reform  in 1912. That said pretty funny how one of the bougie holdouts are the gun sellers mostly because of game mechanics: 
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ModernMajorGeneral posted:so what's the V3 buy/not buy verdict? My only real complaint is that I have no clue how to send troops abroad when dealing with a revolt on some Indeonesian island with a power that I am allied to. My other complaint was not figuring out where decisions were but that's more my own hubris. Economic gameplay is pretty fun but if you're like Russia or China then you're better off turning on autobuild except for the occasional empty siberia-esque province that bugs out and goes ham on building nothing but railroads.
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 didn't find the time or opportunity to go to war with someone who would recognize me so all the white people are ignoring the 3.5 billion gdp communist asian power right there
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Yeah I kinda wish there is an imperialism button just so I can expand oil and rubber output in other countries and I won't give a poo poo that the AI would probably nationalize it at some point.
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always obliterate the landlords by switching to mutual funds asap
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oscarthewilde posted:wrote an effort post on vicky 3 in the other thread but they're too busy having slapfights about steam forum posts and reviews (lol, pathethic). wonder what you guys think: I ran into the same limitations of the AI not being able to handle non-bordering landwars (to be fair not even I know what's up with my ability or inability to support troops across water) and their relative inability to rapidly develop oil and rubber. As for passivity, it would explain some things but I was a bit engrossed in internal matters to really notice. Although I did find that the AI was more than willing to gently caress with me once I had 200+ infamy from killing off the Heavenly Kingdom in my PRC playthrough.
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Ignorant Hick posted:Been chugging along as Mexico trying to build up my market, US went to war with the UK very early over something to do with Argentina so they've left me alone all game so far. If I'm wanting to flip communist should I keep things as lovely as I can or is the game going to let me pass a bunch of reforms and hit the communism button? If you're going for reform it's by marginalizing the political power of the liberals and reactionaries as much as possible typically through a combination of IG suppression and restructuring of the economic buildings. Meanwhile you're promoting the power of the communist IG (or sometimes some leader flips communist and declares it's time everyone has nothing to lose but their chains).
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Polgas posted:How do I attract foreign immigrants? I managed to get my standard of living high enough that my migration thing is in the green but every time I checked its always internal migration. I think a combination of greener grass and making racism illegal is what gets you a decent amount of immigration.
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The most surefire way to make sure peasants don't exist is to build all the agriculture buildings so that there's no subsistence building levels. Of course it lands you with a gigantic unemployment problem but at least you got rid of the peasantry.
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