Development Diary #34 - 24th of June 2009

King

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• #41

Devout said:

Pre-war, what does the neutrality rating of 20%/54% mean?

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The first number is my current neutrality rating the second is our mutual threat number. Declaring war is limited by a combination of neutrality and threat. Because Italy has claims on Yugoslav terrotry I am considered additionally threating, don't know why it is not like I would declare war or anything like that now would I?

 

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• #42

Very nice AAR

 

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• #43

On the 4th screenshot:
Is the text still buggy or did i understand something wrong?

Shouldn't it be we have taken X% of cities, THEIR national unity X% and [..] THEY will surrender?

Now it sounds like, if we have more victories then we will surrender

 

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Ajcb said:

The threat is now up. He says the next war will not go so easy. Italy's neighbours will feel more threaten now and mobilise.

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That is not the answer for my question.

King answered it already though, yes, seems like shatter is going to work as a decent scarecrow for "attack without mobilization" players indeed.

 

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I'm am simply astonished at the sheer epic scale and possibilities of this game. I'm a huge fan of Paradox but I've never seen anything from them that oozed this level of quality and polish.

My hats off to all the developers, testers and artists. Please release a CE as I would gladly take advantage of it.

 

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Tyson_48 said:

On the 4th screenshot:
Is the text still buggy or did i understand something wrong?

Shouldn't it be we have taken X% of cities, THEIR national unity X% and [..] THEY will surrender?

Now it sounds like, if we have more succes we will surrender

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spotted and fixed

 

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Flags at the top

1st Thank you for these shots, and 2nd what are the flags at the top of the screenshots with stacks of coins?

 

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• #48

Quite unexpected. Excellent AAR, very promising. Now I can barely wait for August.

I like the fact that you were able to make surprise work in your favour. In HoI2 the only way to do that was to game the AI, but now it looks like it's a possible strategy.

If there is time for another AAR, might I recommend you focus on air, but mostly naval warfare a bit? Talk about those radar stations monitoring the movements of the RN has wetted my appetite.

 

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fritzp50 said:

1st Thank you for these shots, and 2nd what are the flags at the top of the screenshots with stacks of coins?

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Trade offers?

 

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• #50

Very impressive performance by the Theater AI. This should keep the grognards happy for another week.

 

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• #51

Very nice, it seems a bit easy, but nice anyway.

A question: What about all the HQ units, I count to twelve on one of the screens? Is that really a normal rate of them?

 

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• #52

King said:

spotted and fixed

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Thats good

and i forget...Thanks for the very informative AAR!

 

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• #53

Can theater AI really achieve that?
It is still more fun when you can directly command all your divisions by yourself.

 

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• #54

Lord Martin said:

Very nice, it seems a bit easy, but nice anyway.

A question: What about all the HQ units, I count to twelve on one of the screens? Is that really a normal rate of them?

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Between Theatres, Armygroups, Armies and Corps yes.

 

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• #55

The Swiss have mobilised You've done it now.

 

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• #56

Enewald said:

Can theater AI really achieve that?
It is still more fun when you can directly command all your divisions by yourself.

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Yes the Theatre AI can really acheive that and I have no idea about manual control. I have used AI control exclusively to provide feedback to our AI programmers so they can improve the AI.

 

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Nice idea having an aar as dd, thanks.

Only question:
Will there be a way to get rid of stripes via modding?

 

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those trade proposal icons are so cute that i would be unable to resist accepting all of them

nicccceeeeeee...... what next ? - some desert warfare

 

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Just one little question.

What happened to the czechs ?
Why is there slovakia in 1938 ?

PH

 

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• #60

I am very impressed by the ai control feature now, now we finally know that it definitely works.