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AAR Thread
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It wasn't an AAR. It was just a dev/qa messing around with console commands and showing the weird stuff that goes on during his stress testing. There are a few novelty screenshots, but none of it should ever happen in a real game.
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Alex did a sort of AAR. A QA playthrough AAR. More focused on the QA bit than AAR bit. But plenty of information and late 19th century France.
He kind of just starts and ends. This isn't a planned AAR and Alex did not call it an AAR.
France Part 1:
He kind of just starts and ends. This isn't a planned AAR and Alex did not call it an AAR.
France Part 1:
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this was great! one complaint though does anyone else though that the game was going a bit fast? or it is just me?
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also good to see that great powers can have a construction sector this large I was worried it would be smaller but this is great
Vicky2 on full speed with effective play lasted some 4-5 hours to 1936 perhaps. He started posting 11 AM or so and was going to the end of the workday, if not longer.
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one thing that confuses me is the link between meritocracy and elected bureaucrats ? Maybe the word "elected" is confusing me, or the world bureacucrats...
As shouldnt a meritocratic bureaucracy be more in the line of an open competitive exam ?
I mean... i know all the discussions between upsides and downsides of electing judges like in the USA, having a very strict open competitive exam like in Italy, or a mixture of exam and free recruitement like in UK (simplifing all of them).
Still, i wouldnt think that electing would be appreciated by "meritocratic" value, more in line of maybe representation, democracy or accountability ?
Or I am just missing some vocabulary (english beeing a secondary language) ?
As shouldnt a meritocratic bureaucracy be more in the line of an open competitive exam ?
I mean... i know all the discussions between upsides and downsides of electing judges like in the USA, having a very strict open competitive exam like in Italy, or a mixture of exam and free recruitement like in UK (simplifing all of them).
Still, i wouldnt think that electing would be appreciated by "meritocratic" value, more in line of maybe representation, democracy or accountability ?
Or I am just missing some vocabulary (english beeing a secondary language) ?
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My only complaint is the still yucky usage of treaty port CB by the AI. It should probably be reserved for unrecognizeds or something. A Mexican treaty port in North Carolina sounds like it would kill all my immersion
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Personally i dont dislike the idea of using it aigainst other civilised, but it is true it seems to be used quite often aigainst big powers.
Wouldnt mind some alt history where UK, USA or Germany, Spain or even the Ottomans create a trade network by treaty ports. But its true it seems weird when you see them applied onto big powers themselves.
Dont know how in was in game, but i could imagine some kind of semi dynamic requirement wereas the target has to either be unrecognized, either some X% (33%?) lower in rank than you. Or even use the number of great powers (as it is dynamic) as the metric of how lower in rank the country should be.
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Remember that in order for this to happen, Mexico has to defeat the holder of North Carolina in a war (or have a diplomatic play in which the holder feels they have to accede rather than fight), which means that you're already quite far into alt-history.
I quite like treaty ports as a mechanic, since they can also be used to represent other weird enclaves and holdout portions. Gibraltar, for example, or Heligoland. Both of those enclaves ended up poisoning diplomatic relations between the nations, just as treaty ports elsewhere did, and they can end up being casus belli in a future war. Maybe even the Free City of Danzig?
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I think I can help you with that. the trait is meritocratic which means he believes that position must be based on merit and not on connections on birth. the other two bureaucratic laws of the game are hereditary and appointed both can imply connections and are based on birth so being elected is more fair and meritocratic.
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My thoughts on the France pseudo-AAR:
- In the second image, Alex mentioned the devout wanted him to stop producing weapons. I don't recall seeing IGs provide this sort of feedback about the economy before. I like it!
- Also in the second image, annual population growth was shown to be 0.57%. This seems surprisingly low compared to historical data.
- Also in the second image, Alex said that he didn't know how the Austro-Prussian war had ended because he hadn't been paying attention to it. I think there should be some way to look up historical diplomatic information to avoid this sort of lack of knowledge.
- The third image showed some rather dramatic bordergore in North and South America - Argentina had a bunch of exclaves in Chilean Patagonia, and the US had claimed a rambling sprawl of central Canada. Not encouraging.
- In the seventh image, we can see France's map color change slightly when it becomes a republic. I didn't know that could happen, and I'm not sure what to make of it.
- In the eighth image, Alex showed that the Ottomans had become an unrecognized country. This is presumably the Dead Man of Europe outcome - had it previously been show that this could happen?
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That part of Central Canada is a native nation called Iron Condederacy. Yankees got it before Canadians somehow
God I hope we get this latest AAR version for release.
I too want to support the African-American States of America in their struggle for peaceful co-existence with the Confederacy, Free States Of America and United States of America. Not to speak of having my anarchist Prussia ruled by Schlong Long from the federal state of Taiwan.
I too want to support the African-American States of America in their struggle for peaceful co-existence with the Confederacy, Free States Of America and United States of America. Not to speak of having my anarchist Prussia ruled by Schlong Long from the federal state of Taiwan.
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I wonder of the landowner becoming more republican works in reverse as well, e.i imagine if we make the US a monarchy and survive long enough?
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So votes are also weighed by wealth? I thought that votes reduced the effect of wealth in the clout, as you expanded the vote franchise, because each citizen had a vote. It’s a bit strange that votes work like that IMO.
No no no please no. That is a horrible idea. I certainly hope Paradox won't go the way of making every small exclave a treaty port. The fact that Gibraltar is apparently represented as a treaty port is bad enough. The purpose of Gibraltar was not for the British to bypass Spanish tariffs and gain free access to their market, and neither was the purpose of Heligoland to enter the German market. They should just be represented as normal territories held by Britain.
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