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Mans posted:can't wait to turn the galaxy purple with the Xerxes 3000 battleship There's a 
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Jesus gently caress I thought the Magna Mundi section in the OP was fun fiction but boy howdy was I wrong. That whole situation must have been... special. To be a fly on the wall in Paradox's offices around then would have been weird ride. Did he really call his basement Carnival of Lust?
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Black Griffon posted:Jesus gently caress I thought the Magna Mundi section in the OP was fun fiction but boy howdy was I wrong. That whole situation must have been... special. To be a fly on the wall in Paradox's offices around then would have been weird ride. It got better/worse. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3526017&pagenumber=602&perpage=40#post437298461
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Feb 17, 2016 23:26
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dublish posted:It got better/worse. Because apparently I didn't respond to this at the time: quote:I think you'l find that Ubik actually owns that hospital now 
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Feb 18, 2016 00:11
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dublish posted:It got better/worse. Okay what's this all abou 
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Feb 18, 2016 00:12
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Honestly to be fair to Ubik, wasn't it revealed that his family was basically complete and utter pieces of poo poo who forcibly committed him for whatever reasons? E: Apparently, on the same page that was linked! 
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Feb 18, 2016 00:16
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Yeah, this whole mess really just made me feel really sorry for Ubik. 
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Feb 18, 2016 00:17
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Sky Shadowing posted:Honestly to be fair to Ubik, wasn't it revealed that his family was basically complete and utter pieces of poo poo who forcibly committed him for whatever reasons? As lovely as that may be, the fact that Ubik got FRAMED remains amusing.
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Feb 18, 2016 00:25
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It does help explain how erratic he seemed in Magna Mundi/World Stage days... that kind of stuff going on in my personal life would break me. Poor guy. I'm really excited to mod HoI4 to death.
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Feb 18, 2016 00:27
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Empress Theonora posted:Yeah, this whole mess really just made me feel really sorry for Ubik. Christ yeah. What lovely, lovely, lovely loving family.
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Feb 18, 2016 01:39
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Mans posted:can't wait to turn the galaxy purple with the Xerxes 3000 battleship I'm afraid that to learn this you will have to play Atilla Total war when the slavic faction pack drops.
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Feb 18, 2016 03:55
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Man, I really hope that they make a Total War type game for VR someday. I really want to be a super nerd and do the Testudo Formation from the comfort of my parent's basement.
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Feb 18, 2016 04:28
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Alikchi posted:I'm really excited to mod HoI4 to death.
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Feb 18, 2016 14:20
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Ofaloaf posted:In anticipation of excessive HoI4 modding I've already built up a collection of something like 4500 images which can hopefully be used as leader/minister portraits for alternate/fictional countries. They should all be sufficiently hi-res enough, I think. Will they look good on a 4k monitor? 
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Feb 18, 2016 14:22
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Ofaloaf posted:In anticipation of excessive HoI4 modding I've already built up a collection of something like 4500 images which can hopefully be used as leader/minister portraits for alternate/fictional countries. They should all be sufficiently hi-res enough, I think. That's one way of justifying your collection of Hitler portraits.
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Feb 18, 2016 14:29
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Assuming it works like EU4, the portraits are gonna be fixed sizes, they don't scale up with your resolution. I guess the leaders are a bit bigger, but I think for most of the generals in HOI4 they're still pretty tiny? You probably don't need very high res pictures. I tried my hand at doing some advisor portraits for EU4 and they're just 77x77, it's more like pixel art than anything else really   e: maybe it wouldn't be if I drew at a normal resolution and scaled it down like a sane person, I guess Koramei fucked around with this message at 14:42 on Feb 18, 2016 |
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Feb 18, 2016 14:38
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Koramei posted:You probably don't need very high res pictures.  out there, which if you cropped those faces down to something portrait-ish would probably be too small.
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Feb 18, 2016 14:50
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It's always gonna look at odds with the other portraits since it's a photo rather than a drawing (not to mention monocolour), cropping them so it isn't just their face wouldn't be that weird relatively I don't think. Do we know roughly how many portraits there are per faction, by the way? Obviously for USA/Germany/Japan/UK/France/USSR there are gonna be way more, but for a generic country?
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Feb 18, 2016 14:57
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Koramei posted:Assuming it works like EU4, the portraits are gonna be fixed sizes, they don't scale up with your resolution. I guess the leaders are a bit bigger, but I think for most of the generals in HOI4 they're still pretty tiny? You probably don't need very high res pictures. Those are really nice though, I wonder if Paradox could be persuaded to release the originals.
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Feb 18, 2016 15:00
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Koramei posted:It's always gonna look at odds with the other portraits since it's a photo rather than a drawing (not to mention monocolour), cropping them so it isn't just their face wouldn't be that weird relatively I don't think.
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Feb 18, 2016 15:02
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Ofaloaf posted:For some nations that's pretty easy to do, but (for example) it was pretty hard to get a decent number of Native Hawaiian/Tahitian/Polynesian portrait-ish photos that could work for early 20th century ministers and leaders, especially ones large enough to work for the game. There's a lot of old websites out there with articles and photos about all sorts of peoples and eras and such, but they're formatted for screen resolutions from a decade ago so there's a lot of images like 
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Feb 18, 2016 16:30
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So who would the leader of Fascist or Communist America be?
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Feb 18, 2016 16:46
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Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, apparently. I also see that the team behind the Stellaris AI is trying to make it stick as closly to the same rules as a human. Of course the computer does always have the advantage of controlling everything at once so it may not need any more of an edge.
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Feb 18, 2016 16:52
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Earl Browder/Norman Thomas for communists, Fritz Julius Kuhn i guess for fascists.
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Schizotek posted:So who would the leader of Fascist or Communist America be? Fascist: Lindbergh, Father Coughlin... Huey Long if not killed? Communist: Max Shachtman, William Z. Foster, Earl Browder?
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Feb 18, 2016 16:58
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I hope fascist America is led by the Business Plot conspirators.
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Feb 18, 2016 17:04
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Psychotic Weasel posted:Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, apparently. Yeah my #1 annoyance in 4X games is when the computer gets a bunch of free resources or just flat out ignores certain aspects of the game, especially when there's nothing telling you which rules it doesn't have to follow, since knowing that would at least give you an idea of which strategies for attacking the AI won't work when the rules of the game as written say they should. It's totally fair to give the AI advantages on higher difficulty levels - I know they're usually bad at those kinds of games and need the help to be challenging. But at least offer ONE truly "fair" difficulty - even if it's the lowest one.
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Sky Shadowing posted:Honestly to be fair to Ubik, wasn't it revealed that his family was basically complete and utter pieces of poo poo who forcibly committed him for whatever reasons? In fairness to his family, I believe the articles were summaries of interviews with Ubik, claiming his family and doctors were involved in a vast conspiracy to commit him against his will despite his being totally sane. The guy was probably pretty disturbed, HOW disturbed we'll probably never know.
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Feb 18, 2016 17:50
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I mean if using your computer too much is enough to make your family get you committed on what is, by any standard, pretty shady grounds.. well.. Let's just say I'm glad I don't have crazy Portuguese family.
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:Going from Kaiserreich: If you want an outright fascist lineup, just stuff that group with Klansmen and members of the Bund and you're pretty well set. Scatter in Silvershirts for good measure. *e: Except Long historically died in '35, of course. Ofaloaf fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Feb 18, 2016 |
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Ofaloaf posted:Lindbergh was a Paternal Autocrat head of state in HoI2/DH. Maybe he'll be the leader of the neutral US faction? Load that group up with America First figures and you'd have a pretty solid set of ministers to work with for that. Huey Long would also probably fit better as a neutral figure than an outright fascist one.* Lindbergh was neutral in the same sense that American communists were neutral before the motherland was invaded.
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If it isn't place holder, they're bringing back some HOI2 music from what I've heard from the streams.
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Feb 18, 2016 20:00
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Wehraboo Falalalan or go home.
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Should Physical Gender Differences be Implemented? posted:For example, men range higher with lower and higher intelligence, while women are more centered on average intelligence. paradox's finest
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ThePutty posted:paradox's finest 
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Reminds me of FATAL
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Same Guy posted:Just a better interpretation of reality Don't think he understands what he is actually saying 
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Randarkman posted:Reminds me of FATAL When will Paradox finally model medieval women's historical propensity to getting raped?
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Those guys are pretty much these guys. https://vimeo.com/136010091
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