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#1

Gaming HQ / Re: Europa Universalis V confi...

Last post by Solmyr - Today at 02:48:48 AM

This is not EU4, just building stuff won't give you anything. You have to be able to tax it, and that means a) building things that produce goods that someone will buy and/or use, and b) having control so you can actually tax your population.

#2

Gaming HQ / Re: Europa Universalis V confi...

Last post by Richard Hakluyt - Today at 02:48:29 AM

I've played a few hours of Holland and thought I was doing well, weathered the plague, but then descended into repeated bankruptcies during the Hook and Cod Wars.  Which is apropos, but I'm sure I've also misplayed the trade and economic settings. 

What are the "keep this automated" buttons everyone is still using?

I formed the Netherlands, starting as Brabant, and set up a new market in the Netherlands. I have been raising opinion  using diplomats and have opened 644 levels of overseas trade offices. The consequence is that my trade income is 50% of the total income and 3/4 of that trade income is earned outside my own market, For things like paper, cloth etc I only tend to build when there is a shortage (we just don't have enough people to be a manufacturing powerhouse). So, it seems, for the Netherlands always go commercial.

I really wish I could take Flanders but it is a French vassal and those guys are monsters!!!

#3

Gaming HQ / Re: Europa Universalis V confi...

Last post by Valmy - Today at 02:08:04 AM

I've played a few hours of Holland and thought I was doing well, weathered the plague, but then descended into repeated bankruptcies during the Hook and Cod Wars.  Which is apropos, but I'm sure I've also misplayed the trade and economic settings. 

What are the "keep this automated" buttons everyone is still using?

There are little gear symbols by things. If you click on them a little circle appears in the center and that means it is automated.

Though in my Lithuania game it looks like my neighbors are building a lot more things and I am and I am starting to distrust the AI...so I built a lot of things but now my balance is going negative for mysterious reasons so maybe the AI was right to not build things. I don't know.

#4

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by Valmy - Today at 12:37:14 AM

No, he was like the rest of the communists of that time.  Against WW2 when Germany was allied with the Soviets, pro-war when they weren't.

Ah gotcha.

#5

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Razgovory - November 16, 2025, 10:35:35 PM

"Yes mam, we have water!  Both clean and dirty!  What?  Oh sorry, clean water and 'tea'."

#6

Off the Record / Re: The Miscellaneous Sports T...

Last post by Sophie Scholl - November 16, 2025, 09:52:14 PM

Riders win the Grey Cup after the Alouttes fumble in the 4th on the Rider goal line. Wild conclusion to a great game!

#7

Gaming HQ / Re: Europa Universalis V confi...

Last post by PRC - November 16, 2025, 09:27:24 PM

I've played a few hours of Holland and thought I was doing well, weathered the plague, but then descended into repeated bankruptcies during the Hook and Cod Wars.  Which is apropos, but I'm sure I've also misplayed the trade and economic settings. 

What are the "keep this automated" buttons everyone is still using?

#8

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by Razgovory - November 16, 2025, 09:12:21 PM

In Trumbo it 's John Wayne who sticks up for the blacklisted writer.

He ruined the lives of many others. The writer of High Noon comes to mind.

He was a POS that would sadly fit perfectly in the current era.

I read that Trumbo wrote a book defending the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and turned people in to the FBI who tried to buy his anti-war book during the war.

Wait...what are you saying here? He wrote the book as a sting to find anti-war people?

No, he was like the rest of the communists of that time.  Against WW2 when Germany was allied with the Soviets, pro-war when they weren't.

#9

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by Valmy - November 16, 2025, 09:08:42 PM

In Trumbo it 's John Wayne who sticks up for the blacklisted writer.

He ruined the lives of many others. The writer of High Noon comes to mind.

He was a POS that would sadly fit perfectly in the current era.

I read that Trumbo wrote a book defending the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and turned people in to the FBI who tried to buy his anti-war book during the war.

Wait...what are you saying here? He wrote the book as a sting to find anti-war people?

#10

Gaming HQ / Re: The Miscellaneous PC & vid...

Last post by HVC - November 16, 2025, 09:06:22 PM

Anno 117 has launched today. I will try it now, looks spectacular if you like that kind of game.

Looks really nice, and I know it's the whole myths of the series, but Rome on islands thing takes me away from the game. If it wasn't islands I'd be totally in to it.  I know, I'm weird