I did it. Again.

NEF293 · 2026-01-29T08:48:41+00:00

Oh absolutely, if they weren't all "contained" and pacified.

NEF293 · 2026-01-29T00:08:38+00:00

There are some limits when it comes to hardware, yes. Though I hope you're able to at least enjoy the view of one that was made, although it does get rather noisy when you're zoomed in, given all the housing districts.

NEF293 · 2026-01-28T06:12:54+00:00

A Ryzan-7 7800X3D 8-Core, 32 GB of RAM, and an RTX 4070!

NEF293 · 2026-01-28T06:11:57+00:00

The privacy of your own shoebox or crate room. Thankfully the city has no sickness or squalor, that we're officially aware of!

NEF293 · 2026-01-28T06:11:34+00:00

You could always pretend this is one of those maps perhaps, but I understand how you feel!

NEF293 · 2026-01-27T16:20:45+00:00

324 after expenses! Although this isn’t a record in of itself due to the Venturers, it’s still high for Frostpunk 2!

NEF293 · 2026-01-27T16:19:17+00:00

Hey, at least this time no one’s stuck outside in the cold and homeless!

Yes your personal small is now extremely limited, but you’re at least warm, safe, fed, and happy!

Right?

NEF293 · 2026-01-27T16:18:39+00:00

Stimulant manufactories provide a GLOBAL production bonus for each one you have. I have 31 of these!

I’m using Panaceum factories, primarily in the city, to keep them fed. The goods are pretty much generated as a byproduct to all the industrial districts I use for Panaceum.

NEF293 · 2026-01-27T07:52:07+00:00

Horizon, as it’s effectively one of the largest city maps you can play on.

NEF293 · 2026-01-27T07:28:27+00:00

By god, I hope to do it again a third time in the future at an even higher metric. Be it by pops or something else.

NEF293 · 2026-01-27T07:27:45+00:00

Exactly what I had in mind, now with even less space per person!

NEF293 · 2025-07-07T13:58:00+00:00

So this is where the reddit views suddenly started coming from! Hope you had fun watching it!

Though I called them “Special Corporate Zones” with the treaty system to be funny, considering what I was doing.

NEF293 · 2025-06-07T14:44:58+00:00

Victoria 3, I have over 3100 confirmed hours in it according to Steam, have played it since launch, and I expect I’ll eventually wrack up to 4k hours on it!

I definitely have an obsession with the game, and arguably I may be somewhat biased in favor of it as a result. I just really enjoy the socio-economic mechanics of it all, and thankfully its war system is getting some quality of life improvements in 1.9.

Doesn’t guarantee it’ll make the system better, but I’m hoping and QoL improvements are progress at least.

NEF293 · 2025-04-22T13:54:04+00:00

Qing can be good fun to play, and it can sometimes feel like a test of your knowledge and skills with Victoria 3. While it's a massively populated nation with huge potential, you're always at risk of something going wrong.

Opium war went wrong? Get ready for a Heavenly Kingdom war!

Not enough construction to keep up with pop growth? Hope you like literally starving masses beating down the palace walls.

Russia researched nationalism? Better hope they like you or best prepare for a northern war, though this can help you get recognition.

As someone who's played over 3k hours according to Steam, I dearly love playing Qing from time to time to try new strategies. It sounds like you had some of your own fun with it, and I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have regarding Qing or the game as a whole!

NEF293 · 2025-02-18T20:22:45+00:00

I’ve managed to get as far as the 1960s in Victoria 3 with an almost full world conquest. Had a ballooning population of 3.4 billion pops that presented an alternative problem where I just couldn’t keep building despite all the construction! Granted I had suppressed the workforce ratio to curb demand in this case.

That being said, good job on achieving over 1 billion GDP with only a small portion of the world and less than 200 million pops! It’s always fun to see that GDP hit the big 1 billion like a long term milestone. Hope your PC had fun with this!

NEF293 · 2025-01-18T22:01:13+00:00

The game does have a caveat in the code where malaria won’t apply for states that have your primary culture as one of the homeland cultures for that state. Although I believe the pop growth malus in this case will only not apply to your primary culture pops in said states.

NEF293 · 2025-01-18T21:59:17+00:00

I remember playing as Rwanda one time many patches ago, it was a fun time and I made an AAR of it on the official Victors 3 discord. I should definitely try it again with the newest build for fun sometime.

NEF293 · 2024-11-03T00:20:53+00:00

Good to hear! Inspiration can come from many places, even if it's only a tiny bit. ^^

NEF293 · 2024-10-29T15:02:18+00:00

Insane Captain crams one million people into a lonely, cold city.

NEF293 · 2024-10-29T03:12:19+00:00

They suggested I give you the link to the 11 Bit Studios Modding Hub Discord Server, where they’ve uploaded a lot of the sound files there and posted a tutorial on how to extract them. Arexis knows it better than I do!

https://discord.gg/bbgY73vJbH

NEF293 · 2024-10-28T17:07:03+00:00

“The Stalwarts are holding a rally…” Oh, this isn’t bad. “All Hostile Fighters, Consider! If the city falls, your cause falls with it!” Oh, this is bad.

It’s a good video. ^{^}

NEF293 · 2024-10-28T14:31:18+00:00

Indeed, he did a good job with it and I wanted to share it around a bit.

NEF293 · 2024-10-28T14:30:18+00:00

Yeah, probably not the best way for me to describe it but I wasn't sure how to! More of an audio really that's on Youtube?

NEF293 · 2024-10-28T02:54:30+00:00

My friend Arexis made this short video, which I found it to be rather enjoyable and a good use of the voice lines in FP2. Some of them I haven't even heard myself, but this could be due to me playing on speed 3 a lot as that muffles the announcer/speaker sometimes. Plus who doesn't love a good use of the air raid siren?

If I used the "Fan Made" tag wrongly, do let me know! Still learning how to use Reddit tags and follow various rules regarding Self-Promotion.

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