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PrinceRandom posted:Alright, so I'm playing an Argentina game in HoD with NMM and AoP and I'm stuck at how to get out of the Presidential (Military)Dictatorship. I've tried to fight obnoxiously long wars and raise huge taxes but to no avail. How can I become a beacon of freedom for my tasty, tasty immigration bonus? Big taxes and larger tariffs. Huge tariffs when you're not in a sphere can lead to your pops not getting their everyday needs and a lot of your artisans won't pull in their life needs. Their militancy will then promptly begin to skyrocket and you can pass a few reforms.
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Are there any 'must-have' mods for Victoria 2? I seeing people suggest the Pop Demand Mod quite a bit back before I started playing the game, but I also remember seeing people say it screws up military units by giving them stats they shouldn't have, or something like that. edit: Also, is it possible to sort the military screen in order of largest soldier pops?
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Kersch posted:Are there any 'must-have' mods for Victoria 2? I seeing people suggest the Pop Demand Mod quite a bit back before I started playing the game, but I also remember seeing people say it screws up military units by giving them stats they shouldn't have, or something like that. I'm trying a game with Two Sicilies now, how does one go about forming Italy?
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May 24, 2013 06:33
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Kersch posted:Are there any 'must-have' mods for Victoria 2? I seeing people suggest the Pop Demand Mod quite a bit back before I started playing the game, but I also remember seeing people say it screws up military units by giving them stats they shouldn't have, or something like that. It is a.. very ambitious mod. But as of now, it is messing with the map terrain that is causing some pretty bad attrition. New Nations Mod and Age of Politics are good intermediates (at least until PDM is fixed a bit more). It's also added some trade goods that can unbalance an economy that you are used to working fine in vanilla Vicky2.
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Kersch posted:Are there any 'must-have' mods for Victoria 2? I seeing people suggest the Pop Demand Mod quite a bit back before I started playing the game, but I also remember seeing people say it screws up military units by giving them stats they shouldn't have, or something like that. If you're starting a new game, you might be well served waiting for the (now overdue) beta patch to go non-beta.
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This worked perfectly, thanks both  Only thing is I forgot to colonize during the war so the US got both the colonies, but I'll get them throughout the game.
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I've been on a Victoria II rush, still messing with just AHD. I started as Japan, managed to conquer Brunei and Siam, then modernize, fight China twice, getting Formosa the second time and now made New England a puppet of mine by 1928. The only problem I have with this aside from the incredibly long grind in the early years is that the UK has not released a single nation, causing it to become a superstate. Here's Japanese USA for the hell of it.
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Tomn posted:I tried my best to get into it because I rather like battleships duking it out with one another, but I find I've not actually had the desire to play it for quite some time, so, whelp. http://www.hpssims.com/Pages/Products/NavCamp/Jutland/jutland.html Yes, yes, I know that it looks downright primitive and the company is infamous for its grognard games, but I swear to you that this isn't really as complex as it looks. The computer takes charge of targeting, which means most of what you order is just adjusting course in 15 degree increments, adjusting speed, and popping smoke. And even in the full battles, you're only issuing orders to maybe a dozen ships at most because the ships in the same division/task force/group/Idon'treallyknowthecorrectterm all follow each other.
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Darkrenown posted:Same as EUIII, as far as I know. 
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Fintilgin posted:I think having a blank line at the beginning or end of your localization file will screw up everything as well... been a while since I've messed with those. Sonofabitch, that's exactly what it was. Thanks for the advice! It seems to change in every game. I think Johan just rolls a die to decide which arcane rules will apply each time around  But I'm still impressed at how it breaks the entire game's localizations and not just, like, the one file in question or the mod in question.
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Mister Adequate posted:Sonofabitch, that's exactly what it was. Thanks for the advice! It seems to change in every game. I think Johan just rolls a die to decide which arcane rules will apply each time around I assume all the files are compiled into a giant localization file on boot, so one mistake will screw up everything after it.
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May 24, 2013 13:25
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I'm actually surprised that there's no opensource clone of these games yet, unlike every other spergfest out there. Anyway, finally finished up my Japan AHD game. First time I actually played through a Paradox game from the start to finish. Very crazy ending. After setting up my puppet of New England, I tried crash building a massive navy for extra points since I only had 7 years left. I then find out that Germany has completely splintered into Prussia, the North German Federation (now fascist) and bunch of small states with quite a few of them being communist. I ended up deciding to throw myself at the Nazis and liberate Denmark land for the hell of it and ended up maintaining my status as a great power. Still amazed by how many East Asian countries are in the Top 16 and not surprised at the UK for not releasing anything ever (is there a mod for that)?
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May 24, 2013 14:16
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Looks like I didn't get in the EU4 beta. I suppose my abysmal activity on pplaza didn't help at all.
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Can someone give me some information on how best to use the "influencing other countries" and "industrialising from nothing" mechanics, specifically for the Ottoman Empire? So far I've just been building railroads everywhere that I possibly can, which seems to be worthwhile as they cost no upkeep and boost resource gathering. I think I've been building too many factories - even in my most populace provinces like Istanbul, they're mostly empty, even with an "encourage craftsmen" national focus. Should I be building factories one at a time and letting them fill up with craftsmen before I build another? If so, what are the best factories to begin with as the Ottomans and where should I build them? As far as influencing other nations goes, I noticed you get a 50% bonus to influencing neighbouring states, so I've just clicked "neighbours" on the diplomacy screen and maxed out the priority of influencing all those nations, increasing their opinion and adding them to my sphere as I go along. Is there a better way to do this? I notice that both Greece and the Ionian Islands are in the sphere of the UK, and they'll ban my ambassadors so I can't really do much to those. Where do influence points come from, anyway? Finally, naval combat. What's the best size of fleet? Does the game have a small ships:large ships ratio I should be following?
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"I'm sorry to inform you but you did not make it to the Europa Universalis IV beta. It is great to see the enthousiasm but unfortunately, there's only so many people we can coordinate at the same time." Uhg, I think I had too much enthousiasm! Or more likely I didn't know I needed to be squirrelling away all my bug reports over the years into a bloody resume or portfolio 
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May 24, 2013 15:42
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I got into the beta with my 'comment' section being "frankly, I thought eu3 was a poo poo game". I do have 16gb of ram on my laptop though, so maybe that's it.
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Baronjutter posted:"I'm sorry to inform you but you did not make it to the Same here man, though in my case I'm guessing its from infractions that even the moderators don't even remember why they're there anymore, those should really time out after a year. 6000+ posts with a six year+ old account, background in game studies and QA, participating in a bunch of alpha's and beta for other games and still rejected?
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I've got some pretty high militancy here. I'm ready to rise up unless my demands for beta selection are changed from "existing testers only" to "weighted: goons"
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May 24, 2013 15:51
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Wait, am I the only goon who's been accepted?
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Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:Wait, am I the only goon who's been accepted? No, you aren't the only one. I'm looking forward to seeing just how much they stole from Ubik's masterpiece, World Stage.
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Did anyone else not get a beta email/pm yet? Hope my application got through.
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I wasn't sure if we were allowed to talk about it, but from re-reading I don't see anything in the email. I'm guessing I got in because I used to be active as hell in the eu3 bug forums, and because I was in ck2 as well. The lovely part is now I can't talk about eu4 anymore 
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SeaTard posted:The lovely part is now I can't talk about eu4 anymore Of course you can, you just won't ever get onto another beta, ever.
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Oh, new EU4 Dev Diary talking about multiplayer is out link herequote:New Network Code quote:Hotjoining Nice looking things there, I now might actually try out a MP game some time.
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I'm in the beta too. I don't post on pplaza much nor did I make any interesting comments in the application or anything. I suppose the only thing noticeable about my account would be that I have a ridiculous amount of badges for game ownership on my pplaza profile.
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Uhg you drat beta-havers. I must be of a non-accepted culture or something
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SeaTard posted:Oh, new EU4 Dev Diary talking about multiplayer is out link here
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Kainser posted:I'm not a fan of the Ulm stuff, but he's pretty popular on the Paradox forums so I don't really see the issue. This stuff should seriously be in the OP, right next to a link to an archived version of the Carnival of Lust.
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anti_strunt posted:This stuff should seriously be in the OP, right next to a link to an archived version of the Carnival of Lust. Never understood the whole personification of nations thing. Even less so making pornography out of it. It just seems really goddamn stupid. Then again this is from someone who literally recycles the same half dozen jokes (and is praised for it as the greatest writer on the paradox boards) so I guess it shouldn't be too surprising that he does other really dumb poo poo. Also, did DR seriously make the popular = good argument about this guy who is PINNED on their forums and, allegedly, giving a sneak peek into an in development game? Of course lots of people are reading it, they're curious about the new poo poo coming up in your games!
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Actually, I made the popular = not unpopular truism, and only in reply to a "and some other people also don't like him too!" comment. Let's not make another thing about it, please.
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The guy who started the last Ulm derail is currently on a 3-day probation for it but sure, why not keep talking about it? I take it HoD patch is delayed because of the office sickness as well? Is there any plan for HoD/ToG or is it just "when biology lets us"?
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I wanna try out the GoT mod for Ck2 but I haven't read the books and am totally scared of spoilers. Anybody know if the game is a spoiler for a tv show only watcher? vvv thanks guys, I'll try it out! Evil Agita fucked around with this message at 02:16 on May 25, 2013 |
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Evil Agita posted:I wanna try out the GoT mod for Ck2 but I haven't read the books and am totally scared of spoilers. Anybody know if the game is a spoiler for a tv show only watcher? The mod has like 14 starting scenarios or something ridiculous, and only like two of them are spoilery (the default one, which starts off at the beginning of the action in the TV series/books, and one a year after that). Do one of the less spoilery options like Robert's Rebellion or earlier and you're fine.
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Evil Agita posted:I wanna try out the GoT mod for Ck2 but I haven't read the books and am totally scared of spoilers. Anybody know if the game is a spoiler for a tv show only watcher? There are a couple of potentially spoilery semi-random events, too. Covering stuff that the show hasn't touched on yet.
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Everyone always said that forming the HRE in EU3 was really easy, but it's drat near impossible for me. Every time I try it, the same thing happens: 1. I make tons of royal marriages and shovel money into the electors' pockets. 2. I sit around and wait to become emperor. 3. I sit around and answer a call to arms every 30 years or so to build imperial authority. 4. I sit around and wait until the Protestant Reformation hits, which sets my authority to 0 once member states start converting, and keeps it at 0 forever because enforcing religious unity almost never works (and requires authority that I don't have). So basically I'm just not sure how to get enough authority to pass the reforms. What am I doing wrong?
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Vassalize the electors? Good grief it's been a long time since I played EU3. Is there anyone else that hasn't played it since EU4 was announced?
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James The 1st posted:Vassalize the electors? Yeah, as near as I can tell the last thousand posts or so have almost exclusively been about Victoria 2. Anyway, you don't get authority by doing that. It IS a great way to ensure their vote though, and I always make sure to diplo-vassalize Saxony as soon as possible.
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