Ask Paradox Development Studio anything!

[podcat]

Here's footage of ForzaA's first day at PDS [video=youtube;_5DZexDYyuU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5DZexDYyuU[/video]

It was more like this
[video=youtube;SHjVO-PkDN8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHjVO-PkDN8[/video]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_control_in_the_Netherlands

Do they actually put you in your place from time to time or no?

No never, why would anyone stoop so low as to make fun of someones country of birth

 

[Darkrenown]

Have you played "Banished" yet? (here's Quill playing it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gAXcREfjbQ)

Yeah. I like it, but I wish there was more to do once you get your town up and running. I'd like to make bakeries and brickworks etc.

 

[Pallidum]

if you were trapped on an island with all the rest of PDS, who would you eat first?

We don't have any planning done for an island scenario, but there is a section about cannibalism in our Zombie Apocalypse Survival Guide.

Edit: Since some people have tried to make me disclose the menu, I'd like to make it clear that it is considered a trade secret, seeing as it's something a competitor could potentially take advantage of.

If you really need to know the contents of the menu, we do have job openings. Please state your nutritional value in your application.

 

[Castellon]

It's been a bug for a long time and I feel a regular forum post isn't going to get the attention >.>

Breaking the etiquette to post things here will not help. If the purported bug has been reported in the bug reports forum, it is already in the database.
The forum is organized the way it is to make it manageable. Otherwise we could just have one thread for the whole board.
Please help us keep things organized and therefore more enjoyable for all.
Any further discussion of this topic is Off-topic for this thread.
Feel free to contact me by PM if you wish to discuss forum organization in more detail.

 

[SolSara]

Are you guys nerding out on Runemaster or going for mass market appeal. What games are your inspiration for game mechanics.

Im a little burned out on grand strategy after 1200 hours on CK2 and am really looking forward to this.

Nerding out, but even if we do, it must be possible to appeal to the mass market as well. Some of the games that have inspired us are: Baldur's Gate, The Witcher 1 and 2, the Elder Scrolls-series, Heroes of Might and Magic 2 and 3, Might and Magic 7 to 9 (the RPG-games), the Kings Bounty-games (from The Legend and forward) and some others. We have a whole thread about this in the Runemaster forum (http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?843-Runemaster), feel free to join the discussions there!

 

[SolSara]

Witcher 3 is coming out soon which looks really good.

I am so looking forward to The Witcher 3! I will buy it when it comes out, but I'll have to upgrade my computer first. My graphics card is about eight years old and I need a better hard drive. Maybe more RAM as well...

 

[Kallocain]

if you were trapped on an island with all the rest of PDS, who would you eat first?

This has already been answered, but I just want to point out that I can craft and use a bow and arrow! (hint: I'm useful, don't eat me!)

So you can ask anything int this thread, right?

Is Project Augustus a historical or fantasy(non-historical) grand strategy game that is not a sequel to the current paradox game titles(eg HOI, CK...)?

Sure, you can ask anything!

How many different unreleased PDS games have at least one developer assigned to them?

Three.

is there any kind of office drama going on right on? did anyone get pregnant and you are trying to guess who the daddy is?

Ugh. For office drama, I direct you here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqRhPbyFDQWir8LwA0ZXMdqg5ADde-G2o You would not believe the amount of drama our office mp generates. People are really serious about this!

When it comes to working at PDS, you've said swedish is preferred. What is your opinion on similar languages, like norwegian and danish?

Norwegian should work fine, but I'd prefer talking English to a dane.

Have you played "Banished" yet? (here's Quill playing it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gAXcREfjbQ)

Not yet, I had to finish playing the banner saga first.

 

[Kallocain]

But a globe is cheating! Map projections are much more fun.

Exactly! http://xkcd.com/977/

It seems to me that if you can use a bow and arrow, you'd be one of the eaters, not the eaten.

That's the plan. ^^

How's Banner Saga, anyway?

Short and sweet! (Not really sweet though, it is very dark.) It feels more like the first chapter of a game than an entire game since the story is nowhere near finished.
I did enjoy it a lot, everyone should try it.

 

[Kallocain]

What would HoI4 look like if you had a budget of $40 000 000? (the amount that got kickstarted to Star Citizen)

Haha, wow. I don't even know. I think podcat will have to answer this one.

**brooding horns greet your ears, text fades slowly from black onto the screen**
"A 20,000 year empire is dying... "

**Music swells**

"Paradox Interactive presents 'Foundation'. Take the reins of an ambitious warlord in a fractured galaxy in an epic millenia-spanning 4X Grand Strategy quest to rule it all!"

***

Has this very concept ever crossed the mind of any of you brilliant masters of strategy?

If not, then...

WHY???

Um, DROOL! This is only the very best trilogy (yes, I said trilogy damnit) that exists. I was going to tell a friend about it a few weeks ago, but I couldn't really remember all the details. SCORE, I thought. Because now I can re-read it!
So yeah, I would love to play that game.

 

[podcat]

What would HoI4 look like if you had a budget of $40 000 000? (the amount that got kickstarted to Star Citizen)

Take the money and run

I'm not sure projects can benefit from that much money, there is only so much stuff you can cram into it if you plan to keep your release date (increasing team size doesnt necessarily speed things up either). But sure I could easily spend a couple of million on lots of graphics stuff etc. Or we could delay the game some years and spend the money iterating and making more stuff, but I doubt that is wanted

 

[Goosecreature]

Take the money and run

I'm not sure projects can benefit from that much money, there is only so much stuff you can cram into it if you plan to keep your release date (increasing team size doesnt necessarily speed things up either). But sure I could easily spend a couple of million on lots of graphics stuff etc. Or we could delay the game some years and spend the money iterating and making more stuff, but I doubt that is wanted

HoI4 needs an aquarium...

 

[Pallidum]

What would HoI4 look like if you had a budget of $40 000 000? (the amount that got kickstarted to Star Citizen)

If you pledge $5000 for the Field Marshal level, we'll give you a limited edition imaginary digital P. 1000 Ratte tank to look at in the preview alpha bunker module we created to keep you distracted while we're busy counting all the money.

What was that? Give us even more money? Well, let's see....

 

[Castellon]

Let's not turn this into and Ethnic/Nationalist joke thread.
This is an international forum open and welcoming to all Nationalities/Ethnicity/orientations .... you get the picture.

Even with the best of intentions, unless the persons are well know to each other, these kind of things are often at least "off putting" to those on the receiving end.

 

[Castellon]

Demi moderators are all ten foot tall Greek gods with skin like ambrosia and the witty, refined manner of Oscar Wilde crossed with George Clooney.

You would think they get better looking with more rank, but sadly the opposite is true.
The cost of power and knowledge takes a heavy toll on both the physical body and the soul.
All the way up to super Moderators who tend to look something like Emperor Palpatine, or Raistlin.
Of course Administrators have transcended the physical and exist only as pure energy.

 

[Castellon]

After that I still don't get the answer: what is the difference, please, between demi-moderator and moderator?

The same difference between a sergeant and a lieutenant.
Demi Moderators are the entry level forum staff position, they do not issue infractions, Moderators can issue infractions and are promoted only from within the DM ranks.

Questions like this related to running the forums should be posted in the Forum help sub-forum, rather than this thread though.

 

[Castellon]

Ok. Thank you for the reply as I didn't get this http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...-anything!&p=17113562&viewfull=1#post17113562 at all.

I'm happy
1) If you move my question anywhere you deem is required.
2) Receiving any suggestion (including where a question should e posted)

PS
My last question, if I can ask here, is the following: How the "promotion" system works? What are the requirements to be promoted to demi moderator and from demi to moderator?

PPS
I'm just curious.

I am responsible for all forum staff, that includes recruitment and promotions.

 

[podcat]

Paradox devs hi

I asked this in the EU4 sub-forums, but it was moved here (didn't even know about this little handy thread).

I wanted to know about Paradox's stance on virtual reality in it's games.
I'm asking this after seeing Oculus's 2nd dev kit demo in CES 2014 (regrading the tower defense one used to demonstrate implementation in similar genres)
and only reading about Valves own demos (couldn't find more info on that and I don't know anyone who went).

original post: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?764023-To-the-Devs-Paradox-and-VR

I think in theory (and if the oculus rift had high enough resolution) it could be cool to view the game as a boardgame where you could look around on the map etc.

I studied at a uni that was developing this 3D table for the swedish military where you (in 3D) could walk around and see projected representation of forces in sweden and surrounding area. was pretty cool stuff.

 

[Mrop]

Is Sweden overpowered?

Do you even listen to Sabaton?

 

[Pallidum]

Do you guys have a "Paradox Forum app" for Google Android? Could be really helpful when I play since "Alt+Tab" results in a crash now and then.

No, but you should be able to read the forums just fine on your phone or tablet's browser. I'm often reading the forums on my Android phone, as are several other that I know of.

 

[Meneth]

Well, take CKII for example. Day one of RoI release and it seems there is quite a few things that have been found out just by the sheer numbers of people playing it. What I meant to ask, is would they consider using the cream of the crop from the community to expand their ability to handle bigger test, not if they would just expand their test.

Some of the issues could've been found through better logging (a bit of a pet peeve of mine) or validation tools as well.
As an example, there's three dozen duplicate title IDs in RoI (which I found while testing my mod once the Validator had gotten updated). With better logging those would've been noted down in a warning log and fixed long ago.