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[Castellon]

Pls help i bought darkest hour via steam platform, i now have the problem that no savegame is loading properly. i heard there is a patch for that problem, but i cant register, because the steam key is too long to get the patch from the forum.

help
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[SAS]

Is the development team surprised at how active the EUIII community still is?

 

[Svip]

Is the development team surprised at how active the EUIII community still is?

Are historians surprised at how interesting history still is? I think part of the reason EU3 is still so appealing is because there are no other games truly like it.

 

[artfox]

Have Paradox ever had any "creepy" or "over the top" fan encounters? Someone who showed up at the offices, or in a restaurant or something? I know Johan has received some... "unkind" PMs in the past.

Only positive (so far). When you are working with a project for a long time you are very aware of most of it's shortcomings (This may be only true for QA depertment, I don't know). Before every release I am always wondering what people will think. This has been the case even for games with 90% on metacritics, so every time I meet with people that are positive about the games, I am very happy.

I have met some people that did not enjoy the games I have worked on (no paradox titles though), but even then the encounters have been fun and not creepy at all.

 

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Why does not Paradox let me send colonists when I´m playing a native american faction (I´m playing divine wind) (You guys have set the colonial range for these countries to a -999999999999999 number, or something like that)? Is there a way to change it (like "westernise")? And if there is no way to do this, please make it possible with some kind of patch (the game is about changing the course of history, right?). Another thing: Steppe nomads can change their government type through a decision, but native american factions can´t, making large native american countries get the "Incapable ruler" trigger modifier. Please change that also, so you at least can change government type through a deccision, making the effect go away (ignore this question if there is a way to change government type after you "westernise"). THANK YOU

 

[Teurlinx]

Only positive (so far). When you are working with a project for a long time you are very aware of most of it's shortcomings (This may be only true for QA depertment, I don't know). Before every release I am always wondering what people will think. This has been the case even for games with 90% on metacritics, so every time I meet with people that are positive about the games, I am very happy.

I have met some people that did not enjoy the games I have worked on (no paradox titles though), but even then the encounters have been fun and not creepy at all.

What is the most difficult part of the QA job, and is there any bug you are particularly proud of to have detected?

 

[mayorqw]

What is the most difficult part of the QA job

The endless booze and women. It just gets boring after a while.

 

[artfox]

What is the most difficult part of the QA job, and is there any bug you are particularly proud of to have detected?

Breaking routines. Every time I play I try to play the game differently. It can be hard (and very fun) to force yourself to come up with new ways of thinking.

I found that some of the modifiers in EU3 did not work properly due to rounding errors. It does not sound that exciting, but these errors have always been there, affected nearly all playthroughs. It took some work with spreadsheets to detect. The challenge was in taking something that everybody took for granted and question if it really worked as it supposed to.

One of the recent things that made me proud, was that one of our interns found out that one of the troops in Sengoku did not work properly (it is fixed now). It was a quite serious bug. I suspected that it might not work and asked him to check it because I did not have time to do it myself. He did a great job in finding it. Pointing people in right direction and making them develop is also quite a challenge.

The endless booze and women. It just gets boring after a while.

It's funny because it's (almost) true ;P

 

[mayorqw]

It's funny because it's (almost) true ;P

Consider my résumé mailed

 

[Svip]

Consider my résumé mailed

We call it a CV here!

 

[RedRalphWiggum]

Has there been some sort of reorganisation? I notice a few altered user titles among staff...

 

[Darkrenown]

Kallocain is now an ass prod, that's the only change I've noticed.

 

[RedRalphWiggum]

Kallocain is now an ass prod, that's the only change I've noticed.

Castellon & Shams both have new or nonexistant user titles, I thought maybe there had been a reshuffle of some sort...

 

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Kallocain is now an ass prod

For a moment I went :wacko:

 

[artfox]

For a moment I went :wacko:

... And she is sitting right behind me right now... Imagine the horror!

 

[Darkrenown]

Castellon & Shams both have new or nonexistant user titles, I thought maybe there had been a reshuffle of some sort...

Oh we hired Castellon, I think Shams just got bigger font though.

 

[Shams]

I need it to compensate for other smaller....things...

I'll be updating my title come my Monday - STAY TUNED!

/s

 

[RedRalphWiggum]

I need it to compensate for other smaller....things...

I'll be updating my title come my Monday - STAY TUNED!

/s

Are you going to defenstrate Fredrik and change your title to 'Bigger Kahuna'?

 

[SAS]

Was Castellon just an outside resource to help run the forum before, not an actual Paradox employee? I always assumed he was an employee.

 

[Castellon]

Existing as I do as a bolt of lightning, I am only the physical manifestation of the thoughts of the God of Thunder and Rock n Roll (Who I believe is known on this plane of existence as Johan), thus employment is a meaningless and abstract concept.

For the less metaphysical:
If I lived in the real world I would say that I have had the job for a little while and just changed my title at the same time as Kallocain.