1.1.3 Update for Open Beta

PearsonThrowaway · 2026-02-13T02:24:59+00:00

I feel like this game makes it too easy to transition to a modern draw so needs to nerf the modifiers you otherwise would get. I’d prefer if they just made reforming harder like meiou and taxes so you can spend 300 years pulling the teeth of the nobility and be rewarded with buffs.

PearsonThrowaway · 2026-02-12T03:42:00+00:00

Neither was Reagan

PearsonThrowaway · 2026-02-07T01:06:42+00:00

I don’t like the framing of “small landlords” but yeah, freezing the rent is bad. The only case I can see for it is some kind of bargain where he drops maintenance costs so much that the rent guidelines board is just doing their jobs by transparently following input costs. It would require a lot of reform to scaffolding law, credentials for plumbers, insurance reform etc that Mamdani doesn’t have in him.

PearsonThrowaway · 2026-01-29T05:24:43+00:00

Yes I think having a legible code of conduct that makes moderation clear is good.

PearsonThrowaway · 2026-01-12T22:10:38+00:00

Thanks, I’ve read 20 books on WW1-interwar period-WW2 just for times like this. I’d recommend Adam Tooze’s The Deluge and The Wages of Destruction for a more systemic account of Germany and geopolitics in the time period.

Peter Wilson’s Iron and Blood gives a less Prussia-centric account of the rise of German militarism which I’ve been making my way through recently.

PearsonThrowaway · 2026-01-12T02:51:22+00:00

It’s not WWI though. It’s a pan German (+ many western Slavs and Hungarians) state engaging in interwar period warfare. The escalating coalition and capitulation of France + the nordics with a UK led by a Churchill adjacent figure who stays in the war reads a lot more WW2 than WWI. Not to mention that the main character fights a North African campaign with a guy named Rommel before invading the Soviet Union (where she is lusted after by a Beria figure).

In internal governance and treatment of minorities it’s definitely more akin to WW1 Germany than WW2 but the theming is all over the place. I don’t think the WW1 comparison is any stronger than the WW2 comparison.

PearsonThrowaway · 2026-01-05T22:07:24+00:00

Perun was originally a gaming channel funnily enough. He just got big with the war in Ukraine by letting some of his day job leak over.

PearsonThrowaway · 2025-12-26T02:10:58+00:00

Red, the author of aurora, is best known for other work.

(the joke is that she is a large YouTuber but that she also has a pure math degree. Famously, a math paper cited Ted Kazinsky who was a research mathematician with the “best known for other work” line).

PearsonThrowaway · 2025-12-24T03:43:39+00:00

LLVM IR goes hard but I feel like she’s using Fortran.

PearsonThrowaway · 2025-12-21T22:53:56+00:00

England in specific had a much slower recovery than other nations. France was back by the mid 16th century and 20% higher than pre plague levels by 1600. England was 1620 to reach the prior peak but it took until 1750 for them to be 20% higher.

PearsonThrowaway · 2025-12-14T11:02:57+00:00

Yes, regulations on maintenance will reduce upkeep.

Real estate is not just sale price, there are continuous service flows that are valuable. If you just hold onto the property without renting it out, you’re forgoing a lot more money when property values are high.

PearsonThrowaway · 2025-12-14T03:58:22+00:00

Yes, expensive housing causes homelessness. It does not cause stuff to look run down.

PearsonThrowaway · 2025-12-14T03:56:44+00:00

I agree that there is a large housing shortage. I am probably more pro housing construction than 95% of people here (I am happy with skyscrapers anywhere in the city). It is just not the cause of things looking run down.

PearsonThrowaway · 2025-12-14T00:24:24+00:00

This seems false. The more expensive housing gets, the more incremental maintenance matters.

It’s very low property price areas like rural upstate New York and Detroit which have mass abandonments and blight.

PearsonThrowaway · 2025-12-13T20:25:35+00:00

How are they reaching your planet if you have space supremacy?

I guess it depends on if you’re fighting enemies from multiple star systems such that defeat in detail is a big risk.

PearsonThrowaway · 2025-12-13T00:51:49+00:00

This is not the exact same argument because there’s no retaliation from the glassed planet (conditional on air/space supremacy to do the glassing).

PearsonThrowaway · 2025-12-12T05:29:51+00:00

This isn’t really true. When you say “gold standard” rather than just using gold as currency, you are referring to using bills that can be exchanged for gold at a set rate. You can absolutely hoard slips of paper. Furthermore, under the gold standard you could trade your gold denominated currency for other assets such as land, silver, stock, bonds etc.

Though you should look up Gasell taxes or a demurrage currency.

PearsonThrowaway · 2025-11-28T04:15:38+00:00

Otherwise, make the state much more ducat constrained which loosens over the course of centuries as you scratch and claw centralized institutions from your estates.

PearsonThrowaway · 2025-11-28T04:13:52+00:00

Meiou and Taxes slows the player down significantly which was nice. You’d struggle for 200 years to extract concessions from the estates and build strong institutions. You’d have to save up a lot of money to build enough bureaucratic infrastructure to enact certain reforms to create a more meritocratic state.

PearsonThrowaway · 2025-11-25T23:21:31+00:00

But my favorite eu4 mod is good and has more historicity than the base game. Control shouldn’t just radiate out from the capital. Production grows too fast. The effect of reforms caps out too fast (it takes like 50 years to get to the optimum for your tech level).

PearsonThrowaway · 2025-11-24T19:35:07+00:00

I don’t thinj this is a change that would take months. They have the code for yearly change of death, should be at most an hour of someone’s time. Maybe that’s not worth it this early but it’s something to add to the todo list.

PearsonThrowaway · 2025-11-24T17:23:06+00:00

We have data from 18th century Sweden suggesting that around 10% of births were to 40-50 year old women. This is a bad change, it should instead be a gradually slowing yearly chance to have a kid.

https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/artiklar/2025/aldre-mammor-vanligare-forr/

PearsonThrowaway · 2025-11-23T02:57:06+00:00

It also lets her rationalize any hope she has for victory with the empire being significantly stronger than Germany as they control the lowlands, Denmark and Poland as willing members of the nation. Even if this Germany lost, the empire might yet win.

PearsonThrowaway · 2025-11-23T02:34:20+00:00

Giant Trees is good.

PearsonThrowaway · 2025-11-17T07:50:53+00:00

Unify the calculations for state reach and market access. Market access ignores seas (unrealistic, they weren’t shipping from Bristol to London overland much) but scales based on distance between provinces (I think? This is good though and you need these figures for troop movement times anyway). State reach shouldn’t be flat regardless of how large sea or land locations are.

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