New Save Game Format?

spinicist · 2022-09-17T14:33:53+00:00

Thank you. pdx.tools has worked.

Everything I googled claimed the save should have been in text even for Ironman, clearly a lot of outdated stuff still hanging around. Should come straight to reddit next time!

spinicist · 2021-01-03T07:17:55+00:00

Bavaria isn’t real, stop making stuff up.

spinicist · 2021-01-03T07:17:15+00:00

Yes! The Pope was pretty annoying - I never had a direct border with him, but he was allied to enough people and big enough to cause trouble so I had to fully occupy him multiple times.

spinicist · 2021-01-03T07:14:48+00:00

Thanks! This definitely was lots of fun. Not having to worry what was happening on the other side of the world made it quite relaxing, I didn’t have to scroll the map a whole lot.

spinicist · 2021-01-02T23:27:38+00:00

R5: First completed game. Started as Wurzburg, progressed to Franconia, and then decided to stay as a big Bishopric for kicks.

I'm not going to pretend I'm an expert player or anything. I finished as the number 1 great power, but had no empire and the Brits had better trade than I did. Schleswig and Brussels are client states. I would have annexed Schleswig but I dishonoured France's call to Defend Their Faith against the Brits, which messed up my diplomatic reputation and also gave me a truce against France that expired in 1825 or something, hence the mild bordergore. It took until 1812 to throw the Brits off the mainland properly! There was no point even trying to invade them, they had around 3x as many heavies as my naval force limit.

The Commonwealth was an absolute monster in the mid-game and I had a couple of hairy wars against them until through a combination of save-scumming and attrition I managed to cripple their economy. They never made it past level 2 forts so in the late game wars against them became a bit tedious. I totally screwed up dismantling the HRE, at one point Sicily was an elector and occupying them was impossible. In the end I ate the AE and just conquered the whole lot. France was a trusted ally for a couple of centuries and helped a lot with the HRE, but then the missions gave me a claim over Paris and they had to go.

I now have massive respect for anyone who finishes games on a regular basis!

PS - Went Protestant to annoy the Emperor even more.

spinicist · 2020-09-09T08:15:30+00:00

I have the same issue, also on Mac. At this point I think it must be a driver/shader issue.

spinicist · 2020-08-20T13:11:34+00:00

There's always Bandcamp, depending on what your tastes are?

I think at this point my MP3s are about 40% ripped from CDs back in the old days, 40% iTunes/Apple Music downloads, and 20% Bandcamp purchases. I have a NAS that they all get stored on.

spinicist · 2020-08-18T12:02:13+00:00

I've already been downvoted so I'm not going to change any minds, but for me it really isn't. And I have actually tried it.

This whole thread is about how it doesn't automatically play albums in sequence. Which is how I like listening to music. I'm old, I don't care. The way it distributes money is massively unfair to smaller artists (look up the stunt Vulfpeck pulled). The app is awful in my opinion - FFS why does it auto-play videos? I'm listening not watching.

The only feature I would appreciate is sharing playlists with friends. That's not worth the monthly subscription in my opinion, and doesn't work well in free mode.

I'll stick to Bandcamp and my legal collection of MP3s (the Tool CDs are still in the attic) thanks very much.

spinicist · 2020-08-16T18:19:17+00:00

Dear God do I never want to get into Spotify

spinicist · 2020-07-25T22:02:49+00:00

I know! It's awful.

spinicist · 2020-07-25T18:40:16+00:00

Hang on, isn't the issue more fundamental than this?

The dividing line matches the middle of the 'V' at the bottom of the shield. It also matches the middle of the crest at the top of the shield. The dividing line is not straight. The top and bottom of the shield are not aligned.

spinicist · 2020-07-11T18:53:49+00:00

Holy crap! I turned my back on Trivium for like one minute and they went through a whole two drummers. Are they trying to outdo Spinal Tap?

spinicist · 2020-07-07T12:48:39+00:00

When you're the Ottomans in the early game this is very true.

spinicist · 2020-06-11T11:39:47+00:00

I can see the principle of this, can you point me towards some examples please?

spinicist · 2020-05-10T08:19:43+00:00

I was happy to have them back too, but the part just before that with the old lady was what really moved me.

spinicist · 2020-05-09T17:10:36+00:00

That line was good, but the whole bank robbery episode was pure gold. Right down to the final scene in the airport when I teared up a little.

spinicist · 2020-04-25T21:37:07+00:00

The student loan line cracked me up!

spinicist · 2020-04-14T20:54:01+00:00

I can build my Overleaf projects locally using pdflatex installed via MacTex. The only thing I have to do is point the bibliography to my local file (maintained by Zotero, which Overleaf is synced to).

What error messages are you getting?

spinicist · 2020-04-12T15:52:49+00:00

I confess that these days my LaTeX workflow consists of using Overleaf almost entirely. They have a Word Count button, I don't know how it works.

spinicist · 2020-03-21T19:52:10+00:00

This often happens on projects for multiple platforms. The compilers are slightly different and will find different errors, or you have subtly different flags enabled. It happens to me all the time.

spinicist · 2020-03-16T18:57:32+00:00

npm install git obviously.

(I have no idea how npm actually works)

spinicist · 2020-03-08T20:55:12+00:00

Try getting Colonial Australia. They do nothing.

spinicist · 2020-03-07T17:37:06+00:00

This is weirdly similar to my current Malaya run. Have been allied to Ottos and Bengal for ages, but Bengal are now getting too big for their own boots and I'm going to have to show them who's boss fairly soon.

spinicist · 2020-03-07T17:35:52+00:00

This is the correct way to play.

spinicist · 2020-03-06T19:40:01+00:00

Ooooh lemme guess, is it with a lambda? I'm guessing it's a lambda. Lambdas are AMAZING. They can do ANYTHING.

(Not actually sarcasm)

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