Finished another playthrough today as Canada 1.4beta and I ran into a few things that I think could be improved upon in further versions. Some of this is nitpicky but..
1. Austria never does anything. Whether they reform (very rare) or not Austria always seems to just sit there unless Germany is getting stomped and has the appeal to old allies event. Also Austria has way too much IC. 50 base for just Austria proper. Should have 25-30 (less than Bohemia-Moravia) Hungary should be similar and the whole united empire should probably be sub-100. Also, the emopire shouldn't be as fractured as it is. Austria should directly own Bohemia, occupy Bosnia (maybe without cores). Galicia might make sense as a semi-independent puppet, but the whole issue is based around Hungarian-Austrian rivalry.
2. Russia is super fleshed out but the Soviet Union isn't. Soviets lack a ton of events to guide them in one direction or the other and their tech teams are horrid. A lesser poinit, I think Russia should have events to modernize their tech, especially if they go fascist and pick the 'meld into a corporate state' decision
3. A lot of the major powers don't do much in the later game, especially Canada/USA. After the US civil war they should probably join the Entente if still democrat, Internationalle if Syndie, etc, or a t least have events to join the major war. Japan and Canada don't do much either. I think a lot of that is because of the invasion and naval AI overall isn't great.
4. The starting ground oobs seem really low for a lot of majors. This leads to very quick and often confusing wars, especially the US civil war where neither side enough units to keep a continuous border.
Thats all for now, already a great game but just wanted to put my 2 cents in to maybe make it even better.
1. Austria never does anything. Whether they reform (very rare) or not Austria always seems to just sit there unless Germany is getting stomped and has the appeal to old allies event. Also Austria has way too much IC. 50 base for just Austria proper. Should have 25-30 (less than Bohemia-Moravia) Hungary should be similar and the whole united empire should probably be sub-100. Also, the emopire shouldn't be as fractured as it is. Austria should directly own Bohemia, occupy Bosnia (maybe without cores). Galicia might make sense as a semi-independent puppet, but the whole issue is based around Hungarian-Austrian rivalry.
2. Russia is super fleshed out but the Soviet Union isn't. Soviets lack a ton of events to guide them in one direction or the other and their tech teams are horrid. A lesser poinit, I think Russia should have events to modernize their tech, especially if they go fascist and pick the 'meld into a corporate state' decision
3. A lot of the major powers don't do much in the later game, especially Canada/USA. After the US civil war they should probably join the Entente if still democrat, Internationalle if Syndie, etc, or a t least have events to join the major war. Japan and Canada don't do much either. I think a lot of that is because of the invasion and naval AI overall isn't great.
4. The starting ground oobs seem really low for a lot of majors. This leads to very quick and often confusing wars, especially the US civil war where neither side enough units to keep a continuous border.
Thats all for now, already a great game but just wanted to put my 2 cents in to maybe make it even better.