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First for Imperator gonna be pozzed as fuck

>>16286879

There's an AGEOD game set in a similar period in development. Hopefully it's a step up from Paracucks trash.

>>16287204

>I don't know why they even bothering with subsaharan "civs"

Because there will be alternative scenarios, that will happen all the time, in which nig tribes rise up to be a power house to rival the Romans.

>>16287285

>besieging army will always be on the offense

ok, makes sense

>movement lock

I get why they do it, but with their shit AI, it just makes it even easier to bait it into suicide

>shattered retreat

It's always been retarded. I get that they don't want you to just catch up to the routing army and slaughter them on the spot, but surely there are better ways to handle it than making the army invulnerable as it marches to the other side of the world, regenerating troops and morale as it goes. There should be two modes or defeat - a controlled, organised retreat where you really do just go to another province (because you aborted combat before getting crushed and thus have some morale left over to fight any pursuers, this time on a more favourable terrain) and a rout, where you are crushed and your army flees in every direction. The consequence of that should be just losing most of the army - it'd go back to its territory, like now, but with only, say, 10% of the survivors as the rest would just desert or get lost along the way (techs could increase the amount of troops kept along with government forms, etc.). That way you lower the number of battles (as is appropriate for the period), make a devastating defeat of a doomstack actually devastating and likely to end the war (again, as appropriate for the period) while not overly punishing the loser by making him lose absolutely everything (like you would without shattered retreat or if shattered retreat ends up moving somewhere close enough to quickly catch it).

>>16287377

>Those ideas about routing.

Wow Anon, that's all really smart and sounds like it'd be a thousand times better than the current system. But it's far too complex for Paradox to ever implement.

>>16287377

>make a devastating defeat of a doomstack actually devastating and likely to end the war

This

Real life:

>one battle fought enemy lets you annex lands you wanted and doesn’t go full retard with Volkssturm in 1444, y’know damage control and all that, but when you want to annex the whole country they have a chance to go full retard, of course comes down what government you have, how you treated conquered before etc etc etc

Parashit Gayms:

>haha anon you gotta siege and occupy EVERY province because the AI is in total war mode as if it is WW3 in 1444

>>16287126

>She

It's the fatherland, not the cuck land

>>16288399

That's pretty gay my friend

>>16288399

Fatherland means land of our fathers, not land that is our father. Also Germany = Germania which is feminine.

Germany, like most countries, is a she.

>>16287126

Aha I can see my home from here

>>16289508

How so?

Granted, there is more fluff on the Great Crusade/Horus Heresy than there is for the Terran Unification, but it shouldn't be too hard to make a game out of it. Emps + Thunder Warriors vs. Techno-Barbarians and other warlords. Have the endgame be a conflict with Mars, where you can subvert history and destroy the Machine Cult, thus saving 40k from half the idiocy that will infect the setting.

>>16289569

It's just LE WARHAMMER xD xD JUST THROW IN SHIT I HEARD ABOUT FROM 40K lol!

>>16287377

>proposing a good and historically realistic retreat mechanic

This would have happened if Paradox cared about simulation at all in the last 6 years. Current "grand strategy" is just more in-depth board games made to appeal to the kinds of people who meet up once a week to play Settlers of Catan over a few local craft beers.

>>16289569

basically it's half-assed and doomed to obscurity, much like HoI4 is.

>>16287285

>Shattered retreat

They even added a button so you can retreat at any time. Push too far and get trapped? Just click the button, get home free. What a stupid fucking idea.

I cannot play most gsg anymore. I cannot keep playing the same thing over and over again when the only difference is the title of the game and the bugs plaguing it. I need something other than Earth.

>>16293103

It's shit

>>16293103

>euiv without meiou

why tho

>>16288385

>cucklo-cucksons

lol no

>>16295106

MEIOU makes my game run unbearably slow, even with fast universalis enabled.

>>16293103

>Didn´t form Rome

>Playing in 1.28.*.*

>Having Parlamentary Monarchy

I guess you just take an redditor game make pass as yor own.

>>16295725

>playing Stellaris

>when he could play Aurora

smdmfhtbqhwyfam :3

>>16293103

>Portuguese Africa

>not a single actual portuguese african colony

THREADLY REMINDER

We are currently fine-tuning new tutorials for newcomers to our games. We believe that the best starting point would be Ottoman Turkey as they are not only the least powerful and in dire need of further buffs (which are still coming by the way), but would also be the greatest test of skill a player under any of our games would experience. Therefore, our tutorial would not only introduce players to our games but also serve as a means to really get good at grand strategy, which also needs a lot of accessibility. This way we ensure that all playthroughs are all about increasing skill and further experiment with the Ottomans to see what works best, while making the other countries more akin to casual play that you can relax to!

Regarding Imperator, we believe some islam-induced events could bring some much needed flavor to the setting as the empire extended to Anatolia and therefore romans were peaceful muslims.

t. Parafrica

>>16293103

>EU IV lets you take the whole world literally at any time you find it, ending in 1821

>Vicky II lets you colonize fuck all until 1880

>>16295725

Played it when it first came out and never went back.

>>16296393

VB6 Aurora got boring after the first dozen playthroughs. The C# Aurora looked better, but that might be a few years out.

>>16297981

There are plenty of zones with enough liferating to be colonized prior to 1870 in Victoria 2, like the western coast of North America or a shitload of islands on the Pacific Ocean. It's mostly Africa that requires the technology.

>>16295106

Do you know how to install MEIOU on a borrowed version? Couldn't find any download option other than on steamcuck.

>>16298764

you get the steamcuck one using steamworkshopdownloader or similar tool. Step up your "borrowing" game, faggot.

>>16301068

I'm afraid it's beyond modding tools and/or engine limitations.

Is EU4 worth playing lads? I'm getting bored of Vic2 HFM every day

>>16294421

Play Blood and Iron, and no, it's godawful. Even EU3 was better.

>>16303204

I enjoy it, but most people here hate it. There's legitimate reason to hate it, namely the shitty mana system, but it's still enjoyable in my opinion.

After you play it for a little bit you'll find certain things that annoy you, just mod them yourself. In particular, I always nerf the Ottomans in various ways, such as lowering their unit pips and such, because parakike can't stop sucking t*rk dick each patch.

>>16301068

I don't think you can handle this with modding. You'd need to make changes to the source code, which obviously only Paradox has access to

>>16303204

with meiou and taxes yes it's pretty fun, however they fucked up most trade nodes in the current patch

>>16303204

Vanilla EU4 not really. There's far too many you win buttons and everything has the depth of a puddle. Some mods actually do fix it, though, most notably MEIOU, which removes most such buttons and even reworks entire mechanics from the ground up to create an actually decent game; it's pretty impressive. Of course, it has its flaws, the most obvious being that it's bulky as fuck as they cheat their way around parashit systems through excessive use of scripting, meaning the performance is utter dogshit. Don't even attempt to run this without a good CPU, and even then, you will need to be very patient as the game will run slow. It gets better in the later stages when most countries on the map are obliterated, I find, but not by too much.

>>16303281

This anon is right that M&T can be a great way to play it. however it runs like shit on even somewhat good PCs. On my own, which runs regular EU4 fine, slows to a crawl with M&T. It's basically unplayable unless you have a god-tier PC.

There's another mod called Veritas et Fortutido or some shit, it's actually pretty fun also and doesn't run like shit like M&T at the cost of not being nearly as in-depth of a mod as M&T also.

I might be the only one who likes slightly-modded but still mostly-vanilla EU4 on this board.

>>16303507

He obviously means speed 2 or speed 3, out of 5, you autist.

>>16304639

8/10

Needs Constantinople and show the religions please.

>>16307909

>Constantinople Catholic

>Also Jerusalem

Nice.

>>16309435

HIP does that. I believe it pushes end date to 1550 or something like that.

Is war inherently bad? Is it pointless in todays world?

>>16318366

Thank you, I think this is the best arguement I've seen. I was going to follow up my post with I'm raring for another war but it's pointless as you said it'd be the for be benefit of jews.

>>16318370

I was going to essentially say the same thing, but in a different way. War is dumb and gay now because it is done for dumb and gay things. The concept of fighting a country because they don't like homos is a strange one because, even if you fundamentally agree or disagree with a country's policy's on homos, that's very much an internal issue. The jew wants his tentacles everywhere so war is done for money with the face of happy gay love.

>>16318366

Genes will stop mattering in our century. Only consciousness will reign supreme.

>>16318599

Genes will never stop mattering, they will always survive, in one way or another.

>>16318817

>Bitch in Africa gets offspring's genes edited, winds up with Clark Kent lookalike

>Is still a shitty person with a shitty upbringing in a shitty culture

>Passes on the worst elements of these to the First Son Of Krypton

>Shitty habits lead to shitty choices, leaving him stuck with shitty potential mates

>Mulatto offspring results

>The cycle continues

And that's assuming the gene-editing technology is ever made available to anyone, and we're not crushed by a hundred potentially devastating worldwide catastrophes that range from "Global warming actually does something and destroys coastal urbanite areas" to "Islamic caliphates annex the civilized world" to "5G turns out to be about as bad for your health as sitting in a low-powered microwave" to "lolmeteors."

But hey, science fantasy movies always did trump science fiction in the box office. Why wouldn't dreaming about the future without foundational understanding beat making educated guesses?

It sure as shit won't be widely available. That's like saying everyone can own a nuclear bomb. It'll be a stratified commodity like most modern medicine: The elites get their juvenat treatments and live on as ghouls, the middle classes such as they will exist in the future may get a few "fixes" to their tardbabies and the vast majority won't get shit.

>>16318599

>>16318817

>muh future technology that is totally right behind the corner

Anyone with this "argument" ought to be taken out the back and shot in the head. Fucking Marx used this argument about how automation will soon make human labour unnecessary, yet here we are more than a fucking century later and who would have guessed - people still need to work. Shove this wishful thinking up your ass – you don't actually know when or even if it will become reality. It could be twenty years from now, it could be a hundred, it could be a htousand, it could also be never; you're just so brainwashed by hollyjew scifi shit that you think it's a matter of a few decades at most. Until the tech actually exists, your "argument" holds no water.

>>16318350

War is not bad whatsoever, it is part of life like any other. War is evolution. War destroys the weak nations and lets strong make better use of their resources. Like a young lion challenging the old alpha in nature, so works war in human society on the global scale. If you prevent war, you allow weakness and corruption to survive and propagate and prevent the strong from taking over.

There are only two ways a corrupt goverment can be taken down – from within and from without. A corrupt and capable government is capable of making sure that no fanger to it will come from within - it controls the system, it has the tools necessary to control the population. It's what we are seeing nowadays, in fact, with propaganda being aired 24/7, gun-grabbing laws being pushed across the board nearly everywhere, and of course fearmongering about an external threat so as to divert attention from internal problems. In such a situation, the salvation lies in the second way, which is an external force – a system independent on that ran by the corrupt government and capable of mustering larger amount of directed force.

Of course, one might argue that there is no guarantee that the corrupt government wouldn't win, and they'd be right. But that too is fine - the young lion doesn't always beat the old alpha. But a new challenger will come and succeed eventually, such is the nature of history.

The greatest danger to this system are the current attempts at restricting warfare and even create one world government – a road to the worst kind of dystopia where you are ruled by the evil and corrupt, and there is no external force in existence to topple them.

>>16319218

there is one, the system itself. modern civilization is not some immortal entity. it is reliant on petroleum and shekels. some gauls chimping out and disrupting the economy in france made some waves recently. a few more of those in rapid succession would be devastating. there are no entities coming to save you. the world is a global village. everyone is reliant on eachother to keep the shekels moving. when resources are scant we can see fun return

Did you lads see Johan or some other soylord from the Paradox dev team talking about how the Hagia Sophia wasn't famous until it became a mosque?

>>16319610

It's in the embed at like 4:37 onwards. He's talking about why they weren't going to put the Hagia Sophia in as a great work. They later decided to put it in after getting laughed at by everyone who heard him say that it didn't get famous until it was converted into a mosque. Yet another case of Paradox hating the Byzantines for fuck all reason.

>>16319615

Fuckers must have t*rkish shareholders or someshit

>>16319626

They're swedes. They just have turkish cocks up their asses.

>>16319626

Don't be silly, Turks have no money. They have Turkish wife-holders instead.

>>16319658

>implying it's not the wife that's being cucked as Johan's asshole gets enriched

>>16319672

>MY SYSTEM WORKS BECAUSE IN THE FUTURE A TECHNOLOGY WILL TOTALLY EXIST!!!!

Why don't you go back to cuckchan? Clearly, it suits you more seeing as how you use their memes

>>16319684

>>16319207

Gene modification exists right now. It's rudimentary, expensive, and not widely available (not to mention controversial and in a legally weird place), but it's certainly not a technology that doesn't exist yet.

>>16319701

Yeah, automatised assembly lines also exist, yet work-free communist utopia is still nowhere in sight.

>>16319701

The technology doesn't exist in a way that would prevent genetics from mattering though, which is what the argument was about initially. You say this yourself. What point are you trying to make in this argument?

>>16290784

That's what happens when retarded adhd kids attempt to make a mod. Half-assed, abandoned after one month turds.

>>16319710

That's mostly because making work more efficient only creates demand for more and different work. You can fully automate everything and humanity will always want to fill their time pushing it further. That's the main reason why the communistic pipe-dream of a fully-automated utopia will never happen. Even if we could hit that fully-automated utopia, we'd also have to aggressively control birth, because prosperity usually brings rocketing brithrates.

Apples and oranges. "Routine gene editing in humans will never be done because we don't have full factory automation" is a retarded argument that makes no sense. It's a bad comparison.

>>16319766

No, not yet, but it's not an impossibility, and it's not some far-away dream. I'm not making a point in the initial argument, I'm saying that it's disingenuous (outright false, really) to claim that the technology doesn't exist.

On the original topic, I don't think it'll happen this century, and I disagree with the original claim that genes will stop mattering. In fact, the ability to modify them will make genes matter more than ever before. Heredity and heritage will stop mattering, but the genes you are given can be more important than you can believe.

It's also not going to be a global thing. The technology will be cheaper and more approachable, and one country will decide to push through the ethical roadblocks and start doing it. It's going to start with reduction of diseases, reduction of tendency for cancer, and elimination of disorders like autism and Down syndrome, and might not go far past that.

It's not going to be some massive utopia, and probably won't be a dystopia either. It's just going to be a thing that starts happening and life will go on, if humanity doesn't wipe itself out before that point.

>>16319806

>"Routine gene editing in humans will never be done because we don't have full factory automation" is a retarded argument that makes no sense. It's a bad comparison.

The point is that having some distant precursor to a supposedly possible outcome doesn't mean shit. We don't even have the ability to prevent genetic diseases, and you want to rewrite human genome to the point of changing someone's race?

> I'm saying that it's disingenuous (outright false, really) to claim that the technology doesn't exist.

It doesn't. There is no technology that would allow to change child's genome to the extent of changing his race. Saiyng "but we're almost there because we can sorta edit some stuff in plants and shit" is like saying that terraforming plantets is around the corner because we can fly into space now.

>>16319806

>I'm not making a point in the initial argument

Why even respond to it then? Are you a half wit? You're here searching for (you)s or maybe you're just retarded. When >>16319684 says what he says, he doesn't mean that gene modification doesn't exist, he means that the technology to engage in gene modification at such a high level as to obsolete existing genetic material does not yet exist. You inserted yourself into a conversation which was talking about gene modification as a futuristic concept which could revolutionise the world, then when found to be retarded you said "I'm not talking about the point in the initial argument", thereby implying you're talking about that gene modification technology that exists currently. You look like a retard who can't follow a conversation.

>>16319851

> We don't even have the ability to prevent genetic diseases

CRISPR has been used to prevent congenital diseases in mice.

> you want to rewrite human genome to the point of changing someone's race?

Who is talking about changing race?

> Saiyng "but we're almost there because we can sorta edit some stuff in plants and shit" is like saying that terraforming plantets is around the corner because we can fly into space now.

It's more like saying "We can cure inheritable disorders in mice, and the same is possible in humans right now, but we don't do it because it's expensive and because of politics, both of which will likely change in the future". You and your shit analogies.

>>16319868

> When >>16319684 says what he says, he doesn't mean that gene modification doesn't exist

If he doesn't mean that it doesn't exist, he shouldn't say it doesn't exist. I'm going to reply to what people say, not to what they really mean when they say retarded things that aren't true.

>>16319615

Inshallah, that's right. You didn't own nothing, Dhimmi.

>>16320039

Perhaps petty contrarianism due to the perceived connection between 'Restoring the Empire' and 'Gas the Muslims, Religious War Now'? But then Islam hasn't gotten a meaningful update (still no Sufis even though the Monastic Society mechanics would match them perfectly) in years, so maybe the Swedes are just incompetent.

When was the last time Orthodox Christianity got an update in CK2 that wasn't just recycled from Catholicism, anyway?

Autocephaly is still horribly implemented and doesn't even represent how autocephaly actually worked, so even the mechanics they do have don't fit at all

>>16320076

i honestly wouldnt mind a rework of islam and orthodoxy, they both need new mechanics and content.

>>16320826

That reminds me I've never tried playing as West African pagan Mali in CK2 to fuck the mudslimes and KANGZ Spain

>>16320912

Just name your custom nigga Kunta Kinte and roll with it.

Its a realistic experience as you have to kill all other Kangz just to stand a chance since their holy sites are all over the fucking place.

>>16322251

The AI is god-awful enough that attrition is always a viable strat, just bait the enemy doomstack onto a mountain county and use whatever means to keep them there (such as feeding them tiny >30 man armies every so often).

You've just got to be smart/hacky about it.

>>16322251

Proper generals leading non-shit troop composition can easily beat stacks three times their size, even if the enemy is more-than-zero optimized liked the mongols. Getting to that point in HIP is easy enough, but I have my doubts about it even being possible in vanilla.

>What are you even supposed to do if you're a little bitch country which can amass no more than 2000 troops against someone who can field 8000?

Get allies, and if that fails swear fealty and fuck your liege up before he fucks you.

>>16319615

THREADLY REMINDER

We have consistently studied Byzantium accross multiple playthroughs and found out that, even in the light of our minor buffs to the Ottomans, the eastern roman nations remains the strongest and most unbalanced and no matter what we do, we never really seem to hit the nail on the problem. We will begin further, more agressive corrections to this issue by first reaccomodating historical events to favor veracity, starting with the fact that Constantinople (and Anatolia as a whole, really) didn't really progress until the arrival of the Ottomans, as proven by our secret historical documents that were recently discovered and can't really share with you guys.

Current events will focus on reframing the Hagia Sophia as a 100% muslim-constructed mosque that was built solely by the Ottomans, which will incurr special bonuses to religion and military strength. As for the Byzantines, we believe that moving their start to reflect their fall would be much more fair to the playerbase since they're extremely strong. Further nerfs include penalties for stacking more than 10 men. asking the Pope for help, and detrimental privilege effects since the Byzantines were roman and therefore white and therefore extraordinarily privileged. Inshallah, brothers!

t. Paradicks

>>16323670

Orthodoxy, when will it ever learn?

>>16323595

May allah bless you, brother, but when will you get to debuff those horribly overpowered and historically incorrect christian iberians?

Are you perhaps an islamophobe?

>>16323951

We're very sorry for that, it has been a consistent bug that we have always tried to patch away but always causes issues in unexpected ways, we're very close to removing their historical role entirely since the infamous "reconquista" is proven to be an entirely fictional epic made for nationalistic purposes anyway. We're debating on wether to nerf their extremely powerful armies or have both spaniard kingdoms be sultanates from the start, they historically were in the first place. We'll keep you posted!

>>16319594

The Hagia Sophia stopped being famous when it became a mosque, the retard got it backwards which is not surprising from these fucking faggots who've apparently never read a history book and have a billion mudslime cocks up their ass or something

>>16326004

Hagia Sophia remained the most prestigious place of worship in the western world even after the turkish conquest, to the point of both the pope and roach-lord striving to outdo it with St. Peter's Basilica and the Blue Mosque, respectively. It's hard to come up with anything else that could be considered a "wonder" relevant to the time period. This Great Works update really is just huge pointless meme filler.

>>16326070

turk here, the aya sofya is a world wonder, becaue the grand archetecture and it's beuty was extremely impressive at that time and stil aprtially is paradox are swedish so any cuck behavior is explained

>>16326270

shut the fuck up subhuman

How do you play tall in Europe in Vicky 2? Is there a way to match New World pop growth?

>>16330340

Are there any decent ways of at least limiting the amount of emigration? I'm playing France in HFM, by 1839 I'm losing 6k+ per month

all i want to do is take the west bank of the rhine and breed lots of frenchmen

>>16330761

There should be a reform you can pass that will close the borders so nobody can emigrate. I believe it's in HFM or HFM with anon's edits. You can use the springtime of nation's events that will happen soon to get the necessary Reactionaries in your legislature in order to pass the reform. Though it might be more advantageous to pass the reform that makes the entire legislature Ruling Party Only so you can continue passing reactionary reforms.

>>16333793

>What's the best way to give away titles? Grant them to the council first and afterwards to your Vassals?

Personally, I make sure to give them to absolute nobodies that have no family yet and give one duchy to each – makes anyone getting two duchies through inheritance rare, thus ensuring each individual vassal is fairly weak and you needn't worry about any revolts for the most part. Every once in a while, enough of them will get pissy to try revolting, at which point you just beat them and keep them in your dungeon until the expire, which can take decades. While imprisoned, they cannot revolt against you, thus ensuring there won't be enough vassals left in the realm to form up enough of an opposition to endanger you. If you are in the mood for additional optimalization of this model, make sure you always grant only one title at a time - every barony in every county will have a different holder, the duke himself only holding one country. That way, they are even weaker and will usually focus on slowly bullying their own vassals and amassing titles that way instead of bothering you.

>>16333928

what do you mean, single titles? As in only county titles with no duchies? You will go over the vassal limit soon if you do that. If you mean doing the tactic I mentioned above, of basically fragmenting the realm as much as possible among gorillion vassals, then there are two negatives:

>levies are going to be utter shit

>many vassals are harder to butter up with honorary titles and gifts than just a few

Still, I haven't found the negatives to be too severe.

>>16333928

>picture of a monitor

I came into this thread to ask you what the fuck are you doing.

>>16333793

Piggybacking off >>16333873 here's my usual order for distributing huge tracts of land. Don't forget to check inheritance lists you can see by hovering over characters and title crests to make sure the titles you're handing out aren't going to some asshole if the new count kicks the bucket.

>baronies go to men of my dynasty with high stats, county if they're content or don't have any way to get a claim to my shit

>counties go to court members with good stats, keep your court under 30 so your court members keep popping out noble babies

>once that's depleted, open character finder. Search for unlanded (ruler = no) adult men of your culture and religion in your realm, give baronies to high martials and counties to overall good leaders

<if you're a fag and want rulers of the local culture, Andalusian in this case, to prevent peasant revolts right click on someone with the desired culture and pick Explore Character Opinions

<this will make selecting My Culture search for that guy's culture, causing cultural problems later and slowing the culture flip in that county

>once you've picked your way through good rulers in the relam and you still have titles to hand out, change all the capitals of the remaining counties to cities

>create a new vassal in all your still unlanded baronies (rightclick on the castle holding)

>grant each baron his county, returning the castle to the capital holding

>grant bishoprics to any dynasty members you don't want to inherit land if inheritance laws allow

You might have a county or two down in Andalusia that only have a castle and no other holdings, either by default or because it only has one slot. Try to hand these out first because you can't do the capital swap on them, obviously. The only downside of this strategy is that it blasts your vassal cap, but as I can see here >>16333928 that won't be a problem. As you go on through the game having this many vassals becomes a problem, but you can deal with that as you get the money to afford duchies to give to your favorite counts. If you are already bumping up against vassal counts, transfer a single count from a de jure duchy to an extant duke. Repeat for different de jure duchies until you're under cap. If you later create the duchy that count should belong to, you can give it to him and pull him out of the other duke's vassals. Aside from vassal management there's an upside if you want to try to have one county per ruler to flip your new lands to your religion and culture faster. High stewardship will flip culture fastest, but that takes a while so you won't guarantee the flip if you grant a county to a ~20 Steward unless his kids are already as good with shekels.

The computer pic is one thing if you can't screenshot but for God's sake fix your spacing

>>16333928

Phoneposters deserve only death. Behead all of those who phonepost.

>>16319894

The people that desire communism are the ones who are "Losers" (truly losers), who were not as able to make it as others. They are the resentful people who rabble rouse others to fight against the unfairness of life (which exists across all of nature), so that they may "win" and become the new elite. Though often times it is led by Jews, which is always a coincidence, surely.

>>16333793

I give land to ambitious and competent servants (especially commanders) to simulate social mobility, to unlanded members of the prestigious dynasties of my realm, to notable locals (especially if they are part of some cool historical dynasty) and to my character's friends. If I wanted to have boring and safe time, I'd give land only to distant unlanded and claimless kinsmen.

>>16334047

That's not actually quite true. The "losers" are actually usually opposed or indifferent to communism – if you look at pre-revolution Russia, you will see that the most destitute class, the serfs, wasn't really represented in the Bolshevik party. There was a lot of industrial workers, but, mainly, the young. In 1907, 22% of Bolsheviks were under 20, 37% were 20–24 and 16% were 25–29. By 1905, 62% of the members were industrial workers (3% of the population in 1897).

Communism doesn't thrive among the poor, it thrives among the young who find the current system unfair and seek to change it, who are naive enough to believe the proposed commie system can actually work, who are easily radicalised and willing to put their life on the line, and who very often do not want to join the work process – they aren't losers yet, they are seeking a way to prevent the competition in which they could lose from happening. You can see it even today if you look at Antifa rallies and similar – it's mostly young adults.

Most of the poor have had naivety beaten out of them by life and either see the commies system to be flawed, or fear (with a good cause) that the revolution, even if successful, will just land them in even more poverty than before.

>>16334099

The anon was talking about losers, not peasants or serfs. Bugmen are weak and dependent thus they support communism even if they're earning a decent wage.

>>16336173

I think Kaiserreich increases the maximum fleet size for grand admirals from 18 to 30, so I usually just put 10 CVs and 20 CLs in a stack and tell them to sit outside the enemy's main port and do carrier strikes until their fleet is gone.

>>16336173

If you're playing Kaiserreich 1.9, they fucked up the combat modifiers for everything. Carriers (actually all ships) now have a massive defending combat modifier (think it's like 20/100%), so if you're defending, you can't hit shit.

Also if you're doing land battles, every unit except light infantry has the same thing, except it's an attack penalty.

>>16336452

>Infuriating, conquering all of our homelands and then immediately having a knife in my back

<When I was a fighting-man, the kettle-drums they beat,

<The people scattered gold-dust before my horse's feet;

<But now I am a great king, the people hound my track

<With poison in my wine-cup, and daggers at my back.

You should do like Conan and kill the plotters with your own hands. In case of CK2 that's done namely by taunting them until they hate you and the dueling them.

>>16336472

How do I taunt someone? Do I need some special dlc or are there other ways. Only thing I did that comes close to taunting is having designated a Jew who wanted to become steward as Court Jester.

>>16336365

Hmm, playing as Japan I'd rather focus on land units at the beginning of the game, and it'd be a while until 7 new carriers finish anyway. I'll try preemptive strikes though.

>>16336391

Well, that sucks. Does that mean that light infantry is the strongest offensive unit now?

>>16336719

>Does that mean that light infantry is the strongest offensive unit now?

IIRC Kaiserreich gave mororized units very high speeds, meaning pocketing enemy units became a cakewalk, so I always built that and conquered everything without any problems.

Really, the difficulty is one of the things I dislike about Kaiserreich – it's way too easy regardless of who you play as. Once France and Germany go to war, they'll obliterate each other's manpower reserves and become easy to conquer and utterly incapable of conducting any further wars, meaning the two "superpowers" become easy to bully pushovers.

>>16336741

I really wish they had incorporated the vanilla Darkest Hour mobilization system into the mod. There's not a single nation except maybe a unified China that has anywhere near a realistic amount of manpower for a world war 2 scenario.

>>16336761

another issue is that there isn't an USSR equivalent in the setting - after either France or Germany gets taken out, that's basically it as far as big conflicts go. Kaiserreich Russia is extremely weak and cannot fill that role. A player controlled Russia can get really strong, sure, but AI Russia never does.

>>16336741

I think I'm gonna downgrade to 1.7. I just noticed that changes made to the domestic events for Japan in 1.8 fucked up the expansion paths. For instance, there's no way to interact with Philippines if Japan is a military dictatorship because "jap_military_council" flag wasn't correctly updated to "JAP_MIL." Curiously, what's the last version not made by HOI4 team?

>>16337069

>quadroon is still full negro

Khang genes breed strong. Anyhow, the nomad adventuring mini-hordes never seem to manage to get settled somewhere that would makes.

>>16287285

I think shattered retread is one of the wort mechanics I've ever seen in a video game. At least in CK2 you could turn it off.

>>16337069

>>16337127

It's only a kid's portrait, there are like 4-5 types of them. When he'll grow up he'll probably be lighter-skinned, I've seen it happen in my playthroughs.

>>16336452

>This I don't quite understand, is it mainly for having a castle and hence better troops in a county?

Yes, having a castle as the capital should get you better levies. Doing that part of the process gets you a new character for those holdings. I did forget to tell you to start a merchant republic vassal if you thought you were ready for it, good on you for doing it yourself. However, you'll notice you get a -20 different government type opinion penalty with the doge, which is another reason not to put a ton of mayors and bishops in charge of your counties. It's good to have a few though, given there's a limit on how many you can have by default, just stay aware of this especially if you're worried about your realm fracturing. Also I'm not sure if you still get the benefits of having a bishop count under a feudal duke.

>>16337121

1.7

>>16338105

i'm definetly not an expert in ck2 but what helps me alot to secure a few loyal vassals is to give your son and heir most of the good titles, like for andalucia, duke of grenada or toledo so if you die yiu inherit them and can give it to your new son, it's one way of securing a title to be loyal and held

>>16338105

Weird, normally the "granted me a county" boost opinion buff gives me time to get my shit together before shenanigans. Probably just because I've been playing this game too long. If you've got someone imprisoned there's no reason to let them out unless they have their ransom money and they don't have good intrigue or diplomacy to plot against you. If they're a count that hates you their ransom money could be used to buy the duchy they belong to and give it to a count that likes you. If you're asking about just releasing prisoners the sole benefit is 5 piety if they're the same religion. I'm pretty sure this specifies religious branch, so you can't get this from Orthodox prisoners if you're Catholic. If they hate you (below -30) it's probably a bad idea to let them out considering this low reward, and I always try to go for the 10 gold ransom for, say, prisoners found from a siege. If I can't get that I release them.

>>16338200

Aw fuck, I'm retarded. I forgot step 1 was to get your heir up to his demesne limit. That's probably not going to be available here because of gavelkind >>16336452 though.

>>16338308

for muslims it's usually nto a problem, but in one of my games i made my heir emir of algarve and all was cool he had his own son, but then he bit the big one and died, leaving his titles to his grandson while i had other more capable sons, so i gave the emirate of grenada to my second son, but when i die there would probably be a civil war with my son and grandson because you can't predict these kind of things

>>16336719

Pretty much. There's no reason to build any other land units, except HQ's and maybe motorized inf/tanks for their extra speed.

>>16338601

I saw them win once when I was doing a straya game. Against all odds they persevered and managed to force the yankee aggressors to agree to a status quo.

Five years later USA declared war to restore order and crushed them. Make sure you sphere and ally them, anon.

>>16338200

>>16338308

Aye, I didn't manage to nor had any idea how to satisfy this guy. He had like -80 -100 opinion of me.

I tried to create claims on the duchy but It took far to long. I'm sure someone with a bigger clue about the game could easily fix this but I am afraid this will all fall apart as soon as my ruler dies due to gavelkind.

What's the fastest way to switch the sucession laws to one that suits one?

I noticed that I got some big maluses due to the count always desiring all of the smaller holdings within his county, Is there no way to work around this?

>>16338671

This. Even when CSA miraculously survives somehow, it just gets crushed by yankees later down the line.

>>16339707

Oh there's your problem. Use Transfer Vassal to give them the baronies, it's not worth having those maluses. You can check a box for it when you grant them the county, though you'll want to create barons first to prevent the count from having too much direct power and creating bishops will grant you 25 piety a pop. You can just hand out the cities to counts no problem, it'll save you the step of creating the mayor. Might want to create mayors before you hand off a town to a doge though.

>>16340117

So dukes won't care who holds a county in their de jure duchy as long as it's their Vassal?

>>16340748

exactly. They don't give a single shit so long as he's their subordinate. They'll usually try to revoke the county for themselves anyway

>>16340763

Seems like they'd go over the demesne limit quite easily if they hold bigger duchies, still can't see gow to get a grip on Merchant republic Vassals with big duchies. The opinion malus seems crippling if you aren't constantly keeping them incheck by having a spymaster in the capital.

As a Feudal ruler the only holdings that I can hold onto without penalty are castles?

>>16340824

>castle holdings

exactly, yeah. also with a high skill Chancellor or Diplomat or whatever they're called your demesne limit will increase, so every year or two use the character finder to check and see if there are any better Chancellors out there who will join your court. also if you have any of the DLC that allows it, work on increasing your personal Diplomacy score, and marry a wife who has a high one herself

>>16340824

>Seems like they'd go over the demesne limit quite easily if they hold bigger duchies

They usually stop when they are at the limit, but sometimes they go one county over it.

>still can't see gow to get a grip on Merchant republic Vassals with big duchies. The opinion malus seems crippling if you aren't constantly keeping them incheck by having a spymaster in the capital.

You can just not have a MR vassal if it becomes a problem. The game is easy even without them.

>>16340937

Always turn on assassination as a free action. Always assassinate these things when you see them, including any spouses and children.

Why is MEIOU so retarded with institutions?

>casual literacy requires protestant or reformed county in HRE that is also an art centre

took like a century longer than it should before such a combination came together. If you prevented reformation from happening or destred HRE, I guess it'd just never happen?

>globalized trade appears in trade node with highest local value

Meaning it will appear in China every single time regardless of what you do

>Manufactories require globalized trade to be present

Meaning it will ALSO appear in fucking China every single time because there's no way Globalized trade would spread from fucking China to Europe in that amount of time

Does the dev team have some sort of a China fetish? It always manages to keep up with research and earns insane amounts of money and everything thanks to everything being based on pop numbers, which China has an overabundance of. Institution penalties should fuck them up in late game, at least, except they don't if two of them fucking start there

>>16340937

whoops

>>16341480

Why was this made? It just seems like someone got really mad about the original version.

>>16309435

Crusader Kings is the best paradox game. I want an expansion that makes the world playable like in EU4.

>>16351619

excited might be a bit too much, but I def look forward playin it, looks fun from what I've seen

>>16351619

>>16351785

Johan, please.

>>16351619

Based on what has been shown about it, the game is going to be such a clustefuck that other recent paradox games will start to look good in comparison. Absolutely everything is half-assed to make room for infinite amount of paid patched, and I bet there will be a "Women of Rome", "Proud PoC of Germania" and "Wisdom of Elagabalus" DLCs before Rome gets its second consul.

When are they going to update When The World Stopped Making Sense?

>>16351619

I'm excited for when the first total conversion mods start coming out, which will hopefully unfuck the worst of it. I don't care for the vanilla game much – it's already clear it'll be a piece of shit.

I'll pirate that shit to check it out but from the gameplay videos you can already tell it suffers from the same trite overused systems all Nu-Paradox games have. Also if you don't get in on it on day 1 it'll only become more convoluted as time goes on and they add more shit with DLC. I couldn't begin to play EUIV because of all the bullshit it's now bloated with.

I already saw tribal queens in Iberia, so get ready…

>>16353392

To be fair, adding Persia makes perfect sense in the scope of the game, and once you do that, adding India too isn't that big a stretch. I'm more concerned with them deciding to add playable nations in Russia since that minimap seems to stretch way further north than it should need to (they could easily keep scandinavia if they rotated the map a bit more than they already did, so why not do that?)

>>16353392

Oh god, they're using the new politically correct world map, where everything that's not white is gigantic.

>>16353487

>300BC

>Kazakhstan

The Huns, I guess? But Attila only became a thing centuries after Imperator's end date.

>Ukraine, Belarus, Baltics

Why? What the fuck could they possibly put there? Everything in that region will be full on fantasy since nobody knows what fucking tribes there were at that time.

>that fucking Sahara

There's only one reason why they'd make Sahara that big. Get ready for Mali 2: Electric Boogaloo, since putting them in CK2 apparently wasn't enough.

>>16353552

>Mali 2

SHEEET NIGGA, WE WUZ ETRUSCANS

http://realhistoryww.com/world_history/ancient/Etruria_the_Etruscans_1.htm

AND PHOENICIANS

http://realhistoryww.com/world_history/ancient/Etruria_the_Etruscans_2.htm

AND CELTS AND SHEEEEEET

http://realhistoryww.com/world_history/ancient/Etruria_the_Etruscans_celts.htm

>>16353392

Persia was at odds with the Roman Empire for pretty much their entire existence, even after the fall of Rome, the Byzantines had to deal with Persia for two centuries until the Arabs conquered them for good.

>>16289219

>>16288486

>commie cucks enter the thread

>>16353652

>BC

>Vikings

How do I fix the Alaska-California trade agreement decision in Anon's edits? I can't find anything wrong with it in the files.

>>16353470

>so why not do that

Well, the only real mention of Scandinavia during that time was by Plinius the Elder who said it was a peninsular, so yeah.

There wasn't really any contact, barring some very limited trade with Frisian/Danish tribes later on.

>>16356508

Giving up the mana system would be like giving up Turkish cocks in the morning; you can't ask that much from Johan

What the fuck was their argument against sliders again?

>>16356923

I think it was¨Historical Accuarycy¨ or some faggot shit.

>>16356477

Thanks. And yeah, I reported it a while ago so you probably did hotfix it.

>>16326360

>Muh Kurdish waifus

>>16319894

I don't trust capitalists because most of them are jews

>>16357512

I'm not the guy that makes the mod. Just happened to have been in a Russia playthrough and thought that decision was working when I did it.

Why is Paracocks so averse to letting you play tall? Every game they shit out nowadays is just about blobbing, each one even more than the last one. There's just nothing to do except war. Mods like MEIOU fix that to a certain degree, but even there it's more like it gives you something to do during peace time rather than just wait, with war still being the centrepiece due to inherent design. The last time they even attempted going tall that I know off was with Merchant Republics in CK2, and it even sort of worked to a certain degree (it was still pretty pathetic, but miles above what they usually do), except it's filled by so many bugs that it's unplayable anyway, bugs that have been present for years and they never bothered to fix.

Just why? It's not like it takes a genius to design that shit.

>>16360572

>Why is Paracocks so averse to letting you play tall

It's worse than that. In EU4 they implemented things which punish you for blobbing, but didn't implement anything to make playing tall fun.

>>16357649

As opposed to Karl Marx?

>>16353454

This picture is the most retarded thing I've seen in a month and I just watched the Finnish elections.

>>16357741

Well I originally thought it was broken because no effects showed up when I hovered over the check button. After playing with your file I noticed the effects still applied to the provinces despite the check button problem remaining. So it could be there was no real problem to begin with lol

>>16360825

Did you not like socialists taking power? :^)

>>16360639

Yeah, exactly. There's fuck all to do in peacetime in their games, even though they implement mechanics that prevent blobbing. That's why you got mods. But why? It's not hard to make playing tall viable, to give you something to do

>>16363631

Paradox considers their games to be Multiplayer games. Tall mechanics/complex internal development don't work because you can't do those things while fighting wars with other players.

>>16360681

>implying it wasn't the jews that ruined communism

>>16364106

>implying you shouldn't kill yourself

>>16364106

>implying the jews didn’t create communism

>>16364225

On a micro-level, sure; the way a given battle resolves in EU4 is fine (notwithstanding some gripes about the RNG). But on a macro-level it's complete shit. Fort-trapping, shattered retreat, and the entire balance (e.g. reinforce rates, warscore modifiers) are all heavily gamified and catered to multiplayer games. I've pretty much given up on that front (one GS being MP-focused isn't that bad), but throwing historical simulation to the wind for the sake of "balance" in all of their games is a terrible idea.

>>16364198

I'm glad they added India tho because I have a thing for Bactria and the Indo-Greek kingdom

>>16364225

>You can actually win while being outnumbered in EU4 if you have the appropriate modifiers and tech/ideas.

You can actually win in CK2 while being way more outnumbered if you know what you are doing. EU4 is just the same degenerate "quality->economic->offensive->innovative" every game if you want to have space marines that wipe everything.

>>16353392

I mean most of the important roman history happened outside the Italian peninsula didn't it?

At some point in history it even becomes a backwater as Constantinople takes power.

>>16364534

That said that map is fucked for sure.

>>16364198

The inclusion of india is obviusly for ebin gross macedoniums.

>>16365242

Can't wait for the Third Rome DLC that adds all of Russia and Siberia

>>16365320

Of course, that will only come after Sunset Invasion DLC where you'll make an Aztec become the Roman Emperor

>>16365325

>get an event that some punic explorers got their boats stolen in Hyperzephyria

>century later get invaded by Olmecs

>they look more negro than the Carthaginians (who as a rule always get ethnically replaced by the black tribes creeping across Sahara)

>>16366158

>Aztec ships arrive

>out come soldiers in steel cuirasses wielding muskets

>they're led by a female president

>female emancipation event fires and unless you immediately liberalise and give women voting rights, every province in your country will rebel

>only way to beat Aztecs is by seeking help from Wakanda

>>16367512

Depends on tech, look at your modifiers

Anyone interested in updating KR 1.7 to the latest DH patch? I'm too lazy to do it alone.

>>16370750

>HoI3

I'd love that game if there was a way to prevent horrible border gore from happening every damn time

>>16370776

>I'd love that game if there was a way to prevent horrible border gore from happening every damn time

For me, that's the case with every Paradox game I play. To varying degrees, of course.

>>16370776

Can the AI be modded?

>>16370064

Thanks anon. I will look up the 1.8 and 1.9 changelog to see what bugfixes we can apply. It would be nice to have a definitive version in the mod archive which I still dont know how to use since it moved to that dumb sengoku page

>>16371610

That would be cool. If you knew how it worked before, you should now too.

>>16371647

Oh shit I got it now. It needs to be updated tho, some mods are outdated.

I've been watching a lot of Imperator videos lately and my god, the game has obvious and glaring problems. The AI can't even fucking tech up!

>>16367512

Beyond tech 15 or so it's ideal to have the same amount of infantry and artillery in your army, with slightly more infantry in a second stack to fill in as the first army dies.

>>16377201

In EU3 its tech 18

>>16370953

No other paradox game has border gore this bad.

*farts*

>>16377692

HoI3 isn't meant to be played after WW2 is over.

>>16378642

>be Japan

>grab Dutch East Indies

>halfway through Germany annexes Netherlands

>islands are brutalised into landlocked patches of German clay in the jungle that was too undeveloped to send Japanese units to while the coast is composed from haphazard strips of Japan/german territory depending on where exactly Nips disembarked

It doesn't need to be after WW2. Any time there is more than one nation involved in fighting an enemy, you run the danger of this happening when you annex him.

>>16378656

You could try to find/make a mod that turns Dutch East Indies into a puppet state of Netherlands like in DH, that way you'd be able to capitulate them separately.

>>16378725

That's just bypassing the root of the problem, though. Take, for example, Barbarossa – the moment Germany doesn't quickly rush to control the ENTIRE front, it's quite possible you will end up with Romania getting all of ukraine. And that's not even taking into account the horror that would ensue if Japan decided to help in the east.

>>16353504

What is politcally correct about a more correct map projection?

Just because some faggots go bix nod we did it :^)

>>16353504

Map projections are proof that autism is a powerful force that pervades society at every level. For fuck's sake, just use a globe already.

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this but I've been playing Stellaris and I'm actually having a lot of fun with the planet-building, research and anomaly features. But is it just me or does the AI cheat? They always seem to be on par with me, yet when I conquer their worlds everything is horribly managed and they have major resource deficits. Also war in general is tedious as fuck, fleets take too long to move from system to system.

>>16370750

>HoI3

I forgot how cool the game was. I don't know why everyone has such a hard on for 4 despite all that dumbing down they've done to it.

Besides, anyone played Black Ice mod for 3?

>>16382867

I ssue with globe is that unless you make the map pretty big on screen (which you usually don't want to do in these games as you want to have a lot of overview rather than only having 10 provinces on screen at a time), it starts looking you're looking through a fish eye, it just looks garbage. Which is why they use flat maps even if they have to deal with projection autism

>1941 Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers.

Good times.

I don't know if you autists would consider Total War series as "grand strategy" but I loved playing Medieval II and Shogun.

Are any of the newer titles not complete cancer? I played Warhammer and uninstalled an hour in. How's Rome II or Attila? Worth even pirating/modding?

>>16382936

>I don't know if you autists would consider Total War series as "grand strategy"

We don't. This is not really a thread about such games, but the thread is slow so fuck it.

>Are any of the newer titles not complete cancer?

Not really

>I played Warhammer and uninstalled an hour in.

Same. Can't really see what other anons see in it

>How's Rome II

Utter shit

>Attila

Better, but it's still no miracle. AI is so fucking dumb that it's not much of a challenge. The only fun I've had with it was playing as Western Rome, since the game essentially throws everything it has at you – no matter what happens, it's bad for you. You start with utterly shit economy, where every city you have has low happiness and moves towards revolt, unfucking it takes much more money than you have access too because again, shit economy, every barbarian nigger, be he german from the east, celt from the north, subsaharan nigger from the south, or steppenigger from the far east attacks you and fucks your shit up further. The game's (((tip))) is that you should just let them conquer some of the shit you have so that you can consolidate your forces and focus on your core. Don't do that. Their refugee mechanic means that if they grab your city, all the cities in neighbouring provinces get a happiness hit that you usually have nothing to counter with, meaning your economy just gets fucked even further. I made the mistake of letting enemy take germania buffer zone and regretted it heavily afterwards. The climate keeps getting worse so your economy suffers more and more, and then the huns come. If you manage to beat them, you won and there is no reason to continue playing, since there's nothing of significance to come after those, just mopping up some barbarian stragglers that already used up all their forces anyway.

>Worth even pirating

I found it worth it for that one playthrough, since saving WRE tickled my 'tism and it was an okay challenge, but didn't really bother with anything after that – the game's not really very good. Economy is very simplistic juggling of numbers with very little beyond that, and battles are just a chore due to the AI being so ridiculously stupid. You can blow through enemies several times your size and quality no problem with 1 super simple tactic:

>hide cavalry in the forest as close to the enemy as you can

>wait for enemy to advance towards you and engage you in melee

>cavalry in now behind enemy so just charge their general with it

>general dead, enemies start breaking due to morale loss

>mop up with cavalry and win

Every battle, the AI behaves exactly the same. Infantry charges your infantry, archers shoot from behind, general stays back with the archers (easy to dick with your hidden cavalry) and enemy cavalry trying some really shitty flanking maneuvres that you can easily stop by leaving on infantry unit on each side.

>>16382936

Given that Warhammer and Attilia are using Rome 2 as a base the answer should be obvious

Three Kingdoms will be fucked even worse from trying to retain the Warhammer niggers and appeal to the Dynasty Warriors wuxia faggots

>>16390654

FotS is great, but don't expect the AI to be good at using or dealing with Artillery. Its only method of success is a mass charge through gatling gun fire and naval bombardments.

>>16390654

>I just tried the cavalry tactic with the other Total Wars, it seems like an old exploit.

>old exploit

>EXPLOIT

How the fuck is the most basic, simplest strategy a fucking exploit? This isn't some 300IQ maneuvre, this is a rookie tactician's first idea when he sees a forest. If this is an exploit, what kind of tactic did the devs expect to be used? Just straight up head-on charging the enemy?

>>16393309

>Mass charges through artillery

Sounds like the Japs alright

>>16394755

The issue is that the AI is always the same and it always works.

Games like Total War should have dozens of different AI patterns that try different strategies. When there is only one its too easy to exploit it over and over. TW AI can be summed up at:

>Does the AI have more artillery? If so camp on a hill and shoot with artillery

>Does the AI have more skirmishers? If so camp on a hill and shoot with skirmishers

>Otherwise make a line and walk towards the enemy.

>>16395743

>Games like Total War should have dozens of different AI patterns that try different strategies

Even just one with different difficulties based on general's skill would be enough. But all you get is garbage instead. I'd understand this if it were their first game, yet they've been making the same kind of game over and over for almost two decades and their AI is still complete garbage

>>16395869

I just want the AI to, once in a while, deploy cavalry in the middle, or separate the infantry into two groups, or pull back the weaker side of infantry at the last second, or something.

In CK2 if you switch to feudalism as a tribe will your tribal holdings be converted to castles and will you get temple + city build in provinces which lack them? Also, will your vassals convert with you as well?

>>16398125

All your tribal holdings will convert even if they don't meet all the requirements you would normally need. If you have any holdings with odd level buildings in them I would suggest upgrading them before switching over as only even level building improvements carry over to castle buildings. Do some cost analysis though, no clue if they've fucked with the costs again. The other holdings depend on how many empty holding slots the county has, a county with three slots that are all empty will definitely get a temple and city. I remember it sometimes fucking up on two holding counties though, so check on those. Vassals that can convert will attempt to do so, but they also need your religion and a stone hillfort level castle. Dukes might need their tribal organization at max, I've seen them rush it after I switch to feudal but I don't know if they need it for the switch to feudalism.

>>16398164

Thanks, I appreciate the answer.

>>16395743

>Does the AI have more artillery? If so camp on a hill and shoot with artillery

>Does the AI have more skirmishers? If so camp on a hill and shoot with skirmishers

>Otherwise make a line and walk towards the enemy.

This isn't even a joke or some over-dramatized point and it's persisted since they introduced the new engine in Empire, it's also why I think they haven't tried an Empire 2. In there it was if (Ai's Artillery Count) > (Player's Artillery Count) then bombard, else charge. The player could disembark his cannons, and the ai would no longer register them, so all their troops would move all their troops back to bombard, but when the player embarked his cannons again, they would stop bombardment and charge you. This could be repeated ad infinitum in order to make the ai never actually fire a single volley as they constantly switch from bombardment mode to charge mode and back, while the player picked them off at their leisure.

Imperator.Rome-CODEX

>>16403855

I would expect nothing less from modern Paradox.

You use mana points for literally everything in imperator. Culture/religious conversion is instantaneous with mana points.

>>16403912

The entire game is waiting around for buckets (mana) to fill. Exactly like nu-Civ.

>>16403964

>>16404052

To show you (((who))) is really in charge, dumb goy.

>>16404052

Maybe they're these guys:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypsistarians

>>16404052

Also,

>no pop system like vicky2

>>16404087

The earliest date that article mentions is 100 years after Imperator's start date.

>Nubia, Antioch, Cyprus, Persia,

>Everywhere as citizens, ie. the highest societal class

What the everliving fuck? They literally are everywhere except India and barbarian tribes.

>>16404141

I'd imagine that Paracock's "reasoning" is that they used later historical sources (from the time Hellenized Jews actually lived there) because they couldn't find anything for 304 BC. As to why they're citizens: hell if I know. Maybe because they're supposed to have been assimilated by that point, but again, that was centuries after the start date.

>>16404235

Typical teething problems of Paradox games, nobody considered that opposing traits might occur.

Playing as Etruria, stomped the Romans a bit and now that they are weak every other Italian tribe pounces on them as well constantly. Other than that, meh. Etruria has exactly the same military traditions as Rome, because they will sell a TRIBES OF ITALIA DLC within 6 months.

>>16403964

I know the judaism is the worst part of this screenshot, but why does Rome, the capital, have massive local autonomy?

>>16404253

The governor policy is set to local autonomy because that seems to be the default one.

I hope you cucks didn't actually rent the damn game.

I'm actually pleasantly suprised with Imperator tbh, at least it puts an end to the trend of dumbing down in GSGs we've seen (Vic -> CK2 -> EU4 -> HoI4)

>>16404362

>mana points for everything

>not dumbed down

>>16403855

Mount and Blade had this and nobody complained then.

>>16404786

mount and blade has actual mechanics tied to character gender and significantly increases game difficulty if you play as a woman. Not to mention M&B never claimed to be set in a historical setting. Paradox simulates ancient europe (and India) and offers a magical button to suddenly make everyone go full equality, despite being supposedly heavily based on history. That is not to mention M&B and GSGs are entirely different genres and comparisons like these do not really hold much water.

Maybe try harder with your shit bait next time.

>>16404750

It's supposedly the most mod friendly game they've made yet, and I'm hoping that's true.

Regardless, Meiou&Taxes 3.0 dev diaries got me really excited for what they project will take them roughly a year to finish. For whatever reason, they're still updating 2.51 however they haven't updated the dev diary in a while. Can't wait for M&T to utterly destroy my PC.

>>16404859

I'm waiting for the EU conversion mod.

>>16404750

Sounds like hot garbage. Thanks for saving me from even bothering to pirate it.

>>16404750

>>As always, AI cannot into warfare, and it is especially desperate when it comes to navy. It sends small armies that you easily curbstomp instead of commiting a sufficient force. Pic related, I'm that blue shit in Crete in the process of raping fucking Phrygia, since it keeps sending these small armies that I then proceed to genocide. Peak retardation

Nice to see that nothing changed in this regard since 2010 when Victoria 2 was released.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/imperator-empty.1170466/

>paracucks finally waking up

>>16406275

>2%

I highly doubt that.

>>16406328

No shit?

>>16406348

Are you telling me that this Anon was lying?

Started out in Ireland to see what tutorial island would be like. They are definitely going to need to rework the colonization feature. I'm pretty sure it's faster to colonize all of ireland than to conquer scotland from ireland. The way it works is if you have 10 pops in a city you can colonize an adjacent city. This happens instantly. You can also move pops around for 25 wreath mana. This also happens instantly.

I had gotten a few provinces like this before I got fed up with the engrish, the bugs, and how incomplete the game felt. My ruler at some point become a secret pit fighter and a secret gambler and I never got a notification for either. When I decided to establish a friendship with another character I was able to take all of the most expensive options despite not being able to afford them. My character also had holdings in Noventae despite me not having control over Noventae which lead to another bug where I was allowed to choose whether or not Noventae would accept refugees. From Noventae. Was hoping it was just the text bugging out, but nope, gave my belligerent neighbor a free 2 pops.

Thank god for piracy.

How long until this game is out of alpha? Two or three years? Four? Even the UI is obviously unfinished. God I hope they never try making a Victoria 3.

>>16406478

We'll never get a Victoria 3. The time period it takes place in is way too problematic.

>>16406500

Is complaining unironically a bannable offence?

>>16406524

Yes, you should've seen the shitstorm that commenced after HOI3 was released.

>>16406536

>the goal is to correct behavior

Holy fuck, imagine being this full of yourself.

>>16406557

>respectfully disagree x 24

I heard there's a way to get all the DLC for my free copy of Crusader King 2 on Steam. Is anyone willing to spoonfeed me?

>>16406598

Read the OP

(cont. 2/2)

As for economy, the literally only purpose it has is to fund your army. If you look at expenses, there's 4 cathegories: army upkeep, naval upkeep, fort upkeep, and advisor wages. Advisor wages are shit you pay to characters and are so low you can just ignore them entirely. As you can see, everything else is war-related. There isn't even a slider for you to use, there's just three buttons under each cathegory: fund a little, fund as normal, fund a lot, which just apply buffs and debuffs. Usually, it's just lowering/raising army upkeep at the cost of lowering/raising army morale. Now, in EU4, expenses also mostly had to do with war, but you could at least hire advisors to generate mana for you and made for a major expense (something you cannot do here) and you could build province buildings. Here there only four (!!!) province buildings, and you can build them over and over in the same province to stack buffs. Their buffs are, of course, useless, just like everything else in the game (example: training camp gives +10% Manpower, and +10% experience to units built in the city. A decent province gives you 10 manpower per month, so building this shit would raise it to 11. One unit is composed of 1000 manpower. By the time you make enough money to spam these things to maybe become somewhat usefull overall, you will be swimming in manpower anyway). There is no reason as far as I can tell to not just build as much army as your income allows.

The map might seem pretty cool with how many provinces or "cities") it has, but you'll soon find it to be bullshit as well. There's just far too many for you to manage. Fucking crete alone has 10 cities on it. It quickly becomes apparent that it's mainly meant to "wow" the customer and to make conquering shit take longer, except only in early game, as later you can conquer whole provinces (areas contaning multiple cities, for example crete as a whole) in one go.

And that's pretty much the whole game. Build as many troops as you can, manufacture casus belli (costs 200 mana and is done instantly. Also applies to a whole province area. Again, worse than even EU4), and go to war. Repeat until you can post your meme blob on leddit or die of boredom. I thought vanilla EU4 was bad, but holy shit, this is something else.

>>16406792

No, not really. You aren't bottlenecked by mana, you don't wait for mana too often, you just straight up ignore mana 90% of the time save for fabricating casus belli or declaring omens/increasing stability. Which might be seen as a plus - less reliance on mana - but the reality is that there little reliance on it is only there because the game is so shallow that it doesn't have enough meaningful mechanics it could tie to mana. Like you might not believe me, but try playing it and you'll see very quickly just how incredibly empty the game is. How everything that LOOKS like it is important actually only gives you some tiny permanent buff and otherwise is entirely useless.

>>16406807

Oh I believe you. I AM playing right now. The mana problems go deeper, certain types are clearly more valuable (Oratory) than others (Military, Religion)

>>16406823

Oratory is definitely the most important since you need it for claim fabrication. Religion can be pretty useful since it gives actually decent buffs and stability. Civic is borderline useless. Just spam inventions. Military is absolutely worthless.

>>16406816

>51% positive on steam

Normalniggers are angry

>Oratory is definitely the most important since you need it for claim fabrication.

Not even. Stability barely matters so you can just spam no-cb wars and truce break to your heart's content.

This game is so fucking empty. There's loads of buttons and modifiers in theory but they all do so little that everything feels completely inconsequential. It is chock full of false choices that don't matter. Every tech is just a fucking multiplier, for instance. You never actually progress or unlock anything except maybe traditions at intervals, you just stack modifiers.

It stutters heavily on my machine every time a day ticks too, to the point where it's simply unplayable.

I'm sad I wasted bandwidth pirating this shit. It's yet another dlc platform and it shows.

Hope the AGEOD interpretation of classical GSG is better.

>>16406869

>Not even. Stability barely matters so you can just spam no-cb wars and truce break to your heart's content.

I suppose that's true too, although I was annoyed Yeah, I guess that's true too. I think it affects your income negatively due to unrest, but who the fuck even cares.

>>16406894

>fucked up my post

fug :DDDD

>people are surprised that company that has never ever released good game that didn't need six gorillion patches/expansions/DLCs released yet another unfinished game

What a shocker. It was apparent from the very first day Imperator is just reskinned EU:Rome with mana. I'll still probably give it a chance because I actually enjoyed EU:Rome quite a bit.

Beat Rome as Etruria, conquered most of Italy, formed a kingdom, already lost interest. There is nothing there. Nothing. Not just mechanically, the AI can't even form proper blobs so all you do is no-CB a bunch of minor tribes for ever and ever.

>>16407199

You can't fuck around with BELIEVABLE because the game doesn't even support that, mechanically. I mean, in theory I guess you could find a Nubian KANG in Africa and adopt him but it would be incredibly hard to do because diplo range and interactions are severely limited.

>>16407221

At the same time, we have been looking at all the feedback from play-testing, our (((Twitch))) and (((YouTube))) communities, and the (((press))) for the past month and a half as we prepared for release. Now we are adding all of your feedback from Steam, the forums, and social media to that! With it, we have begun developing a major patch which is aimed for release in June.

>game is so shit you already need to come up with plans to fix it on day 1

>>16407225

They knew full well what sort of skeleton of a game they'd be launching. Probably overestimated their sycophant's willingness to lap up shit.

>>16407207

Damn, that's really bad. The very least that could be said of HOI4 is that you could pull BELIEVABLE all over the place since that really is the only fun with that game, but I can't imagine how boring a game as crippled as HOI4 can be without that least bit of fun.

>>16407216

>>16407221

Uhhhhh I'm sorry but where's my Ottoman Anatolia? You promised more buffs to that poor, defenseless, weakened region that clearly needs them, and we also need some islamic events in imperator since I assume you aim for maximum historical accuracy, so I won't give you much of a chance until you provide these specific and much needed improvements, thanks. In all seriousness, I expect most of those fixes to be somewhat addressed with 25 DLC packs.

>>16407233

If HoI4 was a meme game, then Imperator is a fucking nothing burger.

>>16407328

>They planning to put this fucking shit on tablet?

Wait, what? The ancient Clausewitz engine doesn't even run properly on a PC once you hit late game.

>>16286879

I take back what I said about it being pozzed.

There is no pozz because there is no content to be pozzed.

>>16407083

>is just reskinned EU:Rome with mana.

I fucking wish. As bad as EU:Rome was, it was still good for a playthrough or two. This isn't.

>>16407216

>dual rulers as first DLC

You mean that thing they brushed off in dev diaries as being too much work and borderline impossible? Wow, fancy that, it became possible one day after release, what a mad coincidence.

>rebalance everything

Those fucking cunts. They weren't making some new kind of game, almost all the shit they added was directly copy pasted from elsewhere. How do you fuck up the balancing of a copy paste? All the had to to was leave the source balances untouched and they'd get a better system than they have now. This is some serious retardation.

>>16407225

>>16407229

I'd say they didn't expect this big an outrage, but they've already been shat on with Stellaris and HoI4. They probably knew full well the reaction would be bad, but thought they'll just release their DLCs and it'll be okay again, as the whales will forgive and forget. And they're probably right.

>>16407233

>islam

Paradox knows it can't pull Islam in 300BC. So they instead went full jew. Jews are everywhere in 300BC, just all over the mediterranean as a minority in your provinces. They also have an ethnic majority in fucking bosphorus for some reason.

>>16407697

I mean there's that mixed gender option. You can tell they tried to pozz that nothing that was there, but probably were too incompetent to pozz it properly.

>49% positive on Steam

wew

>>16407865

>implying it won't be at 90% tomorrow because of the new review bombing policy

>>16408056

Steam review policy only applies if people write bad reviews because of something that doesn't have anything to do with the game. Like how people review bombed Borderlands HD because Randy said that BL3 will be an Epic exclusive.

>>16408073

>>16408056

Let's hope Valve won't go

>"Oh, people are mad because there will be many DLCs. That's too meta. They don't count."

>>16406848

>>and the biggest one: DLCs among all players in the same game have to match, so you're effectively blackmailed into buying their DLCs if you want to keep up with your MP buddies

Have you actually played Paradox games online? Only host's DLC matter, everyone gets access to it. It's probably the least Jewish part of their DLC policy.

>>16406894

Like every other modifier in the game, stability barely has an impact on anything.

I've honestly never seen a game where there is so much to do in theory but so little in practice. It's a tour de force of useless mechanics. Even vanilla Stellaris was less empty.

There are at least a dozen different religions. They all work the same, every single one. Even the omens are the exact same modifiers just with different names. In fact the system is entirely binary : either state religion or non-state religion. The latter negatively affects omen power and thus would be bad if modifiers modified anything substantially in this game.

It's a game of fake choices, just like how they covered the map in minor tribes that get eaten almost instantly as if they didn't all play the exact same. They extrapolated history massively to populate the map which means 99% of countries are utterly meaningless and without flavour, which is something considering even the majors have no flavour.

>>16408309

>that get eaten almost instantly

But they don't, unless they're next to the player. The AI can't even form cohesive blobs.

Imperator completely pozzed up the rulers of the entire western iberian peninsula. Half of the Galician tribes have female leaders, while historically there is no proof that any ever existed; the culture in the Lisbon area, the heart of lusitanian civilization is turdetalian, while the regions which historically were turdetanean are somehow lusitanean. The names on the entire area are sort of messy as well, specially considering Porto, that was called something similar to Portus Cale ever since the bronze age.

Scythia being sarmatian and not scythian, even though scythian culture exists, makes no sense either. Also, why are they calling Tengri "ritualistic" now? It's one of the most retarded naming conventions i have ever seen.

>>16408309

>I've honestly never seen a game where there is so much to do in theory but so little in practice. It's a tour de force of useless mechanics. Even vanilla Stellaris was less empty.

I know, right? It's baffling. This shouldn't have been caught in even the most barebone testing, this should have been caught at the drawing board. No wonder the very first promised patch promises a rebalance. You could probably make a mana-free playthrough where you wouldn't use any of it even once, and still manage to conquer the world. Just recruit troops, declare war with no casus belli, and repeat. That's all there is to the game anyway, after all. Everything else is just window dressing meant to distract you from this fact.

>They extrapolated history massively to populate the map which means 99% of countries are utterly meaningless and without flavour

I guess they wanted to avoid the empty world of EU:Rome? It's pretty stupid nonetheless. They should have just made the few tribes they DO have proper historical sources on and leave the rest uncolonised, while providing you with an actually good colonization mechanic that lets you deal with local tribes and similar. As is, the colonization manages to be even worse than in EU:Rome.

>>16408364

Don't forget the jews. Jews are EVERYWHERE. They also somehow make an ethnic majority in fucking bosphorus. After seeing that bullshit, I couldn't really take any "historical" claims seriously. I mean I expected them to take some liberties with history, seeing as how the resources on many parts of the world are limited from that time, but this is just a joke.

Also, even EU:Rome had the decency to have religion groups with distinct religions in them, while Imperator just uses religious groups AS the religions.

Everything they did smacks of "Well we tested it in MP". Right now the "balance" is essentially perfect for MP because every nation is exactly the same and events are never so drastic that they would disrupt the flow of the game for the player. The argument that all there is to do is to paint the map, literally, is also "moot" when taking into account competitive multiplayer matches since that's what everyone will be doing anyway.

>>16408611

Did the guy get banned afterwards?

>>16406530

Can you tell the history?