PDOX Games VIII: Communism Will Win

[Andsed]

Am I alone in not caring who is the OP of these threads? I like a funny thread title and good poll as much as the next person, but once the thread exists I don't see why it matters who gets to have the first post. It's certainly on brand of the Paradox thread to have a line of succession, but we could as easily just have the one person make the thread every time. What difference would it make?

Nah I totally agree with you here. This whole debate seems pretty pointless.

[The Huskar Social Union]

None really, and you are probably not the only one who doesnt care about it.

Aww, I was hoping to be cool and unique.

You are denied this privilege

[The Huskar Social Union]

Am I alone in not caring who is the OP of these threads? I like a funny thread title and good poll as much as the next person, but once the thread exists I don't see why it matters who gets to have the first post. It's certainly on brand of the Paradox thread to have a line of succession, but we could as easily just have the one person make the thread every time. What difference would it make?

Nah I totally agree with you here. This whole debate seems pretty pointless.

We should all agree on one sole OP who will make every thread after the next one from now on barring situations where they were not be present.

I nominate myself for reasons.

Ah i really couldnt care, its entertaining for me at times but its a trivial thing at most.



it should be me tho

[Abserdia]

Nah I totally agree with you here. This whole debate seems pretty pointless.

We should all agree on one sole OP who will make every thread after the next one from now on barring situations where they were not be present.

I nominate myself for reasons.

Ah i really couldnt care, its entertaining for me at times but its a trivial thing at most.



it should be me tho

We should form a hive mind so we never argue about anything at all.

[The Huskar Social Union]

We should all agree on one sole OP who will make every thread after the next one from now on barring situations where they were not be present.

I nominate myself for reasons.

Ah i really couldnt care, its entertaining for me at times but its a trivial thing at most.



it should be me tho

We should form a hive mind so we never argue about anything at all.

Borg music intensifies

[The Imperial Reach]

Am I alone in not caring who is the OP of these threads? I like a funny thread title and good poll as much as the next person, but once the thread exists I don't see why it matters who gets to have the first post. It's certainly on brand of the Paradox thread to have a line of succession, but we could as easily just have the one person make the thread every time. What difference would it make?

IF ONE MORE PERSON THREATENS MY DIVINE RIGHT, I'LL HAVE ALL OF YOU GUILLOTINED. The difference is law and justice, order and stability, peace and tranquility. Civilized societies need a strong leader and I am the Blessed One.

50.00 Prestige
50.00 Piety
Bralia: Reach's opinion of Bralia: -100 (vicious tyrant)

Plot to assassinate Reach (plot power 34.6%)
Arrest Reach (arrest chance: 12%) If he escapes he may declare WAR on us.

[Bralia]

Well, I imagine my next post might be the OP of the new thread if this one gets speedy over the course of this day. Good night and probably goodbye, great thread of Nazarene.

[Ism]

Damn, I step away from the thread for a while and everyone is at each other's throats to try and claim it for themselves.



Does this make me Jon Arryn? Cause I'm cool with that.

[The Imperial Reach]

So in other news my Russian game is taking a good turn. Managed to convert to Orthodoxy and now most of my vassals are also Orthodox. It's slowly supplanting Iconoclasm and I've begun launching campaigns of expansion to conquer as much of the known world as possible before 1453. Since most of these are Holy Wars they're steadily improving my Moral Authority. I don't think I can take the whole world before the game ends because the 1400s have already begun but I'm confident I can get Iconoclasm to switch back to being a heresy before then. Especially when I Holy War Iconoclast realms.

[North German Realm]

Gonna start a Jorvik->England run. Hoping to reform Paganism, Unite Britannia (possibly by letting the vassals do their thing), take over Denmark and Norway, and raid literally every single coastal province that is accessible without taking over the Suez in game.

[Renoa]

I finally got around to making myself as a CK2 character but I'm going to wait until the new thread to post it because I'm vain and want the attention I think it's neat. Quick, everyone shitpost until this thread is locked!

[The Imperial Reach]

Gonna start a Jorvik->England run. Hoping to reform Paganism, Unite Britannia (possibly by letting the vassals do their thing), take over Denmark and Norway, and raid literally every single coastal province that is accessible without taking over the Suez in game.

There's a Suez Canal mod that let's you sail from the Med. to the Red. Don't need to take Suez then; just send your ships through.

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

Gonna start a Jorvik->England run. Hoping to reform Paganism, Unite Britannia (possibly by letting the vassals do their thing), take over Denmark and Norway, and raid literally every single coastal province that is accessible without taking over the Suez in game.

*laughs in Theodosian walls*

[Bralia]

It continues to blow my fucking mind how absolutely insufferable gamers can get. I see so many people after every new release bring up some random small-ish issue, scream REEEEEEEEFUND and blacklist the entire DLC and the company over something that could be re-balanced in like . . . a week. Or two. There are plenty of things worth having a discussion over, but that generally never happens because of people screeching and whining while providing no solutions drowning out the people who actually have something constructive to say.

And then there people who think it's absolutely unjustifiable for Portugal to not have their own sprites and shit. Should Portugal have gotten their visual flavour? Yeah, they really probably should have, I can agree with the criticism. Is it a problem worth totally devaluing the DLC for? Fuck off with that garbage. I'll take mechanics and and actual substantial flavour over trivial nonsense that I'll look at and go "Oh, that's neat" precisely once (if it even earns that honor in the first place) and never again.

And this just takes the cake:
One of the most popular reviews on Steam for La Resistance literally complains about getting focus trees that apparently NO ONE will play. Just completely dismisses 50% of the entire DLC (which is probably, maybe a quarter of a year's work for the devs) because I guess, according to that person, nobody wants to play or see improvements to France or Spain. Because nobody wants to have a fun experience in the most volatile civil wars of the period. Who wants that? Does anybody want that? Anybody in the Paradox thread want that? NO. If you said yes, NO, FUCK YOU. You're not allowed to play nations that this guy won't play because they say so.

And so ends my increasingly reliable rants against the assholes who show up after each DLC release.

[North German Realm]

Gonna start a Jorvik->England run. Hoping to reform Paganism, Unite Britannia (possibly by letting the vassals do their thing), take over Denmark and Norway, and raid literally every single coastal province that is accessible without taking over the Suez in game.

On second thought, a Charlemagne-start Scania is just as interesting. Because the fucking Viking king keeps converting to Catholic every goddamn time and I don't wanna start with someone who has a Lothbrok bloodline (so I can get my own, ofc).

Gonna start a Jorvik->England run. Hoping to reform Paganism, Unite Britannia (possibly by letting the vassals do their thing), take over Denmark and Norway, and raid literally every single coastal province that is accessible without taking over the Suez in game.

There's a Suez Canal mod that let's you sail from the Med. to the Red. Don't need to take Suez then; just send your ships through.

I mean, sure, but what's the point? (And I'm trying to be somewhat faithful to actual history, difficult as it is to do so in CK2.)

[Impaled Nazarene]

The last page, it was fun I will miss my executive shitposting powers. I'm glad I had my time as OP and barring a certain incident involving a Japanese game company there were no problems.

Go have fun Bralia.

[Alvecia]

Been playing around with the new spy mechanics in Hoi actually. They're quite fun.

It can be stupid expensive to get it started though. At least 5 civ factories for 30 days can be pretty harsh if you're starting from an already weak position economically.

Started playing around with the Portugal monarchy tree as well. Balancing the stability with party popularity is pretty difficult. I can't find a reliable way to keep the stability up.
Seems that the best way to do it is to rush Restoration of the Monarchy asap to avoid too much weekly stab degradation.

Some fun stuff down that tree though. Shame the Carlists got their arses handed to them in the civil war, couldn't even finish my current focus before they'd capitulated.

[Bralia]

I'm going to go ahead and just start the new thread, with the Stellaris "dev" diary. Seeya there.

[Impaled Nazarene]

Mods haven's locked the thread yet. Support the Revolution!

[Zurkerx]

Mods haven's locked the thread yet. Support the Revolution!

Locks the door to the armaments.

Sorry Naz, but there will be no revolution, at least, not today.