Paradox Interactive games
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Zack
99% hot gas
Are you talking about the location and accuracy of the map, or purely its aesthetics? If the former, we're talking about two different things.
Paradox is giving a free copy of Cities in Motion for everyone who takes this survey. I like free games.
Turquoiside
Emperor
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Paradox is giving a free copy of Cities in Motion for everyone who takes this survey. I like free games.
This policy seems kind of derimental. I don' intend to buy the DLCs for that game, but I sure am glad I waited to buy it
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Evie
Pronounced like Eevee
1)I like free games.
2)I like the occasion to campaign for more EU3 goodies (I tried the other games, but EU3 remain the one for me)
Win-win
2)I like the occasion to campaign for more EU3 goodies (I tried the other games, but EU3 remain the one for me)
Win-win
Bowsling
Deity
I said I didn't want more EU3 stuff.
Bring on EU4!
Bring on EU4!
Of course, EU4 will be very incomplete and full of bugs.
CKII says hi.
I don't think EU4 would be so incomplete, some of the devs have stated in the EU3 forum that the next game won't have radical changes like EU2 to EU3 was.
CK2, while not perfect, is a welcome break from the Paradox trend of buggy releases.
madviking
north american scum
...by adding so many grafix it clogs up yer game to snail-speed levels.
The slow speed is one of my biggest complaints, along with a few questionable AI moves like a duke betraying you at positive relations while you are pressing his claim on the HRE.
Seriously, I was giving him territory! And he stabs me in the back!
madviking
north american scum
Ducal AI logic is awful. I gave up my England game after I had two thirds of my dukes in jail. And the rest were plotting to lower my already minimal crown authority.
I think I have 11 vassal duchies (5 in Ireland, 2 in Scotland, 3 in England, and 1 for the NE islands). Every time the Grand Duchies, especially the Scottish ones, rebel, I try to take a county to create a new duchy, figuring that a bunch of weak dukes will be less likely to challenge me than a couple strong ones. No more Grand Dukes holding three duchies, that is a painful civil war to fight.
This strategy has been full of fail, because the weak ones rebel anyway. I was revoking ducal titles and nominating one of their county heads to run the duchy, but I've done that so many times that there are no vassal counts in these duchies. Since the traitor will still be in charge of all 3 counties and I can't revoke each of those because you can only revoke a traitor's title once without your other vassals getting all frisky. Thus, revoking the title is meaningless. They just sit in jail until they die.
madviking
north american scum
That, however, doesn't happen when you're playing as any of the Spanish kingdoms. I've gotten to Absolute - 1 crown authority more than easily. In fact, Absolute - 1 crown authority was approved instantly for me. I think something's written in the code for England so that they are the assholiest vassals you'll ever have.
In my Leon -> most of Spain game, I think I'm at high crown authority now in the 1200s, but I had one queen reign for nearly 70-years so that has slowed down the process of building up authority. In my Scotland game, I'm at absolute in both Scotland and Ireland, but I had to throw a ridiculous number of bribes and honorary titles around to make sure it passed. That, and using the Chancellor for the +25 relations boost was helpful.
Sometimes, even courtiers do weird things. My heir to the throne decided to rebel (with one Scottish and one Irish duke) to take the Scottish crown for himself, apparently not realizing that if he waited another few years for the old man to die and he'd get both anyway, and a larger realm to boot.
Sometimes, even courtiers do weird things. My heir to the throne decided to rebel (with one Scottish and one Irish duke) to take the Scottish crown for himself, apparently not realizing that if he waited another few years for the old man to die and he'd get both anyway, and a larger realm to boot.
Derpy Hooves
Grand Inquisitor
It's funny how dukes are a complete pain to deal with but counts are hardly ever a problem, currently playing a game as the duke of Holland, or that's what I started as, a 2 county duke with a single county vassal but currently holding most of Germany, the low lands, a good part of eastern and southern France, Denmark, all of the non Greek mediterranian islands, a third of the north African territories and a couple of random counties and duchies in Italy.
Because I never made a king title (despite having been able to create 3 of them for a while now) I can hold infinite duchy titles without any of my counts being of any real trouble, worst that ever seems to happen is a family member (about half of the people that hold the massive amount of territory I hold are at least kinsman) trying to murder me to get my titles, in about 300 years I've had to smack down a rebellion 3 times after I had to imprison someone but failed because they would'nt stop some idiotic plot.
It's amusing how after several king games this was by far the easiest, I'd thought that when I started with a small duke with the intent of recreating my native country of the Netherlands I would actually have a difficult task ahead of me, turns out that after the initial hurdle of getting to about 8 counties or so theres very little that can stop you, especially when nothing dangerous from outside can attack you because you're part of the HRE, I'm currently still in the HRE after a small break and declared independence but came back after usurping some titles because there where some more territories that where easier to acquire from inside the empire, as I hold about 2/3rd of the HRE's lands I can just lower crown authority if the Kaiser tries to go above Low Crown Authority as long as I can find a single backer without a war.
The game might not be buggy but it still is fairly unbalanced, peasant revolts are far too frequent (theyre cutting their frequency by half in the next patch, you can edit your own game easily if you want to save yourself some frustration), the difficulty between count - duke - king - emperor is pretty badly balanced and big empires hardly ever collapse.
Despite that it's still a fantastic game, I'm anxious to see their next game after they improved so much with this one.
Because I never made a king title (despite having been able to create 3 of them for a while now) I can hold infinite duchy titles without any of my counts being of any real trouble, worst that ever seems to happen is a family member (about half of the people that hold the massive amount of territory I hold are at least kinsman) trying to murder me to get my titles, in about 300 years I've had to smack down a rebellion 3 times after I had to imprison someone but failed because they would'nt stop some idiotic plot.
It's amusing how after several king games this was by far the easiest, I'd thought that when I started with a small duke with the intent of recreating my native country of the Netherlands I would actually have a difficult task ahead of me, turns out that after the initial hurdle of getting to about 8 counties or so theres very little that can stop you, especially when nothing dangerous from outside can attack you because you're part of the HRE, I'm currently still in the HRE after a small break and declared independence but came back after usurping some titles because there where some more territories that where easier to acquire from inside the empire, as I hold about 2/3rd of the HRE's lands I can just lower crown authority if the Kaiser tries to go above Low Crown Authority as long as I can find a single backer without a war.
The game might not be buggy but it still is fairly unbalanced, peasant revolts are far too frequent (theyre cutting their frequency by half in the next patch, you can edit your own game easily if you want to save yourself some frustration), the difficulty between count - duke - king - emperor is pretty badly balanced and big empires hardly ever collapse.
Despite that it's still a fantastic game, I'm anxious to see their next game after they improved so much with this one.
