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The_Carbonater said:
Hmm, always had for me, regardless whether its HOI2 or HOI1 (unless you mod it of course). I used to play MP mostly, as the AI, as in all Paradox games is no challenge at all - taking any major in any Paradox game you will win on your first game if you have any experience in any strategy games before.
Naturally, the "fun factor" is a matter of taste. However, Paradox has been adopting the "Victoria" style more and more to its games, which is something I am not a fan of. I guess this style could be summed up as "you do not play the game, the game plays you". I loved HOI1 (despite the alpha state of the initial release) and EU2, did not like CK, Victoria or EU3. HOI2 was somewhere in the middle - it did improve SP play somewhat compared to HOI1, but failed with MP.
On another note, 10k provinces sounds like something difficult to manage for MP play.
boromir said:
And this is good thing, IMO. Johan said that they were going for map like graphics, AFAIK.
boromir said:
I don't understand what you mean by this. I'd say the opposite was true. The trend has been towards greater simplicity and away from determinism.
Well it looks like there might be some meaningful resistance during Sealion, with a little bit more land to trade off.
I've always held the view that there should be stacking limits (or penalties) in provences - even more so for the smaller provinces. Modified, of course, by terrain and infrastructure.
And will the sea provinces receive the same treatment?
I've always held the view that there should be stacking limits (or penalties) in provences - even more so for the smaller provinces. Modified, of course, by terrain and infrastructure.
And will the sea provinces receive the same treatment?
Oh yes, there definitely has to be stacking penalties and command limits on the defence aswell. Apart from the realism effects, this would also help against the type of AI superstacking where two opposing AIs crash by pouring more and more units into bordering provinces trying to outnumber the enemy at a static bottleneck.
Thank god(Johan)
Well i really like the approach the map is taking, the definition that is written is great, a WWII map hung up on a wall or layed out on a table
great..
1 thing that bothers my eye though is the borders, they are very computerlike, would it be possible to get some smoothing of the edges to remove the staircase look ?
Well i really like the approach the map is taking, the definition that is written is great, a WWII map hung up on a wall or layed out on a table
great..1 thing that bothers my eye though is the borders, they are very computerlike, would it be possible to get some smoothing of the edges to remove the staircase look ?
KimSand said:
You can smooth it out a bit, but not by much. You can also randomise it a bit (this even works as a screen-space pixel shader), which is - I think - more fitting for a map. A quick and dirty mock-up would look like this:
It would be much better if the underlying graphic format of the map would be a vector one like KML instead of BMP. This would allow for very small details at highest zoom levels while still making the map readable when looking at the global situation. Also, randomising (for added detail) a vector map without creating ugly artefacts is much easier than doing it to a bitmap.
mbb said:
I agree, but let us not forget the tactical aspect of stacking one's forces in an area, at the expense of other parts of the line. (not that you were saying that, I'm just pointing it out)
This is from this thread.KimSand said:Well i really like the approach the map is taking, the definition that is written is great, a WWII map hung up on a wall or layed out on a table
1 thing that bothers my eye though is the borders, they are very computerlike, would it be possible to get some smoothing of the edges to remove the staircase look ?
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=379938&page=2
OHGamer said:
My understanding is the increased number of provinces will reduce force concentrations.mbb said:
Across a wide front perhaps. But not a narrow front and it might not affect nations like the SU or China as much as a nation like Germany or Japan.sbr said:
I can see that the SU could overwhelm Germany by sheer numbers over a wide front even more so than is the case in HOI2. A German player might resort to 'hedgehogging' to mitigate the odds, so adding the extra provinces might not really add much more to the game, and could make micro-management worse.
Thanks Johan for the info. May I suggest something for HOI3? If you can split pacific island in two a beach and an inland. It would avoid fake invasion like 20 marines attacking and winning but only one or none is really moving on the island. With an inland it will force the marine to disembark to finish the job. It would be nice to give arty brigade missions like airplane or boat. I imagine arty bombing enemy troop without having a full attack. It would force the enemy troop to attack and will give arty a edge against tank anly troop.
Long live Paulson!
Long live Paulson!
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I guess building land and coastal fortresses wil be more cheap, because the are a lot more provinces, for example, finishing the maginot line would be a lot more expensive.
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i hope this is not the final look of the map
turkey is not as it should be
especially bosphorus, izmir and eastern borders are a little bit strange :wacko:
turkey is not as it should be
especially bosphorus, izmir and eastern borders are a little bit strange :wacko:
there is a ss in gamespot that shows whole europeThe Great Duck said:
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/heartsofironiii/index.html?tag=result;title;0
I think we need not worry, there will be a Bosporus on the map soon enough. I'm sure plenty of changes will be made to the map before release.Thracian said:i hope this is not the final look of the map
turkey is not as it should be
especially bosphorus, izmir and eastern borders are a little bit strange :wacko: