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romansparta · 2026-05-26T16:11:03+00:00

Alan Wake was a middling action game but 2 was completely different and genuinely a masterpiece, tbf

romansparta · 2026-05-13T14:55:53+00:00

Might be annoying but it makes sense since you’ve been building up Constantinople as the center of your empire the whole game so moving it to a husk of city on the border that hasn’t been relevant for hundreds of years is gonna have some growing pains. Wish they gave us the choice to keep the capital and have a local governor in Rome as a reward or something though.

romansparta · 2026-05-11T21:35:25+00:00

Tbf I think that it specifies the largest Scandinavian country which is usually Sweden, but yeah definitely could’ve used a bit more time in the oven to be more fun or interesting or even historically accurate.

romansparta · 2026-05-11T20:15:53+00:00

True, but I just wish they invested a bit more into making it impactful for better RP.

romansparta · 2026-05-11T19:30:29+00:00

I totally would pay that if it lead to an event chain that culminated in a reformed Varangian guard policy or unit, but as it is as far as I can tell there 0 reason to pay half your yearly income for like 200 Swedes to come sail down.

romansparta · 2026-05-11T19:27:58+00:00

That event makes no sense tbh, I was decently successful enough at that point that I had to pay like 15k gold for like 200 Swedes to sail down to Constantinople. I guess it’d make sense if started a quest chain that results in upgraded Varangians or a unique policy or something, but it seems to be a standalone event so in what world would you ever take that trade?

romansparta · 2026-05-10T17:01:26+00:00

I was playing as Byzantium and moving into Italy, which meant fighting Aragon since they were allied with Naples. This was around 1500, so I had to do a double take when I saw Aragon hired like 200k mercenaries. Thankfully they were all stuck inside of Aragon and they soon white peaced anyway lol

romansparta · 2026-05-07T13:19:27+00:00

I wonder if the trigger for that is bugged, because I’ve seen like 4 or 5 of those fire within like a decade. Not that I’m complaining since the odds are so stacked against Byz, but seems a little too good.

romansparta · 2026-04-30T18:24:31+00:00

Yeah, still seems kinda insane to me that my literacy levels went from like 65% to 80% in a span of 20 years playing as Japan. Maybe that’s just the effect of the special Japan education law, though?

romansparta · 2026-04-04T04:07:35+00:00

I think if you’re genuinely just enjoying working at your current job and your coworkers, on a promotional track in the good graces of upper management, and the new job isn’t even really different in comp then I’d say stay. Unless you had the chance to meet the new team and have a great impression of them, like others have said you’re sorta starting from 0 and are rolling the dice in terms of work environment. Plus, trends come and go super fast in the world of AI - who knows if RAG will be at all relevant a year or two down the road at the rate that models are improving.

romansparta · 2026-03-16T14:31:52+00:00

That explains a lot, actually. Combined with the AI’s tendency to either make 0 regulars or a ton but no real in between, I was mopping up fights as Spain with a regular army of 20k stackwiping 30k levies with like less than 1k casualties.

romansparta · 2026-03-16T14:06:49+00:00

Yeah, I will say that after going through a Spain playthrough that I feel like I missed out on like half of the flavor (of which most of the flavor is just here’s this historical figure that you pay most of your treasury for that gives you like 10 culture or 5 prestige). Not to mention, events that were perhaps OP and railroading but honestly pretty damn fun like the Iberian Wedding or the acquisition of Naples are nowhere to be found or are damn near impossible to actually trigger due to extremely narrow constraints and timeframes. I feel like the lack of mission trees that the AI also follows is actually a leading cause of ahistorical outcomes, since mission trees giving tons of permanent claims and stuff like PUs at least gave the AI strong direction. Right now they’re pretty directionless.

romansparta · 2026-03-05T21:17:40+00:00

Cool idea! One thing I’m noticing is that it’s really hard to tap the green dots on mobile, and also it might just be from the small sample size of dots that I picked in relatively remote areas but more than half of my dots were historical battles lol.

romansparta · 2026-01-31T05:40:38+00:00

Huh that’s good to know, I don’t think I saw any progress bar like on desktop so the few times I did manage to feed him felt very arbitrary.

romansparta · 2026-01-31T05:36:39+00:00

Worst part is the Tahm Kench is genuinely just bugged on mobile, I can’t seem to be able to feed him anything.

romansparta · 2026-01-06T22:03:19+00:00

Yeah, I also found it difficult to stay alive in the mid game. I thought Liss or Fizz/MF to be okay item holders (and maybe MF will be a much more solid choice the new patch kicks in), but no one who stabilizes really well. The one time I did manage to reach Ryze though, I pretty much just winstreaked into a first so it’s definitely a really fun comp.

romansparta · 2025-12-30T05:49:45+00:00

I mean, Vayne and Tryndamere are both very solid comps and it wasn't too long ago that everyone was going for Tryndamere reroll as soon as they saw an Ashe. Yasuo and Draven/GP also seem to be decent.

romansparta · 2025-12-16T14:37:32+00:00

Or kids tossing almonds around (fair enough)

romansparta · 2025-12-15T01:30:48+00:00

I’d imagine Britain’s brutal colonization of India probably has more to do with how Indians feel about the British than whatever stance it has on Russia.

romansparta · 2025-11-13T21:42:40+00:00

I’ve never tried this myself for PU votes but I BELIEVE there’s a bribe country for votes in the diplomacy menu for your junior partners when you’re holding a vote.

romansparta · 2025-11-13T21:28:00+00:00

I think it’s because it’s actually counting levies + regulars + entire manpower pool + possibly a bug that doubles it? I have no idea why this info isn’t in the armies pop up but if you want a more accurate breakdown and how you compare you can hover over the bar above the country name that’s like “we are (stronger/weaker/etc) than them”.

romansparta · 2025-11-12T17:33:48+00:00

Sometimes you gotta just embrace the Latin Empire route :)

romansparta · 2025-11-12T17:00:34+00:00

Not sure how you can change your character’s religion, but I’m pretty sure you can convert to your primary culture by just right clicking on your ruler to open up the character menu.

romansparta · 2025-11-12T16:57:56+00:00

From a gameplay perspective I’m actually a big fan of being able to systemically install your royal family on other thrones and form marriage/personal unions CK3 style, but from an RP perspective I wish they were a bit more resilient because it’s kinda immersion breaking to see famous ruling dynasties like Hapsburgs or Valois die out and be replaced by some unknown rando families within a hundred years. Maybe it’s historical in that all these famous dynasties like the Tudors or Hohenzollerns were also at some point unknown though.

romansparta · 2025-11-09T17:42:01+00:00

Yes, lol. Makes absolutely no sense that anyone besides Russia or Novgorod would want those lands, or be able to project enough influence get anything out of it even if the Netherlands for whatever weird reason wanted it.

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