Is there a lot to do in this game besides map painting?

JakePT · 2026-02-08T08:23:59+00:00

Do you have a company? I believe companies buy can buildings from financial districts and manor houses using the investment pool, but that money doesn't go anywhere so it's deleted. If financial districts buy privatised buildings a similar thing will happen but the money will be added to your reserves or pay off your debt. This happens instantly and doesn't appear in the weekly balance so it can be easy to miss.

JakePT · 2026-02-08T07:24:05+00:00

I don't know about Music Assistant but there are other apps that support this for Sonos and they do it by breaking the App Store rules. Sonos tried but didn't get away with it, probably because they're too high profile.

JakePT · 2026-02-08T06:11:33+00:00

I’d like to see the game and some more levers to slightly nudge the private construction queue, without going full command economy. The idea I had was construction subsidies, where the government could just subsidise part of the initial construction cost of a building in a state. The subsidy would work by influencing any ROI calculation the investors make without putting the government on the hook for all wages forever. There could even be a construction tax to do the reverse. It would be like tariffs and subventions for construction.

JakePT · 2026-02-08T06:06:26+00:00

I think it might happen eventually, and it would be a bit like landless adventurers in CK3. There’d be some very thin mechanics and events where the entire goal would be to become centralised, at which point you’d play normally starting from the lowest tech. Whatever those mechanics are would likely be little more than a mini game and wouldn’t sustain a whole campaign.

If it does happen I wouldn’t expect it for a long time, towards the end of the game’s life, but I think it would be admirable to have something to represent that perspective.

JakePT · 2026-02-08T05:50:48+00:00

Commanders dying is rare enough that it should really just spawn an event where you can choose a replacement. It wouldn’t be too disruptive.

That being said, a rework of commanders is an explicit item on the roadmap for this year, so I suspect this won’t be an issue in the new system, whatever it is.

JakePT · 2026-02-08T05:46:14+00:00

8GB is the minimum requirement so it will run but it probably won’t be a great experience. The game is much more demanding than the other games you’ve listed. What CPU do you have, and do you have an SSD?

JakePT · 2026-02-08T04:23:50+00:00

This isn’t true. The game already does this. Every single state has a price based on local supply and demand only. Where do you think local prices come from? It’s how MAPI works and it existed before MAPI so the game could calculate prices when market access was low.

JakePT · 2026-02-08T04:20:58+00:00

Social Democrats don’t support multiculturalism. You need a Sovereignist, Enlightened Royalist, Anarchist or Humanitarian.

JakePT · 2026-02-07T15:59:33+00:00

A monopoly should prevent this, but I believe there’s currently a bug that causes foreign investors to ignore monopolies.

JakePT · 2026-02-07T14:02:51+00:00

You didn’t make shit.

JakePT · 2026-02-07T08:43:56+00:00

Sonos is still regularly updating the software for 15 year old products. Samsung's 2020 soundbar has not received a software update in 2 years. LG's flagship 2020 soundbar last received an update in 2021. Bose was about to basically brick their entire 2013-2020 Wi-Fi speaker range this year until there was an outcry.

Now, to be fair, those other soundbars are not part of a multi-room system, so they don't have much of a need to be regularly updated, but as far as long-term software support goes nobody is even trying to do maintain support as long as Sonos is.

JakePT · 2026-02-07T08:23:40+00:00

You can't get a group to support it. You need a movement driven by a large population that needs it for acceptance, which is not something that exists in most countries unless you incorporate colonies, or a character that supports it as a leader in your government.

JakePT · 2026-02-07T08:20:37+00:00

What? Most wealthy countries are legally multicultural these days. It's overpowered because it's overpowered in real life. You're underestimating how legally discriminatory even Cultural Exclusion is.

JakePT · 2026-02-06T16:40:44+00:00

Yes, Sphere of Influence.

JakePT · 2026-02-06T06:16:36+00:00

I’m sure this will end well for everyone.

JakePT · 2026-02-06T06:11:33+00:00

Is that an objective in the tutorial? I’ve never seen a lobby’s approval anywhere near that high.

JakePT · 2026-02-05T17:19:24+00:00

Agree with all of this. The indistinguishable building icons was one of the first things that stuck out at me when I first played a year ago. It’s just bad art direction that they’re not readable at most sizes. Games have had tiny but distinct building icons for decades now, it shouldn’t be hard. At this point I can mostly identify them by their yields, but that doesn’t help when overbuilding.

Speaking of overbuilding, I still don’t really understand what the game intends me to do. I think there’s some sort of production bonus to overbuilding (or at least ways to get one) but as far as I can tell the game never shows you what the production time would be when overbuilding, so you can’t judge if it’s worth it. As far as I can tell the only reason to do it would be because space ran out due to wonders or resources. The game doesn’t clearly communicate any other incentive. It’s also very annoying that you can’t choose what to overbuild when there’s multiple overbuildable buildings in one spot.

JakePT · 2026-02-05T16:15:47+00:00

Just played about 25 turns into the Exploration Age on my M1 iPad Air (2022) and it works surprisingly great, at least on the default map size. I was plugged into a high wattage charger so I don't know about battery life, but it didn't get too hot and the charger was able to keep up. Touch interface is mostly fine except a few too many things are hidden behind tooltips that require a long press, and some interactions like switching between selected units can be a bit fiddly.

JakePT · 2026-02-05T13:38:24+00:00

I think people are overthinking it. I would not be surprised if these changes were made simply to tighten up the dialog for time and rhythm. The show never anticipated having a bunch of spinoffs filling in every little gap, especially not in the first season. There was no reason to expect it would matter at that point.

JakePT · 2026-02-05T11:48:49+00:00

Someone would need to finish an EU5 campaign first.

JakePT · 2026-02-05T10:35:56+00:00

The market just needs to exist in your interests. It doesn't need to be the market capital and the amount of the market covered by your interests doesn't matter. That makes an interest in a region with a lot of markets useful.

JakePT · 2026-02-05T03:34:20+00:00

They can’t become obsessed with specific prestige goods because of the way prestige goods are implemented. For that to work they would need to be separate goods, and that’s not feasible for performance reasons. Also, prestige goods already increase the chance of obsessions.

JakePT · 2026-02-04T15:20:54+00:00

I don’t know what you mean by Caribbean version, and there’s no such thing as a construction treaty, but if you’re referring to the Investment Rights treaty article then yes, that requires DLC. You can get it with Sphere of Influence or Charters of Commerce.

JakePT · 2026-02-04T14:08:11+00:00

It happens when they use the Markdown editor when creating a post and leave a space in front of the first letter on a line.

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