No.2080[Last 50 Posts]
why does this mod get so much hate? I understand the point that it's broken as fuck, but holy shit, it's fun to start a game from the very beginning and then enjoy it later when you're a world war against Mexico who owns almost all of North America, with millions upon millions of troops.
I won the war by the way. I dismantled their empire and humiliated them. I can post the body count of how much people died if you guys want.
No.2088
>>2080beacuse we can't get it to work.
how the fuck did you get that to work?
No.2095
No.2096
>>2088The problem is that it gets really fucking laggy in the 2000s if you play from the very beginning. Mostly because of shit like this. This explains the lag, and why there's mass immigration of HUEHUEHUEs to my grorious Nippon empire. That 14k stack, who here has seen that shit?, is a stack of 42 million fascist HUEHUE monkeys. Anyone want me to send a stack of highly trained Japs to exterminate them?
No.2097
>>2095>>2096When ever I try to load up the mod it CTD whenever It gets to map sculping or somthing like that
No.2098
No.2099
>>2080How does Ultimate handle the revolutions period? Does it have the Congress of Vienna?
No.2100
>>2099I don't remember, but I do remember Napoopen not taking over France, so France never took over most of Europe.
No.2102
TRIGGER WARNING
This is how Europe looks right now
No.2103
>>2102North America is even more puke worthy.
No.2104
OHH SHIT IT'S HAPPENING!!
No.2105
Well the Ukranian border is secured, and the Guangxi do not dare attack my stationed troops. Except the Ukrainians won't fucking mobilize.
THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND THE DANGER THEY'RE IN
No.2106
Well Nippon-koku is finally at peace, we turned the tides once I got Siam to join my cause, invading Vietname, Cambodia, and eventually, Guangxi. Now Guangxi is falling apart to rebels.
No.2109
How do you even keep track of your empire at this scale? I mean, you have millions of men, and I'm sure pages and pages of factories. How do you even handle all of that?
No.2110
>>2109Uh, well, I just try my best to build troops. I only have 500 brigades out of the possible thousand +. As to the factories, I just let the capitalists handle it, with the exception of two provinces which I hand picked to make nuclear weapons. The amount of fucking immigrants though, it's fucking insane. They are literally ruining my beautiful empire, since there is so much flooding in, I can't build extensions to my factories fast enough so there's mass unemployment, meaning there's a high militancy among the masses. So, I have fascist and communists revolutions very often, fucking immigrants bringing their shitty communist ideas, and poor nationalist Japanese fighting to get control, except I can't let them win, because I lose control over my puppets. Fuck immigrants.
No.2112
Look at this shit. Only 1 guy living in this country, I will annex it later.
No.2113
>>2112>1 man>in an Indian province>in fucking 2016How the the flying fuck is that even possible? Did immigration somehow outpace the birth rate? Even Jam Mayen has more pops than that!
No.2114
>>2112What a broken turd of a mod.
No.2116
>>2113>>2114Well since their uncivilized, and their monarch is a reactionary, I'm guessing they enacted a closed door immigration policy, and disease killed everyone else off. It's pretty interesting seeing that actually. It is weird how well vicky 2 handles immigration so fucking well, as explained in my post above.
No.2119
>>2116It's still a shit mod that is broken.
No.2120
>>2119Well when try to make a mod for a game that far well exceeds the game's capabilities, of course it's going to be shit. But, it could be way fucking worse considering what it is, and for what it is, it's bretty gud. I just wish there was a WW1 beginning.
No.2134
>>2120>exceeds the game's capabilitiesIt simply exceeds the scope of the mechanics, and that's why it's shit.
No.2138
Lol britbongs BTFO'd`
No.2139
>>2138>British it's own culture when all the individual cultures are presenthuh?
No.2145
Turns out Ultimate mod had an update a while ago. I installed it and it broke my save. Well it was fun while it lasted. RIP Nippon-koku.
https://mega.co.nz/#!NJgWkYba!Yz5hRjvGqzbx_h2bOiBytkQZMAqv-J9-EnUZ_tSq4DcIn case anyone wants to download the update No.2226
>>2145Is it different than the hotfix for 0.45?
No.2227
>>2226nvm, this is the latest patch
http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/609081/2015-Mod-Fixes-v--010-rar.html1- install 0.45
2 - install the 0609
3 - install the link provided
No.2326
>it's broken as fuck
There you have it!
No.3846
Thanks for the mention of this mod. I'll check it out later.
>>2112
Maybe that's where tom hanks is located when his plane crashed.
No.3849
>>2080
>why does this mod get so much hate?
Queer acceptance, no option to execute them all.
It’s also unfinished. There are MOON and MARS potential nations, but there aren’t any modifications to the map to give them soil.
No.3850
>>2103
>Commonwealth of Texas
>nowhere near Texas
No.3853
>>3850
They used to have Texas, but the US took it from them.
No.3858
No.3859
>>3858
link of the thread btw
http://ultimaterebooted.boards.net/thread/310/victoria-ultimate-fixes-2015-thread
for some reason the links here >>2098, gives me pic related errors. Are they that decentralized into putting unofficial links for downloads? I haven't installed the one I linked yet.
No.3860
>>3859
>Are they that decentralized into putting unofficial links for downloads?
nevermind. After lurking in the forums, it seems this mod got abandoned by the original modder, got taken by another modder and abandoned later on, and only one man is currently working on it.
No.3867
My current game. It's really funny/cheesy to get an immigration rate like this. I think this is the only way to play Byzantine in this era though. Additionally, there was a bug that let me have some social reform even though I had my upperhouse as a conservative.
>Those early healthcare bonus.
>>3849
>mars/moon
I think it's just a resource node like manufacturies.
No.3869
So I just wanted to start a game in the future scenario and when I saw that Poland occupied Vorpommern I instantly closed the game and uninstalled it. The only realistic Future scenario would mean that Germany would regain it's rightful eastern territories that it lost by having the native population replaced entirely.
It also just crashes when you hit the "play" button
No.3871
>>3869
pretty much everything is a fanfiction on the future scenario. You could have started at y2k and fix everything accordingly to your liking.
What can you ask from a game that let you have an increased prestige if you tolerated homosexuality without consequences like reduction in population growth?
At least the other modifiers were thought through like women able to work at factories (negative population growth), child labor. The homosexual part is just plain wrong.
No.3872
No.3876
>>3872
there are two "teams"
one is from this forums >>3859 and that one. The one on the forums modifies .45 onwards. I'm playing it right now. The one you linked modifies the version .32 onwards. I don't know how they needed to fucking have two teams on a mod for this undertaking.
No.3877
Can we get a /gsg/ version going? With no backward-poopers?
No.3878
No.3879
meh, it seems the chinese are able to westernize. I thought their almost 2k military power was just from manpower alone just like in vanilla. It seems they're able to catch up with the latest technology which is shitty. It'll be a boring game if the Chinese are able to zerg rush my country.
No.3880
>>3879
>Chinese Oceania
Jesus Christ
No.3887
>>3880
it's worse on my current game having ottomans spreading everywhere.
I'm playing Russia now since I'd like to have an absent minded game.
No.3895
>>3859
Just started playing this newest update, and I have to say how pleased I am with the massively improved tech tree (as well as giving more than six upgrades to the province options).
Still not happy about queer options being in the game, but maybe there’s an expulsion/forced psychiatric care event that will fire when the world gets liberal enough.
SO many bugs still, though. The American Revolution starting date is completely unplayable because the Webster-Ashburton Treaty event fires immediately and the UK does it in favor of the US. This creates a one province US in Caribou, Maine and makes it impossible for The Thirteen Colonies to get independence.
No.3898
>>3895
>Still not happy about queer options being in the game, but maybe there’s an expulsion/forced psychiatric care event that will fire when the world gets liberal enough.
pretty much, or consequences like negative pop growth. They did it with career women so they can do it for queers.
>SO many bugs still
yep, and crashes too. In addition to that, primitive civilizations are easily catching up like china in my byzantine game >>3879
Speaking of byzantine bugs, you can easily change to democracy at the beginning if you have no aristocrat/capitalists yet if you have appointed as an upperhouse and changed to a liberal ruling party. An event fired for monarchists/reactionaries later in the game where I have to choose between losing 20% of my population plus global rebellion or step down and appoint absolute monarchy so I don't have any negative effects. I chose to step down before quitting and after seeing the Chinese colonize the rest of the new world plus asia.
It's fun to play though regardless of bugs/crashes.
No.3906
>>3898
>In addition to that, primitive civilizations are easily catching up
From what I remember, they had a huge multiplier called Our ways are better, and it's to deter early westernization. They must've done some weird ninja shit to get past it, because as Nipland, I had to annex a lot of stuff and still wait damn near 100 years to westernize.
No.3908
>>3906
>had a huge multiplier called our ways are better
I tried looking at the research modifiers of these shitty countries using tag CHI. Yeah, I've seen our ways are better. It seems it'll be imbalanced if the plurality gain of these uncivilized countries are not changed.
My Russia with 80% literacy has more than twice the research of this country that has only 10 literacy. Plurality of my Russia is only 34 though while fucking china has 100 for some reason.
The battles against them are tedious at best rather than entertaining if they're westernized. I won't deny that they'll be a challenge but it's too much micro manage for me. There are no overpowered units unlike in vanilla when they're uncivilized. Pretty much our force are equal depending on terrain and unit composition. I could make the AI play for me while I control a country under my sphere of influence though I wouldn't like the AI mismanaging my settings.
No.3912
It just crashes after a few months, Can anyone help me? Victoria 2 is also windowed now, for some reason.
No.3915
>>3912
>It just crashes after a few months, Can anyone help me?
It's been known to crash instantly at the loading screen whenever you stary to load the game and if it didn't crash for a while, it'll be smooth sailing. I managed to play 50 some years straight of my Russian game without crashing. It's mandatory to have monthly as an autosave interval then change it to semi annually if it became smooth sailing.
As for windowed mode, try changing it on settings.txt (opens with notepad). You will find "fullscreen=no" there. Change no to yes. There is another settings.txt on your documents in your paradox interactive folder where your saves are. Dunno if it'll help you though since the window mode might be mod specific.
No.3916
>>2110
>I only have 500 brigades out of the possible thousand +
god fuck. This made me hate my russian game with all the micro managing especially against a civilized China. If only you can let the AI control your troops it'll be a huge relief. I noticed that toggling the hunt for rebels made some of them move to the opposing force (rather than rebels) without my orders, I dunno how that works exactly though.
>The amount of fucking immigrants though, it's fucking insane.
pic related. Bangor, New England. The melting pot of northern america in my current Russian game.
No.3918
meh, it seems I'll just gobble up a civilized china then focus on europe. Slav union will come later. I hate having china as a backstabber while I hit europe. At least, I have the HRE as an ally in case someone backstabs me at europe.
No.3919
all for the best korea. Persia was a good diversion for the mughal empire. China-Mughal empire is a headache. Both of them are civilized too. I won't take outer manchuria yet since I know that burning the imperial palace can get me those provinces plus their cores without war. For some reason, I didn't get those decisions initially when I had my first war with them when they were uncivilized. That was an easy war when they're uncivilized, now it's just a headache.
On a side note, thank god for lithuania's weak military. I was able to simultaneously take Korea and will take a state for the slav union. I would try to sphere them next instead seeing as there are a lot of asian nations getting civilized. That means they'll fall off from great power indefinitely.
I don't call HRE to my wars because they instantly become leaders since my military score is lower than them.
No.3921
This is why I don't let HRE be called in my wars.
>Have liberate poland as casus belli
>call all allies
>HRE coming to the rescue
>HRE have liberate prussians or some shit
>almost wipe Lithuanians forces out without HRE's help
>having a good time both in the east since I'm also at war with China. pic related before I declared war with poland-lithuania
>win against china
>win against Lithuania
>no polandball released
>HRE took a clay instead
It seems karma bit me when we had some crisis and I was the leader. I'm always choosing another war goal rather than why the crisis happened in the first place. Anyways reloaded and I won't call HRE in a war against Lithuania.
No.3922
now that I know where to send my reinforcements, the war against china is much more easier.
No.3924
My current europe. Slav union is very close. I just need to release Serbia/Bohemia and put it under my sphere of influence along with poland-lithuania and Montenegro. Poland already took the initiative by taking their cores from Austria with a little bit of my help by preventing military access to these dumb AIs, helping them against Austria while I was at war with them, and giving them war subsidies.
Only problem I have right now is the criteria to have russian cores are not satisfied even though I am playing as Russia. Probably a bug or idk. The sphering is also another matter since HRE is befriending the pols, Austria for lithuania, Ottoman Empire for Croatia.
On other news, Ottoman Empire is now allied with China. I didn't notice it when I waged war to take Bosnia from Ottoman Empire so I lost a regiment or two unknowingly in the east. Good thing I called the HRE with me even though they put their interest first by annexing some country during the war with the otto. At least, they still managed to ask Bosnia for me during the peace deal.
With Ottoman-China-Mughal Alliance, it's a bigger headache if I tried to release Serbia. It'll probably have a 100% war score requirement. I could call the HRE to the war so my micro manage is at a minimum, but the down side is that they'll instantly turn into a war leader and put their interest first like cut down some shit or ask for clay unless I get lucky.
I could just take the clay instead of releasing serbia but it'll take more time than usual.
On a bug related note, I tried dismantling the HRE while my troops occupied vienna via a decision but nothing happened. HRE is still alive and kicking. Another one would be this decentralization shit that kept appearing when I relocated my capital to st. petersburg unless I changed it back to Moscow.
No.3925
>>3924
Please don't post that Europe again until you're done with it, I'm in physical pain.
No.3929
>>3925
I know. I'll come back once I actually formed the slav union. My current Europe is disgusting. I would ally with france next and get their de jure claims which the HRE took unjustly so it will be a europe from vanilla except for sweden which I happily took from Poland-lithuania alliance while they were at war with HRE, Ottoman Empire, and Austria earlier in my game.
I thought a Russia game would be an absent minded one just to release stress just like in vanilla, but it became stressful when primitive nations are catching up with technology research especially China.
No.3931
fuck, the AI is retarded as hell. He could have won if he just sit through it.
No.3932
Well, it's gg now/the game is now going to be easy from here on out. I'm more prepared at war with china and I could easily hit turkey without HRE's help since they're too fragmented and I could call other allies with me being the war leader. I could also focus on the west more in freeing serbia since I can play defensively in the east giving some clay to china for diversion. Additionally, even though Ming is the war leader, they didn't call the Mughal Empire. Only thing left now is freeing slovania for the slav union requirement and helping out poland. Fuck that polandball.
No.3933
and I thought I'm prepared.
>these chinese deathstacks.
They've been asking for a peace deal but I reject them until I can add another war goal or the truce with austria is over. I might go for the peace deal depending on how these two battles fare.
No.3935
Time to accept the peace deal. I'm likely to be overrun at this point.
No.3936
>>3898
Oh! Speaking of catching up, Qing Empire apparently forgot to field any military at any point during the game, so not only did Persia take 10 of the western states, Heavenly Kingdom won the civil war by taking maybe ten or 20 provinces. Korea took Manchuria, and then Persia annexed Heavenly Kingdom.
Oh, and apparently pop conversions happen for everyone except me, because the Persians have successfully completed genocide of all the Chinese and replaced them with Persians. Meanwhile, I’m struggling to get even one Yankee in any of my land outside North America.
And the last time I played, Windows blue screened with a “Tried to write to read-only memory” error. So thanks, Ultimate.
No.3938
>>3936
>pop conversion
did you see the modifiers of these pops via populations creen? Depending on your reforms, you can't convert pop to your culture especially if they're in their respective cores. I haven't tried changing to discriminatory yet.
pic related. relevant.
No.3939
>>3925
Now I can show you my europe even though it's not yet done because the fucking decision is bugged for russia. So, Europe is still fucking disgusting thank you very much I will subjugate Austria right next to poland lithuania so when I have a union, it'll look clean.
I managed to nab a substantial amount of clay from kebab easily because of a crisis and Ming didn't intervene thank god. I needed to take montenegro then so I could complete the slav union but it's fucking bugged.
No.3940
>>3936
It seems they don't have military at all at the beginning of the game. It only built up on my game when they are partially westernized. I also tried playing Ming Empire once and they didn't have any income regardless of how much I tax them or how much I slide the spending modifiers. Are they still on barter system?
No.3941
>>3939
It seems I need to wait until 1859 to know if it's really bugged or not. With the slow ass paced research due to pre-industrial school, it'll probably take me to year 2000 when I complete this shit. Changing to traditional academia is also bugged because it'll get you back to preindustrial school a month after choosing it.
Does anyone have any hotfix just for the change in academia? I could do it myself but there are numerous event files and I don't know where to begin.
No.3942
War with China again. I really wanted to annihilate these rice and noodle connoissuers because they're such an eye sore with their military.
Since mughal empire is now an ally, I'm going to blitz them on the east while I play defensively in the west with Mughal. Hopefully, I could decimate their entire force before they decided to attack.
They dropped the alliance with Ottman and instead allied with Shogunate Japan (another great power).
No.3943
>>3942
>these word filters
No.3944
omg these rice and noodle connoissuers
No.3945
I'm also going to send a deathstack
No.3946
still no fucking burning the palace event
No.3947
>>3941
Just wait till the 1800s, it'll change to traditional academia by itself, it isn't bugged.
No.3955
>>3947
I see. Well, the decision to restore academia should have been available at the 1800s rather than 1700s then.
No.3956
No.3965
I got to the point where my industry demands/employment can't sustain my population growth.
No.3967
>>3965
Oh it gets worse in the later years, since they just constantly throw communist revolutions. There's a decision to reduce the world population though
No.3968
>>3967
>>3967
I wouldn't do that yet. I'm hoping colonial migration would work.
I think this is what makes the game broken along with uncivilized factions getting civilized later on. With a Qing empire civilized, migrations are fucking phenomenal. I would go for a dicriminatory school system next so I get negative immigrant attraction. It's still a patch work though and it wouldn't do a fuck on the long term.
No.3969
at least I know my sphere is safe for bohemia. Unless a fucking shitty event happened and I'm forced to reload.
No.3970
>>3969
>ottoman war of Tibetan freedom
No.3971
>>3970
>>3970
kebab trying to spread to china, and subsequently failing.
No.3973
>>3972
would jihad with/10
No.3991
Well, my game is now broken. Even after a lot of austerity measures and increase in taxes, my economy is spiraling down. I will see if a Laisezz faire economy will save it then I would go for the inevitable -30% global population reduction. I would just play the game until I get the slav union decision done.
No.3994
>>3991
Tax efficiency helped me immensely. I wasn't investing on commercial techs since I'm prioritizing all research points+ techs in cultural/industrial. I also increased taxes of rich people near maximum since I'm subsidizing all of their factories anyways and they still have satisfied needs as compared to lower strata.
No.3997
>>3991
It's actually normal. For some reason, the game goes through global depressions. Everyone else who's also civilized is also going through this. I'm not too sure why it does this.
No.3998
Immigration is royally fucking with my POP balance. I am playing as the U.S. after doing a little cheating starting as England. I'm getting pretty much all the immigrants from Europe, and I have 1.5 Officers for every regular soldier. One-fourth of New York's populace is officers, Newark is 93% soldiers, and everyone in Boston is either a Soldier or a Clergyman. Half my populace is on the payroll of the government, it seems like.
No.4010
>>3998
>Half my populace is on the payroll of the government, it seems like.
It should be called welfare at this point rather than payroll especially if they're doing nothing.
No.4011
>>3998
>I am playing as the U.S. after doing a little cheating starting as England
dunno if you can do this, but you can release a nation and then you will be promptly noted by the game if you want to switch to that nation.
No.4014
>>3997
>I'm not too sure why it does this.
I noticed that I have more than a negative cashflow whenever there are wars even though I'm not a participant.
Additionally, for some reason, if you compare this >>3991 and this >>3994 the needs of the poor strata didn't change on the first picture at 80% tax rate while it became yellow at 50%. It could be a game related bug not on the mod specifically.
No.4015
>>4014
>80% tax rate while it became yellow at 50%
this is not taking into account the tarrifs and expenditure boost.
No.4016
>>3998
>I'm getting pretty much all the immigrants from Europe
Wait until China civilized and you'll get millions of them per year.
No.4101
>>4100
>selling mods
Who's going to pirate that shit and post it here?
No.4104
There’s a fucking bug where tech levels reset if you resign.
For example, I’m supposed to be able to build up to level 10, but after resigning I can’t build more than level 2, anywhere, no matter what I try.
How the fuck does something like this happen?
No.4105
>>4104
Why the fuck did you resign more than once then? Just quit the game.
No.4107
>>4105
It happens any time you stop playing.
No.4114
No.4115
No.4194
he deleted all the posts calling him out.
No.4198
>>4194
What a faggot.
Pirate when?
No.4200
>>4198
There's some super-secret forum that's making a version of Victoria Ultimate, there might be a DL there.
No.4204
No.4258
>>4014
>I noticed that I have more than a negative cashflow whenever there are wars even though I'm not a participant.
The world's countries can be extremely dependent on each other for resources and goods, if there's a war and a country mobilizes it's workers, then that factory isn't producing product, making your tariffs go to shit, making your taxes go to shit as well.
I think it's cool personally.
No.4272
No.4659
Are the immigration/china getting great power fixed?
>>4272
I was expecting this or it's not going to be fruitful.