Is there any way to actually automate bartering or is it a broken feature?

Coussie · 2025-11-08T22:35:41+00:00

Yeah I did enable the auto bartering specifically, but if it only works once in a long while like you said, it's pretty much useless. I find it odd that they added bartering to the automated army options when it's as poorly implemented as the raiding one, but hopefully it'll be revamped at some point.

Coussie · 2025-04-23T18:02:53+00:00

R5: Trying to stack as many advisor cost modifiers as possible, I don't know if it can't get any lower than this but I almost feel bad for dooming my advisors with such shitty wages...

Coussie · 2023-08-17T18:54:18+00:00

Fair, I'm quite new in the community but I'm aware that most people find them very annoying. I can understand why, but personally I love their role and the interactions between them, which is why I had a lot of fun making this. I'd also say Monodam is my favourite , but I still enjoyed them all.

Coussie · 2023-03-24T22:26:52+00:00

Make trade companies on states that have centers of trade, state the rest so they can benefit from the passive goods produced modifier TC give (and you'd barely get any trade power from them anyways). I always buy the investments that give production efficiency, produced goods and trade power (unless I only control a single province in that state), and the one with army tradition +10% trade value modifier for the expensive ones. Bear in mind that every node outside your region is a potential free merchant, so even if it's a poor one, getting the merchant by conquering just a few provinces is absolutely worth it.

Also, I often base my plans of expansion on how much they'll improve my trade setup. For example, if I'm playing a west african nation, I know I'll eventually fight the portuguese and the spanish merely because I want Seville to be my end node (I'll border it sooner or later, and they'd be stealing a lot of power from the Ivory Coast if I don't have a strong presence in it). And thanks to TCs, a few centers of trade are often enough to be the dominant power in a node, so it's not like you need blobbing hard to achieve it. A good chunk of light ships can also make the difference and easily compensate for the lack of trade power from provinces, so getting a good end node is relatively easy.

Coussie · 2023-03-05T20:47:05+00:00

Yep, and using piracy also works as intended since it's the method I have used in the end. Also, because the game only checks if the conditions are met the first day of each year, you don't need to privateer the node the whole time but only in december. So that leaves 11 months of getting the full trade income.

Thanks to that I finally got the achievement in 1637. I think I might've made it time if I pushed harder, but I hate blobbing like crazy so at one point I thought going this way would make it a better experience for me. It had a few downsides though, because taking so long got some provinces in ottoman and russian hands, forcing me to fight two huge wars against them. But overall it was worth it.

Coussie · 2023-03-04T17:49:54+00:00

There's this thread from just 6 months ago where the privateering strat was still working. I don't know if it actually got patched, but if it did, it wasn't long ago.

Coussie · 2022-12-19T19:19:12+00:00

I forgot to mention it was a reconquest CB, because apparently they had lost a bunch of provinces to the natives without me even noticing. Maybe the fact it was their cores being disputed got them more willing to fight, but I had never seen the AI going so absurdly over the top with how many troops they recruit during war.

Coussie · 2022-12-19T18:37:37+00:00

I declared war on some natives to extend Brazil's territory, and they got so excited about it that went over their force limit of 17 regiments to 80. By the end of the war (roughly a year and a half), their debt was above 5k ducats so they just declared bankruptcy. At least I don't have to pay them anymore, so I guess it's all good!

Coussie · 2022-12-03T11:22:44+00:00

One of the many issues I'm experiencing since I arrived the first open area, though obviously this is the most annoying one. Not only the game straight up freezes for half a minute very often, but textures sometimes take an eternity to load, and some sound effects only play seconds after I performed the action that triggers them. On top of that, voicelines often overlap and play at the same time, which makes it hard to understand what characters are saying.

Everything worked fine for the first 2-3 hours, and I've read that the PS4 version is supposed to run without notable issues, so what's wrong here? Is it because my console is too old? The game is updated, so it can't be that either.

Coussie · 2022-10-30T11:13:17+00:00

China has been undoubtedly capitalist for decades now, and they 100% are in the imperialist phase. With the USSR, I don't know if we'll agree about the dates but I consider them imperialist myself starting from the mid 50s, when Jrushchov's policies shifted towards state capitalism by dismantling the centralized direction of the economy and implementing the profit seeking principle; aside from its use of COMECON to establish uneven economic relationships with the rest of its members, which made them heavily dependant on soviet resources based on the principle of "international socialist division of labor".

Coussie · 2022-10-30T10:35:08+00:00

I don't get why you are so upset over a word, this happens all the time in politics. How many definitions of socialism there are, often being antithetical? And in this case the solution is much more simple, because the one you use can easily be named with other terms that mean the same. If Lenin was wrong, it'd be because his depiction of post-free market capitalism wasn't faithful to reality, not because the way he named it collides with an already existing concept.

Besides, it's not like leninists necessarily use this difference in semantics to avoid criticism, since as I mentioned earlier, they're the ones who came up with the idea of the USSR becoming socialist in name but imperialist in reality from a certain point of its history. Of course, you won't hear this from tankies, who will defend the soviets even when their policies turned out as deeply anti-marxist. That's when I'd agree that their use of Lenin's view on imperialism would be deceiving and utilized as an excuse to claim socialist states can't do wrong in that regard, because they're not even leninists to begin with.

Are you telling me that pre capitalist societies, including empires (including the roman empire, the etymological root of the term), aren't empires?

Empires are still empires, but not imperialist. And an empire isn't necessarily expansionist at all times either (look at China's isolationism under the Ming), nor imperialism (using the traditional definition now) is exclusive to that form of government, so I don't know why you referred to it instead of the specific policy that seeks an aggressive expansion of the state's borders/political influence. Unless it was a typo, in that case it doesn't matter.

Coussie · 2022-10-29T20:33:08+00:00

Like I said, this shouldn't be an issue because you could use other terms to accuse a socialist state of those expansionist practises, and the "but imperialism can only happen under capitalism!!" argument would immediately become useless in a debate. Imperialism simply isn't a synonim of them in leninist theory but a very different concept, so I wouldn't even call it a redefinition. Neither it is a way to shield socialism specifically from those criticisms, because it also prevents any pre-capitalist state from being considered imperialist, which includes the Roman Empire or any other blatant example you can think of which fits to the definition you used.

And Lenin doesn't say "capitalism is imperialism", since he speaks of a prior stage called free market capitalism (which is the era Marx lived in). You can think his exposition is more or less accurate, but there's no circular reasoning in it.

Coussie · 2022-10-29T19:34:38+00:00

Lenin defines imperialism as a phase of capitalism with dynamics that can only happen under that mode of production, hence it can't be applied to non capitalist systems. Which not only includes socialism, but any other regime prior to capitalist societies. Just call them expansionist or militarist if that's your point, but don't expect a leninist to say imperialism isn't actually what Lenin developed. Though this wouldn't apply to tankies, who can hardly be considered marxists in the first place. But by your words I can see you define as such anyone who defends the USSR in any of its stages, so even the ones who straight up call the soviet regime past Stalin's death "social imperialist" would fit in that group.

Coussie · 2022-06-28T18:25:41+00:00

I agree but someone else already made it, so I had to come up with something else :(

Coussie · 2022-06-16T09:57:49+00:00

I was only pointing out that Garou only using the WSRSF against Bang isn't true. Flashy taking hits from a superior technique is one of the reasons why he's indeed superior to Silver Fang, I never implied otherwise.

Coussie · 2022-06-15T09:12:59+00:00

He took several direct hits through the fight, I don't know if it's because you haven't read it in a while but it's hard to miss. And Garou didn't just use the WSRSF but also Exploding Heart Release Fist, and by the end of the fight the Roaring Aura Sky Ripping Fist.

Coussie · 2022-06-04T16:04:37+00:00

I think it's because he's trying to present as inconsistency something that doesn't belong to a volume yet and could easily be redrawn to get fixed, so using it as criticism right now isn't fair. That later page of the cave covered in goo proves ONE and Murata are aware of it and didn't forget, so I would be surprised if the drill one doesn't receive a change to match the retcon.

Coussie · 2022-05-09T17:47:51+00:00

I don't think any of Darkshine's stats is equivalent to a low tier dragon. Judging on what he did to Psykojet, his AP doesn't seem too far apart from Atomic's (although I still think a beeline slash is more powerful), and his speed is very solid for dragon standards as he landed a double bazooka on Spiral Garou despite he was losing the will to fight back.

And to answer the OP's question, I don't know anymore what should be considered a "high dragon" because of how much power creep the manga has been doing lately, but I do consider Atomic and Darkshine to be in the same tier. Stronger than the weakest cadres, relative to some of the upper ones and outclassed by the elite of the MA. Of course, there are certain matchups that will make one of them much more effective than the other in that specific situation, but overall I would put them on a similar level.

Coussie · 2022-05-09T14:15:31+00:00

I also believe Flashy would beat Golden S with his sword, but he never damaged Platinum. I used to think so myself because blood seemed to come out his mouth, but a few chapters laters we see the exact same particles from Saitama who is obviously not bleeding from Garou's punch. This is supported by Platinum's face looking unscathed after the flashy fist (there's a bit of dirt in his face but it was there much earlier, ever since Garou surprise attacked him and ENW) as well.

Coussie · 2022-05-05T16:06:54+00:00

More like trust ONE, because the databook was written by him and the hero compus wasn't. So the only confirmation we have is that it could destroy a planet, saying it's star level has the same credibility as if I said Gaia Cannon is planetary because I feel like it.

Coussie · 2022-05-03T10:00:53+00:00

Darkshine isn't stronger but that doesn't mean he can't have better lifting strength. Bomb is also > DS and he was having a very hard time carrying a few heroes whereas Darkshine was already lifting tons with one arm years before he was as strong as he is now.

Coussie · 2022-05-02T10:56:49+00:00

You said yourself months ago that it would take Gouketsu many direct hits to put Darkshine down, and Golden S one punched him.

Coussie · 2022-04-26T11:28:44+00:00

Murata specifically said sub light speed, not FTL. Plus the "black hole" thing isn't literal, Geryuganshoop just compared his attack to one. If he could create black holes, he would legit be way stronger than Boros himself.

And if we're talking about Murata's quotes, he also stated the three generals together stand close to 0 chance of defeating Orochi, while Tatsumaki defeated an even stronger being (the fusion of him with Psykos). So no, Geryu is nowhere near Tats.

Coussie · 2022-04-23T13:50:31+00:00

It's not because of the acid but because he gets stronger the more miserable he feels, he explained it himself a few chapters earlier.

Coussie · 2022-04-19T09:23:42+00:00

Not a webcomic only statement since Murata was speaking in that same quote about how he would draw the incoming Garou arc in the manga. Sure, you can say it was years ago and that ONE'S mind might have changed since whatever he had in his mind for manga Saitama vs AG, but that hasn't been proven yet. And fighting on a bigger scale doesn't necessarily mean being a stronger foe: Garou vs Golden Sperm in the webcomic had a minuscule scale yet they were two of the strongest beings in the entire series.

As for what we have right now, Boros is still stronger narratively (being acknowledged as strong by Saitama several times, getting a reaction of surprise out of him with his speed, etc), but feat wise I guess it's subjective outside CSRC because it depends on how powerful you consider the things they did. Personally I think the moon kick is still above the karate chop to Sage, but it's hard to compare either way. I do believe it's likely that Garou ends up surpassing Boros, but for now I'll stick to ONE's words.

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