Ahistorical (minor) country leader art...

[Victor Cortez]

My guess is that artists are shared across the different franchises, so they're probably working on Stellaris too.
In any case, it's probably DLC stuff.

If paradox is working on DLC's without the game even released, I'm gonna be mad...

Depends on what you mean by 'working'.
Is there people spending time on future DLC's? I would think so.
Are future DLC's slowing down bugfixing? Probably not.

I don't know about Paradox games, but big videogames are very complex stuff and in some cases you need to plan DLC's before release.

 

[Sharp163]

My guess is that artists are shared across the different franchises, so they're probably working on Stellaris too.
In any case, it's probably DLC stuff.



Depends on what you mean by 'working'.
Is there people spending time on future DLC's? I would think so.
Are future DLC's slowing down bugfixing? Probably not.

I don't know about Paradox games, but big videogames are very complex stuff and in some cases you need to plan DLC's before release.

Yes, but think about it. Why would they be planning DLC's before release? That would be purposefully leaving features out of the original version so that they can be put into DLC's. All DLC ideas should be going into the original product right now, otherwise it would just be them siphoning more money out of us...

 

[Victor Cortez]

Yes, but think about it. Why would they be planning DLC's before release? That would be purposefully leaving features out of the original version so that they can be put into DLC's. All DLC ideas should be going into the original product right now, otherwise it would just be them siphoning more money out of us...

Because planning and executing don't happen at the same time.
At some point you need to stop planning and say: these are the features the game will have at launch. Let's make sure everything works.
At the same time, people keep thinking and coming up with ideas which can't be put into the game for the reason above but are nevertheless explored and evaluated.

 

[Denkt]

Short: Ideas are cheap, execution is not.

 

[Vonboe]

Don't know if this is any kind of relief, but I'll make general/leader portraits for all of the nations which are included in my minor nations mod.
But since we don't know who is missing and from which countries I will have to wait until the game is release to figure it out/make them.

 

[MRhrissie]

What I'm wondering more is why Yugoslavia doesn't have it's cold war flag for their communist variant and why Finland has an iron cross on their flag.

It's actually the Netherlands instead of Yugoslavia. He has a Dutch name and the party is the CPN (communist party of the Netherlands). Although it is weird that the colours got messed up.

 

[Ottaro]

Don't know if this is any kind of relief, but I'll make general/leader portraits for all of the nations which are included in my minor nations mod.
But since we don't know who is missing and from which countries I will have to wait until the game is release to figure it out/make them.

Are you maybe planning on adding more realistic flags aswell to your mod, and then especially to minors? Having a communist country with a cross on it's flag is quite ridiculous.
Here is one I made for Norway in another thread.

 

[Oriflamme]

I can see it now...Finnish Officer Portrait DLC.

 

[Ottaro]

I can see it now...Finnish Officer Portrait DLC.

Mongol faces 2

 

[Caesar15]

There's a practical limit to how much assets they can produce, and how much of it they can devote to minor powers

The games been delayed so much you'd think the art guys would have had plenty of times to make more portraits.

 

[EmperorBatman999]

I think at least every heard statesman for every country should be represented. Other officials (like they are strikingly notable like a great general or a strong opposition party leader for example) also warrant something unique.

I can see it now...Finnish Officer Portrait DLC.

Please at least have Mannerheim in the base game...

 

[jacobsighs]

Very OT, but Egede-Nissen looks like my uncle when he was younger.

 

[Admiral Fisker]

I think at least every heard statesman for every country should be represented. Other officials (like they are strikingly notable like a great general or a strong opposition party leader for example) also warrant something unique.



Please at least have Mannerheim in the base game...

He isn't.

(Go to 17:35).

 

[EmperorBatman999]

He isn't.

(Go to 17:35).

Well that's a disappointment. I hope this just has something to do with the game being in alpha still.

I wonder what the implications are for non-European countries with generic portraits? Will Ethiopian or Siamese politicans or commanders use the generic white portraits?

 

[OBRkenobi]

This sounds like a job for the modders. Perhaps paradox can do this in the future, but right now they're trying to focus all their attention to polishing the game for release

Except that should be part of polishing.

 

[OBRkenobi]

If they charge 10 bucks just for a portrait for each country i'll be really pissed to be honest...

Dont worry they'd make sure that DLC's include more than one portrait.

 

[OBRkenobi]

Well that's a disappointment. I hope this just has something to do with the game being in alpha still.

I wonder what the implications are for non-European countries with generic portraits? Will Ethiopian or Siamese politicans or commanders use the generic white portraits?

The game isn't in Alpha.

 

[Praetori]

What is Greece doing in Ukraine??

Getting back the Principality of Theodoro in Crimea? Of course you're gonna need it to re-create the glory of the Byzantine Empire.

 

[Praetori]

The game isn't in Alpha.

It probably was when those screenshots were taken though.