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First Impressions:

New stability rule is nice. Seperate "support" from different classes of people. This needs to be in EU3 or I'm going to fly to Sweden and kill someone.

Johan took a step backwards on game speed. "1 Min = 1 Month" is back instead of the more friendly "Uber Slow, Slow, Normal, Above Normal, Are you insane?"

Not really sure what the little vodka bottle in the army display is. I assume it has something to do with supply, but I can't prove that yet.

Siege warfare needs a better graphic so you know it's happening. Perhaps put the siege icon bigger and next to your army instead of near the city wall and small? Bigger would be better, no matter where it is in the province. It should be readily apparent that I'm doing something.

It took me five minutes to figure out that my boats don't hide in the harbor ;) Damn EU2 making me thinking, "How do I stop the naval attrition?" :D

So far, so good. Looks like a game I could teach the wife and slowly sneak her into the idea of EU3. I say to Paradox, "Good to make some intro games."

--- Seperate but important:

The side of the box is all but unreadable in the Strat First release. This means that the casual gamer won't pick it up since it will almost certainly be sideways on the shelf (not being a major release). Do these people at Strategy First have absolutely no clue, or do they work hard to be that stupid? I had to have a store employee find it for me, and I was looking for it.

Even when the game is on the shelf, strat first fails to market it. I swear, it takes skill to be that incompetant.



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There will be another update to the Duuk Report later today.
 

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Mouse-hovering over a unit doesn't tell me who that unit belongs to. It'd be nice to know who is killing my neighbor the Duc d'Orleans.
 

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Johan took a step backwards on game speed. "1 Min = 1 Month" is back instead of the more friendly "Uber Slow, Slow, Normal, Above Normal, Are you insane?"

Not really. Seeing the gameengine is from a game that was done before Vicky was even thought of. But, heck, who cares?
 

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Duuk said:
Not really sure what the little vodka bottle in the army display is. I assume it has something to do with supply, but I can't prove that yet.
According to the image's name, it's the total "weight"--how much room in a fleet it takes up.
 

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Carolus Rex said:
Not really. Seeing the gameengine is from a game that was done before Vicky was even thought of. But, heck, who cares?

Sure, that part I know. It's based on SR3. But this was "fixed" in a patch for EU2 a while back. Consistancy is a good thing.
 

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Johan took a step backwards on game speed. "1 Min = 1 Month" is back instead of the more friendly "Uber Slow, Slow, Normal, Above Normal, Are you insane?"

I like the 1min=1month better than slow very slow etc..

I don't own the game and I don't think I will buy it(Used the money for ck instead)

But I agree with you, Strat First is extreamly bad, they didn't market EU2 well at all. I believe that the game would sell alot better if Stat First gave a damn but what can you do eh?
 

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The thing is, the 1 min = 1 month is based quite a bit on your machine, processor, RAM, and what is happening in the game.

For example, a friend of mine had to play "1 min = 2 years" on his PC (which was at the very minimum specs) to be able to see much happening.