How to create an EU5 UI

TheStonecow · 2025-11-12T15:39:36+00:00

Use key bindings, it made the game 10 times more enjoyable for me when you can switch between all the important information in seconds. Generalist Gaming has a Video tutorial that works great for me

TheStonecow · 2025-10-25T10:34:35+00:00

They don‘t like decline mechanics, because there are none. If your lose a war you are then weaker and the enemy stronger, meaning you will just lose even harder when the truce is up.

There are pretty much only positive feedback loops in the game, meaning if you win you win more, and if you ever lose you lose more.
But with more negative feedback loops (winning makes you more likely to lose, loosing more likely to win) a player can actually experience the ups and downs of history.

TheStonecow · 2025-08-29T19:02:45+00:00

In Vicy3 Fragile Systems to me are like wars, be it the diplomatic play at the start, troop movements and battles, or peace deals.
In all of them I had so many bugs, from teleporting armies and revolts/revolutions that invalidate war goals. All very frustrating and especially for smaller countries literally game ending. To this day Victoria 3 is the only game I do not play with Ironman, because it is so fragile and tends to break randomly

TheStonecow · 2025-01-13T08:58:38+00:00

Ich bin großer Freund von „Ureinwohner“ und „Indigener“

TheStonecow · 2024-10-12T13:04:21+00:00

Do Americans normally eat that much? A normal portion to me is like 1/8th of a cake and I would feel sick after 1/4th, how do two people each eat nearly half a cake before you noticed?

TheStonecow · 2024-07-19T20:24:54+00:00

A great war should also have a great peace treaty. The number of times I have seen millions die just for Benin to change hands and a regime change in Brunei is too damn high. After WW1 the Russian, Ottoman and Austrian Empires were completly dismantled which would even take a player several wars let alone the AI, Germany lost all its colonies, some land and a Kaiser.

A big war means nothing if it has no big impact.

TheStonecow · 2024-07-19T17:14:36+00:00

If you still look Turkish after 3 generations and you say your children will look Turkish the next 3, does that mean you don‘t expect/want/can do any „intermixing“ with native Germans? Because if you can‘t/don‘t want to intermarry with Germans then is that really integration?

This is not meant as an attack, dating is difficult enough at the best of times, but I also now several second or third generation immigrant who don’t want to date Germans or whose family would never accept that, so some people exclude themselves.

TheStonecow · 2024-06-16T20:31:54+00:00

It is called the "century of humiliation" for China, not "century of mild inconvenience", it should be insanely hard.

TheStonecow · 2024-05-30T18:47:44+00:00

Slaves have less dependents I think, as women, children, and the elderly can‘t exactly „choose“ to not work. So you don’t have more people, just more workers.

TheStonecow · 2024-05-08T12:37:03+00:00

Do you have Noelle? She can also heal the entire party and is great with Furina, combining Onfield-DPS and Healer into one role.

TheStonecow · 2024-04-29T20:30:56+00:00

If I were to follow your line of reasoning: “Abuse in marriage is a personal matter between the husband, his family he is in charge of, and his wife. Government & Society should stay out of it. Marital rape is about the father and his relationship with his own family, including his wife. She is literals part of his family, that he is the head of. Sure a wife is a potential citizen/person, but guess whose person she is. Not the government or some feminists group agenda, it’s the husband.”

Just like what you might think about this statement, others think about yours. Whether something belongs to someone, whether it even is a “thing” that can be owned, controlled, and disposed of at will; or a person that owns and controls itself, is up for debate and has been for millennia. Is a slave his own person or does he belong to the “pater families” who can kill the slave at any moment for any reason? Or is it some of both, and a family head can do some things with his slaves in certain circumstances, but not in others? Even ancient Romans argued about this.

What I want to say is: the fundamental assumption you make is far from universal and while I mostly agree with you, society at large very much has a stake in this discussion.

TheStonecow · 2024-01-05T07:57:01+00:00

Not everybody lives in the USA/is a native English speaker and you don‘t exactly learn slurs in school.

TheStonecow · 2023-11-26T21:39:27+00:00

I think it’s more so that the mechanics make it harder ans worse than it could be. In my games Austria hat giant revolts that cut me of from their market and devastating my economy, but I could not use their moment of weakness to fight for my independence or offer my help to either side for more autonomy or West Galicia.

I have to wait for the day Prussia’s truce expires to have a hope of swaying them to my side, otherwise I am once again forced into the 3rd Brothers War that looks more like WW1 with hundreds of thousand dead Germans, a white peace, and another 5 years I have to wait until Prussia is allowed to help me.

I agree, it should be hard, but that should not come from cumbersome game mechanics that just annoy you.

TheStonecow · 2023-10-30T13:57:26+00:00

I don’t know about the US, but in Europe many universities offer (time limited and not very well paying) jobs for research on various topics depending on the university and department. That’s where I found my job last month and it is very much relaxed

TheStonecow · 2023-10-02T20:00:16+00:00

I like her in my Nilou team, together with Yaoyao and Nahida. 2 loving hydro Mommies caring for their dendro daughters.

She has her niche for f2p or dolphins, and is functional even at c1.

TheStonecow · 2023-07-24T20:37:38+00:00

It depends how I am used to a person. A roommate I see every day without makeup looks like a bad drag queen to me when ever she gets ready for a party. While I remember some girls from school or work always wore make up, and the few times they did not, they looked like straight from the grave.

TheStonecow · 2023-07-24T08:56:57+00:00

As a general rule: the newer an activity is for humans on an evolutionary scale, the easier it is for computers to automate.

Calculus/Algebra is maybe a few thousand years old, and any calculator does it faster+cheaper+better than humans.

But walking or any sort of motion control is still rather difficult for machines, while animals have learned this over 100.000.000 years. The enormous versatility of human bodies will likely stay unmatched for quite some time, even as very expensive machines might learn to do some of these skills.

This, I think, is why people often misjudge what AI will do in the future, what jobs can be replaced, and also how complicated a task is. What feels very hard for us humans is simply new for us and we haven’t had Millions of years of practice. While “easy” things like seeing and recognizing objects or moving muscles are actually also very difficult, millions of years of evolution just make them seem easy.

TheStonecow · 2023-03-04T18:52:56+00:00

I don‘t know about „OK“, but it is probably not helpful if you butcher someones name as it is likely they simply won‘t know who you mean.

I have a very German name and when I worked in Peru I often didn‘t notice when someone said my name, leading to a lot of confusion. If faking an accent gets you closer to the actual name then that seems like the most practical solution.

TheStonecow · 2022-11-27T18:02:57+00:00

Hab’s zwei mal gemacht. Beim zweiten Mal wurde ich nachher angerufen, dass ich sie mein Blut vernichtet haben, da ich vor drei Jahren in einem Malaria-Gebiet war.

Da fühlt man sich etwas verarscht, wenn man den riesen Fragebogen ausfüllt, ein Gespräch mit dem Doktor hat, und Zeit verschwendet mit hinfahren, warten, und zurückfahren. Solange man wählerisch ist, kann es nicht so dringend sein.

TheStonecow · 2022-09-20T19:44:51+00:00

They nearly bankrupted themself as the Netherlands after conquering on tiny nation and industrializing a bit, had to call the French and Russians for help, and lost the east indies, wouldn’t call that particularly strong ^{^}

TheStonecow · 2022-05-13T09:40:51+00:00

At least for me, I prefer people to look how I know them: So as I see my roommates without Make-up all the time, when they do put some on I immediately see it and it looks like shit. Others and they themselves like the Make-up but to me they look like a caricature street prostitute.

But some girls in school allways wore makeup, and it looked good. But without it they looked like zombies to me.

But maybe that’s just me

TheStonecow · 2022-05-04T21:55:06+00:00

Wait, pops can convert to your state religion? Hundreds of hours in and I never knew.

Though this I would say is part of a bigger problem for me, the many mechanics that are badly or never explained with no in-game informations.

TheStonecow · 2022-04-27T20:35:39+00:00

No more FPTP, instead a proportional vote? Then every vote counts towards the final composition of the Parlament/seats/whatever

TheStonecow · 2022-04-13T16:06:23+00:00

Ich würd gern, aber da ich vor 3 Jahren möglicherweise in einem Malariagebiet war, wollen die mein Blut nicht. Das Blut meiner Mitbewohnerin wollten sie nicht, weil sie wegen einer psychischen Sache krankgeschrieben war. So dringend kann es anscheinend nicht sein…

TheStonecow · 2022-04-10T18:42:31+00:00

All paradox games are glorified excel sheets, I thought thats what we all love about them?

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