My EU3 preview.

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I also hope I get hold of the review version... or since I will preorder the game I may write a review anyway for them.

 

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On a related note, ships repair damage when sitting in harbours, so you can avoid having to continually build new ships to replace your losses which -- if you were a large naval power in EU2 -- could be quite the click-fest.

Does this mean that ships never become obsolete? Or was this abstracted to avoid micromanagement?

 

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Does this mean that ships never become obsolete? Or was this abstracted to avoid micromanagement?

Well, I'd imagine they can become obsolete, yes. You'll have to upgrade them and build new & more powerful designs as time goes on, ala the Spanish Galleon

 

[Bismark776]

Hrm, heres a question, would you say that, due to the time and expense of armies, that nations will be more likely to hire large numbers of mercenaries this time around? That was one weakness in EUII and it'd be great if the limiting factors or army size caused mercenary use to skyrocket. Also, when mercenaries are hired do they appear instantly and you can hire a great many at once?

 

[ComradeOm]

Some very interesting info from both Jkris and Mr T. Merci to both. I have to admit that I'm starting to get more excited by this game as the days go by.

 

[Ganso]

Oh bugger, my oldie won't probably run EU3...on a P4 2.4Ghz with 512 RAM and a Radeon 9200SE i'm as good as... well, as not good. Bugger.

 

[Registered]

Oh bugger, my oldie won't probably run EU3...on a P4 2.4Ghz with 512 RAM and a Radeon 9200SE i'm as good as... well, as not good. Bugger.

Have you seen the minimal requierments? You more then match them.

 

[Ganso]

Have you seen the minimal requierments? You more then match them.

Radeon 9200SE belongs in the R200 series which seems to be "not supported" seeing as the lowest is the R300 series.

 

[Registered]

Radeon 9200SE belongs in the R200 series which seems to be "not supported" seeing as the lowest is the R300 series.

videocards are easily upgraded.

 

[ComradeOm]

videocards are easily upgraded.

Unless you find out today that Dell, for some unknown reason, stuck a plain old PCI (no express) slot on your computer. This means that short of buying a new PC there is sweet feck all you can do about that badly needed upgrade

 

[Ganso]

videocards are easily upgraded.

That's not the point, the point is you immediately said my specs "more than match" and that isn't true. Ah bugger, nevemind, seems like i'll have to upgrade, long time due actually. :wacko:

 

[Kedryn]

Unless you find out today that Dell, for some unknown reason, stuck a plain old PCI (no express) slot on your computer. This means that short of buying a new PC there is sweet feck all you can do about that badly needed upgrade

That's why I like 'homemade' computers.

I think I'll be able to run this. Surely if I can (barely) run Oblivion, I can run a Paradox game.

 

[Alerias]

A plea and request!!

Ive just found out about the single regiment per province/single ship at a time per province thing. Its in essence, a good change.

HOWEVER, please let us queue units! We should be able to order the province of Amiens to continously train Regiments of Infantrymen until 5 have been built or we run out of the needed ressources. Having to train manually one-by-one would bring us back to the tediousness of the pre-Starcraft area, when RTS' would only let you build one unit without a queue.

To remove tediousness, please implement this simple feature.

Thanks!

 

[Dr. Zoidberg]

That's why I like 'homemade' computers.

I think I'll be able to run this. Surely if I can (barely) run Oblivion, I can run a Paradox game.

Shouldn't have any trouble assuming you didn't have to use the Oldblivion mod. The one that added in pixel shader 1.1 support for old cards to try and play(god knows why)

Alerias, quite a sensible request.