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#51
Gaming HQ / Re: Victoria 3
Last post by Solmyr - July 09, 2025, 02:28:14 AMUsing those maps myself. 
#52
Off the Record / Re: Elon Musk: Always A Douche
Last post by Josquius - July 09, 2025, 01:41:59 AMIt does fit his character to imagine he has a live feed from grok and sometimes jumps in to take manual control. 
Though with how quick it needs to be I doubt it. Still, that answers would be pre created if some triggers are prompted...
Though with how quick it needs to be I doubt it. Still, that answers would be pre created if some triggers are prompted...
#53
Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic
Last post by Josquius - July 09, 2025, 01:40:18 AMI met a guy from Flensburg recently.
He had no idea about Angeln being where English people come from.
Though he did note northern Germans have a sense of humour whilst southerners don't
He had no idea about Angeln being where English people come from.
Though he did note northern Germans have a sense of humour whilst southerners don't
#54
Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic
Last post by Syt - July 09, 2025, 01:02:24 AMThe other day I by chance learned about Johann Friedrich Struensee, a doctor from Halle an der Saale with radical enlightenment views who became de facto regent for the incapable Christian VII of Denmark, enacted a huge array of progressive reforms 1770-1772, but then was executed for his affair with Christian's wife (though the king seems to always have liked him, even despite the affair).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Friedrich_Struensee
He was tutor to Christian's heir, Frederick VI who would continue his reforms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Friedrich_Struensee
He was tutor to Christian's heir, Frederick VI who would continue his reforms.
#55
Gaming HQ / Re: The NEW New Boardgames Thr...
Last post by Syt - July 09, 2025, 12:47:38 AMI've gone through the rules of Legion of Honor (didn't play since I ended up playing Vic3 instead ). I'm sure the crowd here would "love" it, because it's very heavily chance/luck based. 
Essentially, gameplay is divided into 16 "periods" which are further broken down into sub-sections, being in Garrison or on Campaign, depending on historical context. For each such section there's some basic management - finding a wife, getting/asking for a new assignment, trying to manage your finances/glory etc., before going into card drawing (almost every subsection has special cards for historical events or battles; in total you create a stack of 3 cards per player from the main stack plus period cards). You then take turns drawing those cards and following their contents. This could be something mundane, or the "special event" of that specific timeline (which sometimes ends the round), and then trying to make the best of it. In case of battles you can try to play it safe or try to win glory (at a risk to health/life/getting imprisoned). If two players are in the same battle, they can create some synergies. If you manage to climb the ranks there's optional (very simple) rules for commanding battles. At the end (Abdication & Return) players have to decide whether to declare for Napoleon or the Bourbons. If the latter it's essentially game over. If the former you have a chance at greater glories (including a chance at Napoleon winning at Waterloo), or prosecution afterwards, including losing money, ranks, or even being executed.
I think it's great for randomized emerging narratives (which I love), less so if you like strict control over the game's mechanics and the outcome. It would remain to be seen how it holds up when replaying, since the historical events will be the same each time. I might start a game with 3 or 4 characters (instead of solo) to see how that goes. I can see, though, how playing in a group can be fiddly, what with creating the card decks for each subsection of the history. On the other hand, it creates a good way of playing it in sessions instead of one big push.
). I'm sure the crowd here would "love" it, because it's very heavily chance/luck based. Essentially, gameplay is divided into 16 "periods" which are further broken down into sub-sections, being in Garrison or on Campaign, depending on historical context. For each such section there's some basic management - finding a wife, getting/asking for a new assignment, trying to manage your finances/glory etc., before going into card drawing (almost every subsection has special cards for historical events or battles; in total you create a stack of 3 cards per player from the main stack plus period cards). You then take turns drawing those cards and following their contents. This could be something mundane, or the "special event" of that specific timeline (which sometimes ends the round), and then trying to make the best of it. In case of battles you can try to play it safe or try to win glory (at a risk to health/life/getting imprisoned). If two players are in the same battle, they can create some synergies. If you manage to climb the ranks there's optional (very simple) rules for commanding battles. At the end (Abdication & Return) players have to decide whether to declare for Napoleon or the Bourbons. If the latter it's essentially game over. If the former you have a chance at greater glories (including a chance at Napoleon winning at Waterloo), or prosecution afterwards, including losing money, ranks, or even being executed.
I think it's great for randomized emerging narratives (which I love), less so if you like strict control over the game's mechanics and the outcome. It would remain to be seen how it holds up when replaying, since the historical events will be the same each time. I might start a game with 3 or 4 characters (instead of solo) to see how that goes. I can see, though, how playing in a group can be fiddly, what with creating the card decks for each subsection of the history. On the other hand, it creates a good way of playing it in sessions instead of one big push.
#56
Gaming HQ / Re: Victoria 3
Last post by Syt - July 09, 2025, 12:36:38 AMAlso currently very partial to this collection of map gfx mods:
https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=3426721289
"Clean Map" flattens the colors:
And then the Victorian one for the paper map:
They have an "Edwardian" one which comes with blue oceans (which I generally prefer), but I don't like the look quite as much:
I'd love to use their German version, but it has spelling mistakes.
https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=3426721289
"Clean Map" flattens the colors:
And then the Victorian one for the paper map:
They have an "Edwardian" one which comes with blue oceans (which I generally prefer), but I don't like the look quite as much:
I'd love to use their German version, but it has spelling mistakes.
#57
Gaming HQ / Re: Victoria 3
Last post by Syt - July 09, 2025, 12:30:19 AMDid a game with Spain. Didn't play optimally or anything (going absolutist => free trade + Laissez Faire + Census Voting + Parliamentary Republic + Public School/Healthcare + Compulsory Schooling => Oligarchy + Interventionism + Private Healthcare/Schools + Child Labor Allowed when the Industrialists had 60% influence), mostly sniping territories where I could get away with it. Persia, some bits of Indonesia, most of Central America, Morocco, Tripolitania, Somalia/Ethiopia. With the vassal exploitation I was rather swimming in cash from my underlings. Still, way behind on tech. 
I did start to catch up around 1930 (and had just dismembered the Ottoman empire, releasing Iraq, Syria, Bulgaria, Albania, Bosnia, which were joining my Bloc), but then the USA demanded I hand over El Salvador (which I had expanded with some former Mexican territory). I refused, and soon I was in a war with me, British Republic and Mexico on one side and USA, France, Bengal on the other and outnumbering us 3:2. I played the losing war for a bit but then decided to call it in 1934. New beta patch should drop today (which should also fix a big beta bug in AI investment .... https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/oib-1-9-6-ai-evaluation-for-production-buildings-uses-profit-prediction-of-all-existing-levels-instead-of-just-the-additional-level.1827989/ . they confirmed on Reddit it will be fixed).
When I was taking apart Ottomans, I took Macedonia, thinking I could trade it to Greece. Except Greece didn't want it.
Neither did Bulgaria. In the end I traded it back to the Ottomans in exchange for Albania which I released as puppet
A major hindrance in gameplay was the church. You start with State Religion AND Charity Hospitals AND Church Schools, so they're crazy entrenched and hard to get rid off; especially if you also want to improve education. But AI formed super Germany, so that was cool.
I did start to catch up around 1930 (and had just dismembered the Ottoman empire, releasing Iraq, Syria, Bulgaria, Albania, Bosnia, which were joining my Bloc), but then the USA demanded I hand over El Salvador (which I had expanded with some former Mexican territory). I refused, and soon I was in a war with me, British Republic and Mexico on one side and USA, France, Bengal on the other and outnumbering us 3:2. I played the losing war for a bit but then decided to call it in 1934. New beta patch should drop today (which should also fix a big beta bug in AI investment .... https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/oib-1-9-6-ai-evaluation-for-production-buildings-uses-profit-prediction-of-all-existing-levels-instead-of-just-the-additional-level.1827989/ . they confirmed on Reddit it will be fixed).When I was taking apart Ottomans, I took Macedonia, thinking I could trade it to Greece. Except Greece didn't want it.
Neither did Bulgaria. In the end I traded it back to the Ottomans in exchange for Albania which I released as puppet A major hindrance in gameplay was the church. You start with State Religion AND Charity Hospitals AND Church Schools, so they're crazy entrenched and hard to get rid off; especially if you also want to improve education.
But AI formed super Germany, so that was cool. #58
Off the Record / Re: Elon Musk: Always A Douche
Last post by Tamas - July 08, 2025, 11:38:39 PMQuote from: HVC on July 08, 2025, 07:02:02 PMIt's all over reddit. At this point I'm partially inclined to believe musk signed in to reply on groks behalf.
Those Grok posts in the screenshot were 100% made by a human.
#59
Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...
Last post by HVC - July 08, 2025, 11:18:44 PMGuess Arizona will be happy at least.
#60
Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...
Last post by Valmy - July 08, 2025, 11:09:14 PMQuote from: Richard Hakluyt on July 08, 2025, 10:19:37 PM50% tariff on copper imports
Thus making US construction, electrical and electronic goods more expensive. Once again I just don't get it.
Are we protecting the domestic copper mine industry? Yeah I don't get it either. But there is nothing to get.