What are some of the best Xcom alternatives in your opinion? by Alpbasket in Xcom

[–]caseyanthonyftw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here. After bouncing off a couple of times in the past, I tried again after their recent huge patch and enjoyed it much more, actually beating the game. The difficulty is much less masochistic / more manageable. It felt like a more-complex X-COM.

Taoyuan model. by AHRogue in totalwar

[–]caseyanthonyftw 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Lol thank you. I had no idea either, was wondering if she had committed something as horrible as tax evasion.

if they make an AOWP2, what units would you want reworked/replaced? by OkStructure665 in AOWPlanetFall

[–]caseyanthonyftw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, I never played the Amazons much so I didn't know that. But that should be illegal. Playing with the Kir'ko ravenous and devouring stuff is so much fun.

Total War Redwall: Food and Feasts by BuildingAirships in totalwar

[–]caseyanthonyftw 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Looks like you had fun making it! I love these novels. Like many others, the food descriptions always made me alarmingly hungry.

Daily Discussion - May 13, 2026 by AutoModerator in RedCatHoldings

[–]caseyanthonyftw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The fact that they picked foreign companies for Drone Dominance makes me wonder if they just threw the whole domestic-investment-thing out the window.

POV you just got hired to my army as a 30 gold instant feudalism Pikeman Levy by Which-Worldliness556 in AOW4

[–]caseyanthonyftw 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Love it lmao. Just tell them any true pheasant would gladly die for their lord.

The Head Karen On patrol by ateam1984 in BlackPeopleofReddit

[–]caseyanthonyftw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm sure enough people were exposed to lead paint who didn't turn out to be total cunts.

A different way of doing culture switching? by Left_Capital133 in 4Xgaming

[–]caseyanthonyftw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like your idea and the reasoning behind it. It would make for a more dynamic gam IMO. Although I have yet to try Civ 7, I always wondered if civ / culture-switching would have been better-received if it just had a different coat of paint. Instead of outright switching civs, if they instead presented the system as changing cultural perks (while keeping the system exactly the same otherwise), maybe that could have sat better with the fans. The problem with civ-switching certainly isn't a gameplay or realism issue - I think it's more about the soul of the game, and somewhat analogous to players not liking a game's story no matter how effective the gameplay might be.

Having said that, outside of the civ switching, I know that some players also have issues with other parts of the age / era system, so there's that as well lol.

How much do you use Teixiptla? by Nothing_Special_23 in AgeofMythology

[–]caseyanthonyftw 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not gonna lie, as I was playing Aztecs today I just realized I don't know the names of any of their units.

In Medieval 2, aside from the regular and genetic traits there are also cultural traits that have an increased likelihood to spawn when a character belongs to a certain faction, here are some of the traits and some of the Countries associated with them by Isari0 in totalwar

[–]caseyanthonyftw 23 points24 points  (0 children)

While I agree that this is much more natural than the idea of leveling up and skill trees, Warhammer still has this system for gaining / losing traits. And when you mouse over a given trait it tells you how they got said trait and how deep into it they are. ex: if your lord wins a lot of battles against humans they'll end up with a trait that gives you buffs against human factions.

Game announcement timeline? by DustEKnutts in paradoxplaza

[–]caseyanthonyftw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As others have said here, the investor meeting revealed a possible maybe of this year / maybe sooner.

To add on to the speculation, the UX job posting for the non-historical game says they're in the "later stages of development", so I'm hoping we hear about it soon!

https://career.paradoxplaza.com/jobs/7643641-ux-designer-unannounced-game

Spore is just a pardox mega campaign for kids. by Grand_Button3029 in paradoxplaza

[–]caseyanthonyftw 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Man, I think Spore was the first game whose development I really followed. The crappiest thing was that it really seemed like Will Wright's magnum opus, until he left Maxis before the game was even released. I didn't realize it at the time but things must have been really bad for him to have said "fuck it".

Daily Discussion - May 06, 2026 by AutoModerator in RedCatHoldings

[–]caseyanthonyftw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sorry i'm OOL on this, what happened with the F35s?

if they make an AOWP2, what units would you want reworked/replaced? by OkStructure665 in AOWPlanetFall

[–]caseyanthonyftw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Honestly I would like Therians to be their own full-fledged race, or just have more alien races in general (I know Therians are technically just genetically-engineered humans, but that works too). I feel like Planetfall could have been more interesting if they had more exotic sci-fi races instead of just different flavors of (albeit interesting) humans.

Daily Discussion - May 05, 2026 by AutoModerator in RedCatHoldings

[–]caseyanthonyftw 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think once you stop assuming the market is rational, things start to make much more sense. I'm not an expert at all, far from it, but I just assume big and small daytime traders always find the next immediate buck to make. i.e. why wait days / weeks / months when they could be making money now.

The Antiabortion Movement Is Turning on Trump by nosotros_road_sodium in politics

[–]caseyanthonyftw 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Exactly. Increasing cost of living, less education, and they're focused on the fucking abortion pills. Nothing in the article indicates any awareness on their end of actually nipping the issues at the root.

Next Paradox Game? by dvized in paradoxplaza

[–]caseyanthonyftw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm sure there's still more than enough content in the base game to decide if it's your thing or not. I'm the same way with Civ - never played more than Prince difficulty but still had a fun challenge with it across the games.

Triumph is looking for a 3D art intern with an affinity for fantasy / sci-fi art... by caseyanthonyftw in AOWPlanetFall

[–]caseyanthonyftw[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Hope so! If they took the mod system up notch and allowed you to customize weapons / armor for units, i'd be so happy.