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Vodos posted:So which country are you going to play in tonight's EUIV stream? I think you should pick Austria and gently caress with Poland and the Balkans for maximum fun! I'm going to need a direct link to the stream channel, how did I not know about this? 
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Mister Adequate posted:There is at least one mod which changes you into the Kingdom of God, but yes, in vanilla you just remain the Papal States. I just did it a couple months ago and shared your disappointment. Nope, Kingdom of God is a vanilla decision: quote:gods_kingdom = {
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Apr 25, 2013 13:37
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It was in the latest Paradox newsletter:quote:4/25 Europa Universalis Franchise - 75% off!
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Apr 25, 2013 13:38
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Demiurge4 posted:I'm going to need a direct link to the stream channel, how did I not know about this? Yeah, there's going be a stream? I want in on this. I've spent the last week watching streams of Larian developers playing through Divinity: Original Sin, and it was surprisingly entertaining, connection problems and all.
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Apr 25, 2013 13:40
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Darkrenown posted:Nope, Kingdom of God is a vanilla decision: They're talking about actually changing tags so that the country's name changes. In vanilla you get cores and a nice country modifier, but you're still just the same old PAP on the map.
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Apr 25, 2013 13:45
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Varam posted:They're talking about actually changing tags so that the country's name changes. In vanilla you get cores and a nice country modifier, but you're still just the same old PAP on the map. Yeah, this. I was hoping I would actually become a country called Kingdom of God.
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Apr 25, 2013 13:50
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Changing the army system so brigades come from any culture would really make this game more enjoyable. Nothing more annoying than constantly having to reinforce your armies because this pop rebelled or this pop emigrated or whatever. As for army stacks, it seems I found a really nice composition: 4 infantry, 2 guards, 4 arty, 2 cannons, 2x dragoon, 2x hussar, 2x cuirassier Sieges are very fast and watching the battle line up nothing seems open, the result are also very nice as this almost always smashes enemy armies completely (even if they are bigger). Not sure if any country but my super China can field that many of them. Speaking of China, it's 1968 and I just pushed Russia past the Ural. One annoying thing tough, how do I gently caress up Great Britain without having to pay 80% warscore to release a single OPM satellite in India? My solution was to cheat and simply make them surrender after I occupied all of India and Australia, the infamy doesn't matter anymore at this point as it's above 100 anyway. Is there a way to do this without resorting to the console? Fake Edit: Don't play with pop growth files, I had the entire World on 5000% popgrowth for about 8 months... it caused some small issues with rebellions, likely because of unemployed people. Good thing there's 3 autosaves.
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Apr 25, 2013 14:01
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Whoa wait can uncivs seriously not take land from civilized countries? That's so arbitrary. I don't suppose puppeting Two Sicilies would give me research points?
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Apr 25, 2013 14:26
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Hey since Paradox devs seem to be in this thread more than the CK2 thread I need to post this because I found an issue thats going to make me look like a crazy sebjia nationalist from your paradox forums BUT: http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/04/25/crusader-kings-2-the-old-gods-release-date-and-new-details-from-mondays-livestream/ quote:Flavor events surrounding the great East/West schism in Christianity are still being considered, but are not currently in the game. Orthodox and Catholic are still being treated as “effectively separate” in 867. I hope the person who wrote the article misquoted you guys because The Great Schism is a loving huge event so what the heckery is going on Wiz, Johan, Darkrenown? Also i'm glad you're putting more interest into research and technology instead of having people just pick one and not look at that screen anymore ever.
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Apr 25, 2013 14:41
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The Great Schism is a huge event from a symbolic perspective, but in actuality just confirmed a split that had been ongoing for centuries. I personally don't think it needs modelling other than as a flavor event, but this is just my opinion. I do not make the design decisions for CK2.
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Apr 25, 2013 15:16
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Just finished my first game of Heart of Darkness as Scandinavia (and honestly I think this is maybe only the second grand campaign I've ever finished with V2). Nothing really amazing happened, aside from Prussia becoming a communist dictatorship around 1870 and only falling (and forming a democratic Germany in the process) after losing a massive Great War in 1920. Started the GC with the goal of unifying Scandinavia ASAP, colonizing the heart of Africa, and finishing in the top 4. China was at 2nd place for awhile, but a four year-long war between them and Great Britain in SE Asia saw their military get totally decimated, so I managed to sneak up to 4th. No idea who to play as my next game, though. Also no clue what happened to make that second screenshot looked so hosed up, but at least you can make out my sweet Scandinavian Pommerania and the rest of Europe's terrible borders.  
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Apr 25, 2013 15:17
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Wiz posted:The Great Schism is a huge event from a symbolic perspective, but in actuality just confirmed a split that had been ongoing for centuries. I personally don't think it needs modelling other than as a flavor event, but this is just my opinion. I do not make the design decisions for CK2. No one that works primarily on CK2 posts here, but as far as I know, that is their feelings on the matter too.
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Apr 25, 2013 15:32
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Wiz posted:The Great Schism is a huge event from a symbolic perspective, but in actuality just confirmed a split that had been ongoing for centuries. I personally don't think it needs modelling other than as a flavor event, but this is just my opinion. I do not make the design decisions for CK2. Wiz, at least convince them make it more than just one pop-up or something. It's a huge event from a symbolic perspective but Religion plays a huge factor in CK2, especially with the Old Gods on board now. Also get Avindian to write the Old Gods AARs. The Ulm guy is funny but Avindian is seriously Paradox's best AAR writer because he gives detailed information and explanations. Avindian making a HOI3 tutorial AAR or a EU4 tutorial AAR would probably be better than the manual. (I tell Matrix/Slitherine all the time to hire Grey Hunter to make tutorial AARs too since he's the best for those types of games). Darkrenown posted:No one that works primarily on CK2 posts here, but as far as I know, that is their feelings on the matter too. Pass the message on then. Just say "So a poster on another forum I visit was like "Hey, make the Great Schism more than just a pop-up because xyz and also hire Avindian because he's our best AAR writer." Then hand them beers (i'll paypal you the money to buy the beer).
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Apr 25, 2013 15:44
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Necroneocon posted:Pass the message on then. Just say "So a poster on another forum I visit was like "Hey, make the Great Schism more than just a pop-up because xyz and also hire Avindian because he's our best AAR writer." Then hand them beers (i'll paypal you the money to buy the beer). I would like to lend my support to this model of game development.
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Apr 25, 2013 16:07
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Jabu posted:Whoa wait can uncivs seriously not take land from civilized countries? That's so arbitrary. Wait, who told you that? Absolutely you can conquer land from civs as uncivs. In my current Johore game I took Singapore back from the Brits  .
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Apr 25, 2013 16:29
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Patter Song posted:Wait, who told you that? Absolutely you can conquer land from civs as uncivs. What?! How?? Explain! The only time I ever dared doing something similar was as a mega Dai Nam, annexing parts of Siam which was in the sphere of a Great Britain that was currently suffering from the effects of a Great War Capitulation and so had a military score of 6.
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Apr 25, 2013 16:33
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fuf posted:I would like to lend my support to this model of game development. Avindian being the official AAR tutorial person for Paradox would be amazing. All of his tutorial AARs are great and full of detail on the Paradox forums. It's a shame because for example, all the HOI3 AARs are like lets play make believe! and I think i've begged Avindian twice to do a HOI3 AAR like he did with CK2 and Vicky 2 which actually helped me a lot in understanding the game.
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Apr 25, 2013 16:38
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Thinking of starting a game with the ultimate intent of just completely breaking the United Kingdom. Which would probably be best/most fun for this between Russia, US, Germany, France, or China?
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Apr 25, 2013 16:45
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Drone posted:Thinking of starting a game with the ultimate intent of just completely breaking the United Kingdom. Which would probably be best/most fun for this between Russia, US, Germany, France, or China? United Kingdom.
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Apr 25, 2013 16:52
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Patter Song posted:Wait, who told you that? Absolutely you can conquer land from civs as uncivs. Not that it matters because both France and Spain intervened anyway  Forgot about that mechanic. Also Two Sicilies can raise a surprising number of conscripts! At least I got away with just losing some prestige.
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Apr 25, 2013 16:53
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Jabu posted:You can take colonies, it seems. But not states. You...totally can, though? Like, you can conquer Transvaal and the Oranje Freistaat as Zulu. DrSunshine posted:What?! How?? Explain! More the AI than me. They DOWed me to annex Johore and three years later their over -30 Ticking Warscore made my own 5 warscore "Acquire British Malaya" deal seem reasonable.
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Major Isoor posted:Ok, I've just got another quick CK2 question (boy this thread moves quickly; my old question was pages ago now): How come the small arsenal I built in my republic a little while ago (the republic of Cyprus. I should be fine unless I invest all my gold into internet monopoly money, eh?) disappear when a new Grand Mayor took charge? I'm sure that didn't happen in my old Gotland game, so I'm not certain about what's up. I don't suppose anyone here knows? Yeah I've run into this as well, seems like a bug, would sadly recommend just never building arsenals as a Republic unless it gets fixed.
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Drone posted:Thinking of starting a game with the ultimate intent of just completely breaking the United Kingdom. Which would probably be best/most fun for this between Russia, US, Germany, France, or China? Germany: Excellent chances for continental domination and with a bit of grit and hard work, you can even make a navy to outmatch Britain. However, your central position means that you're almost certainly going to need to tie up a lot of resources defending yourself from British allies in any war with Britain, and until you get unified, you're not really going to have a navy and thus won't really have the ability to gently caress with the UK early on. France: Like Germany, excellent position for continental domination, but with a smaller front to worry about and a larger coastline with which to build ships. Also, historical rivals. Excellent choice for straight opposition against the British, if perhaps a bit bland because of that. US: Good prospects as a country and an actual land border with UK territories means that you if you can muster up the manpower, you've got a good chance of hammering Canada into the dirt one way or another. Will be distracted by the Civil War and Mexico, however, and any continental invasion is going to require shipping all the way across the Atlantic and the Royal Navy. Russia: Terrible literacy, vast manpower, not a lot of good port coastline. The main strength of Russia, its population, is difficult to bring to bear across the waves, and your lousy literacy means it's going to be a good long time before you can outmatch the Royal Navy. On the plus side, though, if you invade the right places you could try to invade India by land. Possibly the most difficult of the choices. China: When you civilize China, you don't just break the UK, you break the GAME.
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To nerf China I recommend http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?684459-HoD-Better-China-Mini-Mod
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Patter Song posted:You...totally can, though? Like, you can conquer Transvaal and the Oranje Freistaat as Zulu. The state has to border you.
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Apr 25, 2013 18:04
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Moving to lifestream room now! http://sv.twitch.tv/paradoxinteractive
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Hmm they have some kind of friend recruitment scheme below the stream. DLC and poo poo for recruited friends, it just doesn't say what they mean by recruited. Ok looks like you just need people to register at their site, then you get a recruitment url that others can use to sign up at the site. There's no downside to using someone else's link to sign up, so make sure you use another goon's, like mine! http://signup.europauniversalis4.com/r/1549bc951cc
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Apr 25, 2013 19:03
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Wiz posted:The state has to border you.  As Egypt.
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pdxjohan posted:Moving to lifestream room now! And I was just in Elentor's FFVII LP too!
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Vodos posted:Hmm they have some kind of friend recruitment scheme below the stream. DLC and poo poo for recruited friends, it just doesn't say what they mean by recruited. Gotta make 100!
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Apr 25, 2013 19:08
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Jabu posted:But I couldn't choose a conquest CB against the Ottomans either Conquest CB is only available against 1 state civilized nations and <5 state uncivs. The result of a successful conquest is the annexation of the nation, so if it's too large you need to "acquire state" until they are small enough to annex.
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Nightblade posted:Conquest CB is only available against 1 state civilized nations and <5 state uncivs. The result of a successful conquest is the annexation of the nation, so if it's too large you need to "acquire state" until they are small enough to annex. Either way, I couldn't justify war to take land against either the Ottomans or Two Sicilies.
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pdxjohan posted:Moving to lifestream room now! I think France needs to be a more different blue to the sea. e: oh wow interaction with potential rebels, that's something I've silently wanted for a while Alchenar fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Apr 25, 2013 |
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Apr 25, 2013 19:17
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pdxjohan posted:Moving to lifestream room now! How do you guys always start livestreams exactly when I am leaving for work  ?Ah well I can always take a look at it later .
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Jabu posted:But I couldn't choose a conquest CB against the Ottomans either Yeah sorry, I actually misremembered. Turns out uncivs can only take colonial states.
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Jabu posted:I didn't literally mean the Conquest CB. I couldn't remember what the right one was called. OK, I only have AHD, but I checked the CB and it looks like you're right. Uncivs can only conquer colonies from civilized nations. To fix that you could add code:
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It still really wigs me out that EUIV has ships under the 'diplomatic' tech group. It's like Skyrim throwing axes under 'blunt'. Seems like it ought to be Admin/Diplomacy, Naval/Trade, and Land. Or just find a better localization name then 'diplomatic'.
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Watching the stream, there is a lot of new choices in the game. I love the rebel choices, the trade routes and the new ideas system. It looks really, really good. Edit: The different resources (diplomacy, administration and military) are really cool too, and will definitely make me play the game in a lot more ways, especially if there's a cap to how much of each resource you can stockpile.
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I want this so bad, all the choices and system changes look amazing! PDX guys, is the National Monuments DLC cosmetic or actual buildings you can build?
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Vodos posted:I want this so bad, all the choices and system changes look amazing! Doesn't it include Old Faithful? Gotta be cosmetic. But, yeah, EUIV is looking pretty awesome.
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