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Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Is Victoria 2 multiplayer playable at all? It seems like the economy is unstable enough in singleplayer.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2013 08:19

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 10:51

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

DerLeo posted:

Is A House Divided considered essential for V2 or not?

It's an expansion for a Paradox game so yes.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2013 18:46

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Alchenar posted:

On the other hand the CK2 AI appears to have a much better idea of whether a war is winnable or not.

At the very least it shows you its decision modifiers and whether it's rejecting peace because it thinks it's winning, that it can win, or that the AI's losing but pretty sure it's a few days away from pushing your poo poo in. It was a black hole in EU3.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2013 01:28

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:

I agree. It was similar to the complaint people had going from Civ 4 to Civ 5. In Civ 4, you always knew why the AI liked or hated you, and it was pretty transparent in its motivations. In Civ V, they obfuscated everything and it felt like you never knew why the AI did any of the things it did, making it really hard to predict and just frustrating. Part of this was because the AI (in the few months after launch) was absolutely awful and really did just behave erratically, but the obfuscation of information didn't help.

Transparency in AI is a wonderful thing.

It's even better when you realize that the Depressed, Lunatic, Possessed, and a few other traits actually do cause the AI to make irrational decisions. An AI lunatic on the throne is a real threat to everyone.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2013 09:41

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Is HOI3 worth playing yet? I tried playing Arsenal of Democracy but micromanaging a thousand units on two fronts with those tiny little provinces on the EU2 engine is just nuts.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2013 18:13

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Rudi Starnberg posted:

I thought AoD used the HOI2 map?

It's still the EU2 engine with its antiquated UI.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2013 18:16

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Kainser posted:

War of 1812 DLC confirmed?

Every country has unit graphics for 1792, 1805, and 1812. There's a constitutional_republic government type and America localization text.

There's also localization text for a few countries that aren't independent in 1805: Wallachia, Greece, Moldavia, and our favorites:

Paradox posted:

The Battle of Kosovo represented the dark sunset of our people as we entered the long night of the Turkish subjugation. Arise now Serbian people! A new dawn is here and we are once more free of the Turkish yoke. Taste now the sweet taste of freedom and be ready the shed our most precious blood to defend it.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2013 10:31

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

KoldPT posted:

How do you deal with the UK in MoTE? The wooden wall strategy pretty much means you can't touch them, other than maybe gibraltar/malta, and they don't seem to want to peace out with me.

Congratulations, you're Napoleon.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2013 18:43

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

What determines if you continue holding a province after your armies have occupied it and moved on? Do you need to capture the nearest fort?

# ¿ Feb 19, 2013 20:21

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Kavak posted:

I don't know if this is possible, but I'm trying to figure out a way to add a variable to this so that I can try to establish claims on provinces my realm borders. I'd just change it so that you can lay claims on whoever, but I just went through a whole lot of marriage and murder to get a foothold on Solstheim before I figured out what the criteria were, and I don't want to invalidate that.
code:
action_fabricate_claims = {
	attribute = diplomacy
	
	trigger = {
		NOT = {	any_province_lord = { character = FROM } }
		any_province_lord = {
			OR = {
				culture_group = FROM
				religion_group = FROM
			}
		}
		NOT = { owner = { character = FROM	} }
		NOT = { FROM = { has_landed_title = c_hrothgar } }
	}
	events = { 913 914 }
}

There's an any_neighbor_province scope you might be able to add to the requirements if you want to restrict it to things you border. I'm not sure if it would work but you can try it.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2013 20:50

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Pinterest Mom posted:

Please repay your loans.

He's just practicing Keynesian economics :shepface:

# ¿ Apr 25, 2013 21:07

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Didn't Paradox have to turn down religious assimilation so the Jews wouldn't go extinct by 1900?

# ¿ Apr 25, 2013 23:11

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

I didn't even notice "Thomas Johansson." That is like, paradox.txt.

# ¿ Apr 26, 2013 01:21

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

the night dad posted:

What are some good "goals" for playing Oranje, Transvaal, or South Africa (Satellite or not)? I just go bankrupt within the first month or so, and I'm not sure if I should be increasing taxes or lowering spending on military/Edu/Admin, etc.

Short term? Conquer the other European states down there. Medium term? Gobble up as much of Africa as you can. Long term? Take over the British Isles.

Always max taxes because the efficiency is so bad you don't get a penalty at the start (unless they fixed that). Research your core trade techs as much as possible to get maximum output from the diamond mines that will start to pop up.

# ¿ Apr 26, 2013 07:02

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Have the cool Victoria 2 mods been updated for Heart of Darkness?

# ¿ May 6, 2013 23:35

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Afghanistan was 4% Soldier until Persia decided to invade me. Luckily their Sikh allies refused to join their war so I just puppeted them instead.

Now it's 1% Soldier :saddowns:

# ¿ May 7, 2013 07:04

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

How can I speed up westernization in HoD? I'm a giant Afghanistan steamrolling my neighbors in 1885 and I'm only at 85% westernization. The UK sphered me so I don't make ungodly sums of money off tariffs anymore. Just put NF on Clergymen and keep spending research points to advance education technology?

# ¿ May 8, 2013 20:36

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

So I discovered gold in one of my provinces as Imperial Japan in 1836 and now my poor taxes suddenly raised about 1000% and are now �1000/day. :psyduck:

Apparently there's enough gold to make 250,000 gold miners insanely rich.

# ¿ May 9, 2013 07:15

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

eggsovereasy posted:

If I remember correctly EU2 was very strict about historic events in that country X got event Y every game on date Z no matter what. I think original EUIII had no historic events at all and no missions. I like where it ended up, the missions guide countries towards history, but there is still enough randomness to keep things interesting.

EU2 was railroaded. They didn't have MTTH until Victoria I think?

# ¿ Aug 6, 2013 00:55

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

I do like that if an AI character is mentally ill they get an irrationality bonus that makes them even stupider.

Speaking of dumb AI, I'm having a lot of trouble with the MEIOU AI. I'm Mecklenburg. I'm allied with Denmark. L�beck is between me and Denmark. I go to war with Pommerania on a mission CB, the Emperor gets involved even though he's at war with Poland, it's a mess. The drat Danish army, 16,000 strong, won't leave Denmark. The AI won't ask L�beck for military access so they're stuck there!

Once I tagged over and asked for them (it was Very Likely, so a sure thing) they got it and we steamrolled Pommerania. This happens every time I go to war and it's annoying.

# ¿ Aug 6, 2013 08:27

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

In MEIOU, does asking the Emperor for a promotion to prince do anything other than upgrade your title? I've got Mecklenburg up to 5 cities and I'm trying to figure out if it's worth diplo-annexing my (imperial territory) vassal to push me to 6.

# ¿ Aug 6, 2013 20:26

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Not really worth taking the prestige and infamy hits if I'm a filthy rich trading-focused Feudal Monarchy then.

Why did they make decentralization increase inflation? I started at +4 and 50 years into the game I'm at 1% inflation and there's nothing I can do about it.

# ¿ Aug 6, 2013 21:03

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

I got a vassalize mission on the Free City of Bremen but the Vassalization CB seems to have disappeared. How do I get it back? :confused:

# ¿ Aug 7, 2013 00:46

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Wasn't the deal that Constantinople is incredibly rich and has a high defensiveness rating, which is both historical and something most minors don't have?

# ¿ Aug 7, 2013 20:36

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Beamed posted:

On the other hand, do you have any idea how frustrating it was having Paradox Entertainment, Paradox Games, and Paradox Interactive chilling in your Start Menu? Assholes hated my organization

And I remember the bit about Strategy First basically telling them to gently caress off when they filed for bankruptcy, that was rough. Didn't the current Paradox once also own the name Paradox Entertainment, just the games division alone, and they just changed the name for clarity? I remember something weird like that going on.

Strategy First hosed a lot of small European developers when they went bankrupt and told their creditors to eat poo poo.

# ¿ Aug 8, 2013 02:34

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

You'll need to start with EU: Rome for that one. Bona fortuna! :hist101:

# ¿ Aug 13, 2013 04:18

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Booted up Victoria 2 + PDM for the first time in a while. Yep, Afghanistan's still a steamroller. I haven't lost a war yet. The closest I've come is rump Khiva declaring war on me for the state I took from them and dragging Persia in early on when Persia's army was larger than mine, but they peaced out once I occupied the two provinces that made up Khiva at the time.

The dynamic labels are bugged, I formed the Durrani Empire (gray) and the blue part is a Qing breakaway I satellited during the course of my conquests when I noticed the Qing Empire had imploded like always. I think the Sikh Empire AI was wigging out being sandwiched between me and British India, I annexed them and immediately was able to recruit another 10 divisions in Lahore because half the drat province pops were soldiers.

Now I'm sandwiched between British India and Russia and at 70% westernization. Afghanistan will rise again :jihad:

Luigi Thirty fucked around with this message at 09:32 on Apr 10, 2014

# ¿ Apr 10, 2014 09:30

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

I absorbed a Central Asian minor and Afghanistan's percentage of bureaucrats went from .8 to 1.1%. :psyduck:

# ¿ Apr 11, 2014 01:19

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Victoria 1 had capitalists that built factroys, yes. By Victoria 2 they were able to afford a spellchecker.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2014 06:38

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Before EU there was Svea Rike, which was the same thing but on a map of Sweden and Norway. The international version used a map of England and France instead. If you conquered France it popped up a screen congratulating you for uniting Scandinavia.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2014 07:03

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Huh. It's 1875 and Croatia is a Communist democracy. Shouldn't they be a Proletariat Dictatorship after a successful Communist revolution or does HoD/PDM change that?

# ¿ Apr 11, 2014 09:13

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

catlord posted:

Is there any way to reveal more of the map in EU4 besides the people around me exploring or exploring myself? I imported a game from CK2, and it's now 1525 and I just realised that nobody has the exploration idea. Checking the files, it looks like Alba has it in their historical ideas list, but they seem in no hurry to get it. I made some changes outside of Europe, and I'd like to see how those are panning out, but I'm in a sorta precarious position due to having some rather large countries breathing down my neck. Can I safely edit the historical ideas list partway through the game to get some countries to add it? How does that list work anyway?

Also, how does the Reformation work? Reform desire is at around 75% and nothing's happened yet.

Edit: vv Ok, I saw on the wiki that it started at 55%, but they noted that the section was out of date and quite possibly wrong.

Map discoveries spread over time (decades), an enemy's capital is revealed if you haven't discovered it, you can explore without a conquistador if you're at war with someone.

# ¿ Apr 12, 2014 00:33

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Patter Song posted:

a Songs of the Third Reich Music DLC.

It's just a midi version of Der Ring des Nibelungen.

# ¿ Apr 12, 2014 03:32

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Patter Song posted:

Maybe for V3 we could have a decision like this:

Requirements: that you're the Ottomans, that you have the Rhetoric of Hate invention, that you're at war with Russia in a Great War. Reduce Armenian pops in Van, Ezerzum, and Trabzon by 90%, relocate a third of the vanished pops to Yerevan, remove Armenian cores.

(This is utterly horrifying, don't do it)

One of the big EU3 megamods reduced the MTTH for culture shifts between Greek and Turkish in Greece and Asia Minor to about 1/10 its original value.

# ¿ Apr 12, 2014 20:02

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Hey, I became Communist and lost the cool Durrani Empire tag and flag. Now I'm just Pashtunistan with a Chinese flag? How do I rename myself the Socialist Republic of Afghanistan?

I'm playing Vicky 2 HoD with PDM.

# ¿ Apr 14, 2014 00:14

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Darkrenown posted:

This game seems interesting!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/285480/

Came out in 2003, all the screenshots are in Russian? :steam:

# ¿ Jun 10, 2014 08:54

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Oh, I had to scroll to the end. :laffo:

# ¿ Jun 10, 2014 10:23

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Why are HTTT and Divine Wind not available for Mac? I want to play mapgame on my Mac but EU4 runs horrifically on my MBA and the latest version of EU3 on Steam is In Nomine.

# ¿ Jun 12, 2014 00:19

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

SeaTard posted:

EU3 for OSX was outsourced to another company, and so you have to get it from them. It's been a very long time since I paid attention to EU3, but I'm not sure if they ever got the final patch for OSX.

Gross. EU4 runs okay in windowed mode at 1024x768 and it's not like FPS is important in a mapgame anyway.

# ¿ Jun 12, 2014 00:41

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 10:51

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

DrSunshine posted:

Yeah, it'd be nice if there was some kind of mechanic that would make them lose cores after certain conditions -- perhaps after the second war, or a certain period of time elapses.

Pretty sure France and Germany have been fighting over their cores in Alsace-Lorraine since the death of Charlemagne.

e: beaten to that joke, really???

# ¿ Jun 12, 2014 09:32

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