/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

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Xth for wat now?

>>166045231
Stop blobbing

>>166045141
I said Prussia, not you. At >>166045141
but I'm not >>166043498

Should
I
encourage
intellectuals
in
colonies?

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Rojava to the top

>>166045282
It's not really blobbing for Indonesia to take its natural borders and unite its language group.

>>166045376
No

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Rate my großgermaniums and yurop

Stop making threads before the bump limit so you can edit the OP image, you fucking sperg

>>166045410
wrong board

someone post war in the east

>>166045418
>sumatra
>natural borders

/mbg/ fag here, I've decided to give EUIV a try and I'm liking it so far, I think I understand trade which is one of the hairy topics in the game, but I'm having problems with land warfare, my armies get fucked even against 4 times smaller armies I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, my morale is at top and I've played just as powerful nations so far. I'm using art of war DLC, I don't know if that changes anything.
Also I'd like to know if it is worth buying the rights of man DLC.

>>166045732
Sumatra is one of the core islands of Indonesia. What is your point?

>>166045676
u too

>>166045830
Shit mean't
>Borneo

In EU4 Extended Timeline, what are some fun states to start as/goals?

>inb4 uninstall.exe etc.
I'm asking those 3 people who actually enjoy EU4 even if it's simplistic as fuck.

well, 2, since I'm one of them


>>166045757
Maybe you're behind in tech or you wasn't careful about terrain when attacking/defending etc.?

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Redpill me on how to play madagascar, /gsg/

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long boy

>>166045985
Fuck off back to /pol/

Westernize and industrialize

>>166045981
Borneo is also one of the core islands of Indonesia. A fully realized "gross-but-not-overblobbed" indonesia would logically not have borders drawn halfway across an island, and would include all the Malay-speaking lands.

All we're seeing here is present-day Indonesia with Malaysia and a few very tiny breakaway countries (SG, Brunei, Timor L'este) annexed.

>>166046446
>>166046446
Meant for >>166045985

>>166045982
>In EU4 Extended Timeline, what are some fun states to start as/goals?
Nazi Germany, Win WW2

I think I'm going to leave this thread for a bit. I don't find it particularly enriching at the moment.

>>166046620
cool beans, please alert us when you return

Yo I'm playing as persia in HPM, with that NNMHPM thing from the pastebin that brings back ahistorical shit from NNM. Everything's been going fine before now, but I just got the silver age event and the game crashes whenever I mouse over the Amir Kabir or Dar Al Fuun decisions. Has anyone else had this problem? I'm thinking of just like tag switching to another nation then switching back so the AI takes the decisions, but they'll probably fuck up my shit so I'd rather not

>>166047021
It's probably not compatible with the latest HPM.

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which scenario lads

>>166047141
Battle for Tunisia

>>166046608
Why not, thanks

>>166047141
bulge to the rhine

>>166045673
That's fucking awful.
At least EU4 improved borders a bit.

>>166045673
>that border gore
>france blob all over the pace
this takes me back

Anyone knows when M&M is coming out?

>>166048139
M&M?

>>166048186
Monks and Mystics, the new CK2 expansion. Have you been living in a cave?

>>166047056
ah fuggg I was worried that was the case, guess I'll have to restart. muh byzzies tho

>>166047716
Germany is pretty fun but the influence minigame is pretty uncomfy

Based mods.
Discord group BTFO

we were unironically posting on topic in the other thread
well back to this shithole I guess
FUCK YOU R&I

>>166048285
HPM only commented the decision out, you can add it back easily.

>>166048286
>fireden hadn't archived it yet
why is it so useless? /mu/s archive is way better

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what's a good number of clergy for a state

>>166048523
4 % if you have shit literacy
Also, max out edu spending

>the op doesn't link to the actual last thread
so this is the power of autism... woah

>>166048745
>spam threads to shitpost
>get his thread deleted
>do it again

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where are my railroads going?

>>166048823
R&I literally makes the thread wrong just to get his autistic little post in
see
>>166048794

>>166048861
To whatever island you own or something

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>this my thread

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Rate my Mughaliums

Tired of seeing groß preussianiums every thread

I'm done with this save, done every thing i wanted

going for a gross mongoliums now

>>166045021
>Old Thread >>165931512(Cross-thread)
>literally not the old thread
What the fuck is this autism

>>166049049
>blobbing in persia

>>166008285
Yeah I did, sorry. Been busy with work these past couple days. Many thanks, as usual. The suggestions were great.

>>166047195
>>166047441
Sorry lads, gotta step out for a bit. When I back I'll post some Bulge to the Rhine

>>166048989
Whatever dude. Doesn't change the facts that I do what I want in the OP. Doesn't matter if you like it or not, because you're just discordplaza.

>>166049070
I can tell you're a fucking discordplaza too
I linked to that one because the 'last' thread isn't mine, I linked to the last of my threads because it's only a real gsg thread if I make my post you fucking idiot

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>>166048961
I only own this island

anyway where should I exapnd? there's not much out to the east

Actual last thread btw:
>>165983073

>>166049198
Maybe it's just a bug

Grab a bit of Africa like the UK did with the french

>>166049176
t. cobra falseflag

>>166049248
yeah what in the absolute fuck, why does he do that

he pretends any thread he didn't make doesn't exist and it's a legitimate inconvenience sometimes

it's also bizarre and petty

>>166049141
are you finishing the China run completely then uploading it? or are you storing enough of it so when you do start posting, you have enouugh content to satiate /gsg/ whilst you finish it.

>>166049198
fuck off with your retarded meme mod

>>166049387
>bizarre and petty
Lad he will make threads literally 50+ posts early such that a few threads ago, not only was the last thread still alive when the new one was made, the thread BEFORE LAST was still alive.
We literally had 3 full fucking threads up - not thread wars, literally 650+ posts in each one.

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>>166049445
actually you're probably this goy, not cobra

>>166049556
If that's the case why are you saging your own thread?
Your posts don't bump this thread.

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finally!

rate

Reminder to move to the other thread which has less shitposting.

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Wait Coalitions can declare war too? I thought it was only for defense...

>>166049648
an OP can't bump their own thread, can they?

>>166049658
Why the fuck is madagascar near brazil?

>>166049694
No, they are offensive too. They are pretty much going to declare a coalition war as soon as one of them feel they can win.

>>166049758
Pretty sure they can, just not if they're the only IP.

>>166049758
They can when it's over 50 posts.

>>166049772
Well fuck me.

>>166049694
It's written in the wiki that they can lad.

>>166049995
You are pretty much fucked, yes. When a coalition declared an offensive war the AI is pretty sure that they can win.

I never go anywhere on /vg/ other than here, are any other generals as autistic as /gsg/?

>>166049658
nice meme/10
Don't see the point tho

>>166050231
Hey man, that's not cool

>>166050231
Yes, several are worse than here

>>166050378
name them

>this thread has 30 IPs
>the discord group thread is basically the OP, his phone and 3 discord guys talking to each other
lmao

>>166050378
I disagree. Even the gulags are better than this place when it gets into a feeding frenzy.

>>166050078
I just figured it worked like it does in CK2

>>166050131
Invading Europe was a mistake. I should of went for Africa.

I made this custom nation very military focused so maybe I can win...

>>166050408
SC2
KSG
KSPG
SS13
UTG
any of the assfaggots generals
Not even him.

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What reforms should I be enacting at this point? I'd rather go in the direction of absolute monarchy than constitutional monarchy.

>>166050501
No, it can't be any more different. They are different games, why would they work the same?

>>166050534
>/ksg/
On yeah, forgot that exists

>>166050504
Fuck off those aren't gsg the infopic is shit

>>166050536
Then pass social reforms to appease your people otherwise they will force you to liberalize

>>166050534
>/ksg/
/ksg/ is cancerous, but it's also comfortable enough if you treat it less like 4chan and more like a discord.

>>166050702
the infopic has had those since time immemorial

>>166050751
Which is something completely cancerous in 4chan

>non anonymous communities in anonymous image board

>>166050735
I can't though.

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>R&I spergs out again

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>>166050865
Yeah but cancer isn't the same as autism. I mean you could make the argument that since they actually went and made a visual novel that recieved some attention in Japan, they're autistic but channeled even if they haven't done shit for years

>>166050987
"Spergs out" lmao mad fucking discordfags angry that this is my general
It gets made my way or it gets deleted, simple

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>>166050616
Because when they added it to CK2 people kept complaining about "keeping EUIV shit in EUIV"

>that guy so butthurt we don't use his pic that he keeps sperging and spamming threads

>>166050987
Is this cropped?

>>166051508
>650 new threads early

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>>166051275
As a rule, I don't make ever threads and at any rate R&I is such a lazy dumbass he has to use a butchered version of 'my' pic anyway.
I'm more severely pissed off at him linking to the wrong thread as something actually disruptive.

>>166051275
It's a coordinated effort by a bunch of assholes like
>>166051508
trying to ruin my thread
They don't like the way i do it because they're buttmad but they don't get that this is my general

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An update on AAR progress: the gameplay portion of the AAR is now entirely finished. My screenshots are sitting at about 250 total right now (IE it would be 250 posts at this point), but it'll probably get cut down to about 200 total after some editing. After I edit and organize the screens I'll take down some notes about the playthrough so I don't forget and gradually move on to the writing process.

Work has started to really pick up as of Tuesday, so I'm actually spending more time right now than I should getting this organized and ready, but I've realized that the AAR is likely to have some quality issues based both on Downfall and on me playing and writing it separately (not even to mention without thread input), so I'm willing to take the hit to try to preserve quality as much as I can.

The AAR almost certainly won't be posted for several months yet. But I will gradually chip away at it as I have free time, and hopefully it'll be in a good state to post by mid-June, which should be when I'll have my first reliable free time in quite a while.

As a final note, I don't think I'm ever going to do an AAR in this way again. Playing and writing with such minimal thread input on the narrative is almost certainly going to wind up producing a poor product, or at least one devoid of a lot of the flavor which I want to characterize my AARs. This is something I was concerned about from the start, but I had hoped I'd be able to mitigate it. I really think that's not going to be possible now, and for the sake of assuring quality in future AARs I'll make sure to play them concurrent or mostly-concurrent with my posting here.

>>166051638
>I don't make ever threads
>decide to use the mouse to click submit instead of ^RET
>somehow swap two words by dragging
Serves me right

>>166050735
>>166050983
psst that means I'm asking how I'm supposed to pass social reforms

>>166051761
Militancy and socialism activated

>>166051648
>this is my general
Really makes you think

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Holy fucking shit this r&I autism

At any rate to anyone here who played NWO:

I'm tweaking it right now to make it more playable, what should I add or change or remove?

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>>166051656
I approve of your taste in Katawas and in your taste in clothing
Are you missing any names? Last call before I go to an inverted sleep schedule

>>166051928
>page 1
at least sage my dude

>>166051834
>socialism activated
Did you mean put a socialist party in power?

>>166052039
No, socialism needs to be activated in the world.

>>166051928
Some people are apparently tweaking NWO into a /gsg/ version so maybe work with them?

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>>166051947
No, I've got everything, at least until I get to the actual writing portion. Once there I may want to add some flavor language here and there, but if I do run into instances of that I'll just post here and you can respond whenever you see it. I'll use my trip in the future whenever asking for anything specific so you can just search for it, and if you miss it anyway it'll be fine.

Hanako a BEST, fellow hanabro

>Linked to the wrong 'previous thread'

Why is this allowed

Can someone else please make the next thread, correctly

>>166052415
Alright
>search for it
See unlike some newfags I actually read the entirety of threads I go into

>>166052287
I am, they're laying the foundation for a total scratch-built new NWO, but as an interim project I'm tweaking normal NWO 1.07

>>166052582
commit your damn work to the github, steam doesn't start up for me so I can't go into group chat so the only way I know what anyone is doing is if you commit

>>166052578
Usually I do too, but lately that's been less possible because of all this work.

Being an adult fucking sucks. If I could avoid killing myself while being a NEET I'd do it.

>>166052673
we should probably start an IRC or discord chat or something

How long is a son usually gone to the Varangian guard if I chose to let him go?

>>166052834
I''m not getting dragged into that mess, I'm proud to not be part of SteamcordIRCchatmumble...[omitted for brevity]...plaza despite being here for a long time.
Just commit the changes over.

>>166052901
It only happened to me a couple of times but I think it's like 5-10 years? He comes back with a nice trait.

>>166052901
In my experience, 10 to 20 years.

>>166052834
>>166052953
literally no shitposting or I ban you
https://discord.gg/XebX3

>he created more than 5 (FIVE) threads out of sheer butthurt
loving every laugh

>>166054165
t.janny/r&i

>>166053535
Sounds kind of pointless when everyone but the one who isn't joining (?) has a steam (?)

>>166052415
Better not start avatarfagging.

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>>166051267
I really did get over-zealous in my sunset invasion. I should of known even with my high morale won't make up for my lag in technology.

Do I just have to bite the bullet and use all my monarch power in developing provinces so I get some institution spread? I don't see any other option.

>>166054836
Yeah, that's basically all you can do.

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>>166054943
I probably also could of made it easier on myself my giving this nation +global settlers.

What I should of done is filled the new world with small custom factions for me to conquer instead of having to colonize at all. I had a vision of a mighty azetc empire spanning the majority of the new world but fuck my colonization is slow as shit.

I have EU4 and CK2. I've played a bit of the tutorials (both were buggy). But I've played a fair bit of EU3.
do I disable all the DLC for my first game or can I just leave it enabled?

>>166055376
Leave your DLC on.

>>166055405
All of it? I'm just pirating the DLC but bought the base game. I'll try the tutorials but some of them were buggy to the point they stopped. I understand the basics of CK2. Haven't tried EU4 properly yet, though.

>both threads are completely dead
ebin

>>166055573
Yes.

Schelifen plan was a mistake
t. Schelifen

>>166056018
Assassination was a mistake
t. all 7 black hand assassins that tried to kill the Archduke

>>166055797
Thanks, anon.
Will do.

>>166056018
The Schlieffen plan was just an entente propaganda, it never existed. Read some Terence Zuber, lad.

>>166056287
What, of course it existed.

>>166056287
>it never existed

So, the Germans were just winging it? I suppose that would explain why they lost the war.

>>166056287
what is this shit?

>>166057138
It's called "american education".

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What super-national State should I try to form lads
EU, Eurasia, NAFTA, Shia union, Arab league, etc?

>>166056720
>>166057004
>>166057138
>He wrote that there never was mention of a “Schlieffen Plan” before 1920. Instead, he argued that when one historian wrote that Germany employed the wrong strategy, the generals and other members of the General staff, Kuhl, Ludendorff, Foerster and Groener, countered with the myth that Schlieffen had conveyed his master plan to Moltke, but that Moltke failed to understand it.
>According to Zuber, Schlieffen did have some contingency plans, although they remained in his possession until he died, and were not locked in the vault with the rest of the German war plans. Zuber insisted that on its own, the Plan, or Denkschrift was a nightmare, poorly organized, and called for troop numbers that never existed. Schlieffen’s war games, as evident in his writings and handwritten diagrams, did not resemble the master plan, or anything close to it. Zuber based this argument on the newly discovered German staff memorandum, prepared by Major Wilhelm Dieckmann. Dieckmann was a German officer whose task was to write a history of the war, and he therefore had access to many of Schlieffen’s notes, and war plans before Allied bombings during World War II destroyed them. According to Zuber, Dieckmann’s manuscript revealed that Schlieffen’s “Plan” intended to keep the East strong and hold off the French by defeating their fortification line. Schlieffen never envisioned swinging wide around the Paris and defeating the French army.

>>166057659
Go for the EU, get the most industry

>>166058014
Nationalist EUROPA or get BLACKED with progressive parties?

>>166057914
>Schlieffen’s “Plan” intended to keep the East strong and hold off the French by defeating their fortification line

But that's evidently not what happened, so the Germans were literally winging it

>>166058110
EUROPA

>>166058261
>literally winging it
Of course they had a fucking plan but you don't get to just decide how a war goes before it happens

Liberia or Paraguay?

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>>166055254
Is it worth losing the -1 unrest and +10% morale from Reformed Nauhatl for Pope buffs?

Is it possible for pops in Victoria 2 to get less educated?
I want to make so that higher education in NWO declines if you have no education funding

>>166052582
First things first, you guys will do better off with a new name to ensure there will be no unecessary drama involved once it's released.

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>>166050536
UPDATE: Now what social reforms are best to start with? Education or health?

>>166059178
If it ends up being an actual overhaul/whole new mod it'll definitely get a new name
As it stands all I have as of yet is tweaks to base NWO

>>166058894
so Liberia then?

>>166059294
Definitely health

>>166058861
>>166059474
What game?

>>166059687
Victoria II

Anyone want to play WitE?

>>166059294
Are you blobbing in Uruguay?
And are you planning to keep slavery forever? If not you should set them free as soon as possible, they decrease your promotion speed in your whole nation (thanks Wiz).
>>166059774
Liberia playthroughs are as rare as it gets, go for it.

>>166059782
no but please post your game

>>166059974
>Are you blobbing in Uruguay?
Nah, just puppeting them.

>And are you planning to keep slavery forever?
I was going to because it said slave states are more conservative.

>>166059104
plz respod

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How /gsg/ is Deutschland 83?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6PRasQ0dAA

WHERE
ARE
MY
FUCKING
SAVES

I PLAY LIKE 2 HOURS AND THE SAVEGAME IS PERFECTLY FINE, WHEN I SAVE AFTER 6 YEARS HAVE PASSED I CLICK THE FUCKING SAVE BUTTON BUT MY SAVE IS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT THE GAME IS LITERALLY UNPLAYABLE BECAUSE OF THIS

>>166060450
Just change it back to literacy.

>>166059974
Should I wait for the USA event that releases it so I can give it a head start with national focuses or release it on day 1? Did HPM ass any decent amount of content for them?

>>166051928
Research how was tecnological advancement in each nation, Belgium not having electricity in 1946 is a huge joke.
Also fix the irredentist decisions (make harder requirements for European nations, remove the French entirely, tweak the provinces United Korea can claim, etc), make the Nicaragua cannal actually work if possible, revoke the pops only being allowed to immigrate to state capitals thing, add a decision to ask nations in your sphere and your continent to join your trade block if they can't join by themselves.

Proper thread

>>165983073
>>165983073
>>165983073

>>166051928
Add more opportunities for countries' balkanization as opposed to continental unions.

>>166060842
FUCK OFF
we are using this one, MY THREAD, that one does not even have report and ignore

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>>166051638
Hey, didn't you post that picture of another girl in the same pose or similar?

Do you like it when girls peek at you from out of a wall?

>>166051656
Do what I do senpai, or was gonna. Play out a segment and take live input on decisions or what to do, and when you're ended for the day, write events. Either way, good luck!

>>166051947
>>166052415
Moar vampires pls.

>>166061135
t. steve

>>166051928
Other than what everyone else mentioned:
>The Thai canal (with extra Thailand-Indonesia-China vs Singapore-Malaysia-United Kingdom flavour)
>a simple decision to claim (and buy) Walvis Bay as Namibia
>pops in the European Union getting a much bigger assimilation bonus if their ideology fits the government type and ruling party
>make the UI not shit (pops page actually readable, GPs not having that retarded flag overlay)
>pops promoting faster with the more technologies you have (not sure if this is possible though, if not then at least some military and cultural techs increasing the pop promotion to soldiers, economical and cultural techs increasing craftsmen promotion, etc.)
>make province criminality's penalties harsher

>>166058261
pretty much because Wilhelm was literally autistic

>>166062000
>criminality
This gave me an idea.
>>166051928
Would it be too ambitious to talk about adding new pops/changing the slave pop to something useful, like carcerary population?

>>166051928
Please god do something about the inevitable slowdown. The massive amount of pops slows the game down incredibly.

>>166061236
>Do what I do senpai, or was gonna. Play out a segment and take live input on decisions or what to do, and when you're ended for the day, write events.
Writing events is beyond me, I'm absolutely slow as fuck with putting in new decisions/events in-game. Usually I do polls for major or questionable actions, and this AAR is no different for that (I hosted about 3-4 polls in the course of it when I was going to make some iffy calls and wanted input), but actually customizing my AARs in that vein without cheating/savegame editing isn't something I can really manage.

That said, the whole problem with this AAR was play-by-play. I have so little time right now I couldn't really afford to let /gsg/ have much input, because it would slow me down enough that I probably wouldn't have even been able to finish the playthrough part of it before work picked back up.

Future AARs will go back to the original model, where I play and write concurrently during the day, then play and write a little ahead at night, followed by posting some of my stashed content during the day until I catch up to my current progress. Then rinse and repeat.

And I don't have any other vampires that aren't too lewd for a blue board, sorry anon.

Wiz is such a massive faggot
>watch the latest multiplayer dev
>someone is starting as korea
>wiz starts as jianzhou
>only way for korea player to expand is through ming or the stronger jianzhou
Why didn't that fuccboi start as Korchin or Buryatia to allow both players room to expand instead of completely cutting off all hopes and dreams of the korea player?

>>166063712
>why is a talentless no-skill faggot playing in the most unfun and bullshit way in multiplayer

>why is the guy, who is known specifically for making the "wiz straight" because he's too stupid to manage navies and land invasions under the guise of "multiplayer balancing", a complete faggot

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>>166049049
neat

>>166049075
Persia is rightful mughal clay

>next patch reduces manpower recovery even more
>next patch also increases mercenary cost
>next patch probably also adds more impossible super blob achievements
E P I C

>>166065831
>every change hurts tiny nations a lot while Ottoblobs can work around them or ignore them
EU4 updates in a nutshell

>>166065831
>patch makes completely non-diffuclt game slightly less non-diffcult
>complaints

>>./paradoxplaza/

>>166065995
>patch makes smaller nations harder to play
>patch makes ottomemes or poland even more blobby

>>>/r/paradoxplaza

>>166066191
>he plays terrible games and expects them to be good

Stop eating shit and they'll stop shitting in your mouth.

>>166066263
I don't even play games other the liquoria 2 and sometimes cuckold kings 2.

>>166066394
>liquoria 2
>cuckold kings 2

>>>/r/paradoxplaza and please don't come back.

>>166067136
>hating based liquor simulator 1836
>>>/r/atheism

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>>166068213
>linking to /r/ athiesm

>>166068334
>>>>/r/atheism is an actual link to /r/atheism

>>166068527
who are you quoting?

me

>forming Italy in EU3 causes cores of the nation you formed it with to get added to same culture provinces that it didn't previously own

literally why. there's nothing in the decision that would warrant that happening. fuck off

What is the point of the Immortal trait for your ruler in EUIV? So you can always have a 6/6/6 ruler instead of having decent national ideas? Is it ever worth it?

>>166070180
Maybe the order of the decision is wrong.
Instead of changing to italy and giving cores, it gives cores then changes to italy.

>>166070385
But it gives cores to the whole region for Italy, which it does when the decision is taken, but only for same culture it adds cores. Like with Savoy it adds Lombard, for Naples it adds Sicilian, and with Urbino it adds Umbrian only. The only line that says "add_core" is for Italy and the Italian region.

>>166070341
The game is piss easy, what are you talking about "is it worth it?". Worth it for what? Winning?

The only reason to play this game is for fun, not have a challenge or anything like that. So with that in mind the point of the immortal trait is to give players another option for "fun".

>>166069510
do you like traps

>>166070976
Not him but traps are white and based and defiantly not gay

>>166070634
>Worth it for what?
Worth it when it seems like for 800 points you could get so much more from ideas and provinces.

Thought I guess having a guaranteed minimum 72 monarch power per year could be useful.

I'm just trying to make the most OP custom faction to start in a new world.

>>166070385
Actually I moved "change_tag = ITA" to the first line after effect = { and now it works. Not sure what was up with that.

>>166071227
I think it was giving cores before changing country.
If you form a country based off a region, like Italy or Russia or Great Britain, it gives you the blue claims which don't expire and are region based on that region, like Italy gets claims on Italy, Russia on Russia, Britain on the Isles.

>>166071340
That's good to know. I'll have to check the rest of the nation forming decisions then. Thanks for the suggestion and the help. I wouldn't have thought to mess with the order of the lines.

>>166070341
I think you're probably better off as a republic with republican tradition for mana.

Maybe hindu for some hindu events as well.


Could use hindu to boost your stats as an immortal ruler as well.
4+4+6, Vishnu and the four kumaras event for +2 admin and +2 diplomatic.


Could try collecting modifiers that last until ruler death, like prutenic tables.

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Alright, the world at this point is pretty much completely fucked, UK has 750k pops, and thats the second highest of any civilized nation.

The zombies went pretty much everywhere, which is great, UK recolonized their island but it is still completely occupied, although the actual zombie modifier that creates them goes away in the 1850s, but comes back once the second plague starts when Africa is colonized.

The AI doesn't colonize in cores of other alive nations, so the first thing I'm going to do is make an event that triggers in the 1850s that remove all cores of provinces you don't control if you fell to the zombies (You get the defeat flag if you fail to retake your capital by 1850 and it is controlled by zombies). This should allow better colonization

The next thing I'm going to do is give a completely insane growth modifier event that only fires once for nations with less than 100 people in their capital, hopefully being able to bring it up to 1000. Countries with less than 1000 in their capital will get a similiar, weaker event.

This culture map is pretty ebin too, all the blue scattered around is noculture, completely depopulated areas.

How do I tell how fast my levy replenishment rate is in a given county or overall?

>>166071916
>I think you're probably better off as a republic with republican tradition for mana
I've never played as a republic before, how does it different from a kingdom?

>>166072425
Every four years you elect a ruler.

You can relect your last ruler, or you can pick a new ruler from three categories, administrative, diplomatic and military.

They have 4 in the primary ruler skill and 1 in the others.

Each time you re elect a ruler, the ruler gains +1 in each ruler skill.
You also lose republican tradition, so having republican tradition among your national ideas lets you re elect leaders more.

>>166072267
nice work anon! Im liking your progress, but i have 2 questions/recommendations.

1. can you change the noculture colour? If it were uncolonised land white it would make more sense

2. could you make an event where if a country loses some of its cores, but gains enough strength, e.g GP, 100 prestige, etc. to reclaaim its homeland?

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>>166070341
>So you can always have a 6/6/6 ruler instead of having decent national ideas?

You can have prussian disc and morale with a 4-4-6 ruler, that can turn into a 6-6-6 ruler through a hindu event with the right deity.

>>166072621
>Each time you re elect a ruler, the ruler gains +1 in each ruler skill
Does this cap at 6 or can it go higher?

Immortal costs 800 and the +.05 republican tradition costs 30 so that wont work.

>>166072853
but I don't want to be a hindu

Did HPM guy ever add that Abraham Lincoln decision that sends Afro-American POPs to Liberia?

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>Regency council until 1840
Well, guess I won't be fixing those borders in China.

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>>166073459
So I thought I might form an alliance with the side Yue was fighting. That worked.

But then the AI instantly peaced out. Which means there's no hope of getting a chance to take the coastal provinces and Hong Kong. What horrible borders.

>>166073590
just fix it on the Vic2 conversion

>>166072701
never thought about it quite honestly, Ill try it out, but I'm not sure if you can

The countries that would actually lose their cores would only have like 1k pops tops, but I guess I could make an event to get cores on provinces if its majority primary culture without having to go through all the assimilation

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Vicky noob:

Can the market crash in any capacity?

>>166073206
>Immortal costs 800 and the +.05 republican tradition costs 30 so that wont work.
what, you're thinking of getting both?
That's really useless.
My suggestion was republic tradition INSTEAD of immortal to get on average high ruler skill throughout the game.
>but I don't want to be a hindu
Then convert after you've gotten the ruler skill changing event.

>>166073901
Something something China

>>166072701
>>166073896
Alright, tested it out and couldn't give it a color, sorry laddo

Pls lads I need a name for an Italian city in the new world

>>166074345
aw, its alright.

>>166074369
Nuova Roma

>>166074431
It's just going to be a shitty city, not Rome

>>166073896
can you make it so zombieland disappears faster, to prevent random chinese flooding everywhere?

also, can provinces lose the zombies modifier after about 10 years, since later in the game the occupation disappears but the modifier stays, so a lot of random 0 pop provinces stick around that have "owners"

>>166073924
I guess it doesn't matter anyway I can't seem to get below 800 points even with ideas that cost 0 and -30 from my hair and consort anyway.

>>166074558
Nuova Napoli

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>>166060836
>Belgium not having electricity in 1946
That's retarded I'll work on fixing it
>fix the irredentist decisions
Tweaked some of them, will look at the rest, definitely do need to be a bit harder
>revoke the pops only being allowed to immigrate to state capitals thing
Already got rid of it
>>166060953
>Add more opportunities for countries' balkanization
Good idea
That would be a great dynamic to have in the mod, where you could either move toward globalism and superstates or balkanization and collapse of large states
>>166062000
>Thai Canal
I'll see what I can do, I don't really know how those work
>claim (and buy) Walvis Bay as Namibia
Easy enough, will add
>pops in the European Union getting a much bigger assimilation bonus if their ideology fits the government type and ruling party
Good idea
>make the UI not shit
No clue how
>pops promoting faster with the more technologies you have
Could be doable
>criminality's penalties harsher
Sounds good
>Would it be too ambitious to talk about adding new pops/changing the slave pop to something useful, like carcerary population?
It's possible but it would take a lot of work
>Please god do something about the inevitable slowdown
I don't have the know-how to fuck with the total amount of pops in the game without screwing the economy


Thanks for the suggestions lads, I'll see what I can do

>>166074825
>>make the UI not shit
Not him but this is extremely important

Proper thread

>>165983073

>>165983073

>>165983073

>>166074562
Eh, I kind of like the zombieland thing, just to see the other cultures escape to the far reaches of the world, although it does get autistic when the middle of Italy is Tibetan and Afro-Brazilian, I'd have to think about it.
>can provinces lose the zombies modifier after about 10 years, since later in the game the occupation disappears but the modifier stays, so a lot of random 0 pop provinces stick around that have "owners"
Already mostly fixed. I made 2 events, one that fires after 1850 that removes the zombie modifier from every province and adds the defeat flag if your capital has the modifier, and one that fires in 1855 that removes the modifier from everything, no matter what. The 1 population provinces will get rarer, but there's nothing you can really do about them except waiting for a country to repopulate them, pops still move to them.

I'll have to put in an event to increase liferating though, most of Europe ends up at 25, Asia even lower, and Arabia and Siberia at 0

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>>166074616
Did you forget to lower the government rank?

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So in a fit of maximum greed in my Navarra run I'm trying to claim the throne of Aragon while Castile and France still like me, would I have any chance of keeping Aragon and Naples at heel or are they just gonna revolt as soon as the truce is over? If not will alliances with France and Castile deter them from rebelling by themselves at least?

I also have all of Ireland painted yellow too but I don't think that's enough to dissuade them.

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well, its current day, current year, and shits mad.

>Communism still alive and well
>Germany still split
>IS spawned, then died swiftly thanks to Assad
>Italian Adriatic
>Commie Norge

more to come.

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>>166075837
More things of note
>Korea still split between USSR and USA
NK got independence for about 20 years but got reannexed.
>Democratic China
Commies lost outright
>Dutch Indonesia
Indonesia is independent, but never actually got back that part.
>Belgian Rwanda-Urundi
>Aparthied SA still alive

>>166076083
>>166075837
hell of a world

>Chicoms lost
>Communism still alive
That's what happens when you let NOT REAL COMMUNISM get a foothold

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So what does /gsg/ think about imperium universalis? Is it just a meme or is it worth playing.

Just noticed they have custom sprites so that's pretty cool.

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>>166076083
And heres the GP list. Any questions about anything?

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>>166075261
>Did you forget to lower the government rank?
That was it.

How can you afford the 75 cost tech group?

What am I doing wrong?

My capital only costs 1 point.

>>166076319
tech groups don't cost points for me, not sure

also set your heir to 15 and give him craven for extra points, and set your ruler to 20, those extra traits are costing you

k lads

>>166076319
>How can you afford the 75 cost tech group?

Oh you're in the new world.

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Nearly one millennium of gameplay later and this is the result. Please rate borders. I'll post some other maps too.
I had started in the OG bookmark and tag switched between a few random characters every century or so in CK2 while I stuck with Brythoniaid for the EU4 bit.

>>166075837
How is Western Europe so accurate up to Germany?

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>>166076319

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>>166076572
Religion.

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>>166076741
Culture. The yellow for Prussian and French is very similar.

>>166076471
Heir gives -22 at 15 with craven and -24 at 0

>>166076538
>>166076685
>High American costs more
>even in the Americas
Well fuck it then is there a mod that sets all the costs of the nation designer to 0?

>>166076896
>>166076741
>>166076685
>>166076572
>>166076538
>>166076471
>>166076319
>>166076230
>>166075370
>>166075261
fuck off to reddit

Has anyone tried the Common Universalis mod? Is it any good?

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>>166076896
My own borders, please rate between acceptable and awful blob.
Not going to post the tech map because nearly everywhere is bright green.

>>166077053
>>166077042
Are we being raided?

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Shame there's no doom and reform as high american

>>166077148
Just the Australians getting on.

Or late night West Coast Americans.

So yes.

>>166045021
What is the trigger for becoming GB as England in Vic2 Ultimate? alternatively, how can you possibly succeed as Byzantium? Asking because I'm considering the mod for my new YT channel.

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Finally squeezed in peace while trading forts, looks like liberty desire does take your alliances into account.

Couldn't afford any land for Castile so they're pretty miffed at me, but not enough to break alliance.

Google says the broke promise malus for lasts for 30 years, can anyone else confirm? If so then time to fuck off to americas

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Who here is 100 percent German?

>>166077401
>sikh symbol for a Mesoamerican nation'
Please no.

>>166073901
Not really. At worst a major power with loads of prestige will buy up a lot of shit resulting in temporary shortages for the rest of the world.

>>166076230
somewhat unplayable right now
no country can produce enough income to support the entire force limit and you will always have to import food no matter if you play egypt or some ass backwards desert tribe

weaboo FAGGOTS OUTTTTT

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>>166078365
Sad to hear. Hope they fix it soon. Would also be really cool if the eventually implemented the stuff from Meme and Taxes.

>>166077982
don't worry, it's not a game I'm going to play.
Just had a look to see if they had doom mechanics.

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Anyone play this?

http://www.matrixgames.com/products/504/details/Strategic.Command.WWII:.War.in.Europe

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Despite victory in the second Weltkrieg with the timely intervention of its estranged ally Austria-Hungary, it again came at a cost for the German Empire. As during the first Weltkrieg, a cabal of senior military figures within the Old Guard of the Heer have gravitated all power towards them to the frustration of S.K.M. Wilhelm III von Preussen. Wilhelm III, who many see as an extremely moderate and even liberalizing Kaiser, is powerless against his own government. The young Austrian Kaiser, S.K.u.K.M. Otto I von Habsburg, is reported to be monitoring the situation with "intense interest", leading a bloc of non German-aligned countries within Mitteleuropa, fracturing the post-war victorious Allies.

Meanwhile, the attack on Irkutsk by the Japanese government, called "a date that will live in infamy" by Baron Wrangel, has prompted Imperial Russia to formally enter the Entente, widening the front between the thrust of Raj forces in south-east Asia, to the chilly expanses of the north. Elsewhere, following an overwhelming syndicate victory and the passing of syndicalist hero John "Jack" Reed, the torch of the workers has been passed to the moderate socialist Norman Thomas, who vows to completely rebuild North America with a new partner in the Socialist Republic of Canada.

God damn random new world sucks.
There are a few good ones, but they're like less than 1/10.

Just rolled one and it had like 5 totemists opms and 8 animist opms.
One small continent and a bunch of island spread out.

Just cutting out the mexico area from the standard new world and placing it in the middle between asia and europe would be more interesting than this random new world.

Me shitass

>>166079832
No. I'll play it though if u gib torrent I^)

>>166074825
Please fix Dutch Western Guinea and Belgian Rwanda-Burindi as well, they keep going until the game ends most times.

>>166074825
Anyone know the trigger for GB forming in Ultimate?

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Now that Rom.. er Myrmidia's Empire is restored what should I do next?
Flush the skaven from the under-empire?
Exterminate the greenskins in the badlands?
Reclaim the Empire from the hordes of the undead?

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As someone who has never ventured outside of HoI, is it worth getting Victoria 2?

I am extremely bored with how set in stone the HoI series is, any serious deviation from historical events (especially with the major powers) usually completely gimps the game. Either it gimps it with weird events or it gimps it because the AI can't handle whatever it is you did (early invasion of England as Germany is near guaranteed way to win the game, paradrop behind Russian lines and the entire game becomes so boringly easy you might as well start anew). Add onto that the fact that it follows a timeframe of about 10 years and it leaves you with very little ability to do something with you country of choice other than follow the historicla events to a large degree. As such it becomes more of a wargame than a grande strategy game, but then without the military depth of an actual wargame.

If I were to get vicky, would I be plagued by the same problems? Or is there a real possibility of changing the historical fate of a country without it making the game go pants on head retardedly wonky on you?

The lastly, how "mandatory" are the two expansions? Is the game completely unplayable without them? Or is the base game good enough to play to form an opinion of the game?

>>166083521
Vicky is popular essentially because of that, you can change the outcome of a country as much as you want AND see the results. You will, however, certainly feel frustrated with how simplistic wars are in all senses, from battles to peace deals.

>>166083521

HD and HoD are both mandatory.

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>>166083521
You're only saying HoI, but, y'know, which? There are many HoI variants that are still more-or-less playable: HoI2, Darkest Hour, HoI3, and HoI4.

And as for Vicky, yes, it offers you much more of what you want. Its technology system is based on literacy, which is an element the player has more control over than leadership in HoI3 and less control over than industrial score in HoI2/DH, which I think is a good balance. It's also got a very dynamic economy (although don't expect miracles), a wonderful system for handling culture/religion/population in POPs, and pretty decent government flavor depending upon your ideology, particularly with mods.

That said, as >>166083809 points out the war system will disappoint the shit out of you. Even if you're coming from DH (which I doubt) the system is still more simplistic, a very simple balance game barely more complex than EU4. That said, I disagree with peaces being less complex than those of HoI3, and I think Vicky actually does a decent job with peaces (although not as good as EU4 has become, as odd as it is for me to say that).

Expansions are mandatory, as mentioned. Absolutely unplayable trash without them.

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>>166083809
Well I find HoI3 to be simplistic in its warfare already anyway. The only real complexity is the sheer amount, for the rest it makes very little difference what you build or how you use it. Place it, send it in the right direction, win. The fidelity isn't enough to actually be able to make use of tactical encirclements or tactical anythings for that matter. The logistical system is so simplistic it might as well no exist, you can race your armies from east to west as fast as you like, won't make a rats ass of a difference to their ability to be properly supplied. It wouldn't bore me so much if the game actually allowed me to deviate from history, but despite its claims of being able to do exactly that, it really just ends up making the game unfun and often just plain broken.

So ya, if the rest of the game is good, I won't be annoyed by simplistic warfare per se. If I can attempt some African colonialism/influence with Russia without it causing the British and French AI to go AWOL on me because they all of a sudden are lacking the colonies they historically were supposed to have then that would be the sort of game I would play.

The expansions though, really that necessary for a first play? Because if not I would rather play through the base game once, then get the expansions after. If those expansions however really change the game drastically that is probably a bad idea.

>play russian empire with HPM
>game becomes laggy no matter what nation I play
Anyway to fix this?

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>>166084050
>>166083872
>>166083809
Thanks for the answers.

(I have played all the HoI games, well aside from IV, and I find they all suffer from the same problems one more than the other, but essentially the players ability to deviate significantly from history without it breaking the game is close to non existent)

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>>166084487
>>166084714
Just pirate the game at first if you're worried about whether you'll like it or not. Hastebin link in the OP links to a Russian site with the download and expansions. Site's legit, you just need to sign up and you can download them. Try it out, and if you like it (and care) you can buy it.

But yes, you'll like Vicky, then. French and British AI won't freak out just because they don't have something they historically did, Vicky isn't deterministic in that sense.

Although some elements of Vicky, especially when using HPM (which I do recommend) are slightly railroaded in that they reduce the opportunity for things which are too ahistorical. Russia, for example, lacks the Scramble for Africa CB in HPM (although it can still fabricate CBs on uncivilized nations in Africa, merely for a higher infamy cost and a longer fabrication time). Those examples are relatively uncommon, though, and help the final result to be roughly historical without being entirely deterministic, so I do support them. Also, even if you don't really like them, the amount of other improvements in HPM really make up the difference.

>>166085314
Money isn't really the issue, I splerg out on Matrix Games&co all the time. Time is the issue, any and all PDI games take hours upon hours upon hours to get to the midgame, and even more to get to the lategame, and it is usually only here that the problems I mentioned become evident.

Also now that we are talking about the other games anyway, I guess CK2 is even less deterministic`In the sense that I can shape my land and its people whatever way I see fit.

I am basically looking for the most "free" GSG, and HoI was most definitely not it.

>>166084543
Completely unistall the game (even documents folders) and reinstall. Similar issues in vic can most often be fixed like that

>>166085880
Well, considering that you can become the Aztec Hellenistic ruler of a reformed Roman Empire in CK2, with a Mongol wife and a child named NiggerFucker, yes, I'd say it's the least restrictive of them all.

Don't take that as necessarily evident of its quality, though. I don't want to say CK2 is bad, because it's probably the GS I've actually spent the most time in, but it gets very boring, very quickly. If you think HoI turns out the same way all the time, CK2 is very similar once you get past the honeymoon phase.

That said, if you choose to roleplay with your characters' traits and are willing to let your empire collapse around you every now and then in order to keep yourself from snowballing and allow an organic narrative to develop, CK2 gains quite a bit. I definitely think it's the game most suited to AARs, and that creating your own narrative while playing it really adds to the value of playing.

>>166085880
Vic 2 has, in my opinion, the best balance of freedom and plausibility.
As >>166086326 said the freedom in CK2 allows you to do almost anything, no matter how unrealistic, but in the end that means that once you learn how to minmax everything then nothing is really that challenging and it gets boring.
In Vic 2 you can change the destiny of your country significantly, but generally only within the bounds of what's historically plausible; for example you can play Spain and re-establish the Spanish empire but you can't play as Spain, conquer the world and then convert it all to Zoroastrianism.

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>>166063374
Fair enough I suppose. I forgot you said that your last AAR was the only chance you had enough time. Still, your writing is compelling, looking forward to seeing it again.

And there's always vampires that straddle that nice middle ground. Have some cute to go along with your lewd.

>>166063712
>>166063948
WIZ...WIZ CHANGED

>>166086326
>narrative
Now that is a great way of putting it and is basically exactly what I miss in HoI. If you don't intentionally slow down your pace and take all of the world with your hopefully better than the AI's intelligence, then the games becomes a boring cakewalk. However if you do pace yourself, then there is nothing that rally makes the game interesting, no government positions to really change, no flavor armies to make, no real diplomacy etc. Just waiting around stocking supplies untill the war events come around at which point you do some battles with leaders that get lost in all the countless of stacks, no way to tell one division apart from another other than a number, so no real interest in following a single armies "path to victory" either.

I guess part of it is the poor AI as well, I never feel like I am having conflicts with other countries and their leaders, and unless I but them there myself, there are rarely if ever any roadblocks getting in my way of achieving my goals. Really it is only ridiculous stuff like "capture the globe with Albania" which is impossible, but that has more to do with the numbers making it impossible than the AI getting in the way (the entire map could be empty with not a single enemy military unit on it, and still I would doubt you could achieve that goal as Albania).

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>>166045021
>start game
>get struck with bouts of extreme nihilism
>reget into game, think I'm gonna play some RP empire in vicky2
>end up getting bored and changeowner things so the map isn't fucking ugly 100 years in
>turn game off
>tfw video games turned me into a nihilist

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How /gsg/ is Muv Luv, lads?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwflY16_YtU

>>166087461
army's*

>>166080210
>KuK

top cuck

>wake up
>same thread, only 300 replies
dead game

>>166088171
haha epic meme upvoted

Why isn't there a /gsg/ game where national and global economies can totally collapse? You know, like in real life?

>>166047021
If you're still here obviously, the Amir Kabir decision puts a minister modifier that conflicts with the NNM ministers. Just edit that out and change it for something. You need to edit both decisions because the Fuun decision asks for the Kabir minister modifier instead of the flag.

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What did he mean by this

>>166060602
check the cloud

>>166088353
Because paradox is a meme company that is afraid of punishing shitty players for not knowing how to blink without a prompt to help them.

>>166088353
Because paradox has a monopoly on the genre, they have it in a stranglehold so tight nobody else bothers with the genre.

Paradox has been using the same engine for years with the same design philosophy. The only thing that has really changed after vicky 2 was the decision to move to a heavy DLC sales scheme. Other than that all their releases are variations of the same game.

There is no real innovation, it is one of the first things to die in an unthreatened monopoly.

>>166088653
Looks like your wife got some smash

>swiggity swooty, flashing my booty

Does supporting Egypt as France westernize them?

Conquer Haiti y/n

So level 4 Green Skin control says that tribal vassals will pay tax, but I'm not getting any. Can anyone help?

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>>166088653
>respectfully disagree

Goddamn I hate Paradox.

>>166088653
>>166091165
Guy writes you a letter in which he implies he smashed your wife and "oh by the way to you want to work together?"

Your options are to agree, or to respectfully disagree.

It is at moments like those that the Swede really shines through in the PDI games

YES!

What would happen if in a mod, Institutions spawned in very far places from each other? Say Renaissance in Southern China, Colonialism in Portugal, Reformation in Southern Lithuania, Printing Press in India, Manufactories in Mexico, for example.

Would all countries be "behind" in tech (if all are behind, then none is)?

Is it possible to modify map size in CK2/EU3/EU4 ?

>>166091947
This shit can't be real.

Fucking Paradox.

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So for the past few days I've been toying around with modding for Vic2. Took me a bit but I feel like I have a general understanding of where all the different files are and how most of them interact. My concern has become that I've been trying to "gut" the base game so as to start with a clean slate; remove countries, cores, events, etc. Unfortunately, it CTDs despite everything I've tried. Anyone have any experience or advice in this regard? Is there a "barebones" mod or perhaps a mod that has already stripped most things out that I can crib from?

tldr Vic2 modders plz halp

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Would a Norsefire UK have Scottish and Welsh accepted cultures, or would it only be English and White Anglo?

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>>166091947
>that new world

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>>166092763
>I feel like I have a general understanding of where all the different files are and how most of them interact
>Unfortunately, it CTDs despite everything I've tried

hm

>>166093579
that new world doesnt look bad desu senpai

>>166093746
by what metric

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>>166093746
If it weren't for the colonial regions sure

>>166045982
german world domination

Is Montenegro the closest I can get to playing a city in Victoria 2?

>>166093579
Is that a random new world?

>>166088653
I bet those sick swedish fucks added sub-saharan Africa for this very reason.

Are niggers fun to play in this game? I'm thinking of trying it just for the novelty. Would it be possible to get cucked by a white man and get a white king?

>>166094035
well you'd be playing a mountain really

>>166094208
even better

>>166094083
yeah

>>166094238
One of them dago states would probably be closer to playing as city really.

>>166094268
First time seeing one. Looks like shit ot be honest.

How do I prevent Jacobin rebels from popping up? Seriously I get thousands of them every couple years and it kills my population growth.

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Damn I wish I could purge the Muslims.

>>166094395
Most are worse imo.
I like the one on the right there: >>166093806

Too many are like, one australian sized island around alaska and then 4 small islands around brazil.

>>166094371
What about Buenos Aires? That's a city, right?
seems a bit large

>>166094470
Ever gonna explain what a "bharata" is?