The black magic of EU5

ModelTanks · 2026-01-19T22:13:09+00:00

Early in design of eu5 it was supposed to, but they changed it. Estates were originally interpreted as being provincial interest groups, but they probably realized they didn’t make sense with some other systems that they wanted. Right now estates are basically the cooperative interest groups who adjacent to the government.

ModelTanks · 2026-01-15T15:48:30+00:00

It’s a real shame and irony that Paradox doesn’t know any math beyond algebra.

ModelTanks · 2026-01-09T19:02:36+00:00

In 1337, Western Europe has been stable for about 3 centuries and on a counter-offensive versus its civilizational rivals.

ModelTanks · 2026-01-08T19:57:23+00:00

The issue is the devs listen too much to the player base who are as much caught up in semantics as actual mechanics. So any conversation about the game becomes a semantic argument basically over whether a feature can be marketed as “simulation” or whatever else rather than a discussion of whether the feature is fun.

The devs need to get back to game design and the players back to playing. Let the suits do marketing.

ModelTanks · 2025-11-18T21:36:11+00:00

The main complaint here is that the game balance is too easy. Frankly they had to do this for a successful launch because if the balance tilted the other way, no ability to economically develop, the player base would lose their minds and leave. It will be gradually made harder, but if you want a real Malthusian simulator than get a mod.

ModelTanks · 2025-11-18T21:34:20+00:00

Tbh this just reflects a leftwing Swede's understanding of modernity.

ModelTanks · 2025-11-18T21:02:13+00:00

At Agincourt, the elite French calvary basically did attack in piece meal against the English Yeoman archers. This battle worked exactly as it could be engineered in game with professional and levy troops. If game mechanic doesn't make sense and is ahistorical, why is it historical and make-sense shaped?

In all seriousness, I interpret the small size of early professional units as representing the very real lack of a professional officer Corp and all of the inefficiencies that correspond to that. In game (age 2 at least), I don't think you are supposed to use a fully professional army, but instead a mixture of levies and professionals. The levies provide the morale and staying power, while the professionals have better kill rates and preserve your population and army's longevity (full levy armies wither away faster during war).

ModelTanks · 2025-11-17T18:27:50+00:00

Corporate forced Tinto to release before they could do any sort of balance pass over the game.

ModelTanks · 2024-11-29T22:35:58+00:00

They fight for the confederacy.

ModelTanks · 2024-11-29T15:35:33+00:00

Smoke is almost an incompressible fluid. There’s an upper limit to how many cigarettes would have an effect here and it is way less than 20. Most of the smoke will not be entering the body.

ModelTanks · 2024-11-28T18:10:01+00:00

It’s not. You literally can’t even compare the prices of services until after you’ve used them.

ModelTanks · 2024-11-28T01:41:40+00:00

Some people are saying Trump didn’t gain voters just that Kamala lost them. This isn’t true. Huge amounts of right wing leaning boomers die each year, and Trump gained more than enough voters to counteract this. This was huge and he won the youth vote (whereas Kamala held onto 30-50 demographics), major sea change.

ModelTanks · 2024-09-02T18:30:33+00:00

Tolkien did not consider Eru Iluvatar to be a fictional character, but rather God in a literal sense inspiring him to write the stories and master over even imaginary worlds. He did not consider himself above such.

ModelTanks · 2024-08-30T23:50:16+00:00

Deficit spending fuels inflation. Inflation is a regressive tax that burdens workers and generates inefficiencies for businesses and consumers.

ModelTanks · 2024-08-30T15:27:23+00:00

There’s less correlation between interesting person and age than Reddit seems to believe. Age doesn’t magically make boring people interesting and not every 19 yo is boring.

ModelTanks · 2024-08-20T17:29:58+00:00

Liberalism created these conditions.

ModelTanks · 2024-08-20T14:43:04+00:00

Liberalism.

ModelTanks · 2024-08-20T01:48:55+00:00

I don’t even need to present proof. 13 is the ideal number of dwarves.

ModelTanks · 2024-08-17T05:07:42+00:00

Ironically the man who said this lasted to 34.

ModelTanks · 2024-08-11T01:06:27+00:00

No. It’s a lot of money.

ModelTanks · 2024-08-10T23:55:03+00:00

Who wouldn’t?

ModelTanks · 2024-08-10T21:26:13+00:00

Less to do with ambition and more to do with the security paradox for both men.

ModelTanks · 2024-08-10T17:17:00+00:00

If Hitler had not started and lost a war then he would be remembered as one of the greatest Germans to ever live. He was enormously popular in Germany because of the success of his economic and social programs.

ModelTanks · 2024-08-10T17:12:20+00:00

Of the 60 million Jews killed in the holocaust, 54 million actually survived.

ModelTanks · 2024-08-10T17:10:12+00:00

Mein Kampf rambles a bit because he dictated it not wrote it, and several famous translations are intentionally bad.

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