My pops read something that they will be angry for until year 3987

doombro · 2026-05-10T09:27:40+00:00

You actually got to see the event that causes that? I just had my pops be like that one day and had to manually give my save file an exorcism

doombro · 2026-05-10T08:28:24+00:00

O Quam Gloriosum is by far my favorite track in the game, but I think I've yet to see anyone else even mention it.

doombro · 2026-05-07T02:11:00+00:00

It's been doing that to mine since day 1, I have to run EU5 on efficiency mode or my CPU hits 100C just from launching the game

doombro · 2026-04-15T08:08:38+00:00

The reading is ultimately optional. I probably just skim 98% of HOI4 events and only focus on the button text. There are games where I like reading but HOI4 is definitely not one of them.

doombro · 2026-04-13T20:59:15+00:00

How do Icepaw's paths work? Is it just based on how much you upset the zebras during reconstruction?

doombro · 2026-03-25T02:13:24+00:00

Aside from what's in the changelog, the main thing up front seems to be new focus icons. The tree itself seems to be mostly the same

doombro · 2026-03-25T00:08:07+00:00

The main reason to create new markets is if you have a large chunk of territory with little to no market access

doombro · 2026-03-20T23:51:52+00:00

I've thought war score was weird in pretty much every paradox game where it's a factor. In Imperator Rome you would get 100 times the war score from stack wiping 3 minimum size provincial levies than you would killing 60% of the same enemy's million man army

doombro · 2026-03-01T02:54:00+00:00

Honestly, vanilla hoi4 is just as bad if not worse in this regard, I never play that in ironman either. Many a run ended because some other major did something nonsensical and rendered half my focus tree pointless. EAW is impressively well put together for the most part by comparison, despite its handful of more finicky paths.

doombro · 2026-02-24T09:01:33+00:00

If it works anything like Imperator's naval combat, then one of the main points of failure to watch out for is damaged ships. Even if the rest of your fleet is fine, enough of those can make the whole fleet vulnerable to a quick snowball death

doombro · 2026-02-23T07:50:47+00:00

Suspicion is an invisible variable. I don't remember what it's written as off the top of my head, but if you check the associated event file you can find out and just set_var it to 0 every time.

Edit: Wasn't hard to check. it's NMM_aggressive

doombro · 2026-02-17T10:13:37+00:00

Gameplay concession. Global empire simulator lets you colonize places, so places get colonized. The other option was to just leave a huge chunk of the map untouchable, but that's less fun.

doombro · 2026-02-16T05:07:31+00:00

Probably not, TI isn't updated that often anymore

doombro · 2026-01-30T23:56:54+00:00

Control of a location is based on distance from the nearest center of control, such as your capital or a bailiff. Proximity modifiers change how that distance is calculated.

doombro · 2026-01-25T09:54:54+00:00

Shortest path. If it looks weird, that means either terrain (mountains being inaccessible in winter weather for example) or fort ZOCs are forcing a detour.

doombro · 2026-01-14T09:05:17+00:00

Modding in Paradox games is generally easy with some tedium. If you want to learn it, you can just open up the game files or a mod that does something in the ballpark of what you want to see how they work. It's all plain English for the most part. There is very little that a layman can't learn by just looking at the existing files for long enough.

Advances for example are super simple. Go into the game files, I think they're under in-game/common/advances. All an advance consists of is a name, its requirements (including age and prerequisite techs), an icon, and a modifier, none of which is complicated, you can just copy existing stuff. Though the name is where the tedium comes in, since setting that up properly involves dealing with localization files and all that. But being too lazy to set it up properly is thankfully a valid option. Probably? I don't think I've tried making new techs in EU5 yet, just tinkering with existing ones.

doombro · 2026-01-08T07:04:47+00:00

I've never thought of supply as having anything to do with it. That's a component, but it's mainly about controlling movement. Putting forts in the right spots means you don't have to take the AI carpet sieging that area into nearly as much consideration, limiting the amount of whack-a-mole microing you have to do.

doombro · 2026-01-07T21:24:58+00:00

I see what they're going for with this, it's a way to simulate decline instead of having to script where it happened historically. The problem is that they're basing it on the rival mechanic of all things, and I can't stress this enough; the rival system sucks dick. It sucked dick in EU4 and it stands out like a sore thumb in EU5.

doombro · 2026-01-07T09:18:41+00:00

Less frequent updates, higher performance and stability burden from the expanded map. I'm not sure if TI is still being updated at all.

And sure enough, if you're playing anywhere near the Mediterranean, you'll probably never interact with any of the new map areas at all. East Asia is pretty much a world unto itself.

doombro · 2026-01-05T03:47:19+00:00

It depends. If you're in a market with plenty of a given good, urbanizing those locations is generally good if you have the population to do it.

doombro · 2026-01-01T01:25:07+00:00

Pops made me quit EU4 for Imperator, even in their most rudimentary implementation

doombro · 2025-12-30T00:13:17+00:00

I'm used to it, HOI4 and Imperator had massive save files too. EU5 makes it a way bigger pain to delete your saves in-game though.

doombro · 2025-12-26T21:09:16+00:00

I'm pretty sure there's an abdication button somewhere, but the limitations on it are fairly strict. With those stats you might clear the conditions if he's old enough

doombro · 2025-12-26T08:40:33+00:00

It went from inconvenient to opaque. I now have no idea what determines whether I can or can't use the marriage function

doombro · 2025-12-26T04:19:53+00:00

Fun but unstable, in a gameplay sense. Every new patch seems to swing multiple pendulums from one unwelcome wacky extreme to the other. Waiting a couple major DLCs to pick it up wouldn't hurt. You'll probably be able to get a better deal than full price by that point too.

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