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Kainser posted:I hope that Yugoslavia will have Macedonia as a possible revolter in East vs West. The Paradox forums would explode It gets better- the last start date for EvW is the Gulf War, and the game officially ends at 1992. We're looking at either plans for an official expansion covering the breakup of Yugoslavia and/or a civil war of nationalist mod makers. 
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I've never played UE3 before, is Steppe Wolfe actually fun or is it like watching a trainwreck?
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Jon Joe posted:I've never played UE3 before, is Steppe Wolfe actually fun or is it like watching a trainwreck? 
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Feb 3, 2013 23:50
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Jon Joe posted:I've never played UE3 before, is Steppe Wolfe actually fun or is it like watching a trainwreck? It's fun like a game of Supreme Ruler is; nothing will make sense, the Holy Roman Empire will convert to Judaism and then declare itself defender of the Hindi faith, but drat if it won't be a wild trainwreck while it happens  .
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Feb 3, 2013 23:57
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I go away for the weekend and come back to this. Well played.
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Feb 4, 2013 00:02
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Whoever bought that - I love you.
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How long till EvW has a Byzantium mod?
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Feb 4, 2013 00:26
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RagnarokAngel posted:How long till EvW has a Byzantium mod? It's going to be a feature.
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RagnarokAngel posted:How long till EvW has a Byzantium mod? Patch Notes EvW 1.01: -Reduced chances of Byzantium being formed, should only appear in 98% of games instead of 100. Patch Notes EvW 1.02: -After much input from forumgoers, removed "Restore Rome" decision from Greece, now only available to Yugoslavia.
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Jon Joe posted:I've never played UE3 before, is Steppe Wolfe actually fun or is it like watching a trainwreck? Unreal Europa 3?
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Feb 4, 2013 00:45
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They should rename Steppe Wolfe Unreal Europa.
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Feb 4, 2013 00:58
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Just played some Kaiserreich as the Philippines. I did practically nothing. Canada hated me so I never got into their alliance, despite the Australasia Confederation loving the poo poo outta me. Russia went Soviet, so Germany got their poo poo kicked in, and eventually the Canadian alliance got called in (Germany ended up in their alliance, leaving Mitteleuropa as only Burma), but by the mid-late 1940's things had completely stalled, with nobody making any headway at all. I just sat there researching stuff (I was aiming for some Naval superiority, but I think I was absurdly behind the times anyway) and building some boats until I finally quit in 1951. This was also only the second time I saw someone other than the CSA win the war, with the USA winning, and becoming an alliance with the PSA and New England. I know there are some mod-mods for Kaiserreich, are any of them good?
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catlord posted:Just played some Kaiserreich as the Philippines. I did practically nothing. Canada hated me so I never got into their alliance, despite the Australasia Confederation loving the poo poo outta me. Russia went Soviet, so Germany got their poo poo kicked in, and eventually the Canadian alliance got called in (Germany ended up in their alliance, leaving Mitteleuropa as only Burma), but by the mid-late 1940's things had completely stalled, with nobody making any headway at all. I just sat there researching stuff (I was aiming for some Naval superiority, but I think I was absurdly behind the times anyway) and building some boats until I finally quit in 1951. This was also only the second time I saw someone other than the CSA win the war, with the USA winning, and becoming an alliance with the PSA and New England. Try turning up the AI aggressiveness, see if that helps any. (Its in the options menu when selecting a country) Also, try spawning revolts (showid, revolt [provinceid#]) in one of the countries fighting, it'll cripple their industry. Farecoal fucked around with this message at 04:19 on Feb 4, 2013 |
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Feb 4, 2013 03:49
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Everyones told me that Rome is unplayability unstable this patch, but aside from 7 or so random crashes over the course of the game it seemed to play fine for me. I think this was my first real full length game of EU: Rome too.  Not shown, is that I passed full gender equality. 
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Farecoal posted:Also, try spawning revolts (showid, revolt [provinceid#]) in one of the countries fighting, it'll cripple their industry. Hmm, I might do that to Soviet Russia if it pops up in another game, because when they go Soviet they become an unstoppable force that will crush all in their way.
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catlord posted:Hmm, I might do that to Soviet Russia if it pops up in another game, because when they go Soviet they become an unstoppable force that will crush all in their way. That's only if they win the Civil War though, which I've only seen happen when Russia gets completely ganked by every event possible (for example, Siberia declaring independence forcibly while they're at war with the Soviets, forcing them to fight a two-front war).
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Bishop Rodan posted:That's only if they win the Civil War though, which I've only seen happen when Russia gets completely ganked by every event possible (for example, Siberia declaring independence forcibly while they're at war with the Soviets, forcing them to fight a two-front war). Really? This game they didn't have a civil war, and Siberia didn't declare independence. I just looked up to see how Russia was doing (I think they might have been the empire?) and suddenly the north was red. I have seen the civil wars, but Russia seems to win that about half the time. Edit: I'm playing the beta version, 1.4? Maybe that has something to do with it?
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There's a series of decisions you can take to voluntarily transform into the USSR a year or two into the game if you basically go hard left in a couple key decisions. I've never seen the AI take it (but then again Russia is my favorite country in Kaiserreich so...), but it is doable. Speaking of which, is there a way to kick the British monarchy out of Canada and play as the glorious maple leaf nation? I've been fiddling around with taking decisions that the AI never takes (Internationale Japan was kind of fun for a while) and I... don't really know what I'd do after kicking the Royal Family out, but it would be better than clicking my way through a bunch of inconsequential events, then inevitably getting stuck in a Cold War across the Atlantic with the Union of Britain that I don't have the manpower to prosecute (until Germany takes over France and spends three years bombing Britain into oblivion, of course).
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Is there a Paradox chatroom/IRC where I can ask a million small questions about CK2 without spamming this thread?
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FadingChord posted:There's a series of decisions you can take to voluntarily transform into the USSR a year or two into the game if you basically go hard left in a couple key decisions. I've never seen the AI take it (but then again Russia is my favorite country in Kaiserreich so...), but it is doable. You could always lose to the CSA/UoB though and play as the Socialist Republic of Canada! And it isn't even certain that Germany will destroy France. In my second most recent game (as Japan) Germany ended up completely overrun by the Internationale, and fled to Mittleafrika which ended up conquered as well. Mind you, the Internationale in that game consisted of France, Britain, Spain, South Italy, unified Scandinavia, and Ukraine, so that might have played a part in it. gradenko_2000 posted:Is there a Paradox chatroom/IRC where I can ask a million small questions about CK2 without spamming this thread? There's a thread where you can ask! EDIT: Sorry, missed this: catlord posted:Really? This game they didn't have a civil war, and Siberia didn't declare independence. I just looked up to see how Russia was doing (I think they might have been the empire?) and suddenly the north was red. I have seen the civil wars, but Russia seems to win that about half the time. Bishop Rodan fucked around with this message at 16:19 on Feb 4, 2013 |
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FadingChord posted:There's a series of decisions you can take to voluntarily transform into the USSR a year or two into the game if you basically go hard left in a couple key decisions. I've never seen the AI take it (but then again Russia is my favorite country in Kaiserreich so...), but it is doable. Bishop Rodan posted:That's only if they win the Civil War though, which I've only seen happen when Russia gets completely ganked by every event possible (for example, Siberia declaring independence forcibly while they're at war with the Soviets, forcing them to fight a two-front war). Yeah, in my current game Soviet Russia formed through the AI's decisions, rather than civil war, and they've been remarkably chill (only retook like half of Russia's old territory). When they won through civil war in my other games, they went on a mass-conquering spree.
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Bishop Rodan posted:And it isn't even certain that Germany will destroy France. In my second most recent game (as Japan) Germany ended up completely overrun by the Internationale, and fled to Mittleafrika which ended up conquered as well. I'm a couple betas back (for no good reason but  ) but I've never seen the Internationale win the second Weltkrieg. In my most recent game as Wrangel's Russia, I DoW'd on Germany a couple months into the war to grab some Baltic land and let France/Britain/CNT Spain do all the heavy lifting in the west; after a brief push into the Rhineland, the Internationale got pushed back and collapsed right after I got my boys into Berlin. Now I'm sitting on Germany, France, Denmark, the Benelux, and Aragon (which Germany also took with maybe five surviving divisions before I showed up) while I build transports and hope Germany will accept one of my peace offers. France surrendered when I was just outside Paris (which I found weird, even if we weren't allied or aligned).I also created the Rhine Confederation or whatever that German substate is, then looked at the rulers and realized I'd released a Nazi paradise. I feel really bad about it now  . Just when I thought my main German release going maximum Hugenberg was bad enough!
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Feb 4, 2013 06:26
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Is there anyone out there who feels generous and still has one of those EU3: Chronicles keys stowed away from the big giveaway a while back? I have a friend who wants to give the game a try, so I figured it might be worth asking.
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Kersch posted:Is there anyone out there who feels generous and still has one of those EU3: Chronicles keys stowed away from the big giveaway a while back? I have a friend who wants to give the game a try, so I figured it might be worth asking. PMed you mine.
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Friend Commuter posted:PMed you mine. Yours probably got there first Guess there's probably a couple of us out there.
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FadingChord posted:I'm a couple betas back (for no good reason but 1.4 has made it more likely for the Syndicalists to pose a credible threat. That might be because it seems more likely for Spain, USA and Russia to turn red. All anecdotal, of course.
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Friend Commuter posted:PMed you mine. Fergus Mac Roich posted:Yours probably got there first Woah, thanks! I'm passing Friend Commuter's key along to my buddy. I really appreciate this.
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Gorgo Primus posted:Everyones told me that Rome is unplayability unstable this patch, but aside from 7 or so random crashes over the course of the game it seemed to play fine for me. I think this was my first real full length game of EU: Rome too. All that and you didnt even retake the homeland?
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I thought about taking back Tyre, but I wasn't about to get in the way of Super Egypt.
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Okay so I started playing this game last night and managed to put in 9 hours  I played as nothing but Ethiopia again and again, constantly restarting every time I got a game over. Several hilarious things happened over the course of the games. One game I attacked Adal, so Swahili declared war on me, but I made Adal my vassal and, since I was still at war with Swahili, I had Adal join the war. They proceeded to kick Swahilian butt and I managed to get huge concessions from them without lifting a finger. Another game I annexed Adal, then about 5 years later I sold pieces of it to Swahili for 600 gold. Immediately afterwards rebels took it over and reformed Adal, at which pointed I took it over again. I tried to sell it to Swahili again, but they wouldn't have it. Using my massive gold I formed several colonies, only to start deficiting shortly after reaching trade 2 and gaining my own center of trade, then having about 30 pretenders show up in an internal disputed succession and causing me to lose.I think I love this game. edit: What mods should I get? Which in the OP is the 'best'? Or should I just go crazy and get Steppe Wolfe? Emmideer fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Feb 4, 2013 |
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Definitely only play Steppe Wolfe once you're a veteran so you can appreciate the craziness and criminal modding neglect it contains. EU3+ has a bunch of changes that are cool but at the same time it might not be particularly friendly to newcomers. You should probably start with a more concrete vanilla experience, then start exploring the modding scene. miscmods is basically the vanilla+ mod, and you should go for it if you plan on a non-european game (like ethiopia), but I don't know how compatible it is with the latest patch. I think someone has kept it up to date but I can't say I remember anything more than that.
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Do any of the mods remove wastelands and make them into things I can colonize/conquer? I'd like to unite Africa under a single banner!
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Steppe Wolfe removes it (out of virtue of using the Victoria 2 map/having a timeline extending to the modern age), as does the Whole World Mod (but I don't know if this is up to date). Others, such as MEIOU and I think maybe Death & Taxes have less wastelands (in MEIOU there's three or so passages through the Sahara and most stuff south of it that isn't deep rainforest is colonisable, for instance).
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Patter Song posted:I'd highly recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about that time period. It's one of the most fascinating history books I've ever read, with truly staggering amounts of information. I'm personally fond of Heather's Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe. It's... a bit of a doorstopper, and perhaps a bit too much love for justifying premises within the body of the text (do you like analyzing burial patterns and potsherd dispersals? This book does!), but if you don't mind skimming through those bits, it's a very interesting and informative read. (I particularly liked his theory about how Rome ended up essentially creating the barbarian kingdoms that eventually destroyed it.) gradenko_2000 posted:The Escapist just released this EU4 article, this time talking about multi-player. EU3 has theoretically allowed #LARGENUM of players since forever. In practice, stability is low enough that more than 3-4 players is impractical. Likewise CK2. The architecture changes required for hot-joins & dedicated servers must be pretty major, though, so maybe that'll be all better now! I live in hopeful anticipation. PleasingFungus fucked around with this message at 01:57 on Feb 6, 2013 |
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How are you defining impractical there, I've seen games with 20 people run pretty well. There's the occasional OOS and crashes but they aren't chronic.
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Jon Joe posted:Do any of the mods remove wastelands and make them into things I can colonize/conquer? I'd like to unite Africa under a single banner!  I also heard good things about Terra Nova, and it's updated for 5.2 beta (though that will be the last version apparently) but I haven't tried it myself. I'd suggest you check that out. MEIOU is another option, but it's a complete overhaul mod full of little changes everywhere so might not be a great choice for a new player.
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NihilCredo posted:Whole World Mod would be exactly what you want, it adds a bunch of provinces and countries outside of Europe without messing too much with the gameplay, but unfortunately it hasn't been updated in a year and a half and it's effectively dead There's also this: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?614446-%28MOD%29-States-Mod Which is based off CanOsmer's great map revision and then adds provinces for the rest of the world to remove the Wasteland. The 'base' scenario includes a country for each of the 50 states in the USA, but there's also a scenario that is just vanilla EU3 and doesn't include them. Of the (small number) of working whole world maps I like this one best. I wish someone would adapt the V2 map as just a map, without adding mountains of crazy like Steppewolfe. EDIT: My big problem with Terra Universalis http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?387387-Terra-Universalis-mod-%28no-PTI%29 is that it adds so many tags it slows my game waaaaaaay down. I may try removing a bunch and seeing if that helps. EDIT EDIT: Hell yes it does. Going to have to do some culling and maybe some scenario editing to make a lite version of this mod so it a little more playable on my machine. Fintilgin fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Feb 4, 2013 |
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PleasingFungus posted:I'm personally fond of Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe. It's... a bit of a doorstopper, and perhaps a bit too much love for justifying premises within the body of the text (do you like analyzing burial patterns and potsherd dispersals? This book does!), but if you don't mind skimming through those bits, it's a very interesting and informative read. (I particularly liked his theory about how Rome ended up essentially creating the barbarian kingdoms that eventually destroyed it.) If we're making barbarian migration book recommendations, I'd feel remiss if I didn't give a shout out to my old professor Guy Halsall's Barbarian Migrations. He challenges a lot of Heather's ideas and has a more engaging writing style than Heather so it's worth a read if you've read Heather. A little on the pricey side but he is the (self-professed) most significant historian of early medieval Europe under the age of 60 anywhere in the world. I agree with the people who've said this period would be very difficult to model in a Paradox game though and as much as I'd like to be able to run a game from the Roman Republic through to the end of the Cold War in the Clausewitz engine, I don't see it happening.
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Graham Gremlin posted:I agree with the people who've said this period would be very difficult to model in a Paradox game
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