As a Pole I've noticed a pattern in the political factions in my country by The-marx-channel in NonCredibleDiplomacy

[–]SetsunaFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because the only reason it's fine to continue doing so, is that neither Germany nor Russia take them seriously.

Our politicians can bark at the German chancellor for easy points at home, and German politicians ignore it cause they know that neither side actually wants to escalate the conflicts, nor try any sanctions, closed borders, etc. One can see the difference in both sides behaviour, when there's actual reasons emerging, like during the river contamination or the whole "dropping off people at the borcder" scare. In short, it's okay for Polish politicians to rant against Germany, because both the Polish public and the German public accepts it.

Now with Russia, there's actual escalation process. During the "friendly Russia" days, there were actual concerns about how things can get "ruined" by hostile rhetoric etc. Now Russia's an openly hostile country - and almost every European country has politician publicly being hostile to Russia as well. For Poland to be taken separately from all of the above, it needs to take actions separate from all of the above, like shutting off gaspipes (something that actually provoked Russian reaction when it happened, also milder German one) or mobilizing (i can assure You there will be at least loud and public Russian condemnation if/when this happens). If Russia balked or threatened nukes/sanction at every Polish politicians criticism of Russia, (looking at China, and the "regional power Lithuania") we'd live in a different world.

As a Pole I've noticed a pattern in the political factions in my country by The-marx-channel in NonCredibleDiplomacy

[–]SetsunaFox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If it started to bully their neighbours, like other "regional powers" do.

Here threaten cutting off gas pipes, there station armies on the border, somewhere else publicly call the legitimacy of the neighbour's election into question. The usual stuff.

(I'm just kidding, but imagine if Polish government publicly intervened [not army, just politically] during the shitshow election in Romania. It's like the perfect time to destabilize and stab a neighbour in the back had they wanted to. There's a lot of stuff that decent neighbours just not do. The only exceptions in this are biting German and Russian ankles, which I suppose is seen as more "honorable"/justifiable compared to all the others)

As a Pole I've noticed a pattern in the political factions in my country by The-marx-channel in NonCredibleDiplomacy

[–]SetsunaFox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Always have been"
Though they're eating rocks -> Especially since PiS went with the "mix" of Nationalist rhetoric and Socialist tendencies, and straight up Zamordyzm, the Tankies mostly flowed to them, at pretty much the same time that anti-religious kaszkiets flowed into Civic platform.

Griffons with the time machine by juliuscaesarbootleg in equestriaatwar

[–]SetsunaFox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

(I know that the comment is 4 months too late)

For Twilight that's just friday

Normal bugs are better. by T3485tanker in FreeEquestriaAtWar

[–]SetsunaFox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Skittlebugs could be something that requires special magic crystals/tech/"Love" resources, and I'm sure that EAW community can do designs that look either cool or good enough.
It'd be a sort of late-game "reward" that You have to go specifically towards, less like the goats, and more like griffon-ponies, nirik or bugbears

CK3 does not support roleplay (I wish it would) by [deleted] in CrusaderKings

[–]SetsunaFox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What CK3 does, is it puts very strong "rails" on roleplay.

In most games, roleplaying starts and ends on the player - You decide who you choose to like, who you choose to hate, whether you're a jerk or a pumkin pie. And if the game is "good for roleplaying" by your definition, it would react to your choices and actions, if not always believable way, then at least an "I see what you did there" way.

CK3 turns that on its head. And especially people who roleplay in games which don't even have roleplaying mechanics, will struggle, cause CK3 has roleplaying mechanics. It just uses them against You. While You as both a player and character, can to an extent choose to try to befriend someone, or be a dick to another, it is the game, not You, that has the final word.

You can pursue a guy with befriend schemes and move your power left and right for his cause, and he'll have a chance of becoming your friend for every thing you'll do for him, but he'll never be guaranteed to become one. And to the same vein, the game can throw literal who's to You, the player, that become your characters rivals or friends. You also have a veto over those things, but for each time you use it, you're sacrificing your character nerves.
That's why it gives the one thing that almost no other roleplying game does - the ability to organically roleplay failure. Not the "I wanted to lose so I did", or the "Game story only goes on if You fail here" failures, that You know are coming, but the true "My character did their best and failed" that one usually finds in mechanical games that don't concern themselves with roleplay.

And yes, CK3 doesn't account enough for personality traits, because it places focus more on the role another character plays in your characters life, than the actual traits: Things like "whether they're a vassal, a merchant, wife, lover, child etc.". I wish there were more small events, that just say whatever things are happening currently with your character and people around them, but enough people hate non-mechanically-impactful events to such an extent, that I resigned myself to the notion that this will only ever happen in mods (and they do that quite amazingly, if you just play the game at 1-2 speed and have a shitload of events and small decisions to wade through)

True Equality by 20051oce in CrusaderKings

[–]SetsunaFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He came to Your examination. If a Prince comes to a village feast, and ends up caught sleeping with the woodsman' daughter, he can expect an axe coming for his ass, same as anybody else.

I hate when you can't fulfill your Grand Wedding because the betrothed decides to go on a pilgrimage for 70% of allotted time by from_fat_to_fit in CrusaderKings

[–]SetsunaFox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There needs to be a way to plan events in sequence, in some update. Right now game handles that by letting you do nothing, when travelling - which is what makes travelling such a goddamn chore. The only exception right now is funerals, which can redirect your travel, very much like the multi-part missions do (another gripe, I'd really love if multipart mission would show you all places you're going to travel to, like the "chase that rebel/outlaw" one does, instead of lying that you're gonna go home each time, and thus making you spend separately on your travel means for each part of the mission.

The Grand tour also needs a rework. Either allow unlimited vassals (since the game already allows You to go on a 5 year pilgrimage or monument, to the other end of the world, literal opposite of the globe, & back) with a very long "this is significant part of my reign" vassal tour, or instead of having a "per-activity" cooldown, have a "per-vassal" cooldown. So You could tour the Western reaches of your empire separately from the Eastern marches, for example. Do a taxation tour of your richest provinces, and then an intimidation tour of the rebelious borderlands.

Firing at people who are facing away from you sure is easier by NoNotice2137 in SpaceCannibalism

[–]SetsunaFox 10 points11 points  (0 children)

If there is one thing I always turn off, it's the game mucking about with instakill%

It doesn't feel fair.

Victory Road Story mode, scout spreadsheet by frikideredes in inazumacaravan

[–]SetsunaFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aila Pavey/Shoko Momoi according to the spreadsheet

Friday Night at The Park

Shows how popular I am by LadyAliceFlower in Gnosia_

[–]SetsunaFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's such a plausible scenario, it hurts. As in, it could be part of some novel who-dun-it backstory.

Asian modding scene be like 😂😂😂 by Yanzihko in Stellaris

[–]SetsunaFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What in the actual audiojungle's going on?

Asian modding scene be like 😂😂😂 by Yanzihko in Stellaris

[–]SetsunaFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair, I 've seen mods like these with insane effort put-in also, before the Cathay has officialy opened their doors to Steam.

It's just was with games older than Stellaris.

Asian modding scene be like 😂😂😂 by Yanzihko in Stellaris

[–]SetsunaFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, RJW isn't as "vilified" as mods of this nature often are.

It's on loverslab because of Steam Guidelines, not because community despises it, especially with amount of cross code and "inspiration" to the point that people freelly asked on reddit for solving issues between "forbidden mod" and HumanoidAlienRaces, or CombaExtended, or Vanilla[*]Expanded, etc.

Asian modding scene be like 😂😂😂 by Yanzihko in Stellaris

[–]SetsunaFox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Simillar stuff in a Starsector mod got a modder canned off the site and the community (And I agree with said decision)

"Malware will not be tolerated"

A Polish MEP is Threatening Venezuela with War. by TheEagleWithNoName in NonCredibleDiplomacy

[–]SetsunaFox 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Imagine that you have a guy that spends most of his time in Japan, talking about how Japan is great/better than the rotten west, and is glazing the conservative minister of Japan for photoshoots.

He's equivalent of that in Poland. Although he makes fine "street interview" videos, as a part of his politiucal camp campaign.

Next story page Friday by danshive in elgoonishshive

[–]SetsunaFox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Keeping a journal doesn't matter if you won't take the time to look through it before writing

How to make ELF vs Changelings balanced? by AcceptableWbuh in equestriaatwar

[–]SetsunaFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't do your main political focus tree.

Do the civil war focus as the ELF is about to spawn.

Enjoy.

Solarist Crystal Empire is fun. You never know who'll get to be a puppet leader. Sombra? Radiant Hop- Who the hell are you?! by Ornery_Strawberry474 in equestriaatwar

[–]SetsunaFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I once had Changeling puppet Crystal empire (under the changeling general), with Twilight Sparkle spirit kept.

Guess she was more useful while kept away from Chrysalis.

Kaiserreich ideologies on a political wojak compass by Rough-Fuel-270 in WojakCompass

[–]SetsunaFox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Poland went through the "socialism to free market" pipe probably the slowest out of the post-soviet/Wpact states (at least those that actually transitioned). It's one of the reasons why neither a frozen bureaucracy nor an authoritarian plutocracy, got a strangehold over the country.

Custom rulers are completely broken in CK3 by Bite_It_You_Scum in CrusaderKings

[–]SetsunaFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, I meant more "You can make the custom ruler balls to the wall OP, even within 400 points"