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axeil posted:I started HOI 2 with Russia since it doesn't need a navy or strong air force to succeed, yet actually has enough interesting gameplay that you're not off in South America doing nothing the whole game while you learn. Is that still the case here? in HoI3 you need to prepare properly for when the germans come knocking as PhantomZero said. It is also a huge country and might be a little overwhelming the first time you play. My suggestion is usually to try italy first time you play. You get a little war against Ethiopia at the start to get used to the mechanics without worrying about others intervening and you can enter axis roughly whenever you want so you have a lot of control if you want to go slow and learn. Later your main job is going to be to close the mediterranean and not be useless in africa so the germans can do what germans do best (blitz). Then depending on how it goes against the royal navy and africa try and help out with either defending occcupied france, help out with barbarossa if its going badly or plan invasions of UK. You can get similar play with spain as well, but it is lot harder.
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Riso posted:Dear Paradox employees, I'd hazard a guess that it would be no problem since its the demo. If it wasnt a demo it would be a big no-no, or you would need to make it so the player had to copy those files themselves from the sengoku install if for the full game.
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Alchenar posted:Seriously, you need to either need to start throwing in gags (ie. someone tries to pick up a book in the background and fails) or just get rid of that wallpaper. It looks terrible. The person who picks the wallpaper is not the same person that designs the art in the game. its not that bad, it just takes on a lot of glare from the windows so whenever you take pictures there its really obvious its fake. I think we just need to roll a smaller depth of field and it looks a bit less fake.  (ok it still looks fake, I just wanted to share my blue monkey with the world) gradenko_2000 posted:To be clear, HOD will allow you to mod/script the map colour of a nation according to its gov't type, although Russia turning red as the Soviet Union is the only one that will supposedly come with the official package. I kinda made fascist germany look like mordor as well while I was at it. as for doing it everywhere, Dark is right. I will leave that to modders to judge if they want to do or not. podcat fucked around with this message at 15:52 on Feb 1, 2013 |
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Wiz posted:Seriously? The wallpaper? That's what you choose to complain about? See, we own him now  Moahaha!
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Patter Song posted:I'm glad V2's getting a new expansion, because AHD has some quirks: ya, NO_KEY thing means that they added a wargoal for a state that doesnt exist. Which is why you dont lose land and it has peace cost 0. I have never seen this happen, is it from a mod?
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The V2 warscore system had a few "retardations". We are redoing that a bit for HoD. I agree those screenshots are super dumb.
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WeaponGradeSadness posted:Can you talk about what you're planning at all? I think CK2's style of giving huge warscore bonuses to the person who holds the province actually being contested would be absolutely perfect for Victoria, with all the opportunities for Great Powers to fight over colonies. there will be dev diaries, but sure as a freebee, that is a lot like how it will work (its a bit more involved because you can add multiple goals etc though).
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Not to hate, but it seems to me that many of you guys are dissing Sengoku without actually playing it. Its not as deep as our other games but a few playthroughs are fun if you like war. I don't think it deserves the reputation it has on these forums.
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Patter Song posted:
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nutranurse posted:I'd kill for Red Mars/the Mars Trilogy to happen. Call me Desmond. I'm a bit late so I'm actually reading Red Mars at the moment. About halfway. Its great!
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Mokotow posted:So Battlegoat Studios announced a new game in the Supreme Ruler series, and there's no mention of Paradox anywhere. Though their last outing, Cold War, proved to be an unplayable mess, Paradox was the publisher and despite Battlegoat denying that their technology is licensed, it always gave me a very strong, if not extremely modified, Europa engine vibe. Seeing how the last game turned out, I'm not too optimistic about 1936, even if, on paper, the Supreme Ruler series ticked all the right boxes for me. Good decision for Paradox, I guess, unless an announcement is coming further down the line. They arent using our engine. At least not as far as I know
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Fintilgin posted:This. I posted about in the old thread, but he literally used to keep a file of quotes on anyone who criticized him or Magna Mundi and would mock them in a special thread on the Paradox forums. To be perfectly fair, you guys do that as well, like one or two pages back :P Cynic Jester posted:After watching the EU4 highlight reel I am so happy. The game itself looks awesome, but steam workshop for mods and *steam multiplayer*? I will soon be able to uninstall tunngle \o/ Yeah we are really excited about how much easier and better playing MP is going to be
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:Switching the general feeling from "Rah Rah! Colonialism!" to "Oh... Colonialism. Making the player feel bad for progressing rather than "hey awesome I painted the map my color!" sounds totally worth it from an educational standpoint. 
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" can have a pretty big impact on the play experience. You have to look at this from a standpoint other than one of pure mechanics. I think the problem a lot of people have is that in having colonialism be a primary means of advancement within the game, and by providing no commentary at all on these actions, you're effectively glorifying them. I personally don't think you should go nearly as far as some people are suggesting. But perhaps having EU4 style conditional historical events that at least touch on these subjects without necessarily having much gameplay impact (like many of V2's existing flavor events) would help deglorify colonialism a bit without putting the agency directly in the players' hands (No "push button to commit atrocity"). You wouldn't have to call the player a monster, just describe some events as they happened. It would, at the very least, be more educational.
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Fintilgin posted:Also, Paradox, you can tell the American guy from the stream that his inability to shut up about how the game was 75% off on the Paradox webstore caused me to spend the 7.50 to rebuy it and AHD so that I could have it on Steam instead of Gamersgate. A marketing angel got his wings. VICTORY Star posted:There are mods that implement a release country from sphere decision, quite handy We made a new diplo action for this in Heart of Darkness as well Vodos posted:I need to stop watching these streams because I spend most of the time yelling at the people playing because they keep missing important stuff. For example the movement was for minimum wage and he kept lowering working hours instead, which lead to the shitloads of rebels. Or when they kept saying how they needed to wait for 1870 and then first missed 1870, then later missed the invention they were waiting for. Haha yeah, so that was why ;D its really hard to play properly on these streams, I swear I read working hours lol, not really much time to stop and read properly and I was rushing to get to 1870. Also after 2 hours of Steven's hat jokes its hard to stay focused and frosty.  Nightblade posted:I guess not. You can't add new types of articles, but since events is an article type you can pretty much just roll everything through that that you can script so its not a biggie. When we talk types we mean things like actual code picking out details from battles and saving that in articles you can run triggers on etc. There is also what we call "fake news" that can have regular triggers and run series of connected articles etc if you want. imo anything that can be reasonably scripted is. podcat fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Apr 11, 2013 |
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Patter Song posted:Speaking of V2, highly recommend you guys read the OP in this thread. Yes, I really liked delra's AAR, he explained why the military changes are awesome so much better than we could Avindian has been writing one covering lots of other stuff as well Nobody Expects the spanish expedition part 1-3: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?680843-Nobody-expects-the-Spanish-expedition!-A-Spain-1861-HOD-Beta-AAR http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?681903-Nobody-expects-the-Spanish-expedition!-Part-II-Africa-gets-Scrambled http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?682433-Nobody-expects-the-Spanish-expedition!-Part-III-Revelling-in-sunk-costs* Drone posted:The new Victoria playlist, if you're interested, can be accessed here: http://open.spotify.com/user/sa_drone/playlist/24cDENqrlkZZPhEpDEf4Os The whole V2 soundtrack is also awesome and available on spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/6cEFg34M7lROQ1Tl5xq1C9 Shorter Than Some posted:Is there any way to see what goods your state is producing from the production screen? It's a bloody nightmare managing industry because I have to hunt around working out where each state is and what goods it has. farming/mining goods production is easiest seen from the RGO mapmode. There is a production tab showing you overall production per type of goods if you want to see what artisans are producing, but I dont think it specifies what states there (perhaps top one is listed? cant remember). You can click on the goods icons in the production view as well to see a detail window with graph and info about who is producing and how much. If you want more information you have to fall back to the population screen and sort by artisan size etc podcat fucked around with this message at 11:41 on Apr 13, 2013 |
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:So guys, I just now realized that I'm technically still a Victoria 2 beta tester and have access to the HoD beta. Yeah gently caress you. You aren't getting into the credits! We are going to be working on a first patch after release, so you can help out with that for whatever time it takes. Fister Roboto posted:The amount of goods POPs demand is unaffected by purchasing power. If they need 100 canned food but can only afford 20, the demand is still 100. No, actually it depends on their potential purchasing power as well so you will see prices drop when nobody can afford something.
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Kavak posted:Isn't the number of Great Powers moddable? You obviously can't have zero but what if you set there to be just one and made everything else uncivilized? The result would probably be a steamrolling unless you made it Greenland or something. Yeah that would probably work. pick iceland and give everyone max relations with them so they never get attacked.
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Necroneocon posted:Wiz and/or podcat, is it true that taking an "uncivilized" nation to "civilized" will be easier plus more fun? A little easier. As for fun, I think so, but thats very personal, so you might not think so. There is less waiting and more fighting thats for sure. If you dont like wars as an unciv nothing has really changed.
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DrSunshine posted:So basically, it's more fun as, say, a Sub-Saharan African civilization, or perhaps China, but maybe not if you're playing, say, Morocco or Korea, or some other unciv that has few neighbors or vastly superior neighbors. yup
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Baronjutter posted:Ah, I found a lone unanswered bug report on the paradox forums about it, the exact same situation as Argentina. Yeah this is new to me and tricky to reproduce, so if you could upload a savegame somewhere that would be epic. Here is a temp fix: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?683012-Argentinean-ciris-over-argentinean-region&p=15339046&viewfull=1#post15339046
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Puella Magissima posted:I got in a colonial crisis with the UK over British Columbia(obviously) and because of "too many wargoals" I had to withdraw. The weird thing was that I wasn't even in any wars and had added no wargoals to the crisis. I assume by "too many wargoals" you mean AI response for offers to join your side? They will check what you have and if its worth too much know that you will cheat them out of the goals if it turns to war so wont accept. Perhaps offering smaller, cheaper goals instead would have worked.
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The Narrator posted:Is it possible the dominion issue is related to the world economy going nuts at the start of every game? I noticed while playing as Mexico and a couple other countries that other countries seem to go bankrupt (giving me the free cassus belli) very quickly. Nah, dominions wont affect it. it will probably even help. Are you trying to build lots of factories early as sweden or something? When I ran a full sweden game last week I had no problems at all, but I waited a while before I started up any industry. The ecnomy is tighter now so if you are just going for military tech or such that can explain it. Getting industry techs is vitally important as well as techs that boost RGO output and mining. When you build factories check input goods and try and build them in places where you produce those inputs and things will get an efficiency bonus. Also, for a smooth economy make sure you subsidize factories until they are running fine. Trying to do early laissez-faire makes things a lot harder, so wait with that. btw, dont keep your stockpile investment slider on max, its a huge chunk of money you have to invest which can be tough if you are building lots and have no buffer money, half-way is safer.
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Patter Song posted:Pop of Darkness  GO gently caress YOURSELF posted:Yup, it looks like I didn't delete the Map cache in the My Documents folder. That's super confusing that there are two! the one in Documents is the one you might have to clear. The one in the game directory, basically never unless you did crazy stuff with your install. also yeah, I know its a bit annoying.
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Kablammo posted:Meanwhile, the King of Mongolia relaxes in his new Solid Gold palace. Mongolia was now the richest, most prestigious country on Earth. In the past few days he had received praise from the UK, USA, Russia and every other great power worldwide about the prestige of the Kingdom of Mongolia and how no other country would ever match its importance. In between sips of the finest wine from France and some excellent Cuban-American cigars he patted himself on the back for sending Mongolia's 2 regiments of irregulars across allied Russia and reinforcing a fight between Russia and the UK with 10:1 superiority in numbers. He also reminded himself how nice it was that Britain's ambassadors has the IQ of a yak and offered him the full surrender of the British, Ottoman, German alliance so that Mongolia's 2 regiments would exit the war. whoa. you dont happen to have an early autosaves before this peace deal. it sounds pretty dopey ;D
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Jabu posted:God, this. I finally gave the CSA a try yesterday and it is utterly frustrating knowing that I could be rich and successful if only I managed to get the socialists in power. Twenty years of spamming elections and I can't get them above 12% Atlas Shrugged scenario???
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WeaponGradeSadness posted:Ah, this sounds amazing! It looks like they're fixing every issue I had with HoD and then some. About how long after a beta patch does the final version usually come out? A week or two. probably two. Also I hope you'll like the Jan Mayern improvements, brought to you by Wiz being crazy and me drinking too much wine on a sunday. podcat fucked around with this message at 19:21 on May 3, 2013 |
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Zilkin posted:Fantasy game in CK style! Post-apocalyptic CK2 game in a Mad max like setting is what I'd love to do  Morholt posted:Laurasia Universalis. Dinosaur politics. Or that...
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ExtraNoise posted:Tonight's Modern Age progress: Fonts! And maps! And and and... This looks pretty good. I like the map! I hate the font for the time and topbar buttons though. If you are trying to get the size right it often helps to hand edit the font files under gfx/fonts/*.fnt as the generator tool doesnt always get it perfect.
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Wiz posted:I sure hope we don't. What would it add except a worse interface? This. The only situation I can imagine where it would be worth doing would be a cold war game with a lot of stuff going on at the poles for some reason or similar.
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DStecks posted:This is going to sound racist as hell, but what is it with Poles and strategy games? You don't see anybody else losing their loving minds over how/if their country exists as a faction. Is there just a really big strategy game fanbase in Poland? Oh come on, pretty much everyone does that, its not limited to Poland.
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Wolfgang Pauli posted:I've been absent. What's going on? Who do I I'd imagine trying to run nuclear deterrent stuff would be really hard without dedicated AI code, but maybe some crafty event modder could pull it off. Or just go full nuclear war 
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StealthArcher posted:Your current administrator is John Doe of 4/2/3, a decent bloke. But you want this forum to be more then a small spithole, you gotta take it places, but how? Do you intend to actually set up rules lists? Hire vetted volunteer or even paid moderators? If you actually manage to finish this mod its going to be amazing Religions should probably be some specific trait of certain communities, like Hipsterism for reddit or I dunno ADHD for 4chan. It could also be modeled as a battle over certain types of memes I guess. (Reddit tryign to spread unfunny rage comics to other forums etc) podcat fucked around with this message at 13:25 on Aug 29, 2013 |
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Wolfgang Pauli posted:I turned assimilation off entirely just to preserve that kind of cultural diversity. I think the only real reason it's in the game is to take a load off of the CPU. This is true to a large extent although in some places its important for gameplay reasons. Without assimilation the game slows to a crawl late game.
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gradenko_2000 posted:I think the soldier colonization speed bonus was removed in Heart of Darkness, but yes, if you're still playing Vic 2 vanilla or A House Divided, you just need to put a single brigade in the province and it'll colonize 2% faster. yes it was removed when we redid the colonization in HoD
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gradenko_2000 posted:Or really, why even make it for Victoria? Why not CK2 or EU4? Pony Pops obviously. as for HoI: 
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ExtraNoise posted:Some more work on my "Divided We Stand" mod! Are there union cores so any of the states can conquer the others and form the US? Any spread of starting relations with france/england etc? (yes I'm too lazy to download and test right now  )
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:- The dinosaur thing was a joke. Never retreat. Never surrender. Never lose hope!
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DrSunshine posted:Spore: A Paradox Development Studios Game. I doubt anyone actually has the budget to make a good Spore game. Every stage really needs as much development time as a full game, as evident of them getting worse and worse the further you played. The first 2 were fun. Maybe it could be the first Telltale-style episodic grand strategy game?
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Kavak posted:How did anyone play Hearts of Iron before trade automation anyway? Did you just take a mostly self-sufficient country and wing it? HOI3 has had trade automation in from the start.
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Darkrenown posted:I could honestly see Podcat doing this, I hope he doesn't see your post Too late! All future games will now feature Dogecoins. EDIT: a coworker suggested Coinye West currency might be the future? Help! Which one should we pick?! podcat fucked around with this message at 14:22 on Jan 8, 2014 |
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