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You can drive prisoners mad with bad poetry.

I love this game.

please call me "XionKuriyama" or some variation, thanks! | What is the good deed that you can do right now?

Or force them to have a walk of shame. I really hope a bell's involved.

Welcome to Estalia, gentlemen.

It'd be interesting if torture had a chance give a slight (temporary) boost to plots involving the recipient's family, liege/subjects or, (depending on their rank) those within their nation in general, with the idea being that they gave you information.

"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.

I would like it if you doing that could cow your vassals some. Like if you defeated a lord, you could maim him and then parade him around as a warning.

So, in Stellaris, I'm trying to use save game editing to change the locations of civs. Could I potentially make it so two empires switched places?

"Any campaign world where an orc samurai can leap off a landcruiser to fight a herd of Bulbasaurs will always have my vote of confidence"

Well, just declared war on all the parts of the world I wasn't already at war with so I could take the fight to the people I was already at war with. Fortunately, I am a highly industrialized India that has all of China occupied and fully policed, so even if I didn't have superior division design to the Germans and Soviets (who crumpled quickly when I attacked, as four years of bitter war with Germany greatly diminished their manpower), I have more manpower in reserve with limited conscription plus focus boosts than Germany and the Soviet Union combined running at all adults serve.

Also, if things get dicey, I can call up the USSA to bring their army to my aid. I mean, they're already glued to my front lines and airbasses, wasting my supply and airbase space.

edited 29th Jul '16 6:57:33 PM by Balmung

New CK 2 dev diary is up, focusing on cats.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/ck2-dev-diary-17-crusader-cats.960813/

The devs also confirmed that the Reaper's Due will be released on the 25th and that they have revealed all the major patch and DLC features.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Okay, wow. So I tried to play a game of After the End, and I finally quit it just now because I was in seven wars at the same time for various parts of my possessions. It was nuts.

The plants have been revealed, and they're pretty amazing.

So everything is either cabbage or Groot xD

I love the Radishmen.

"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.

I'm waiting for this to go on sale. They are asking too much for cosmetic content this time.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Another update makes my favorite mod incompatible.

ARGH!!!

"Any campaign world where an orc samurai can leap off a landcruiser to fight a herd of Bulbasaurs will always have my vote of confidence"

what one?

Welcome to Paradox. Your options are to roll back or wait.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Well, that's upsetting. I started an Ironman game in Stellaris and was doing really well...and then I got invaded by a neighbor that outnumbered me and had bigger ships than I did. So I just quit out.

It's a shame too, because I was in the middle of exploring a lot and just building up my economy.

Speaking of upsetting things, I found a mod that gives the Raj a focus tree, including, I think, an ability go gain independence without having the UK summoning every democracy in the world to try to crush the right of the Indian peoples to self-governance. But it doesn't seem to be compatible with the National Focus Pack (like CTD incompatible), which means I can't really use it.

I started another Axis multiplayer game, with me as Spain and two friends as Germany and Italy. I found a nice focus tree mod for Spain that, among other things, gives me a CB on Portugal.

Shame I couldn't use it yet because the Germany player declared war on the Netherlands for their colonies at the start of the game and Italy subjugated Yugoslavia and took their claims. So now Great Britain has guaranteed Portugal and I have to wait until World War 2 to get my rightful clay.

Well, I probably deserved it for going for more factories first instead of working towards Axis membership. :/

Welcome to Estalia, gentlemen.

So I started a Florence game earlier today...I made a bit of a blunder taking all of Milan, which got me on the bad list of a coalition that included what appeared to be every state in the HRE. I had at least 216 thousand men coming at me.

I do plan to try again though, maybe found Tuscany, then Italy.

edited 7th Aug '16 5:35:26 PM by theLibrarian

So anyway, plantoid portraits are actually pretty awesome ._. Like I could swear I like them more than every other portraits combined xD

Not super wild about the actual species inages, but I do really like their ships.

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Doing Czechoslovakia again, and I managed to pretty much solo the entire European Axis (100% occupation of Germany + Italy, took Austria, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria out before they could join) before joining the Alies (turns out that if you share an enemy and schmooze with the faction leader, joining a faction with a different ideology isn't that hard). Then Franco decided that joining the Axis after Germany and Italy had been completely annihilated and Japan was getting stomped out of China and losing to a coup on the Home Islands was somehow not a completely losing proposition for Spain.

Also, the Soviet Union attacked Poland and now the Czechoslovak Union occupies Moskow, so that's a thing.

Being a non-Axis land power in Europe is weird - you basically have to conquer the entire USSR to finally defeat the Axis because Japan will keep the war going forever, even if neither of you can touch the other, and unless you take the USSR or some more convoluted route, you can't really invade the Home Islands when your naval capabilities are limited by a no-navy start.

I hate how if you're in mainland Europe basically no one aside from the Allies and Axis wants to be in a faction. I can't make a Balkan League without conquering everyone around me, and Albania is guaranteed by Italy and no one else wants to join me.

• Gets the first Knights Of pen & Paper and expansion pack

• Notices there's a horrible bug where the enemy sprites shuffle to the right and move off screen

• Contacts Paradox Games

Their response: "Lol go buy the second game who cares about the first"

Man it looks like they have real quality standards.

edited 8th Aug '16 8:25:06 PM by Ukokira

Their older games are basically ignored once the sequel comes out.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

I myself have actually debated buying Europa Universalis Rome, but I'm not sure if I'd like it.