PDX Games IX: The Pacific Bread Centaur

[The Imperial Reach]

Neither Lech, nor Czech, nor Rus
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Now do it as a southern Slav (simply convert to Polish/Russian/Czech/etc) for even less of a connection to Lech, Czech or Rus. What is up with that anyway? There is a whole group of Slavs with no brother.

The whole myth is inconsistent. The Czech version doesn't even mention Rus' at all, and both Czech and Polish versions are focused entirely on their respective origins with the other brother(s) being side-characters.

I, too, don't like that the South Slavs get left out but it kinda does make sense because they're separated from the West and East Slavs by the Magyars and Vlach (who are not Slavic, Paradox - Romanians are not Slavs)

[Slutsk Horde]

- Did you mean the of Jelling house?
- No, I meant the of Jelling house!

Now do it as a southern Slav (simply convert to Polish/Russian/Czech/etc) for even less of a connection to Lech, Czech or Rus. What is up with that anyway? There is a whole group of Slavs with no brother.

The whole myth is inconsistent. The Czech version doesn't even mention Rus' at all, and both Czech and Polish versions are focused entirely on their respective origins with the other brother(s) being side-characters.

I, too, don't like that the South Slavs get left out but it kinda does make sense because they're separated from the West and East Slavs by the Magyars and Vlach (who are not Slavic, Paradox - Romanians are not Slavs)

They could have adopted a solution like Pomerania — not necessary, but if they are controlled then they get added.

[The Huskar Social Union]

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[Ithalian Empire]

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You can really see when the Rona starts.

[The Imperial Reach]

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Couple things:

1. More people need to play CKII. Honestly. I truly expected the numbers to be much, much higher and am very disappointed.
2. I've never even heard of either "Battletech" or "Surviving Mars" so those must've been even bigger flops than Imperator: Rome.
3. I was expecting Victoria II to have a larger playerbase, tbh.
4. I've never seen anyone here talk about Cities: Skylines at all. Ever. So seeing it so high up there, usurping EUIV, Stellaris, and HOI4 so many times was surprising.
5. Is EUIV that good?
6. Is HOI4 that good?
7. Is Cities: Skylines that good?
8. Is Stellaris that good?

[Lunas Legion]

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Couple things:

1. More people need to play CKII. Honestly. I truly expected the numbers to be much, much higher and am very disappointed.
2. I've never even heard of either "Battletech" or "Surviving Mars" so those must've been even bigger flops than Imperator: Rome.
3. I was expecting Victoria II to have a larger playerbase, tbh.
4. I've never seen anyone here talk about Cities: Skylines at all. Ever. So seeing it so high up there, usurping EUIV, Stellaris, and HOI4 so many times was surprising.
5. Is EUIV that good?
6. Is HOI4 that good?
7. Is Cities: Skylines that good?
8. Is Stellaris that good?

Battletech , Cities Skylines and Surviving Mars are all Paradox published, not developed, so that's probably why you've not heard of them.

[Licana]

2. I've never even heard of either "Battletech" or "Surviving Mars" so those must've been even bigger flops than Imperator: Rome.

>consistently have a more active playerbase than IR despite being a year older
>must be bigger flops than IR

6. Is HOI4 that good?
7. Is Cities: Skylines that good?
8. Is Stellaris that good?

Yes.

[Renoa]

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Couple things:

1. More people need to play CKII. Honestly. I truly expected the numbers to be much, much higher and am very disappointed.
2. I've never even heard of either "Battletech" or "Surviving Mars" so those must've been even bigger flops than Imperator: Rome.
3. I was expecting Victoria II to have a larger playerbase, tbh.
4. I've never seen anyone here talk about Cities: Skylines at all. Ever. So seeing it so high up there, usurping EUIV, Stellaris, and HOI4 so many times was surprising.
5. Is EUIV that good?
6. Is HOI4 that good?
7. Is Cities: Skylines that good?
8. Is Stellaris that good?

2: I've never played Battletech, but I played Surviving Mars over a few free weekends, and I think it's fiercely mediocre. Maybe it's better with some of the expansions, but I'm not going to give them credit for that.
3: Vicky is old and not that similar to the current Paradox games, at least not anymore.
4: I went on a Cities: Skylines tangent for a while, but that was literally years ago at this point so you're forgiven for not having seen or remembering it.

[Abserdia]

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Couple things:

1. More people need to play CKII. Honestly. I truly expected the numbers to be much, much higher and am very disappointed.
2. I've never even heard of either "Battletech" or "Surviving Mars" so those must've been even bigger flops than Imperator: Rome.
3. I was expecting Victoria II to have a larger playerbase, tbh.
4. I've never seen anyone here talk about Cities: Skylines at all. Ever. So seeing it so high up there, usurping EUIV, Stellaris, and HOI4 so many times was surprising.
5. Is EUIV that good?
6. Is HOI4 that good?
7. Is Cities: Skylines that good?
8. Is Stellaris that good?

Surviving Mars is pretty fun. Recommend it if you like survival/management city builders and want something a bit less stressful than, say, Frostpunk.

And I don't think it's surprising at all that Cities: Skylines is so popular. It has a much wider appeal than most PDox games and is currently the only big modern-themed SimCity-like.

[Impaled Nazarene]

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I like how you can point out the HOI4 trends without label!
1. WOW NEW HOI GAME!
2. IT CAN ONLY GET BETTER
3. THIS GAME SUCKS
4. NEW DLC
5. THE DLC SUCKS
6. YOUTUBERS AND MODS DRAG IT BACK INTO RELEVANCE
7. THIS GAME SUCKS
Repeat 3-7 until Sweden becomes a hellscape of nuclear winter

[Heloin]

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I like that 100-150ish people playing EUIII all this time cause you know it's the same group of people for the whole of those five years.

[Cisairse]

Neither Lech, nor Czech, nor Rus
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Wait, what is "the Slavic Union?" I have not seen this before

[Abserdia]

Neither Lech, nor Czech, nor Rus
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Wait, what is "the Slavic Union?" I have not seen this before

You have to control, like, just about every Slavic kingdom. You’re rewarded with a huge empire title and a bloodline if you have Holy Fury.

[Ithalian Empire]

Wait, what is "the Slavic Union?" I have not seen this before

You have to control, like, just about every Slavic kingdom. You’re rewarded with a huge empire title and a bloodline if you have Holy Fury.

Dont forget the unlimited squatting power you will have once your done.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Battletech was great, i had a lot of fun with that game, and from what i know was not a flop. Also for some reason they didnt show DLC for it, surviving mars or Cities Skylines in the video.

Just because you personally have not heard of something does not mean its a flop.

[Slutsk Horde]

Wait, what is "the Slavic Union?" I have not seen this before

You have to control, like, just about every Slavic kingdom. You’re rewarded with a huge empire title and a bloodline if you have Holy Fury.

And then I started to murder everyone in my dynasty that became the heir that didn’t have the bloodline — I never played like this before, but I only saw the fun now. I only stopped on feudalizing and changing succession law.

Intrigue focus is the way to go — you can’t change my mind.

[Bralia]

Today, the EUIV Dev team is sharing some of their incidents. Which is not news really, considering that's all they've been doing since they introduced Rule Britannia.

[Sildorian Empire]

Random question. How much population is one "pop" supposed to represent? I mean, I realize they're more along the lines of "Classifications" and a Worker pop and a Noble pop [to use the Stellaris classifications] aren't supposed to represent the same "number" or people but like, how do you justify it if you roleplay in a PDX game?

[Bralia]

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[Lunas Legion]

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'The Gays are taking over' is what I got from this dev diary.

[The Huskar Social Union]

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'The Gays are taking over' is what I got from this dev diary.

The oppression of the heteros will never return, you have lost!

[Grenartia]

I mean, there's a few of us who do play Cities: Skylines, but its not half as memetastic as Stellaris, CKII, etc., so I guess the few times it gets posted about just get glossed over, so nobody talks about it.

[Impaled Nazarene]

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It also means that we do not frame heterosexuality as the default in CK3, which was also important for us.

Que the rage. Grabs the popcorn

[The Huskar Social Union]

I mean, there's a few of us who do play Cities: Skylines, but its not half as memetastic as Stellaris, CKII, etc., so I guess the few times it gets posted about just get glossed over, so nobody talks about it.

You telling me you never rained meteors on your city to the tune of country roads?

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It also means that we do not frame heterosexuality as the default in CK3, which was also important for us.

Que the rage. Grabs the popcorn

But how is this another form of genocide of me, the white man?

[Valrifell]

I mean, there's a few of us who do play Cities: Skylines, but its not half as memetastic as Stellaris, CKII, etc., so I guess the few times it gets posted about just get glossed over, so nobody talks about it.

You telling me you never rained meteors on your city to the tune of country roads?

Ah, a fellow man of culture I see.