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Wiz posted:This is high on my agenda for "things I am going to ask to be allowed to work on".
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And the problem with converters is that they'd be a huge programming effort (that would need to be tested and updated every time either of the two games they link is patched) that would sell less than the games. it's just too much effort for too little return.
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Yeah, that's the big weakness to the EU3 and CK2 combat systems. There's a lot going on under the hood and some fairly clever and complex systems being run, but the game is really bad at showing the player what's happening and there's no way for the player to influence it even if they knew. Looks like EU4 won't be improving on that aspect of it much, although I do like the strategic-level changes.
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JGBeagle posted:Isn't Blizzard the company that says "There's nothing wrong with our games, they're working as intended?" or am I thinking of some other sleazy company?
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I don't think the SMAC games ever gave any specifics, the point is that it sounds nasty.
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It's only 1 of your 9 NI slots. People are freaking out about it way too much. I'm glad countries will feel at least a little distinct.
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There's been thirty-something developer diaries, I recommend reading all the non-country-specific ones first so you know all the game system changes: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?629770-Europa-Universalis-IV-Development-Diaries-Archive
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Fintilgin posted:Obviously we haven't played it yet, but I agree.
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Another England video from Quill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW1xrx9Pa9o I am a huge fan of the detailed attitude/reasoning breakdown in the diplomacy tooltips. It looks even better than CK2! Scotland falling all over itself to ally with him so he wouldn't invade them was pretty funny.
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Fintilgin posted:Woah. The AI can offer to sell you provinces. Although I assume you still can't exploit them by offering to buy them. That's really cool.
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SeaTard posted:It doesn't work in EU3.
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fuf posted:It's a bit weird how there are trade routes incoming from the Atlantic before the Americas even get discovered. I wonder how hard-coded all those arrows are.
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There's supposed to be a popup. Wiz said it's a bug on the Paradox boards.
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Daeren posted:I really wish CK2 had a system like this now.
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I want Underworld Invasion to be real so bad.
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Pimpmust posted:/Johan answers:
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That most recent picture on the holiday countdown tumblr certainly looks...spacey.
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Pryor on Fire posted:Whatever happened with that East vs West game? Is it coming out this year maybe? Johan posted:Sadly, it is looking very likely that MP will be cut from the game. Johan posted:When games get severe delays, eventually you have to cut things in order to get the game finished at all. Usually you do not announce any feature that have a risk of being cut to avoid outrage, but sometimes you have no choice. The really funny part is the EvW devs in the thread responding by quoting the multiplayer bullet point from http://www.paradoxplaza.com/games/east-vs-west Sindai fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Jan 6, 2014 |
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Johan said on twitter that while normally he enjoys trolling about unannounced things, he couldn't bear to see people getting their hopes up so much and has confirmed neither of the upcoming projects is Rome 2.
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I get the impression that the EvW devs somehow convinced Paradox to let them try a "pay what you want" beta in hopes of raising enough money to finish the game, instead of being forced to cut features until they can release it on time because Paradox won't pay them any more.
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A mod the size of Kaiserreich not using version control is absolutely horrifying.  I can't even imagine how much easier life would be for the person acting as the ad-hoc repository if they were. Sindai fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Jan 21, 2014 |
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Meanwhile, Project Armstrong hint 5:quote:There is politics and espionage.
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I'll be really happy as long as neither is HoI4. I expect to be disappointed though since of the four main franchises HoI is first in line for a sequel.
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Ofaloaf posted:Where are the actual tweets/what-have-you about the EU4 and CK2 DLCs? I can't seem to find them.
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I'm actually double disappointed. It didn't even occur to me that the fantasy game wouldn't be grand strategy and I was really looking forward to that. At least the expansions sound good.
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quiggy stardust posted:Procedural generation and emergent storytelling. Either they try to build this from scratch and the game is a huge disappointment or they steal CK2's NPC system and nail it perfectly. Here's hoping it's the latter.
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Unfortunately the fact that trade in EU4 is directional and can only flow towards Europe would probably make that pointless outside of the comedy value.
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Tomn posted:You know, it seems like the devs who tend to post here agree that the "Non-Western Units are Crap" thing is dumb. So who in Paradox exactly is arguing that non-Western units should suck worse than equivalent Western units?
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Yeah, it looks like they just threw all the beta patch notes together, so some things were changed and then reverted and fixed in other ways. That is definitely the case with the Netherlands stuff.
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Basically yes. It's to let nations bring home Asian trade without conquering it all.
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GrossMurpel posted:No one talking about this? Finally we were told about the underlying AI structure of the game. Sindai fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Feb 23, 2014 |
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podcat posted:Only HoI3 
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From an external point of view I don't see any reason they'd need a new engine in the foreseeable future. It does 3D, has a ton of mod support, and is apparently flexible enough to build both RPGs and strategy games on.
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Thumbs Up Dude posted:Not sure why they even dropped other distributors - putting patches out there should be simple already. The binaries were the same for CK2, even though it has steam integration. It seems like the switch to steam-only is much more a political/business decision rather than anything related to making development or user experience easier.  For EU4 they switched to steamworks for multiplayer (which is perfectly sensible, writing your own robust networking code is a pain in the rear end) so that was that.
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I have no idea what I'm supposed to be looking at there. Which flag is Spain?
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DStecks posted:Couldn't that be solved by having either A) the coalition leader takes over all coalition forces, or B) a single AI directs the militaries of an all-AI coalition.
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Yeah I'm sympathetic to podcat's position because whenever I go out of my way to document things it's invariably rendered obsolete the moment a coworker touches the code but not the documentation. Mostly I just try to write clear code and comment complicated or weird things like workarounds for bugs in 3rd party libraries. Now, if you're writing an external interface that's going to be used by hundreds of other people documentation is an important part of your product, but internal documentation for a team that can be counted on one hand is a different matter. Disco Infiva posted:Wouldn't this be easier if you have a "documentation guy"? Every time you change/add/remove something, you submit it to some poor underpaid intern to also change it in the documentation. Sindai fucked around with this message at 18:38 on May 8, 2014 |
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Remember that you can turn retinues off by disabling Legacy of Rome in the launcher. The only other significant thing this removes is a bunch of Byzantine decisions and events, IIRC.
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TheMcD posted:I find the idea of a lead designer using the words "then develop AI to work the same as humans" to be horrifying. I really hope that means "develop AI to play by the same rules as the human player" as opposed to "make AI that's as good as humans", but even that is pretty hard to swallow as something that might be in a design doc somewhere. What that's referring to is that when there's a choice between making the AI act like a human playing a game or a historical ruler, it generally acts like a player. Sindai fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Jul 16, 2014 |
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TheMcD posted:To me it sounds like a resignation that you're not going to be able to create an AI that will challenge the player (because you're not going to make an actually "smart" AI in a game like this, that's structurally impossible) but you're also not going to be giving the AI any real boosts to make up for the gap in skill, so instead you're going to attempt to somehow keep the balance in a different way, which usually manifests itself in increasing the tedium (since AIs have no problem with tedium but humans do).
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