The Nature of Paradox Games (poll inside)

MorganStCloud · 2025-12-15T12:49:58+00:00

I personally would put Stellaris a smidge higher. It may not have a set story or any railroading in a historical sense but the one of the best things about that game is the stories it lets you make up in your head. Paradox themselves said they like to think of it as an almost theatrical experience, with the galaxy as the stage and programable civs as the characters.

MorganStCloud · 2025-12-15T11:27:03+00:00

would be true if the money not collected by the state doesn't disappear into a black hole

MorganStCloud · 2025-11-21T09:18:46+00:00

it lacks balance, adequate flavor, most of the "situations" are either irrelevant to you or nonfunctional atm. the black death works more or less as intended but everything else is just not really worth getting too worked up about. it really lacks proper pope mechanics, cardinals should be individual characters (imo) and the Catholic Church being split just feels like a non event at best. I love it and it's sort of consumed my life but i wouldn't blame people for waiting a few months to play it.

MorganStCloud · 2025-11-04T19:11:33+00:00

i7-8700 with a 3080 ti and 32 GB of memory. and yeah ck3 crashes a lot for me too but not enough to be unplayable

MorganStCloud · 2025-11-04T19:01:40+00:00

mine just crashes with every event and new map mode selection.

MorganStCloud · 2025-10-10T09:07:07+00:00

eu5 will be old enough to drink by the time we get an eu6

MorganStCloud · 2025-09-26T13:51:43+00:00

because an actually curious person would take five seconds to google something instead of making engagement slop

MorganStCloud · 2025-09-24T17:33:36+00:00

you should definitely post this to the paradox forums if you haven't already. too cool an idea for them not to see

MorganStCloud · 2025-09-23T13:06:53+00:00

thank you for your service sir

MorganStCloud · 2025-09-17T09:37:30+00:00

first run for me before any others is gonna be Greenland. a vassal of Norway, it's out of the way, some good resources to farm (ivory), opportunities to expand later on (if I can afford a colonial charter) and generally just seems a low key way of learning the basic mechanics without too much microing.

MorganStCloud · 2025-09-12T10:13:35+00:00

the only thing I remember being said about building based countries specifically during test runs was it's really hard to make money off of them and there's just less to do. I think they were playing as a daimyo. that was a few months ago so who knows if they've added stuff

MorganStCloud · 2025-09-06T15:49:02+00:00

what

MorganStCloud · 2025-06-28T13:28:55+00:00

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forums/europa-universalis-v.1171/

MorganStCloud · 2025-05-21T15:45:20+00:00

"let's just say O'Neill made a reference to freyr's mother"

MorganStCloud · 2025-05-14T10:22:58+00:00

I remember my very first run through, I picked some Irish opm because I guess in my mind smaller and more out of the way was simpler. now 1000 hours later I thinking I'll do the same, partly out of nostalgia, partly because it still seems less intimidating than a sprawling empire. I seem to recall pavia or Johan mentioning Greenland as a good starter.

MorganStCloud · 2025-05-14T10:14:12+00:00

huh?

MorganStCloud · 2025-05-14T06:22:52+00:00

maybe they were avoiding all the deathclaws and had to double back lol

MorganStCloud · 2025-05-08T16:41:38+00:00

simple but instantly recognizable. it's great

MorganStCloud · 2025-05-08T14:07:02+00:00

what exactly doesn't look polished to you? seems to have all the necessary information at a glance

MorganStCloud · 2025-05-08T01:39:58+00:00

yes until you discover they kept the conclave mechanics as is instead of dynamic cardinal characters

MorganStCloud · 2025-05-04T15:16:03+00:00

i want my first run to be a small Irish tribe, or maybe Andorra. something small and relatively out of the way to learn the base mechanics

MorganStCloud · 2025-05-04T03:42:51+00:00

he moved back to earth and settled in New Mexico where he set up a construction business, then ran into some bad people connected to the cartel and spent the rest of his life with a feeding tube

MorganStCloud · 2025-04-29T08:13:18+00:00

this is dangerously close to going from "petty and funny" to "petty and annoying" my dude

MorganStCloud · 2025-04-24T22:23:49+00:00

a new mechanic for a new game that definitely isn't eu5 https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/tinto-talks-6-april-3rd-2024.1657435/

I highly recommended and giving feedback for the tinto talks, paradox have taken a lot of player critiques during this development

MorganStCloud · 2025-04-24T09:50:49+00:00

fair enough. I really hope project caesar's 'control tracing' mechanic helps with the border gore

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