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Hi all,

"Gearing up for War" events should be available for all Allied countries, like Belgium and Syria. At least as long as they are Allied.

As of now Belgium is nerfed to make life easier for AI Germany, but honestly:

- AI Germany will quickly beat AI France and Belgium no matter what,

- PC France will stop AI Germany 9 times out of 10 by executing the Dyle plan irrespectively of Belgian power lvl,

- PC controlled Belgium is as of now probably unable to resist and stay on the continent to some extent. "Fortress Belgium" is not a viable option under current conditions AFAIU.
And who wants to sit out WW II in Banana?

I see thus no gameplay reason to nerf Belgium.

Rgds, Oldtimer
 
Hi all,

re Portugal:

- irrespectively of becoming a democracy, leninist or social liberal by slider or event the PA camarilla stays in power and there are no replacements for them. Still on beta 9 though.

Rgds, Oldtimer
 
Oh yes, that's the case with many of the minors.
I can understand this happening to micros like Bhutan or even Afghanistan, but I don't like to see Royalist or fascist ministers in communist Romania, Bulgaria or Portugal...
And the worst case is with the generals! Some events should be created so as to "sleep" some major collaborators of the enemy...
I don't think Antonescu would still be a general in stalinist Romania, as there would be no Voroshilov in a white Russia.
 
Hi all,

must return to "Restructure of the army" "feature" for Allied GP:s:

- looks like AI France can`t get its reinforcements prioritized correctly. I play Belgium and by Feb 1940 lots of French units are still way below full strength. Many still at 10% actually.
There`s been a lot of hard fighting from Sept 1939 and French AI has made correct operational decisions but with insufficient strength, i e failures in the end. Italy has been able to advance in the south because of this too.

Nerfing down the Allies may be necessary for a hands-off game which should behave historically. But for a human player this amounts to tampering with his game if he aims to change history, which most do.

I suggest making the "Restructure" "feature" for GP:s same as for lesser powers so player, human or AI can choose unit strength by himself. The higher strength that is chosen maluses should apply, like dissent or something.
OR, automate the each restructure event so that after say a week all units are brought up to current max strength possible at a hefty supplies cost seeing that AI can`t get its priorities right. This actually conforming better with RL.

As of now Allies are more or less forced to wait till "Danzig or War" event. No early preventive wars are feasible.

Rgds, Oldtimer
 
Hi all,

yet another case of a political system change without consequences:

- Ecuador can move from PA to Democratic by one slider step. Yet the PA government remains in power although there are enough democratic ministers to replace them.
IMO a change of political system MUST automatically lead to changes in ministerial setup. Not always, even rarely, all ministers but there must be consequences.
And size of the country should not matter.

Rgds, Oldtimer
 
Hi all,

in connection with above, if it is too difficult to automate government changes perhaps an event could do like:

- "Our countrys political system has changed, new ministers must be appointed". Any and all changes then would be possible to make without dissent hit, maybe the opposite actually.

Rgds, Oldtimer
 
Hi all,

when buying units their lvl should show up. For ships at least it does not so it may be necessary to reload several times to get what you want.

Rgds, Oldtimer
 
Hi all,

if Uruguay turns democratic at the "Pas Morlan" event, the cabinet remains unchanged. It also becomes Market Liberal though the slider is closer to planned economy.

Dear devs, minors events NEED attn. so they result in plausible consequences.

Rgds, Oldtimer
 
Graded events.

Hi all,

many events have identical or at least very similar consequences regardless of country size. Examples could be mob events, rebellious sabotages.

These events need to be tailored to country size, maybe in 4 classes: micro, minor, medium, GP. Losing 4 effective IC for several yrs has crippling impact on, say, Uruguay while being more or less inconsequential for USA.

Rgds, Oldtimer
 
Logical event chains.

Hi all,

USA said that european dictatorships are of no interest to them. A few days later Arsenal of Democracy is announced and lend-lease kicks in.
If USA declares that Europe is on its own there should not be any arsenal, lend-lease, lifted embargoes or any other cooperation events until USA is drawn into the fight. Also Axis DoW on USA in such circumstances should become less probable.

Some event chains have interactive decisions and non-interactive. As Oslo pact: its activation is interactive, termination scripted unavoidable. Poor logic IMO, either all decisions scripted unavoidable or all interactive.

Rgds, Oldtimer
 
OLDTIMER said:
Logical event chains.

Hi all,

USA said that european dictatorships are of no interest to them. A few days later Arsenal of Democracy is announced and lend-lease kicks in.
If USA declares that Europe is on its own there should not be any arsenal, lend-lease, lifted embargoes or any other cooperation events until USA is drawn into the fight. Also Axis DoW on USA in such circumstances should become less probable.

Some event chains have interactive decisions and non-interactive. As Oslo pact: its activation is interactive, termination scripted unavoidable. Poor logic IMO, either all decisions scripted unavoidable or all interactive.

Rgds, Oldtimer
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Yeah, there are many more examples, with no space to write here. Obviously, there are too many events to avoid mistakes, but some, like that above, are just too important, to be left like this.
 
Hi all,

in connection with the above:

- there should not be any USA provocations vs Italy and Germany either, like: "undeclared war", blocking of assets, area of influence and so on. This should lessen the risk of an Axis DoW on the USA even more. Jap is of course something different as they were the provocators in Asia.

Rgds, Oldtimer
 
Hi all,

re creation of the UN:

- it should be possible to refuse joining them, the "Remember the League of Nations?" event.

Re decolonization:

- it should be possible(if not already so) to refuse liberating your colonies, the "We`ll keep what`s ours, with or without the natives..." event.

Rgds, Oldtimer
 
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