Demo: First Impressions?

[Johan]

the screen resolution is a bit odd.

You can change resolution to whatever you want in options.

 

[Johan]

I noticed you can play with any nation by using the "tag" cheat.

yeah, but the tag cheat does not work properly in eu3:Httt.. causes all sort of crashes and misbehaviour.

 

[Johan]

Ok... or is this just an explanation of why you forgot the 'tag' cheat?

try the cheat in hoi3. there's a reason it was removed there.

 

[Johan]

Ok, I guess claims are a bit overpowered... except if someone else claims.[/IMG]

or they get a new heir

continue playing and tell us what happens.

 

[Johan]

Tried to play as Sweden, noticed I couldn't.

Next step to play as the Hansa. Got a tad annoyed that it was still feeling "slow", even if of course the reality was that it was a lot quicker than EU3 vanilla.

After that I noticed that there are quite a few awesome new things included, I especially enjoyed the new view on advisers ( I hated how it was in EU3 vanilla, I truly hated the randomness).

Still couldn't bother to play any longer time. Will try again some other time with demo, but EU3 still isn't my cup of tea (at least if playing Hansa).

Try Castille if you want an historically guided game with the missions and decisions.. 1492 should be fairly historical for you.. at worst you wasted an hour or two of your life, at best you had some great fun.

 

[Johan]

Why is a PU with England worth 20 WS, while vassalisation more than 200? It's basically the same thing.

ehmm.. no?

Union = same monarch and allied.. vassalization = independence gone.

 

[Johan]

Have the chances of inheriting been increased?

not from a union..

i personally don't mind getting into a union for a monarch or two with another country.. its a period of fun :9

 

[Darkrenown]

Why do I get money all the time for advisors?
They buy them from my pool?

Is the diploannex province limit still in place?
It used to be 3 or 4 IIRC?

Ottoman sends constantly fleet of 4 galleys to me (I'm Castille).
And each time they get crushed. This repeats over 10 times. (No other war activity). Probably some quirk in the AI programming?

Yes, you are paid when another nation hires away your advisors.

Not sure if it's still there, I thought the limit was 5 though.

What is your fleet doing? Sometimes if you keep it in port the AI doesn't seem to worry about it and sends out small fleets to blockade you, which is rather silly of it.

 

[Darkrenown]

OOOOOHHHHH! Wait, I made meself DoF, could that be it?

Yes

 

[Darkrenown]

It's from the book/movie The shining. Guy goes crazy and tries to kill his family. As he chops through the door with an axe he shouts "Heeeeeeeeeeeere's Johny!". The event text used the current monarch name instead of Johny.

 

[Darkrenown]

That thing is caused by an imperial reform as the emperor. Even if you play the emperor, you only get to see what you reform does after you click it in a separate pop-up. So, also very inconvenient.

Mouseover the name of the reforms rather than the button
Edit: This also works for non-emperors.

 

[Darkrenown]

BTW, why can you not just click on the minimap and go there anymore? I click it to go to Newfoundland from managing a war in Germany, but nothing happens. I have to scroll all the way over there and that is just bloody annoying.

Minimap works fine for me Someone else reported this though, does the minimap work if you close the log?

 

[Darkrenown]

Also doesn't work here.

But does it work with the log closed?

 

[Darkrenown]

- I'd like to see a notifier about CBs which are about to expire, and what Cbs I currently have (similar to "weak legitimacy" notifier and tooltip).

The is an alert when a CB is expiring. You can see what CBs you have on your diplomacy screen.

 

[Darkrenown]

I'm not panicked, I'm trying to help people...

 

[Darkrenown]

Darkrenown, I just went and tested about the minimap.

It worked when the log was closed, then when I brought the log up...it still worked. But that was when it was empty, once I started the game and tried again, with messages in the log, it wouldn't work.


...though I just realized I didn't try minimizing the log to see if it still worked. *shrug* Oh well, something for you betatypes to do. *nods*

Interesting, thanks. It does work if you minimise the log again BTW. It seems to be related to resolution. At the default 1024*768 the log overlaps the minimap a little which seems to be the problem. I normally play at 1600*1200 and it works fine as the log isn't anywhere near the map. If you have a decent pc up the resolution a little and it should be fine.

Riddermark: Bah, you used a specific form of address

Cityinthesea: Known, but thanks

 

[Johan]

Does this mean that both will happen or that one of the two will happen?

both

the rest of countries lists what happens to them when their monarch dies.

 

[Doomdark]

This can't be right? My heir was underage and got a regency. Then I got the event that he was ill. He died. So I have a regency, no legal heir and that's it. It's been a few months now and still nothing has changed...

It happens. You have an interregnum for some time.

 

[Doomdark]

Johan, I don't know if its too late for changes, but if not could you tone down the inheritances and PUs? Really seems a bit overpowered...

We have. You are not running the Gold version.

 

[Johan]

Excellent. Oh, and sorry for directing that at Johan, this one seems to be your baby. Great job BTW.

I never had problems with performance before Doomdark, but its like I'm running it on a supercomputer now. Whatever you did there, please do it with HoI3 and Vicky2.

We had Birken doing quite alot of optimisations for this, and he's doing the same for hoi3 atm...