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Nuclearmonkee posted:They just need to consolidate. Instead of four Mozambiques it should just add onto my existing Mozambique dominion. Regardless, it can be worked around via change owner but it is obnoxious. Any fix is fine by me. And yes, it is obnoxious to have to dig through console commands on release day. This slip feels like old times, Paradox.
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Baronjutter posted:Man I forgot how bad I am at this game since I gave up on it a couple months after release. I got both expansion packs hoping to jump in but I'm terrible. A lot of countries start with financial issues. First things first, get your admin efficiency up to 100% for your nation and in all of your core provinces by encouraging bureaucrats. Prioritize researching some economic techs that benefit you the most. Don't remember what Argentina specializes in, but if it's like Brazil, go for farming and RGO boosts since you are primarily agrarian and un-industrialized to begin. In the meantime, tax the poo poo out of your populace, hike your tariffs and cut military funding. As your administrative efficiency improves and some econ techs come in, you can ease up on tariffs and taxes.
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Baronjutter posted:Any other advise you can give? Like how to start making money? I can't even seem to build any factories yet due to lack of parts/technology and don't understand most of the national focus stuff or what admin efficiency does/how to improve it. Admin efficiency determines how effective you are at collecting tax and profit in your country. If you do what I did, your very first step will be getting 100% administrative efficiency in your largest states (at the 1836 start I think that's Buenos Aires and Entre Rios). Until you get 100% admin efficiency in both states, your budget is going to be as austere as possible. Place your national focus in both of those states to Encourage Bureaucrats. Max out the bureaucracy slicer in your budget though, as this will passively slightly encourage bureaucrats in all of your other states as well. Once your administrative efficiency in your "main" states is high enough, you should be able to start normalizing your sliders. You may also want to max out tariffs too to be able to make ends meet, and then gradually lower them. After your budget is in the clear, you'll want to start encouraging clergy in your larger states too. Clergy determine how many research points you get and how fast your literacy rate goes up. For maximum literacy gain, you should aim for 4% of your total population being clergy. With 4% clergy in my most populous states and with a steady stream of immigrants, I was able to hit 100% literacy by 1900. At some point in the 1840s or 1850s, I believe, you'll get an event that will turn you into a democracy for free. TAKE IT. As soon as you democratize, immigrants will come flooding in at an incredibly high rate (again, this was with APD, not sure about HoD). Once the migrants come in, you can start industrializing or work on acquiring your cores in Uruguay/Paraguay/Brazil/Bolivia, and if you want to start working toward forming La Plata.
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Yeah this is really feeling like pre-CK2 paradox. I thought you guys were turning over a new leaf since that launch, was it just an anomaly or luck?
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I think that's going a little overboard; this is an annoying bug that makes the map pretty ugly, but it's not anything game breaking.
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Vodos posted:
Your colonies are contiguous. If they touch, they get lumped together. You need to release them before they touch. EDIT: And yeah, the dominions bug makes the map kind of hideous, but it's not really affecting gameplay all that much.
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Apr 16, 2013 17:12
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Pylons posted:I think that's going a little overboard; this is an annoying bug that makes the map pretty ugly, but it's not anything game breaking. Ugly map is game breaking. 
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Baronjutter posted:Yeah this is really feeling like pre-CK2 paradox. I thought you guys were turning over a new leaf since that launch, was it just an anomaly or luck? Gameplay-wise this is a pretty minor bug. It's unfortunate because it's so immediately noticeable, but I don't think you need to draw any grand implications from it.
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Apr 16, 2013 17:21
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Not game breaking, just poorly tested. That's quintessential old school Paradox.
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Apr 16, 2013 17:21
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We hoped Wiz would fix Paradox and instead Paradox broke Wiz  Seriously though, I've not noticed anything big other than the dominion stuff, and the crashes are very easily fixed. Managing big armies is still really clumsy though: I would love some sort of OBB editor, especially now that army composition is so much more important.
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Apr 16, 2013 17:25
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Beamed posted:It's been said before - clear your cache in Documents. Uninstalling won't clear it for you. Well that cleared up the problem, thanks and I retract my statement on Paradox being Paradox.
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Apr 16, 2013 17:28
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So my Texas game hasn't gone as well as my earlier game that I have had with Texas, for some reason I hardly got any immigration at all even though I was pretty drat liberal. Also it was quite some time ago I played so can someone explain why socialists don't support expanding the vote franchise?
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Apr 16, 2013 17:37
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Wiz posted:Gameplay-wise this is a pretty minor bug. It's unfortunate because it's so immediately noticeable, but I don't think you need to draw any grand implications from it. Hey Wiz what are you doing at paradox now anyways? I haven't been following this thread for months and last I remembered I just knew you were getting a job there.
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Apr 16, 2013 17:38
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Lord Tywin posted:So my Texas game hasn't gone as well as my earlier game that I have had with Texas, for some reason I hardly got any immigration at all even though I was pretty drat liberal. Was your previous game played with APD? The mod adds a lot of depth to migration mechanics.
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Apr 16, 2013 17:39
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Baronjutter posted:Hey Wiz what are you doing at paradox now anyways? I haven't been following this thread for months and last I remembered I just knew you were getting a job there. I'm the AI Programmer, currently working on EU4. I did a bunch of work on HoD as well, mostly AI but also some other stuff like the land combat rework.
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Apr 16, 2013 17:47
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Anyone got a link to HoD on the steam store? I'm not seeing it yet.
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Apr 16, 2013 18:06
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Wiz posted:I'm the AI Programmer, currently working on EU4. I did a bunch of work on HoD as well, mostly AI but also some other stuff like the land combat rework. Well I'm super pumped about eu4! Did you actually relocated there? How come you weren't in the musical?
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Apr 16, 2013 18:11
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uPen posted:Anyone got a link to HoD on the steam store? I'm not seeing it yet. It was just on the DLC link from V2 for me if you want to try it now.
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Apr 16, 2013 18:34
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uPen posted:Anyone got a link to HoD on the steam store? I'm not seeing it yet. http://store.steampowered.com/app/215001/ Wiz posted:Gameplay-wise this is a pretty minor bug. It's unfortunate because it's so immediately noticeable, but I don't think you need to draw any grand implications from it. Pretty borders is not minor
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Apr 16, 2013 18:34
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Colonization is a bitch. I'm trying to keep the British out of Washington while juggling keeping Mexico out of Colorado/Oklahoma, while keeping Texas safe. I should probably focus on keeping Texas safe and Washington, then take whatever Mexico takes in the Mexican-American war.
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 Grr, reinstalling everything I guess. e: Still happens after a fresh install, any suggestions? This is happening during the initializing maplogic loading screen. uPen fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Apr 16, 2013 |
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Apr 16, 2013 18:42
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Also I take it from the lack of responses to a previous post I made asking for recommendations for Vicky2 tutorial LP's/AAR's that there are none.
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Apr 16, 2013 18:52
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uPen posted:
There's something you have to clear in documents, I think. I believe it's Documents >> Paradox Interactive >> Victoria 2 >> map >> cache. And just delete that. That should take care of it IIRC. Doing a fresh install won't take care for that. Same thing happened to me when I was installing Vicky 2 + AHD for the first time.
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The crisis system is really cool so far, there has been a lot of large and sensible wars in this game.
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enuma elish posted:There's something you have to clear in documents, I think. I believe it's Documents >> Paradox Interactive >> Victoria 2 >> map >> cache. And just delete that. That should take care of it IIRC. Doing a fresh install won't take care for that. Same thing happened to me when I was installing Vicky 2 + AHD for the first time. Don't have a map or cache folder. Only folder in the Vicky2 subfolder is Logs, dleting the whole vicky2 folder from my docs didn't fix anything.
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uPen posted:Don't have a map or cache folder. Only folder in the Vicky2 subfolder is Logs, dleting the whole vicky2 folder from my docs didn't fix anything. In that case I have no idea.
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uPen posted:
I have that happen whenever I install V2: I always have a chache in my maps folder even if I never ran it before. Check if you have one, and delete it. E: Huh, missed your second post. That's really strange, I delete the map cache in my V2 install folder and it fixes it for me .Also how are you guys starting crises? I started out as Austria, annexed Krakow via console, released them as Poland, and then tried to plop an NF on Wielkopolska, but it doesn't result in any tension; the Great Power ranking of Russia more than overcomes what the NF creates, let alone the natural decay and the fact a GP is at war. Do you get events boosting your tension generation, or can you only hit smaller GPs/secondary powers with tension?
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nutranurse posted:Also I take it from the lack of responses to a previous post I made asking for recommendations for Vicky2 tutorial LP's/AAR's that there are none. There was a Brazil LP by Zearoth, but that was pre-AHD and it is severely outdated now. Fear not, though, I'm sure one of the enterprising Goons in this thread will make a Jan Mayen LP soon enough. Actually, the current state of Dominions is perfect for a more humorous LP: dozens of ridiculous countries added into the game, and in the late game when revolutions become endemic, those dominions will be free countries and playing the game with the rest of the world. It's like a fantasy scenario in the vanilla game.
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DrProsek posted:I have that happen whenever I install V2: I always have a chache in my maps folder even if I never ran it before. Check if you have one, and delete it. I didn't have a map cache in my docs, but I do have one in the Vicky 2 install folder. Deleting that fixed the crash during loading but the game loaded up as a house divided and not heart of darkness. Also it crashed to desktop when I alt tabbed to type this post. e: I remember now why I haven't been buying paradox stuff on release day, you guys spoiled me with CK2  e2: CTD on loading rivers. uPen fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Apr 16, 2013 |
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uPen posted:I didn't have a map cache in my docs, but I do have one in the Vicky 2 install folder. Deleting that fixed the crash during loading but the game loaded up as a house divided and not heart of darkness. Also it crashed to desktop when I alt tabbed to type this post. To be fair, you seem to be the only one having crashes this bad. e: the only one in this thread Mandalay fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Apr 16, 2013 |
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uPen posted:Also it crashed to desktop when I alt tabbed to type this post. Never alt-tab during loading screens for ANY Paradox game, ever.
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Mandalay posted:To be fair, you seem to be the only one having crashes this bad.  Drone posted:Never alt-tab during loading screens for ANY Paradox game, ever. It was from the main menu. Crashing consistently at loading rivers now, verified game cache in steam didn't fix anything. I think I'm just gonna go play something else today. e: For anyone else having problems. Doing all of the above things, then making a pot of tea and drinking it then running the game without steam in administrator mode fixed it. Probably. e2: Actually no it didn't if I run the game without steam it launches a house divided instead of a heart of darkness. House divided boots fine for some reason. uPen fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Apr 16, 2013 |
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Fintilgin posted:When a crisis starts a little man in a top hat appears in the in the fence area with no tooltip. Who is this guy and why do i have to click him to see who is on the fence? It's the button to declare interest if you are a GP. Ray and Shirley posted:Not game breaking, just poorly tested. That's quintessential old school Paradox. It's not poorly tested, it's just not a big issue. Sure, we'll tweak it so it doesn't spin off so many, but if AI dominions are the biggest problem people have with HoD I'd be pretty pleased. Darkrenown fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Apr 16, 2013 |
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Delete the OTHER map cache as well. There's 2 of them, one in your regular folder and one in documents.
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It's still a problem that Paradox is planning on fixing. Too bad you didn't have time to fix it before release.
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dipwood posted:Delete the OTHER map cache as well. There's 2 of them, one in your regular folder and one in documents.    poo poo's broken.
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uPen posted:
Try deleting the entire victoria 2 folder in documents. That's what I had to do.
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Ray and Shirley posted:It's still a problem that Paradox is planning on fixing. Too bad you didn't have time to fix it before release. It's not ideal of course, I just think declaring this a return to the bad old days is going a bit far. uPen posted:It was from the main menu. If it's launching AHD it can't be installed right, HoD has a new .exe that overwrites the AHD one. You said you got it on Steam, right? But the folder you screenshoted isn't in steam, did you move the install folder? If so, maybe HoD installed to your steamapps folder all alone and just needs to be copied over.
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