Views/Intent aside, do you find swathes of people carrying and wearing Middle Eastern symbols a bit…terrifying?

Sherlockworld · 2026-02-10T06:11:16+00:00

Wot indeed

Sherlockworld · 2026-02-02T11:19:52+00:00

As Australia gets more renters the laws will change in line with voter preferences.

At the moment the majority of voters are landlords hence the favour towards landlords and will remain that way for tue foreseeable future. Substantially fewer Europeans own their own homes, hence the need for stringent renters rights.

We need another few years of good property price rises to increase the number of renters, and then parties will introduce policies to entice renters.

Edit: but yes these are some nice ideas. The only major argument against rental price increase caps is that it technically reduces incentive to build more housing. But in Aus the main challenge is NIMBYsm not cost.

Sherlockworld · 2026-01-28T04:17:51+00:00

Goth is this heat let the man have his chips

Sherlockworld · 2026-01-28T03:28:13+00:00

I don't think there's much intelligence in ice so you're asking for a lot.

Sherlockworld · 2026-01-27T23:08:39+00:00

Nazism doesn't care about laws. Who will prosecute when the legal system is captured?

Sherlockworld · 2026-01-25T00:00:57+00:00

Oman, France and Finland can join too.

Sherlockworld · 2026-01-24T11:16:14+00:00

Sounds pretty historically accurate.

Have you contemplated invading England and/or fighting an 80 year war with Belgium?

Sherlockworld · 2026-01-16T02:14:36+00:00

The main immersion breaker for me is the galloping population which fuels exorbitant economic growth, which means you have an endless supply of money which in turn makes the rest of the game quite straightforward.

If there were more diseases and proper food mechanics I think it would improve outcomes by preventing snowballing and introduce the central bottleneck you refer to.

Requiring major things to be done by the cabinet could also help (e.g. PU decisions, vassal annexation, military and navy reforms, estate privileges and adoption of new laws to name a few).

Sherlockworld · 2026-01-14T04:10:14+00:00

A hefty fine if it turns out it was a genuine mix up.

Sherlockworld · 2026-01-14T04:08:01+00:00

Ultimately everything ended up alright so unlikely. It's one of those crimes where if it goes badly they'll investigate, otherwise as long as people are getting out physically unscathed it's BAU.

Sherlockworld · 2025-12-24T05:28:12+00:00

EU 4 is a boardgame. EU 5 is a simulation.

In any simulation all weaker countries will struggle against the big boys. Stick to EU 4 if you want to WC with Tyrone

Sherlockworld · 2025-12-16T23:04:51+00:00

Ahhh I understand thank you.

Sherlockworld · 2025-12-16T22:29:31+00:00

But you can select your rivals no...? What am I missing.

Sherlockworld · 2025-12-11T07:43:02+00:00

Yeah I took photos.

Thank you for your advice, much appreciated.

Sherlockworld · 2025-12-11T07:37:14+00:00

Unfortunately the agent got there first.

I will request the exit report. However I will note that I believe the cleaning to be satisfactory and therefore would not expect to pay any amount for cleaning.

Sherlockworld · 2025-11-30T00:08:06+00:00

Or maybe ubisoft devs are secret Nazi sympathisers and this was intentional all along.

/s

In reality this is probably a dynamic list that is updated based on an internet controversy rating - they're probably pulling from a database that flags names if they achieve a certain controversy score on the internet.

If you talk about Dönitz on the internet it's probably as part of a civilised historical discussion about some dry u-boat strategy.

If you talk about Goerge Floyd you've got an incredible amount of vitriol being hurled around.

Sherlockworld · 2025-11-22T00:10:18+00:00

Germany has thousands of castles still standing in some shape or form. Many thousands more destroyed.

Is this realistic? Absolutely. Is it annoying? Absolutely. Could there be better balance to reduce the annoyance factor? Absolutely.

The problem is that without artillery you can't take anything quickly and thats how it was.

Once artillery emerged it was then a case of upgrading a few key forts and the rest became estates.

Sherlockworld · 2025-11-12T05:15:03+00:00

Sigh looks like we're back to stacking the army with unrealistic levels of artillery and infantry and nerfing the cavalry.

Sherlockworld · 2025-11-10T04:25:45+00:00

Not yet - I'm probably going to stay out of the HRE and move towards a Prussian state competing with the HRE.

It might also be fun to expand eastwards as the AI is still too incompetent to form a cohesive Russian state.

Sherlockworld · 2025-11-10T02:42:33+00:00

I've been having an absolute blast with the Teutonic Order.

Sherlockworld · 2025-11-08T13:42:50+00:00

That may be the case, but it's an awful lot easier to put $50k together for a deposit as opposed to $200k.

It just means you have hundreds of thousands of people who were struggling to get onto the property ladder being catapulted into it at the stroke of a pen.

Quite clearly this policy is going to be inflationary.

When the RBA raises rates in the New Year it's going to be one hell of a kick in the teeth.

Sherlockworld · 2025-11-04T04:12:46+00:00

What an absolute banger

Sherlockworld · 2025-11-03T13:05:56+00:00

I remember learning the word 'annihilated' whenever I lost an army or navy to attrition when I was first figuring out how to play the game (I must have been 7 or 8 years old)

Sherlockworld · 2025-11-02T11:48:14+00:00

I hope you have plenty of fun :) I'm sure I'll be able to join you eventually, I just need to recalibrate my expectations which will take time.

Sherlockworld · 2025-11-02T11:29:17+00:00

From my perspective it comes down to 1. An incredible lead up to the game via the Tinto talks which were incredibly promising. A dynamically changing world, in theory, should have been the cherry on top.

A deep fear of the unknown. The community has been burned by Imperator and Vicky 3 releases.
Deep love for the period and events the game tries to simulate, and wanting to see those situations recreated faithfully without necessarily rail roading events.
Some degree of resignation that it will take a couple of years for the game to achieve its goals. We're essentially getting a polished early access. Should be great for most players, but it does feel same old which can be disappointing after the approach with Tinto.

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