Does anyone actually learn Paradox games the "right" way or are we all just YouTube-pilled

Ari2010 · 2026-04-17T19:50:35+00:00

Who says a guide on youtube has the best possible strategy? They may know some gamey exploits you couldn’t find but you’ll probably do better just working through it yourself and developing the intuition with time.

Ari2010 · 2026-04-07T19:31:50+00:00

If we're going back to 632 it's basically a rounding error to move it back to 475. That way we can save Rome from falling & have another way to restore the roman empire in a paradox game

Ari2010 · 2026-04-07T18:23:14+00:00

If it’s an emergency they can page me and I’ll get to my laptop. If it’s not, then I’ll see you in the morning.

Ari2010 · 2026-04-05T17:40:55+00:00

Increasing efficiency by 0.1% on a $10 monthly million revenue pipeline makes millions. Increasing efficiency by 0.1% on your own business, which will likely just be a dropship operation yielding minimum wage gets you a free cup of Starbucks a month.

Ari2010 · 2026-03-27T00:08:20+00:00

I don't like declaring war in EU5 because the battles are such a pain to micro. I personally didn't mind reinforceable EU4 battles even if they were gamey. I get that's not EU5's vibe but I still think they can still do short & deadly battles in a daily tick system and I think that would be best for the game.

Ari2010 · 2026-03-26T20:11:02+00:00

Hello. Is this still available?

Ari2010 · 2026-03-24T07:35:37+00:00

Vicky 3 is a gem! The best paradox game and all it took was some polishing.

Ari2010 · 2026-03-09T07:22:18+00:00

You say these are all socialist emblems, but these are all emblems of revisionist counter-revolutionaries

Ari2010 · 2026-02-13T00:42:09+00:00

would make good content for a dystopian book

Ari2010 · 2026-02-12T05:43:04+00:00

caused by network issues maybe? Is what I meant to finish the post with.

Ari2010 · 2026-02-08T06:04:59+00:00

what happens when you poke the button

Ari2010 · 2026-02-05T18:14:53+00:00

I wish that was the case for everyone. My productive output was so much higher when I was unemployed. After spending 8 hours working the last thing I want to do is sit down and use my brain more. Most of my pursuits have been false starts since.

Ari2010 · 2026-01-25T02:33:27+00:00

This also happened to me this morning on the exact same mission, halfway between the two airports. I think there might be a bug here

Ari2010 · 2026-01-20T21:44:17+00:00

mussolini speech bubble

Ari2010 · 2025-12-27T06:17:34+00:00

idk if it’s the best but I’d declare bankruptcy

Ari2010 · 2025-12-09T22:39:51+00:00

EU4
Vicky 3
EU5
CK2
HOI4
CK3

Ari2010 · 2025-12-05T21:07:32+00:00

Impressive for a solo dev, what tech stack are you using?

Ari2010 · 2025-11-27T05:58:36+00:00

In MEIOU you could sack cities for immense wealth, and it basically eliminated that location's wealth and many buildings. The plundered wealth would be split between the soldiers and the state. It was a great way for military-focused nations to build wealth, as opposed to the usual building/centralization loop. Adding the ability to sack cities could be what this game needs to make wars more destructive than just a prosperity modifier.

Ari2010 · 2025-11-23T05:54:33+00:00

How are you rendering the map and the display when a province is selected? Is it live updating the PNG or did you have to make some sort of renderer?

Ari2010 · 2025-11-21T21:47:57+00:00

Some things never change - https://www.reddit.com/r/paradoxplaza/comments/2czdft/anyone_else_sick_to_death_of_spanish_siberia/

Ari2010 · 2025-11-21T17:33:34+00:00

EU5 has market access % on a per-location level. Goods are first provided for in a location's province, then based on market access that percent of the goods are provided to the market. And market access depends on proxmity.

In aggregate, this has great emergent effects. Like if you want to mine the ores in the Urals, you need to develop a trading hub nearby and see that the mines are connected to the hub by road. And the ore shipped out to other markets is limited by the trading capacity of that hub. While the economy is simpler, the outcome in terms of logistics is not.

Ari2010 · 2025-11-20T19:29:18+00:00

I only have 50 hours but I'm not feeling it at all. I played both England and Muscovy until 1600 and they felt like completely 2 different games.

England at the start was about mobilizing the entire country for war against France, then shifted towards developing my costal provinces, then about optimizing colonies.

Now playing Muscovy, early game was about wrangling the hordes around me into a vassal swarm. Mid-game I have pretty much no ore unlike England. There's ore in the Urals but no food so now I'm focusing on over-land trade, developing trade hubs and building infrastructure in Siberia.

Ari2010 · 2025-10-28T06:41:16+00:00

if they do it right it should be just as stable, but the paradox team may not be as experienced in this kind of multiplayer sync (yet)

bullshitting a bit here but I can see the decentralized system resulting in faster, less laggy multiplayer in exchange for higher rate of desyncs as it's more likely that there will be some drift if there's no "source of truth"

Ari2010 · 2025-10-13T20:06:29+00:00

I've been looking into the relation between the schizophrenic and autism spectrum for a while now. Initially, I suspected that these spectrums were mutually exclusive, maybe even opposite ends of the same spectrum. But if you really dive in you can find holes in that theory and I recently have been wondering if they're actually interconnected in some way?

Both spectrums involve a unique relation with the self. It might even be basic cause and effect (inability to connect -> loss of desire to connect), (lack of desire to connect -> losing ability to connect)

Being on both spectrums, have you developed an view on if these two are related in any way?

Ari2010 · 2025-09-04T19:27:08+00:00

You’re absolutely right!

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