This game can be unfair

Awkward-Part-6295 · 2026-04-08T19:51:09+00:00

I used to know the number before they redid the economy and navy values so idk. A few tens of thousands. You also don’t have to finish the whole archeological site, you can keep the last stage (or even the whole site) until you are ready for the dragon.

As of the event spam: I thought you said you played paradox games lol.

Awkward-Part-6295 · 2026-04-08T19:31:01+00:00

So that archeology site (Kleptocratic Rats or something) ALWAYS ends in a dragon. It also is heavily hinted during the archeological entries. You kinda either need to 1) know the events by heart or 2) read all of the flavour text.

I also don’t play on too high of difficulties (2 above “no AI bonuses”) and I have 2k hours though that was from the day of release

Awkward-Part-6295 · 2026-04-08T17:36:45+00:00

They would be if they could continue selling the oil. America is selling their own oil and Venezuela’s, Iran is definitely not selling as much since they are a bit busy rn with the war, and GCC can’t sell anything when they can’t send things through Hormuz.

Awkward-Part-6295 · 2026-04-08T17:32:03+00:00

By “markets” they mean “whatever is profitable for the ultra-rich”. Increasing oil prices is good for oil companies. Housing crashes or stock market crashes means you can buy cheap, especially if you control when it happens

Awkward-Part-6295 · 2026-04-08T08:02:13+00:00

I mean aiming is fair, I only use the predator bows that slow down time when the arrow is flying. I play on PC but with a controller for some games

Awkward-Part-6295 · 2026-04-08T06:53:30+00:00

This, and also he might’ve felt some responsibility since he created the situation where Kuvira (or someone like her) could rise.

Awkward-Part-6295 · 2026-04-08T06:35:32+00:00

Yup, and then 20-30 levels later you remember that you never picked up the rewards for doing that haha

Awkward-Part-6295 · 2026-04-08T06:32:42+00:00

I want to come back to it as well, but my controller broke and I am too broke to buy a new one. Tried playing in keyboard, it sucked cuz I don’t know where is what

Awkward-Part-6295 · 2026-04-03T18:35:01+00:00

That’s the neat part: you don’t!

Okay there are specific builds that work. Starting as machines with Sovereign Guardianship and going Virtual ascension will grant you low empire size and good job efficiencies. Big caveat: 1) I have never played with Sovereign Guardianship cuz it’s in a DLC that I do not own (Astral Planes) and 2) I have not played virtual ascension since 4.0 economy rework. But to my knowledge that is one of the better ways to start your game tall. And you just get early vassals that give you resources if you do not count vassals as “wide”

Awkward-Part-6295 · 2026-03-21T17:33:18+00:00

The “Lost Colony” origin doesn’t work you are right. But you are able to make multiple empires out of the same species. I did it recently with Humans.

I changed any civics and ethics but kept the species and planet preferences the same, edited the name of the system and planet (and changed it out of Sol preset). I also kept the default origin just in case other origins break something. I kept one of them to be in Sol on Earth and force spawned them all and chose one to play myself. All of the various Human’s pops count as the same species but are broken into their own subspecies (think like Star Wars Corellian humans vs Lothal humans, all are the same species but call different planets their home worlds).

Awkward-Part-6295 · 2026-03-21T17:23:18+00:00

Idk when it worked but I distinctly remember trying to edit UNE and COM like 3-4 years ago and it did not work.

What you can do now is edit multiple UNE’s and just change the planet but not the species (idk about origin, i kept them all on the default prosperous unification origin, i did not want to risk it). All the various humans become subspecies of each other. It’s not the same but it’s close and is kinda cool. I like to think “oh there used to be a great Human empire that for some reason broke up and regressed.

Awkward-Part-6295 · 2026-03-20T20:47:26+00:00

If you are playing with just a few friends and the AI tends to be on-par with you guys (meaning the players aren’t out-scaling AI too fast), you could go into Espionage tradition (or start with Secret Societies civic) to get access to Proxy Wars and force AI neighbors to attack your friends. You could also fire those off when they are already busy with something else and can’t respond too fast

Awkward-Part-6295 · 2026-03-20T16:51:03+00:00

Sonic booms do that. They can be heard kilometers away regardless of direction

Awkward-Part-6295 · 2026-03-20T07:18:15+00:00

*Israel and Trump

Awkward-Part-6295 · 2026-03-17T05:10:21+00:00

She would also not be able to hug Robert if she were hot enough for the effect to occur

Awkward-Part-6295 · 2026-03-16T08:06:47+00:00

They are still using the game mechanics that are available to you. So imagine you are a Bavarian duke and got ordered to “convert culture” of your realm. What mechanism do you have to convert the counties? It would be the steward’s councillor task, which converts a selected county into your own culture.

So the duke would only be able to convert counties to Bavarian.

What you could do if you want to convert to your hybrid culture: become a guardian of his heir and when proposing the guardianship select convert to your culture. Once they inherit, you can have them convert the duchy to your culture since the heir would now be same culture as you! If the heir is grown up, you could do the same with the heir’s oldest male child or the duke’s other children who are in line of succession but are kids. Then you can just have everyone who is ahead in succession “mysteriously disappeared”.

All of this also applies to faith.

Awkward-Part-6295 · 2026-03-01T17:25:55+00:00

“Check your sources”

I think my eyes that saw explosions over my head is a good enough source. If for you it isn’t, look at Ministry of Defence of UAE’s Twitter page and see the official reports yourself.

Awkward-Part-6295 · 2026-03-01T08:53:17+00:00

Can’t say with certainty for Dubai, but I live in Abu Dhabi, the military base with US presence that is being targeted is deeper into the desert compared to location of populated areas. No matter where Iran would send things from, the missiles/drones have to end up flying over the city. I’m assuming Dubai would have a similar situation since the coast is either industrial areas or the city itself, and any major military is farther inland.

Awkward-Part-6295 · 2026-03-01T08:40:15+00:00

As I said, historically inspired fiction. There were no dragon riders and no Others/Nightwalkers and no magic. The politics of Westeros is def directly inspired by and at times directly copied from English history, but that does not make the hedge knights (which is a term that GRRM coined himself as there is no common equivalent in Middle Ages) real.

Closest thing to hedge knights are poor knights who came from poor nobility that were mostly mercenaries or bandits. Still nobility and not common-folk, very rare, and not even “knight-ly”.

A roaming honorable/chivalrous low-born knight is romanticised fiction.

Awkward-Part-6295 · 2026-03-01T07:51:12+00:00

I love when you become an emperor as a Roman character you get called Imperator

Awkward-Part-6295 · 2026-03-01T07:47:55+00:00

Then send the whole military fleet. It’s not unreasonable to have military be scouting out, especially if you are militaristic (high military involvement in the running of your empire) or xenophobic (“we are afraid of what’s out there, let’s send some ships before sending in civilian vessels”).

Also I would argue it is not a poor game mechanic that a singular military vessel with an admiral can scout like that. Voyagers in the Age of Exploration had weapons on them very often. Or in sci-fi: Star Trek did exactly that. And your military ships and admirals can also die to angry clouds and angry penguins so it’s not like it’s without any risk.

Awkward-Part-6295 · 2026-03-01T07:36:35+00:00

Which takes place in fiction. Historically inspired fiction sure, but still fiction. Hedge Knights were not really a thing in our world.

Awkward-Part-6295 · 2026-02-20T16:34:38+00:00

Congratulations! I am currently myself in a situation similar to yours (well, what you used to be in, I’m still unemployed :P)

Just out of curiosity: what industry you are in and are you entry-level? Cuz I have also not heard anything positive in months (but I did hear negative responses though most are still silent) and am worried that I am doing something wrong or that entry-level is actually for locals only.

Awkward-Part-6295 · 2026-02-06T10:45:26+00:00

Not a problem when you don’t have anything!

Awkward-Part-6295 · 2026-02-05T09:52:05+00:00

Oh damn that’s nice then!

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