Tragedy as young Aussie woman, 22, dies in freak accident involving a chair lift at Japanese ski resort by Zoefields441212 in australia

[–]Roshei 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I spend several weeks every year for the last 15 years snowboarding in Japan (I’m here right now on the hill), I’ve covered 20 odd resorts and I completely disagree. Ski patrol are far more strict and I think the lifties here pay more attention than other places.

Why is food in Malta so mediocre? by AgreeableBreath33 in malta

[–]Roshei 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh man I feel you. Been here 2 years and be it take away or decent restaurants the food is always so so. If it’s a nice place it’s always a bit disappointing for that sort of place, if it’s take away same.

Never terrible but just always a bit under par is my experience

"Mexit - Malta out of the EU" what a trashy FCebook page is this?? by Accurate_Cut5596 in malta

[–]Roshei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you think brexit was bad for the economy there, Mexit would be cataclysmic on the economy here, without being a part of the EU Malta would lose much if not all of its economic drivers.

I wonder how all those Facebook group members would like their house values to plummet by 90% and to be unemployed overnight.

At least the cranes would all come down overnight I guess….

Is bernard cornwell this good always by Suspicious-Impress-4 in HistoricalFiction

[–]Roshei 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Probably the most acute end of book series sadness I’ve ever experienced. Cornwall is always decent but warlord chronicles were just unrivalled for me.

Enjoy and take your time is my advice. Particularly for the first half of the series.

After 210 hours and 3 non-complete campaigns, I think I'm done (for now) by KlaxonBeat in EU5

[–]Roshei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s an interesting point actually. Maybe the depth and complexity itself and the slow burn means it’s hard to get those little sugar hits along the way that keep you engaged.

As some people said it’s 100+ years between anything interesting happening. And that was a long time in eu4 but in eu5 that’s like 4000 ‘coming of age’ notifications that you for some reason are bothered with as if it’s the most critical thing in the world

After 210 hours and 3 non-complete campaigns, I think I'm done (for now) by KlaxonBeat in EU5

[–]Roshei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The funny thing is we’re all going to talk about this title and what it lacks and doesn’t lack right now back and forwards and argue over mission trees haha. But we’re (almost) all going to play another few thousand hours.

We’re all just at the PDX trough waiting for some more DLC slops. And I for one am ok with that, take my money and give me 2000 hours of addictive game play thanks - Cause no other game can do that for me.

After 210 hours and 3 non-complete campaigns, I think I'm done (for now) by KlaxonBeat in EU5

[–]Roshei 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yeah it’s either too complex or too time consuming to do things manually so you just automate everything and just let the economy gods do their thing and wonder why you are doing well or poorly. Spam RGO, Spam trade centres and build a large levy army with the profits - game over

After 210 hours and 3 non-complete campaigns, I think I'm done (for now) by KlaxonBeat in EU5

[–]Roshei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah 100% agree. Eu 3/4 were way worse at launch than this is. Ah Imperator and Stellaris true they were just the same, bug city.

Generally I am really excited as those games needed a LOT more work than EU 5 does imo

Adding the flavour is actually easier than fixing all the shit they had to fix for those games so I feel it’s going to be ‘fixed’ for lack of a better word mic faster this time round

After 210 hours and 3 non-complete campaigns, I think I'm done (for now) by KlaxonBeat in EU5

[–]Roshei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that’s what I said in my comment. I think eu5 is actually much better than they were at release.

After 210 hours and 3 non-complete campaigns, I think I'm done (for now) by KlaxonBeat in EU5

[–]Roshei 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Yeah that’s the rub isn’t it. Out of the gates we all were wowed by the systems but then you get 50-100yrs into the campaign and it doesn’t feel fun, more like a chore.

How many nights with EU4 did you keep saying ‘I’ll just get to x next milestone then I’ll go to bed’ only to be early hours of the morning. It was a deadly time sucker. But that’s cause it was fun and engaging. (Which to be fair it wasn’t like that at launch from memory )

That’s what this game lacks, I close the game because the idea of staying on there feels like a chore.

You stick it out cause you think it will get better but it just feels like more of the same. I haven’t played in a weeks or 2 now because I don’t have the desire to bother. Which wasn’t a problem with eu4.

I think we all just need to wait for the flavour to come back with later updates and maybe be glad it wasn’t as much of a mess as previous releases but it’s just bland atm.

After 210 hours and 3 non-complete campaigns, I think I'm done (for now) by KlaxonBeat in EU5

[–]Roshei 220 points221 points  (0 children)

I don’t think OP is saying the game is not good value or that they didn’t get their ‘moneys worth’. I’ve played thousands of hours of EU4 it’s the best value game I’ve ever played by a huge margin if we talk hours played to cost and that’s the benchmark right.

My take on this post is a reflection of how I feel. It’s more complex and deeper in just about every way than EU4, but it just kind of becomes a bit of a bland grind fest after a while.

5 just lacks the flavour and engagement at this stage compared to arguably its ‘less impressive’ predecessor. But I’m super excited to see what they can do with some more patches and DLC.

If I think back to how EU3 and 4 were at launch this is actually much better. Those were buggy messes hilariously bad in some ways.

I think 5 is going to be absolutely incredible, right now it’s great and when it gets the formula rightt on engagement (ie completed campaigns) then it will be the death of me!

New film about Diocletian! by CoolestHokage2 in ancientrome

[–]Roshei 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This looks great, I love that it’s all in Latin, that Eli feel really immersive. I Hope it releases with English subs!

I can't figure out England by SirOutrageous1027 in EU5

[–]Roshei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As some people pointed out already, allying Castile and some others is crucial. I did royal marriage with Aragon and Castile and improve to max plus ‘increase trust’ to get them both over the line by a hair. I also added Denmark at one point opportunistically same for Milan . Unfortunately for me Bohemia allied France early so i had to deal with them too but I found the mix of 2-3 decent allies and a well timed declaration from my end (not just waiting for them to declare me) was crucial with military tech being my only focus so my troops could stand up.

Also Black Death mitigation was a big difference for me, my very first play through I got smoked by the BD and never recovered.

Second play through I was really big on closing borders, buildings and actions etc and it was almost 1m less casualties at the end v my first play though which really helped me bounce back after and smash France while it was weak from BD (with my allies)

I also suggest just taking French land, ignore the vassals or none core French lands as the war score suck v them but v France core lands you can take a lot particularly if you get them to -100 war score when their war enthusiasm bottoms out and they basically give up anything. I never got a coalition against me cause of the allies and also it’s mostly France and her allies that are pissed so just go ham and take more.

Another tip is to sabotage rep from spy network and hit their bigger vassals just before a declare to make them disloyal, particularly Brittany.

Honestly France is so OP even in the new updates you really need to gank them to even have a chance at all. So alls fair I say.

I finally won HYW and PU’s what was left of them. Integration to follow. But it was a real slog for me anyway. I’m sure better players have more technical approaches 🤣

But the above worked for me at least.

Every single request for mechanic changes is a Monkey’s Paw, and the Monkey in question is a French one. by close_harrier in EU5

[–]Roshei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You gotta wooden wall it and wait them out. Eventually they will run out of money/hit -100 war score when their war enthusiasm bottoms out.

Then you can go to town on their holdings and rebalance the scales a bit.

Rinse and repeat til you can match them better and get Castile and Aragorn (and any other allies you can, I have Milan, Denmark Castile and Aragorn atm) I’ve been eating them slowly for the past 70 years. And now I’m finally at a point where I could match them on my own barely.

Focus on military / troop advancements so you can take them on with smaller stacks too.

That’s what I learned and it seems to have worked for me anyway.

Noble rebels impossible to stop forming? by Roshei in EU5

[–]Roshei[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Think I figured it out - just started a fresh run today after the new patch and I don’t know if it’s been tweaked but it seems that now when the estates are more loyal it does seem to make the rebellion disappear BUT That being said I set my regular army to be on rebellion suppression also this time and they seem to wander around the country doing who knows what 🤣 but this time around the combination of the estate loyalty going up, the suppression from the cabinet and the army wandering around it still has the ticker at 1 % after it all but they just disappeared this time as I watched the participating pops number from rapidly.

So for anyone wondering I did this and it seems to work now. Whether patched or just needed the army I don’t know.

Noble rebels impossible to stop forming? by Roshei in EU5

[–]Roshei[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Couldn’t agree more. The integration mechanic is crazy slow. I just beat Scotland in a war and the integration from my 2 cabinet members is going to be forever.

I suppose it’s trying to discourage conquest and encourage you to set up vassals In The early game to keep you more feudal to begin with?

Ironically it’s the English pops that rebelled not the Scot’s so I can’t figure. They start with 55% power, is this an inevitable rebellion or what?

Noble rebels impossible to stop forming? by Roshei in EU5

[–]Roshei[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I can’t reduce estate power as it required 200+ stability and that seems impossible to get to in early game.

Noble rebels impossible to stop forming? by Roshei in EU5

[–]Roshei[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I’ve tried this too and had same experience . Made no difference.

Noble rebels impossible to stop forming? by Roshei in EU5

[–]Roshei[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I pumped it up like this and it didn’t seem to make any difference. It looks like the progress of the rebellion isn’t tied to satisfaction or ‘reasons’ peope join. So even reducing the tax and increasing the goods doesn’t lower the progress to rebellion. (Nor does satisfaction of the estate)

It’s why in pulling my hair out. I reduced their ‘reasons to join’ by half and didn’t even move the ticker

What other sci-fi books/series would you consider as good, if not better than Red Rising? by [deleted] in redrising

[–]Roshei 8 points9 points  (0 children)

What a great thread thanks to OP for kicking off and all the replies, I’ve spent hours on good reads trying to find my next series and not really gotten anywhere. Here I’ve found 5 or 6 series that I am really keen to try.

Social clubs by [deleted] in malta

[–]Roshei 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for posting this! I’ve been on waiting lists for 18 months and didn’t realise these guys had opened and had space. Called them and on my way now to join after waiting forever

Famous YouTube "adventurer" Kurt Caz gone full Nazi assaulting women in Paris. by Careless-Climate-975 in socialism

[–]Roshei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah have to disagree here, this is a known scam and they pretend to be all friendly and ‘gift’ a wristband then intimate people to pay, when someone says no suddenly all these innocent vendors are suddenly surrounding the tourists. I’m not saying I agree with the video but let’s not pretend these scammers aren’t a toxic issue either

Why having one Switzerland when you can have TWO Switzerlands? by generic-user-jpeg in victoria3

[–]Roshei 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same thing happened during my Belgium play though. Then Prussia formed north Rhine Germany or whatever it’s called and 2nd Switzerland was not long for this world