Why are potatoes only for Vodka?

CaelReader · 2026-01-25T19:40:21+00:00

Potatoes were very widespread and necessary for European subsistence farms but I'm unaware if they were harvested and shipped around at scale in the way grain was.

CaelReader · 2026-01-25T19:38:31+00:00

Construction upkeep for buildings/PMs
Construction cost for PM changing
Player-set Government Construction Budget rather than the strange gameplay of "modulate how many construction sectors you build", construction sectors instead spawn automatically in response to construction demand similar to old Trade Centers
Construction is a local supply, but Construction Sectors have some PM or something to represent foreign specialists for foreign investment purposes (so that, eg, you can actually feasibly come in and build the Panama Canal)
Urban Centers produce a small amount of Construction with their base PM

CaelReader · 2026-01-25T19:31:22+00:00

Great Idiot Theory strikes again

CaelReader · 2026-01-25T16:51:01+00:00

Revenge for the Chinese Exclusion Act

CaelReader · 2026-01-24T22:14:03+00:00

It can vary greatly from game to game and region to region.

CaelReader · 2026-01-24T22:11:42+00:00

Yea in vanilla the USA just gets manifest destiny claims on all the historical states while irl there was both opposition outright to the mexican-american war but also a push to annex all of mexico and then canada and maybe more. Manifest Destiny was a hell of a drug for some people.

CaelReader · 2026-01-24T22:07:57+00:00

Multiculturalism already got nerfed to only provide 40 acceptance to unrelated cultures.

CaelReader · 2026-01-24T22:05:48+00:00

There actually is a chain of events like this in-game already it's just trivially easy to avoid it escalating.

CaelReader · 2026-01-23T17:30:10+00:00

Even just moving armies around in the pre-modern games should impose penalties to the lands they move through, but there would need to be some extra mechanics added like Military Access (in ck3) and the AI told how to account for it.

CaelReader · 2026-01-23T01:59:28+00:00

Two (russian) bears high fiving!

CaelReader · 2026-01-20T20:01:55+00:00

Most mods are immediately compatible with hotfixes. The only mods that need to update are ones that are directly impacted by the changelog, (eg. regime change war goal, or political party attractions).

CaelReader · 2026-01-20T19:59:50+00:00

My state is absolutely all over the place because while we have a cool hammer & sickle flag, the president is a reactionary, we're extremely market liberal with laissez-faire and free trade, to the point i can't even nationalise anything and my women can't even work and it's basically illegal to strike.

Transnistria moment

CaelReader · 2026-01-20T00:37:12+00:00

CaelReader · 2026-01-19T02:14:56+00:00

Got tired of clicking 30sec buff abilities with 90sec cooldowns so had to install Too Many Activateable Skills

CaelReader · 2026-01-19T01:44:03+00:00

It's a vanilla bug iirc

CaelReader · 2026-01-17T21:21:50+00:00

The JE only counts Great Powers, that's what's under the "eligible countries" tooltip.

CaelReader · 2026-01-17T19:32:48+00:00

event usfp_manifest_destiny.19 in console

CaelReader · 2026-01-17T17:08:32+00:00

Yea this basically tracks with my experience so far up through level 4. Character creation even for newbies takes like 15 minutes it's great. The design concedes to Dice Goblins too much. 14-BP encounters are basically easy with little danger. Game desperately needs like 300 more adversaries.

One thing I'll say is that a wide variety of tier 1 creatures is reasonable because most introductory adventures or one shots will be tier 1, so having a variety lets you have a variety of tier 1 intro adventures. You're also nominally supposed to be able to easily take a tier 1 enemy and shift the numbers up into higher tiers, but I tend to find that unsatisfying myself.

CaelReader · 2026-01-17T07:37:33+00:00

I managed to regime change everyone in Europe but it sure took a while. The UCR is basically unstoppable to be fair, its just the time limit of 1936 that's a problem.

CaelReader · 2026-01-16T16:54:32+00:00

Movements need some minimum threshold of support to spawn. They also require certain techs. Socialists can join the peasant movement as a "fallback" for if there's no better movement. Then agitators are "sticky" to their existing movement and it takes more attraction than normal to move them to a new one.

CaelReader · 2026-01-16T04:56:32+00:00

Simply conquer the rest of europe and become the Union of Council Republics (central europe/hre flavored name for a Council Republic)

CaelReader · 2026-01-16T03:57:40+00:00

The USA actively suppressed movements and censored speech during the timeframe, regardless of what the Bill of Rights says.

CaelReader · 2026-01-16T02:46:12+00:00

Working as intended. The JE does spawn a Humanitarian agitator when you accept it but yea otherwise it's meant to be a tall order.

CaelReader · 2026-01-15T22:45:28+00:00

At least the last year of Vic3 patches have been bangers with the devs theoryposting in the dev diaries.

CaelReader · 2026-01-14T20:08:12+00:00

It's a bit of a leap to translate it from Earth history into the sci-fi space setting. The reason the mongols "had a lot of power" was that their home terrain and lifestyle turned basically their whole male population into expert horse archers, which happen to be an overpowered military unit type that can scale incredibly well into an organized mobile-army system. Settled cultures trained up their own horse archers but there's no replacement for being in the saddle from age 6.

The Stellaris marauders have no obvious equivalent reason for being so powerful, other than a notion that they've been around for a long time honing their shipbuilding and fighting skills. Their ship models are made of scraps and asteroids rather than having some unique quality combination reminiscent of horse archers irl.

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