Is EU3 fun yet?

[Tamas]

IIRC, the fastest speed basically lets your processor calculate as fast as it can, it has no upper limit.

[Barrister]

Fired up EU3 on new computer...runs way too fast now...

Exageration for 'acceptably' I hope?

No...on highest speed it is just too fast...

That's been my only aggravation about EU3.  The top speed is unplayably fast for me, but the next to top speed is dramatically slower.  I wish there was an additional speed somewhere inbetween.

[Josephus]

Yeah...superfast is only good if you want to fast-forward time without doing anything. That's probably what it's there for.

But that's not my aggravation with the game.

I still thing the ping-ponging rebels are a real pain in the arse.

And pirates, when they get out of control, can be a bitch. I know that all it takes is a single sloop patrolling the coast, but if you lose one in a war and don't realize it, those pirates can sometimes spawn to unbelievable numbers. I once had a coastal province blockaded by a stack of 35 pirate ships. 

But, yeah, otherwise, EUIII has come a long way. Patch 3.2 should be out sometime this year too.

[Caliga]

I still thing the ping-ponging rebels are a real pain in the arse.

IMO this would be easily fixed (and I agree that it's a pain in the ass) if rebels were not allowed to retreat into a province with a culture != the culture of the rebels.

[KRonn]

I still thing the ping-ponging rebels are a real pain in the arse.

IMO this would be easily fixed (and I agree that it's a pain in the ass) if rebels were not allowed to retreat into a province with a culture != the culture of the rebels.

And/or depending on how many cavalry the opposing player/AI nation has, that could whittle down rebel numbers as they retreat, eventually destroying them.

[Barrister]

I still thing the ping-ponging rebels are a real pain in the arse.

IMO this would be easily fixed (and I agree that it's a pain in the ass) if rebels were not allowed to retreat into a province with a culture != the culture of the rebels.

But that can be highly entertaining.  I've bounced rebels into neighboring, enemy countries...

[Caliga]

Sometimes neighboring countries have the same culture. 

I've actually seen governments fall due to rebels I pushed across a nation's borders.

[Barrister]

Sometimes neighboring countries have the same culture. 

I've actually seen governments fall due to rebels I pushed across a nation's borders.

Playing my Scotland game, I controlled Meath, which had gone Protestant.  Myself, I was Reformed.  All of the Irish OPMs still existed.  Anyways, some Protestant Rebels spawned in Meath.  I defeated them, they then beseiged the minors, defeated them, and each of their governments fell in turn.

That had the effect of turning all of them Protestant.

[DGuller]

Am I understanding correctly that in EU3 the provinces that you conquered become your cores after holding them for a certain period?

[Alcibiades]

Yes.

[Barrister]

Am I understanding correctly that in EU3 the provinces that you conquered become your cores after holding them for a certain period?

50 years.

[DGuller]

So I went to the Paradox site, and ordered the game from GamersGate.  The order went through all right, but I can't download the game, it's not on the "my games" list.    Can't Paradox get anything right?

[Caliga]

  GamersGate

The last time I ordered from them they charged my card three times.

GamersGate = FAIL.

[DGuller]

Got it now, after almost ordering it 3 times myself.  Apparently I ordered it as a gift, which I really don't recall doing.  Must be some nice interface if I did indeed do it by mistake.

[Ed Anger]

GamersGate

The last time I ordered from them they charged my card three times.

GamersGate = FAIL.

I was annoyed by a 45 cent fee. That was my bank, but I'll blame paradox, as that is the cool thing to do.