The line between insanity and genious is papir thin
you are right but... hess looks like frankenstein. i cant stop my laughter when i look at his pic
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you are right but... hess looks like frankenstein. i cant stop my laughter when i look at his pic
I agree with you that there'll be some implementation of balance of power, and means by which the AI can understand aggressiveness and expansionism of course, but badboy points isn't necessarily it. The absense of badboy points doesn't imply the absense of balance of power mechanisms for instance. I know bb's been in every other game, but some concepts Johan's mentioned so far have the potential to finally move beyond bb points as a way of doing this.
national unity?
National Unity may refer to a degradation of support over time for the main party. So, the negative modifier perhaps prevents change to this support. Thus, allowing the National Socialists to remain popular longer.
Just speculation.
It's not "the espionage screen", it's "Intelligence". I can't see anything wrong with this being both external and internal. The military/secret police and intelligence services served both roles, even if they were separate branches/departments, such as MI5 (internal security) and MI6 (external) in the UK. And internally, looking out for potential subversives/rebels amongst your well-organised political opponents would be as important as looking for enemy spies (counter-espionage).
I am a little puzzled by the rationale that you might want to help political opponents, such as playing as Germany and giving funding to the KPD (Communist Party of Germany) to use this as a mechanism for internal change. This is more likely to lead to a revolution/civil war. Maybe this is for ahistoric games.
But perhaps during 1936-39 there was some small opportunity for elements in the government/armed forces/judges etc. to have more actively promoted Paternal Autocrats or Social Conservatives (such as the DNVP [German National People's Party] ) to try to move the country away from complete domination by the NSDAP, less authoritarian etc. My guess is you can model this in the game by spending leadership points through Intelligence in promoting the DNVP and/or subverting the NSDAP. This way you might dynamically produce some internal political change, instead of the crude-HOI2 type linear sliders.
This would be at the cost of using some leadership points that you could use for other things, such as research and Intelligence missions in other countries. I would think there would be no certainty that you could have any effect on NSDAP control, particularly if you start completing Missions/Decisions (Re-Occupation of the Rhineland, Anschluss) that boosts NSDAP popularity at the same time as you are trying to remove them, or reduce their influence.
I've got to say that, from the sounds of it, this new politics/intelligence system is the best so far (for any Paradox game).
It does look like an improvement. I always found the intelliegence folder a little straight forward in HOI 2. It was fun, but had too many obvious choices. With these political moves, there needs to be cost and benefit with most changes that a player can make.
I hated sliders so i am glad they are gone
Now obviously the factors (percentage) for the various parties are just place holder and will be worked on and refined before game is launched. I seriously doubt there was any opposition with a 30% organisational level in Germany in 1936. The national socialists had secure almost total control.
What I am interested in is how a player can manipulate his own country towards a particular leaning.
Is this by enabling laws?
As a point of interest can a player disable a law? And by disabling/ enabling laws do other law options open and are they country specific or are they ideologicaly specific?
Do all facist states get laws A to D, communist get laws E to H and democracies get laws I to K or is it a mix match depending on your ministers, leanings etc?
Now obviously the factors (percentage) for the various parties are just place holder and will be worked on and refined before game is launched. I seriously doubt there was any opposition with a 30% organisational level in Germany in 1936. The national socialists had secure almost total control.
What I am interested in is how a player can manipulate his own country towards a particular leaning.
Is this by enabling laws?
As a point of interest can a player disable a law? And by disabling/ enabling laws do other law options open and are they country specific or are they ideologicaly specific?
Do all facist states get laws A to D, communist get laws E to H and democracies get laws I to K or is it a mix match depending on your ministers, leanings etc?
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The colors are a little bit hard to see the difference between.
I might be a little bit Paternal Autocrat here, but the logic in how the ministers were arranged in HOI I and II was... more logical than having them in descending order as is here.
Head of State, Head of Government
Foreign, Arms
Security, Intelligence
Staff, Army
Navy, Airforce
I think the system that shows on the provided screenshot of "threat to us - threat to them" actually has the potential of being a lot more logical then the single badboy score we've in PI games so far. Then again, we'd still need a system to quickly see to whom are the biggest threat so we can easily see if we can expect any DoWs soon.
The list of laws looks pretty long, which is good, but I hope there will be some way to have them in a more organized matter or to sort them
Well King has said that they are fully moddable and like events:The list of laws looks pretty long, which is good, but I hope there will be some way to have them in a more organized matter or to sort them
... so I'd imagine ordering them would be quite straight forward??
The list you see in the screenshot looks quite long, so looking for a particular law might be a nuisance
Like looking for the next best 'commando' leader in the leaders list in HoI2.
Ahh so you want a proper interface with options to order in certain ways?? Yeah that would be good!The list you see in the screenshot looks quite long, so looking for a particular law might be a nuisance
Like looking for the next best 'commando' leader in the leaders list in HoI2.
Hey!
Will events on the battlefield (for example winning, loosing battles, conquering strategical provinces loosing too much men or waging wars too long...) also affect my dissent/ political alignment?
Greetings from Hun
Will events on the battlefield (for example winning, loosing battles, conquering strategical provinces loosing too much men or waging wars too long...) also affect my dissent/ political alignment?
Greetings from Hun
As a dictator, can you force the parties to be changed by outlawing a party, or arresting its leaders on trumped up charges?
And if so, is it possible for them to have a backlash?
And if so, is it possible for them to have a backlash?
Hey!
Will events on the battlefield (for example winning, loosing battles, conquering strategical provinces loosing too much men or waging wars too long...) also affect my dissent/ political alignment?
Greetings from Hun
I have a feeling there will be some connection between these factors, I certainly hope so. If I lose an army Stalingrad there should be some ripple effect.
Game balance
the mods do more than vanlla to nerf the infanry rush/ BP/ SL. I like the idea of difficulty settings plus other factors like sliders giving reasonable results. I'm fer ya
You mean, like in real life?
the mods do more than vanlla to nerf the infanry rush/ BP/ SL. I like the idea of difficulty settings plus other factors like sliders giving reasonable results. I'm fer ya