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Why are the shipping options only royal mail? I want to get the chirper mugs, but seeing as the shipping (even within Sweden) is Royal Mail and amounts to at least 16 euro, I won't. Are there no other shipping options in the nordic countries?
 
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Why are the shipping options only royal mail? I want to get the chirper mugs, but seeing as the shipping (even within Sweden) is Royal Mail and amounts to at least 16 euro, I won't. Are there no other shipping options in the nordic countries?
Sadly not as the items are shipped from the UK Royal Mail is the only option.
 

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This is more of an idea for another game. It's based on what I've been trying to do with Cities Skylines. I think it would be great to have a game that is kind of like a virtual table top train model train set. You can build cities and towns and what not just like with Cities, but there is less micromanaging of the city and more detailed models and assets and improved graphics so that we can set up a virtual table top model of a town/city. It would be great for those of us who get obsessive with where each tree and bush and sidewalk are. And it will also give modders the ability to create really nice assets and buildings. One thing that would need to be done with this game is to make sure everything is proportionately to scale and things do not have to be placed directly on roads in a grid structure.
 

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What happened to the AAR-reading that Paradox used to do on their Youtube channel?
 

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This is more of a suggestion than a question, really. As a huge fan of George Orwells' dystopian novel "1984" ( I even own the 1984 movie with John Hurt and the late, great Richard Burton), I had an idea for one of the Oligarchy Government types in Stellaris: Oligarchical Collectivism. I don't know how the government system would work exactly, but I thought it would be cool to introduce a little dystopian flavour into the game.
 

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This is more of a suggestion than a question, really. As a huge fan of George Orwells' dystopian novel "1984" ( I even own the 1984 movie with John Hurt and the late, great Richard Burton), I had an idea for one of the Oligarchy Government types in Stellaris: Oligarchical Collectivism. I don't know how the government system would work exactly, but I thought it would be cool to introduce a little dystopian flavour into the game.
This thread is only for things that don't have another place to go. Please post this in the Stellaris forum, thanks.
 

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It is fine and logical to have 1k sized units of infantry and cavalry, but artillery, really?

I dont think there has ever been an army with 10,000 infantry, 6,000 cavalry and 8,000 pieces of artillery... insane.

Proposal, why not lower the artillery regiment from 1,000 to 10.

So if you have 8 units of artillery, you have 80 artilleries?
 
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That's a question for the forum of whatever game you're talking about, as this thread isn't about code or support questions.

Regardless, who said anything about it measuring artillery pieces? In Vicky and HoI it represents manpower, including supply chains and command.
 
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Also it is a regiment of 1k Man with some Arty in it. This is why Arty also can fight in the front row, because there are still Infantery Man Around it to protect the Arty.

Pure Infantery trained for front row combat is still better for pure front fighting. And yes this would be a EU IV Forum question.


I also have a question myself for Paradox Interactive (Publishing):
I just read this article from February: https://www.paradoxplaza.com/news/year-end-report/?ticket=ST-zG16BkP424HY1yN89pz-qACNUIzTt about the financial situation of PI.

I the end you said: "The largest markets today include US, UK, France, Russia and Scandinavia. Today one million gamers play a Paradox game each month and the number of Paradox users is approaching 5 million."
Color me suprised that Germany, the biggest economy in Europe, a very pc-gaming and strategy country isn't listed there.

Are really UK, France, Russia and Scandinavia all more important than us Germans?
 

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Are really UK, France, Russia and Scandinavia all more important than us Germans?

Yes. :p

Serious answer, the Germans likely form a big share as single nation, but they are likely still crushed by the French, British, Scandies and Russians.