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Are pagan niggas in ck2 any fun?

>>165931564
based

>>165931610
The sons of Ragnar in the TOG start
Genghis Khan

>>>/sci/8609662
>>>/sci/8609662
>>>/sci/8609662
>>>/sci/8609662
Faggots are trying to copy us

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Why was the last thread deleted? Wtf?

>deleting a thread with that many posts
>never deleted those threads made 100+ posts earlier

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>>165931757
Nah, mane I mean nigga niggas, like Mali and Wagadugu. I'm playing HIP.

>>165931776
it's just an acronym
calm down

>>165931927
The answer is "no" then.
Maybe mansa musa.

As a CK2 player that never managed to enjoy other paradox games as much as CK, Is it worth picking up Stellaris on sale? I've only seen a little bit about the game so far so I don't know what to expect.

>>165932062
No.

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>>165932036
But he is a muslim

>>165932062
Stellaris is a garbage game for Reddit normies.

>>165931610
no west african is a horrible meme religion

>>165932161
then 'no'

>>165932295
No kangz roleplaying for me then

>>165932062
No, it's fun for 1 hour then it gets super repetetive, and not in the good, autistic way. It's so bad it even flopped hard with normies.

>>165932062
Stellaris is basically EU4 in space so if you don't like EU4 it's not for you.

torrent to gary's war in the east game?

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What the fuck happened in my game guys.
Francia invaded Scandinavia and now Denmark is currently extinct.
And fucking Scotland won a crusade and won half of the Iberian peninsula. Is this supposed to happen?
Also sorry for the photo I took it to show a friend who doesn't have an online presence.

>>165932351
just pick a random one

Let me just leave this here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2LwcJBLMPo

>>165932791
>is this supposed to happen

Nothing is supposed to happen.

Except Anschluss.

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>>165932791
>phone picture
You should kill yourself.

>>165932893
>Texas is the only state that gets its own borders

Based. Already preordered 20 copies, will post keys for y'all soon

Anyone want to play some WitW? I'm extremely new so you can practice your no lube assrape

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wat do i do now

>>165933124
Thailand

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>y-you can't just bring back the old map with dragging and dropping

Looks like I almost have.

Deniers and Simsulla on suicide watch. Step aside ladies, I'll fix NWO's newer versions for you.

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>>165933252
based
The amount of retarded shit in NWO is astounding
Apparently he thinks Romansh people are related to Romanians

This is a call for more images of your current games/maps/whatever

I can't play and can only view this thread.

>>165933252
While you're at it, make all the impassable mountain ranges (like the one between China and India) visible, so you know when you have to circle around shit that looks passable.

>>165933252
>almost have
So....there is a problem?

>>165933379
which is why we're better off making our own mod

>>165933379
>he also thinks that the roma are related to the romanians

Yep, retarded as fuck.

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>>165933415

>>165933526
I've been touching up a bunch of stuff in NWO 1.07 and there's a LOT of work put into it
It would be a hell of a task for one person to make something similar, if it was a community project it might be viable but that's bound to fall apart

>>165931564
W&B

>>165933583
Romansh are the niggers in Switzerland. Roma are gypsies that make up about 10% of Romania and Romanians are Romanians. A slav/Italian/German/Hungarian/Roma mongrel race.

>>165933737
>I've been touching up a bunch of stuff in NWO 1.07 and there's a LOT of work put into it
What have you been adding/changing lad?

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>>165933186
that'd be blobbing

>>165933737
Can you transfer Divergences of Darkness from PDM to HPM?

>>165933786
ebin conquest through semen events :-DDDDD

>>165933737
When your Russian Liberation minimod will be finished?

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>Playing as a Russian duke
>Decide to expand my lands and DoW another duke next to me
>We're both tribal under our King so I make sure he doesn't have enough money to get mercenaries, and not enough prestige to get those huge stacks tribes get
>He has an army of 1.1K, and I have an army of 2.3K
>2 months into the war he spawns another 2.5K stack
>OK sure I guess I'll hire some mercenaries to deal with them
>Next month another 2.5K stack
>And then another one the month after

OK /gsg/, does that AI actually cheat?

>>165933737
We could steal a lot of stuff from NWO, but yeah, despite a lot of being shit he/they've really put in a lot of work on the mod.

With a crew of 3-4 people you could probably have a playable beta version out in two or three weeks. The trick is to just structure the workload so it doesn't seem so overwhelming - just do the census work and party data for 1-2 countries a day per person and it won't take THAT long to finish.

>>165933910
Check his prestige before/during the war to avoid getting memestacked

>>165933767
Roma indians who came all the way to europe, it's retarded to merge them with romansh and romanians.

>>165934006
I did, he had like 100 prestige before the war.

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>>165933786
Just adding parties, flags, changed some events and decisions, mostly for nationalists which are utterly incomplete

>>165933826
I plan on taking a crack at it at some point

>>165933868
uwu

>>165933905
neber eber to be h

>>165933868
Thats how you conquest properly.
Kill off all the males and women will happily hop on any male dick they can find.

>>165932905
Don't worry. I'm working on it.

What the fuck do I do when starting a new game of Darkest Hour.

Playing as UK and this is my first Grand Strategy. I have no idea what's happening.

>>165934062
>Jewess
>being sold as a slave
I find that unlikely since they are a small minority in the first place. Nigress would be more logical.

>>165934070
maybe in 500 bc

>>165934302
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_children

>implying German women arent jumping on muslim cocks right now

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>>165934062
>that event description
muh dick

please upload it and keep posting everytime you make significant updates to it

>>165934371
Maybe on your fetish sites, lad. In the real world woman are stocking up on means to defend themselves from them.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3420864/More-Germans-arming-wake-Cologne-sex-attacks-gun-sales-threefold-areas.html

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t. Simsulla

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>>165934750

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>>165934693
>real world
>implying they wont re-elect Merkel
https://www.rt.com/news/349142-sweden-wristband-sexual-assault/

>>165934750
>jingoism
>implying modern populists are jingoist post iraq
hmm

>>165933070
A-anyone?

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Hitlermod just fucking when?

>>165934750
>NPD are just nationalists
kek

>>165934951
Fatherland mod for Darkest Hour?
Also WiF gives shitton of flavor to Germany.

>>165934890
Again, only if you're blind to the modern world, Brexit, Trump, FN, AfD, the people are turning.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/04/mecklenburg-vorpommern-german-anti-immigrant-party-strong-regional-election-exit-polls-merkel

>>165934750
Are you >>165934062 anon? If so, are you modding 1.12 or 1.07, what has more events, wars etc and is overall more fun to play for me to mod?

>>165935075
AfD will never beat Merkel at elections though, who will ever form coalition with them.
Also you cannot kick them out anymore since "m-muh ww2"

>>165935096
>more events
1.12
>wars
1.12
>overall more fun
The only thing 1.07 has over the other versions is the better looking map and non-retarded region system

>>165934062
>>165933737
Is this stuff going into NWO please say yes

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>>165934970
In the game don't all the immigrants vote Nationalist? So every immigrant would vote NDP?
simsulla YES

>>165935165
>>165935075
Not to mention with the government ban on "fake news" realistically meaning anything that criticizes the Merkel administration or immigrants AfD's popularity is about to take a huge hit since anything positive written about them will be shut down.

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>>165935075
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Mg6Gfh9Co

>>165935045
>no border to the Urals, Belgium existing mod for Space Elevater simulator 1995
No thanks, I'll wait for Hitlermod.

ndp is the real based party
afd is shit

>>165935165
Literally just shown you a model scale example of a previously pro-Merkel community turning to AfD but whatever.
>politicians can't make laws
Really makes me think, me laddy mate.

Please stop talking shit about my mod, also who is this "Hitl*rmod" guy?
t. Simsulla

Started CK2 but fuck I can't play with anyone other than Jimena kings in high middle ages because they are all related and heir to each other and it is full of intrugie.

Any recs for that guy similar to it? I like intrugie more than warfare.

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Welp, fucking with province history ends up in crashes when you actually try to get into the game. I'll go full lazy and go and change events and decisions, basically remove the Soviet Union and United Kingdom tags, revert them back to regular RUS and ENG.

>>165935297
>in a speech in a beer hall
This was on purpose right

>>165935291
Currently both sides are clambering to claim "fake news" belongs to them, because it's such a powerful term, being able to instantaneously shut down whatever anyone says as "fake news", it's positively Soviet.

>>165935586
Arent beer halls to Germans what are diners to Americans

>>165935096
Yes those are me
I'm doing 1.07 because the regions in 1.12 really trigger my autism
I don't actually know what's in 1.12 besides that, I think the nuke events are.

>>165935263
Based MacArthur lad already put the events in his NWO mod

>>165935281
>In the game don't all the immigrants vote Nationalist?
Literally what the fuck did Simsulla mean by this

>>165935383
desu

>>165935617
The difference is that one side is in power and it already dictated what counts as fake news under German law. Anything "libelous" or "hate speech" is fake news to them which means anything critical of Merkel administration and anything critical of the immigration policy. Effectively, this means that anything the AfD puts out is "fake news".

>>165935661
>what the fuck did Simsulla mean by this
They do vote nationalist IRL though.
Caliphate.

>>165935652
Still sounds on purpose though
And who the fuck makes speeches in a diner?

>>165935617
The concept of "Fake News" is pretty stupid to be honest, I mean with some exceptions any instance of actually fake news can be ferreted out by people who care to look.

>>165935281
>immigrants vote nationalist
>immigrants
>who would by the ethno-cultural definition of nation-state be outsiders
>vote nationalist
REALLY makes me think.

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>>165935661
>>In the game don't all the immigrants vote Nationalist?
>Literally what the fuck did Simsulla mean by this
QUINTESSENTIALLY

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>>165935772
That's represented by the Islamist parties in the mod

>>165935580
Use Notepad++ to replace them all at once.

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>>165935772
>a religious theocracy has anything to do with nationalism
How retarded can one anon be?

>>165935661
What are you adding then lad, some specifics?

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>>165935921

>>165935970
Can that work on multiple files?

>>165935915
Can you tell me what the actual fuck the Yinyang symbol and the Animist symbol are meant to represent?
>confucian is a religion meme

>>165935661
>Based MacArthur lad already put the events in his NWO mod
Where is it

>>165935661
can you add the ability to control the borders more easily as populist?

>>165936065
>Islam
>not Arab inferiority complex personified in faith

>>165936190
select all files
right click
open with notepad++
ctrl + f
move to 'replace' tab
type whatever you want replace in the "find what" box
type whatever you want to replace it with in the "replace with" box
click "replace in all opened documents"
???
profit!

>>165936352
Are you suggesting I do this with events or with provinces?

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>>165936190
Yes. Literally takes 5 seconds to do that.

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>>165936416
>>165936323
t. people who actually never saw fake news aka propaganda or that ignore it as long as it helps their "ideology"

>>165936416
Doesnt FOX do it too?
Really sad they do it less compared to them nowadays.

>>165936412
If you want to replace the new/old England/Soviet tag you need to do that with ALL instances so you do it literally everywhere, localisation, history, provinces, event, decisions, etc

>>165935661
as long as he didn't change province IDs around you can just drop the 1.07 regions.txt into 1.12

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>>165936220
How so? If you get enough populists in the upper house you can roll back immigration reform to closed borders
>>165936081
Flags, nationalist parties (currently everyone uses the generic "Nationalist Party" which has very liberal policies), adding nationalists to decisions like the natalism one, changing the culture colors so they're actually distinguishable, getting rid of "white French" and shit like that

>>165936770
What is that blue shit on Königsberg

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Rly maeks u thonk

>>165936863
Ossetians

>>165937174
Ewwwwww

>>165933070
Ill play war in the east but I don't have West. Somewhat new to Grgsby Games as well

>>165932791

>And fucking Scotland won a crusade and won half of the Iberian peninsula. Is this supposed to happen?

yes

last game I played the crusade for Andalusia was won by fucking Norway and the game before that it was Venice, which was pretty cool since you rarely see big merchant republics unless you're setting them up yourself

>>165937240
I don't have WitE. Ships in the night and all that lot. Sorry laddo

>>165936323
This whole Fake News shit being thrown from both sides is going to fuck everything up. I just wonder if I should learn Russian or Chinese to be prepared to a post-American lead world.

>>165937261
Anthropogenic climate change being a hoax.* Reminder that we've been coming out of the little ice age for a while now and we're still nowhere near as warm as it was when the Roman empire was first kicking about.

>>165937261
Global warming is a terrible name for it.
Climate change is more appropriate because dumb people cannot comprehend how "warming" equals eerily cold winters.

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What would roman imperator do?

Is HPM noticeably more difficult than vanilla, or just different?

>>165937528
A bit more difficult since he corrects a lot of pop/literacy data and closes a few exploits.

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>>165937374
>Mandarin
Russians wont hate you for being white piggu at least. If you can do stupid slav shit with them they wont mind you at all.

>>165936770
>getting rid of "white French" and shit like that
Why? Certain African countries like Togo, Ivory Coast and Cameroon are literally getting ethnic conflicts all the time because the government wants them to speak French, their national culture would definitely just be "Black French". They're not tied to a tribe or an actual national state, like Ghana, Botswana, Somalia and so on are. And even then, Ghana is actually closer to "Black Anglo" than their traditional Akan roots nowadays.

>>165937525
>+1 tolerance to true faith
Thats a big bonus.

Making a WWI start date mod to go with HPM - what is a good resource i can use for historical pops, army sizes, and tech? Any suggestions or requests for the mod?

>>165937765
>Ivory coast culture is not african, it's french, because they speak french

So all the mexicans that learn english become anglo-mexican?

>>165937843
20 volumes of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica

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>>165937219
>not liking based Alans

>>165937765
I'm certainly keeping Black French and Black Anglo and all that, those definitely serve an important purpose. I just mean getting rid of utterly redundant cultures like White French, because there's already normal French which is the same thing.

>>165937878
We call them Tejanos down here, but yeah essentially.

>>165937448
dumb people were a mistake

>>165938121
Language isn't the same thing as culture, retard
Just because I speak english that doesn't make me american or british

>playing tall

>>165931512
This infograph would score a 1/10 anywhere anyday.

Far too much information, far too little visual representation.

All the pictures are a coloured map of Europe from which you can glean absolutely nothing and all the text is an absolute clusterfuck of bad English TL;DR.

Whoever made it is either not old enough to have graduated from highschool, or dropped out of highschool before finishing, because making a proper infograph is pretty basic stuff in a 1st world education.

If this is how you would try to sell a product, it would crash and burn Nolan style.

Absolutely disgusting.

>>165937219
literally unironically aryan unlike g*rmans

>>165938340
I'm not going to bite the political side of this but I'm not American so...

>>165937219
Those guys are literal, actual 'white people'.

>>165938165
If all people were born intelligent we wouldnt be here to begin with.
>no industrial revolution because no useful idiots for cheap factories

>>165938301
>Far too much information, far too little visual representation.
>short attention span
>needs pictures to be interested
>exactly like a child
I'd say it's doing its job pretty well, we (and you) already know you don't belong here.

>>165937878
No because the cosmethic states the New World has are nearly 500 years old, while the ones Africa has are far younger than that. Of course they're not "French", but how else would you explain an Ivory Coastian nationalist? Of couse there should be specific African cultures (I fully support a Ghanian culture, for instance) but Ivory Coast is a mess, the definition of a cosmethic state, and the government tries to unite them all forcefully via the French language.

>>165938217
I never said language is the same thing as culture

>>165938101
>>165938347
>>165938447
Fuck off Oss*ti*n shills!

>>165938301
>Far too much information
Literally what the fuck did you mean by this

>>165938101
ah I see, that makes sense.

To the two other guys who are modding NWO, on a scale of 'I'll spend one night brainstorming and then lose interest' to 'fuck that shit', how interested are you in making a similiar mod from scratch?

>>165938468
You sort them out by indigenous native languages. Thats what they do nowadays anyway.

>>165938468
>but how else would you explain an Ivory Coastian nationalist?
So a black french is an ivory coast nationalist? That's even worse.
Just call them by their ethnic name or linguist group and that's done, you represent their culture better than calling them "french".

>>165938471
Then why you think "black french" is a valid culture for africa? Culturally they are completely separated from the french.

>>165938676
I don't think that. I didn't make that post.

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>>165938301
>Visual Representation
Of what though? There's nothing to graph, there's nothing to really show in visual form. The screenshots are merely to show what the game looks like while being played.
tl;dr >>>/america/

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>meanwhile in Africa

>>165938810
Never fails to crack me up

>>165938536
t. davit shalikashvili

It's 1853 and I'm playing Somaliland how do I westernise before the scramble for Africa? I've only got 1 reform(land reform) atm, 4.1% literacy and 4.01 rps

>>165938626
But Ivory Coast doesn't consider official any of its native languages. They consider French to be the official language and nothing else, that's the main root to the history of civil wars they've been getting for decades.
>>165938676
But what would that culture be called?

>>165939043
>he didnt go for universities first
restart and try again.

>>165939043
>land reform
Restart and go for foreign universities desu
Why are you playing as Somaliland anyway, they have no pops to do anything.

>>165939058
>But what would that culture be called?
Whatever the ethnic name for the people is. You don't need to call it "senegalese" but you could.

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>>165939058
http://www.axl.cefan.ulaval.ca/afrique/cotiv.htm

>>165938101
Shouldn't English just be White Anglo then? Also are you adding some dismantle nation CB's?

>>165939141
But basic education costs less and does the same
>>165939175
Because I have autism and can't stand playing nations that are gps or sps

>make a culture for each African national state
>those that are cosmethic states get less than 5% of their pops to be from their own culture
>those that aren't cosmethic states get a majority rule with their own culture
>finish the population makeup with tribal ethnicities
Problem solved.

>>165939058
>But Ivory Coast doesn't consider official any of its native languages.
So?
We are talking about culture not language.

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>MMXVII AD
>playing paracucks gaem

So after pulling an all nighter, I got everyone unified for the mod. Normally we were going to just scoop up our vassals after a kind anon informed me that would happen to our blobs, but then it turns out that everyone but the HRE broke up on conversion, so I worked for unification for fairness. We got one of our other friends to join in (he was originally going to be in for CK2 but it turned out Tianxia had no converter support, so he was bummed at no Tang) as Ming. We're not quite sure what's up with that lone Roman province in Russia but our Romaboo agreed to let Russia have it.

Normally I'd be a bit leery of the Roman Empire and HRE as power got lost in translation (most everyone could fight most everyone in CK2, only our Rusaboo was seriously behind, but EU4 they dwarf everyone but the Ming for some reason) but those two (and specifically those two, I noticed) tend to war with each other over stupid shit. The last war of our CK2 game was started by our Wehraboo over Jeanne d'Arc (who showed up for the HRE/Vassal France during a GHW for France by Norse Britain). She is currently the Empress of Rome and our Romaboo managed to remove her celibate trait somehow because she was the mother of 5 kids when the game ended. So while we're colonizing I expect those two to be fighting over fucking nothing.

Anyway, wish us luck for when we play later tonight and I'll let you know if anything interesting happens.

>>165939376
You really underestimate the part languages spoken have on cultures in cosmethic states.

>>165938795
It isn't an infograph, furthermore despite all that text, not a whole lot is being said. Someone who is not an ESLfag could convey the same information in easily 1/4 of the amount of text.

It was basically made by a highschooler who looked at it and thought to himself "wow, look at all that text, it looks really cool and informative" without a thought for the reader.

>>165938460
You are under 18 and need to leave.

>>165939568
South Americans are living proof common language means jack shit when trying to get along.

>>165939287
>Shouldn't English just be White Anglo then?
I'm certainly considering making them White Anglo, yeah
But as it stands White Anglo mostly represents new world Anglophone people, ie; Americans and Canadians
I think Canadians would be much more likely to accepted American rule (as accepted pops) than Englishmen would. It might be a cultural difference worth representing in the mod.

>>165939626
>It isn't an infograph
That is correct, it isn't an infograph.

>not a whole lot is being said
Perhaps because there isn't a whole lot of text.

>someone who is not an ESLfag
Most of the text was lifted more or less straight from the original infopicture I copied, and R&I is using an old version of the picture anyway due to his autism demanding he take out games he personally thinks don't belong.

>in easily 1/4 the amount of text
Do it.

>>165939771
Why dont you keep Americans Yankees and partially Dixie in south?

>>165939626
Look lad we get it, you are an american teenager with a short attention span. These games aren't for you.

>>165939651
Americans are living proof common language means jack shit when trying to get along

>>165939287
>>165939771
>Also are you adding some dismantle nation CB's?
I don't see any reason why not, so sure

>>165939651
>>165939848
Not really, since they all assimilated and speak the same language nowadays.

>>165939568
And you are overestimating the impact language has on these states. People still speak their local dialects and their culture wasn't that affected by colonization to call them french.

>>165939826
>Do it.
Sure, I'll post a concise one somewhere tonight.

>>165939836
You are under 18 and need to leave.

>>165940037
>Sure, I'll post a concise one somewhere tonight.
If you actually manage it. Make sure it's actually 1/4 the text and conveys all the same information.

Is 4chan really shit for eveyrone else or just me

>>165940037
Look lad we get it, you are an american teenager with a short attention span. These games aren't for you.

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>>165940037

>>165939831
It's definitely worth consideration but I think having new world Anglophones be one culture does a good job of representing the modern world
Southern culture used to entail an entirely different way of life, economic system, manners, food, et cetera
By the period of NWO, the differences are much less pronounced
But, there certainly is an argument that can be made that Dixie was still different enough to warrant a separate culture (Jim Crow and all that)

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>Finally manage to convert my game
>Alba, an empire that lords over British isles where only Irish culture exists, becomes Scotland
>But I can just become the United Kingdom so fine then
>Look at Indonesia
>All the cultures I cheat-converted in EU4 have reverted to their original culture that the Indonesian nations settled
>Same goes for a lot of native american cultures

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>165940291
Lmao get fucked kiddo

>>165940103
Will do.

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>>165939563
>fighting a war over a shitty peasant girl
I'll bet money those two retards are going to fight over who colonizes the NA east coast. Also I'm like 99% positive you can't legally remove Jeanne's celibacy trait so your Romaboo friend might be hacking.

>>165940483

t. Thinks non-western AI colonizing was a good idea

>>165939560
>Refugees welcome
>Closed borders
>Nothing in between
wew

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBVDdr3wqm4

Oooooh boy. Rev those nigger wars up.

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>>165940037
>>165940103
>>165940503
Oh and, since R&I is using the old version, I'll give you the new version for reference - people objected to the MotE version but I don't actually have the DW version in a gimp file anymore so this is just saved off older threads.
Do consider that I'm not really dissing you - if you actually make a better version I've nothing against using it.
If you do make a better version though I'd like it if you put up the GIMP, PS, etc. file onto a MEGA so it can be updated more easily.

>>165940291
manually change the pops

>>165940675
>literally who fights literally what
The last relevant war in Africa was the South African border war.

>>165940540
>Also I'm like 99% positive you can't legally remove Jeanne's celibacy trait so your Romaboo friend might be hacking.
You can. One of Joan's events (where she visits you at night or something) has an option to try and fuck her if you have the cynical and lustful traits. There's even an event for her if she gives birth from it.

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>>165941024
Now that you mention it i do have good knowledge of the world map and i personally cannot name half the nations in Africa.

How about you fellow anons?

Gonna be home soon then Victoria 1 AAR is a go.

>>165941209
China, Korea, and France have pretty notable "anime" industries.

>>165941267
ladybug is not anime friend

>>165941343
Isnt ladybug that catboi shota French thingie?

>>165941343
Anime in the strict sense can only come from Japan so that picture is pretty circular.

>>165941209
I can name 95% of them but I have trouble remembering what has changed their name recently and which South African dot is Lesotho and which is Swaziland

>>165941209
I can name a good chunk of them but only place a few, the west coast is terrible.

>>165941209
https://www.sporcle.com/games/g/africa

give it a go

>>165940958
You've never edited a pops file before have you

>>165941209
Half the nations in Africa literally have no right to exist, and I mean that in a non-meme sense because they are literally invented nations with arbitrary boundaries and very little if any historical basis.

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>>165941209
>not knowing all countries outside the Caribbean and the Pacific

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>>165938810
>continentals in charge of propaganda

>>165942257
HOLY SHIT LINKUUUU

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>You've never edited a pops file before have you

>>165938453
>he thinks he's smart
>he thinks feudalism was preferable to industrialisation
>he thinks industrialisation didn't massively increase life expectancy and avaliability of goods
*tips death of preventable diseases not being cured because there are no mass produced pharmaceuticals*

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>>165942257
>Normies will think this is a fascist move

>>165942257
Is this really a good idea to show everyone your latest tech?

>>165940843
I will start with the text. I'll post it here for feedback before adding it into a gimp/PS file.

I am considering the following to be done for every game:

Title
Europe Universalis III

Release
2007

Developper
Paradox

Publisher
Paradox

Era
Renaissance to early modern (1399-1821)

Complexity level
Entry level

Gameplay
Play as any country starting at any date. Emphasis on trade and politics.

DLC/Expansions
Yes, 4 expansions are available

Important:
EU III Chronicles is the complete collection, EU III Complete is not.

It would allow for easy addition of new games, while also making it easier to compare at a glance. Obviously the formatting will be different, but can't really do that here.

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>>165942483
Does it really have to be latest tech?
Just do a parade with standard stuff and get a fancy plane or two.

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>>165941894
I drew a blank on Sierra Leone and Uganda and couldn't remember the other Guinea's name. Also didn't realize the other islands to the East and Cape Verde counted.

>>165942483
It's never really the "latest" tech, just the latest that the public already knows about
"New" in military hardware terms means "has been in development for 20+ years and everyone already knows almost everything about it"
Anything they actually want to keep under wraps of course won't be in a parade

>>165940586
Sincerely, trough history when it comes to refugees (not immigrants) it is basically that as there is always little time and too much pressure to make any other decision.

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>>165943074
>meanwhile in latest tech land

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>>165931512
ANYONE in here having experience with 'Alea Jacta Est'?

I'm in dire need of some grand strategy of the ancient era, and Rome 2: TW was such a disaster I've given up completely on CA games.

>>165942257
Nice, finally something good from Mr.Trump.

>>165942515
That's not even an infopic then. That's merely a list with checkboxes.
Now I don't mind this by itself, but there's a few points
1. This is actually going to take up more space because normal text doesn't require line breaks. It'll also make formatting a lot stranger, since this sort of bulletpoint format is much more suited to individual pictures or graphics for individual games than a selection of 'major' games.
2. This will severely clash with the misc., FAQ, miscellaneous, and user mod sections unless those are also put into similarly concise versions - which may be impossible or undesireable due to space concerns.
3. It doesn't highlight some of the key differences between 3 and 4.
4. The actual character count is roughly half that of the original text. Nitpicking.

>>165942712
I mean what's the point of it in that case?
Further, considering that Trump has already said he may not aid NATO and is pulling out of many international multilateral agreements, the parade could have negative effects on an international relations level (it'd be a lot better if he didn't announce the intention to pull out of a lot of international agreements and be more reassuring than perhaps threatening). Also, this gives fodder to the Chinese to call the US hypocritical, since the United States was very angry or put up that front in response the Chinese military parade in 2015.

>>165943202
I dunno your point

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>>165941209
Drew a map of Africa without looking at any maps. How'd I do, lads?

>>165943365
About the Chinese parade?
Well the part where they parade with obsolete tech.
>>165943245
Ceasar 3?

>>165942448
Okay, DC is nice, but New York? Last time the dudes had fighter jets around was during 9/11, and I don't know how the public will react. Better make a naval show there.

>>165943462
it's ok i guess

>>165943512
>About the Chinese parade?
Oh is that what you mean?
I mean, they did show the anti-ship cruise missiles that to my knowledge, the United States does not have. Of course they might be hiding it.
And I mean, the parade happened in late 2015. 2012 or 2013 tech isn't really obselete, just not cutting edge.

>>165943462
I mean, forgetting Mali is a bit bad, but you did well lad.

>>165943523
Naval show sounds nice.
Also why not designate random cities every year for tourism boost?

4th of July military parade in that and that city?

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>>165943651
>anti-ship cruise missiles that were never used IRL
http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/scud_info/scud_info_refs/n41en141/Patriot.html

What could possibly go wrong?

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>africamod will probably NEVER be released

>>165943723
It'd probably upset some people both inside the country and more importantly outside the country.
A 4th July parade might be nice but it'd also make the whole in support of peace and freedom thing ring kind of hollow.
Most important part really is what the benefits would be. If you designate cities you want to grow economically to recieve it it might be a good idea, but would it actually recoup the cost of setting all it up, the logistics of supporting tourists, etc. and can you control the nationalism that this will drum up? Nationalism has a way of growing into militancy if not directed correctly, and if directed correctly isn't something you can really back down on - see Senkaku, where the retards at Politburo have succeeded in making folks so angry about the whole affair they literally can't use it as a chip in negotiations with Japan anymore, the island nobody even knew existed is now somehow just below Taiwan tier now.

>>165944029
Patriot is not an anti-ship cruise missile, and this isn't wanking, everyone recognizes the ASCM as an actual threat, even your own military.

>>165943365
Bulletpoints give just enough information for a person to decide whether or not to follow up on it. Gameplay features / signature features or so will be used to highlight the key elements (and differences) of the games. We could post the patchlog of every game to detail every minute difference, but that isn't what the OP pic should be about.

More space or not isn't the issue. Everybody sees the massive McDonalds billboard advertising their newest burger, nobody sees the A4 leaflet filled with text handed out by political activists.

The misc. FAQ and mod section will indeed require a different approach.

>>165944331
Well then you make countermeasures against it and in the end its blind leading the blind since you basically model stuff off your tech.

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>>165944407
>More space or not isn't the issue.
It actually is an issue, I get where you're coming from but the current picture is already so big I literally cannot post the PNG anymore even at max compression. Make it significantly bigger or with significantly better pictures, and you'll pass the line even with a 85 quality JPG.

>everybody sees, nobody sees
We're not trying to advertise and grab attention, in that case a waifu picture or something like this would grab far more than any infopic since thumbnails are small. We're handing out information to people who are presumed to be already interested. I mean in the first place you need to open the thread.
The target audience is already in the room. The McDonald's billboard isn't meant to communicate information - it's meant to attract your attention. The activist sheet doesn't necessarily need to attract attention - it's meant to give you an overview of the information they think you need to know, with abbreviated depth. When you go into McDonalds you don't need to see giant billboards - you'd rather see pictures of their entire menu. When you sit down in a theatre, you don't need to see giant billboards and ads - you'd rather have a pamphlet.

>that isn't what the OP pic should be about
The point of the OP pic is to introduce the games in brief and show examples of the game screen, to give suggestions to newfags in the form of the FAQ and the mods section, and to order as a list the games which might be posted here.

>>165944693
What part are you responding to

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It's happening lads. Vicky 3 is here.

>>165945018
>>165944407
DESU lads I think the only reason anyone gives a shit about the infopic is because you can instantly tell which thread /gsg/ is in the catalog

What's Japan like in Kaiserreich (DH)? Any fun things to do? It kind of sounds like it starts as a complete hegemon in the Pacific and as far as I know it lacks fun IDEOLOGY stuff to do

>>165945132
Pretty much this
I'd rather we tell newfags to read the thing but that's like telling people to read the fucking OP / pastebin in other threads

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>>165945018
Holy shit that is one lewd statue ...

>>165944161
What is this shit?

>>165945193
>>165945132
Lads, you can just search it, you know.
Spam this in the URL bar
>>>/vg/gsg
Then the next time you type "gsg" in there this will automatically show up and you don't have to look for the thread.

Where should I move my capitol to as Russia in eu4 mp? Nizhny novgorod? Or should I go further east? I'm playing vs france and brandenburg

>>165945331
It can be faster to just look for the image and not everyone likes to search

>>165945386
Novosibirsk

>>165944407
>Everybody sees the massive McDonalds billboard advertising their newest burge
We aren't advertising these games. We are providing some helpful information. if it keeps the short attention kids like you away, it's even better.

What should be done first as Denmark? Form Scandinavia or grab the german coastline? I´m a bit afraid of the HRE just starting out as Denmark to be honest.

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>>165945197
>meanwhile in Korea

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>>165945386
Vladivostok, dominate Asia and the Pacific seaboard of the Americas

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So the Ottomans have been slowly draining themselves of manpower by stationing these stacks here for about 10 years now, what gives?

>>165945769
quality AI

>>165945669
>Not changing every city's name
>CSA isn't independent
6.5/10

>>165945769
Ethiopians stole their horses

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>>165945018
Well here is a concept for the segment for Victoria II, and it takes up less room. The pictures will become the bottleneck to reducing the size.

Original: 114 words
Revised: 36
Not counting bulletheads: 29

>>165946283
That looks worse and it's way less informative. Congratulations on making something for people like you who are interested in something but aren't interested in reading a few lines on it.

>>165946283
Shit/10

>>165945403
>not everyone likes to search
Why? It's not like I'm asking you to download and run Virus.exe.

>>165945281
>he doesn't know Eugene Terre'Blanche
>>>/r/paradoxplaza

>>165946283
that font is horrible

>>165946283
I concur with the others, I preferred the other model.

>>165946283
I mean it's pretty much the same isn't it? Takes up the same amount of space even if we change the font to be less ridiculous looking, doesn't even say the names of the actual expansions, etc.
I mean think about it, is it even slower to read 100 words than to read 40?

>>165946283
Terrible font and doesn't give any information that might interest the viewer.

>"Any country, starting any date"

Wow what a fantastic description of gameplay, not like literally all other paradox games don't have this.

>>165946582
Are you actually arguing about how fast he reads when he complains the OP doesn't have pictures and too much text?

where's the square flag frame mod?

>>165945584
Don't turn it into a game of semantics, advertising is providing information.

People already here don't need the info in the OPpic (it is arguably far too little info for a gsg "veteran" anyway), for people trying to get into the genre it is just a massive slab of text. It doesn't do anything for one group or the other as it stands.

When somebody talks about a game you are unfamiliar with, the first things you want to know are; What genre is it? What are the key defining gameplay features? When was it released? Who made it?

For GSG specifically you would want to know the era it is set in and the scope/playable countries, along with its focus (military, political, economical, exploration etc.)

>>165946685
In AFPG's pastebin, I believe.

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>>165946283

>>165946661
bah

>>165946773
>Don't turn it into a game of semantics, advertising is providing information.
No this is completely wrong
Advertising doesn't need to provide information. Advertising is about attracting ATTENTION and making your remember. Thus, that famous Subway billboard:
(in massive fucking letters) SEX
(in small text) now that we have you attention, eat at subway.

>>165946773
>Don't turn it into a game of semantics
It isn't. You think the infopic should sell these games like an ad. This isn't the purpose of it.

>advertising is providing information.
No, advertising is selling something. Most of the times is not providing information.

> for people trying to get into the genre it is just a massive slab of text
If they can't read 5 lines or think that's a massive slab of text, they won't get into these games and we don't want them here.

Are you uh, a real Prussian?

Eh, nein.

>>165945769
You tag switched

>>165934062
Did you get banned or something? all the posts about your fetish blob mod have been removed from old threads and their pictures are missing in the archive

post culture map mode

>>165943245
TW: Rome

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>>165946773
>advertising is providing information
Got outcompeted in advertising detected
Ads don't need to provide shit for information.

>>165946428
>way less informative
It is literally the same info without the fluff.

Without the retarded font I would prefer it like that, if and only if it was done uniformly like that for all the games.

It isn't so much reading spead that makes the current OPpic garbage, it is its lack of uniformity. One game has text about the gameplay features, another game has text about the author's opinion on the game. Just messy. Also some are repetetive as fuck. Look at HoI3, the entire text can be summed up with "complex WW2 wargame", lots of words without telling me much at all. At that point just put the GSG popular opinion in the pic, would be far more usefull. "HoI4 is a shitty tablet port" "Darkest Hour is the best in the HoI series" "Don't get EUII I now EUIV is out" etc.

>>165946981
Dont you mean Russian?
>mfw people dont even know who Prussians were anymore

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>>165946283
>>165946773
Well I mean it looks like most people don't like it and have their own reasons.
I'd like an apology for getting called a fucking senior high school dropout out of nowhere now, thank you.

>>165945459
Why there? Why not Tomsk?

>>165945669
Okay, but why exactly there?

>>165947046
Have you ever rused France into declaring war on you? Anchlussed Austria?

>>165947279
Not even him, but you are retarded, you either do not understand the purpose of advertising, or fail to grasp the definition of the word information.

If an advert hasn't informed me about whatever it is they are trying to sell me or make me do, then it has failed horribly.

>inb4 subliminal advertising
Ya, you're a retard

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>>165947124
That's really strange, I haven't been banned or anything

>>165947419
>Okay, but why exactly there?
The name Vladivostok means 'ruler of the East'
also it's coastal

>>165947393
Damn son. Is that NSFW and do you have source on it?

>>165947483
>If an advert hasn't informed me about whatever it is they are trying to sell me or make me do, then it has failed horribly.
Advertising needs to tell you what it is they want you to buy but more importantly catch your eye. The difference is the latter bit, a very fast summary that's catchy-looking.

>>165947491
What country are you focused on NWO? Russia?

Have you ever caught a Frenchman retreating?

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>>165947541
I dunno and no.

>>165947608
I haven't touched Russia as of yet, I'm mostly touching up the political events to include the nationalist ideology (I have no idea why simsulla included a new ideology if it was going to be completely barebones and nonsensical)

I also added a decision to reclaim elsass lothringen as a populist/nationalist Germany

>>165946887
>It isn't. You think the infopic should sell these games like an ad. This isn't the purpose of it.
Wrong, I think they should be concise and to the point.

>No, advertising is selling something. Most of the times is not providing information.
Wrong again, selling something is selling something. Advertising is not selling something, companies have gone bankrupt on advertising without selling squat to cover it.

>If they can't read 5 lines or think that's a massive slab of text, they won't get into these games and we don't want them here.
Their ability to read more than 5 lines is beside the point. You surely can read the entire patchlog of a game, but I doubt you have ever done it or feel the desire to start doing so.

Infopics are there to provide info, not to be an exercise in fellating to text.

>>165947491
Okay, but I'm talking mostly for strategic purposes, seeing as this is MP. I don want to expend into asia later on, but give me some more reasons to move my capitol exactly there.

>>165947419
It's the third largest city in Russia and the biggest in Siberia

>>165946885
>No this is completely wrong
>Advertising doesn't need to provide information. Advertising is about attracting ATTENTION and making your remember. Thus, that famous Subway billboard:
>(in massive fucking letters) SEX
>(in small text) now that we have you attention, eat at subway.

That's really cool and all, but that is a form of conveying information. Without the subway mention at the end the advertisement can not achieve its goal.

>>165947627
Do you know why French tanks had a rearview mirror?
So they can see the frontline too

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>Finally get to see a colony declare independence and succeed in EU4 with the aid of the French
The next question is whether the Falklands rightful Chilean clay?

>>165948040
>>>/reddit/

>>165947836
Gonna do anything about the lack of wars? How would that be fixed anyway?

>>165947836
Would you be interested in making a mod from scratch with others?

>>165947393
I liked it (aside from the font), but am waiting for it to be completed, I am also not autistic enough to get angry over change which is literally the main argument against it, well aside from that font.

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>>165948090
Here baguette, 4 u.

>>165947959
I get that, but see >>165947951

I'm mostly considering moving it because of strategic purposes. St. Petersburg is too exposed, and even though I got most of Lithuania, I feel they're gonna attack soon.

Is there already an event or decision for Austrian/Germany reunification in NWO?

>>165948132
Definitely

>>165948115
>Gonna do anything about the lack of wars?
Potentially but lack of wars is fairly representative for the modern area
I think there should definitely be more conflict in Africa and such though, and if the player deviates from history and the large alliance-blocs like NATO don't have the influence they do IRL there should definitely be more potential for wars breaking out.

>>165948226
Mon dieu...

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What would the Italians call this?

>>165948243
>I don want to expend into asia later on
Time to end your life senpai
Also, the reason is it's fucking far away, as simple as that. Maybe you can put your capital on the Urals or something if you want defensive bonuses, but I don't know the EU4 map very well desu

>>165948445
Orientale Italiana

>>165948445
Africa Orientale Italiana?

>>165947836
>I also added a decision to reclaim elsass lothringen as a populist/nationalist Germany
Speaking of that, could you remove the entirely retarded revanchist decisions, like France reclaiming the Rhine?

>>165947598
Twist words all you like, at the end of the day if an advertisement hasn't provided me with information, it has failed. The goal of an advertisement is not to be eye-catching, the goal is to convey information. The way it achieves this goal is (usually) by being attention grabbing.

I don't see the point in changing the infopic anymore than the rest of the people in the thread, but your (and other's) understanding of advertising is simply wrong. Not even because you or the others are too stupid to understand that, but simply because so you can disagree with infopic guy for the sake of it, or in short, a severe case of autism.

>>165948445
>No Ethiopia

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>>165947871
>Wrong, I think they should be concise and to the point.
Yours isn't all concise (certainly not the claimed 1/4 as long) and lacks the names of the expansions to further cut down on wordcount for conciseness.
The difference between 100 words and 40 words is about 10 seconds if you're a slow reader.

>Their ability to read more than 5 lines is beside the point.
It isn't because it doesn't actually make a difference. Your version is just the bulletpoint version of mine, the prose version. If I de-flower the text I can cut it down too.

>You surely can read the entire patchlog of a game, but I doubt you have ever done it
Your doubt is wrong, people post changes they object to or find pleasing from the patchlog of games every major expansion.

>or feel the desire to start doing so.
A lot of times it simply doesn't matter - nobody cares enough to read it at all, no matter how it's presented.

>Infopics are there to provide info, not to be an exercise in fellating to text.
Which is provided, and in my opinion more aesthetically.
There's the issue of consistency with the other sections too.

By the way, I'm not the person you responded to.

>>165947871
>Wrong, I think they should be concise and to the point.
No, you think it should be an ad, with catchy images and cattering to the kind of retard who can't read less shit than the average event of these games provide.
If he can't even be bothered to read the pic, then we already know he's in the wrong place.

>Wrong again, selling something is selling something.
Advertising is convincing someone that that person needs to buy your product. The infopic doesn't have that objective.

>Their ability to read more than 5 lines is beside the point.
Nope, it is the point. If you can't be arsed to read more than that, you aren't going to enjoy it and you aren't welcome here. If you need flashy graphics, same shit.
The infopic isn't here to invite people, it isn't here to catch your eye, it's there to provide information about stuff. It does that. If it scares away people who have a short attention span, it's even better.

>Infopics are there to provide info
And this one does, it just doesn't help much with your short attention span problem.

>>165948653
The goal isn't to convey info either, it's to convince you to buy a product or at least remember the product exists so next time you see it in a mall you think 'hey shit I've seen this before'.

>>165948365
>I think there should definitely be more conflict in Africa and such though, and if the player deviates from history and the large alliance-blocs like NATO don't have the influence they do IRL there should definitely be more potential for wars breaking out.
Where is 'war potential' modded anyhow?

>>165948365
>Definitely
Neat. By 'a mod' I mean NWO 2.0, /gsg/ edition.

>>165948525
>>165948562
Seems quite generic but that will have to do.
>>165948667
Those are the plans for a civilized African satellite to be released in the 1910s, Ethiopia, just like Tunisia, Libya and the Asian/American colonies will be kept under my direct control.

>>165948938
Not him but I'm also willing to participate.

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>>165948653
>The goal of an advertisement is not to be eye-catching, the goal is to convey information.
Wow so much information conveyed, it surely isn't about brand recognition, eye catching, making people desire something or anything like that, it's about giving information to people.

Please stop embarrassing yourself.
Fuck I don't even know how you aren't ashamed of coming somewhere and criticizing an INFOpic for having too much text and not enough flashy images.

>>165948569
>could you remove the entirely retarded revanchist decisions
Yes
I like how almost every country has potential for some sort of irredentism so you can make them at least a regional power (even fucking Comoros), but some are retarded, like French cores on the Rhineland
The design philosophy of the mod is baffling at times, like why would there be French claims on the Rhine yet no German claims on Elsaß/Alsace?

>>165948841
I don't really know how the AI decision making works in regards to when they decide to go to war, but in NWO CBs are scarce and there are often large alliance blocs scaring the AI from declaring wars.

>>165948938
I can't imagine a /gsg/ cooperative project being anything but disastrous, but at least it will be fun, I'm certainly up for it

>>165948451
Wait, that was supposed to say I do, not I don't, fuck, I'm too tired for this shit. Yes, I do want to dominate chinese trade.

>>165948938
Wouldn't a /gsg/ NWO just be revised Simsulla?

>>165949016
>>165949041
Add me on Steam if you want to talk more about it, steam ID is lametimes, I'm the guy with the drawn avatar with a MAGA hat

>>165949110
With less typos in the events

>>165948668
>Yours isn't all concise (certainly not the claimed 1/4 as long) and lacks the names of the expansions to further cut down on wordcount for conciseness.

Wrong, from 114 down to 29, so basically the claimed 1/4.

>If I de-flower the text I can cut it down too.
Then why didn't you? What is the point of all that fluff? It is the same as the highschooler tasked with writing an essay who believes longer is better and that handing in a short but to the point essay will surely be insufficient.

>Your doubt is wrong, people post changes they object to or find pleasing from the patchlog of games every major expansion.
Which is hardly the same as sticking the entire patchlog into the OP pic.

>Which is provided, and in my opinion more aesthetically.
My point was not so much in using bulletpoints, which is merely a personal preference, but in removing all the fluff. As you said you could cut out all the crap without using bulletpoints and be left with 1/4 of the text without losing an ounce of important info on the game.

>>165946981
Well technically, uh, nein, nein.

>>165949154
>I'm the guy with the drawn avatar with a MAGA hat
Wew

>>165949205
Used to be a christmas hat but a friend made me a new avatar after the election

>>165948681
>No, you think it should be an ad, with catchy images and cattering to the kind of retard who can't read less shit than the average event of these games provide.
Wrong, head back to start.

>Advertising is convincing someone that that person needs to buy your product. The infopic doesn't have that objective.
Nor did I claim that, my point was that there is a reason people read short to the point texts with an eye catcher rather than notepad texts.
The current infopic already has eye catchers and nice pictures, the problem is merely that they all look the exact same. In fact they are exactly the sort of pictures you are complaining about, just flashy images of blobpainting without actually showing of anything about the game. It arguably draws in more of the crowd you despise, the "short attention spanners", than a picture showing of a unique element of the game (something like the OoB system in HoI3).

>>165949573
>christmas hat in november
Was it autism?

>>165949830
I lost the original version of the avatar so I wore it all year round :^)

>tfw no Nazi song with Panzers firing their main guns a la 1812 overture

>>165949040
I am not even criticizing the infopic buddy, nor do I want it changed. I don't even understand how you aren't necking yourself over your apparent illiteracy.

As for your McDonalds picture, yes, it conveys information, there is a big fucking yellow arched M on it, you recognize that INFORMATION as meaning "McDonalds" because you have seen that INFORMATION a million times before. If the M was white and had the font used by Maltesers then the information provided to you has changed, you no longer think "McDonalds" but "Malteser".

You are either one extremely dense motherfucker, or just trolling, possibly both. Alternatively you are being the typical ESL-kun.

>>165949165
>down to 29
>excluding the bulletpoints which still exists as text and ignoring that your version lacks the names of the expansions
Nice.

>Then why didn't you? What is the point of all that fluff?
Because style counts for something, and being too dry is also a bad idea, especially when being dry doesn't even make it significantly shorter.

>It is the same as the highschooler tasked with writing an essay who believes longer is better and that handing in a short but to the point essay will surely be insufficient.
A short but to the point essay is actually insufficient almost all of the time. A longer essay is better unless it is padded. In non-formal (as in, theses, reports, etc) writing, utter dryness is not good. My way of cutting down would simply obliterate most adjectives and merge sentences for a net cutdown of MAYBE ten to fifteen words, at the cost of readability.

>Which is hardly the same as sticking the entire patchlog into the OP pic.
What is this imbecilic false equivalence? People post the changes in the thread thus proving they've actually read the patchlogs. Nobody was advocating putting the entire patchlog into the OP.

>My point was not so much in using bulletpoints, which is merely a personal preference, but in removing all the fluff.
Which is a personal preference. If you didn't use bulletpoints then you'd be left with MAYBE 30 less words at most in each one, and in places like the CK2 and EU4 where I was already strapped for room and tried merging things a bit already, you wouldn't even get that.

>be left with 1/4 of the text without losing an ounce of important info on the game
Your bulletpoints are all that is allowing you to cut down at all and actually leaves out information like the many production goods, the Scramble for Africa, Imperialism, Crises, Nationalism, and Ideology.

>>165949643
>Wrong
>Far too much information, far too little visual representation.

>Nor did I claim that
>Everybody sees the massive McDonalds billboard advertising their newest burger,


Look lad if you can't read the text in the infopic, you won't be able to read the text in the events and you won't be able to play these games. We also don't want some teenager faggot with a short attention spam here.

You "style" looks worse and provides less info, as well as some useless shit like developer. Honestly, I'd go back to /v/ if I we were you and I'd learn what ads are for and the difference betwen wanting to inform people of something and wanting them to look at glance at info so they come here.
You are just embarrassing yourself.

>>165948793
>hey shit I've seen this before
Ya, that's called information buddy, what school do you go to that that definition failed to be understood by you? You can only be American, there is simply no other explanation for this amount of stupid.

>>165934046
>>165933910
slavs can spawn a 2.5k stack when in a defensive war with 200 piety.

>>165950049
>he doesn't understand the difference between conveying information about something and brand recognition
Yep, teenager.

>>165945652
>the emperor of mankind is fucking korean

>>165950194
Bitchshit the very existence of the billboard as an entity is information if you're going to push it. The physical definition of information is literally 'it exists'. The infopicture exists therefore it provides 'information'. The colordepth and resolution of both are the same so they provide equivalent information.
Look I can play too.

>>165950194
What information is conveyed? How about we just make the infopicture a black box with the titles of the games?