Ask Paradox (almost) Anything Thread (no support/tech or code questions)

[Taylor]

Well the Admin tag is there to make sure you know to pay attention
The lack of game icons is because I don't want to show favoritism to any particular game or group of games. (Admin should be impartial in every way)
So the only option is to have them all or to have none, and when you can have every single one, I think it is more of a statement to have none.
or in this case just the Pdox logo, by flying that flag so to speak I am showing my support for all the games.
Not to mention is saves on server resources and bandwidth.
Maybe I will start and switch icons depending on which game I am playing at the moment?

--> This insight into the mind of Castellon is brought to you by Paradox Interactive.

But many paradox devs have some, but not all icons.

 

[Castellon]

But they are not asked to be the final arbiter of rules and discipline.
It is the same reason you will not see me participate much in OT Forum.

If you want a real world analogy
Paradox is the Government
Admins are the Supreme Court
Mods are the Lawyers representing the state
and Demi-Mods are like local beat cops

 

[SAS]

I like the way you roll.

 

[Uglyr]

If you want a real world analogy
Paradox is the Government
Admins are the Supreme Court
Mods are the Lawyers representing the state
and Demi-Mods are like local beat cops

So.... Anyone from Paradox can be found guilty and punished? Or corruption is widespread?

 

[Johan]

So.... Anyone from Paradox can be found guilty and punished? Or corruption is widespread?

No.

We're more like gods.

 

[henkalv]

what has been the most thrilling MP experience ever had at the office (with any game)?

 

[BiB]

Castellon, you are an admin, so you are close enough to Paradox to answer a question.

Why don't you have any games registered? IIRC, BiB doesn't have any (or many) games registered either. Do they disappear because you are an admin, or are they not there for other reasons? A wish to stand out? The same reason you have the giant "admin" tag under your name?

I think you recalled incorrectly

 

[mayorqw]

How do you choose moderators/admins btw? Are they secretly kidnapped from their homes and brought to the paradoxian Olympus?

EDIT: On an unrelated note, this site has its fair share of hilarity when google translator'ed onto portuguese.

 

[Castellon]

So.... Anyone from Paradox can be found guilty and punished? Or corruption is widespread?

When was the last time you saw anyone in Government get punished for thier crimes.

No.

We're more like gods.

Being the Government is better than being God, you have all the power but if anything goes wrong you blame God(s)

 

[King_Richard_XI]

I think you recalled incorrectly

I bet you registered all those just to prove him wrong.








(Or in incredibly far-sighted anticipation. )

 

[Nikolai II]

Mods are the Lawyers representing the state

Ah. I'll have to add that to my CV then

 

[BiB]

I bet you registered all those just to prove him wrong.








(Or in incredibly far-sighted anticipation. )

I just love playing Paradox games!

 

[King_Richard_XI]

I just love playing Paradox games!

Understandable.



And if you didn't, why would you be here?

 

[unmerged(142816)]

where do i find the technical problems forums

All this is wonderful to know about this fine company, but I paid good money to play Europa Universalis III: Heir to the Throne, and the most impressive aspect of the game so far in my experience is that it finds itself so lost apparently, that it finally stutters to a steady drumming buzz until I turn my computer off and restart to try again, and hope it runs for about an hour before it happens again.

I'm new to the paradox experience as well as to the Steam experience, so as a sixty two year old man, when I buy something, I'm kinda used to having a product that is not quite so virtual that it can control one's life to the extent that I am experiencing here. If you are going to whack me over the head I'm more used to getting the bump on my skull, but with this new millenium way to view 'buying' I feel nothing but a frustrated silence..

So, congrats on all your engineering achievements (the most important of which is teaching an idiotic public that they are buying something concrete when it is at most an abstraction that can give one headaches from distances unprecedented before in the history of mankind), but I would suggest that the most important achievement would be in the area of creating a webpage that is not so cluttered with even more abstractions, all founded in ones and zeroes, so that one must do a series of scholarly researches simply to find the right questions to ask before even attempting to find answers that may or may not lead to a virtual victory.

Huzzah Huzzah, to this new generation of engineering geniuses fed on anime and manga so they too can feed on the latest version---most likely the Omega.One/B3c version of the American Dream that takes up at least five gigabytes of hard drive once attaching the probes to the tops of one's heads, while we old people were stuck (think Elmer's Glue) with the more simple illusions of the Great American Dream, created mostly by the crayon. So if you could guide me to the correct forum that will take me to the most likely forum which will, for the most part, identify the most hopeful arena whereby my problem can actually be addressed in a scholarly fashion, with in-text citations and a Works Cited list at the end.

SO....Thanks much, ahead of time, for your help with this tedious problem of finding the correct forum from which I may continue to share my observations on life between games.

UtopianWizard
Ah that got the old blood going again. Feel better already, and still I see I'm sitting here in the Age of Uncertainty, watching and waiting.

 

[OrangeYoshi]

You have to register the base EU3 game or EU3 Complete.

Also, your sig is about 3 or 4 times the limit in the rules.

 

[SAS]

My question is how did Paradox get started? I picture Johan in a cave plotting to take over the world , not being able too, then making a game about it.

 

[unmerged(48546)]

IIRC some guys started a game store in Stockholm back in 1980 which grew to also be a developer/publisher of boardgames and RPGs ("Target Games" and "Äventyrsspel") and for a period also an entire retail chain of stores all over Sweden ("Tradition").
During the 90s a daughter company ("Target Interactive") started making some computer games.
Target Games eventually disappeared. The RPGs were discontinued or the licenses sold to others. The Tradition stores were taken over by EB Games.
What was left of Target Games became "Paradox Entertainment". Johan joined the company somewhere around this time and Europa Universalis was released.
In 2004 Theodore Bergquist the head of the computer games division aquired said division which then became the independent company "Paradox Interactive".

I think this is largely correct?

Trivia: I also think Paradox/GamersGate staff like Theodore and Mattias Lilja are still involved in publishing new versions of Target Games' old RPGs. These ventures are called "Järnringen" and "Riotminds".

 

[unmerged(113739)]

I am having problems downloading the the second expansion. I keep getting a DLL error d3dx9_35.dll says the file can not be found. I first downloaded the disc EU3, then the patchs, then NA and its patchs, then INN and its patches and that is what i get while trying to run it. I am currently running just NA because it is the only one i can get to work. Once i down loand INN and patch i get error. HELP!!!!!!!

 

[OrangeYoshi]

You need the proper version of DirectX. I believe is it is the March '09 version.

 

[Castellon]

Guys lets keep this to non tech support questions, I know it can be frustrating when you encounter a problem but we already have ways to contact us about tech issues, and of course you are encouraged to start a thread in the support forum for the specific game.