Paradox Games VII: Vicky III - Vicky Meets The Blorg

[Genivaria]

Goddamnit no Vicky3?

There's still hope

Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.

[Castiliae et Legionis]

There's still hope

Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.

true but when your life is only disappointment it doesn't really matter

[Evil Dictators Happyland]

Expect nothing, and you will never be let down in life.

[Abserdia]

DEUS VULT! Praise God for this blessed CKII DD, for He is great and shall deliver victory in our crusade against the heathen!

I am very happy.

[Danceria]

Expect nothing, and you will never be let down in life.

Better to be a pleasantly surprised pessimist than a perpetually disappointed optimist.

[Castiliae et Legionis]

Expect nothing, and you will never be let down in life.

Better to be a pleasantly surprised pessimist than a perpetually disappointed optimist.

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[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

Alright, I am playing Stellaris as the New Galactic Order. My goal: unify all races and make sure they do the job they are biologically most suited for. My own race will take on the role of leader: forty years into the game, they only start dying after 180 years, making them the perfect master race as scientists, governors and military leaders. I will uplift a species of natural scientists soon, and I have my eye on conquering a strong race for the minerals and a race good at creating unity. In the end, the whole universe will fit together like a marvelous puzzle, and all will be balanced.

[Danceria]

Alright, I am playing Stellaris as the New Galactic Order. My goal: unify all races and make sure they do the job they are biologically most suited for. My own race will take on the role of leader: forty years into the game, they only start dying after 180 years, making them the perfect master race as scientists, governors and military leaders. I will uplift a species of natural scientists soon, and I have my eye on conquering a strong race for the minerals and a race good at creating unity. In the end, the whole universe will fit together like a marvelous puzzle, and all will be balanced.

Hmst. Sounds an interesting premise.

[The Huskar Social Union]

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

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Vicky III confirmed!

[United Muscovite Nations]

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They deliberately picked teasers to make people think it was Vicky III though.

[United Muscovite Nations]

Also, it's probably Vicky III still because the full name of the title of EU Rome Is Europa Universalis: Rome, and therefore isn't easy to spell, unless they just shortened it.

[Renoa]

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They deliberately picked teasers to make people think it was Vicky III though.

"Joke's on the fans, we're NOT making the game that they've all wanted for years! What a bunch of fuckin' idiots!"

-Paradox, probably

[Washington Resistance Army]

Didn't one of the main guys behind Vicky 2 leave the studio quite a few years ago? I feel like if I'm remembering that right that might be why they haven't moved forward on a sequel.

[Serrus]

So I have been tryna play Vic2, and I need help and advice.
Help: How do I ship troops to Europe from Britain?
Advice: I want communism. I know I need to cheese off communists.
1. When do they show up?
2. How do I make them appear quicker?
3. How do I tick em off?
4. What do I do once I have angered them?

1) They usually show up once you've developed Ideological thought, and one of the discoveries under that tech shows up. After that the Socialists and/or the Communists show up within a year.
2) Bumrush ideological thought, it opens up in 1840. If you really want to be efficient about it don't research anything other than whatever techs exist on the philosophy tree to build up tech points, and get the speediest possible progress.
3) Don't enact social reforms ever, don't suppress their militancy or consciousness activities (those of poor pops generally, and of laborer, or craftsman pops more specifically, when dealing with communist influence). Pump their issues in elections.
4) Once rebel stacks appear, leave the path to your capital open. They'll enforce their demands and you'll get a dictatorship of the proletariat. Though I caution you that letting them win a revolution will eat your prestige, and having a planned economy late game is a bit challenging to manage. Personally I prefer socialists/state capitalist over communists/planned economics, but that's just my own way of doing things. If you feel the urge to run everything about your economy manually go for it.

Thanks, dude.

[Renoa]

AI England apparently got Lux Stella, which I didn't know could happen.

"We're supposed to be a republic!" "Suck my republic."

Munster is trying to generously gift themselves the province that I went to war to take because, due to some fucktarded zone of control shenanigans, their army got to Ostfriesland first. How about I just restart the damn game because I'm not letting this happen.

[Pilarcraft]

Oh my, I finished my first playthrough in Crusader Kings. I never knew how fun playing a corrupted dynasty could be. By the 1000s, My Dynasty was essentially a circle, and by 1150, my entire kingdom was under the control of the same dynasty (I mean, all my direct vassals and their direct vassals were from the same dynasty).

[Evil Dictators Happyland]

By the 1000s, My Dynasty was essentially a circle,

I haven't played CK2 very much (by the standards of Paradox games, anyway), but family trees that resemble vines seem to be what's most common.

[Pilarcraft]

By the 1000s, My Dynasty was essentially a circle,

I haven't played CK2 very much (by the standards of Paradox games, anyway), but family trees that resemble vines seem to be what's most common.

I know what most dynasties are supposed to look like, but I swear I essentially wed a lady and her grandson a couple of times :/ (and then wed their child to the younger parent's sibling). IT wasn't a circle, per se, but a Regular polygon resembling one.)

[Impaled Nazarene]

Why are you implying that your great great great great great great grandson isn't also your son?

[West Leas Oros]

I mean, its not like he didn't already realize you were yanking him.



Also, incest is best, relatively speaking.

Ba-dum-tish!

*Habsburg intensifies*

[Ifreann]

Why are you implying that your great great great great great great grandson isn't also your son?

And also your father.

[RiderSyl]

Playing RT56, Germany gets Spain, France, and Poland to go fascist before WW2
Sitting here as the UK ready preparing to stall everything they throw across the channel
I don't notice Ireland turn fascist until it's too late

[West Leas Oros]

Why are you implying that your great great great great great great grandson isn't also your son?

And also your father.

*HABSBURG INTENSIFYING* **WORLD TENSION 100%**

[Castiliae et Legionis]

And also your father.

*HABSBURG INTENSIFYING* **WORLD TENSION 100%**

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