Does anyone here own the source code for Victoria?

[Wenceslaus II]

Unlike HoI 2, our map is allready done, and the game is bug free enough All we have to do is mod, not bug mod where a patch left off :rofl:


What benefits would the source code for Vicky provide?

 

[jdrou]

Oh, there are some known bugs left to patch yet.

Just see the 'wishlist' sticky thread for some of the possible mods. #1 on my list would probably be adding 'mod-dir' which most other Paradox games have (at varying levels of functionality). Plenty of useful event triggers/commands could be added too. These are (relatively) simple things; some people would surely like to completely overhaul various aspect of the core game like the economic model or trade.

 

[Wenceslaus II]

I'm talking to an Anthology owner!


Paradox really really should have "caught up" with patching their games, before EU: Rome was even an idea, putting aside now the expansion and HoI 3.

Look at 1.2 for Armageddon. The plane sprites are ghosts! Something so important and obvious as that, overlooked and ignored with a "1.2a" quick fix patch or whatnot, hidiously ignorant to their reputation as a gaming company and the devote loyalty of their many fans. And a even slightly better Revs patch, besides the long term fact that auto trade still isn't anything but <1000 or >1000, is still a hope of all of us, but fading farther and farther into oblivion. And all of this I'm being 100% honest with.

 

[OHgamer]

Unlike HoI 2, our map is allready done, and the game is bug free enough All we have to do is mod, not bug mod where a patch left off :rofl:


What benefits would the source code for Vicky provide?

The only people that own the code are Paradox itself.

Third Parties can license the code, as per the licensing program Paradox developed, BUT Paradox does the distribution of whatever final product the third party develops.

So if you wanted to try and license the code, you'd have to apply to Paradox, make the changes you'd want to make, get Paradox to approve the changes and then they would distribute the new production.

But no one other than Paradox "owns" the code.

 

[jdrou]

I'm talking to an Anthology owner!

Only because I lost interest in WW2 strategy gaming after HoI1. I bought HoI2 but never really played aside from testing a few things and never got DD or Arma so the Anthology made sense. Just started playing again a couple of months ago (and pretty much haven't touched EU3 since; I tend to focus on one game at a time).

Another item which I think could be added: a few higher & widescreen resolutions. Since we can get a mostly-functional mod with a simple exe hack it should be possible to do it right with access to the source code. I'd probably start with 1280x800, 1600x1200, 1400x1050, 1920x1200, 1680x1050, and 1440x900 in order of importance.

 

[tylerhink]

The only people that own the code are Paradox itself.

Third Parties can license the code, as per the licensing program Paradox developed, BUT Paradox does the distribution of whatever final product the third party develops.

So if you wanted to try and license the code, you'd have to apply to Paradox, make the changes you'd want to make, get Paradox to approve the changes and then they would distribute the new production.

But no one other than Paradox "owns" the code.

Wait so anyone can get the source code? Lets say that I want to get it (which i don't, but if I get better at modding I may want) how do I get it?

 

[OHgamer]

Wait so anyone can get the source code? Lets say that I want to get it (which i don't, but if I get better at modding I may want) how do I get it?

There was an application process, though I believe that it is now closed.

 

[orwell]

There was an application process, though I believe that it is now closed.

Isn't it only temporarily until they process those thousand requests?