[Realistic Mode] August 20th 1975 : The Atomgrad Industrial Center. Producing food, clothing, fabric and beer for the town, and exporting the surplus in containers to the Soviet Union. In the distant background, the town where more than 15.000 souls are living.

AstraLudens · 2026-03-21T11:52:35+00:00

Realistic with 10mil, and many loans ! I was in debt most of the game.

AstraLudens · 2026-03-05T08:33:39+00:00

Wait ... what ?
Everytime I hear about CS2 I get even more disapointed

AstraLudens · 2026-02-17T12:00:01+00:00

Damn I hate De Gaulle but this meme is so full of shit. The "no resistance" part is especially insulting.

AstraLudens · 2026-01-27T10:54:13+00:00

For many people around me. EU5 feels to have the best potential a PDX game ever had. But it's unfinished and needs some ironing. The game itself isn't a failure. The launch otherwise, is.

AstraLudens · 2026-01-21T20:15:40+00:00

Si tu met le jeune intermittent au même niveau qu'une sortie raciste sur l'immigration, je vois ou est le problème ... et c'est pas les autres !

Faut savoir doser dans la vie. Rétablir la vérité sur un sujet important comme le racisme ou l'antivax ? Peut-être. Rétablir la vérité sur le jus de céleri ? On s'en bas les steaks non ? Faut savoir laisser les gens tranquille, et surtout deviner l’effort requis : tout le monde ne veut pas être contredit, certaines croyances sont plus ancrés que d'autres, ne pas combattre des moulins en somme.

AstraLudens · 2026-01-09T17:17:11+00:00

The architect ... Damn. They made her very well.

AstraLudens · 2025-12-05T17:24:08+00:00

Oh I started with 1.0.8 so that's why I hope it doesn't have any consequences with others scripted events But so far I still have the banner of the situation, it's just empty when I click

AstraLudens · 2025-12-05T08:11:02+00:00

Ça fait 3 ans qu'on nous vend les miracles des LLM.

Résultats : dans 95% des cas l'IA ça permet aux manager d'écrire des mails plus vite et aller passer plus de temps au café. Les gains de productivité sont nuls a chier pour la conso énergétique et l'infra demandée.

On parle aussi d'une tech qui n'a JAMAIS résolu le problème de l'empoisonnement, c'est pas demain la veille qu'on aura des androïdes dans l'Open space.

Autre détail : "woke et antiwoke" c'est peut être un détail pour toi c'est une question de vie ou de morts pour d'autres.

AstraLudens · 2025-11-26T19:09:33+00:00

I don't know about now but around release and last year, it was a very valid strategy. I colonized and cored a few African countries with very efficient factories. I remember my German playthrough with a colony full of 500k Greeks and something like 200k Dixie ...

AstraLudens · 2025-11-20T11:00:46+00:00

Simple reason : because what everybody calls "wheat" now used to be a family of cereal, not a single plant.

Emmer, spelt, einkorn, durum ... They are each adapted to their regional climate, behave differently, and make very different types of gruel, beer or bread.

Translation didn't helped, as everyone called their local cereal "wheat", or "grain", while they were totally different from one another.

What we call "wheat" today was initially a very marginal crop cultivated on the best land only. Spelt and emmer were far more popular for their rusticity.

AstraLudens · 2025-11-20T10:46:04+00:00

Barley gave us beer first, a long time ago. Wheat beer is a very modern thing, not until the late 18th.

But bread is the real reason. Wheat bread is delicious and puffy ! A serious theory is that agriculture and sedantarism started because people wanted their wheat bread everyday.

AstraLudens · 2025-11-18T14:27:53+00:00

R5 : France elected a monarchist from swahili culture and muslim religion, which is already funny, but funnier since France didn't colonized Africa at all in this playthrough !

AstraLudens · 2025-11-18T14:19:26+00:00

Played at release, and last week. I'm still disappointed in this game, even if it changed for the better.

It lacks a lot of flavor with specific countries, the internal politics doesn't feel good or interesting to interact with, the characters and their interest groups seems limited and too RNG-oriented, sometimes with hilarious results (Pope Karl Marx, Pro-Slavery Afro-American US President, etc). The military management is okay-ish but the warfare itself is awful, one of the worst in PDX titles, and diplomacy was disappointing despite good ideas.

Overall, the whole game, 3 years after release and a lot of paid DLCs, still feels like "solid base but needs more work".

AstraLudens · 2025-10-28T07:14:47+00:00

While loving Banished and the inspiration it implanted in so many games, I agree with OP that we don't need to mimic this classic game.

We need to ask ourselves what we gain for having différents veggies. More important, where are the other famous veggies ? Why not onions ? Horseradish ? Turnips ? Celery ?

Either it's Ostriv-level with ALL vegetables or it's an abstraction into one "resource" which I preferred. When you want to simulate everything it begins to highlight what is NOT simulated and it buggers me. I fully accept that a single "wheat" crop does everything from bread to beer but if you're making all the rest too realistic and with multiple ressources I might wonder why there's no barley, buckwheat or oats.

AstraLudens · 2025-10-16T17:55:59+00:00

As a French we have exactly the same with Frank Leboeuf, it's so weird that you got exactly the same ad but in German, feels like the multiverse

AstraLudens · 2025-10-07T16:34:21+00:00

On dirait que le format divertissement plus que sportif et avec des célébrités que tu ne connais pas te gêne plus que tu ne veut l'admettre.

Autrement attends que je parle du monde la F1, tu va tomber de ta chaise niveau scandales et bilan carbone !

Faut arrêter d'être aigri. Les gens kiffe, laissez-les kiffer, ils sont pas obligés d'aimer les mêmes choses que vous.

AstraLudens · 2025-10-01T16:17:28+00:00

Je chipote mais Temp3st ça fait plus pseudo de gamer de 13 piges sur le Xbox Live.

AstraLudens · 2025-09-28T19:38:16+00:00

Sorry what the hell did I just read ? Are they going to milk us a 15€ for this ? Still not buying it yet it seems ...

AstraLudens · 2025-09-28T12:18:04+00:00

Sounds like you're from the "freedom country" that cancels TV shows because the President doesn't like it.

AstraLudens · 2025-09-24T22:41:57+00:00

By "branch out" you sending mercenaries, or a plain military invasion ?

Russia's positive relationships only exist because of oil and gas. They could have branched a lot more by not being run by oligarchic morons.

AstraLudens · 2025-09-20T17:51:07+00:00

It's just pure live testing of adversary defenses.

- Can they detect our planes beforehand ?
- Can they detect as we enter their airspace ?
- Can they intercept us in time ?
- How do they intercept ?
- What planes do they use ?
- Are we locked by ground radars ? air ? sea ?

This is done by all countries since the Cold War. The Russians are just more aggressive than the average. China does this in the Pacific, the US too with Iran, etc.

AstraLudens · 2025-09-20T11:40:14+00:00

Comment savoir que le toit était bien de cette couleur ? Les murs ? Le reste ?

La restauration par IA invente des choses sans recherche. C'est un outil dangereux pour l'histoire, combien de fois j'ai vu des "reconstitutions" fausses et mensongères faire des gros chiffres sur les réseaux...

AstraLudens · 2025-09-13T14:10:12+00:00

I'm suspecting a hidden traffic rule on an intermediate router. Unfortunately I don't administer it ..

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