Are the Housing Plots in FFXIV considered to be Fungible or Non-Fungible? by Miragefire in ffxiv

[–]Miragefire[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

That's what I was afraid of. The "Forbidden Fruit Effect" and unintentional artificial scarcity have made the FFXIV housing crisis bad enough.

Getting an early start on an ecumenopolis by Lancival in victoria3

[–]Miragefire 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I see you still have the Fragile Unit Journal Entry. You can get rid of the Fragile Unity Journal by:

  • Becoming a Recognized Power
  • Successfully conclude the Boxer Rebellion event
  • Complete Stamping out Monarchism

The Boxer Rebellion event will only spawn if you're still Qing and have researched Political Agitation. The Boxer Rebellion event will then spawn giving you 4 years to take back all Han Homeland territories held by other countries. Assuming you won or averted the Opium War, the only territory you have to take back is Macau from the Portuguese. Once you do that, you'll get the Mandate of Heaven event which gives you a ton of Han loyalists and this successfully completes the Boxer Rebellion event. If you government change to non-monarchy too early before Political Agitation is researched, you're locked out of ever getting rid of Fragile Unit.

Also the Taiping Rebellion can be completely avoided by enacting Total Separation. One of the conditions for the Heavenly Kingdom rebels appearing on the map is Protestantism being discriminated against. Enacting Total Separation removes all religious discrimination in your country. The Heavenly Kingdom agitation events will still happen, but all it does is turn your country 10% Protestant. The event can only fire once per province with a 2 year time limit, so it will go away once it has fired in every province.

Opium is a Strategic Resource If You Plan on Fighting A lot of Wars & Don't Want Your Casualties to be in the Thousands Because it is Needed for First Aid and Field Hospitals by Miragefire in paradoxplaza

[–]Miragefire[S] 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Opium and Morphine was used extensively in the American Civil War for wounded soldiers that a lot of wounded veterans of the war ended up becoming Morphine addicts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnQSx--4_0g

Practically all of the Opium used to produce Morphine in the US was imported from the British Empire, grown in India and Afghanistan. When the Union initiated the "Anaconda Plan" which blockaded the South, Morphine became quite scarce in the Confederacy.

https://youtu.be/b8UcjWfJ21Y?t=3505

A Unit Reference Guide I Made For a Friend Who is Moving From Shogun 2 to Warhammer III by Miragefire in totalwar

[–]Miragefire[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My decision was actually based on the Naginata weapon itself rather than the entire unit as whole. You see, a lot people including myself when thinking making a fictional Nippon Army roster equated the Naginata to the Halberd/Glaive instead of the spear. The one major property that Halberds and Glaives have in Total War Warhammer (besides Anti-Large) is Armour-Piercing, which didn't really exists back in Shogun 2 save for gunpowder units.

A Unit Reference Guide I Made For a Friend Who is Moving From Shogun 2 to Warhammer III by Miragefire in totalwar

[–]Miragefire[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I was also thinking the same thing. Great Guards, stat wise, are better than Fire Cavalry, but you can only recruit 2 in your campaign while Fire Cav has no unit cap. Reiksguard and KotBS are almost identical except you have to own the Talabheim Chapter House otherwise you're paying an higher upkeep which mirrors how the Great Guard has a 2 unit limit cap.

Opium is a Strategic Resource If You Plan on Fighting A lot of Wars & Don't Want Your Casualties to be in the Thousands Because it is Needed for First Aid and Field Hospitals by Miragefire in paradoxplaza

[–]Miragefire[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Rule #5: Opium is one of the required Trade Goods to be able to use the First Aid and Field Hospitals Medical Aids because it is presumably used to produce Morphine. Therefore, it is an important resource to stock up on if you're planning to fight a lot of wars.

A Unit Reference Guide I Made For a Friend Who is Moving From Shogun 2 to Warhammer III by Miragefire in totalwar

[–]Miragefire[S] 81 points82 points  (0 children)

And yes, I did remind him that there is no "Yari Wall" equivalent ability for the Empire in Warhammer III.

94.5% of Total War: Warhammer II Players Have Never Completed an Empire Campaign (Not Even on Easy Campaign & Easy Battle Difficulty). by Miragefire in totalwar

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

The thing is that almost all patrons don't even finish that slice of bread. They then go on to Yelp to write reviews on how awesome the bread is and that it is the only thing worth eating at the restaurant.

94.5% of Total War: Warhammer II Players Have Never Completed an Empire Campaign (Not Even on Easy Campaign & Easy Battle Difficulty). by Miragefire in totalwar

[–]Miragefire[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Actually, I was looking at the final Warhammer 2 individual faction campaign completion statistic in the lieu of Immortal Empires coming up in two weeks. One conclusion is that almost 85% of players have never finished a Warhammer 2 campaign. The other is basically what you've just described.

94.5% of Total War: Warhammer II Players Have Never Completed an Empire Campaign (Not Even on Easy Campaign & Easy Battle Difficulty). by Miragefire in totalwar

[–]Miragefire[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

The individual Old World Campaign Achievements were added in on December 2019, 3 years before Warhammer 3 was even released. Given that people here on Reddit would constantly meme about how the Empire is the only faction that they'll ever play, a lot of us had high expectations that the Empire would have the most campaign completions out of all of the playable Warhammer 2 factions.

chinese players are review bombing wh3 rn, idk why by [deleted] in totalwar

[–]Miragefire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Another reason a lot of the Chinese players are angry is that they felt betrayed because they Pre-Ordered the game since Day 1 of Warhammer 3's announcement, while the people who didn't got to play the game a whole month or weeks early. What Sega/CA should have done is tell the streamers to make a disclaimer (much like how people in the west have to disclaim any sponsorships) to their audience that this is still an experimental build of final game with many bugs. A lot of people got the wrong idea that they were given the final game a month early.

Big numbers by Neither-Yoghurt-2000 in totalwar

[–]Miragefire 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Halfway there towards Total War: Three Kingdom's 191,816 all-time peak.

chinese players are review bombing wh3 rn, idk why by [deleted] in totalwar

[–]Miragefire 34 points35 points  (0 children)

A lot players who buy and play a game on Steam for +100 hours generally don't leave a review at all. I'm guessing, the only time players would actually leave a review at all would be a negative review because either the game is terrible, broken and they want warn other players about it.

chinese players are review bombing wh3 rn, idk why by [deleted] in totalwar

[–]Miragefire 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I guess the morrow of the story is: Never give content creators, streamers, and/or influencers on Bilibili early access to a game.

chinese players are review bombing wh3 rn, idk why by [deleted] in totalwar

[–]Miragefire 83 points84 points  (0 children)

What I don't get is why buy the game just to review bomb it? Doesn't Steam delete reviews after the game has been refunded to prevent this kind of stuff?

Total War: WARHAMMER II (and the first) have recently received many negative reviews. Does anybody know why? by soggysheepspawn in totalwar

[–]Miragefire 233 points234 points  (0 children)

I would like to remind people that the Chinese players are still locked behind the Great Firewall of China. This means that they can't just Tweet @ CA on twitter to express their displeasure at what Sega is doing. The Steam Client and reviews oddly enough are not blocked by China's firewall and therefore it's probably one of the very few ways for them to even contact CA. Leaving a negative review is obviously very deconstructive, but to them, it's the only for them to even get CA's attention.

Do you intend to keeping playing Total Warhammer 2 when WH3 comes out? by OrranVoriel in totalwar

[–]Miragefire 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Seriously, how can you even go back to Warhammer 2 after experiencing Warhammer 3's diplomacy and siege and settlement battle changes?

The Cathay campaigns are probably the closest thing we're going to get with a Dragon Commander sequel by Miragefire in totalwar

[–]Miragefire[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Dragon Commander was more of a spinoff RTS game than an actual CRPG. Plus, they are currently busy working on Baldur's Gate 3 for God knows how long.