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Archangel85 said:
Our Content Designers and Game Designers are the people mostly concerned with the historical starting setups, and quite a few have history degrees (some even PhDs), but we also have a lot of people in other disciplines who have a keen interest in history. We don't have any dedicated historians whose only job it is to research stuff - that is generally done by the CDs and Game Designers.
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Have you considered having an equivalent to "freelance beta tester" for this sort of thing? I for one would be very interested in contributing to Paradox in this way. I am retired and in no need of full time work, but I have decades of interest and reading in military, economic and technological history and in all forms of gaming. Plus a career in engineering and supply chain management. I'm sure that there are several keen Paradox GSG players who are similarly placed and inclined.
 
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Balesir said:
Have you considered having an equivalent to "freelance beta tester" for this sort of thing? I for one would be very interested in contributing to Paradox in this way. I am retired and in no need of full time work, but I have decades of interest and reading in military, economic and technological history and in all forms of gaming. Plus a career in engineering and supply chain management. I'm sure that there are several keen Paradox GSG players who are similarly placed and inclined.
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We do have a beta program, and those people do help out a lot with historical research.
 
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Archangel85 said:
We do have a beta program, and those people do help out a lot with historical research.
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Where do I register interest/availability for that? In individual game forums, or...?
 
Balesir said:
Where do I register interest/availability for that? In individual game forums, or...?
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just 'follow' the main forum for the game. they advertise there.
 
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I was looking back at the forum when they began to open up the license. I of course know it was stopped after the.... problems with some of the projects outsourced (Magna Mundi and EvW off the top of my head) but I wondered: Is there a list of all the Europa/Clausewitz licensed games that were initially approved and had at least a chunk of development put into them but never saw release?
 

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I just happened to go through the 2021 Year End Report and, if I'm understanding Note 9 correctly, the Warrant Scheme 2019/2022 warrants hit their exercise price on June 15 when the stock closed at SEK 177/share. I spent a few minutes searching the forum and didn't find any posts on this, so I'm guessing that this is the best place to post about it.

I'm a month and a half late, but congratulations to everyone at Paradox who exercised their warrants. As a long time and (usually) happy customer, I'm glad that each of you got your piece of the company.

One of my favorite parts of capitalism is when companies distribute stock to their employees. So I'm curious, and hope someone is willing to answer some questions about the warrant exercise:

First, could you take your choice of cash or stock? For example, could you sell the stock back to the company for SEK 177/share that day and keep the profit of SEK 156 or 160/share (177-21 or -17) as cash? Or did you have to take it as stock by paying the SEK 17 or 21/share and then transferring the stock to your brokerage account?

Second, how were the warrants distributed among the employees? Did every employee get the same number of warrants? Or was the number of warrants each employee got based on something like the employee's salary level?

Third, did you have to work for Paradox in 2019 to get warrants?
 
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I have loved a ton of the games that you have developed/published and I want you guys to know how much I appreciate your talent! I still go back and play the older games - recently I've picked up the HeroCraft mobile games Majesty and Majesty 2 again (I've beaten them multiple times, but I'm trying to beat each level on the hardest difficulty and I'm having a lot of fun with it). I wanted to know if you guys have any kind of Majesty remake (PC or Mobile) planned - and if not what we could do to have that happen!

Thank you again!
 
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This might be a "personal question" but I hope you guys wont mind me asking :eek:

Prologue: I recently went back to EU3 just to see what it is like after years and years of EU4. There are things EU4 does better, and there are things EU3 does better. I wont start a discussion by revealing who does what the best (in my opinion) but I'm curious if you can share any thoughts about your experiences after EU 3 and EU 4, and if there are any lessons you would remember when making a future EU 5.
 
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Right... so the question I have, and so far i got no answer to since last year, is:
When is the Paradox Store due back?
And no, I'd like to avoid Steam, not to mention any other store.
 
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antrachton said:
Right... so the question I have, and so far i got no answer to since last year, is:
When is the Paradox Store due back?
And no, I'd like to avoid Steam, not to mention any other store.
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I’d assume if they were ready to release that information they would have done so already!
 
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hitchens said:
This might be a "personal question" but I hope you guys wont mind me asking :eek:

Prologue: I recently went back to EU3 just to see what it is like after years and years of EU4. There are things EU4 does better, and there are things EU3 does better. I wont start a discussion by revealing who does what the best (in my opinion) but I'm curious if you can share any thoughts about your experiences after EU 3 and EU 4, and if there are any lessons you would remember when making a future EU 5.
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Not many of us around that worked on EU3 and EU4.

from the EU3 team, only me and Besuchov still work for paradox. The entire eu3 team was 8 people.. and only 3 of us were still working when we started EU4, and King left a few years ago.

I don't remember super much about what we did during eu3, as it was done between 15-17 years ago.
 
Johan said:
Not many of us around that worked on EU3 and EU4.

from the EU3 team, only me and Besuchov still work for paradox. The entire eu3 team was 8 people.. and only 3 of us were still working when we started EU4, and King left a few years ago.

I don't remember super much about what we did during eu3, as it was done between 15-17 years ago.
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Thank you kindly for the reply, Johan. I cant even imagine how there was only eight of you that created EU3, that's impressive! As far as my question went, I guess I was curious about the design philosophy between the two titles, as one have sliders while the other has mana. Is mana the way forward from here, or could there be a mix between the two in the future? Personally I have no idea, I'm not a dev and I'm just thinking out loud here.

One thing that I would love to see again though, is the way provinces could flip and the impact of rebellions. (what I do not miss, is the constant royal marriage need for prestige)


Oh, and one last question I promise: since your titles uses the same engine, is it possible that the music player could be "cross game" in the future? Meaning that all soundtracks used the same folder and that you could load all soundtracks in all games? :D
 
Johan said:
Not many of us around that worked on EU3 and EU4.

from the EU3 team, only me and Besuchov still work for paradox. The entire eu3 team was 8 people.. and only 3 of us were still working when we started EU4, and King left a few years ago.

I don't remember super much about what we did during eu3, as it was done between 15-17 years ago.
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oh, didn't realize the team was tiny back then
I remember the quiz back then, won a bit by chance
 
Can I ask why it has never been implemented to restrict the mouse cursor to the game screen? It makes the game unplayable for people who use edge scrolling with the mouse cursor to navigate throughout the game. There was a mod that fixed it but now that's broken. I have one arm and the game is unplayable now-is there any way a hotfix can be implemented to keep the mouse cursor in the game screen? I'd greatly appreciate it.
 
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Can I ask why it has never been implemented to restrict the mouse cursor to the game screen? It makes the game unplayable for people who use edge scrolling with the mouse cursor to navigate throughout the game. There was a mod that fixed it but now that's broken. I have one arm and the game is unplayable now-is there any way a hotfix can be implemented to keep the mouse cursor in the game screen? I'd greatly appreciate it.
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Game-specific questions are not appropriate for this thread. Please post in the support forum for the affected game, thanks.
 
Johan said:
Not many of us around that worked on EU3 and EU4.

from the EU3 team, only me and Besuchov still work for paradox. The entire eu3 team was 8 people.. and only 3 of us were still working when we started EU4, and King left a few years ago.

I don't remember super much about what we did during eu3, as it was done between 15-17 years ago.
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So would that make you the sole person who worked on the first two games as well then? Nearly 23 years is a very long time in game development indeed.
 
grandsteed said:
So would that make you the sole person who worked on the first two games as well then? Nearly 23 years is a very long time in game development indeed.
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doomdark also worked on eu2. He was away from paradox for a few years around eu3.

i have actually worked 28 years as a developer now.
 
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