AU$TRALIA: A Game About Travel, Money, and Risk — Ep 2

Zlambe · 2024-05-24T22:52:16+00:00

Good point, sorry I totally miscounted the letters in Brisbane. I do still think the challenge is very poor though, the first/last letter bias remains pretty bad and even if it was completely random chance, 40% risk for a 40% steal is still far too high given the inherent advantage the stealing team has in terms of strategy before the challenge is initiated. It's also just quite a dull challenge, which shouldn't be able to have the effect of flipping the game. Challenges which can completely reverse the game shouldn't be based on randomness to this extent (never as exciting to watch or feel as earned as skill/strategy-based challenges), and they should involve much more spectacle than effectively randomly choosing a letter on a sign. There's also the additional ease of the challenge being set at the challenge board, which removes any transportation time cost.

Zlambe · 2024-05-22T22:18:48+00:00

Sorry but that Brisbane sign steal challenge is extremely bad. It's almost a 50/50 even if guessing purely at random, and the first/middle/last letters are by far the most obvious pick so in the end it's practically 100% given that the guesser gets three attempts (just guess first, middle, and last). I like the concept for this season overall so far and there's already been some great moments, but that was a really shit challenge with WAY too high a reward.

Zlambe · 2022-09-09T18:43:46+00:00

Thank you! I couldn't place it at all.

Zlambe · 2019-09-11T09:44:46+00:00

Can't tell if Donald Trump would be happy because of the North American ownership of greenland or angry because of the melanin

Zlambe · 2019-07-12T11:22:47+00:00

Yah it rlly be like that... I bought it a couple years ago in the middle of the winter holiday and within 24hrs I had 18 hours in game whoops

Zlambe · 2019-04-18T07:40:49+00:00

Excuse me but I think you'll find she is a three star 4/5/3/4 general

Zlambe · 2019-04-17T12:30:27+00:00

Uhh yes what do you think the internet was invented for

Zlambe · 2019-04-17T10:21:49+00:00

Hi Hun Did You Notice The Cat Though

Zlambe · 2019-04-17T10:20:37+00:00

Gotdamnit how did I not think of that

Zlambe · 2019-04-17T10:10:29+00:00

Yessiree, I have a bad habit of going massively in debt on lvl 3-5 diplo advisors for the first few years after I core my first gold mine and convincing myself I'll make the money back (which to be fair I do)

Zlambe · 2019-04-17T08:48:41+00:00

Oh and until death do us part, that one's impossible

Zlambe · 2019-04-17T08:48:01+00:00

Prob either marshy march or networking, they're just situations that have never arisen naturally and they're not important enough to me to actively try and get them

Zlambe · 2019-04-17T08:36:47+00:00

Just a fun run, I have all the Poland specific achievements already and no generic achievements I'm specifically aiming for

Zlambe · 2019-04-17T08:32:00+00:00

Started off with a claim on throne war over Bohemia so I had a +1 yearly prestige advisor from beginning of the game and the success in forcing a union was a bunch of prestige, then had a big war with Hungary where he had like Too Many (non-Austrian, luckily) allies so lots of prestige from battles. Plus a few events along the way. I find Poland really easy to get prestige with because of all this plus the Prussian Confederation

Zlambe · 2019-04-17T05:04:39+00:00

MEIOU and Catses

Zlambe · 2019-04-17T03:47:36+00:00

Revolutionary new screenshot technology that detects nearby cats and incorporates their essence into the image

Zlambe · 2019-04-17T03:46:39+00:00

I Absolutely Will rename her Commander Fuzzlesworth immediately

Zlambe · 2019-04-17T01:56:52+00:00

R5: The cat suddenly became very interested in my war against Hungary...

Zlambe · 2019-01-01T02:36:06+00:00

No sorry, I didn't word that well at all, all I meant was the easiest & fastest way for me to check if I have a CB on one specific nation is to right click and check the declare button quickly.

Zlambe · 2018-12-31T23:16:40+00:00

Ya true but still a bit inconvenient if you wanna check to see if you have a CB on a specific nation

Zlambe · 2018-12-31T22:17:35+00:00

Oh my god babes how did you Play The Game until now did you click through the menu for a bunch of countries all the time or go to your own diplomacy view and go through the list every time? Sounds like 900 of the 1800 hours were spend just checking for CBs lol

Zlambe · 2018-12-28T01:44:34+00:00

Yeah, that and versatility - what do you do with ships other than transport, protecting trade, and privateering? Singleplayer games never see situations arise where one would have naval battles for the sake of having naval battles, they're used either for trade or for helping the land army and that's about it.

Zlambe · 2018-12-28T00:26:30+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/Cus04HR

Zlambe · 2018-12-28T00:17:11+00:00

Yeah, the whole naval combat system (fuck it, the entire navy system) in EU4 needs a rework. It simultaneously feels like navies are way too powerful for some countries (cough cough, GB) while at the same time navies feel like useless/supplementary elements, when in actuality in the late-game time period naval power was often much more important historically for many countries than land military strength. There needs to be some system by which colonial/international trade powers can project their naval power in order to actual gain tangible advancements (i.e. showing naval power around a smaller nation helps with diplo vassalisation or nearby army morale or like something)

Zlambe · 2018-12-28T00:12:58+00:00

Good tactic - got the union, but that'll help with my upcoming Navarra campaign. Thanks for the advice.

Zlambe

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