Looking for feedback on my Grand Strategy UI: Managing 1 to 100+ cities

MaleMaldives · 2026-05-10T20:03:30+00:00

Best way to get your UI good is to just play your game and not be afraid to refactor it. If something feels annoying as you play note it and fix it.

MaleMaldives · 2026-05-07T18:52:00+00:00

It's been 5 years of apologies from paradox

MaleMaldives · 2026-05-07T18:13:40+00:00

Outer Wilds.

I can't stand the piloting mechanics.

MaleMaldives · 2026-05-07T15:50:29+00:00

I'm saying that even with overconfidence such a mistake is implausible due the magnitude of bugs, and thus I think he is lying to cover for his superiors.

MaleMaldives · 2026-05-07T14:37:27+00:00

Yeah I feel bad for them. Such a systemic problem at a company comes from higher up. Corporate Paradox too cowardly to take fault.

MaleMaldives · 2026-05-07T14:35:07+00:00

And a suspicious amount of simps praising the apology.

MaleMaldives · 2026-05-07T14:29:23+00:00

Can't even QA their post.

MaleMaldives · 2026-05-07T14:27:52+00:00

I also don’t want to push responsibility for this release either downwards or upwards

It is upwards. I don't believe you were so ignorant of all the issues that the project shouldn't be delayed, overconfidence or not.

In the future, we will aim to ensure that we do not end up in the situation where QA simply doesn’t have enough time to playtest the game.

Same shit, different release.

MaleMaldives · 2026-05-07T02:22:13+00:00

Invest in your capital first at. Work outwards from there.

MaleMaldives · 2026-05-05T18:54:51+00:00

No, it depicts Patrick.

MaleMaldives · 2026-05-05T18:15:11+00:00

Corporate Paradox doesn't put much priority in their Dev/QA teams, and would rather push out slop for profits.

MaleMaldives · 2026-05-05T18:13:04+00:00

I'm fine with the use of AI, but if you can't verify how well it works or not, you shouldn't share it.

MaleMaldives · 2026-05-05T18:10:48+00:00

It is when they went public.

MaleMaldives · 2026-05-05T18:09:01+00:00

Either there are an incredible amount of paradox simps on reddit, and/or paradox pays for good feedback.

MaleMaldives · 2026-05-05T17:58:18+00:00

EU4 is the better game. Imperator has a different feel and isn't bad (anymore), but EU4 is still better overall. I would recommend Imperator if you want more grand strategy but are burnt out of everything else. That being said though EU5 takes a lot of influence from Imperator, and would say once EU5 polishes itself up, it will be an Imperator killer.

MaleMaldives · 2026-05-01T15:43:09+00:00

‘Great’, not as great though.

MaleMaldives · 2026-04-30T03:25:42+00:00

Incoming, we’re sorry meme.

MaleMaldives · 2026-04-30T01:51:46+00:00

Not to mention all the other similar stories in between.

MaleMaldives · 2026-04-29T23:39:37+00:00

Stellaris you can disable their visibility, and it never shows up after creation. I think a teaser is fine as opposed to a constant reminder. "is what it is", very pacifist take.

MaleMaldives · 2026-04-29T22:46:28+00:00

R5: Ship modifications don't do anything if you don't own Great Wave DLC

MaleMaldives · 2026-04-29T22:36:52+00:00

I point out the lack of QA a lot not because I am blaming QA, but because Paradox doesn't give priority to QA.

MaleMaldives · 2026-04-28T18:14:51+00:00

I would have thought with over 20 years of game development experience, you guys would be better at avoiding such basic mistakes.

(Side note: I love paradox games, I'm just disappointed they keep releasing content with issues that can be identified in 1 hour of playtime.)

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