https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoT7ACmeaR8 for those with a good amount of hours who still dont know how stuff works
#Paradox Grand Strategy
slate arch
slate arch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyDHZ1ar9bo for those who dont know what theyre doing
rocky reef
Game, give me admin efficiency please
nope you'll be forced to suffer like the rest of us, welcome to the Thunderdome
rocky reef
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyDHZ1ar9bo for those who dont know what theyre ...
neat, Sometimes I forget paradox actually does this stuff
drifting dock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3_U-hYYWxQ And the intermediate guide.
radiant wasp
Not Stonks
radiant wasp
Finally, 60 years of age were productive
radiant wasp
GG
Finally can enact enough privilege's
And need to take +10 absolutism from court/infrastructure ideas
sharp solar
To Celestia, it's like spending 20% of your life up to that point.
radiant wasp
And I like Anbennar devs didn't block this for Celestia
Imagine she returns as Lich Queen
Anbennar magic is insane, and even more insane since Celestia is immortal, I had time to research so many stuff
keen flower
Finally, she can return hom
Congrats!
What was your least favorite part of the campaign?
Mines the islands being required for the slave trade missions, in my redo attempt I just used the console to get the last island so I didn't fight a hyper death war with a great power over a single province
radiant wasp
What was your least favorite part of the campaign?
Dealing with overextention
As always in singleplayer
Taking 100% is slow and boring
keen flower
Dealing with overextention
Valid
keen flower
Taking 100% is slow and boring
Very, It's just I had a smaller army so it would've been an annoying micro stall fest on first while I get ticking war score
keen flower
I think I'm at the point where you can start telling when I started giving up, because I'm actually researching navy and not even caring about naval invasions that actually land , granted I did actually beat out their timer,
sharp solar
Trying to beat Kattail on the seas, well, that's gonna be tough.
keen flower
Trying to beat Kattail on the seas, well, that's gonna be tough.
yeah I forgot to account for the 100% or something level of dockyard output they have
I think I can do it , it's just going to be beyond boring, I think one of my battles I killed over 100 ships and that's still not that much
they have like 2500 ships, at least I can get naval supremacy usually
sharp solar
There is probably also the fact that he probably just has a ton of dockyards at this point
keen flower
eh that's manageable
I don't know if the ai has enough resources to properly utilize all of them and it's factories ,and the ai probably isn't smart enough to prirotize building a navy that much
prisma sonnet
The AI mostly is obsessed with Air Force, which tends to swell to incredible levels…
Naval bombers being what they are 🤷♂️
Anyway, I found out today that Ajuuraan can give a giraffe to Ming or Qing or whoever in EU4 by following their mission tree, which makes me want to play EU4.
…but I haven’t really played in ages and I don’t have the Origin DLC that gives them their tree 
prisma sonnet
I ended up playing Kiria in Equestria at War
(Try #2, #1 last night was about to fall into civil war)
novel crescent
Excellent writing
Major canon race and they're characterized very well
Unique mechanics/racial tree
novel crescent
Who drew the portrait? Looks a lot like twotail's art
prisma sonnet
The portraits for Rain Shine, Autumn Blaze, and the other kirin leaders? Lemme check real fast...
Yes, Twotail813 drew them.
sharp solar
With the hint of Scroup's ear fluff that has become the signature thing in EaW
prisma sonnet
Not sure if I’ll do Communist ||democratic|| Kiria once I wrap this one up or go back and give Hippogriffia another go.
…or maybe try Colthage, hmmmm…
keen flower
Fun paths
except for successful GGO yeah, you don't really fight any real wars in that aside from Roam since you avoid the civil war
keen flower
Not sure if I’ll do Communist ||democratic|| Kiria once I wrap this one up or go...
rising sun is probably my favorite kiria path tbh, has my favorite narrative, challenging wars and plenty of player choice to do leh funny
prisma sonnet
I generally avoid leh funny both because it’s usually hard and because my motivation is to make something great…
Basically what I want to do is create a country that’s great for its people, or at least better, so I typically don’t find the more extreme paths very interesting.
slate arch
might have to cop
prisma sonnet
I'm currently reading the Jenkins Space Shuttle book, and it made me realize that among all of the "mad science" of Posada's path in Equestria at War there isn't a BoMi project even though there's a B-70 project
(Historically the two were basically contemporary)
I'm not sure there's a space launch event either, which is odd too...
floral marten
sharp solar
radiant wasp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcwHfp32tG0
Finally
I wish EU5 will not be empty on release
🙏
(And I want to see Anbennar port on EU5, it could be insane)
prisma sonnet
A lot of the DLC for CK3 is on sale today because Khans of the Steppe came out, btw.
sharp solar
I wish EU5 will not be empty on release
I don't play EU, but from what I've gathered from watching Lord Lambert commentaries of Dev Diaries for the past several months, it seems like EU5 is mechanically a fairly complete package. The one obvious thing missing is that Societies of Pops are not going to be playable (which includes a whole lot of tags in Americas and Africa).
We also don't really know what their vision for the mission trees will be like, except that there won't be any that are specific to a single nation.
prisma sonnet
I hope they have trees that allow for more alt-history paths and more internal development focus as opposed to conquering and expanding.
For example last year I read a book on Iran that made me interested in playing a version of Persia that pursues a very different vision of pluralism and openness to trade and innovation than historical Persia…but the trees don’t support this at all, they’re all focused on a big empire that you religiously convert and unify.
floral marten
According to a dev post, in the new Stellaris patch you cannot disable Xenocompatibility.
radiant wasp
https://www.reddit.com/r/Stellaris/comments/1keaaj7/comment/mqib93a/
I wish PDX fixed performance issues
Because toggle to ban xenocompibatility was to save late game from constant lagging
floral marten
that's actually the big thing in the 4.0 patch, they're changing pops in a way that should drastically improve performance.
radiant wasp
that's actually the big thing in the 4.0 patch, they're changing pops in a way t...
Yeah, changing calculation way is step one, step two do not fuck up with late game
Devs always can add new lagging stuff into the game to lose all achievements they got
novel crescent
Anything would be better than how it works rn
Because rn your solution is to play in a smaller galaxy or as a fanatic purifier
drifting dock
There is still lag then, since it is keeping track of long-dead pop types and the like.
I hope whatever they are doing here will fix a lot of that.
radiant wasp
Oh yeah, I forgot
I am 5000% sure new system suffers from a lof of pop types
That's why I really do not like they removed turn off thing
radiant wasp
They said that already.
Okay, I forgive all devs sins
🙏
Damn, 4.0 is going to be so good
And I do not have time to play it
Because uni
floral marten
Ironman mode is no longer required to earn most Stellaris achievements. An unmodified game checksum remains a requirement, and the use of any debug commands blocks them
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/dev-team-biogenesis-4-0-phoenix-released-checksum-1ae3.1738426/
sharp solar
> Ironman mode is no longer required to earn most Stellaris achievements. An unm...
By "debug" commands, do they mean all console commands, or a specific subset of them?
drifting dock
Reads like console commands.
floral marten
Yeah, usually that means using any console command.
sharp solar
Still a good change
drifting dock
You are 4x as attractive as you were before.
novel crescent
Dope, time to boot up Stellaris later
runic moss
> Ironman mode is no longer required to earn most Stellaris achievements. An unm...
what about save loads
floral marten
what about save loads
What about them?
drifting dock
If you are trying to run an older version of the game, that change does not apply. Otherwise, it will moving forward.
floral marten
I would expect saves from pre-4.0 are likely to just break under the new system.
drifting dock
4.0 brings extensive changes to core game systems so saves and mods are not expected to be compatible between versions.
If you have an important game going you would like to finish, please back up the save file before trying to load it in the new version.
You can roll back to a prior version by opening steam and right-clicking on Stellaris in your library -> Properties -> Betas -> choose the desired version from the drop-down.If you experience crashing or other issues, first ensure you have disabled all mods and start a new save.
floral marten
floral marten
Yeah, launch of this seems to have been rough.
radiant wasp
Played as Wilderness
The
Worst Expirience I got in Stellaris
Idk who did Void shit
I hope this person will suffer
My game literally ended because I wasn't able to wage wars because worms
They killed 4 fucking planets
Bio ships are literally the worst, like you spent a lot of resources, sorry make completly new fleet
And yeah, Paradox didn't give AA for bio ships
Which means rockets and airships annihilate you
radiant wasp
Sounds like I'm not missing much
Paradox messed up with balance very much
And I played after bug fixes, as I know release was literally last open beta with 0 changes
PDX moment
novel crescent
Paradox messed up with balance very much
I think it's to be expected with such a major update changing core gameplay mechanics
radiant wasp
And I heard that end game lags weren't fixed
I will check it later by myself
And if end game lags weren't fixed, this patch will compete as worse patch with 2.0
I love Paradox
radiant wasp
floral marten
Apparently there's a known memory leak bug, and that can cause the late game slowdowns. PDX recommends closing the game and reopening if that happens, until they can patch it out.
drifting dock
X
sharp solar
It feels so weird to get an announcement for a game that we already know quite a bit about
novel crescent
Wonder if it'll be playable on launch
vernal kiln
mood
novel crescent
So how playable is Stellaris 4.0?
drifting dock
Playable, but on fire it seems.
novel crescent
Will wait for some more patches
runic moss
Playable, but on fire it seems.
pdx cooked with gotterdammerung then threw that success down the toilet
keen flower
eh ToA and other stuff may have been bad for hoi4, but at least it wasn't as bad a battle for the brospherus that came before NSP iirc, I think it may have been straight buggier than Graveyard of empires
drifting dock
pdx cooked with gotterdammerung then threw that success down the toilet
Different studios now (Gold for HOI and Green for Stellaris)
drifting dock
Reviews have been leaked already, if you are willing to look. Should be interesting tomorrow.
radiant wasp
So how playable is Stellaris 4.0?
Paradox forgot to update a lot of old content for 4.0 patch
I heard a lot of instability inside game because old content
Sometimes it ridicuous (+2200% employment because synthetic infertility)
sharp solar
I think that season pass partly contributed to GoE's poor reception. Normally, we would likely see a lot of people get GD after seeing how good it was, skip on GoE, and that would largely be the end of it.
But season pass changed that. So imagine that GD has just released, and you have two options. Either:
- get just GD, and get GoE later, and pay full price
- take the risk and get the season pass for a discount
- wait a few months until GoE releases and decide then
There were likely people who picked option 2.
floral marten
Paradox forgot to update a lot of old content for 4.0 patch
Yeah, that seems to be the main issue, a few oversights with older content. They've been rapidly patching the game, so hopefully they have it stable by the weekend.
drifting dock
He's 700-800 hours into it.
floral marten
drifting dock
Pox Bombardment for some weird reason no longer works on mechanical beings
Armageddon and Pox Bombardment are once again capable of bombing your enemies into the stone-age (tomb-world)
Wilderness Biomass will no longer refuse to work simple drone jobs, back to work you malleable pile of goo!
drifting dock
EU V reveal in 4 minutes.
sharp solar
There are already first impressions videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEhD3MgfGHXWFkCaKf7DaAdSYnlaoC5VB
solid anvil
There are already first impressions videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
When Victoria 3 was announced, within the day, there were many mods being organized for it
With their own discord servers, development teams, teasers, etc.
Within several days, there were four or five large, separate modding coops to help coordinate modding efforts
They had their own internet dramas and fighting with each other, and within a week, they'd consolidated into two or three rival groups.
All this immediately after Victoria 3 was namedropped. 
I'm not sure if they were even still around by the time Victoria 3 released. Most of the mods died before then, but a few kept up the effort and made eventual releases.
Found this old meme from the day Victoria 3 was announced.
solid anvil
There are already first impressions videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
Looks like these people all have actual access to the game though, so there's that. Actual gameplay, unlike the Victoria 3 pre-release modding larp.
sharp solar
Zlewik explains in detail what they were allowed to show, actually.
TLDR is: video can't be longer than 30 minutes, only the first 100 years of gameplay can be shown, certain stuff is still a work in progress. Including mission trees, which are apparently undergoing a revamp.
radiant wasp
I don't know what to say about this patch
Every next patch is worse than previous
Literally unending circus
Multiplayer is literally unplayable because desyncs
600 unity year 5
500 research...
radiant wasp
https://bsky.app/profile/fwankie.bsky.social/post/3lou6od7gw222
Extermination 
radiant wasp
I don't know what to say
I am just mad
That's literally the worst patch and DLC ever
And people do not care and write positive reviews
That's so bad that buffs increase buffs
Literally exponential grow
novel crescent
So I take it 4.0 is still a dumpster fire?
floral marten
From what I understand the core gameplay is fine, but people are finding some really wild edge cases that let them break the game.
sharp solar
Looks like a fairly important dev diary https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/hearts-of-iron-iv-anniversary-week-developer-corners.1760451/
runic moss
I’m waiting for mods to update
floral marten
What's the state of the game rn?
tl;dr Still buggy, they're slowing down patch releases so QA can actually make sure they're not introducing more bugs with each patch.
runic moss
equestria at war has been dethroned
runic moss
floral marten
drifting dock
https://youtu.be/pTU0f4tlg5c?si=0hjeV7S8PFVG3fWV
cursive tide
...why?
The only reason I can think of for this is that the previous updates to SM made the game unplayable
prisma sonnet
I think there were some legal issues and problems between Paradox and the developers that halted development for a while. I guess they want to reboot it now that those have been sorted out and turn it into a Paradox game (TM) with more regular DLC or something.
cursive tide
i thought development halted because the devs moved onto new projects
they handed the game to new devs who promptly made the most poorly coded stuff possible
also paradox released several games in the "surviving" universe that all suck
runic moss
i hit 1000 hours on stellaris
solemn granite
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3215050/Surviving_Mars_Relaunched/
good value for me. got the game for free (deluxe only bought) and a 50% discount for returning players.
prisma sonnet
I am reading a book called The Golden Road about the spread of Indian culture, religion, and ideas around Eurasia (and East Africa presumably but that’s not a focus of the book) and it makes me really really look forward to All Under Heaven…for the SEA play, lol 
prisma sonnet
I started a game (that I've basically abandoned) as tall Sri Lanka the other day, and after sticking to my knitting for a while went over to check on Mesopotamia and...
Hmmmmm, these are both historical characters, so...let's check Wikipedia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Muwaffaq
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Mu'tadid
So we have an Abassid prince and vizier and no less than an actual caliph who have defected from Sunni Islam to Twelver Shi'ism. Not only that, but if we then check Wikipedia for the chronology of Twelver Imams, we find...
- 10: Ali ibn Muhammad, r. 835-868
- 11: Hasan ibn Ali, r. 868-874
- 12: Muhammad al-Madhi, r. 874- (this isn't really the place to get into Twelver theology and historical beliefs...)
The upshot is that they've also usurped the actual Imams...somehow 😅
Needless to say, I don't think this turn of events is very likely
prisma sonnet
Hmmmmm, I started a game as our favorite Viking Hasteinn today with the aim of ruling a tall "big Brittany" (Brittany proper + Normandy, Anjou, and Poiters). So far it's gone great, with the aid of some timely rebellions I kicked Chuck's butt and easily conquered all that territory, I've built it up and mostly stabilized it, and I've started putting my kids on the thrones.
However, I'm facing a decision (or set of decisions) where I don't know what to do next. When it comes to culture, my original plan was to manually hybridize Norse and Breton culture into "Norzhoned" (i.e, "Norman," but in Breton!) culture. When I conquered Neustria (Normandy), though, I found out that there is a decision to automatically create Norman culture, which I could then hybridize with Breton and potentially Norse (it would take some finagling, but I could probably do it).
The advantage of doing so is that one could get access to the Audacious Cadets cultural tradition, which is rather nice and better than the Breton Swords for Hire tradition. The downside is that one would lose access to the powerful Norse traditions (in particular Coastal Warriors, which I have been specifically building for) until and unless one could hybridize with Norse again.
Hmmmmm...you don't have to be an independent ruler to take the decision, so another obvious possibility presents itself...kick out the current (French) duke and put a Norse duke in his place. Let him take the decision and meanwhile hybridize with Breton. Then later hybridize Breto-Norse and Norman culture into "Norzhoned" culture.
Or take his kids and educate them to be Norse (actually more likely his grandkids now, but whatever!)
prisma sonnet
Hasteinn lived to be 107 years old 
Unfortunately his grandson (who died at 52 ) and great-grandson are kind of struggling now...basically they don't have all of the positive modifiers of Hasteinn and especially they aren't making as much money to pay for the huge retinue of Varangian Veterans I built up during Hasteinn's reign, so my bank balance has been slowly going down...but I need that retinue to dissuade factions...
It doesn't help that Skúli has two sons, therefore essentially half of my tax base was stolen from me when he died. I want my current king (has no sons) to die ASAP so his brother can inherit.
prisma sonnet
If I was to redo this (again) I would probably choose to build up a large retinue of Bondi instead because they're about 1/3rd as expensive as VVs. Not as effective, of course, but quite good enough in the early game.
novel crescent
Hasteinn lived to be 107 years old <:rdwut:399725074204065802>
Most average gigachad
prisma sonnet
I did some fiddling with a debug version of the game to figure out the path to getting the merged cultures I was thinking of, and...uh...
- Form Norman by decision;
- Educate heir with Norse (he/she will have become Norman);
- Hybridize Norse and Breton to form Norzhoned;
- Hybridize Norzhoned and Norman to form Arvorigeg ("Armorican" in Breton, after the old name "Armorica" for the region).
All to combine the Norse traditions with Audacious Cadets...
It's pretty tedious when Hasteinn is very likely able to just hybridize Norse and Breton in his own lifetime. You can pick up Swords for Hire and Chanson de Geste from Breton--the former isn't as good as Audacious Cadets, but it does overlap--and later add Stand and Fight, if you want, on your own.
Also I'm not sure I really want to play in Brittany any more because I've been fiddling with it so much to figure out what to do
prisma sonnet
I started over for various reasons, and quite aside from Hasteinn popping a completely unnecessary Conqueror trait () right at the start of the game, I worked to assign my sons the border duchies...which ended up with one of them forming Norman for me without converting me to Norse. Which means that I can just create Norzhoned culture myself and then later hybridize Norman and Norzhoned when the option becomes available.
prisma sonnet
Guess I should add a screenshot, too.
prisma sonnet
I’m doing that thing where I’m overflowing with ideas on what to do in Crusader Kings 3 and they all sound so fun I can’t choose between them
vernal kiln
I always love playing the English history stuff
prisma sonnet
That's something I want to do sometime, but not as much right now. The main things I'm choosing between are 1) continuing a game I started yesterday as Hasteinn where I went to Pomerania and founded it as a Viking kingdom; my long-term goal is to build it up into a powerful tall kingdom and put my dynasty on a bunch of thrones or 2) starting a new game as Hasteinn to go for the Controlling the Mediterranean decision and then the Faster than the Fox achivement. I would then play a tall game where I try to build a rich, multicultural realm in the middle of the Mediterranean and put dynasts on independent thrones all around it, something like the Normans.
Alternatively 3) start the Pomerania game over, and just play it as someone other than Hasteinn, like Holmgr Hammer, Bagsecg Jute, or Rikulfr Ulfing.
runic moss
ha
sharp solar
Man the Guns is officially confirmed to become free with the release of the next DLC
floral marten
Deep dive into their process for figuring out what's causing lag in Stellaris. Very good read.
drifting dock
I should get back into that at some point.
floral marten
I started playing again now that 4.1 fixed most of the bugs, I'm having fun. But I'm also having to re-learn the entire economy, it changed a lot in 4.0.
radiant wasp
I do not believe that Paradox decided to kill disruptors as a weapon
Again
And I do not want crises to have 50% resistance to pen damage
runic moss
And I do not want crises to have 50% resistance to pen damage
byee byee unbidden arc emitter strat
radiant wasp
byee byee unbidden arc emitter strat
Torpedo Cetana...
I do not know how to kill Cetana without insane torpedo shield pen
runic moss
Torpedo Cetana...
Install op mods
Just not ACOT alone
because acot also buffs cetana to have 2 mil hp alongside its techs
runic moss
then i guess turn down difficulty
there is no shame in that
i play with gigastructures, acot, aot, sots and a bunch of op shit
and i still play with 1x strength crisis
floral marten
floral marten
novel crescent
An obvious solution
Blow them all up
One system at a time
and not just the ships, but the space fauna and leviathans too
They make the game lag, so slaughter them all
I hate lag!
drifting dock
https://youtu.be/v8D_4bh9vpQ?si=Lgx_-Lzp3i5Glf_Z
Turns out, its PDX's biggest issue (i.e. keeping track of shit per tick is what causes the slowdowns in all of their games; especially for things that were there but might be needed again for something one tick [lol]).
glad robin
Almost like they need to evolve from Unity
Speaking of PGS...
https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/games/surviving-mars-relaunched/about
Yeah, it's happening. Has a half off discount for those who already own the og game.
They've overhauled the game, and it includes the expansions of the original.
cursive tide
yeaaah im glad and disappointed to see this
surviving mars was a great colony builder
but the last updates made the game so damn unstable, and the modding community left
also paradox's mod manager suuuucks
im gonna still be buying it tho
glad robin
TLDR: Relaunched rebuilds the game to the newest of the dev's game engine, integrates all the previous DLC into the base game, and adds more features and cleans up things, as they intend to continue development and release more content in the future. Modding will be better too. Discount for players who own the og game.
marsh topaz
"I hope everyone is enjoying friendship!" 
"Whatever you say Celestia" 🐟
sharp solar
I think it's from one of their loss paths where their main island got invaded and they capitulated. And later Equestria liberated them, turning them harmonic in the process.
runic moss
Exactly
prisma sonnet
I started a game in Stellaris as my tweaked version of the Scyldari last night. Despite being Xenophile/Pacifist(/Egalitarian, one of the tweaks I made) I ended up sandwiched between a Devouring Swarm and Evangalizing Zealots. 
The latter were actually more threatening...they attacked me and actually beat me in our first war despite investing more than I normally would in the military. I worked really hard to build up before round two and managed to hold them off that time, and I think I'm strong enough now that they probably won't attack me again. After winning that second war I invaded the Devouring Swarm, which hadn't actually been able to grow very much, and was able to conquer all but two of their systems and two of their planets (my conquests included their homeworld).
I also just started the Biomorphosis situation so soon my population should be booming with clones. I need to review and retool my planets...at least for the time being, I have to use the new planets for resource extraction since disconnected drones can only work Worker-tier jobs untl I get the ability to edit out their hive-mindedness, so I might change some existing planets to focus on things higher up the value chain. I particularly want to increase my alloys, research, and unity production (of course).
In terms of traditions I went Discovery/Expansion/Supremacy; next is going to be cloning (I've already unlocked the slot but I haven't finished the Biogenesis situation, so I'm banking unity while waiting for it to finish), and then probably Mercantile so I can form a trade league. Maybe diplomacy after that, then Prosperity even if it's a bit late...
For ascension perks I took Interstellar Dominion/Mastery of Nature/Biomorphosis; I think at this point and given this difficulty level I'm okay to focus on more RP-centric picks going forwards, so something like Hydrocentric, Arcology Project, Voidborne, Xeno-Compatibility, Galactic Wonders, in something like that order.
I'm also on the cusp of getting cruisers and fighters, so I should retool my fleet towards carrier swarms, I guess.
vernal kiln
I should play Stellaris again at one point
novel crescent
I should play Stellaris again at one point
same
vernal kiln
I think I mentioned doing a manechat Stellaris game
Would be fun to do EaW or Stellaris with pony mods
glad robin
Pony mod Stellaris is still fun, though it needs a loy of polish
drifting dock
floral marten
Stream today to show off the Infernals pack for Stellaris. And you can buy ugly Christmas sweaters.
runic moss
I think I mentioned doing a manechat Stellaris game
casual or competitive
if its competitive some sweat is going to dominate everyone using crisis rush
vernal kiln
casual duh
prisma sonnet
For ascension perks I took Interstellar Dominion/Mastery of Nature/Biomorphosis;...
I ended up playing quite a bit forwards in the game and am approaching the end-game year (2400 per defaults) with a very strong but non-optimized economy and extremely powerful fleet; I am by far the strongest empire in the galaxy.
I ended up taking Galactic Force Projection instead of Galactic Wonders because the situation at the time I earned it (about 2300) warranted it, and the extra influence has been useful.
One lesson learned here, though, is that I was stretching my influence too far, doing too many things--I haven't actually turned a single planet into an ecumenopolis because I haven't been able to afford the influence compared to all of the megastructures and kilostructures I was building, applying Mastery of Nature and Expand Planetary Sea to planets, working with vassals and modifying their contracts, and taking diplomatic actions in the Galactic Senate.
Probably I needed to focus down a bit, either by taking Hydrocentric or Arcology Project, not both, or at least by only spending my influence on one or two things (e.g., first Mastery of Nature and Expand Planetary Sea then later ecumenopolis projects and only later still kilostructures and megastructures) at a time.
Also, I think I want to bring forwards the mid-game and end-game years (and as a result the victory year) because by mid-game I was really getting to the point of end-game in terms of economic and fleet strength, even if the Khan wasn't that far behind me, and by now I'm definitely post-end-game and can probably casually delete all of the crises except Cetana due to her unique mechanics.
Having such a big empire as I have hasn't been helping with stretching my influence, either--obviously it means more planets to take decisions on, more Relays to build, more Gateways needed, etc.
prisma sonnet
I think next time I might go Mutation instead of Cloning too, just see how that goes.
On a different note, I noticed that Ocean Paradise and possibly Life-Seeded might benefit from an unusual strategy where they develop their homeworlds for primary resource production while building their colonies for secondary (Consumer Goods, Alloys) and tertiary (Trade, Research, Unity) production, since they start off with large planets that are unusually rich in natural resources. The capital resource production designation also boosts the production of all primary resource jobs on your capital, which helps compensate for it being weaker than the specific planetary ones.
floral marten
drifting dock
EUV is being streamed early for those interested.
floral marten
prisma sonnet
I started a new game as the Scyldari with some tweaks (switched out Catalytic Reprocessing as a starting civic for Parliamentary System, and substituted in bioships to keep using their food wealth given I already had them as Ocean Paradise/Anglers), on a much smaller galaxy to make the game go faster. I'm just really obsessed with these otters right now :V
Also I was hoping to do a chill, mostly peaceful game, and it spawned me in next to a Fanatic Purifier/Under One Rule civ...luckily my other neighbors seem okay, so if I push militarization I should be able to contain them until I take off and can crush them.
Since I'm playing as Pacifist Xenophiles with Defensive Wars only to keep my pacifists happy, I'll probably try to get the galactic community to declare them the crisis once I'm ready.
prisma sonnet
The Great Khan woke up before I finished filling in my region of space and tore up the “eastern” third of my empire, including (temporarily) taking my generator world and (permanently) taking one of my research worlds
My main fleets were actually able to defeat him quite handily…once they made the looooong trek from the border with the Fanatic Purifiers to my border with him 🫠
In fact he briefly laid siege to my homeworld before I drove his forces back, but the upshot is that a very spotted empire took control of a lot of my domain (and blew up Chor’s Compass).
So I think I’m going to go back and preempt him.
The lesson learned here is that I should have stationed fleets or at least a fleet and built bastions around Marauder space in anticipation of this, even if they had otherwise been quiescent so far.
On that note, has anyone else noticed that they frequently bug out and get stuck with their raiding fleets going nowhere, making them unable to raid any more?
floral marten
Oh yeah, the Great Khan is a bitch, he normally throws a wrench into my empire.
floral marten
On that note, has anyone else noticed that they frequently bug out and get stuck...
Yeah, that seems to be an older bug for them.
prisma sonnet
I was underrating him because last time I played he was far away from me and not a really big problem. Also, it seemed like he wasn’t going to pop because it was a ways past the midgame year.
But this time the one and only Marauder empire on the map (I was playing on a tiny galaxy) could only expand into my space. Obviously I should have been prepared, with a higher priority than preparing to face the hive mind Fallen Empire if it awakens under Growth 
floral marten
I'm almost never prepared for the midgame crisis, I just don't know how to build out my fleets enough.
prisma sonnet
I didn't have much trouble this time, partially because I was going bioships so I mostly needed food and not so many alloys and the ships get stronger over time.
Ship builds also matter a lot, right now penetrating weapons like missiles, strike craft, and disruptors are wayyyyyy stronger than weapons that actually have to deal with shields so it's strongly recommended to go for those.
floral marten
I didn't have much trouble this time, partially because I was going bioships so ...
Oh yeah, I need to try bioships
prisma sonnet
Bioships are a little different but sync very well with an aquatic/anglers build like the one I was doing.
Since Anglers make more food than normal farmers and being Aquatic means that Ocean worlds have unlimited food districts.
Plus, I used the Ocean Paradise origin, which makes your starting world a powerhouse for all normal resources.
One thing I am struggling with is world designations now, though...it's hard to balance my basic resource and advanced resource production. I probably went a little too hard into tech worlds, with only one forge world (even going bioships I still need a lot of alloys, especially for megastructures and habitats).
I also slid into making my capital a trade world, but it probably made more sense to build it as a general basic resources world, especially minerals for building up my planets...not too much minerals though since I only need them for building planets.
Since I have bio-reactor, I think it might make more sense to build two agri-worlds and plop the bio-reactor in their building slots rather than build a single generator world?
I probably need two agri-worlds anyway to fuel my industry since I now have Catalytic Reprocessing.
Also not sure how to handle rare resources, I have giant surpluses of all of them except for rare crystals (which I have a good deposit of on my homeworld) thanks to an Ancient Refinery on my forge world (that world also popped an event that makes pops automatically generate Exotic Gases).
prisma sonnet
For minerals, I guess I could also try taking advantage of the nebulae in my territory or find somewhere I could build a mining habitat
Maybe in the one and only system where building an arc furnace made any sense.
In the long run, a matter decompressor seems to make sense (I do want to go Galactic Wonders here) since it's popless...
All of my planets except my capital are pretty poor in mineral districts, which makes it harder.
floral marten
I also slid into making my capital a trade world, but it probably made more sens...
From what I've seen, it's best to use your capital as a research world until you can get dedicated research planets up and running, since it's already big enough to support a bunch of research buildings in the early game.
prisma sonnet
I already had several tech-worlds by this point.
The thing about Ocean Paradise is that your starting world is exceptionally good at basic resource production, with unlimited food districts (due to the forced traits from that origin) and a good number of mining and generator districts too. You have a Crystal Forest feature that means that miners produce Rare Crystals in quantity (especially if you build the building), even without the crystals specialization, and capitals have a special designation that boosts basic resources across the board more than their output in other areas.
Except for food, where I do definitely need at least an agri-world other than my capital due to going bioships + Catalytic Reprocessing, this one planet can easily supply an entire empire's worth of basic resources (and a good amount of Consumer Goods and Trade too, thanks to Anglers + Pearl Divers).
Which means all of my other planets and habitats can specialize in other things.
floral marten
Damn, nice.
prisma sonnet
I guess I sort of answered my own question...build out the mining districts at least to the point of getting c. 1000 minerals per month and then build 10-15 farming districts, balance is cities with double farming support, run bio-reactors in the farming specialization. That should be able to cover my mineral needs for the foreseeable future and a good chunk of my food needs...probably my energy needs too. I have another world I was looking to develop as an agri-world I can develop as a pure agri-world and a habitat I got from an archeology dig that I was developing as a trade or forge habitat. Maybe later I can build a mining habitat in the arc furnace system and convert Scyldaria entirely to agriculture?
cursive tide
prisma sonnet
After going back to redo the Great Khan, I ended up in a war with the Fanatic Purifiers to my south long before he popped because they had a rebellion by a bunch of Fanatic Egalitarians against them (I felt okay being non-pacifistic in this case!). They lost 🙁 but this meant that I ended up conquering the whole Fanatic Purifier empire. I converted their planets to forge worlds, eventually, but more importantly this meant that I could convert the habitat I had built in the chokepoint system connected to them from a fortress to a mining world, which together with mining stations (especially since the Purifiers had built multiple arc furnaces) basically covered me for what little I did with minerals for the rest of the game.
Anyway, that meant that I was able to get bastions, fortress habitats, shipyards, and fleets in place for the Khan, and he basically flopped. His first attack was on one of my bastion systems, and while I lost most of my defense platforms I otherwise easily crushed his fleets. The second battle I don't even remember, it might have been in a different system.
After that, there weren't really any challenges since I had already united the rest of the galaxy in my federation (Tiny galaxy). I built up my planets, although by the time the end-game date hit I was only just starting to turn some of them into ecumenopoli. The Prethoryn popped, and I was able to predeploy my fleets (including a Federation fleet) and easily crush them.
Probably the crisis settings were too low.
Then the Hive Mind fallen empire awoke under Control, but I had advanced so much that they were still way behind me.
I'm not sure whether to stop now or keep playing and fight and beat them--it doesn't seem in character for my folks to provoke a fight with the Hive Mind (and they already excavated Last Thought and killed the Tiyanki Matriarch 😔), but it also doesn't feel like the game is quite done without putting them in their place.
I could just veto a resolution of theirs, I suppose...
Overall playing on a Tiny galaxy made the game experience much better in terms of performance, although I ran out of things for my envoys to do and, obviously, it's a little frustrating that a War in Heaven is outright impossible (due to there only being one Fallen Empire). So in the future I might instead play in a Small galaxy with 0.25x habitable planets (as opposed to Tiny with 0.5x).
prisma sonnet
On a different note, I'm thinking about ascension perks, both the design of them and the specific ones I took. I spammed "planetary improvement" perks a bit too much again--Master of Nature, Hydrocentric, Voidborne, Arcology Project, and Galactic Wonders (I guess that isn't a "planetary improvement" perk exactly, but it's close). I probably should have stuck to Hydrocentric and Arcology Project, although I did end up building a Dyson Sphere. I also probably should have taken Cosmogenesis, although it's annoying it locks you out of becoming the Custodian even if you don't use the Synaptic Lathe or otherwise really mess with the galaxy given how useful the Custodian reforms (and that extra +5 influence!) are.
prisma sonnet
Building on that I’ve noticed that there just are an awful lot of ascension perks which (somewhat generally) fit the theme of “improving” your portion of space, whether by giving you better planets (e.g., Mastery of Nature or Arcology Project) or improving your ability to make great constructions (e.g. Voidborne or Galactic Wonders). The overall effect is rather a bit much, especially since these perks vary from the bad (Detox) to the essential (Arcology Project).
A thought I had for improving these was to basically turn them into a second tier of “ascension,” functioning similarly to the existing ascension paths. You would take one of two specific ascension perks (I suggest World Shaper and Master Builders) that focuses you into a Situation and eventually tradition tree that determines how you approach the problem of making the most of the space you control. Will you take your existing planets and mold them into perfect paradises? Cover them with steel and concrete? Or leave them behind for habitats and megastructures?
Obviously this would need to come with a rebalancing that makes gaia worlds (or non-gaia worlds favored by your species, e.g. Ocean worlds for Aquatic species), ecumenopoli, habitats, and megastructures roughly equally balanced at least in the case where you build for them. It might also come with larger changes to terraforming to make it more interesting, for example by making the terraforming process for all empires more similar to that for current Idyllic Bloom or Relentless Industrialist empires. This could also have a lot of interesting interactions with existing origins and civics like the aforementioned Idyllic Bloom or Void Dwellers that could function like some origins and civics that lock you into a particular ascension tree (or even block you from taking an ascension tree altogether) currently.
Anyway, that was just a tentative stab at a possible overhaul (in a World Shaper DLC?), I'd like to hear other people's ideas and feedback!
novel crescent
@prisma sonnet Thanks for the writeup I'm taking notes for my next campaign
prisma sonnet
I was talking to someone about the relative merits of becoming Galactic Custodian and taking the Cosmogenesis perk (which blocks you from doing so), and it led me to realize that for a lot of players "being strong" is itself a form of RP.
That is, at default difficulty settings the game is not particularly difficult for an experienced player, so there's no real objective reason to rank builds or approaches by "strength" (measured by fleet strength). Practically any build or approach, when executed by a competent and experienced player, will be able to easily defeat an AE or crisis fleet.
So looking for the "strongest" build is like RPing a hyper-militaristic society that always wants bigger guns and more powerful starships even though theirs massively outclass everyone else's.
Nothing wrong with that, particularly, but it is interesting to me...
floral marten
Yeah, for some people the power fantasy is the attraction. Just being able to bulldoze anyone who gets in your way feels good to them.
runic moss
why do you think i run acot
prisma sonnet
Yeah, the only problem is that it's often not recognized as a form of RP because your strength is explicitly tracked in the game and does affect a lot of systems, so even someone who is playing pacifistically needs to care about it. So it gets folded into "playing well" even though beyond a certain point "playing well" is mostly just RPing a militarist empire.
runic moss
until my computer couldn't run stellaris anymore
i crash every 5 years now that i try to run my modlist
prolly because 4.0 is still kinda unstable
prisma sonnet
The only mods I (reliably) play with are Real Sol Textures, which is a purely graphical mod for the Solar System, and Detox Technology, which changes Detox from an ascension perk to a technology.
prisma sonnet
I ended up playing the Scyldari game again and the problem was resolved by one of my “allies” proposing to declare war on the AE anyway. I probably should have vetoed it to stay in character, but I went ahead with it. Faced some early challenges because I underestimated them (and most of my fleet was being upgraded), but I’ve recovered and have been pushing them back, including taking their capital system. I’ve also severely attrited their fleets, including damaging them enough that they’re starting to take losses instead of being able to retreat.
I’ve faced a bigger problem with the Galactic Community, since most members seem to have dropped out due to being in non-compliance with one resolution or another. I’ve started trying to wind them back to get them back in…in one sense it’s meaningless because I’m in a federation with everyone except the Habinte, in another sense it’s wounding because a lot of my legitimacy really comes from being Custodian and leader of the Galactic Community, and it’s not much of a Community with just two empires (other than the AE, who are obviously doomed).
prisma sonnet
On a wholly different note, I've been noodling around ideas for a playable version of the Marauder empires. I guess the idea is that the player (or, rather, the starting ruler) is a weaker version of the Great Khan who just unified these squabbling clans into a fighting force that's going to take over the galaxy! (Having similar "real" aims to the Great Khan him/herself is optional).
Void Dweller origin, obviously, Fanatic Militarist/Authoritarian ethics (I know the post-Khan Marauders have Fanatic Militarist/Xenophobe, and that would also be a good option, but I feel like Fanatic Militarist/Authoritarian fits the description above a bit better). Dictatorial authority, even though it's weak for the start of the game. Barbaric Despoilers and Warrior Culture civics.
Species portrait is up to you, I'd pick Unruly and Quarrelsome traits along with at least Rapid Breeders and Nomadic, like Marauder pops you can get by event/if the Great Khan conquers planets and starts spawning them. Your fifth starting trait is up to you, but I think Flight (and a relevant portrait) works for a species that has been living in low-gee conditions for a long time.
The core gameplay loop, I think, would probably be taking over alien civilizations/pre-FTL societies and enslaving their pops to work on planetary surfaces, maybe using thrall-world designations to boost basic resource output. Habitats would be used for secondary/tertiary work.
Raiding enemy planets for slaves would also be on, of course.
keen flower
really should've taken that as my cue to stop trying to get a good France game going,
(next attempt had me not get the Maine surrender event over 20 years into the game, which while not game ruining, still a big wtf moment and bad sign)
seriously I'm not even sure how they got pu'd that early, the heck ai
marsh topaz
I think the DLC sounds good. I just wish I had money to buy it 
keen flower
what dyall think of the new hoi4 dlc
I've heard nothing about it, so what implications?
I haven't really bought the last few dlcs tbh, I've getting into eu4 again
runic moss
I've heard nothing about it, so what implications?
Doctrines got teworked
keen flower
Oh cool, I'll check out that in like a week
I do think that nothing will seriously change for casuals players then, but with the sub doctrines/mastery if I'm remembering correctly will probably lead to a more interesting late game for mp but for now we wait and see
red belfry
I like the doctrine changes I think the DLC is wildly overpriced
vernal kiln
She was gaming
Didn't get to finish the mp game, but I was doing a roach build trying to get the nastiest defense possible
keen flower
Didn't get to finish the mp game, but I was doing a roach build trying to get th...
Sounds disgusting
I love it
prisma sonnet
Even though I'm in the middle of (not even particularly deep into...) a game as Bohemia in CK3, I'm already thinking of what to do for my next game 😵💫
Undecided between playing as Budivoj, Count of Lübeck in 1066 to reprise one of the few original Crusader Kings games I did, but better (as in, in the OG I never got anywhere, but here I'm hoping to become King of Wendia...)
Or Domagoj Domagojvíc in 867 for another go at a tall Croatia (more like tall Yugoslavia but shhhhhh) game I tried a while back but failed (my line of succession ended up with a girl who was deposed by her older male relatives less than a century after starting, ending the game long before I could achieve my goals).
prisma sonnet
A little frustratingly, King Boleslav I of Bohemia just got cancer and died from the (initially) successful operation to mitigate it while on pilgramage to Rome, completion of which would have netted me an achievement 😓
prisma sonnet
However, his son managed to become the Holy Roman Emperor late in his life and was immediately able to convert the Empire into an administrative realm 
Also, I nabbed the few counties in the Kingdom of Italy that I didn't already have control over off of the Doge of Pisa and the Pope (who excommunicated me despite our otherwise excellent relationship and the fact that I am a Religious Icon who recently took the Consecrated Blood decision...) and thanks to Přemysl the Ploughman hitting Mythical status about the time I was able to complete it and instantly convert Italy into a de jure holding of the Holy Roman Empire.
Suck it, Voltaire! 😛
rigid stratus
i didn't remember invading equestria being so difficult as the changelings
i dont know what inspired me to start playing again but i did
my favorite part of the game is unit microing so it was pretty fun in the end though
i think i might just naturally play too cautiously which is specifically bad when you need to blitz as fast as you can
prisma sonnet
I kind of want to start as Budivoj Nakonid in 1066 and form Pomerania, but man is it hard. Even leaving aside the initial war to take back Velatia, which at least is over with one way or the other soon, afterwards you're kind of stuck without the military or financial might to easily take on the other Slavic dukes there and the other Christians around you like Denmark, Saxony, or Poland often holy war them into oblivion before you can build up to reasonably make a move.
Makes me want to go back to 867 and do it as Dyre or Haesteinn, they have the chops to just go ham on the place at least.
prisma sonnet
I went back to 867 as Dyre, but with the aim of getting the “Faster than the Fox” achievement and then building a lovely tall Sicily.
It took a number of restarts, but I just Varangian’d over to Napoli with a fat stack of Varangian Veterans ready to smash face.
The trick with him is restarting until you get a favorable starting setup; using the early money from raiding and ransoming to fund hunts and feasts for prestige to accelerate your army buildup; and, vitally, to never raid anyone with more troops than you.
You aren’t Haesteinn, you can’t just swan around beating anyone you want.
prisma sonnet
Uuuuugh, I managed to conquer all of Sicily except for Lucce as Dyre (and was at the tail end of a war for that), but for some reason one of the brothers of his primary heir stole the Duchy of Sicily even though my capital was there, leaving the primary heir with barely enough income from Naples to cover the cost of his men-at-arms even after downsizing them...meaning that I get stuck in a debt spiral since I keep having to fight pretenders, populists, peasants, etc. and don't spend enough time at peace to make up for it. I converted to Catholicism to try to beg for money from the Pope (after converting to Greek Orthodoxy in line with my long-term plans for the state, but it feels so hopeless...
prisma sonnet
I started a new game which is going a lot better. My third king, Dyre’s youngest son, has stabilized Sicily after the Black Death (or Plague of Justinian Late Edition, either/or) tore through the world in the early 10th century, and I’m up to 30 gold per month income from just the duchies of Sicily and Capua/Napoli. I’ve been moderately successful in attracting historical characters to my court, too—so far I’ve nabbed three out of five who have spawned in diplomatic range (I will post who they are later)
I’m close to filling out all of Sicily’s holding slots and afterwards will be investing in the new cities and temples I built in my vassal territories so they effectively boost development and control.
My king’s eldest two sons are both geniuses with a martial education, so once my current king dies I might start holy warring around the Med with my fat stacks of cash (and troops) to spread the dynasty around.
I’ll post some screenshots later, I think…
prisma sonnet
First though,
Actually this ended up passing relatively uneventfully in game, although I was very worried at first.
prisma sonnet
Crusader Kings 3 ought to have a late-game event chain in East Africa and Arabia related to the discovery and development of coffee 😆
I’d imagine something like—starting in the 14th century, with a higher chance in the 15th century if it hasn’t fired yet, there’s an event for a realm in a few specified kingdoms around Abyssinia (including Yemen) proclaiming that the use of coffee as a beverage has been invented.
The ruler can probably choose a few options around it; broadly speaking, I would expect having coffee to provide a small learning boost and tax boost to provinces that can cultivate it while possibly increasing the likelihood of sedition and unrest (maybe a lowered Popular Opinion?)
Once invented, the use of coffee would gradually spread to neighboring realms by event, probably modified by cultural and religious factors (not just similarity, but for example whether a religion has monastic or ‘mystical’ practices—it’s telling that the earliest recorded use was among Sufis)
Generally it would be unlikely but possible for it to spread out of the Horn of Africa and Arabia before the end of the game, more likely if there is a large empire incorporating those areas but centered elsewhere e.g. a resurgent Caliphate or a resurrected Persian Empire.
prisma sonnet
General John Brown (yes, that John Brown) leading the armies of the Union against Robert E. Lee from the loyal state of Florida into the traitor state of Georgia 😵💫
novel crescent
General John Brown (yes, *that* John Brown) leading the armies of the Union agai...
Blessed timeline
The only thing that's wrong here is John Brown is losing the battle
marsh topaz
Brown's got more righteous spirit, and will thusly be favorably remembered in a historical factoid in 2026
prisma sonnet
The only thing that's wrong here is John Brown is losing the battle
He did, but he won the later ones. After the war, though, he joined the reactionary movement (???) so I had to kick him out to make sure I got Cultural Exclusion through and could successfully complete Reconstruction.
This led later to Marcus Garvey an African-American led American fascist movement 😵💫
Also Southerners weren't a primary culture any more (it's just really hard to get so many loyalists).
drifting dock
Ah, PDX games.
prisma sonnet
Ah, PDX games.
It kind of makes sense--if you go looking, there was definitely a certain strain of African-American who embraced fascist-like ideas (the aforementioned Marcus Garvey, among others.
The bordergore outside of the Americas was intense (and pretty bad in South America, too).
I struggled really hard to pacifically form a Pan-American league encompassing the historical interests of American leaders, but Brazil and later Canada and Cuba/Puerto Rico made it hard.
drifting dock
Also Southerners weren't a primary culture any more (it's just really hard to ge...
Just have to convert or revert back to be more open. Probably want to be more open when shit happens and people begin to flee.
prisma sonnet
You have to pass Cultural Exclusion to get African-American as a primary culture, and since Yankee is still a primary culture Dixie gets +125 acceptance (assuming you're still on Total Separation): +60 for having the same heritage as Yankee, +50 for speaking English, +15 for existing (because of Total Separation).
So they're still first-class citizens, just not primary-culture citizens.
In the end, the later development was that I went to Council Republic and Cooperative Ownership peacefully in, like, the 1880s or 1890s. There was a brief period where fascists were in charge but I completely ignored them the Socialist Party of America blocked them from implementing any of their measures. For most of the last 30-40 years the Trade Unions or a Farmer-Labor lash-up were in power though.
Everyone else hated me for no reason considering that I didn't fight any wars for a long time before working to remove Europe from the Americas, which was successful although it required three huge wars. One against France to pick up French Guiana and the French Indies, plus liberate Uruguay, and two against Britain, one to conquer or liberate everything except the Miskito Kingdom and a second one to conquer the Miskito Kingdom.
I was able to convince the Dutch to sell me Suriname (they had previously lost Curacao) and the Danes to sell me Greenland after all.
I also conquered the Central American states except for El Salvador and fed them to El Salvador so that they could (re)form the Federal Republic of Central America.
In the last few decades I started using my economic dominance, power bloc, and massive wealth to bribe the other countries of the Americas to ban slavery and liberalize, which went okay...
marsh topaz
"Reactionary" and "John Brown" being described in the same sentence is unfathomably funny
prisma sonnet
Hence the "???"
I think it's something about the way Abolitionist is defined and his IG...
He should probably switch to Humanitarian or Pluralist if slavery is successfully abolished and he's still alive.
Even though I switched off of Homesteading to Commercialized Agriculture I still couldn't get enough support to pass Collectivized Farming, which was kind of disappointing.
marsh topaz
I'm just imagining everything John Brown did, from the freeing the slaves stance, to leading a revolt in the south with said slaves, fighting on the side of the Union instead of being executed in otl, and now after changing the world with his stance in radicalism, after everything he's done, he's like "Woah okay, pull it back now guys"
It's like Karl Marx writing an entire thesis on anti-capitalism and after communism becomes mainstream, he's like "Damn capitalism kinda tight tho"
prisma sonnet
It's like Karl Marx writing an entire thesis on anti-capitalism and after commun...
You say that, but:
https://www.reddit.com/r/victoria3/comments/1ivakx3/fascist_karl_marx/
Anyway, even though I basically quit doing anything in the government building queue in the 1890s or 1900s, I still have over £2 billion GDP and ludicrously high SoLs by the end of the game.
Aside from Central America I also manipulated the West Indies Federation and Antillean Confederation into being. Central America and the West Indies were grateful, but Cuba and Puerto Rico were not, jerks.
marsh topaz
You say that, but:
https://www.reddit.com/r/victoria3/comments/1ivakx3/fascist_k...
Oh my GAH
💥
prisma sonnet
I'm planning on going in and using console commands to clean up the horrific bordergore and tweak a few things that weren't really properly resolved by the game's systems.
Hmmmmm...maybe I should have taken Panama and given it to Central America when I fought Colombia, too...
drifting dock
I've been meaning to get back into that, but work, EU V, and life have got in the way (or plan to be).
prisma sonnet
After resting and taking some time to assimilate the outcome of the game, it makes me want to be imperialistic 😛
I kinda want to do the U.S. again but just conquer everything north of the Amazon instead of wooing everyone into my power bloc, then puppet the South American countries (probably not annex them...unless...?)
Or a normal Russia game where I try to liberalize but keep the Tsar and dominate Central Asia and Iran.
wet canopy
floral marten
drifting dock
sharp solar
drifting dock
cursive tide
thats fucking funny
novel crescent
lmao