I am planning on it yep, gonna post a new thread to gauge interest next week.
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Paradox Grand Strategy |OT| Conquering the World one DLC at a time
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I am planning on it yep, gonna post a new thread to gauge interest next week.
I've got a WC save on the go as Mughals. It's 1701 and I am utterly dominant but there's a lot of busywork to get through. I'm not going to be arsed before 9/6. I wonder if WC will be easier/harder afterwards. Can always roll back.
Be aware that your save will probably not work on the new patch.
But yeah, WC is more a mental battle than actually difficult. Especially with the Mughals.
Thats why he said he can always roll back (to a previous patch). All previous patches for Paradox Games are available through the Beta tab in the Properties menu (when you right click on the game in Steam Library).
I think GOG also has a similar thing where you can choose which version to download, but I dont use GOG for Paradox games so I cannot tell you.
Well, not all previous patches as they had to cut older ones due to GDPR compliance, but those are available through Paradox own website.
Yeah I know (I mentioned this 5 posts back ;) ), but I read RedSparrows post as that he might not know that updating would invalidate running games. I he did know, ignore me!
It should be easier with some of the changes coming (Corruption from territories gone, everywhere can be made trade company land now, hegemons being added) but you'll still have the same mental battle to complete it.
Aye, i'm not sure I'll ever actually finish one.
That said, corruption from territories going would be a BIG THING for my current Mughals game if it were in the Emp patch! Plus Hegemonic power bonuses would easily be mine.
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Don't think Paradox are on the list of publishers showing anything there. They are listed as showing something in the Guerrilla Collective streams though.
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Help, I inherited all my PUs and had to spend all my reform progress and get governing capacity from the estates and now I can't expand anymore without penalty :(
My only lesson here is that for any large empire, Admin ideas are essential - 25% reduced coring cost aye, but the group completion bonus is +25% to Governing Capacity, which is HOOGE. My current Mughal WC run (I started again to shave off some time) has a far greater capacity than that and I am about the same time as you. But that's cos I was aiming for WC from 1444.
But I don't tend to get into the weeds of things the real pros do: religious bonuses, culture bonuses etc.
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New Dev Diary, this time on the new stress system.
It's all very Darkest Dungeon. Idk, looks cool, but I could see them having to tone it down a lot. People like stacking positive traits on their dudes, and while making Diligent and Ambitious carry actual costs is interesting from a gameplay perspective, it's probably gonna rub some folks the wrong way. I'm just glad that the old progression of adopt business focus -> get stressed -> die immediately won't kick off lol
It's all very Darkest Dungeon. Idk, looks cool, but I could see them having to tone it down a lot. People like stacking positive traits on their dudes, and while making Diligent and Ambitious carry actual costs is interesting from a gameplay perspective, it's probably gonna rub some folks the wrong way. I'm just glad that the old progression of adopt business focus -> get stressed -> die immediately won't kick off lol
Regarding governing capacity, I haven't completely figured it out yet but it seems that it's actually more of a limiter than the old corruption system. In the end, all that cost you was a sizable chunk of your money and really only caused problems for me around 1600.
I revoked the privilegia with an HRE spanning almost the entirety of Europe and was 1000 over capacity. But, building state houses in every province brought that down to the point where I could state provinces again. I also forgot about courthouses helping, so that should help for the bigger provinces as well. I also didn't have that many trade companies so I'll have to play a full game where I focus on the mechanics to be sure.
But, I'm honestly glad I did all the World Conquest achievements already.
I revoked the privilegia with an HRE spanning almost the entirety of Europe and was 1000 over capacity. But, building state houses in every province brought that down to the point where I could state provinces again. I also forgot about courthouses helping, so that should help for the bigger provinces as well. I also didn't have that many trade companies so I'll have to play a full game where I focus on the mechanics to be sure.
But, I'm honestly glad I did all the World Conquest achievements already.
Doing my first full Emperor play-through with Prussia and the new mission trees, revolution system, etc. are a lot of fun.
Last big EU4 bucket list item before I can just go back to "having fun" (lol) is a WC. I'm at 5k development or something with 60 or 70 years left. Grrr.... don't think I'll be able to manage it on this one, but we'll see.
I don't hate it because it reminds me of an HOI2 with trench warfare, but yeah it is really tedious. It really doesn't help that it has to straddle the two eras of warfare with one system and does neither particularly well.
Last big EU4 bucket list item before I can just go back to "having fun" (lol) is a WC. I'm at 5k development or something with 60 or 70 years left. Grrr.... don't think I'll be able to manage it on this one, but we'll see.
I don't hate it because it reminds me of an HOI2 with trench warfare, but yeah it is really tedious. It really doesn't help that it has to straddle the two eras of warfare with one system and does neither particularly well.
Okay finished up my first 1.30 playthrough. Lots of thoughts on the new Governing Capacity mechanic, which as a whole I like (along with the patch in totality:
really like the direction that Paradox went with this patch with the renewed emphasis on missions supplementing national ideas/traditions, the big changes to revolutionary governments so that "Spread the Revolution" is only mildly absurdly overpowered, buffs to republics, etc.)
I understand (and appreciate!) the fact that you can spam courthouses in TCs to negate governing capacity penalties, but that just means that the optimal endgame meta is spamming courthouses everywhere, which is incredibly tedious particularly when the AI makes consistently horrible building choices (they never build furnaces, always build churches, always build , etc. etc.). Granted, the GC mechanic is uniquely highlighted when you play as Prussia due to its steep GC penalties, but I'm fairly certain you can still state just about all of the Western Europe superregion w/ Prussia (every non-TC). So it just needs to be easier to do it, then.
Now that Courthouses have gone from being the worst building in the game to the most important, I would love to see them make them a free building slot like Universities. I understand the balance concerns (and it is nice to have to make difficult choices when constructing buildings) but micromanaging is by far the least fun part of EU4.
Paradox already made the choice to let players min-max the system and do something historically impossible: conquer the world. Therefore, the costs (in money) should be balance enough -- not unlike previous patches with steep corruption penalties. The penalty shouldn't be: player, do a bunch of horrible micromanaging in the game's least fun component. Plus, TC investments exist (in their own awful UI), universities exist, etc. so it's not like Paradox hasn't done something like this before.
That, or let us spend admin points to boost GC or something. Any time you can't convert one of the game's many currencies into another, you intuitively know the game is intentionally bottlenecking you. And half the fun of Paradox games is figuring out how to circumvent the game's many soft bottlenecks (no money, no monarch points, coalitions, etc.) and get ahead of the curve.
really like the direction that Paradox went with this patch with the renewed emphasis on missions supplementing national ideas/traditions, the big changes to revolutionary governments so that "Spread the Revolution" is only mildly absurdly overpowered, buffs to republics, etc.)
I understand (and appreciate!) the fact that you can spam courthouses in TCs to negate governing capacity penalties, but that just means that the optimal endgame meta is spamming courthouses everywhere, which is incredibly tedious particularly when the AI makes consistently horrible building choices (they never build furnaces, always build churches, always build , etc. etc.). Granted, the GC mechanic is uniquely highlighted when you play as Prussia due to its steep GC penalties, but I'm fairly certain you can still state just about all of the Western Europe superregion w/ Prussia (every non-TC). So it just needs to be easier to do it, then.
Now that Courthouses have gone from being the worst building in the game to the most important, I would love to see them make them a free building slot like Universities. I understand the balance concerns (and it is nice to have to make difficult choices when constructing buildings) but micromanaging is by far the least fun part of EU4.
Paradox already made the choice to let players min-max the system and do something historically impossible: conquer the world. Therefore, the costs (in money) should be balance enough -- not unlike previous patches with steep corruption penalties. The penalty shouldn't be: player, do a bunch of horrible micromanaging in the game's least fun component. Plus, TC investments exist (in their own awful UI), universities exist, etc. so it's not like Paradox hasn't done something like this before.
That, or let us spend admin points to boost GC or something. Any time you can't convert one of the game's many currencies into another, you intuitively know the game is intentionally bottlenecking you. And half the fun of Paradox games is figuring out how to circumvent the game's many soft bottlenecks (no money, no monarch points, coalitions, etc.) and get ahead of the curve.
Who needs CK3 when CK2 has this?
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What a beauty that map is.
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Vod for the first CK3 stream. Anyone else watch it? I thought it was an impressive first showing.
The UI in particular is just massively improved over anything Paradox has offered before imo. Hopefully this kind of UI/tooltip language starts making it into all of their new games.
I have to say that hour was really good. I can't believe CK3 is starting with so many stuff from ck2. I expected much less mechanics.
I still think that title inheritance should be clearly. Even ck devs had a hard time explaining the inheritance shenanigans that were happening.
Also how come the UI is now easy to use? Get those devs to rework the UI of stellaris and eu IV please!
I still think that title inheritance should be clearly. Even ck devs had a hard time explaining the inheritance shenanigans that were happening.
Also how come the UI is now easy to use? Get those devs to rework the UI of stellaris and eu IV please!
good to know! I wish at the stream they said that because it got me really confused.
IMO in CK2 inheritances were always hard to predict despite having a list of whom will get the title.
In North Korean CK, you get to decide who gets who. If you are the only elector, only you matter.
Guess I need to find time to read up or watch the previews. Is everything done by election in some way, even gavelkind?
I mean in CK3:
There are many types of succession and you can always chose to change if you haave the tech, years of rule, and whatever extra they ask for in CK3.
I was just refering to CK3 North Korea run where there are no vassals, and you control absolutely everything.
I've spent about a dozen hours revisiting HOI4 recently, and I've been reminded why it's my least played HOI game. Planning for wars is more fun than actually fighting them because you spend most of the actual war struggling with the battle planner and naval task UI instead of the actual enemy. Modern HOI just has an awkward place in Paradox's library, a game with an insane amount of micromanagement potential even compared to their other grand strategy games, but they can't design a UI to make it fun to handle. Like I don't even know how someone new to the series or WW2 strategy games could even start with this title.
Second CK3 vod if anyone missed it.
These are a ton of fun so far imo. I'm beyond hyped for Sep 1st.
These are a ton of fun so far imo. I'm beyond hyped for Sep 1st.
Did I see a successful peasant revolt against the Fatmids in there?
Really is a whole new game.
Made a thread for CK3.
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