HOI4 - Development Diary - September 2nd 2016

[Balesir]

Equipment for expeditionary forces comes from the original country so the exploit is only a method of transferring manpower between nations by using expeditionary forces.

Hmm, I'll have to check that. I'm sure I have seen significant unexpected dives in infantry equipment after accepting Exp. forces that are half-formed.

 

[Metz]

Will you be adding the ability to see how many units you have selected in terms of manpower?

 

[tom_jones]

@podcat sorry to ping on Monday like that but just wondering, is there a chance this patch will address any of the issues reported here? I don't mean like, in reaction to it, but maybe, hopefully those were already on the table..?

 

[Aphexus]

Lots of good news! Can't wait to get cracking with the Beta

 

[KaeI]

Will field marchal have a limit for troup? In my game Germany have a army of 326 devision and one of 152, this mean that when a new front happen and the AI choose one of those giant army one front is litteraly empty. It also take a really long time for every division to move and be ready.




Edit: erase some swastikas

 

[Pirex]

And when can we expect a chinese tree? It looks a major blunder not having it... The rest i like the changes xD

 

[potski]

In my game Germany...
[pic with swastikas]

Good effort, but you missed a couple

 

[potski]

And when can we expect a chinese tree? It looks a major blunder not having it... The rest i like the changes xD

Even if you don't read the whole thread, it's always a good idea to go to the start of the thread and select Show only Dev Responses. It's a great feature

You will find:

China is an obvious candidate. I can definitely see us fleshing out that part in the future.

 

[Tankbusta8]

i dont know if anyone has suggested, ive only read through the first 5 pages or so, but i think a future improvement for construction could be selecting the amount of factories you want working on certain things, with a max of 15?

 

[grandad1982]

i dont know if anyone has suggested, ive only read through the first 5 pages or so, but i think a future improvement for construction could be selecting the amount of factories you want working on certain things, with a max of 15?

Yeah that could be interesting. Make it like the equipment production and assign CIC up to 15. If i want to slowly build up air fields in Malta say i could assign 5 CIC to the line whilst still max spamming MIC in the uk.

 

[ViriathusTG]

Whens the next update with bug fixes? As I cant wait to be able to play again

 

[Broletariat90]

Random thought, but @podcat, have you guys considered giving Britain a fascist oriented national focus path?

 

[KaeI]

Good effort, but you missed a couple

Thanks, this should be ok now.

Random thought, but @podcat, have you guys considered giving Britain a fascist oriented national focus path?

For France too, maybe take the wallonie and the french speaker in swiss. Finish the conquest of Indochina with a annex Siam.

 

[Ibn_Solmyr]

I would love drag and drop in every interface, but to be honest our GUI system is horrific. Doing drag and drop takes so much effort and complexity to add that we often avoid it. Could happen eventually though, but its bad bang-for-buck coder time.

So, could you add some generic/particular rules toggleable for the civil building queue ? (Like, for example : "Always prioritize infra repairs for any provinces" ; "Always prioritize AA repairs for selected provinces" etc)

 

[RobertPan]

Edit: erase some swastikas

Did you really have to? I know Paradox have removed swastikas for social justice reasons, but does politics really have to take hold among fellow users in the forum as well? It was a historically used symbol, can we stop demonizing it already? Said my piece, back to lurking.

 

[safe-keeper]

Yup this forums

One of the worst forums in the gaming world, actually. How many have you even been to?
Just had to comment since this is a pet peeve of mine: you don't need to make every molehill into a mountain and user lots of hyperbole to make a point. In fact, often it can have the opposite effect. Just post your opinions and go.

i dont know if anyone has suggested, ive only read through the first 5 pages or so, but i think a future improvement for construction could be selecting the amount of factories you want working on certain things, with a max of 15?

Agree strongly.

 

[potski]

If you don't like the forum rules and don't want to follow them, then close your account. It's a free world, no-one forces you to be on the forum. But it's not a free forum - you can't post anything you like. And that includes commenting on the forum rules.

 

[Broletariat90]

If you don't like the forum rules and don't want to follow them, then close your account. It's a free world, no-one forces you to be on the forum. But it's not a free forum - you can't post anything you like. And that includes commenting on the forum rules.

There is actually no clear way to delete an account, just saying.

 

[Krafty]

One of the worst forums in the gaming world, actually. How many have you even been to?

Hundreds, if not thousands, since 1986.

This forum is pretty ridiculous.

 

[ctolm]

Then you should probably stop commenting on them brah.

But yeah, I should close the only link I have to bug fixes, dev diaries, mod forums, WWWs, and bug reporting. Great idea.

Its your kind of attitude that makes this place such a fiasco. If you dont exist in the isolated fanboi cadre, you hear constant rumblings about how this forum is terrible. It comes up as often as complaints about the AI on Reddit lol. Its part of paradoxes legacy. "The game will need 1.3 to work" "The forums are horrible" "There will be 40 horse armor DLCs".

Its what theyre best known for. Like EA is known for horrible communication, its lulz attempt at being Steam, and broken games, and Ubisoft is known for its problems, etc.

That doesnt mean the companies are bad, or the games are bad, it just means theres draw backs to all of these companies products.

The draw back to Paradox games is that they need patches, and the forums are absolutely abysmal. 90% of my list of Steam friends and gaming buddies agree with that. Its the stigma they have. They did that to themselves with the arbitrary rules, the agree and disagree buttons, the locking mods being registering, the badges, it all contributes to one of the worst user experiences for casual fans on the internet.

I have to create seperate forum accounts to register all of my games just to avoid the BS.

And then randomly I have to deal with my games getting unlinked from various accounts and backend database problems with this forum, while getting crapped on by fanbois for lack of badges. Its a microcosm of the worst aspects of Kindergarten.

It might be worth your while to consider the concept of subjectivity. Saying all your friends agree that these forums are bad is as valueless as me saying that I've never heard someone complaining about them except in the context of not being able to talk about death camps. Both statements may be true or they may both be hyperbolic. What exactly are your criteria for a good forum?

For me having an engaged community which is often very helpful and usually maintains a good atmosphere is important. Having a place where we can engage with Devs and where I know that they are reading more comments than they are responding to is important. Having a easy access to information about upcoming dlc, patches and even the way in which the Dev teams work is important.

I find the disagree/agree/helpful thing often useful but I would hardly complain if it went. I could wish for a better search engine but the ability to see only dev comments is helpful.

I don't really care about the not being able to talk about death camps stuff and it's a handy way of sidestepping unpleasant and irrelevant conversations. However, I can see that some people would find it more irksome than I do and concede that they so for good reasons. I just can't see how that stuff could be so bad that it makes up for all the good.