PDX Games IX: Western Pre-Turkic Empire

[The Hindustani State]

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Since NationStates is technically-speaking a political site...

Paradox Development Studio originally arose out of a small niche company making board games, and I think the attitudes and customs they inherited from those days are seriously hampering them now that they are making complex historical simulation games that sell hundreds of thousands of copies apiece. Avoiding difficult topics like it's the plague is a phenomenon fairly widespread across the video-gaming industry, but I feel that Paradox suffers from it more than most simply because of the types of games they create.

It's good to see them take on what will inevitably be a very difficult few weeks for their community moderators. ;p

I really like how they handled the topic of slavery in EU4, a game about colonialism. They portrayed it exactly as how colonizers saw slaves, a trade good

[The New California Republic]

Speaking of Dumpster fires. You can thank Confederate Partition for most of this.

Confederate partition is utter shit. The only way to stop it in early to midgame is to disinherit children; which, depending on how fruitful the king and queen have been, can involve disinheriting a lot of children. I try to leave the disinheriting until the king only has a few years of life left, so the disinherited children aren't pissed off with him for too long.

[The Restored Danelaw]

Speaking of Dumpster fires. You can thank Confederate Partition for most of this.

Confederate partition is utter shit. The only way to stop it in early to midgame is to disinherit children; which, depending on how fruitful the king and queen have been, can involve disinheriting a lot of children. I try to leave the disinheriting until the king only has a few years of life left, so the disinherited children aren't pissed off with him for too long.

As a pagan, I generally prefer to make the second best child my chaplain and send off the more terrible ones to die in raids until I can reach non-confederate types of partition.

[Ifreann]

Speaking of Dumpster fires. You can thank Confederate Partition for most of this.

Go home, Lithuania, you're drunk.

[Abserdia]

Speaking of Dumpster fires. You can thank Confederate Partition for most of this.

Looks like HoI4 when the Axis annexes the U.K.

[Plzen]

Looks like HoI4 when the Axis annexes the U.K.

Nightmare flashbacks to that time where I as Sweden captured and occupied the entire British mainland and got all of Scotland out of the peace deal because Germany had ridiculous warscore from being unbelievably incompetent and losing ridiculous manpower against France and Poland.

[Immoren]

I know that being spy is dangerous, but it feels like out of all councilors in CK3, spymasters have fastest rotation.

[Valrifell]

I know that being spy is dangerous, but it feels like out of all councilors in CK3, spymasters have fastest rotation.

For me that depends on whether or not my Chaplain endorses me. Those temple taxes can be quite lucrative, you know.

[Lunas Legion]

I know that being spy is dangerous, but it feels like out of all councilors in CK3, spymasters have fastest rotation.

Personally I hate it when powerful vassals become not powerful and now I have to get rid of the guy on my council for it.

[Bralia]

Death is inevitable. Relish it. Cherish it. Glory in it and venerate its existence. Death is coming to Stellaris.

[The New California Republic]

I know that being spy is dangerous, but it feels like out of all councilors in CK3, spymasters have fastest rotation.

Is it weird that I haven't lost a single spymaster to an assassination yet? They always without fail discover the plot before it happens. Sure, a few have died on the field of battle because they happened to be knights in addition to their spying duties, but that's understandable. Maybe it's because I always assign folk with comparatively overpowered Intrigue scores to the role.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Death is inevitable. Relish it. Cherish it. Glory in it and venerate its existence. Death is coming to Stellaris.

Oh shit the Necrons are here.

[Impaled Nazarene]

Battle for the Bosporus has officially been announced as the minor DLC, releasing on October 15th covering all of the three countries showcased in previous DDs. Seems like a solid $10 deal.

TFW Spain, Greece, Bulgaria, and TURKEY have bigger and more complex focus trees than the actual major powers of the war.
Delete your fucking Dev Team paradox

[Ifreann]

Death is inevitable. Relish it. Cherish it. Glory in it and venerate its existence. Death is coming to Stellaris.

Oh shit the Necrons are here.

Zombies DLC.

[Impaled Nazarene]

Speaking of Dumpster fires. You can thank Confederate Partition for most of this.

That's a Krieg'n

[Immoren]

I know that being spy is dangerous, but it feels like out of all councilors in CK3, spymasters have fastest rotation.

Is it weird that I haven't lost a single spymaster to an assassination yet? They always without fail discover the plot before it happens. Sure, a few have died on the field of battle because they happened to be knights in addition to their spying duties, but that's understandable. Maybe it's because I always assign folk with comparatively overpowered Intrigue scores to the role.

You don't forbid your councilors from knightly battlefield?

[Genivaria]

Death is inevitable. Relish it. Cherish it. Glory in it and venerate its existence. Death is coming to Stellaris.

Oh shit the Necrons are here.

*smiles in terminator *

[The New California Republic]

Is it weird that I haven't lost a single spymaster to an assassination yet? They always without fail discover the plot before it happens. Sure, a few have died on the field of battle because they happened to be knights in addition to their spying duties, but that's understandable. Maybe it's because I always assign folk with comparatively overpowered Intrigue scores to the role.

You don't forbid your councilors from knightly battlefield?

Nah, if they have got high prowess and marshal skills I let them. Sure they occasionally die, but they have been very useful in previous wars.

[The Restored Danelaw]

Is it weird that I haven't lost a single spymaster to an assassination yet? They always without fail discover the plot before it happens. Sure, a few have died on the field of battle because they happened to be knights in addition to their spying duties, but that's understandable. Maybe it's because I always assign folk with comparatively overpowered Intrigue scores to the role.

You don't forbid your councilors from knightly battlefield?

That's how I do vassal control when I'm not playing torturer.

[Immoren]

Apparently CK3 crashes when you've over 1300 entrie in your dynasty tree and try to open it.

[The New California Republic]

Apparently CK3 crashes when you've over 1300 entrie in your dynasty tree and try to open it.

Well on my current playthrough I haven't opened the dynasty tree in quite a while, because the game would freeze for tens of seconds at a time while it was trying to load the tree. I think if I tried to load it now then it'd definitely crash. The dynasty tree slowness does need fixed, as it becomes unusable after a certain point.

[The Hindustani State]

Next week’s EU4 dev diary is going to be written by Johan, the main game director, so there’s a good chance the Southeast Asia expansion will finally be revealed

[Shanghai industrial complex]

Apparently CK3 crashes when you've over 1300 entrie in your dynasty tree and try to open it.

Don't need 1300.My CK3 crashes at 700 .I think it may have something to do with intermarriage within the clan.I found multiple mirrored trees, because 100 years ago I operated a couple of cousins to get married.Now I'm probably my own distant nephew or something else.

[Shanghai industrial complex]

I kidnapped my Lord and started a war to usurp the Duke.Then I won in an instant.I found a simple way.Next I decided that I would kidnap all the emperors and kings around me. Hope P can establish a title to me ,"KGB"

[Heloin]

Every time I plot to kill one of my kids I remember there's a disinherit button now, but it's always so late into the plan I don't feel like calling it off. It's been nearly a month, you'd think I'd learn by now.