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Europa Universalis IV announced

Started by Octavian, August 10, 2012, 10:05:06 AM

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Valmy

Lame.  Why not just randomize the whole map and balance the countries?
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Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
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Zanza

The randomization is based on a rectangle area of the map. I hope they'll add randomization to non-civilzed areas in Oceania and possibly the Indian Ocean and Sub-Saharan Africa with this too. That would make it a real exploration game to find the best way to Asia and the best spot for colonies.

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The complaints on p'dox forums seem to be focused on how unrealistic the generated continents are.
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Zanza

I saw that too, but I don't really understand it. If the random algorithm would generate a perfect copy of Eurasia, it would just be a massive blob of land with very few islands around it too.

garbon

Quote from: Zanza on November 08, 2013, 02:33:08 PM
I saw that too, but I don't really understand it. If the random algorithm would generate a perfect copy of Eurasia, it would just be a massive blob of land with very few islands around it too.

I think there is something to be said with the edges of the landmasses compared to the intricate "jagged" borders of Eurasia but not really something I'd complain about. :D
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Queequeg

Isn't Western Eurasia kind of the exception though? East Asia just looks like boobs with Japan off the coast.
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
"Dysthymia?  Did they get some student from the University of Chicago with a hard-on for ancient Bactrian cities to name this?  I feel cheated."

DGuller

Quote from: DGuller on November 07, 2013, 05:44:04 PM
That's what I'm playing as well.  I wanted to see for myself whether Prussia is as OP as people claim it is with the new patch's combat system.  The only difference is that I decided to deliberately expand very slowly, in order to play through to the end without boring myself out of the game.  That would also be a better test of combat dynamics, since I'll be up against big blobs that I haven't crippled.
The conclusion is:  yeah, Prussia is kinda OP.  My Germany is slightly larger than East Germany was, and fields a single army of 62,000 in 1640.  An attack on semi-strong Hansa brought about a huge war against me, with blob France, super-blob Austria, GB, and Russia all united against me, along with a bunch of more minor powers.  Counting the armies of all my vassals, I'm just under 100,000 in strength, up against more than 500,000 of the enemies.

The war is still going on, but France and Austria are both out of armies and out of manpower.  Russia is still not crippled, but that's only because they didn't send all of their armies west.  The ones they did send west vaporized on first contact with the Germans.  The only one unaffected is Great Britain, mainly because they didn't take part in any fighting.

Some executions are more of a contest than this war was.

Queequeg

Isn't that kind of what happened with Frederick the Great?
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
"Dysthymia?  Did they get some student from the University of Chicago with a hard-on for ancient Bactrian cities to name this?  I feel cheated."

Alcibiades

My understanding is that Frederick got really lucky and his title is a little undeserved.  :hmm:
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Quote from: Queequeg on November 09, 2013, 05:29:17 PM
Isn't that kind of what happened with Frederick the Great?

No.

He didn't even win all his battles, let alone cause his enemies to "vapourise".
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Quote from: Alcibiades on November 09, 2013, 06:13:46 PM
My understanding is that Frederick got really lucky and his title is a little undeserved.  :hmm:

I know he is a good general, but is he lucky?
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Quote from: Viking on November 09, 2013, 08:26:12 PM
Quote from: Alcibiades on November 09, 2013, 06:13:46 PM
My understanding is that Frederick got really lucky and his title is a little undeserved.  :hmm:

I know he is a good general, but is he lucky?

He was lucky to have the Empress of Russia just drop dead.
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Quote from: Zanza on November 08, 2013, 02:33:08 PM
I saw that too, but I don't really understand it. If the random algorithm would generate a perfect copy of Eurasia, it would just be a massive blob of land with very few islands around it too.
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