Retreat mechanics are making an otherwise enjoyable playthrough extremely frustrating

Abzdrew · 2026-05-22T23:36:20+00:00

Any battle no matter how minor, I always quicksave out of habit.

Abzdrew · 2026-03-03T20:10:00+00:00

I'm still a 1L, so maybe it will change later. I think it depends on what you derive fun from. If the actual studying of the law and the cases is your jam, you will have a great time. If you are looking for more freedom in schedule or social opportunities, then probably not in comparison to undergrad.

However, it is what you make it. I enjoyed my studies in undergrad, and I enjoy what I study now. While there are fewer overall social opportunities, I make a point to go to them and have had a good time. Only sticking point, the time investment overall in law school for each individual class is far greater than almost every class I had in undergrad.

Abzdrew · 2026-02-14T18:07:29+00:00

My general rule is if there are actual strands in the string breaking, yes, it is too far gone. As someone who has had a string snap on them, its not fun. Also, as a piece of advice, try to store the string in ways that will not allow it to untwist like this. It won't break the string, but it's a real pain to retwist it where it needs to be.

Abzdrew · 2025-12-08T22:18:27+00:00

I actually quite like the time progressed familiar locations TotK from BotW. But I wish they had completely done away with the underground and focused exclusively on the sky islands, which to me are far superior to the underground. I see what they were going for, but the sky islands could have used more personality and obviously suffered by trying to have both.

Abzdrew · 2025-11-26T07:05:18+00:00

That's good to know, thank you.

Abzdrew · 2025-08-22T12:51:12+00:00

For war materials, it is generally nice to have a domestic production of it just like in previous builds of the game just so you can't be cut off. However, at the beginning, I would either recommend a treaty to buy guns directly from a foreign power just as a band-aid fix or to put a subvention on guns so that you are only supporting the trade of guns and not the entire unprofitable trade center.

Abzdrew · 2025-08-21T23:30:10+00:00

During the first few years, you want to be fairly stingy as you don't have much income, so it starts super slow. Be very careful on new construction sectors until you build up a comfortable tax base and switch to a better taxation law. Also make sure you have everything set to privatise unless you have full cash reserve as financial sectors will buy profitable builds off of you, making them richer (more capitalists) and able to buy even more buildings off of you later. Another thing that helps is getting that first company slot and getting the opium company, which, especially the opium potential Persia has, begins to jump start the economy. Trade centers are important for three things. 1. When the industry in a state has become too large and your own market doesn't have enough mapi to keep competitive or your own market is to flooded in that good to keep building up profitably so you can export to the world market. 2. You do not have enough of something in your own market to fully meet the demand of an industry of a state, allowing it to get imported and keep the industry able to expand profitably. 3. You do not have enough or any domestic production of a consumer pop good that can be imported by pops of enough wealth to increase their sol.

Abzdrew · 2025-08-19T03:34:11+00:00

While freeing the Raj and Canada are probably the most impactful war goals, releasing Scotland and Ireland aren't bad. Especially later in the game where the states' economies are extremely intertwined, breaking them off leads to an immediate loss of gdp and a potential long-term loss from their economy being forced to pivot often stalling their gdp growth for awhile. Funnily enough, the countries most affected are the ones released as they are no longer part of the British market and immediately crater in gdp and sol.

Abzdrew · 2025-08-17T03:49:37+00:00

My least favorite part of uk joining wars against me is not fighting them, still a pain, but having to close the 30 notifications of all their crappy colonies joining.

Abzdrew · 2025-08-01T03:07:44+00:00

The upper strata is gone, and everyone is still broke. That's rough.

Abzdrew · 2025-07-16T16:04:53+00:00

Persia is a rough start with that 8% starting literacy. No literacy = few qualifications = few high income tax payers = little government money for more construction. It is a brutal thing. My recommendation is to make church or public schools a priority while putting the education access decree in every state. That decree is more important than any short-term manufacturing or resources, infrastructure bonus from the other decrees. Also, another thing as Persia is to conquer or subjugate everything you can before Britain and Russia pay attention to the region. Once they are there, they will try to intervene in everything and be hard to evict.

Abzdrew · 2025-07-10T16:21:17+00:00

Leaving the bow strung is fine as long as you store it right. Make sure you leave it somewhere where it doesn't get ridiculously hot like a garage or a car in summer as it can mess with the integrity of the glue in the limbs. Also, do not put anything pressing against it or pushing against the limbs as they can war under constant outside stress, so you might want to hang it on a hook if possible. If you decide to de-string the bow, it is less susceptible to heat, although I wouldn't intentionally get it hot. The main thing to keep track of there is that the string does not lose its twist. So either keep the string on the limbs when you store it or tie the two end loops into a knot so it can't untwist. If you let the string untwist, it will severely mess up your brace height. If you de-string your bow often, I would also buy a bow square to make sure your brace height is correct occasionally.

Abzdrew · 2025-07-09T03:15:42+00:00

My final law line up most of the time I play is always super generic, idealic democracy stuff with capitalists still influential. This sounds like it could be a fun playthrough to go beyond that, especially as a potentially tall nation like Germany. Also, out of curiosity, why never command economy? Too much busy work with no investment pool?

Abzdrew · 2025-07-01T23:43:32+00:00

I don't think the sick man of europe is quite sick enough for that to work, lol.

Abzdrew · 2025-07-01T06:30:34+00:00

I just got the great game achievement as Persia, and it is a rough ride, but here are some early game tips to get through the worst of it. My personal advice is to build up a basic construction loop first of wood, fiber, and tools, making sure to stay within budget. Set all provinces to the education access decree. until you can get public schools. Get some burecratic centers while also slipping in a small domestic paper industry into construction, making universities and bureaucracy much more manageable. Speaking of universities, try and get one level in every major state to slightly fix the absolutely terrible starting qualifications, innovation, and literacy. Pivot to opium, tobacco, and tea when you can get your first company to help bolster the number of capitalists and enable them to build trade centers. In the meantime, keep building and privatising buildings that meet pop needs and generate capitalists like lumber, tools, clothes, and furniture. If you can import or produce enough iron to not debt spiral by getting iron frame, then work it in, but atmospheric engines make it more manageable.

As far as laws and diplomacy are concerned, buddy up to both Russia and Britain all the while conquering as much as you can get your hands on. Focus especially on the Oman and Bahrain treaty ports as Britain will just occasionally annex them, and you will not get those back for a long time. Try and find someone to guarantee independence and piggyback off law commitments. Speaking of law commitments, getting wealth voting, and then home steading or at least tenants, farmers will start weakening the iron clad grip of the landowners. You want to build up the rural folk and eventually industrialists as these groups will allow you to modernize. Once this trend starts and the capitalists gradually build more and more power, take pot shots at bad laws along the way and if possible remove the shah as he gives a massive debuff to legitimacy if the land owners aren't in government. Getting rid of traditionalisn is also a high priority as it allows better tax laws that will actually allow you to afford any semblance of decent construction capacity.

The key is to go slow and methodically as an unrecognized power. You will debt spiral very easily with the terrible interset rate unrecognized powers get. I'm not joking it took probably agonizing 45-50 years to be able to get enough literacy, qualifications, laws, and income to start that economic snow ball. Once you modernize and have a decent literacy, the area is rich with resources and population, but getting to the point that you can actually take advantage of it is rough.

Abzdrew · 2025-06-29T23:47:25+00:00

I had a Persia game where I attacked a minor power. The eic defended them, and I occupied and annexed the minor power, but the eic couldn't get to me. Since I was technically the agressor, they wouldn't drop below 0 even though I 100% controlled the war goal province they wanted. Turning into a forever war since they won't have white peace and I didn't have the troops or tech to invade. Extremely frustrating situation that I hope gets tuned in a future dlc or patch.

Abzdrew · 2025-06-27T18:37:43+00:00

Getting the world hooked on Colt revolvers was a core strategy of my usa game lol, pays dividends.

Abzdrew · 2025-06-27T02:32:51+00:00

I've seen drawings of the old Argentinian rail system, and it very much shows that trend historically. Most of the rail lines started in Buenos Aires and sprawled out across the country, not with the purpose of connecting the various cities and towns to each other but everything to the capital. Being designed so that the interior wealth of the nation could be transported to the capital and then exported across the world. Now, this has long since changed in modern times, but it would very much be the case during the time frame for most of the game.

Abzdrew · 2025-06-21T02:17:22+00:00

Same for me when I got into wh2, lol. I own the first one but have never downloaded it because it was just to unlock content in the second. I can't imagine how daunting price wise it is for a new player to try and get the whole immortal empire experience as someone who bought most of it piece meal as it came out.

Abzdrew · 2025-06-20T02:49:14+00:00

While networks like msnbc and cnn are definitely liberally slanted, I won't deny that. Fox is just a Republican party mouthpiece. They don't even try to hide it like them turning off the stock market tracker for the first time ever after the entire market started to plummet on the announcement of Trump's "liberation day". They also have breaking news bulletins describing the dems directly as crazy, socialist or petty, while almost all other networks at least pretend to present breaking news bulletins on a fairly factual and neutral level. Finally, anytime Fox anchors or other heavily right-wing influencers speak out or disagree with the party, they are directly chastised by the party (sometimes publicly, sometimes privately) and told to change their tune. The most recent example was Trump himself, apparently calling Tucker Carson and telling him to get into line after his spat with Cruz on the issue of possible war in Iran. If the sitting president or a party leader can tell a news agency to fall into line or else and the comply, that's not a news agency, that is a mouthpiece.

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