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Here's the alternate end event, spoilers of course.

http://imgur.com/a/YaNix

Fuck aliens!

Especially Dimensional Horrors :P

Speaking of which I was finally able to buy Rights of Man, so I'm now fully kitted out on EU 4 for the foreseeable future.

^^Hey, that was included in same post I linked

Anyway, apparently event chain is along and has tons of weird events before conclusion .-.

So collectivism/invidualism is getting renamed huh :D

Truly, this the future◊ now.

edited 8th Dec '16 5:40:31 AM by DrunkenNordmann

I'm more excited about factions being able to change the Empire's core ethos. That's a very realistic addition that will make the interstellar societies come off as far more authentic.

Just wait until they get a weighting wrong and there are hundreds of complaints that the galaxy rapidly turns into 75% fanatic purifiers/evangelizing zealots/democratic crusaders or something else highly belligerent.

I wonder what "the biggest feature added to the game since {Paradox} started EU4 will be.

Some decent AI.

edited 8th Dec '16 3:09:37 PM by TooManyIdeas

Prussian Blue.

In unrelated news: I started another multiplayer game in EU 4 with a friend - he as Frankfurt and I as Dithmarschen.

The special government isn't bad, but it's kind of a shame Dithmarschen doesn't have its own ideas or any special events - I'm also allied with Austria. Apparently the Kaiser is pretty chill about peasants taking over large parts of North Germany. Hey, maybe he'll make me an elector some day.

I finally got a large enough alliance going to take on the Hansa, but I'm still not sure what to do after taking them out. Not going to form Germany - that would require killing off my friend's country - and neither Hannover nor Westphalia are good options either. Hannover isn't appealing looks-wise and while I absolutely love Westphalia's flag and colour (and I'm probably one of the few people that do) the decision to form Westphalia automatically makes you an administrative monarchy. And I didn't start as a peasants' republic to put a crown on my head.

The other option would be to expand into the Lowlands at some point and form the Netherlands while keeping my government. That's going to require some work-arounds, though, as my former ally Friesland is a free city.

But the current plan is twofold: Crush the Hansa to connect Dithmarshen with its Frisian and Westphalian territories and go for early colonialism. I might be able to get the institution by exploring Greenland and using it as a stepping stone for further colonisation.

That tends to be what I'm doing in most of my EU 4 games, though. If I don't see a good way to expand, I'll just get into the colonial game.

I wonder if any colonial nations I release would copy my government...

edited 8th Dec '16 10:08:51 PM by DrunkenNordmann

Would base Vicky 2 or the PDM be a better base for a timeline extension mod?

"Just wait until they get a weighting wrong and there are hundreds of complaints that the galaxy rapidly turns into 75% fanatic purifiers/evangelizing zealots/democratic crusaders or something else highly belligerent."

That's starting to become true to life these days, isn't it?

Either that or an accurate depiction of the Stellaris fanbase. Based on the subreddit, most people seem to play some kind of xenophobic or at least purge-happy empire.

I actually don't use the purge button, though with the new ethics system, I could easily see people simply liquidating any dissident factions.

In other news, I think I have a pending AI rebellion, since I got the robots building ships event before I could even finish researching the tech to let them be leaders. Oh well, if they want to pursue this course of action, they can take it up with my Saratoga-class battleships (ever since the game named a starting battleship class that, I've been naming all of my battleship classes after WWII carriers).

The "biggest addition to EU4" is an Age system. Basically, every 100 years or so some rules of the game will change.

I started my favorite playthrough with a species of peace-loving, friendly, good-natured, scientifically-inclined sea slugs that wanted to bring peace and prosperity to the entire galaxy through trade and cooperation.

By now, they are ruled with an iron fist by a clique of power-hungry, expansionist, specist, warmongering, obscurantists demagogues that banned all forms of research on artificial intelligence to please their Xenos-Precursors overlords.

Edit: The only element of the original ideology that are left are the focus on all technology that is not AI to develop more tools to murder our neighbors.

I suppose you could also say they still pay lip service to the idea of intergalactic friendship in the form of a couple of terrorised puppet states the Directorate released to pretend like the rest of the galaxy does not completely abhorr, detest, hate, loathe and despise the entire Foygalian species.

The most interesting part is that this all happened gradually. There was no brutal shift in policy; il all happened slowly as an effect of the harsh decisions that had to be taken to preserve Foygalia from all the external threats.

edited 13th Dec '16 5:26:00 AM by OrangeSpider

I can see that either being really great or really terrible. On the one hand, it does lead to a more realistic simulation and a less static world. On the other hand, it might limit your options a lot. It's certainly an interesting idea, anyway.

Yeah, it does sound fairly promising. There was something new with Stellaris too, some new resource that's up on the toolbar along with energy, minerals, and influence.

Crusader Kings is getting a collection of items and relics for characters.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/ck2-dev-diary-34-facts-about-artifacts-real-talk-about-relics.988111/

So it's sort of like those Old World artifacts that we get in After The End?

Yep, and I bet After the End will integrate them into this feature.

And Game of Thrones, Elder Kings and Geheimnisnacht have wanted something like this for a while.

By the way, Together In Victory comes out tomorrow. I can't decide which colony I want to liberate first.

Dominion you mean. Unless you are talking about the Raj.

Semantics :P Either way I can't decide which of the Commonwealth I want to play first.

Except New Zealand because that's infeasible.

edited 14th Dec '16 2:33:10 PM by theLibrarian