Sandbox vs Determinism
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They will mostly make so you can go histroical, BUT If you want you can do an Alternate history. Paradox's game have never been to replay history. IMHO The idea of very little sandbox sound horrible. Why would someone want to play as Germany know you going to lose? The biggest attraction to Paradox's games is the sandbox and Alternate history of their games. Not to Replay history over an over again the same way.
Bigger the sandbox the better.
Bigger the sandbox the better.
Well great. As long as invading the Soviets or sinking the RN isn't a cake walk.
At least don't release it with a consumer goods bug.
That is, of course, if you are not allied with Soviet russia and GB against the ottoman empire and US.
As long as it is within reason. I don't want Russia to gobble up the Nordic countries in 1937, or the UK deciding to eat Spain at the start of the civil war. The world has to be somewhat plausible or it is just silly. Personal opinion of course. Have no issue with a sandbox, just try and keep the world within reason.
If this was possible it would totally ruin HOI for me, ugh.
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I presume there will still be major event's like the anschluss and similar? Will you be providing a more sanbox type of experience by giving us more options on how to handle these events? For example i love what you guys did with war of the roses in EU4.
Presumably there will be so long as the conditions are set. I really hope they do expand on the Dynamic Historical Events from EU4.
you are wrong
hoi is focused on ww2 in a very short timeframe. should be event based with some flexibility
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Plausibility is the key here, but in order to determine that, we need to know more about the game mechanics and the overall approach the devs took in case of HOI4.
Oh no... HoI2 had a good mixture between both... So now we will see Switzerland declare war to Austria?
Of course not... But it should be plausible.
I think most people misunderstood what he meant by "more sandbox" - I believe this is actually a positive thing, considering that currently Hearts of Iron 3 follows a 100% historical route. I do hope he meant more historically plausible anyway.
Sandbox for sure, since determinism (date, events, triggers) can be modded in easily
This was a feature in For the Glory (or maybe even vanilla Eu2) but I don't think Paradox will implement it here, Paradox will definitely lean towards sandbox as they've taken the side of "if you want pure history, read a book". The fun of Paradox games is not purely emulating history but doing better or just different.
Besides, if you want determinism, you can look at the events and decisions which lead up to the war and change the chance the AI will pick it to guaranteed.
