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All Reina is saying is you should have known it's gonna be shit.
Devs don't go to rando forums anymore. Why when you've gotta Reddit and Twitter?Is that what you are telling yourself?I got banned off of their forums for stating that I was done with a conversation and they deemed that to be trolling.
Sure, I'm convinced what you wrote was not at all aggressive, very friendly and they just banned you cause they couldn't handle your "constructive criticism".
In other words, you directly asked them for a ban with a statement like that - and no doubt a posting history of other niceties - and you got your ban.As for being banned on their Steam CK3 forums I wrote simply that they wouldn't do anything except ban those people that were critical of them. They only reaffirmed my statement by banning me for being critical of how they handled things.
I don't see the problem here.
Dear lord, you are delusional if you think you get banned on multiple forums but it's totally not your fault at all.
It's always the others' fault, isn't it?
But hey, by all means, show me your statements and I'll gladly give you a little early Christmas present if I'm wrong.
You into hentai games?
When in Rome...You mean like you didn't address me with the modicum of decency?
In the vain hope that those who actually contribute something to the site (as in, not just post crap, but also take their wallets out or spend their time moderating) will wisen up one day, throw the trash out, close the GD bollocks and all the political stuff and turn this into an actual gaming forum as it used to be, hell, maybe even get more than a handful of devs here.If it's such a cesspool then why are you here?
It's fine, I've got little hope, a lot of time and am mildly masochistic.
This is the first thing blaring at you when you go to rpg.net :Devs don't go to rando forums anymore. Why when you've gotta Reddit and Twitter?
The defining quality of the Codex is the wild west no rules stuff. If you took that away why wouldn't users/devs prefer rpg.net or something?
But you can just post on subreddits or discords, though? No web forum could ever be active enough to compete with that...This is the first thing blaring at you when you go to rpg.net :Devs don't go to rando forums anymore. Why when you've gotta Reddit and Twitter?
The defining quality of the Codex is the wild west no rules stuff. If you took that away why wouldn't users/devs prefer rpg.net or something?
Don't think I need to talk about reeeeeera
I wouldn't want to go there as a dev, either, unless I was just looking for a political echo chamber and wanted everything I present/create to be judged through that lense.
Which some devs might want, sure, but like gamers themselves, the reality is that most devs would prefer "just" the gaming part without the politics nonsense.
To my knowledge, there is no specialized community forum that is actually pleasant to be at for devs (well, small devs, the big ones have no need for direct community contact anyway, that's correct) while also having a large enough user number to be "relevant".
"Wild west" is not attractive to most devs as the risk in places like this is always that even the tiniest irrelevant thing will have you deal with a bunch of lunatics upset at boobs, or the lack of boobs, or gender options, or the lack thereof, or, or, or, ...
A solution to this without losing the general wild west idea would be thread ownership. Whoever "owns" a thread can moderate within - I know some places that are using this approach. No need to deal with the weirdos if you can just kick them out of your "realm".
Either way, by now it probably wouldn't matter as this place's rep is so tarnished most devs have fled and others wouldn't come even if something changed.
All Reina is saying is you should have known it's gonna be shit.
It's not an either-or thing.But you can just post on subreddits or discords, though? No web forum could ever be active enough to compete with that...
Forums are also the most difficult to connect new users, too, though. That's why most devs don't use them.It's not an either-or thing.But you can just post on subreddits or discords, though? No web forum could ever be active enough to compete with that...
Most people have their preferred community tool(s). Some will mostly be on Reddit, others on Discord (though I honestly question how suitable a short-lived chat tool is for spreading the word about a game, in the active ones your post would become invisible in under a few hours) others on forums or Twitter or Mastodon etc - who knows, maybe there even are a few alive out there preferring Facebook (one shudders at the thought...).
Unless it would somehow be too much of a hassle or discomfort, it makes little sense marketing-wise to not use all available avenues.
Besides, this isn't only about marketing but also to simply have a place to talk about games in peace.
Forums are still best for having actual conversations - most other places make that nearly impossible by design.
Since the game is garbo, let's talk about HPM instead.
Im not familiar with Vicky 2 but I've been playing it out of curiosity. But how do you properly westernize as an Unciv in HPM? I've seen crazy stuff like Westernized Persia in 1850 but for me it always takes ages and nothing happens.
I know about the literacy stuff and getting to 2% Intellectuals asap. Any other way to speed it up?
Note that I mean using the decision (you have to pick enable government decisions) "Dissolve the Upper House". Not appointing a party as the ruling party. That decision should give you a substantial boost to the liberals in your government, and then when the year ticks over it'll go back to a normal composition. Depending on how many you had by default this can for example take the cost of a 11652 point reform down to 9180.The eastern neighbors are easy fodder for Persia, although I'm not sure you can get that many RPs from conquering them to boost your ass into Westernization.
I change around government factions but since Conservatives will mostly be at 60% it doesn't seem to help much.
Really that's the main issue, very little to do as an Unciv except pushing intellectuals and bureaucrats.
The core gameplay loop starts and ends at this single variable: "can I expand my construction sector". Literally everything else in the game loops around to this. It is the only thing limiting your agency, and it is deliberately designed to be this, which is clear from how you progress in the game by slowly, gradually, chipping away at it. Key word being slowly.
This is what we used to call "casualizing" or "consoleitis". Or later extremes, "mobile game design", "cookie clicker". What it really is the applied psychology lessons learned in military grade experimentations and organized gambling. Coincidentally the current CEO of paradox interactive, before she got that job, used to run a casino.
Everything the player can do is on a delayed timer, from building to controlling armies, to politics. Literally everything. Even when it doesn't make sense. The delay is just there to simulate the gambling excitement of "waiting", because mkultra, phone games and Science has proven that delayed gratification makes people cum harder. This design philosophy is essentially edging. Delayed gratification but entirely arbitrary and entirely artificial. Which is why I play it while watching bfwm race play porn (WITH nword) on another screen.
Vicky 3 review by a real racist
Not a fan of the construction queue mechanic:
The core gameplay loop starts and ends at this single variable: "can I expand my construction sector". Literally everything else in the game loops around to this. It is the only thing limiting your agency, and it is deliberately designed to be this, which is clear from how you progress in the game by slowly, gradually, chipping away at it. Key word being slowly.
This is what we used to call "casualizing" or "consoleitis". Or later extremes, "mobile game design", "cookie clicker". What it really is the applied psychology lessons learned in military grade experimentations and organized gambling. Coincidentally the current CEO of paradox interactive, before she got that job, used to run a casino.Everything the player can do is on a delayed timer, from building to controlling armies, to politics. Literally everything. Even when it doesn't make sense. The delay is just there to simulate the gambling excitement of "waiting", because mkultra, phone games and Science has proven that delayed gratification makes people cum harder. This design philosophy is essentially edging. Delayed gratification but entirely arbitrary and entirely artificial. Which is why I play it while watching bfwm race play porn (WITH nword) on another screen.
And the people making it are laptop liberals, middle aged, fat, balding but growing their hair out, hipster tattoo moustache epic bacon redditors, millennials clinging to their lost youth, big chubby babies in open relationships because they think they are eventually going to beat the system and have a threesome with two unstable 29.9 year olds covered in tattoos and not really attractive, they have just enough of a gut to where seeing them naked is a disappointment, but it doesn't matter, you tell yourself, you did it, you finally got the Threesome™ and that means you are Cool™ and have Value™, and neither of them really wanted to and you are all just going through the motions to re-enact porn, putting on a play for an invisible observer-audience that doesn't exist, not even looking in the mirror like Patrick Bateman because seeing yourself chubby and ugly and middle aged would ruin it for you.
This is not a strong argument because EU4 for instance is a famously cookie clicker style game. Wait for mana to grow, but tiny upgrade in capability, stack various upgrades to follow your country's "class". Repeat.Vicky 3 review by a real racist
Not a fan of the construction queue mechanic:
The core gameplay loop starts and ends at this single variable: "can I expand my construction sector". Literally everything else in the game loops around to this. It is the only thing limiting your agency, and it is deliberately designed to be this, which is clear from how you progress in the game by slowly, gradually, chipping away at it. Key word being slowly.
This is what we used to call "casualizing" or "consoleitis". Or later extremes, "mobile game design", "cookie clicker". What it really is the applied psychology lessons learned in military grade experimentations and organized gambling. Coincidentally the current CEO of paradox interactive, before she got that job, used to run a casino.Everything the player can do is on a delayed timer, from building to controlling armies, to politics. Literally everything. Even when it doesn't make sense. The delay is just there to simulate the gambling excitement of "waiting", because mkultra, phone games and Science has proven that delayed gratification makes people cum harder. This design philosophy is essentially edging. Delayed gratification but entirely arbitrary and entirely artificial. Which is why I play it while watching bfwm race play porn (WITH nword) on another screen.
Yeah, that's why the best mods are those that lessen the importance of mana. Still, it's even more pronounced with V3, as there's literally nothing to do other than chain building queues and wait for construction to finish. Even EU4 has more things to interact with than that.This is not a strong argument because EU4 for instance is a famously cookie clicker style game. Wait for mana to grow, but tiny upgrade in capability, stack various upgrades to follow your country's "class". Repeat.
Even if you take out the literal mana though in EU4 it is still a game about aggregating small very gamey "bonuses". Just insanely similar to the more active idle games, the ones where you don't have to wait 8 hours a day to refill your resources. Traditional idle games where you have to wait are pretty uncommon now. You can play Theory Of Magic for instance without a pause.Yeah, that's why the best mods are those that lessen the importance of mana. Still, it's even more pronounced with V3, as there's literally nothing to do other than chain building queues and wait for construction to finish. Even EU4 has more things to interact with than that.This is not a strong argument because EU4 for instance is a famously cookie clicker style game. Wait for mana to grow, but tiny upgrade in capability, stack various upgrades to follow your country's "class". Repeat.
It's not entirely true that the construction sector is the only thing to look at, as eventually you'll reach the point where you literally ran out of people – all the peasants in your country are now employed in some sort of factory and there's nobody left to man newly built ones. After that you'll instead be waiting for a technology to research to automate jobs or whatever. It'll still be an awful waiting game though.
I expect them to be more intelligent by the inferior races, apparently that's asking too much from current year racists as well:I expect my racists to have a better grasp on the English language.
Surprise, my fellow racist, this has been every PDX game ever It took Victoria 3 for you to find out?This is the main frustration in the game, that most of the time you are just sitting, waiting, watching progress bars fill up.
Indifference is not a virtue, and people posturing about how cool they are for not caring, not bothering, not doing, are dull. Unsubscribe from the thread if you don't careWhy do you bother?
Neither is "why do you care lol". Why do you bother reading and posting in this thread, in which you are bothered by other people bothering to play the game? Very unhealthy behavior.Not an argument