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There is so much wrong with Imperator it's not even funny as a trainwreck. The entire thing is just a waiting game. You wait for mana to go up, you wait for AE to go down. That's it, that's the entire gameplay loop.

I'd rather play Total war Rome II than this shit

>>16426872

That fucking Early Rome DLC for R2 is more historically accurate than Imperator.

>>16426799

Talking about Paradox in general:

>we will never get a mechanic to buy an area of land from another country ever again

>we will never have the ability to fund the immigration of our primary culture into a neighboring country, causing dissent therein and separatist desire, whereupon we can core, war, and annex said area

>we will never have POP mechanics that consider the five species of humanity as separate, inexchangable entities, nor will we ever have decisions which allow a law to prohibit miscegenation, etc.

>>16427127

It actually should be impossible for different races to assimilate. America getting tons of Yankee pops from European immigration makes sense. But when they get a bunch of Han Chinese when China westernizes, those Han Chinese should remain Han Chinese, they should not be able to assimilate, because they can never become white americans. A chinaman is always going to be a chinaman.

Throw in a last sixth "mutt" race to represent race mixing, which any race can assimilate into.

>>16427127

>>16426911

I think the most period accurate way of demonstrating the Classical conception of nationality / (((race))) would be done through the prefixing of cultures (Romano-Gallic, Greco-Bactrian, etc.) which would be tolerated as a secondary (colonial) culture, however not accepted like the primary (motherland) culture.

>>16427204

That's mostly in a modern sense. We have this modern notion that after the World Wars history stops being written. Culture and race are historically (mostly) fluid concepts that are effected by politics, geography, wealth, class, etc.

The Cossacks are (were) the result of Slavs integrating, either forcefully through slavery or willingly through migration, with the Mongol/Turkic peoples of The Steppes.

The Mestizo and Metis are the result of Spaniards/Frenchman taking native women as their wives due to the lack of female colonists.

In the modern day, I agree, it doesn't make any sense for a Han Chinese man to pretend to be an Englishman just because he speaks English and worships Jesus. Historically however, great population migrations occurred and the civilizations learned to adapt and deal with it.

Are the socii implemented at all or will it be $20 for what should be a base feature? Shouldnt be too hard potential rebellions and a manpower/unit/naval bonus from the appropriate italian or italian greek subjugated.

>>16427239

>The Cossacks are (were) the result of Slavs integrating, either forcefully through slavery or willingly through migration, with the Mongol/Turkic peoples of The Steppes.

And yet they remained NOT MONGOLS because they were ethnically white and not asian. Poor example.

>>16426872

Rome 2 unironically has a better character system.

>>16427350

Of course not. In fact making vassals is pretty pointless in general.

>>16427726

I think his point is more that the modern concept of race and the ancient concept of race were far different, so much so that it doesn't make sense mechanically. Race in ancient history was far more broad of a term. Today we would not say a Frenchman and an Englishman are of two different races, but in ancient history we sometimes may not even be able to say two people from two different tribes in Britain are of the same race, let alone say they are the same race as a gaul or german.

>>16428097

Do you seriously think that you need to understand genetics to notice that differenct races look different? Are you this stupid?

>>16427726

> Race, nation, and ethnicity originally meant the exact same thing

Because in ancient times, they WERE the exact same thing. If you were a different race, you were also part of a different nation.

>>16427404

I played the demo. Clearly the modders have put more thought into good game mechanics than the devs have. It's not perfect, but its a hell of a lot more fun and interesting than vanilla hoi4

>>16426799

Paradox has fundamentally been changing since older PDS games. Say what you will about mana, but it puts more power in the hands of the player, and makes it easier to comprehend how to make changes. With Victoria 2, it isn't always obvious how to improve literacy, or pop happiness, or colonial migration, etc. New games deal with this by creating an arbitrary power that you use that represents the administrative costs of getting those things done. Paradox does this because they're a much larger company than they were even 10 years ago, and they are trying to appeal to a much larger audience who tend to find grand strategy games almost impossible to comprehend, even the newer more streamlined ones. I am not particularly a fan of mana myself, but even I can see how much it is working.

>>16428233

A few weeks ago a friend was telling me that Hitler was an idiot for being obsessed with Germans when he was Austrian, he couldn't understand me when i tried telling him that Austrians are ethnically German.

>>16428472

Germans are just loud kikes

>>16428474

t. jewpig

>>16428481

Nice try (((Mark)))

>>16428484

>im not a kike i swear

lol jewpig

>>16427404

its shit

>>16428417

>mana

>working

Yeah, "click a button to win" is such a great design, it's not like the fucking genre is about simulation

The design in Imperator reeks of a MP-first policy. All religions are the same, so no imbalanced nations. Almost all starts are the same, so no imbalanced starts for MP either. Historical events at best pay lip service to real history, so no disruptions during your MP sessions. Everyone gets the same tech and the same units so no balancing issues when your ebin Brutgallia fights the Romans… in MP.

>>16427436

Mongols did not integrate into the Cossacks, however - the Cossacks were and remained entirely white to this day.

>>16428587

Johan is pretty paranoid about piracy. Multiplayer piracy is harder, so he probably hopes making MP games will help him in that regard.

Paradox itself is, infact, probably the most anti-piracy company out there, seeing as how they're trying their utmost to hide even fucking mods from pirates behind their gay forum. I wouldn't be surprised if their next game came with Denuvo

>>16428587

Do you see this mp sesion,this is the reason

>>16428587

>It still baffles me why does Paradox tries to focus its singleplayer games to change them into bigger focus onto multiplayer

>sell singleplayer game

>one guy buys it

>sell multiplayer game

>one guy buys it and convinces his friends to reluctantly buy it so they can play one online game and never play again

>cha-ching, goyim

>>16428587

People here forget that we are the ones that no one cares about. HOI4 and EU4 are actually fairly popular as far as such a game can be. Both have ~15k or even higher daily player peaks. CK2 is a bit behind.

The game are very casualized and so normalfags can play them. Making the single player worse for the sake of casualizing the multiplayer (even though they can really make them two different things, but oh well) is something that the normalfags with friends will like. The rest will hardly care or notice. Most people think Paradox are a respectable publisher that values their customers. Honest to God thing I have personally heard from different people. Not even people that are Paradox fanboys, just general casual gamers. Their games are more popular than ever regardless of being more retarded than ever, in fact the casualization at least is helping.

I am honestly not sure what is going to take for the normalfag to turn against Paradox. The only thing that seemed to work is that they released such a shell of a game, even more than HOI4, that people call Imperator empty and not worth it, but are still waiting for the DLCs to improve it.

>>16428877

>I am honestly not sure what is going to take for the normalfag to turn against Paradox.

Someone making a better GSG than they and blowing them out the water.

>>16428892

Not it won't. More complex shit won't sell as much.

>>16428934

It's not like that wasn't all EU3 wars, but that game had a lot more to it.

Oh boy, I can't wait for the DLC that makes it playable!

Imperator is so shit but I can't stop playing it.

Have the mods caught up to CKII's recent updates yet? Please, I need help.

>>16429324

After the End: Fan Fork has.

>>16429354

remember about small divining before battles generals would do to see if it's a good day to fight. A small religious payment should be done before each battle which would boost or drop morale, adding another RNG element to war that actually has some effect, plus giving an actual reason for the religion mana which was also historically a deciding part of warfare at the time.

>>16429428

Good, that's my favorite one. It's the link in the archive?

>>16426799

You're not supposed to play Rome you dumb goy, they are the final evil boss of the game! You're supposed to play some noble tribal kang in the bumfuck nowhere of Africa or Asia Minor, they're the ones that will get all the unique events and rebalances. :^)

>>16429651

Update. I apologize, the version on steam isn't the newest one.

>>16430066

Hercules fucked a bunch of dudes, you'd know this if you had more than a surface level understanding of greece

>>16430104

Thank God, I've been fucking around with the steam downloader version for too long thinking I was doing something wrong. Thank you so much, anon.

I personally don't care, but broken is usually slightly safer.

>>16430315

>fierce house-to-house fighting

That's codeword for raping German girls and women and killing the boys and elderly.

>>16430066

>Maccabees

>happy merchant

anon pls

>>16430330

The words pederast and catamite come from Greek, look up why

>>16429309

EU3 warfare was a lot less mind-numbing than that.

>>16426757

We should really get around to updating the /gsg/ chart.

>>16431250

>Because modern faggots can't fathom the idea of two men being close without sticking their dicks up eachother's assholes

And this is why faggots should be killed. Not only are they unnatural and disgusting degenerates, they also ruin other men's friendship just by existing.

>>16432078

Gay people can have male friends that they don't want to fuck.

Is NWO worth playing?

>>16432283

Play CWE, its an updated version.

Anybody figured out how to get TNO to work for HoI4? The fucking thing CTD's whenever it tries to load into gameplay as a selected nation and it's infuriating.

>>16432283

>>16432365

They are both updated regularly on GitHub. The difference is that NWO has an ugly map but is otherwise superior, while CWE is bloated as fuck and has unrealistic pop growth mechanics.

>goy4

Fuck off that's not a gsg

>>16428417

The problem with mana is that it's not representative. Consider Victoria 2 - diplomatic points only do one thing, they let you do diplomatic actions with other nations. Declare war, improve relations, whatever. You can't use them to get a boost to your naval techs, or to boost assimilation rate in a state, the way mana works. That's how, for example, bird mana works in EU4, you just use it for all kinds of random shit and it doesn't represent anything in particular. It's just mana.

The thing is, abstractions can be good and work well, but it's dependent on them still being representative abstractions. The problem with mana is that it's not representative, it can do all sorts of stuff that logically shouldn't be costing the same resources to do. Why should encouraging Russification in the Baltic states have any bearing on how quickly you develop ironclads? In Victoria 2 they don't, because your Russification is handled by Attract Immigrants National Focus and your Ironclad development uses your Research Points, but if it was in EU4 then you'd have to pick which one you want to spend your Bird Mana on, or get more Bird Mana in the first place.

Now yes, if they made mana more representative (and thus, not mana) they'd have a whole lot more types of it. But that would be ok, because the problem in Victoria 2 with regards to accessability is not that there are too many things to deal with but more that there's too much going on under the hood, often fairly deeply buried in the UI and impossible to monitor dynamically, and that a lot of the non-abstracted content is a lot more detailed than it really needs to or ought to be, or is implemented in a bad way.

RGOs are a good example. You need them to produce goods and without them your factories will run a negative, but this isn't clearly stated anywhere and you actually need to mouse over a factory and read the detailed tooltip and see that it's not getting enough iron so it can't produce any steel and so it's just using up subsidies. So you want to get iron, but it's all going into a common pool, and "some country somewhere" is buying all of it, but you can't see who and you can't cut any trade deals with iron producers. You basically just have to get prestige and pray that the vague source of iron eventually finds more of its way to you, or sphere countries and hope that their iron goes to you and doesn't just get consumed domestically, or annex iron RGO sources. This is a bad implementation of international trade. HOI4 does it much better by having RGOs produced and then available for trade, and you can make deals with countries for their resources in exchange for money (or industry, as HOI4 represents it), and this never falls into the level of mana silliness (at least not this part of HOI4). You can still annex stuff directly, and if it was in Victoria 2 then you could give sphere owners priority in buying trade goods. So it's a good system.

But you see what I'm saying here in terms of abstraction and representation, and how Victoria 2 type issues can be solved by making things more straightforward and less obtuse, without falling into silly "this one mana element is used for all kinds of unrelated things".

>>16432509

I thought nwo had been abandoned.

>>16432842

Simsulla stopped working on it but it's under active development on github by someone else.

>>16427204

Isn't that already the "other" cultural pop?

>>16432871

That's not an actual pop, it's just what various small pops get placed under for the pie chart, for tidiness. If you look in the list of pops in detail there's no actual "other" pop.

>>16426799

>Also funding rebels and insults are as useless as they've ever been in any other paradox shit game.

well to be fair, it can be useful in EU4 against a fairly unstable, large country with lots of different cultures, i.e. Bohemia after forming HRE, which happened to me like once. I had espionage ideas and supported rebels and sowed discontent as soon as they formed HRE and they basically exploded into pieces within 5 years, it was pretty OP

>>16432897

I also declared war at the same time and occupied their stuff to increase war exhaustion and therefore unrest. think I was papal state (basically italy) or something

>>16428417

>I am not particularly a fan of mana myself, but even I can see how much it is working.

Oh yeah, it works real well. So well that you can now convert religion and culture, promote pops, and move your entire civilization halfway around the world in a single day as long as you have enough of it.

>>16426799

The game just lacks any kind of soul whatsoever. The disconnect between the game mechanics (esp. mana) and what they're supposed to represent is so huge now that it's no longer any fun. You can't even enjoy role-playing a country because you can't escape the constant reminders that you're in fact playing an arbitrary blob.

>>16426799

So it has every fault that EU:Rome had plus mana. They completely failed to understand what Rome did right and did wrong.

>>16435185

It also has 10x as many provinces, so players can feel a sense of pride and accomplishment for winning wars and expanding.

m8s I have a problem with eu4. I have a save that crashes and another that don't. if i play the one that not crashes and save then the generated save will crash but only if it is loaded from a different session. if you save and load without quitting the game it would work fine.

Currently waging war against the timurids and mamluks as bizantine. in the 1646-7. any help? didn't installed any mod and i have all the dlcs

>>16436084

is the save file suspiciously large?

>>16436414

the moment you reach emperor rank is the moment the game essentially ends, as there nothing the game can throw at you that you couldn't easily beat.

>>16432441

Are you updated to the current version? There is a moddb version but it doesn’t have hotfixes that the workshop one has.

>>16432103

>Gay

>People

>Friends

>Not fucking

>>16432103

ok homo

>>16436414

>39 vassals

>owns all the kingdom titles

do you enjoy constant revolts?

>>16436414

I like all of those things for role-playing purposes, the only downside is they eventually add up to letting your rulers get stupidly overpowered. Pagan warrior lodges are also pretty broken.

>>16436152

not really it is compressed I opened the save and it isn't corrupted.

I read the crashdump and the dump said that eu4 had some thread trying to access memory that does not have access.

>>16437426

Too many kingdom titles do not give opinion mallus. Only duchy titles do.

>>16437426

What revolts? My vassals all suck my dick. The lowest opinion is +30. It's a combination of shitload of artifacts, bloodlines and the fact that I rule for almost 60 years. You also don't get any penalties for owning too much kingdom titles.

>>16438177

>>16438182

the dukes behind the kingdoms will want the kingdom title for themselfs and will have a malus against you for it

>>16438210

Maybe if you are retarded and gave the dukes more than one duchy. Otherwise they won't.

>>16438215

then you have too much vassals

>>16438223

Clearly, he has 39, so he still has room for 7 more before he reaches the vassal limit.

>>16438229

not duable if you try to make a big empire.

>>16438237

He will naturally grant the kingdom titles after he reaches the vassal limit. Are you stupid? Why do you need me to spell out for you this basic tactic?

>>16438182

>>16438177

>>16438241

if you give your heir a kingdom and then transfer all your vassals to your heir you wont get any revolts and you'll only have 1 vassal which means you can spawn all their units at the same time anywhere in your realm

>>16438249

Yeah, but then you can't micromanage your realm. I like to make sure each and every duke stays within his de jure duchy

>>16426799

>>16426821

>>16426872

Don't worry, the game will be fixed in a series of DLC's with a total price tag in the 100s of dollars.

That's not even a fucking joke, CKII came out 8 years ago and costs $120 with all the DLC. Fuck paradox. Greedy Swedish kikes.

Hello!

It is been a rocky launch in some aspects, with part of the community unhappy. While it is not Hoi3, there are still issues, and I want to make sure you understand that we are looking at them.

Technical Issues

It looks like we have addressed most of the incompatibility issues, and that the game had heavy stuttering on some machines. It is something we will continue to fix immediately as they prop up.

Barebones Games

This is the feedback that I just do not understand. I took everything we had in Rome I, and made every mechanic deeper and more complex, while adding lots more new mechanics to make it into a game. This game was developed the same way we did EU4 and HOI2, the previous games I’ve been most satisfied with, where we used all the original gameplay code of the previous game, and just built upon that.

I’ve not cut away anything when making Imperator to add into future expansions, and every game-mechanic, and lots more, we had planned was in the original 1.0.

I have said before launch that this is the best game I’ve made, and I stand by it still. 1.0 of Imperator is the best 1.0 we have ever made of a game.

>>16438429

sauce?

>>16438458

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/imperator-sunday-morning-design-corner-may-5th-2019.1174494/

>>16428792

>Self-reported race is accurate to genetic race 99.64% of the time. This has been scientifically studied and proven.

Sauce please ?

>>16438249

Vassal King used to be a permanent opinion malus on all ..vassel kings, but that might have been changed.

>>16436414

>heir isn't as white as you

>children are fucking slants

The fuck is wrong with you. You realize that the Byzantines were lily white until the dune coons flooded into Asia Minor, right?

>The Byzantines as a people were considered as fine examples of physical beauty, and youthful slaves and slave girls of Byzantine origin were highly valued. The Arab’s appreciation of the Byzantine female has a long history, indeed. For the Islamic period, the earliest literary evidence we have is a hadith (saying of the prophet). Muhammad is said to have addressed a newly converted Arab, ‘Would you like the girls of Banu al-Asfar?’ Not only were Byzantine slave girls sought after for the caliphal and other palaces (where some became mothers of future caliphs), but they also became the epitome of physical beauty, home economy, and refined accomplishments. The typical Byzantine maiden who captures the imagination of literateurs and poets had blonde hair, blue or green eyes, a pure and healthy visage, lovely breasts, a delicate waist, and a body that is like camphor or a flood of dazzling light.

>~ Ahmad M. H. Shboul, Islamic researcher; Byzantium and the Arabs: The Image of the Byzantines as Mirrored in Arabic Literature

>>16438588

Absolutely.

Racial self-identification accuracy: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15625622

Racial self-identification happiness: https://archive.fo/8YPgV

>>16438656

>ancient geographic ancestry, which is highly correlated with self-identified race/ethnicity–as opposed to current residence–is the major determinant of genetic structure in the U.S. population

This is pretty obvious since America is such a new country, and since people often immigrated internally instead of staying in a place for too long a time.

>>16439525

Because Turks can't handle they are literally the product of Arabs raping Greeks.

>>16439543

Incorrect, the Turkic peoples were from central asia before they raped the Greeks. Arab refers to people on the Arabian peninsula. Get your sand nigger orgin stories right.

>>16439659

They were hardly t*rkic by the time they raped the Greeks. They had been living in Persia, the Armenian Highlands and Mesopotamia for a while before invading Anatolia. They were already rapebabby mutts with Persian, Kurdish, Armenian and whatever else lived in that place at the time. Theirs is a simple case of the conquered adopting the language of the conquerors, it just got really bad after the place became a republic without an ounce of nationalism; the ruling class had to do something about it and made-up the 't*rkish' nationality.

For some background, being called a t*rk back in ottoman times meant that you were some country hick from the hinterlands and everybody else (who wasn't Christian or a Kurd) called itself a Muslim/Ottoman.

>>16439659

Are you implying Anatolians were Greek?

>>16439787

Along the coasts, yes they were Greek. The interior was populated by locals like Phrygians, Armenians, and Cappadocians and later the Galatians as well, who were Celts. Hittites were gone at this point, there were still Persians lingering around in the areas controlled by the Mithridatic kingdom until the Romans conquered it. Under Roman and Byzantine control the area was mainly Greek and in the east Armenian.

>>16439525

t*rks are brainwashed to hate anything Greek, Slav or Armenian because they're mutts without a real culture who stole everything from the previously mentioned peoples. Picture an amerilard who hates Italians because they created pizza and spaghetti.

>>16440396

You're better off for it.

>>16440396

Play CK2 or Vicky 2 instead. Much better games.

>>16440844

HOI3 and EU3 are unplayable with a 4200U. EU4 runs fast though

>>16440794

Stop racemixing.

>>16430321

>and killing the boys and elderly

Those were raped too, including babies and pregnant women.

>>16439487

90% of Turkey in one picture.

A LARP in a LARP in a LARP.

The steppes call me friend, because 10 thousand horse riders got into my country, then mingled with the 5 million strong population until their original genetic makeup was so unrecognizable GREEKED in under 2 generations, leaving only language.

>try playing HoI4 with mods

>fucking unplayable

I forgot how garbage this shit was. How are you even supposed to lead a multi-front war? Battle results do not get reported so you have to scout each and every front all the time to catch any victory or defeat, there is no real indication of casualties, only whether the battle is doing good or bad, so you might end up with pyrrhic victories everywhere without even realising anything is off, the UI is ridiculously trash (not even a fucking minimap, what the fuck) to further prevent you from getting any overview, and if you decide to give up and just let AI handle it, you'll quickly find out the AI is all kinds of retarded and needs you to babysit for anything more complex than holding the line (and it fails at that too occassionally, so you better check on it periodically), except in order to babysit it effectively, you need some fucking indication of when a battle ends and how it went. Good fucking luck trying to lead an offensive on two fronts simulaneously – you'll be constantly fliping back and forth to catch when a battle ends so that you can give new orders to the retard AI, since if you don't, it'll waste any momentum it might have built by shuffling all the frontline troops for the gorrilionth time for no reason (while often leaving fucking holes in the frontline, but it doesn't matter since enemy AI is too retarded to capitalise on it). Battleplans also have a terrible UI and controls, of course. And let's not even get into the shitfest that is the navy and air UIs – there it really is better to leave it to the AI, if only to avoid having to work with that hideous shit.

What the actual fuck is this drivel; I went in figuring maybe it got better after the gorillion DLCs, but it's even fucking worse than I remember it.

Victoria 2 is so fucking bizarre. I have no idea why Prussia would have an alliance with America. Or why the fucking Russian Empire would ally me. I've never talked to these nations.

Does the AI in Vicky 2 just randomly ally people?

>>16449058

yes

>>16449850

I'm under impression that you cant have more than one mod running at the same time for some reason.

>>16450300

You can if the .mod file links the path to several mods. But only used for submods.

>>16449850

Hpm is shit, play B&I

I updated CK2 and am playing for the first time in a long time.

Why are there so many random jews?

Why do not having jews cause a negative rate of cultural tech?

>>16450989

Are you surprised?

>>16450989

>"Tolerance" is a cultural tech

>surprised having jews around benefits it

But kidding aside, I recommend you turn the cash malus into a small bonus and change the localization of the jew events to be about spiteful kikes sabotaging your economy from abroad with their usury magic.

>>16450989

Because Parakikes are kosher approved of course.

If you want to fix this just do what I did and edit the static modifier to lower revolt risk (no subversion) and just set the MTTH on the "fuk u antisemtiic" events to 9001.

No way to get rid of the omnipresent jews without zealousness sadly but hey that's what the console is for.

>>16430104

King Arthur mod?

>>16450989

>>16451078

>>16451515

I'd say it makes sense for there to be some disruption (Mostly in the economic sphere, last I checked there wasn't a significant presence of Jews in any nation's military except maybe the Cordoban Caliphate), but with an eventual drift into positive bonuses because you've eliminated usury and a plague vector from your realm.

Augustine's whole 'We let the Jews stick around so they can be constantly reminded of their inferiority' sure wasn't the best call in hindsight, huh?

>>16452071

Yes it´s called the winter king here´s the link

ttps://www.moddb.com/mods/western-europe-410-962-the-winter-king/downloads/version-1101

>>16450813

What does it do exactly? Is there new countries to form and shit?

>>16453272

Sure are. Plenty of new decisions and events, too. B&I is the pinnacle of Vicky in the proper time period.

>>16429354

You should try playing Hegemony Gold, anon. I have a feeling you'd like it a lot.

>>16453272

Yeah of course. Its better for a beginner (and in general), and HPM turned into shit thanks to the modder's autism.

>>16436414

>8 April 1524

Wait, I thought 01-01-1453 was the end date for CKII. Did HIP extended it somehow? How long can you play? Does the Reformation happens in HIP? Or at least the Hussites break away from the Catholic church?

>>16452643

It's shit.

>>16466596

>>16453272

the dynamic de jure changes are awesome, but there's literally nothing to do in the mod except to blob as much as possible.

>>16445480

>too retarded to understand a game as simple as hoi4

wew reddit

>>16467084

>making excuses for shit game design

die

>>16449825

‘Turks’ who were actually Greeks then continued that tradition.

Fucking eunuchs, etc etc.

>>16467076

Iranian, Greek, and Antolian is white and indo-Aryan. Not even a turk shill tbh.

>>16467908

And they were/are wholly mud brown, while actual medieval turks are well documented to have largely been fair-haired and blue-eyed. Funny how this "white" thing works.

>>16467904

Of fucking course it is easy; I curbstomped the AI – you just draw a shitty arrow. The problem is that the AI is total shit and so is the UI, and that if you decide to actually play it as a wargame instead of an interactive colouring book, you fucking can't because the shitty UI is not designed for it. There is no possible excuse for not providing the number of casualties in a battle or not alerting you of territorial changes – the moment you fight on multiple front, it can easily happen that while you're babysitting the east, an enemy will break through in the west without you even noticing. That's such a massive flaw in design of a fucking wargame that the only explanation for why it doesn't cause an uproar is that the game is indeed so easy that you stomp the AI so fast it never really becomes a serious multi-front war. Or rather if you don't stomp the AI, it an heroes anyway by spending all of its manpower on endlessly assaulting your fortified positions.

>>16467936

>while actual medieval turks are well documented to have largely been fair-haired and blue-eyed

The absolute state of t*rkroach delusion

>>16468082

Considering the fact the celts (Galatians) moved into Turkey and founded Ankara, meanwhile the entire coastlines of Turkey were colonized by Greeks; he's not totally wrong, he just got the wrong millennium. (Anything after about 900 AD and Turkey turns irredeemably Arab muttified.)

Noah Ark was also found in Turkey during the 1950s. Therefore technically all Europeans came originally from Asia Minor.

>>16468040

oops the game crashed :^)

>>16468119

>Europeans

>(((Noah)))'s Ark

THREADLY REMINDER

With Imperator being a success amidst a lot of trolls saying otherwise, we've begun planning changes and balance patches in preparation for the small amount of 34 DLC packs. We're currently focusing on Iudaea since they're among the weakest and need buffs to both pops and bonuses in general. The Jewish peoples will net increasing amount of bonuses depending on how much they've spread among your empire since their new and improved diversity modifiers are sure to prove incredibly useful, especially for those going for roman historical authenticity. Not only that, but we also plan for you to be able to run Iudaea as an independent entity and return the kingdom to its former glory, all according to historical documents of course!

Also, if you're keeping them as a roman province it will begin a process of pop integration where roman jews appear and become a majority population in the empire. This is because, as we all know, romans spread to the levant and are therefore semitic. These patches will also begin preparation for the islamic anatolia campaigns we intent to integrate into the game, we hope you keep playing by then!

t. Parasomalia

What was that weird crossover strategy anime game with the mechs and the spaceships? Forgot the name.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/new-version-of-the-1914-mod.1149865/

Anyone played this? Is it good or just another I buff my slavic shithole and dump hundreds of ubalanced events in it tier mod?

>>16468040

i always love a 3 development province plunging the entire nation into civil uprisings and gathering a army of 20k in a nation with only 5k population, also instead of liberating one part of our nation at a time let's try to unite the entire nation at once and get ass raped by the giant we invaded to take the 4 development provicne off of them

>>16453940

I am not that anon, but holy shit I wish I was recommended this game sooner. Are the other games in the series worth it? I'd honestly be ok if it was just a map change with the same city-state simulation of gameplay.

>>16476074

>I wish I was recommended this game sooner

You're welome, anon. It's a real gem, but rarely gets mentioned.

>Are the other games in the series worth it?

I've only tried the second one and didn't like it. It's been some time, but if I recall correctly, the campaign was a lot more railroaded and with a lot less history fluff than the first. The third one I haven't played, but heard the devs went the sandbox route and got rid of most of the story and history. If you don't mind that, you might want to check it out, but I missed these things quite a lot.

bumping all the paradox shill threads

>>16428792

What does "lower base consciousness" mean in your context?

>>16480217

now i noticed that the oposing side has 1400 manpower, comparable to countries like China, game sucks

Do anyone have new TNO leak

If yes give link

>>16492700

Good to see you're still with us, I thought we lost you there

Also new color for Mex is ugly as dog shit, should be deliberate tbh

This is the only mod I play Vic II with, so I see a lot of the shit that needs fixing still, good job tho

>>16492661

Whats wrong with it? It works for me

>>16492793

B& I usually crashes for me, when it does "work" all flags are blacked out, difficult to play like that

Have no idea why it does that, does it require any other mods to work? Use newest version each time

>>16492804

Are you sure you're using 3.0.4 with both Vicky and B&I? Or 3.0.3, as the case may be. Whatever the number is. All I know is that the newest version doesn't let me manually fire event 2600 or 2605, but the previous one did. And fuck that.

>>16492748

>Also new color for Mex is ugly as dog shit, should be deliberate tbh

I could change it to something else, this is just MEX's color when they're a presidential dictatorship. It's also got a diff color for monarchy and democracy too, kinda like France.

>>16492804

Its literally the most stable mod i've ever played, I dont think it ever crashed for me. That happened to me with a different mod, you just need to delete your cache and it fixes it.

>>16492814

>cheating

Yeah province events are broken in 3.04 when you manually fire them.

>>16492814

Absolutely

>>16492839

Is there a separate flag cache you mean? Deleted map cache and nothing changed

>>16492833

Any gov types same color as before/vanilla?

>>16492929

Yeah its the gfx folder

>>16492700

Santa Anna's leg funeral should also be an event along with his window tax.

>>16492839

Do you (or anyone) know a fix for that? What changed between the versions that I could just revert?

>not cheating when the AI cheats like a motherfucker in the first place

>not dicking around for fun

>>16492984

Reinstall the game, patch it to 3.03 and download the mod for that patch.

Damn I didn't think sengoku would be so painful to play. Not properly managing hostages (the one thing this game does right) for a second gets you absolutely fucked by the larger neighboring clans resulting in either full annexation or being forced into minor clan status. it doesn't help that there's no alliance system to speak of. sucks that the game was so boring that no one bothered to make mods for it.

>>16498016

Nice, good to see my country's stupid shit will be put on full display. But seriously, fine work m8.

Never have I seen a man as violent and misinformed as you are. Greeks preferred Turks over Catholics. Ottomans had many problems in later eras however they continued the legacy of Eastern Rome at least. You are also racist, Turks of Anatolia today know and realize they mixed with Greeks and Armenians and many other cultures. Your hatred and contempt is for naught. If Turks were as evil as you claim there would be no Christians and Jews left today under the former Ottoman Imperial territory. Also Turkish would be the only dominant culture but it is not. Ottomans even saved Jews from Spanish Inquisition. There is no such hatred as you say, you are alone there and I wish salvation for your soul.

I understand that even though Persian Empire was great once but you people will never carry the legacy of Rome, you will never feel it's glory as Greeks and Turks feel. You will live as a spiteful little creature and watch from a dark obscure corner and speak curses without empirical evidence trying to glorify western overlords while placing your own heritage underfoot.

Oh and I must say I'm amused. I'm a Turk and I can say with pride I'm a son of Constantinople/Istanbul. The time is nigh to overcome our political differences and embrace each other with our Greek brothers to continue the spirit of Eastern Roman Empire.

Feel free to watch and envy our unique legacy. I accept your evil eyes, o' miserable soul.

>>16496134

>sengoku

Garbage game, tbh. Just expand hard and fast since that's what everyone else will do and try not to die of boredom with Parashit's combat to "bigger stack wins". I get it's meant to simulate warring states period, so war would be common, but even that period wasn't a shitfest where everyone massacres everyone 24/7 with no breaks.

>>16499603

not a bad pasta, where did you get it from, anon? Wrote it yourself?

>>16501397

>It's fun, you should try it sometime.

I actually do, only I do it in comments of various Syria civil war reports. I never get pastas like that, though, usually just autistic screeching accussing me of being a kurd (or turk, when I bait kurds) followed by hilarious threats about how Erdogan will conquer all of Syria and behead me.

>>16505217

He wants to pretend mana is deeper gameplay, just because you have different kinds of it.

>>16505297

You can try to explain how mana works while you are doing the gameplay and show how it works in some weird way if it's not explained correctly. The important thing is to get the idea to play through and then you understand the mechanics.

I love that your description even puts everything in perspective, since it really helps with explaining things without explaining them in detail.

In your opinion, what was the last good DH KR version?

>>16510211

1.7 as the OP pic says. Here is a compatible version with the latest patch:

https://anonfile.com/K9P6X5e4nc/Kaiserreich_for_DH_1.7_DH_1.05.1_Port_7z

I'm working adding 1.8 and 1.9 bugfixes but I need to finish an update for another mod first.

>>16510211

1.9 is a broken mess where they fucked up the unit stats for no reason. 1.8 is fine but everyone pretends that it's not because it was released by the Hoi4 team, despite the fact that it changes practically nothing from 1.7.

>>16510755

I knew this was going to happen. Now they're going to start reworking mechanics endlessly, each iteration worse than before, just like Stellaris.

>>16511115

It's likely that it will fail harder than the rework on Stellaris, but at least Imperator has a workable succinct core concept (casual gsg set in antiquity) than Stellaris, a space 4X that really wished it could also be a gsg (whatever that actually is when take out of context of historical large scale strategy games) with animal people.

>>16510892

>1.8 is fine

>ruined Russia and Mittelafrika with the hoi4 changes

No

>>16501596

Holy shit that's based af

>>16511146

How did they ruin them? The only major change I remember from either of those countries was Russia's natpop route being replaced with one that's functionally the same and not necessarily worse. I think 1.9 added some gay civil war for mittelafrika but I don't remember them being changed much at all in 1.8.

>>16501596

>Rothschild, Yiddish

>Orthodox

What did BYZ mean by this?

>>16512043

Must be orthodox jew, the ones with the silly hair.

>>16505297

>>16505217

Fuck's sake what a tool

Honest question, would a HoI3/4 anon gamenight be viable? Every nation included, smaller nations get some extra bonuses to get in the game quicker (+manpower at the beginning, +research slots, +ideology already switched to one of the four teams with non-aligned its own thing)

>>16512043

orthodox jews. Orthodox christianity is not represented in the mod

>>16512060

>4

We used to play 3 regularly before. Like around 2 years ago. Kind of stopped, though. I guess the organization stopped doing it and no one else followed.

>>16512065

Not even the invading russians in alaska?

>>16510755

>blowback was actually hard enough to get them to ax mana

<we'll add a new kind of mana instead :^)

>>16512079

Honestly never actually got them. I usually get bored before all the invasions occur, so I've only seen Nippon invade so far

>>16512088

>I usually get bored before all the invasions occur

I usually play shitty petty kingdoms/duchies up to empires, makes the game last longer.

>>16512110

Yeah, but even then it goes by fast as there's basically nothing to do but conquer. I keep trying to play republics, the only time in CK2 where parajews actually tried to make playing tall viable, but it's such a bugridden mess that it's basically unplayable.

>>16510892

>>16510892

>1.9 is a broken mess where they fucked up the unit stats for no reason. 1.8 is fine

This is what I was thinking. The CSA seems to be rather overpowered in 1.8 but it's probably nothing compared to goy4 KR, and I don't mind Savinkov's Russia at all. 1.9 on the other hand gave me cancer as I loaded it.

Is there a way to disable workers building roads when automated in Civilization 5? I'm playing as the Iroquois (Vox Populi mod, meaning they're not shit) which means I rarely need roads. If I want roads, I'll build them manually.

>>16514661

broken combat

>>16429354

Play Imperium Universalis, nigger.

>>16429354

Well, your ideas are actually pretty great though.

However, Rome and Athens had their slave populations at around 30% of the population. It was actually equal to that of citizens, with free noncitizens being another equal chunk of the population.

>>16468040

Never played EU4, but this has happened occasionally to me in EU3, both in the far East and Europe. I imagined such large numbers came from the population that otherwise was uncounted in census or as manpower, either the underclass such as bandits or landless, jobless vagabonds, or the population that didn't count as citizens such as women or children/young adults. If an empire annexes a smaller kingdom and then proceeds to fuck with the population enough through taxes, immediate executions of petty criminals under martial law, or imposing a new religion/national culture, it's not a huge leap to imagine pissed off subjects coming out of the woodwork to pick up sticks and pitchforks and shape them into crude weapons.

>>16519030

The classic paradox development cycle. Release a barebones broken shit of a game, then start endlessly reworking it, charging you along the way. They maintain goodwill by providing "free updates", which rework essential mechanics, but of course, you need to pay through the nose for all the cut content they slowly add in through DLCs.

I don't think there's any other company doing this. Any other company would be shat on instantly if it tried.

>"Hey guise, we're here with the new Battlefront. In the following year, we will be working around the clock to improve the experience with a gun DLC (there will no longer be just a single firearm in the entire game), map DLC (we think the current map is great, but some players maintain that having just one map is not enough, and we do listen to the community), there will be AI rework so that the enemies don't just charge blindly towards your position at all times, we'll introduce a free "running" mechanic so that you can move faster at the cost of a new resource called stamina (jumping mechanic will be a paid DLC) and for the interested, there will also be several texture and sounds packs that replace the default Frostbite assets. In the long term, we think of adding an episodic story campaign at some point, as well as perhaps improving the multiplayer lobby so that people can play together without using LAN."

>>16519030

>rework navies and pirates

So they know that it's broken and they released it anyway.

>overhaul of magical penis points

So they know that it's broken and they released it anyway.

>focus on creating more distinct national identities

So they released it without any difference in the people because ONE RACE THE HUMAN RACE.

>and regional narratives appropriate to the era

OH BOY, HAIL FEMALE CAESAR.

>more info to come

Read: $300 of DLC before the life cycle is over.

>>16519123

I bet they whipped the whole game up in a month and then just sat on it, slowly releasing dev diaries to pretend they're working. It's basically just EU:Rome with a facelift and a lobotomy; basically every mechanic used was directly copypasted from their other games, with a few modifiers changed.

>>16519104

these people are fucking drones

Respectfully Disagree x9001

>>16526121

Happiest place on earth.

>>16512060

>Honest question, would a HoI3/4 anon gamenight be viable?

It would be completely fucking awful. The point of gamenight is that people can generally jump in and out on a whim and fuck around. HoI3 requires hours of time investment, half the players won't know what to do, half the players will, the one player who does and gets on a major will ruin the game blobbing, and desyncs/rehosts constantly will piss everyone off.

>>16526121

What is up with the crappy hair?

>>16510755

They fired all the old devs or something that they dont know how to do it right?

>>16531021

The americanist faith forces your character to use a wig because is the equivalent of the burqa in religious aspect.

>>16531017

I hope you make it a full event chain,besides here is a vid for some help on the research.

ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTgmCf82s3U&t=1sI couldn´t embeded,sorry

>>16531024

It's two things, anon. First of all, they want to keep the game as casual as possible because if it wasn't shallow, then normalfags wouldn't play it. Second of all, they're lazy cunts.

>>16428934

Shattered retreat is one of the worst gameplay mechanics of all time, right next to fall damage.

>>16531478

Notice how I lost 4 fucking ships to a fleet with no commander and no morale too.

Imperator will never be fixed.

>>16535015

But anon! It's a feature! Mana mechanics are the future for gsg! Click around to win and not die!

Total War games are best.

>>16535503

Yeah, I agree with that statement. I can accept streamlining aspects in grand strat games if it means alleviating some of the more tedious aspects but paradox just chooses to "solve" problems by severely casualizing features without any consideration for balance. I can't tell you how many times I've seen low number, infantry only, poorly reinforced divisions with backwards tech have repelled my onslaught of minmaxed, high-tier, combined arms, near modern-tech divisions in HOI4 just because my organization mana was a fucking pixel below theirs, or how you can mount insanely retarded naval assaults just by magically constructing a port on an enemy shoreline by having a single division on a coastal territory.

At that point I just figured paradox became nothing but meme games and HOI4 became my guilty pleasure just because of the insane amount of meme fuckery you can pull off in that game, like:

>tfw fascist mexico manages to pull off a successful coup on the USA and obliterates England by taking half of scotland

>>16535571

I can't really speak for HOI4(never tried it) but what you describe fits the general design trends that paradox employs.

For example in Stellaris you can't just declare war and win it. You first need to setup claims on "space" you want to conquer and then you can start a war. Problem is that every claim costs mana(influence) so unless you have maximum of 1k influence you can't really fight over more than 1-3 systems which considering how retarded wars in Stellaris are just makes it not worth it.

Worse yet, to get that "mana" you need to satisfy faction demands. Problem is that when you get purity and warmonger(which is almost a given unless you are pacifist/xenophile) factions that want to you conquer and purge but won't give you any or very little influence until you do. So you can't conquer and purge because you don't have enough influence and you can't get more influence because you are not purging and conquering. Its a perfectly cyclical loop that has no reason to exist and just slows an already slow game down.

Oh and the best part is you can get factions directly opposed to the base nature of your empire. So xenophilic factions with a xenophobic empire and peace hippies in my hyper militarist junta meaning that basically one faction is just straight up dead weight.

Theres a new ck2 start date

Played a few hours

Seems to be one of the better ones

Troop counts are low enough all around that the only turboblob that might form is Otto if you give him his railroading or the vikings which are especially invasion happy this update

Playing upper lorraine without direct assasination is pain though

Overall a pleasant surprise from parakike

>>16535954

Unfortunately there's a new game-breaking bug in 3.2 which 'deletes' counties from the map leaving you with empty regions which function like impassable terrain. Not sure how they managed to achieve that but it's already ruined one of my games.

>>16535988

I can understand if it was my autism failing on me, but I'm criticising the game based on what I've experienced. I say the problem with organization mana is the way it is precisely because I've had it happened way too often regardless on the kind of campaign I'm going for. I have air superiority, multiple plane types for dogfighting, strategic and tactical bombing, naval and ground support, all my infrastructure on 10, sometimes I can be two full tiers of tech ahead of the AI and I still see that stupid shit happening, all because my completely retarded AI allies insist on spamming provinces on every front they see with their useless divisions so organization, which is tied to supplies/infrastructure, goes way the fuck down and even though I'm way ahead of my opponent in every regard, completely weakened armies in the brink of defeat can beat my minmaxed stacks of doom.

I understand HOI4 because it's not too hard, if anything it's a clear indication that Paradox is casualizing the genre to get more people in, but as I've stated (and most of the people here that have tried HOI4 can tell you) the mechanics are not just dumbed down to hell but also are pretty much working against logic and reason and are designed with no regards to balance whatsoever.

Now, I know that you can mod the game, I certainly have, but that doesn't change the fact that the game was shipped with a ton of flaws, limited content on vanilla, and poorly conceived mechanics that have problems on the long run. You can also say that some of these issues have been fixed with some patches and the DLC, but that just feeds the problem of Paradox launching half-baked games to sell you the barely working "better" parts later, which is something I certainly do not approve of.

>>16519030

>>16519110

I:R has had a far worse reception than any other recent Pdx game. EU4 and Stellaris have about 10 times as many currently online players, CK2 has about 5 times as many, and HoI4 about 15 times as many. Vicky 2 is pulling in over half as many players and is nearly 10 years old.

>>16536084

organization is not fucking mana you mongrel, holy shit are you completely retarded? It's just rebranded "morale" which has been present in all the previous titles and worked the same way

>>16537988

The way I referred to it in no way changes the fact that it's a broken, unbalanced mechanic in HOI4 which was the point I was making, stop sperging.

>>16537818

The real number is probably about 5x times that of Imperator: Rome, given the number of people who play IW4X without steam.

Chances are that I probably know the disappointing answer here, but: Is the new Stellaris DLC any good? Does it fix more than it breaks?

>>16544574

Not really the dlc is just a story pack but most of its functionality and fixes are free in the 2.3 update.

I would say you can easily skip the dlc or wait for a sale and get it on the cheap side. You really arent missing much without it.

>>16544862

>actually suggesting to someone to buy Paradox shit

Anyone got Victoria 2 version 3.04 with both DLC? Can't find it anywhere other than one version that only has Russian language.

>>16550705

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5b9c05fd874ed89d1656307da5a08abaeab54dfe&dn=Victoria+II+v3.04+Incl+ALL+DLC&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969

First result on the TBP mirror that I use.

>>16552956

Shiet, thanks nig. Was worried the fact it's fucking IGG, but it seemed to be fine.

>>16557262

Where do you find these T*rks? What videos do they frequent?

Anyway back on topic

>>16558548

Anything Balkan, Near East and Persian-related from any given point in time, doesn't specifically have to be about t*rks. They're literally like sjews trying to force their gay globalist agenda but with rapebabbies instead.

Simple harmless stuff like Greek medieval music contains lots of roaches claiming Greeks stole their tunes for example.

>>16551581

So, you're saying that Turkey has less East Asian admixture than Finland?

>>16583032

Is this word salad written by some bot?

>>16583078

>>16583047

go fuck a power socket

>>16583346

it was some bot writing complete nonsense.

Can anyone upload the latest version of CK2 + Geheimnisnacht?

>>16590492

How can one company be so retarded? Can the EB2 authors actually sue over this?

>>16590675

Ahahahahaha, some dumb Sw*d* just grabbed the first thing that came up on goggle didn't they?

>>16590492

Someone is going to lose their job.

>>16593367

Funny thing I got b& from that discord for making fun of t*rks and some sudanese faggot larping as an arab who loved defending t*rks for whatever reason.

>>16596201

>history class

Hahaha.

We had "social studies", and the coverage of history was spotty at best. I never even learned about the HRE in school.

Welp, I just realized how useless invading china is. It's bullshit that the game forces me to abandon Chinese Imperialism once I install my kin to the throne. That government type is the only thing Jade Dragon is useful for.

What are some grand strategy games that occur in a setting of decline or collapse instead of a setting in which you are constantly growing and improving?

>>16596209

>this is the power of burger education

I get you have other shit to cover than just European affairs (we don't learn about the 1812 war, for example, because it's not very relevant), but how do you skip over the fucking HRE?

>>16426799

I hate pressing play and waiting if there is no micromanaging

>>16596219

> Jade Dragon

Wasn't the entire point of the DLC just Chinese dicksucking to get them to buy the game?

>>16598015

There's a whole game mechanic about the sucking up the chink lord, even if he's some steppenigger upstart currently getting assraped by mongols and you are the one true Caliph or emperor of the fucking Rome.

>>16598100

Really don't understand why they thought that DLC would be a good idea, really. You get absolutely nothing out of it but a few random events from China every few years and the ability to exchange dicksucking-points for overpowered Chinese artifacts or commanders.

>>16598100

It would atleast be cool if you got some china related events as BYZ/rome, like the mad lad monks that stole the silkworms and taught people in constantinople how to make silk, but fuck actually researching and putting effort.

>>16598225

I mean all paracocks would do is add another couple events like with Greek Fire.

>>16597754

If I had to guess, more DLC and more fags/jews/buffed muslims.

>>16597754

New startdate in the mid-10th century, just as Otto the Great was (re)forming the Holy Roman Empire. I'm partial to the period, but it doesn't really add much mechanics-wise. Bulgarians get a special Empire title, Otto gets narrative events, and Zoroastrians finally have a non-garbage start in the Ziyarids.

>>16598015

Fun fact: If you conquer all the provinces directly adjacent to the edge of the map, China will still declare war on other countries, walk through yours, and puppet them. Sure is realistic to see chink tribute states in fucking EUROPE.

I figured out how to get Geheimnisnacht running but it runs and plays kinda like ass. There's a version on Github that updates regularly but apparently not the one from the mod forum. I'm confused.

Well, the common version they have out is a fucking mess, I can say that much. Runs like shit, buggy, most mechanics don't work.

>>16600746

common practice among ck2 modders. The shit you see on Github is essentially a work in progress, while they only announce a "finished" update on the forum.

>>16598015

Yep. Worked too. CK2 is PDXs highest selling game in China.

>>16601373

inb4 paracucks cucks out and adds the rest of SEA and chinkland after being bought by t*ncent

>>16538298

>I'm too stupid to understand combat mechanics in hoi4

>therefore it's broken, unbalanced

lol

retard

>>16492700

>mexican Petén

Absolutely based. To be fair almost no one knows about the Mexico-Guatemala-Belize border, and that's a shame because a lot of interesting things happened there.

There were moment that could have potentially ended in war, and the attempts to establish a defined border were always delayed because no one could reach a satisfactory agreement. And there were like 3-4 potential borders before the original borders were established as they are.

Even today that zone is somewhat of a "no man's lands" considering how mayans never really liked "outsiders" to meddle in their shit.

How well does After The End run? It looks like a lot of fun but my recent foray into Geheimnisnacht made me remember how fucking awful Paracocks games run.

>>16608471

Well, i can run after the end but cant run geheimmesnacht.

>>16608471

In my experience it runs better than Vanilla as the years go by.

>>16608471

For Geheimnisnacht there is the "Old World" sub mod that should make it easier to run by removing some shite, I think. Have you tried that? H

>>16608527

I used both the Old World and Ratcatcher mods, the version that still runs on 2.8.1 is fucking broken as far as performance goes.

>>16601452

>republic

how? Every time I play, if some asshole occupies my trading post, that trading post literally never becomes unoccupied, even if I peace out

>>16512073

>>16512060

I remember playing HoI3 WWI mod with anons probably 3 years ago now. Was great times but kind of a huge pain in the ass getting everyone's schedules to line up. Central powers are lucky that the game fizzled out because us Entente had some 200 IQ plans in motion.

Whoever played UK in that game, if you're reading this I (France) thank you from the bottom of my heart for bailing me out in those trying times when my southern front was breached

>>16612468

It would be fun to have some MP again. I miss playing Vicky MP the most

>>16612938

It's not that hard to find people to play Vicky MP, just find a honeypot for vicky 2

>>16612944

Its almost impossible to find a good group. They either have autistic roleplaying rules or just mindlessly conquer everything

I feel most singleplayer strategy games would be better if the developer just let the AI cheat. AI doesn't play by the same rules as human player to begin with and it's really difficult to write AI that doesn't shit the bed for the complicated, somewhat intuation-based systems humans prefer. Things like Imperator's mana system is an example for a system that's uninteresting for humans but AIs cope with better.

I played stellaris a lot after the 2.x patch (yeah I know, I know - just really liked the world-building aspects of the game) and I wrote a small event that fired each month for every AI empire that gave them a small amount of resources if they were in the negative or about to go in the negative. (Just enough to keep their empire running and maybe build a few things) That small event helped the AI keep going in the colonization and fleetbuilding game and changed the balance of the game and the activity levels of AIs a lot. Yes, stellaris already has AI cheats in the form of granting bonuses to the AI on higher difficulties, but they didn't work as well as in my observation games that only lead to AI overexpanding itself economically even quicker. I don't really know why people are so opposed to the idea, I feel it leads to a better player experience in the end. Who cares if the numbers don't add up?

>>16612468

That game was crazy. I played Austria and remember thinking once Italy joined Central Powers we had this in the bag since you had moved all your troops north to guard against Germany. Then Britain lands half his army in Northern Italy while the Italians are dicking around, takes Rome, Italy flips over to the Allied side, and the whole situation was completely reversed. I'd love to do another MP game sometime.

>>16613357

no, fuck you. Cheating AI is the most boring dross because suddenly, a shitloads of tactics that should work don't. Plan to defeat the enemy by starving him out of money? Too bad, as he just cheats himself more. Strategically cut off all his resources so that he crumbles? Too bad, he has cheated himmself more.

Honestly, I think you're a cuck that's too spineless to actually demand a competent AI from the devs, instead thanking them for whatever scraps they throw your way. Then again, what else to expect from a TORpedo.

>>16613486

lol, the things you bought up never, ever happen in a normal single-player game. When was the last time you starved an AI-controlled enemy economically to win? Huh? When was that EVER necessary with an AI in recent games? Tell me, give me an example. Seriously. In what game did you do that and how was it necessary to win? This argument is weapons-grade autism because in reality it simply never happens. Much easier to steamroll the small, low-tech AI forces because the AI neither bothered upgrading it's units nor researching in a proper way and then go whine on some forums about that theoretical strategy that the game hasn't really even mechanics for.

It's always retarded idiots like you that go "muh human like AI" - it's just not gonna happen. You ever tried to code something like that? Retard.

>>16613596

>When was the last time you starved an AI-controlled enemy economically to win? Huh? When was that EVER necessary with an AI in recent games? Tell me, give me an example.

Darkest Hour you stupid fucking cunt. There are even several ways to starve the enemy out – destroy his IC and his army becomes out of supply and thus useless, bleed his manpower and he can't reinforce, again making his units a child's play to break through, grab the oil provices and laugh as his high-tier units become useless, etc.

Maybe you should actually try playing games, you TORpedo retard.

I was about to side with the TORpedo but if that is what it takes for you to win in darkest hour, then it's probably better for you if the AI doesn't cheat. lmao

>>16614750

>TORpedo gets blown out, a (1) appears

like clockwork

>only argument is "umm, if you were, like, better, you could just faceroll everything."

Simply ebin. Remove tactics utilizing game rules to win in favour of "Dude just spam more infantry, LMAO XDDDDDD".

>>16614800

Darkest hour is really easy though :^) I'm not a fan of spammy tactics either but that game is not a good example for smart strategic AI.

Anybody has any good advice on any modern day grand strategy game? I'm pretty burned out on WW2.

>>16615856

I hope it's good.

Already look to be better than Total War…

>>16615898

Does it have a Three Kingdoms mod?

>>16614800

Git fucking gud then, you scrublord.

>>16615898

I preordered much against the virtue of /v/ but I have to say it's worth it, MP is pretty DOA though but the official release is tommorow.

Battles are fun and all but the Army General mode is pretty close to a Grand Strategy, I just wish they'd create something more dynamic than being either bolshies or the screaming germans as they are getting overrun

>>16615979

Soon.

>>16618494

Is there a good faction that would let me put the world into the right place? And by that I mean genocide everyone that isn't white?

>>16615985

>utilising tactics other than facerolling the enemy to achieve victory equals being shit at a game

kill yourself

>>16619819

Occultists and summon cthulhu.

>>16615856

a shitty campaign is not comparaible to a real game that is only made for that mode

>>16619799

You don't say, smartass.

>>16619819

I'm sad but not surprised that there ain't a KKK society for Southerners.

>>16621323

As far as EU4, I and many others liked it in spite of the shitty mana system, shattered retreats, inept naval AI, and other things, not because of them. They assume that the players who played EU4 must've liked the game because of that shit rather than in spite of it, and so added tons more of it to the Rome game only to get shat on.

>>16621323

>I'm quitting the industry.

if only

>>16613383

I shit myself when Italy ended up choosing Central. The Maginot Line was holding brilliantly until I had to spread my forces. We were also in secret negotiations with China to flip to Entente and if that happened it wouldve been over.

I'm also up for another MP game since that was so much fun but I can usually only play late at night (US timezones) with any degree of consistency.

Im really enoying After The End, it's a very well done mod.

>>16626836

Yeah, theres all kinds of fun things going on all over the map.

>>16613383

>>16612468

I think I was actually a part of that game. I played Spain during the first "session" but then left because it was unfun to have zero IC to do anything.

Sorry guys.

>>16626952

Cant really blame you, Spain had something abysmal like 11 IC iirc

>>16613383

>>16612468

>Whoever played UK in that game, if you're reading this I (France) thank you from the bottom of my heart for bailing me out in those trying times when my southern front was breached

I didn't realy believe it would work.

When Italy entered the war I first feared we would have to retreat to the Isles and wait for the US to join, it was such a relief that I could puppet them while keeping their army intact.

The HoI3 WWI game was really great.

I still remember being unable to comprehend why our Middle Eastern Front moved at a snails pace, the whole time I thought the Central powers were destroying my convoys or something like that, apparently the AI was just cancelling them every time, that made me feel stupid.

Just like my plan to make use of massed armored cars, turns out those have almost no strength and organization and I just wasted huge amounts of IC and time.

>>16632521

https://eu3.paradoxwikis.com/Mods

So I got EU4 without the dlc, how do I pirate the dlc?

>>16643834

Search engine it.

>>16632122

I've had secret religion societies disabled ever since I heard the initial reports of how absurdly busted they were. Did the swedes ever make them manageable?

Satanists too but that's mostly because it's dumb reddit Satanism and not something actually interesting -albeit still more suited to eu4's time period- like Goetic demonology. They're also hardcoded to some extent so even modes can't fix them.

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