/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

been playing a fair bit of robmod lately t.bh lads

>>5057

I'm not, because there comes a time where they run out of shit to change or introduce and end up breaking the game to get a quick buck (I'm looking at you, CK2 and Conclave).

I'm not gonna pay for Stellaris either, I've had enough of this Swebrew bullshit, but it's about the principle.

You just know that down the line, the morons at Paradox will patch the game taking only multiplayer balance into account, screwing over the great majority of their userbase; also, they will take years to fix simple but serious bugs like the CK2 antipope bullshit that took forever to get patched, and if you want to get fixes to these things you'll have to cope with the "free features" that often break even more shit. Sometimes they'll even decide to patch away a valid strategy because some retard over at Parajew got salty during one of their multiplayer games, meaning they'll break shit intentionally so nobody can have fun.

And I'm not even considering the DLC-fest their games have turned into either, every other DLC they release breaks the game, so the game is near unplayable for about a month, and wouldn't you know, just when they finally finish patching up all the fucking crap they broke, it's time for another DLC that will break yet more shit.

If we consider neo-Paradox's track record, it'll be fucking amazing if Stellaris doesn't blow. CK2 had a decent period but is now shit (status of women laws in the dark and early middle ages are the least of the shit they pulled with that game), EUIV was always shit and I don't actually have much hope for HoI4. Since Stellaris is sci-fi, it's likely to appeal to a wider audience and I'm willing to bet many shekels that the game will be even more shallow and rigid than EUIV.

Paradox just doesn't give a shit about their loyal userbase. All they care about are dimwits who would never play a GSG if it were the only genre left on Earth. Maybe they'll try to make HoI6 an e-sport or something.

Im kinda concerned about "tech research" being tied to cards.

It sounds like a retarded idea

>>5055

It looks pretty good in the dev diaries, but this is parajew we're talking about. I doubt there will be any fun features such as genociding ayys from your planets like in Distant Worlds and it'll probably be unplayable until you get their thirty expansions. Still, I remain cautiously optimistic.

>>5066

You can actually enslave and purge ayyliums. Either by orbital bombardment or you can kill specific pops by purge button. Planets are more like civ cities where you shuffle workers between tiles generating different resources but individual workers have race and ideology that drifts away from the state one so you can purge ayyliums/heretics/commies/whatever.

>>5066

>I doubt there will be any fun features such as genociding ayys

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/stellaris-dev-diary-26-migration-slavery-purges.914917/

fine African-American gentlemans

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oh shit is actually truth

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Always happens in Ultimate mod.

Don't know if they've fixed it yet.

I heard rumors about you, Liang.

Are you a cute twink?

pls be in Germany

Any news about this mod? Seems like a really cool idea and wouldn't mind seeing more of it, might start a game today and try it out.

bump

>>1949

>Are we ded yet?

nah, we look pretty alive

>>1954

Well of course I'm gonna put the mudslimes in africa. Then I can remove kebab and dindus at the same time. If only you could make them jewish too…

Playing as brazil. For some reason EVERY DAY my convoy coming from Italy goes back down to 0 ships out of the 11 that it is supposed to be.

I have to manually go in the productions tab, and keep fixing the amount of convoys every day. And no, the ships are not getting sunk. There is no message popping up or anything, it always reverts back to 0/11 once it becomes hour 1 of the next day.

>>5003

>the shattered retreat. "Oh, I defeated an army. Better go after it across half the map! Getting attritioned the entire time!"

Isnt it how it worked irl?

>>5034

IRL the largest amount of casualties came after a rout, as the enemy cavalry charged into the backs of the fleeing infantry and either massacred or captured them. Also, the vast amount of the infatry were just levies - peasants who came with their wood axes and hunting knives. Can't imagine such peasants going over half the country to regroup, rather than just saying 'fuck it, nobody will notice I'm missing, I'm going home'. Of course, that is assuming a total defeat of enemy army (which is what always happens anyway, as armies in Paradox Games fight bravely until a total rout).

Meh. One the one hand diplomacy is more dynamic w favors and the like, plus the council system is alright.

But like

>>5003

said there's some womyn's equality XDDDD thrown in and shattered retreats don't make much sense.

I haven't played far enough yet to see the coalition stuff come into effect though.

It's absolutely nothing but bloat.

Conclave, combined with shattered retreat and coalitions, has ruined the game for me. It has become extremely easy to increase your power through legislation, and I hardly ever see an HRE which is not an absolute monarchy within 80 years now.

Conclave allows you to exclude all the most powerful vassals from joining factions for most of the game. Shattered retreat causes fewer casualties. The result is that factions hardly ever become threatening. The only time you might feel exposed, is during regencies or when you choose to allow factions.

So instead of making the game harder by making factions more powerful and challenging, the game is now easier on the interior level. The limiting factor is now just the anachronistic and tedious coalition system.

>>5042

I would gladly join any mp.

The problem is that.

Im not a amerifat so difrent timezones can be a problem

I only pirate

>>5044

Well, I'm Yuropoor too, so that isn't really a problem.

I have all the relevant DLC for EU4, so I can share it there as long as you have the base game.

Not sure about the possibilities if it was HoI3 or Vic2 MP. Since they don't share DLC from the host, if I remember correctly.

>>5047

not the person youre replying too but does gameranger work for virtual lan? hamachi seemed to not work on eu4 so im just asking

>>4955

>asking for a mod that's on steam workshop

please stop embarrassing yourself

but here you go anyway, v4.02, works with 2.5.1.1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/shraxkz05g5gw5o/CK2Plus_4_02.rar?dl=0

>>4984

Maybe we don't want to install drm ya dumb piece of fuck

/r/ing latest When The World Stopped Making Sense

>>4902

You got a mediafire link or something? All that comes up with when I open that link is a Clausewitz quote.

requesting Veritas et Fortitudo 3.1

>>4900 (checked)

>he ask for more railroaded history where is impossible to have a different outcome

>complains when I complain of his shit opinion

>really think that a discussion on a chan to be good have to be clean of slurs and racial/sexual diminishment

I'm not asking a Sunset invasion type of game. But at least something that will make interesting playing it again because it make weird scenarios

Example:

ck2 can let most of Europe grow big with the right situation or let Norse conquer the shit out of anyone if there is too much internal Christian wars

eu4 if France win the 100y war get 100 points of AE or if using a Japanese daimyo you cant conquer more than 50% of Japanese otherwise coalition pop out as mushrooms after a rain

What would you prefer to play you god damn faggot fine African-American gentleman?

>>1757

FOR BLU MOON

>Modding a game that is not even out yet

What?

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/minor-nation-3d-model-project.840832/

>>4901

it has plenty of divergence you doofus

>>4812

Same reason Game Grumps got to play Civ 5 with the Brave New World expansion even though they can't make it through Wind Waker without looking at a guide every two seconds; bitching and moaning all the way: They can't afford Pewdie Pie.