Paradox Games II

[Herargon]

I just got two random booster packs for Victoria 2 and Hearts of Iron 3, each with three cards.

Is paradox trying to tell me something or?

DO I NEED TO BUY MORE GAMES TO APPEASE THE PARADOX GODS?

You need to make a sweet Euro sacrifice to the Paradox Divines. Only then will you be able to live a fulfilled life.

I wonder if the European Union is present in the Extended Timeline/Modern Day mod. It could be that its mechanic is HRE-like...

If we consider the EU irl being the ''HRE'' in EU4, then what reforms would it already have done?

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

You need to make a sweet Euro sacrifice to the Paradox Divines. Only then will you be able to live a fulfilled life.

I wonder if the European Union is present in the Extended Timeline/Modern Day mod. It could be that its mechanic is HRE-like...

If we consider the EU irl being the ''HRE'' in EU4, then what reforms would it already have done?

I absolutely adore this question, than you for asking it! I'm currently doing European Law at my university, one of the courses, and this is the thing we are constantly struggling with. I'll give it a look.

[Herargon]

I wonder if the European Union is present in the Extended Timeline/Modern Day mod. It could be that its mechanic is HRE-like...

If we consider the EU irl being the ''HRE'' in EU4, then what reforms would it already have done?

I absolutely adore this question, than you for asking it! I'm currently doing European Law at my university, one of the courses, and this is the thing we are constantly struggling with. I'll give it a look.

Interesting.. You're doing European Law? It's complex. I have a family member who happens to have a book with all laws of the EU, and even then, that book has more pages than Ulysses. I'm intrigued to hear your answer!

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

You need to make a sweet Euro sacrifice to the Paradox Divines. Only then will you be able to live a fulfilled life.

I wonder if the European Union is present in the Extended Timeline/Modern Day mod. It could be that its mechanic is HRE-like...

If we consider the EU irl being the ''HRE'' in EU4, then what reforms would it already have done?

The problem in comparison is that the EU doesn't have a leader country, so some terms don't apply. In general, I think the EU has enacted the following reforms in one way or another:
Reform the Hofgericht (Reform the Royal Court)
Enact Gemeiner Pfennig (Enact common taxes)
Ewiger Landfriede (Eternal peace)

I can't find the descriptions on the 'Call for Reichsreform' and 'Institute Reichsregiment' reforms, could someone give me the description of those? I mean the fluff historical background you get, not the game results.

[SuperFruitland]

You need to make a sweet Euro sacrifice to the Paradox Divines. Only then will you be able to live a fulfilled life.

I wonder if the European Union is present in the Extended Timeline/Modern Day mod. It could be that its mechanic is HRE-like...

If we consider the EU irl being the ''HRE'' in EU4, then what reforms would it already have done?

Sadly, it is not.

I really wish the EU was in Extended Timeline (lebensraum) but alas, it is not to be.

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

I absolutely adore this question, than you for asking it! I'm currently doing European Law at my university, one of the courses, and this is the thing we are constantly struggling with. I'll give it a look.

Interesting.. You're doing European Law? It's complex. I have a family member who happens to have a book with all laws of the EU, and even then, that book has more pages than Ulysses. I'm intrigued to hear your answer!

Well, I'm doing law, Rechtsgeleerdheid in Leiden. European law, being such an integral part of our national justice system, is one of its courses. So, it's a part of my study. A good part, too! Yeah, studying European law itself could be an entire bachelor degree.

But don't worry. My own law books with Dutch law have more pages than about six Ulysseses.

[Herargon]

I wonder if the European Union is present in the Extended Timeline/Modern Day mod. It could be that its mechanic is HRE-like...

If we consider the EU irl being the ''HRE'' in EU4, then what reforms would it already have done?

The problem in comparison is that the EU doesn't have a leader country, so some terms don't apply. In general, I think the EU has enacted the following reforms in one way or another:
Reform the Hofgericht (Reform the Royal Court)
Enact Gemeiner Pfennig (Enact common taxes)
Ewiger Landfriede (Eternal peace)

I can't find the descriptions on the 'Call for Reichsreform' and 'Institute Reichsregiment' reforms, could someone give me the description of those? I mean the fluff historical background you get, not the game results.

Here's your 'Call for Reichsreform':

http://i.imgur.com/0ANKlEB.jpg
(Source: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/sho ... bsburg-AAR )

I'll be searching for 'Institute Reichsregiment' now.

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

The problem in comparison is that the EU doesn't have a leader country, so some terms don't apply. In general, I think the EU has enacted the following reforms in one way or another:
Reform the Hofgericht (Reform the Royal Court)
Enact Gemeiner Pfennig (Enact common taxes)
Ewiger Landfriede (Eternal peace)

I can't find the descriptions on the 'Call for Reichsreform' and 'Institute Reichsregiment' reforms, could someone give me the description of those? I mean the fluff historical background you get, not the game results.

Here's your 'Call for Reichsreform':

http://i.imgur.com/0ANKlEB.jpg
(Source: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/sho ... bsburg-AAR )

I'll be searching for 'Institute Reichsregiment' now.

Yeah, we probaly have 'Call for Reichsreform' too. Since the Treaty of Lisbon, the EU has become increasingly centralised and unified, so that probably counts.

[Herargon]

Here's your 'Call for Reichsreform':

http://i.imgur.com/0ANKlEB.jpg
(Source: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/sho ... bsburg-AAR )

I'll be searching for 'Institute Reichsregiment' now.

Yeah, we probaly have 'Call for Reichsreform' too. Since the Treaty of Lisbon, the EU has become increasingly centralised and unified, so that probably counts.

Ah, yes. I remember that treaty being signed... I saw it on TV.
And here's the 'Institute Reichsregiment', by the way!

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/sho ... hsregiment

The text of the 'Institute Reichsregiment' decision is thus ''Consolidate the Imperial Diet, and reduce the legislative complexity.''

Also, on this Reddit thread, someone else once made a jokingly comment about the EU compared to the HRE. I think his first things were pretty accurate, but then it became too funny to be taken seriously.

http://www.reddit.com/r/eu4/comments/2q ... year_reu4/

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

Yeah, we probaly have 'Call for Reichsreform' too. Since the Treaty of Lisbon, the EU has become increasingly centralised and unified, so that probably counts.

Ah, yes. I remember that treaty being signed... I saw it on TV.
And here's the 'Institute Reichsregiment', by the way!

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/sho ... hsregiment

The text of the 'Institute Reichsregiment' decision is thus ''Consolidate the Imperial Diet, and reduce the legislative complexity.''

Also, on this Reddit thread, someone else once made a jokingly comment about the EU compared to the HRE. I think his first things were pretty accurate, but then it became too funny to be taken seriously.

http://www.reddit.com/r/eu4/comments/2q ... year_reu4/

Ah! Yes! We have that one as well! Yeah, so, everything up to Ewiger Landfriede is also present in the European Union. Which is great!

I am wondering how the last two would look, though. Renevatio Imperii I can understand, Europe going federal, but the Revocation of the Privileges... I don't really see how that would be instituted. Maybe if the European Union gains 'shared sovereignty' with the member states, but that is beside the point. So, yeah! We are a late game HRE. Only, we are not holy, not Roman, and not an empire. A better description:

Call for Reichsreform European Community of Coal and Steel
InstituteReichsregiment Treaty of Maastricht
Reform the Hofgericht Treaty of Rome
EnactGemeiner Pfennig Euro, EEG
Ewiger Landfriede European Community of Coal and Steel
ProclaimErbkaisertum Error 404, imperialism not found
Revoke the Privilegia European Confederation (theoretical)
Renovatio Imperii European Federation (highly theoretical)

[Lunas Legion]

Yeah, we probaly have 'Call for Reichsreform' too. Since the Treaty of Lisbon, the EU has become increasingly centralised and unified, so that probably counts.

Ah, yes. I remember that treaty being signed... I saw it on TV.
And here's the 'Institute Reichsregiment', by the way!

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/sho ... hsregiment

The text of the 'Institute Reichsregiment' decision is thus ''Consolidate the Imperial Diet, and reduce the legislative complexity.''

Also, on this Reddit thread, someone else once made a jokingly comment about the EU compared to the HRE. I think his first things were pretty accurate, but then it became too funny to be taken seriously.

http://www.reddit.com/r/eu4/comments/2q ... year_reu4/

I laughed at 'Convince Britain to stay'.

[The Jonathanian States]

I wonder if the European Union is present in the Extended Timeline/Modern Day mod. It could be that its mechanic is HRE-like...

If we consider the EU irl being the ''HRE'' in EU4, then what reforms would it already have done?

The problem in comparison is that the EU doesn't have a leader country, so some terms don't apply. In general, I think the EU has enacted the following reforms in one way or another:
Reform the Hofgericht (Reform the Royal Court)
Enact Gemeiner Pfennig (Enact common taxes)
Ewiger Landfriede (Eternal peace)

Those do sound right.

...'Institute Reichsregiment' reform...

Well, according to captain wiki of pedia it was supposed to be a sort of upper house of the HRE, consisting of representatives of the free cities, the ecclesiastical states and the princes and having certain executive and/or legislative powers.
Historically both attempts failed at surviving for longer than a short while.

I just got two random booster packs for Victoria 2 and Hearts of Iron 3, each with three cards.

Is paradox trying to tell me something or?

DO I NEED TO BUY MORE GAMES TO APPEASE THE PARADOX GODS?

..... I think I'm jealous, ya basterd.

the EU doesn't have a leader country,

Honhonhonhonhon zhat is goot, my friend, true indeed.

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

Well, the EU has both the European Council and the Council of Ministers as a kind of Imperial Diet, representatives of every country in a kind of Upper House, so we have that. Ours has lasted at least half a century now. Take that, Hapsburg.

And the idea that Germany is the leader of the EU is not founded in any factual basis. It's a good joke to make, of course, but I just want to point out that it's incredibly incorrect.

[Herargon]

Ah, yes. I remember that treaty being signed... I saw it on TV.
And here's the 'Institute Reichsregiment', by the way!

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/sho ... hsregiment

The text of the 'Institute Reichsregiment' decision is thus ''Consolidate the Imperial Diet, and reduce the legislative complexity.''

Also, on this Reddit thread, someone else once made a jokingly comment about the EU compared to the HRE. I think his first things were pretty accurate, but then it became too funny to be taken seriously.

http://www.reddit.com/r/eu4/comments/2q ... year_reu4/

Ah! Yes! We have that one as well! Yeah, so, everything up to Ewiger Landfriede is also present in the European Union. Which is great!

I am wondering how the last two would look, though. Renevatio Imperii I can understand, Europe going federal, but the Revocation of the Privileges... I don't really see how that would be instituted. Maybe if the European Union gains 'shared sovereignty' with the member states, but that is beside the point. So, yeah! We are a late game HRE. Only, we are not holy, not Roman, and not an empire. A better description:

Call for Reichsreform European Community of Coal and Steel
InstituteReichsregiment Treaty of Maastricht
Reform the Hofgericht Treaty of Rome
EnactGemeiner Pfennig Euro, EEG
Ewiger Landfriede European Community of Coal and Steel
ProclaimErbkaisertum Error 404, imperialism not found
Revoke the Privilegia European Confederation (theoretical)
Renovatio Imperii European Federation (highly theoretical)

Hue, can confirm. There's no imperialism for Europe... yet. We might colonise Africa again and redraw ugly borders into even uglier borders!

Ah, yes. I remember that treaty being signed... I saw it on TV.
And here's the 'Institute Reichsregiment', by the way!

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/sho ... hsregiment

The text of the 'Institute Reichsregiment' decision is thus ''Consolidate the Imperial Diet, and reduce the legislative complexity.''

Also, on this Reddit thread, someone else once made a jokingly comment about the EU compared to the HRE. I think his first things were pretty accurate, but then it became too funny to be taken seriously.

http://www.reddit.com/r/eu4/comments/2q ... year_reu4/

I laughed at 'Convince Britain to stay'.

T'is the sad truth.

The problem in comparison is that the EU doesn't have a leader country, so some terms don't apply. In general, I think the EU has enacted the following reforms in one way or another:
Reform the Hofgericht (Reform the Royal Court)
Enact Gemeiner Pfennig (Enact common taxes)
Ewiger Landfriede (Eternal peace)

Those do sound right.

...'Institute Reichsregiment' reform...

Well, according to captain wiki of pedia it was supposed to be a sort of upper house of the HRE, consisting of representatives of the free cities, the ecclesiastical states and the princes and having certain executive and/or legislative powers.
Historically both attempts failed at surviving for longer than a short while.

I just got two random booster packs for Victoria 2 and Hearts of Iron 3, each with three cards.

Is paradox trying to tell me something or?

DO I NEED TO BUY MORE GAMES TO APPEASE THE PARADOX GODS?

..... I think I'm jealous, ya basterd.

the EU doesn't have a leader country,

Honhonhonhonhon zhat is goot, my friend, true indeed.

Das ist sehr gut, aber der Europäischer Union würdet möglich eine Heimat haben...!

[Herargon]

When you are playing as any nation bordering France, the game is like:

''Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.''

[Ulfr-Reich]

When you are playing as any nation bordering France, the game is like:

''Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.''

We need a mod for EUIV/CKII thats' all about playing in the Hperborean world, or dealing purely in Eldritch horror like a boss.

[The Jonathanian States]

Well, the EU has both the European Council and the Council of Ministers as a kind of Imperial Diet, representatives of every country in a kind of Upper House, so we have that. Ours has lasted at least half a century now. Take that, Hapsburg.

And the idea that Germany is the leader of the EU is not founded in any factual basis. It's a good joke to make, of course, but I just want to point out that it's incredibly incorrect.

As a German I am fully aware of the fact that the EU is in fact not a 4th Reich, Merkelreich, extended Germany, or any other names it has been given. But that doesn't mean it isn't fun to pretend it is

When you are playing as any nation bordering France, the game is like:

''Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.''

We need a mod for EUIV/CKII thats' all about playing in the Hperborean world, or dealing purely in Eldritch horror like a boss.

Well, vanilla has quite some references to it. And in the After the End mod the Occultists seem to be based on Lovecraft at least partially.

When you are playing as any nation bordering France, the game is like:

''Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.''

That moment when there is an event in which you can find the Necronomicon.
And one where you can take a boat and

ram it into Cthulhu's head.

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

Well, the EU has both the European Council and the Council of Ministers as a kind of Imperial Diet, representatives of every country in a kind of Upper House, so we have that. Ours has lasted at least half a century now. Take that, Hapsburg.

And the idea that Germany is the leader of the EU is not founded in any factual basis. It's a good joke to make, of course, but I just want to point out that it's incredibly incorrect.

As a German I am fully aware of the fact that the EU is in fact not a 4th Reich, Merkelreich, extended Germany, or any other names it has been given. But that doesn't mean it isn't fun to pretend it is

We need a mod for EUIV/CKII thats' all about playing in the Hperborean world, or dealing purely in Eldritch horror like a boss.

Well, vanilla has quite some references to it. And in the After the End mod the Occultists seem to be based on Lovecraft at least partially.

When you are playing as any nation bordering France, the game is like:

''Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.''

That moment when there is an event in which you can find the Necronomicon.
And one where you can take a boat and

ram it into Cthulhu's head.

Yes, milord, and I'm sorry, milord. I know of many an ignoramus who thinks Europe is some successor state to Napoleon's France or something. You will not hear from me again, your highness.

*bows to German superiority*

[The Jonathanian States]

As a German I am fully aware of the fact that the EU is in fact not a 4th Reich, Merkelreich, extended Germany, or any other names it has been given. But that doesn't mean it isn't fun to pretend it is


Well, vanilla has quite some references to it. And in the After the End mod the Occultists seem to be based on Lovecraft at least partially.

That moment when there is an event in which you can find the Necronomicon.
And one where you can take a boat and

ram it into Cthulhu's head.

Yes, milord, and I'm sorry, milord. I know of many an ignoramus who thinks Europe is some successor state to Napoleon's France or something. You will not hear from me again, your highness.

*bows to German superiority*

Indeed, indeed there are many who do believe so. We live in unenlightened times *comet flies by*

Also, I'm really having fun with the After the end mod. I had originally downloaded it yesterday but only had time for a some looking at the world and religions, as well as for a short ragequite after getting two DoWs basically day one both from realms I could maybe, somehow, with luck, get peace with.
Well, today that did not happen so I actually managed to play nearly 20 years. Quite fun, definitely original. I like it.

[Lunas Legion]

Yes, milord, and I'm sorry, milord. I know of many an ignoramus who thinks Europe is some successor state to Napoleon's France or something. You will not hear from me again, your highness.

*bows to German superiority*

Indeed, indeed there are many who do believe so. We live in sad times *shudders*

Also, I'm really having fun with the After the end mod. I had originally downloaded it yesterday but only had time for a some looking at the world and religions, as well as for a short ragequite after getting two DoWs basically day one both from realms I could maybe, somehow, with luck, get peace with.
Well, today that did not happen so I actually managed to play nearly 20 years. Quite fun, definitely original. I like it.

Urgh. I still can't play it, because fucking WinZip wants me to buy it. I may have to cave in to Microsoft's demands...

[Shaggai]

So I went to download the Middle Earth mod for CKII, because Russia has become boring.

I extracted the file, did everything that the instructions told me to do, started the game, and came upon the vanilla version.

I'm not exactly sure if I did something wrong or not.

Did you check the box in the mod tab in the launcher?

[Kernan]

so my reactionaryism has gone to shit, the Kaiser has been hung in front of 802,000 rebellious men, women and children while my army was busy making the Baltic bleed with Swedish blood. They put in a new, more liberal Kaiser in his place but he mucked everything up. So there was another revolution that hung the Phony Kaiser and put in a THIRD, different, more conservative Kaiser while also forming a Upper House will free elections and abolishing slavery while also forcing him to release all his puppets in SA and Europe except Jan Mayen.

[Washington Resistance Army]

so my reactionaryism has gone to shit, the Kaiser has been hung in front of 802,000 rebellious men, women and children while my army was busy making the Baltic bleed with Swedish blood. They put in a new, more liberal Kaiser in his place but he mucked everything up. So there was another revolution that hung the Phony Kaiser and put in a THIRD, different, more conservative Kaiser while also forming a Upper House will free elections and abolishing slavery while also forcing him to release all his puppets in SA and Europe except Jan Mayen.

No! Not the slavery

[The Jonathanian States]

Indeed, indeed there are many who do believe so. We live in sad times *shudders*

Also, I'm really having fun with the After the end mod. I had originally downloaded it yesterday but only had time for a some looking at the world and religions, as well as for a short ragequite after getting two DoWs basically day one both from realms I could maybe, somehow, with luck, get peace with.
Well, today that did not happen so I actually managed to play nearly 20 years. Quite fun, definitely original. I like it.

Urgh. I still can't play it, because fucking WinZip wants me to buy it. I may have to cave in to Microsoft's demands...

Winrar's a good software. Looks less shiny but the trial is de facto unlimited.

[Lunas Legion]

Urgh. I still can't play it, because fucking WinZip wants me to buy it. I may have to cave in to Microsoft's demands...

Winrar's a good software. Looks less shiny but the trial is de facto unlimited.

But the file I need to extract the mod from is WinZip, and won't let me use anything but WinZip to extract it.