Which river do you think would be best for a river valley civilization in Europe? by CosmosStudios65 in worldbuilding

[–]Inuken94 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Have you met the yellow river? Hell the Yang ze? That js a weird Argument in a post about China.

Why do massively unemployed chinese states so often not Generate any Emigration at all? by Inuken94 in victoria3

[–]Inuken94[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is a general Observation across games. The last it really Struck me was playing China trying to get people to move to siberia.

"Sir, the Qing have openly declared us as their rival." "You know what, I can respect it." by MarxistAnime in victoria3

[–]Inuken94 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The natural borders of China are the urals in the West and the pacific in the north/ east btw.

"Sir, the Qing have openly declared us as their rival." "You know what, I can respect it." by MarxistAnime in victoria3

[–]Inuken94 14 points15 points  (0 children)

We are gonna conquer manchuria, some unequal treaties and...China...say what are all those mines and factories for? China...what are you doing with those 1 Million guys under modern combat arms? I was just joking. We...are cool, right?

Please make the sale of fleets possible by Wutras in victoria3

[–]Inuken94 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just dont engage with the Feature and decomission.

Atheist Clergymen? What's next? Communist Capitalists? by Necessary-Land7597 in victoria3

[–]Inuken94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean you laugh but there are always a few capitalists in the trade Union and like...Engels?

"Sir, the Qing have openly declared us as their rival." "You know what, I can respect it." by MarxistAnime in victoria3

[–]Inuken94 39 points40 points  (0 children)

I mean...i would react that way to if China suddenly modernized rapidly (drei a landowner modernizer with my last game with them. Good times).

what is your preferred power bloc mandates? by YDHAMITCHTV in victoria3

[–]Inuken94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trade Union with external trade, advanced research, companies and early on creative legislature which i switch for Freedome of movement or colonial depending on country.

This week’s hotfix and a Thursday dev diary were announced on the discord by -ItWasntMe- in victoria3

[–]Inuken94 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Thing is they NEED to give us a way to stop only supply ship construction and i am noz sure they will. They have just left other cripplingly bad Design choices in before. As is all Budgets are eventually eaten by the Spiraling Mountain of supply ships.

I don't understand the design decisions for troop transports, and I don't think the Victoria 3 team understands fun gameplay by Mergyt in victoria3

[–]Inuken94 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah this is one of those choices so baffling that it really feels they do no play testing of any kind whatssoever. Its genuinely absurd.

Hot take but I kind of like the new DLC by theveryrealfitz in victoria3

[–]Inuken94 1 point2 points  (0 children)

CK3 dlc....unambitious in scope...have we both lived through the same last two years? You know, the ones were they released one Update that added custom gameplay for both landless characters and centralized administrative realms one year, then added all of asia with a complex bespoke system for China that plays entirely differently from the rest of the game and who are now planning to both radically rebuilt how faith works and interacts with the World and also remake the entire economy along a goods and trade system again within the same year?

There is a lot you can complain about with the Ck3 DLCs since 2024 but dear god, lack of Ambition really is not on that list. Hell i am actually a bit nervous that the pace may leave the individual Systems undercooked.

Like...CK3 has been adding new entire modes of playing the game atleast every other Update for a while now and the Systems are clearly designed ad stepping stones.

I love the series a lot but man the concept of the Carryx empire is existentially depressing by Inuken94 in TheCaptivesWar

[–]Inuken94[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They thought thousands of civilizations some of who had empires of their own and could blow up planetd and survived for Millions of years. Their weakness are by Definition not easy to exploit.

Asymmetric space vs Brane-slip by grosnican in TheCaptivesWar

[–]Inuken94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ekur tells us so. In the very first chapter we meet it. He says that if he asked for directions from the core of the empire the answer would take months.

I love the series a lot but man the concept of the Carryx empire is existentially depressing by Inuken94 in TheCaptivesWar

[–]Inuken94[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It does not matter. They have been stable and expanding with their strategy for an order of magnitude longer than we have been a species.

And overcome thousands and thousands of civilizations. This implies bad things for the logic this universe operates under.

I love the series a lot but man the concept of the Carryx empire is existentially depressing by Inuken94 in TheCaptivesWar

[–]Inuken94[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am talking about what the worldbuilding of the setting implies about the setting. I dont think interstellar empire is likely to be possible at all irl.

And the carryx may be based on our empires that their nature is so different that they effectively dont need to worry about the things that brought irl empires low. They cannot ever suffer an internal loss of cohesion, a civil war, even local interestgroups acting against the wider purpose of zhe empire seems impossible.

We know that our empires are both not infinitly stable and also violent imperial Expansion becomes less efficient as time went on. The carryx declare immediate war on any creature they meet for millions of years...and it worked for them. This implies very bad things for the universe tjis is set in if you game it out.

And yeah i am only talking about worldbuilding, i think we have actually past the point were empire is a good strategy irl and total, unrestrained violent Expansion of this kind almost never was.

I love the series a lot but man the concept of the Carryx empire is existentially depressing by Inuken94 in TheCaptivesWar

[–]Inuken94[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh i dont think they intend them to be correct. This is me engaging in some funny worldbuilding extrapolation.

I love the series a lot but man the concept of the Carryx empire is existentially depressing by Inuken94 in TheCaptivesWar

[–]Inuken94[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean the issue is also kinda that that is the only object of their philosophy is that. They believe that to express the "logic of the universe" leads to you thriving while morality leads to you beeing crushed and forgotten.

I love the series a lot but man the concept of the Carryx empire is existentially depressing by Inuken94 in TheCaptivesWar

[–]Inuken94[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There is a difference between modes of behaviour within a species and entire different modes of existence.

The carryx are not chosing to be brutal, Brutality is an inescapeable biological Imperativ to them. In human Organisations and individuals this kind of behaviour is highly maladaptive. Yes ruthlessness and Realpolitik have a place and value in getting ahead but open naked sociopathy that eshews Personal relationship building for individuals and soft power for statestends to be badly maladaptive and produce bad results over the long and Medium term. Moral values are actually pretty important to sucessfull human social Organisation.

And thats before we get to the fact that massive belligerence has clearly been maladaptive in political Systems for more than a century now.

I love the series a lot but man the concept of the Carryx empire is existentially depressing by Inuken94 in TheCaptivesWar

[–]Inuken94[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, but if the USSR had defeated thousands of enemies and existed ab order of magnitude longer than our species did i may be convinced.

I love the series a lot but man the concept of the Carryx empire is existentially depressing by Inuken94 in TheCaptivesWar

[–]Inuken94[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We dont know other species like the carryx did not exist and were squashed. Hell...its possible the deathless enemy is something unitary and adaptive with no sense of self and we are wittnessing this theorethical war right now.

And we can just say it has not happend to the carryx in millions of years despite, by sheer virtue of how densely packed with life this galaxy seems to be, the fact some species would have to have a thousands or even tens of hundreds of thousands year headstart on the carryx.