CKIII is also trending upwards. Stellaris and EUIV are slowly starting to trend downwards, so that probably signals for new releases. HoIIV continues to pull insane numbers and growth.
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Grand Strategy Victoria 3
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Space Satan
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They jumped between massive sale to patch to sale and latest dlc had influx of players because SoI is the last DLC included in grand edition for free. Meaning they exhausted their credit of game viability with latest dlc. Two or three months will show how playerbase will decline.
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How fucking shit do you have to be to not manage to have events properly tied to characters, in a PDX game? The head of the Bourgeoisie just held a "rousing speech" in favor of a law his party opposes.
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Deflowerer
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EUV already announced in all but name.
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So yea, I played around a bit, mainly Switzerland.
The game is still fundamentally broken on various levels.
The AI is shit.
The UI is shit.
The basic gameplay loop is okay but has too many hurdles associated with it.
As Switzerland you're already one of the most progressive countries in the game, so optimizing laws is unnecessary.
You're landlocked (Yea I know I could take Piedmont but lets stay historical for a sec) and your neighbors are too dumb to provide enough material like sulfur to run your industry. They're also all extremely unstable so routes get disrupted constantly. France being a hotbed of revolution I'll accept, but I saw America fracture in three parts more often than not. And I don't mean the Civil War, I mean "American Aristocratic Revolt" vs "CSA" vs "United American Synods". For some reason I also had massive issues providing grain for my nation, the prices always remained extremely high regardless of how many farms I built.
Power Blocs don't matter at all, are a net negative to minors that join and a hassle to the leaders.
The game is still fundamentally broken on various levels.
The AI is shit.
The UI is shit.
The basic gameplay loop is okay but has too many hurdles associated with it.
As Switzerland you're already one of the most progressive countries in the game, so optimizing laws is unnecessary.
You're landlocked (Yea I know I could take Piedmont but lets stay historical for a sec) and your neighbors are too dumb to provide enough material like sulfur to run your industry. They're also all extremely unstable so routes get disrupted constantly. France being a hotbed of revolution I'll accept, but I saw America fracture in three parts more often than not. And I don't mean the Civil War, I mean "American Aristocratic Revolt" vs "CSA" vs "United American Synods". For some reason I also had massive issues providing grain for my nation, the prices always remained extremely high regardless of how many farms I built.
Power Blocs don't matter at all, are a net negative to minors that join and a hassle to the leaders.
My bet is they won't call it EU. First, it will be deemed too "colonialist", second, the timeframe is too different. Maybe they haven't decided on a name yet.
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Universal Europa, here we go
"Worldwide Europa" -> "WE"
I thought the AI and UI are okay for a game of this type, and the basic gameplay loop is dull. You can easily automate it (probably why the AI is decent).
Its just make construction goods cheap, build more construction, make construction goods cheap, build more construction, upgrade construction when you can, make the new construction goods cheap..... and if you are playing a regular optimal game, try to change production types away from landlords and towards capitalists. Import landlord associated goods, export capitalist associated goods, pass reforms.
Like Dwarf Fortress, the game is easy, and the only actual difficulty comes from the player getting bored, and getting reckless, and overextending on something.
Heroic Liberator
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If his party is in government he will support laws which are against his interest group's ideology. Typical behavior of a politician.
The amount of opportunity for history larp still differs a lot between countries and is still insufficient. They still have a lot of work ahead of them until playthroughs are acceptably historical. I think they've done a good job giving France an individuality, with the JE "Divided Monarchists". Individuality is fine, but the problem is that the JE's conditions are very anti-historical, and really teach fake history. It could have been realized a lot better and still provide good gameplay, which I'm trying to do. I guess the same applies for other big JEs.
The countries are starting to feel different, with Britain, Russia, Germany, the Ottoman Empire and France leading the way. The USA and Austria are still in a shameful condition though.
Just an update, as I was still thinking on that subject - it was Independence day two days ago, and from Facebook I learn that there are people out there sharing memes and actually believing (some of them) that the war for indepenence started because some American colonists poured tea on the ground and this enraged the British. That's the kind of history Paradox games teach, but it wasn't always like that.
Americans will never accept that their holy war for independence was a proxy conflict between England and France (or even an internal power struggle within English parliament).
Bulgarians on the other hand readily accept our holy independence struggle was a proxy between Moscow and Istanbul. Cynical bitter eastern Europeans once again proving to have superior understanding of real politics. We should make the next Victoria type game.
Bulgarians on the other hand readily accept our holy independence struggle was a proxy between Moscow and Istanbul. Cynical bitter eastern Europeans once again proving to have superior understanding of real politics. We should make the next Victoria type game.
Big "press x for doubt". Our vatniks will never accept that.
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Try that with a state like Central America, where you're dirt poor and can't even really get the basic loop up. The best way to deal with the fracturing by the way is to do NOTHING, lower taxes to minimum and hope and pray.
Hence Americans became who they are, and Bulgarians, well, they have good salads. Constructing a positive national mythology is a sign of a nation's vigor.
That's trying a bit too hard. Tooltips within tooltips are a leap in UI, and a huge positive.
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Have you seen the new building UI?
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I haven't played with the microstates there, but I did make Ethiopia the #1 GDP neoliberal empire, and there's barely any iron in that region.
Yes, but we aren't talking about positive national mythology. We are talking about common sense understanding of political realism.
Of that, Bulgarians have much more than Americans. Though as suggested by BlackAdderBG, the sovok variety of bulgarian are themselves into a certain national mythos, and its not even their own.
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Jon Shafer's theory of dynamic/recursive tooltips was genius. Paradox's actual implementation of his theory is a C-.
And what is C- about it?
Absolutely. One of my favorite innovations in video games.
Why? I think its fine. The UI in general is okay. It maybe needs more search functionality on long lists, maybe needs more icons/color coding on some keywords. That's honestly about it.
I wish I could change production methods of individual buildings, but this isn't a UI problem, its a game logic problem.
But you can do this on individual buildings. Do you mean building levels?
Last I played, I could change it on individual STACKS of buildings, in the given province. Can I do it on actual individual buildings?
If I have 10 textile mills in Lower Nile province, can I make that 5 normal clothes, 5 luxury clothes focused?
Maybe the UI is bad after all and I didn't figure it out :D
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