PDOX Games VIII: Communism Will Win

[Licana]

>lose an entire fleet in stellaris because they refused to enter combat against an enemy fleet
I think they were taking this whole "pacifist" thing a bit too seriously.

That's a bug, you can fix it by reloading the game. I once lost a 2.5k fleet* to a 500 fleet as Determined Exterminators on an Ironman game because I sent my fleet in and didn't pay attention to it (it had 5x the fleet power, so what could go wrong?)
I decided to RP a bit and not close out the task manager, deciding that it was a software glitch in my admiral subroutines - the enemy ships were mistakenly identified as friendly ships due to them being practically identical (we were both using the Reptilian ship models), resulting in our ships refusing to target them, which was patched after the fact by ordering the fleet to terminate any and all deviant warforms. We went on to capture the systems we wanted, destroying their entire fleet in the process, utterly crippling their power and leading directly to them being exterminated by the friendly neighborhood Fanatic Purifiers within a few years.

*: It was mostly corvettes and they were led by a Trickster admiral, so I only lost about a third of the fleet. If it was more than half, I'd have task managered this for sure.

Figured that out after I quit the game to do something else. Came back later in the day and the handful of ships remaining did finally engage, so at least now I know what to do if this happens again. Unfortunately, I lost the entirety of a 10k mixed fleet of Battleships, Cruisers, and Destroyers (which was about half of my naval power) to a 5k fleet, which set back my war efforts quite a bit.

[The Rich Port]

Well yeah considering that the Iron Century adds no new content beyond a few tweaks and a start date, it SHOULD be free, Paradox. Don't be fishing for compliments -_-

[Evil Dictators Happyland]

Well yeah considering that the Iron Century adds no new content beyond a few tweaks and a start date, it SHOULD be free, Paradox. Don't be fishing for compliments -_-

I was really excited for Iron Century and thinking that, if it were a DLC, I'd buy it. Then I remembered that modders have a history of producing much better content than IC (I don't have to play it to tell you that After the End and When The World Stopped Making Sense are better) and they do it for free.

[The Imperial Reach]

Well yeah considering that the Iron Century adds no new content beyond a few tweaks and a start date, it SHOULD be free, Paradox. Don't be fishing for compliments -_-

We don't know what it's adding beyond what they'd told us; there could very well be more content.

[The Huskar Social Union]

That's a bug, you can fix it by reloading the game. I once lost a 2.5k fleet* to a 500 fleet as Determined Exterminators on an Ironman game because I sent my fleet in and didn't pay attention to it (it had 5x the fleet power, so what could go wrong?)
I decided to RP a bit and not close out the task manager, deciding that it was a software glitch in my admiral subroutines - the enemy ships were mistakenly identified as friendly ships due to them being practically identical (we were both using the Reptilian ship models), resulting in our ships refusing to target them, which was patched after the fact by ordering the fleet to terminate any and all deviant warforms. We went on to capture the systems we wanted, destroying their entire fleet in the process, utterly crippling their power and leading directly to them being exterminated by the friendly neighborhood Fanatic Purifiers within a few years.

*: It was mostly corvettes and they were led by a Trickster admiral, so I only lost about a third of the fleet. If it was more than half, I'd have task managered this for sure.

Figured that out after I quit the game to do something else. Came back later in the day and the handful of ships remaining did finally engage, so at least now I know what to do if this happens again. Unfortunately, I lost the entirety of a 10k mixed fleet of Battleships, Cruisers, and Destroyers (which was about half of my naval power) to a 5k fleet, which set back my war efforts quite a bit.

I take it you are doing an ironman run?

[The Huskar Social Union]

Well yeah considering that the Iron Century adds no new content beyond a few tweaks and a start date, it SHOULD be free, Paradox. Don't be fishing for compliments -_-

We don't know what it's adding beyond what they'd told us; there could very well be more content.

I thought they were not doing any more proper expansions for ck2?

[The Rich Port]

Well yeah considering that the Iron Century adds no new content beyond a few tweaks and a start date, it SHOULD be free, Paradox. Don't be fishing for compliments -_-

We don't know what it's adding beyond what they'd told us; there could very well be more content.

Why wouldn't they tell us?

[The Imperial Reach]

We don't know what it's adding beyond what they'd told us; there could very well be more content.

I thought they were not doing any more proper expansions for ck2?

Not DLC, maybe.

We don't know what it's adding beyond what they'd told us; there could very well be more content.

Why wouldn't they tell us?

Because there are still more dev diaries ahead before it becomes available? I feel like it'd be a bit odd if they used every single one to just tell us who is available to play and where; we can use Wikipedia to figure that out.

[Impaled Nazarene]

There really isn't any single thing that sticks out in this I:R Diary, it's a haphazard mess. A haphazard mess of good things.

And the first Iron Century Diary tells the tales of the great people of the day.

EDIT: Have you ever wondered what would happen if the Norse gods fucked Allah and had a baby? I know I have. This is what that child would look like.

Bralia is hereby banned for putting us all on a kill list.

Also hooray if Muslims are finally getting bloodlines.

[The Rich Port]

I thought they were not doing any more proper expansions for ck2?

Not DLC, maybe.

Why wouldn't they tell us?

Because there are still more dev diaries ahead before it becomes available? I feel like it'd be a bit odd if they used every single one to just tell us who is available to play and where; we can use Wikipedia to figure that out.

... Well I mean.

They could clear up the confusion, maybe?

Or be like, "hey guys, this is what we're planning".

[The Imperial Reach]

Not DLC, maybe.



Because there are still more dev diaries ahead before it becomes available? I feel like it'd be a bit odd if they used every single one to just tell us who is available to play and where; we can use Wikipedia to figure that out.

... Well I mean.

They could clear up the confusion, maybe?

Or be like, "hey guys, this is what we're planning".

Right, and "planning" could very well involve new features. We won't know until everything's been posted.

There really isn't any single thing that sticks out in this I:R Diary, it's a haphazard mess. A haphazard mess of good things.

And the first Iron Century Diary tells the tales of the great people of the day.

EDIT: Have you ever wondered what would happen if the Norse gods fucked Allah and had a baby? I know I have. This is what that child would look like.

Bralia is hereby banned for putting us all on a kill list.

Also hooray if Muslims are finally getting bloodlines.

Can't wait to destroy those like I destroy the Caliphates.

As you can probably tell, I was already on the kill list.

[Bralia]

Pizza in EUIV got a lot more tastier.

And I don't even care about the subject of today's Iron Century Diary, they shared the full map of Europe and it's too beautiful to not be the "tagline" I share:

[Platypus Bureaucracy]

So I guess historical mode in HoI4 doesn't totally put the game on rails? Because it turns out America is fascist now, and it's nowhere near 2017.

[Washington Resistance Army]

Pdox thread, gimme some mod recommendations for CK2 or HoI4 cuz I'm bored outta my mind.

[The Rich Port]

Didn't know this until I looked, there's a Romance of the Three Kingdoms mod, and I'm playing it

[Washington Resistance Army]

Didn't know this until I looked, there's a Romance of the Three Kingdoms mod, and I'm playing it

How well done is it? Worth playing or na?

[The Imperial Reach]

Pizza in EUIV got a lot more tastier.

And I don't even care about the subject of today's Iron Century Diary, they shared the full map of Europe and it's too beautiful to not be the "tagline" I share:

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The pink Umayyads is weirding me out and makes me want to destroy them even more than I already did.

I'm liking the way the Byzantines look in this start date though; it might actually be one of the more viable ones for reconquest against Islamic powers due to the lack of major Islamic Realms. I like that a lot.

Imperial Bulgaria looks cool, too. It's about time they put in the Bulgarian Empire.

[Serrus]

Pdox thread, gimme some mod recommendations for CK2 or HoI4 cuz I'm bored outta my mind.

CK2, 867, Guge.
Challenge: Reform the Bon faith and conquer all of Tibet and a kingdom in India.

Pizza in EUIV got a lot more tastier.

And I don't even care about the subject of today's Iron Century Diary, they shared the full map of Europe and it's too beautiful to not be the "tagline" I share:

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The pink Umayyads is weirding me out and makes me want to destroy them even more than I already did.

I need to do a blessed reconquest with that form of the Umayyads.

[Washington Resistance Army]

Pdox thread, gimme some mod recommendations for CK2 or HoI4 cuz I'm bored outta my mind.

CK2, 867, Guge.
Challenge: Reform the Bon faith and conquer all of Tibet and a kingdom in India.

That sounds decently fun and I never really play in that part of the world actually, think I'm gonna try it later.

[Licana]

Figured that out after I quit the game to do something else. Came back later in the day and the handful of ships remaining did finally engage, so at least now I know what to do if this happens again. Unfortunately, I lost the entirety of a 10k mixed fleet of Battleships, Cruisers, and Destroyers (which was about half of my naval power) to a 5k fleet, which set back my war efforts quite a bit.

I take it you are doing an ironman run?

Yeah, no previous saves to reload to. I managed to stall until I could rebuild the whole fleet, and eventually retake all of the territory I lost because of the glitch before war exhaustion forced me to status quo. I'll probably go back to that game sometime this weekend for round three of the ever-war with this fucking hive-mind.

[The Rich Port]

Didn't know this until I looked, there's a Romance of the Three Kingdoms mod, and I'm playing it

How well done is it? Worth playing or na?

Well it crashes a lot in the character creator so... I'll get back to you on that.

Loads OK, I'm thinking there's some kind of texture loading issue with some of the races.

[Bralia]

This new bookmark is full of Shi'ites.

[Ostroeuropa]

Got the Magna Germania achievement, and forgot about the pillage button whole game.

There is not in fact time in game to fully religiously convert, fully culturally convert, fully civilize, and and fully enact social mobility on the german states, let alone their conquests, although there is time to religiously convert and culturally convert the gauls, this cannot be done for the more densely populated Italian lands. You can just about fully civilize your religious homelands, but cannot institute social mobility and expect it to actually work. It may be best to just ignore the disparate nature of your countries population.

Now gonna do a Lyktus-> Crete -> Hellenic League -> Maybe Alexanders Empire if There is Time

game.

Lyktus because it is the only city on the Island of crete with a food resource, fish, which also has an achievement based on it. (Have a province producing 10 fish.). With enslavement and some advances, this would take 130 slaves, or 110 slaves if you push hard for it with laws. The nature of capturing slaves means this is, in my opinion, the best mid to long term city to use to unify crete, as the pop growth there could stack up to a full +1% growth or higher across the whole island.

Lyktus is an Oligarchic Republic and thus able to form a Dictatorship.

Since the game will be initially spent unifying Crete, moving in to Greece, and subjugating Macedon, by the time I move to attack the successor empires in the east, they will hopefully have spread Hellenism and Macedonian culture a bit.

Transitioning to be able to form Alexanders Empire will necessitate turning the Hellenic League into a dictatorship, and then an Empire. This game also won't require colonization except perhaps in the Dacia region if i'm bored.

Try and start with a capital city that produces;

Grain
Fish
Livestock

These will increase population growth per extra product.

Alternatively;
Furs might be good, since you can stack the bonus and your new recruits will have high starting experience. (The only direct troop buff possible in this manner).

Papyrus, to stack research speed.

Gemstones, for +10% tax which would basically mean that 110 slaves producing 10 gemstones will translate to tax revenue equivalent for 220 slaves.

Or, perhaps;
Glass and Silk. Which increase commerce income, though this may require you to export other goods from the neighboring cities in the province and may be difficult to manage.

[Bralia]

1.7 HoI4 beta should be out by tomorrow. The old convoy system was murdered. Brutally. Stabbed in the gut and left to die in the scorching Algerian sun.

[Ifreann]

1.7 HoI4 beta should be out by tomorrow. The old convoy system was murdered. Brutally. Stabbed in the gut and left to die in the scorching Algerian sun.

How evocative.