Quills Preview and Area of the game i thought need tweaking. Nationalism

[BobbyDylan]

I really don't think he deserved an exclusive. There must be any number of other Let's-Players (?) who'd have done a better job promoting the game. Maybe some of the other attendees at the Stockholm LAN event?

I think he's doing a fantastic job of promoting the game.

 

[Belissarius]

Loans are different now. They are no longer a sign that your country is failing, and there is nothing wrong with taking out loans during a war.

Very much so in fact I would say that a sign of a bad strategy is the unwillingness to take out loans.

Which is a complete departure from EU3.

 

[Belissarius]

I think he's doing a fantastic job of promoting the game.

I agree. I think his mistakes shows the game isn't punishing so new players to the series will not find it so intimidating.

 

[Closet Skeleton]

Sure, but (I know nothing about scandinavia, so I might be wrong), there are less differences trough Danes and Swedes than through Irish and British peoples, at the beginning of the time line (for example) ?

Depends on the 'British', Irish were very different to the Welsh, completely different to the English and low-land Scots but almost identical to the Highland Scots whose language was often called 'Irish' by English speaking Scotsmen (nowadays they are called 'Irish Gaelic' and 'Scottish Gaelic' and have diverged a bit more, but Irish, Gaelic and Scottish were all originally synonyms from different languages). Swedish and Danish were continuums, so Swedes in Finland would be quite different to Danes in Schlesvig, but Danes in Scania would be closer to Geatlanders across the border than to their countrymen in Schlesvig and Geatlanders would be closer to Scanians than to Norlanders and Swedish speaking Finns.

The Dutch and Germans are similar.

 

[Haggan]

I agree. I think his mistakes shows the game isn't punishing so new players to the series will not find it so intimidating.

If you're playing England atleast

 

[rho]

On the topic of Quill's preview, I'd mainly like to know how exactly he managed to get exclusive rights to broadcast the pre-release version. They really should have given those rights to someone who is actually knowledgeable about and good at the game. Quill's videos frustrated and annoyed me to the point that I wasn't able to get through them all.

Doing a let's play is substantially different from playing alone and offline. For one thing, let's plays need to be entertaining to someone who's watching them. Often the most strategically optimal decision is not particularly entertaining. This is especially the case in a game like EU where optimal play involves waiting around a lot and meticulously checking fine details. I know that it would be incredibly boring to watch me play EU3, for instance. Second, in a let's play, you have to focus on talking about what you're doing as you do it. This means that a lot of your attention is on something that isn't the game itself. If you try to play EU when you aren't able to properly concentrate on it, then you make mistakes.