[HN Gopher] Teaching Paradox, Victoria II, Part I: Mechanics and... ___________________________________________________________________ Teaching Paradox, Victoria II, Part I: Mechanics and Gears Author : parsecs Score : 62 points Date : 2021-08-13 06:00 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (acoup.blog) (TXT) w3m dump (acoup.blog) | aqsalose wrote: | Here is link to author's previous blog series about Europa | Universalis IV: https://acoup.blog/2021/04/30/collections- | teaching-paradox-e... | | Vic II was the first paradox game I played seriously. Later I | bought EUIV after playing Victoria II, and while it naturally has | prettier graphics and UI and maybe "better" designed, I was | disappointed that EUIV didn't have the pops model. | MeinBlutIstBlau wrote: | This is a little off topic but EU4 completely got ruined with | the last DLC. And this isn't another annoying complaint, | universally on steam people despise it. It's the lowest rated | item on steam. It's dramatically slower compared to when ticks | were lightning fast several years ago. Buggy and broke the | balance of the game ridiculously. | | Ever since paradox stopped focusing on performance of their | games and just said "add more features, who cares about speed!" | I stopped playing. A full EU4 campaign at 4-5 speed should take | at most, 80-200 hours. Not double that because I gotta wait for | ticks because they added an absurd amount of additional checks. | Bayart wrote: | I was an avid Paradox player, but I pretty much stopped when | they started pumping out DLCs at a rate I couldn't follow | with, in the CKII/EUIV era. I played EUIV a bunch but I | probably still have more hours on EUIII | Andrew_nenakhov wrote: | I had 1500+ hours in EU4, but then I discovered CK2, and just | couldn't go back to EU. You see, the very sketchy dynasty games | were always unsatisfactory for me in EU. You can't really | protect your dynasty or force a Personal Union on somebody, | that was always very annoying. I'd play EU5 with more detailed | family mechanics... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-08-14 23:00 UTC)