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BloodNinja
United States2791 Posts
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Euronyme
Sweden3804 Posts
On March 01 2012 08:15 BloodNinja wrote: I still play this game as well. Been keeping up with the Death & Taxes mod and it has spiced things back up for me. Yeah it's a great mod. I hope more are coming. I've been looking at the whole world mod (http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?363614-*Whole-World-Mod*) for a long time to see if the developer manages to fix the crash bug. THAT looks awesome. In short you have tonnes of new nations, and the time line goes on to future era basically, and on the way you can play every nation imaginable. You can basically have a game where the major powers in the game are the EU, Portuguese America, Nazi Germany, the Byzantine empire and communist china. There are loads of new decisions too. It's basically a whole new game. You can actually play it now, but it all locks up and bugs after a couple of years, and for some reason he's using a map from some old EU game that looks like it's been made in minecraft. The day that finishes though... Man, it'll be a good day... | ||
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GhostOwl
766 Posts
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Candadar
2049 Posts
On March 01 2012 03:22 Euronyme wrote: Is there even anyone left playing this game on TL, or is it crusader kings that's taken over completely? I find myself going back to this game when sleepy or just not feeling for the somewhat more intense gameplay of ck =) I don't really anymore, unfortunately. CK2/DotA 2 consume my gaming time. If I want something on a more macro scale compared to CK2, sometimes I try to go back to MEIOU but then I realize I might as well go play Vicky 2, so I play that instead. =/ | ||
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Euronyme
Sweden3804 Posts
On March 10 2012 11:09 GhostOwl wrote: Hey guys, I'm picking up this game again, but I wanted to try out the WWM mod. I tried the original thread and tried the original link but the gamefront site link seems to be down, and I dont know where to download it. Can anyone help me out? I need one for version 5.1 DW It's broken. It just freezes after a couple of years. The guy who's making it has been "trying to find bugs" for about a year at this point. | ||
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Euronyme
Sweden3804 Posts
The modders say themselves that "I've made this mod compatible with everything else through blablabla" but you can only select one from the drop down list in the launcher right? Any ideas? | ||
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deafhobbit
United States828 Posts
England - Formed GB, colonized/conquered all of South America, Central America, West and Southwest North America, the Caribbean, Australia/NZ, and Sri Lanka, became the supreme naval power in the world, and spent the majority of the game picking fights with anyone who had the audacity to build a navy and screwing over France at every opportunity. Brandenburg - Slowly expanded, formed Prussia, and engaged in a century long three way power struggle with me, Austria, and Burgundy (who crippled, but never fully conquered, France) while using Unam Sanctum to pick fights with catholic minors and keep my prestige up. After forming Germany in the late 1600's, i conquered everything i had cores on, vassalized enough electors to become permanent emperor, and spent the last 70 years or so partitioning Burgandy, France, and Austria for all the trouble they'd given me over the course of the game. England Again - I planned on taking more colonies in Asia, but quit this game in the 1540's after it became clear the game would be even more of a cake walk than last time. After playing the early game better than before, and forming GB before 1500's, i conquered half of Central America. During the truce, a border tension event fire off that gave me a core on the east coast in the late 1400's. Combined with already owning the Azores, this allowed me colonize the entire Caribbean before anyone else got there, while also taking Brazil and starting the process of slowly conquering the Inca while taking all their money. France - Just started yesterday, and while it's only 1450, it's clear that this game is going to be boring. I've absorbed most of my vassals, kicked England off the continent, crippled Burgundy, beaten Bohemia and Austria in multiple wars, and have acquired most of the North Italian universities. I'm looking for something moderately challenging, though not a nation requiring westernization. I'd also like decent amount of war fighting, and a requirement to maintain both a decent army and navy. I'm not really interested in playing the colonial game again, though obviously I'll take a port in India to get the east india company decision. I'd like to do something that's at least historically plausible, so no world conquest for me. Things I'm thinking about Form Italy, dominate the Meditterenean, and join the great power game on the continent. Problem is I'm not sure which italian minor to start as. Protestant Crusade. My England was Catholic, and my Brandenburg reformed, so I'm interested in trying a protestant playthough. Start small to mid sized, embrace the reformation, and bring fire to the heretics. Sack Rome, reconquer Jerusalem, destroy the HRE, and convert anyone i can. Might overlap with the Italy idea. No idea to play, I'd want something small to mid sized so the reformation doesn't hit me too hard, but with the potential to grow once things have stabilized. Survival - Play a small to mid sized country, without big ambitions. Try to stay alive, and watch what happens to the world with only the AI in charge. Goes against my warmongering desires, but might still be fun. Any recommendations? | ||
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anomalopidae
Slovenia549 Posts
Tbh I've always wanted to do mediterranean conquest but it's quite a bit of hassle since the north african provinces give you pretty much nothing before they're cored even though you said you don't want to westernize you could still try out ottomans and go either without westernization or westernize and don't modernize military | ||
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Elektrobear
108 Posts
And this with a poor tribal country. | ||
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deafhobbit
United States828 Posts
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godemperor
Belgium2043 Posts
Savoy is great as well, for pietmond-sardinia, then italy, maybe try for HRE. Play the netherlands, try not to get destroyed by burgendy, for holland, create huge overseas empire. Byzantine, restore roman empire. Im assuming you already have death and taxes mod. | ||
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RvB
Netherlands6209 Posts
On April 22 2012 03:29 godemperor wrote: Aragon is really fun, restore the union with sardiania, captures sicily, form spain, make Mediterranean your lake. Savoy is great as well, for pietmond-sardinia, then italy, maybe try for HRE. Play the netherlands, try not to get destroyed by burgendy, for holland, create huge overseas empire. Byzantine, restore roman empire. Im assuming you already have death and taxes mod. I agree with Byzantine it's not very hard but it's one of the most enjoyable countries to play with I think I've played with them 3 times and I still wasn't getting bored with em. | ||
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godemperor
Belgium2043 Posts
On April 22 2012 03:38 RvB wrote: I agree with Byzantine it's not very hard but it's one of the most enjoyable countries to play with I think I've played with them 3 times and I still wasn't getting bored with em. I would suggest play byzantine at 1399, if you start at the beginning of D@T then it is almost too easy (get rdy for some serious negative prestige due to all the unclaimed cores). One of the most awesome feeling is forming roman empire and capturing the pentarchy. | ||
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deafhobbit
United States828 Posts
On April 22 2012 03:29 godemperor wrote: Aragon is really fun, restore the union with sardiania, captures sicily, form spain, make Mediterranean your lake. Savoy is great as well, for pietmond-sardinia, then italy, maybe try for HRE. Play the netherlands, try not to get destroyed by burgendy, for holland, create huge overseas empire. Byzantine, restore roman empire. Im assuming you already have death and taxes mod. That's an interesting assumption to make, and an incorrect one. The moment i read that it costs prestiege to commission paintings in that mod was the moment i lost interest. Also, making it easy to restore the Roman Empire from a two province minor surrounded by people who want to kill you seems kinda stupid. | ||
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Candadar
2049 Posts
On April 22 2012 09:44 deafhobbit wrote: That's an interesting assumption to make, and an incorrect one. The moment i read that it costs prestiege to commission paintings in that mod was the moment i lost interest. Also, making it easy to restore the Roman Empire from a two province minor surrounded by people who want to kill you seems kinda stupid. That's literally the only thing D&T does right, the prestige for commission painting. It's so fucking broken vanilla it's a joke, and makes 2 province minors stronger than major powers early game for the player. But D&T is just for chucklefucking around and painting the world. If you want a decent challenge, MEIOU or Magna Mundi are great. | ||
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deafhobbit
United States828 Posts
On April 22 2012 09:59 Candadar wrote: That's literally the only thing D&T does right, the prestige for commission painting. It's so fucking broken vanilla it's a joke, and makes 2 province minors stronger than major powers early game for the player. But D&T is just for chucklefucking around and painting the world. If you want a decent challenge, MEIOU or Magna Mundi are great. If it's op, I'd rather they'd tone down the culture bonus than add a prestige cost. I like having something to do with excess magistrates. | ||
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Roflhaxx
Korea (South)1244 Posts
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Candadar
2049 Posts
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anomalopidae
Slovenia549 Posts
On April 22 2012 10:24 deafhobbit wrote: If it's op, I'd rather they'd tone down the culture bonus than add a prestige cost. I like having something to do with excess magistrates. prestige cost is minimal, you can employ grand marshal and philosopher and it doesn't even matter | ||
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deafhobbit
United States828 Posts
On April 23 2012 02:34 anomalopidae wrote: prestige cost is minimal, you can employ grand marshal and philosopher and it doesn't even matter I still don't like having excess magistrates sitting around, and want something to do with them. Even if it's minimally benificial, some cost-free way of spending them seems a good idea. Make it 1 Cultural Tradition, i don't care, just make it have no cost. | ||
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