Akka
Moody old mage.
Err... YES it is quite realistic in fact ?
Seriously, did you said with a straight face that EU3 wasn't realistic, or was there some irony I missed ?
How is your EU3 Game going?
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Seriously, did you said with a straight face that EU3 wasn't realistic, or was there some irony I missed ?
Bowsling
Deity
Random Bremenese territories in Scandinavia or colonies are not the most accurate thing in the world. Ditto for armies of 100,000 trying to annihilate each other in 1500.
You could be in China, or India.
SamSniped
DJ Goodboye
Or have Italians settling the Ivory Coast/Sierra Leone area. And Rio de Janeiro & Sao Tome. And North Carolina/Virginia/Massachusetts.
Hey, don't kill me. I got bored
Hey, don't kill me. I got bored
Akka
Moody old mage.
Something tells me you mix "it didn't happened like that in our history" with "it's not realistic". The mechanisms in the game are incredibly detailed and realistic. Saying they are not feels like binary-mode or pedantic thinking.
sophie
Break My Heart
It's not really all that realistic, yes.
Evie
Pronounced like Eevee
It's significantly more realistic than most empire building games.
It's significantly less realistic than some of the mods out there, and some of the other games.
IMO, it sits at a good balance point between realism and gameplay.
It's significantly less realistic than some of the mods out there, and some of the other games.
IMO, it sits at a good balance point between realism and gameplay.
The problem is that a fairly large amount of EU3's unrealistic crap hasn't got anything to do with gameplay limitations at all. In some cases, there can be a trade-off between gameplay and reality (the problems of managing an early modern state, by and large, don't make for a fun gaming experience); in others, like doing a cursory amount of freakin research or spending five minutes looking at a map, there's no trade-off at all.
uat2d
ಠ_ಠ
Perhaps the most unrealistic aspect of EU3 is that you can do too much - for the game to be more realistic, it would be much harder and require much more time to do everything.
But then again, it would be boring to death if now matter what he did, the outcome of the game remained unchanged. At least I think most people like to do more than just looking at the screen not doing anything and just waiting for years and years to gather a sizable force and then wait more years for them to reach get where they wanted to go, and perhaps dieing in the way due to plague.
But then again, it would be boring to death if now matter what he did, the outcome of the game remained unchanged. At least I think most people like to do more than just looking at the screen not doing anything and just waiting for years and years to gather a sizable force and then wait more years for them to reach get where they wanted to go, and perhaps dieing in the way due to plague.
mechaerik
Tuturuu!
I only got into these kinds of games recently and honestly picked this particular one up a few days ago, still only learning about it and I wanna ask, has anyone ever played the game up until Revolutionary France? I'd like to know if the AI really takes to the changes and rages a powerful war in Europe also I'd like to know how you fared as France(If the events made a European conquest a real objective assuming you had roughly real borders and not all of America as France) . There's also a mod I think that extends it to WW2, how do the Germans fare, that will decide if I stick around till Rev. France and if I do get the mod. I'm more interested in defeating the world than actually owning it so I won't be claiming all of Europe like you guys do, just allying enough of it to help me do what Napoleon and Hitler tried to do.
I realize that these nations probably have to survive long enough to stand a chance at realizing these objectives but that will probably only mean I will help them survive long enough to
Note that there is no guarantee that France will be the revolutionary country; its event driven, so its perfectly possible for, say, Austria to become the revolutionary nation. If you start the game before 1785, then there is no guarantee you'll be fighting Revolutionary France; just that there will be some revolutionary nation.
uat2d
ಠ_ಠ
Everything normal/default, Grand Campaign as Connacht:
Spoiler :
uat2d
ಠ_ಠ
They were my allies (bloody useless, they always dishonored their alliance when I called them and by the time they sent another alliance proposal I'd already dealt with most of the English) but after my last war against England, they were guaranteeing them and in that war I force-vassalized them.
You can see my stack in this picture in Fife about to wipe theirs and from that point on it was just waiting for the sieges to end (I'd love to have annexed them but I had 20 infamy from taking Kent and it would have cost +24 infamy to have annexed them all at once, taking me way over the limit).
Continuation:
Spoiler :
Now the game will certainly be smooth sailing!
Civ'ed
I ain't gotta explain a thing
O_O
...
*rubs eyes*
Nope, it's real.
...
*rubs eyes*
Nope, it's real.
SamSniped
DJ Goodboye
-1 stability for diplo-annexing?! In IN, it's 1 towards decentralization!
I must buy DW now
I must buy DW now
-1 stability for diplo-annexing?! In IN, it's 1 towards decentralization!
I must buy DW now
This was a great change. I can fix stability drops in 2 years, but it takes over a decade to fix the sliders.
Akka
Moody old mage.
Yeah, right
madviking
north american scum
note to self: get death and taxes.
