Pride of Nations

[Ed Anger]

Sweden receives 5 Infantry Corps

Sweden receives 500 steel and 500 goods

Swedish meatball season. All depots refill

[Drakken]

Sweden receives 5 Infantry Corps

Sweden receives 500 steel and 500 goods

Swedish meatball season. All depots refill

Sweden loses a million Farmers to eat said meatballs.

USA wins a million Farmers in Midwest, with culture changed to Yankee.

[crazy canuck]

BY the way, can you really only play as one of the eight listed countries?  IS there no way to play as a minor?

Playing as Canada would be pretty boring.

Britain wants you to do x.  Do you say yes or hell yes.

[Drakken]

Skipping Belgium is rather disappointing, though. They might not have been strong militarily, but their industrial boom and Leopold II's singlemindedness in putting out a colonial Empire put them on the map.

It would have been a great Power for players who want to be play an industrial powerhouse with some colonial ambitions, but without too much military involved.

[sbr]

According to PhilThib:

I have already made events for HOL, BEL, TUR, SPA and POR...some are not yet active in the game because the nations are not playable, but they do have effects. The Belgian and Turkish events are fully operational (in 1.01C beta patch version)

[Ed Anger]

Restarted my Austria game. Spent the greater part of the first year getting the economy in order. AUSTRIA NEEDS MECHANICAL PARTS BADLY.

And Iron. And Coal. And Cotton/Wool.

Meanwhile, Prussia and Wuttumberg had a crisis over the North Pole(!). The supply of elves may fall into Prussian hands.

But at least I got 3 new generals to play with.

[sbr]

The North Pole crisis comes up a lot now, I just had one between S-P and Parma.

[Ed Anger]

Damn elves.

[Tamas]

Yeah the north pole thing looks like a new bug introduced with the public beta patch

[grumbler]

I have found the new patch to be a considerably different game in my re-try at the US.  One of the things implemented was inflation (the game used to give notices about it, but not implement them). 

I also can alt-tab to the web page without crashing the game.

The game desperately needs a wiki, though.

[Razgovory]

And I was reminded why I shouldn't buy enw games.  BY the time I sat down at the computer with everythign installed it was after 10.  I load up PoN, take a look at the zillion little buttons on the screen that I have no idea what to do with, take a look at an online tutorial that confuses me, realize I only have an hour to play anyways, so I quit and play an enjoyable hour of EU3 because at least I can jump right into the action.

This was my experience with AGEOD games.  The WWI one barely ran, and the Civil War had very poor documentation and tutorials.  Also I kept fighting major battles in Upstate New York.

[The Minsky Moment]

The the end of every turn there are dozens of messages about incoming and outcoming private capital and state funds.  Is there a ledger or summary screen that presents this information in a single chart?  haven't found one yet.

[szmik]

Yeah the north pole thing looks like a new bug introduced with the public beta patch

They just replaced Samoa with North Pole instead of ramping up involvement needed to fire crisis.    How hard it might be to implement?   

[Ed Anger]

Colonialism seems speeded up a bit. Before, I was having to work to get 1-3% penetration. Now, 5-10% ain't much work.

[sbr]

The the end of every turn there are dozens of messages about incoming and outcoming private capital and state funds.  Is there a ledger or summary screen that presents this information in a single chart?  haven't found one yet.

Nothing great at this point.  The best bet is the tooltips on the F4 screen, hopefully they will do something better at some point.