Victoria 2

[Neil]

More like he could not anger his french allies more than he already was.

Yeah right.  Wilson had nothing but contempt for non-whites.  France could have fought for the Central Powers, kicked his dog and slept with his wife, and he'd still be against an independent Vietnam.

[Habbaku]

Skimmed the forum a bit more deeply and came up with this little gem :

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showpost.php?p=10407419&postcount=96

For Victoria 2, we have done several things to avoid another Hoi3-style release.

#1) Better scheduling, with much longer time to just tweak the game.
#2) Not reinvent everything, but refining concepts instead.
#3) Not relying on volunteer betatesters, but using proper QA studios instead.

My optimism is starting to get the better of me.

[Razgovory]

Skimmed the forum a bit more deeply and came up with this little gem :

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showpost.php?p=10407419&postcount=96

For Victoria 2, we have done several things to avoid another Hoi3-style release.

#1) Better scheduling, with much longer time to just tweak the game.
#2) Not reinvent everything, but refining concepts instead.
#3) Not relying on volunteer betatesters, but using proper QA studios instead.

My optimism is starting to get the better of me.

Indeed.  Rein it in moonbeam.

[Habbaku]

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=471299

The last thing that National focus is used for is colonisation. You can set a national focus marker in an uncolonised state and start to claim it. The control amount slowly ticks up by a random amount, so just because you are first in a state doesn't mean that someone else might get lucky and beat you. If you want to increase your chances of claiming a state you can send in troops, the presence of troops in a state will increase the amount your claim ticks up by. This might just give you the edge to beat some who already has a placed a claim in front of you. What happens if they too send troops? In this situation countries who are both claiming a colony can fight each other inside the state. This allows Fashoda style skirmishes without needing the whole messy colonial war mechanic. Now you can skirmish with allies and friends for colonies without having to burn all your bridges and go fight a war.

[Barrister]

Settle down Habs.  Version 1.0 will be crap and you know it.

[Habbaku]

Of course it will.  But 1.1 or 1.2 might prove fun.

If not, I'll just go back to EU 3 and stay away from Paradox releases until each game has ~2 expansions out.  It's not like I buy many PC games these days, anyway.

[crazy canuck]

I will wait for you to give us a full report.

[jimmy olsen]

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=471299

The last thing that National focus is used for is colonisation. You can set a national focus marker in an uncolonised state and start to claim it. The control amount slowly ticks up by a random amount, so just because you are first in a state doesn't mean that someone else might get lucky and beat you. If you want to increase your chances of claiming a state you can send in troops, the presence of troops in a state will increase the amount your claim ticks up by. This might just give you the edge to beat some who already has a placed a claim in front of you. What happens if they too send troops? In this situation countries who are both claiming a colony can fight each other inside the state. This allows Fashoda style skirmishes without needing the whole messy colonial war mechanic. Now you can skirmish with allies and friends for colonies without having to burn all your bridges and go fight a war.

That does sound cool.

[Drakken]

Settle down Habs.  Version 1.0 will be crap and you know it.

There seems to be a change of focus from King for Vic2. For example, they'll stop relying on uselessly unproductive slave workers who just want to have the game free voluntary beta-testers to rely on internal QA teams instead.

We'll see how good it goes.

[Syt]

Settle down Habs.  Version 1.0 will be crap and you know it.

There seems to be a change of focus from King for Vic2. For example, they'll stop relying on uselessly unproductive slave workers who just want to have the game free voluntary beta-testers to rely on internal QA teams instead.

We'll see how good it goes.

Yeah, I wonder who will do all the POPs research, or if they'll just re-use the data the betas collected/coded in mindnumbing monotony for Vic1.

[sbr]

Settle down Habs.  Version 1.0 will be crap and you know it.

There seems to be a change of focus from King for Vic2. For example, they'll stop relying on uselessly unproductive slave workers who just want to have the game free voluntary beta-testers to rely on internal QA teams instead.

We'll see how good it goes.

Yeah, I wonder who will do all the POPs research, or if they'll just re-use the data the betas collected/coded in mindnumbing monotony for Vic1.

It seems to be a combination of reusing what they have and borrowing stuff from the VIP mod.  They are also using the old POP graphics to save some time/money.

[Josquius]

More small minorities would be nice.
As long as of course we don't treat '100 Armenian farmers' exactly the same as '40000 Italian farmers'.
And if they even think of splitting British pops up as some mods did.....

[Queequeg]

More small minorities would be nice.
As long as of course we don't treat '100 Armenian farmers' exactly the same as '40000 Italian farmers'.

Though, incidentally, the combined total nose length of the different groups is about equal. 

This is looking really good, though I do hope there is some model of colonization.  I WANT TO RUSSIFY BRITISH COLUMBIA AND SAMARKHAND, DAMN IT! 

[Camerus]

I WANT TO RUSSIFY BRITISH COLUMBIA

[Queequeg]

Just finished reading all the Dev Journals.  Dairy factoring the the fuck out right now.    

lol can i be; tsarist virgin lands?