PDS Developer Multiplayer Sessions - Res Publica

[The Witch-King]

King Louis XVI gave his First Minister an appraising look as the latter bowed deeply before him.
"Speak," said the king.
"Mon Roi, welcome back from your summer retreat. You look in excellent health."
"Thank you, de la Bretonnière... tell me of any important events that occurred during my absence."
The minister paused for a moment, then frowned with studied gravity and spoke: "Well, mon Roi, the first week our ally Spain was most cowardly attacked by Venice."
"Really? And how did our armies perform?"
"Alas, the foreign ministry thought it better to break our alliance with Spain due to deteriorating relations. So unfortunately, Spain was left alone and lost all its Italian possessions in the war."
"I see." You incompetents. "Anything else?"
The minister seemed to sense his king's thoughts, but continued bravely: "Well, during the second week of your absence we were attacked by Venice and Denmark."
"Venice again? And Denmark? Tell me more of this."
"They took advantage of our perceived diplomatic inertia and thought it safe to attack. Our allies did not help since their rulers were also at their summer retreats. But our brave armies defeated them, mon Roi!"
"Excellent. And dare I ask about the third week...?"
"We were again thrown into war with Venice and Denmark through strange machinations originating in Asia. Unfortunately, our Dutch allies and also others were drawn into war against us due to the chaos resulting from the absence of their governments. This war is still raging."
There it is then. "Very well. We shall finish it. Here are my orders..."

 

[Calad]

In this specific one, no, but it has happened in other campaigns we've played yes.

Do you mean previous developer session? I must have missed it.

But on this sessions coalitions have not been used, right? Should I assume reason has been because they are so easy exploitable or expansion has really been tolerable.

 

[mwyeoh]

In the middle of testing some new stream stuff as well. Looks like we'll be cranking up the quality tomorrow. Basically we're doing away with 720p.

Doing away with 720p? My internet barely handles it as it is! I can usually only stream at 480p... I guess youtube is the only way to go...

 

[Wagonlitz]

Doing away with 720p? My internet barely handles it as it is! I can usually only stream at 480p... I guess youtube is the only way to go...

I think you can see the videos in poorer quality on twitch, so this change only means that those of us who can handle it all gets better quality.

 

[A_Spec]

Sadly have to, the current generation of PDS games are optimized for 1080p, which means that we're currently doing hardware downscaling to 720p. It looks terrible.

 

[highsis]

Sadly have to, the current generation of PDS games are optimized for 1080p, which means that we're currently doing hardware downscaling to 720p. It looks terrible.

They are? It's damn hard to read fonts at 1080p that I have to play with 800p in CK2 and EU4 with larger yet blurry texts!

 

[Anthedon]

^

There is at least one bigger font mod for EUIV. Don't know about CK2.

 

[Wagonlitz]

Sadly have to, the current generation of PDS games are optimized for 1080p, which means that we're currently doing hardware downscaling to 720p. It looks terrible.

By the way since you are looking at the setup anyway: Could you make the sound higher? The sound often is so low that even on max it is had to hear everything; if I put on my earphones or blow it up on my tv the sound level is fine though. But I would prefer not having to use the earphones.

 

[lordmichael95]

By the way since you are looking at the setup anyway: Could you make the sound higher? The sound often is so low that even on max it is had to hear everything; if I put on my earphones or blow it up on my tv the sound level is fine though. But I would prefer not having to use the earphones.

Same hear.

 

[Groogy]

Current Score

1. Netherlands 7381 (+6.42)
2. Venice 7231 (+0.00)
3. Portugal 7022 (+6.68)
4. France 6791 (+6.62)
5. Denmark 6439 (+5.73)
6. Sweden 3768 (+4.86)
7. Ming 3510 (+4.19)
8. Austria 2598 (+1.15)
9. Malaya 2263 (+3.27)
10. Spain 1809 (+1.60)
11. Oman 1504 (+0.92)
12. Muscovy 810 (+0.00)
13. Nye Skåne 665 (+1.51)
14. Byzantium 644 (+0.91)
15. Morocco 600 (+1.21)
16. The Mamluks 522 (+0.00)
17. Nieuw Nederland 399 (+0.0
18. Hungary 367 (+0.00)
19. Ireland 157 (+0.00)
20. Poland 154 (+0.00)

Income

1. Portugal 392.45
2. Netherlands 348.76
3. Denmark 281.58
4. France 250.95
5. Ming 202.07
6. Sweden 201.65
7. Malaya 179.76
8. Austria 145.25
9. Spain 135.52
10. The Mamluks 128.45
11. Byzantium 118.02
12. Oman 117.35
13. Nieuw Nederland 87.22
14. Poland 74.30
15. Japan 64.97
16. Muscovy 64.48
17. Spisnegel 62.54
18. Great Britain 51.08
19. Nye Skåne 49.58
20. Kameloso 40.72

Max. Manpower

1. Ming 328K
2. Sweden 316K
3. Byzantium 308K
4. Muscovy 243K
5. Portugal 232K
6. France 224K
7. Netherlands 183K
8. Spain 164K
9. Austria 147K
10. Malaya 145K
11. Japan 120K
12. Denmark 119K
13. Poland 115K
14. Oman 106K
15. The Mamluks 97,950
16. Nieuw Nederland 88,420
17. Hindustan 85,380
18. Venice 55,350
19. Hungary 51,450
20. Spisnegel 43,510

Standing Army

1. Ming 264K
2. Netherlands 260K
3. Sweden 259K
4. Denmark 247K
5. Portugal 210K
6. France 169K
7. Austria 133K
8. Byzantium 119K
9. Oman 105K
10. Malaya 101K
11. Spain 95,000
12. The Mamluks 84,955
13. Poland 82,000
14. Nieuw Nederland 82,000
15. Muscovy 56,530
16. Japan 54,000
17. Hindustan 32,000
18. Great Britain 32,000
19. Nye Skåne 32,000
20. Hungary 29,000

War Fleet

1. France 145/37
2. Denmark 63/62
3. Netherlands 90/0
4. Spain 1/75
5. Malaya 49/20
6. Portugal 47/0
7. Japan 15/1
8. Poland 0/14
9. Sweden 14/0
10. Nieuw Nederland 12/0
11. Austria 5/4
12. Spisnegel 7/0
13. Morocco 7/0
14. The Mamluks 6/0
15. Hindustan 6/0
16. Christiania 6/0
17. Kameloso 5/0
18. Malayan Australia 5/0
19. Great Britain 3/0
20. Flimsetung 3/0

Trade Fleet

1. Portugal 204
2. Malaya 164
3. Denmark 162
4. Ming 137
5. Nye Skåne 80
6. Netherlands 73
7. Sweden 58
8. Byzantium 43
9. Great Britain 26
10. Poland 25
11. Venice 24
12. The Mamluks 19
13. Kameloso 18
14. Japan 17
15. Morocco 14
16. Spisnegel 14
17. Hindustan 14
18. Christiania 14
19. Newfoundland 10
20. Nieuw Nederland 9

Technologies

1. Portugal 75
2. Netherlands 75
3. Denmark 74
4. Austria 74
5. Scotland 74
6. Sweden 73
7. Byzantium 73
8. Venice 73
9. France 73
10. Nye Skåne 71
11. Great Britain 71
12. Ireland 71
13. Malaya 70
14. Morocco 70
15. Muscovy 69
16. Spain 69
17. Danskjävlar 68
18. Hungary 68
19. Kameloso 68
20. Spisnegel 68

 

[saegoto]

that sweden!

 

[TheArchduke]

Huh, seems that Sweden - Denmark cooperation is becoming a thing.

 

[TheLetterZ]

France and Netherlands
[video=youtube;04854XqcfCY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04854XqcfCY[/video]

 

[A_Spec]

By the way since you are looking at the setup anyway: Could you make the sound higher? The sound often is so low that even on max it is had to hear everything; if I put on my earphones or blow it up on my tv the sound level is fine though. But I would prefer not having to use the earphones.

Should be possible, the main issue here is that it's different between viewers. Some have no audio issues what so ever, others ask for more volume. I'll see what I can do though.

They are? It's damn hard to read fonts at 1080p that I have to play with 800p in CK2 and EU4 with larger yet blurry texts!

Boot up CK2 in 1280x720, some of the UI elements don't fit the screen.

 

[Groogy]

Another session today, time to form the Confederate Muslim States of Egypt

 

[lugevnissyen]

It's most likely the wrong thread but I usually attack a country and take provinces that I will use to create a vassal which can reclaim a lot of provinces. But with patch 1.6 I think that spending 15 Diplo points / month for annexing a vassal is way too expensive furthermore if there is no other bonus added to it. Having vassals becomes a hidrance this way since it is very difficult to annex them and even more as the vassal is powerful.

I would much prefer losing 3 to 5 points of each / month as for the bonus a culture change on all the provinces would be good or at least have the choice to spend those extra points for this bonus.

Being able to force bigger countries to vassalize as our own grows would also be great and for balance the more powerful a vassal is the more it wants its independance. Being able to order your vassals to do covert actions in exange for a loss of opinion or to give 1 Diplo point plus a loss of opinion / month to use one of their diplomats would also be great.

I know all that would make the game more militaristic but I think it would also be more realist.

 

[Wagonlitz]

It's most likely the wrong thread but I usually attack a country and take provinces that I will use to create a vassal which can reclaim a lot of provinces. But with patch 1.6 I think that spending 15 Diplo points / month for annexing a vassal is way too expensive furthermore if there is no other bonus added to it. Having vassals becomes a hidrance this way since it is very difficult to annex them and even more as the vassal is powerful.

I would much prefer losing 3 to 5 points of each / month as for the bonus a culture change on all the provinces would be good or at least have the choice to spend those extra points for this bonus.

Being able to force bigger countries to vassalize as our own grows would also be great and for balance the more powerful a vassal is the more it wants its independance. Being able to order your vassals to do covert actions in exange for a loss of opinion or to give 1 Diplo point plus a loss of opinion / month to use one of their diplomats would also be great.

I know all that would make the game more militaristic but I think it would also be more realist.

This is the wrong thread. Furthremore the most current patch is 1.7.3. There is no problem in you wanting to continue playing an old patch, but if you want to complain then do it from the basis of the most recent patch. Also register your game, so that we can see you are no pirate---especially when you start complaining about old patches.

 

[TheDanish]

May Great Ming reign for ten thousand years!

 

[A_Spec]

Usa usa usa usa usa usa usa

 

[Sindai]

Should be possible, the main issue here is that it's different between viewers. Some have no audio issues what so ever, others ask for more volume. I'll see what I can do though.

In general it's probably best to err on the side of loud. People on crappy speakers with no hardware amplifier (like integrated laptop speakers) can run into situations where they literally can't turn up the volume any more, while it's pretty easy to turn the volume down.