Paradox Interactive Thread: V2 The cartographers nightmare. - Games

pre-ordered the expansion and others for europa universalis 4, can't wait to get a hold of it, i'll love the randomized worlds.

oh my god, elder kings is the best thing I have ever seen... A count named Percival Percy who worships the daedric prince of madness. A master priest, yet considered possessed. Married an Orc named Borba. The castle's name is Castlejoy, jesus christ this is literally the most fitting place for the prince of madness. [IMG]http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/885254803722400993/E1AC34E919F1D3534F755D0D0F001ED1528EBE88/[/IMG] holy shit it isn't even a castle it's a fucking tavern surrounded by earth walls and a ditch. [IMG]http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/885254803722405547/FB204B5CC341D4D2727A1E9E5285B719F684F65A/[/IMG]

Elder Kings is the only time I've seen a minimap with different colours depending on terrain, I love it

I've currently been playing with CK2+ and trying to play conservatively starting out as a random count. I got the count of Lecce and barely managed to survive death by invading my Muslim neighbor as the HRE was intent on taking the rest of their Sicilian duchy. After near 100 years I'm king of Sicily, but I've yet to take Beneveto and Lecce back.

How does EK work with the newest version of CK2? I haven't played in a while and as far as I can tell it hasn't been updated in a while.

[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;43441614]How does EK work with the newest version of CK2? I haven't played in a while and as far as I can tell it hasn't been updated in a while.[/QUOTE] An update was released recently that made it compatible with the current version.

I get this problem with Elder Kings where right after I choose a character and start, a random event will pop up and after you click a choice to the event, a bunch of event boxes will appear with nothing written on them at all so you cant make them go away.This makes it unable to play because the game will forever be paused till you get rid of the b oxes.

Another Conquest of Paradise Dev MP Stream [url]http://www.twitch.tv/paradoxinteractive/b/493409977[/url] Starts 2 Minutes in.

Had no idea this was a thing [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKpBY4BGN-s[/media] [url]http://www.victoria2wiki.com/Jan_Mayen[/url]

So I bought CKII when it was on sale last month and I've been trying hard to learn how to be a good king. After a practice run in Ireland in which I started as the Earl of Dublin and then united all of Ireland under his grandson, I decided to try ironman mode as the King of Denmark. I figured since the previous game was fairly tame as far as the AI went, I didn't have much to fear out of my neighbors. Unfortunately, Norway shifted straight into beast mode at the beginning of the game and still hasn't stopped kicking ass. It started when I got a call to arms event over a dispute between the King of Norway and the King of England, which ended with all of England plus Normandy falling into the Norwegian king's hands, followed by a huge campaign of asskickery in Sweden/Finland which eventually resulted in Sweden getting conquered as well, and the territory east of that falling into allied hands as the greater kingdom of Estonia. I've checked the royal family of Estonia- the current ruler is female and has only one sibling, a sister, and both are married to Norwegian princes (and not matrilinearly either.) And here I am still trying to fabricate a claim on that little pagan hunk of coastline to my south.

Joining as a Duke in Kiev in CKII is a nightmare beyond belief, it's so horribly unstable.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/K3vfQtO.jpg[/img] My glorious Malayan Empire. It's Hindoo as well, and I am using a vast fleet of ships and merchants to slowly bring East Africa and Siam under my influence. The downsides however is that the Hindoos have been eradicated in India by the Moslems, and the HRE formed.

[url]http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?746634-Europa-Universalis-IV-Conquest-of-Paradise-Dev-Diary-%96-Random-free-stuff[/url]! [url]http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?746688-1.4-Some-Random-New-World-Screenshots[/url] [url]http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?746690-1.4-Tariffs-amp-Colonisation[/url] [url]http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?746698-1.4-Combat-Changes[/url] [url]http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?746391-1.4-Units[/url] [url]http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?746693-1.4-Trade-Nodes-amp-Trade[/url] [editline]10th January 2014[/editline] Loads of info for Patch 1.4

I've got 3 coupons for 50% off of Crusader Kings 2 that I have no use for if anyone was considering getting the game.

Does someone know if SWMH+PB works well with the CK2-EU4 converter or should I just stick with PB?

[QUOTE=-Vronkio-;43498729]Does someone know if SWMH+PB works well with the CK2-EU4 converter or should I just stick with PB?[/QUOTE] I don't think SWMH will convert at all. Afaik nobody as modded the converter for it to work.

[QUOTE=-Vronkio-;43498729]Does someone know if SWMH+PB works well with the CK2-EU4 converter or should I just stick with PB?[/QUOTE] I never understood what is the point of these converters? I mean by the end of CK2 the whole europe can be pretty much yours, and there will be no challenge in EU4 after that... All the converted games i've seen, everyone had a huge blob that covered at least half of europe.

[QUOTE=Adarrek;43498899]I never understood what is the point of these converters? I mean by the end of CK2 the whole europe can be pretty much yours, and there will be no challenge in EU4 after that... All the converted games i've seen, everyone had a huge blob that covered at least half of europe.[/QUOTE] Don't think it was designed for games that completely rolled. The point is rather clear.

The rebel mechanics in CK2 at least piss me off, early game they're deadly Total levies I can draw: ~3-4k Peasant rebel army: ~10k game over It really just comes down to how much spawn. If I can get established, they're still annoying when some shit like "8th Briton Peasant Rebellion for Brittany" happens. I've destroyed you 7 times already, why are you still doing this?

[QUOTE=Kljunas;43498800]I don't think SWMH will convert at all. Afaik nobody as modded the converter for it to work.[/QUOTE] SWMH has way too much provinces and cultures and stuff for it to work properly with the converter. Hell, the base game itself has issues. There was a fledgling, Maritime Welsh empire with provinces all over the world in one of my observer games that I converted. They went from like 20 provinces to 4 or 5. [editline]11th January 2014[/editline] But it was funny though. How southern Italy was all fucking welsh.

[QUOTE=Adarrek;43498899]I never understood what is the point of these converters? I mean by the end of CK2 the whole europe can be pretty much yours, and there will be no challenge in EU4 after that... All the converted games i've seen, everyone had a huge blob that covered at least half of europe.[/QUOTE]They're fun and offer more replayability than any one Paradox game could ever dream of. After doing two of them (still working on one), I can assure you that no two mega campaigns will ever play out the same. And besides, the histories these tend to have are just pretty damn cool. As long as you don't expand like fuck, and give the AI a chance to, there will always be some sort of challenge for you to face.

Some 1.4 stuff for you modders out there (and couple for cheaters) [quote] 1.4 - User Modding Improvements # Console - Added console command: add_liberty_desire - Added console commands for add and remove claims - Added console command: "form_union" - Added fps-info to the debug_info-command. # Effects - Added a add_tariff_value effect - Added add_liberty_desire effect - form_coalition_against effect now works properly. - create_colony effect now takes the actual number of settlers - Added effect scopes random_subject_country and every_subject_country - Added effect multiply_variable - Added effect divide_variable - All variable effects can now take a second variable as an argument - Added a 'create_protectorate' effect. - added a 'add_yearly_manpower' effect. # Triggers - Added triggers num_of_protectorates & num_of_colonial_subjects - Renamed the trigger tariff_efficiency to tariff_value - Added trigger scopes any_subject_country and all_subject_country - Added trigger num_of_diplomatic_relations - Added trigger num_of_free_diplomatic_relations - Added custom_trigger_tooltip trigger - Added trigger has_new_dynasty - Added trigger has_conlonial_parent - Added real_month_of_year, real_day_of_year triggers. True if value highter or equal to date. not valid in MP - Check_variable trigger now works the same way as variable effects - added an 'is_protectorate' trigger. - Added liberty desire trigger - Added colonial region trigger - Added is_colonial_nation_of trigger - Added is_colonial_nation trigger - Added is_former_colonial_nation trigger # Modifiers - Added a local_hostile_attrition modifier. - Removed overseas income modifier. - Removed colonial_time modifiers as they were not relevant anymore. # Misc - All variable effects and triggers can now take a scope as an argument - Added event scope colonial_parent - You can now force provinces to be viewed as coastal. dont use on non-sea. - Added GetDateText, GetDate, GetYear and GetMonth to eventscopetext.cpp - Added disallow_random_new_world that can be used for mods - Added colonial_region context scope - Added GetWomanMan to monarchtext [/quote]

I swear my HOI3 games are getting more and more broken. Today for example, its 1940 june and the Spanish Civil war is still going on. What's even more funny is that it's telling me that i can invite Portugal and Nationalist Spain into the Axis but when i do they just dont accept... In another game, i took over France and somehow, it just wasn't in the allies anymore yet GB etc... all declared war on me when i attacked Poland. I dont know what happened but it wasnt showing France in the allies and i gained every single of it's overseas provinces and everything...

[QUOTE=Adarrek;43501089]I swear my HOI3 games are getting more and more broken. Today for example, its 1940 june and the Spanish Civil war is still going on. What's even more funny is that it's telling me that i can invite Portugal and Nationalist Spain into the Axis but when i do they just dont accept... In another game, i took over France and somehow, it just wasn't in the allies anymore yet GB etc... all declared war on me when i attacked Poland. I dont know what happened but it wasnt showing France in the allies and i gained every single of it's overseas provinces and everything...[/QUOTE] Nationalist Spain wont join during the civil war, if you want them to join the Axis you have to capture Gibraltar and for Portugal to join Spain must be part of the Axis.

Thank you.

More patch 1.4 info [url]http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?747044-1.4-Diplomacy[/url] [url]http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?746879-1.4-Westernisation-Changed[/url]

Looking forward to that patch, will make playing non-western nations much more fun.

I decided to attempt playing an extended timeline mod. Started at like 850 or something, this was the world by the start date for Vanilla EU4. I've been playing as Spain, that rather large blob in the middle east is Abbasid, who has yet to be stopped from expanding, regardless of coalitions. I formed Spain out of the Umayyads so I'm a Muslim nation, as is all of Italy. Its a pretty entertaining game, however core creating and advisors are broken. [t]http://i3.minus.com/inxJzc63kVSko.png[/t]

[QUOTE=Black;43519138]Looking forward to that patch, will make playing non-western nations much more fun.[/QUOTE] I thought that with Divine Wind but they fucked up.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKcs-zlVl1I[/media] [editline]13th January 2014[/editline] The Manual for the expansion is attached to this post [url]http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?747180-Ask-PDS-anything-about-Europa-Universalis-IV-Conquest-of-Paradise[/url]!