The grand ciritzism - megathread

[Alkarin]

whats with this neutral feature they put in? my game is at 1938 and my neutrality is still at 66. Im the bloody soviet union, I killed half my officers because i thought they might betray me. my leader is bat s*** insane yet im not allowed to attack finland because im too neutral? I wasnt aware i picked switzerland.

 

[unmerged(41229)]

whats with this neutral feature they put in? my game is at 1938 and my neutrality is still at 66. Im the bloody soviet union, I killed half my officers because i thought they might betray me. my leader is bat s*** insane yet im not allowed to attack finland because im too neutral? I wasnt aware i picked switzerland.

Is 66 like some kind of bugged number? I'm playing as Republican Spain and I've been stuck at 66 too....

 

[Herr Oberst]

I hope Paradox will rethink its policy of 'no criticism on the map please, it's finished!' during the development stage of future games. It could be foreseen months ago that this was going to create problems after release.

 

[hildoceras]

may I remind you all a few points:

** trying to discuss map problems when the map thread has been closed will probably brings more problems. Collective one as this thread might be closed too and individual ones as any contest is a contest of a moderator's decision.

** map policy is not new and comes back for every (and i mean every) paradox games. So once the main errors are pointed, the rest is bitching about design decisions that are almost never modified.

** you may contest all you want but staying in the limits of the forum rules.

 

[unmerged(73411)]

it shits me that i have to click X times to make an X serial run of units. in hoi2 i could at least hold down the + button to get a run of 50 airbases going, i was hoping in hoi3 i could just manually enter a number. but now it takes me a minute just to put in a large serial, wtf

 

[unmerged(128806)]

I really love how the map looks now, that's really a feast for the eyes next to the old ugly one.

Great job.

But i'm not that enthusiastic about the sprites i have to say, but well...that's not a big issue.

 

[unmerged(138550)]

"Democrat Party" is a derogatory term for the party used by republicans.

Complete and utter hogwash. It's just poor English. Don't be so thin-skinned.

Let me ask you Tay, do you consider yourself a "Republican" or a "Democrat?"

 

[unmerged(71931)]

I cannot play the game I bought
Despite submitting my problem just after demo release in the official demo problems topic and in the bug section I did not receive any answer and have not seen any official answer in similar topics.
Out of boredom I've checked the game files and what I saw I do not like
Where is regional difference in partisan levels
Where is the special diplomacy relation between countries
Where is the f... BCF - there is no guarantees except the USAs ones
Whole tech history (tech finished and specialties) is done in sloppy way - it looks like only majors got something related to IRL in the GC '36, everything else got some generic stats
Leadership values - the same sloppy way
GER Ld points = 30% of MP points,
UK = 25%
JAP = 20%
France ITA US = 15%
everyone else = 10%
SOV = 7,5%
British India = static 0,25

I thought that bigger map will help in being more exact to the province details.
I was soo wrong - about 75% map of Poland is not correct

I thought I bought HOI3 - unfortunately I've got another EUIII XP with some cool new features and HOI2 data

Generally I'm sad, dissapointed and I'm slowly loosing stomach for this game.
How can I get my money back ?

 

[Kokomorari]

The AI seems good at what it should do but often it does really weird things. I just started playing as the USA and I delegated most things to the AI, except for politics. Now, the production AI keeps building brigades, instead of divisions. What gives? Instead of one division insists on building 3 seperate brigades. I'm lost :wacko:

 

[unmerged(148426)]

No no no! Dont change map colours, please! This is modable and somebody likes it and somebody doesnt. But no reason to change it.

The biggest problem I see is optimization. I was very surprized that 1.1 version runned more slowly than demo.

 

[kingterranes]

may I remind you all a few points:

** trying to discuss map problems when the map thread has been closed will probably brings more problems. Collective one as this thread might be closed too and individual ones as any contest is a contest of a moderator's decision.

** map policy is not new and comes back for every (and i mean every) paradox games. So once the main errors are pointed, the rest is bitching about design decisions that are almost never modified.

** you may contest all you want but staying in the limits of the forum rules.

This is no argument, its just the general opinion of the players that speak out here.

But yes i do urge people to not start discussions as it derails and does not give a good well topic.

 

[kingterranes]

*Bump* - As small new criticism threads should be avoided

 

[unmerged(41229)]

Complete and utter hogwash. It's just poor English. Don't be so thin-skinned.

Let me ask you Tay, do you consider yourself a "Republican" or a "Democrat?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_%28phrase%29


It isn't hogwash, and besides, even if it you forget the derogatory use of the term it is still the wrong name of the party.

My partisan affiliation has nothing to do with this.

 

[dubya85]

They're not changing it because they made a design decision to make the map like that, even if it means Stalingrad is stupidly out of place....oh well, there will be mods.

And I'd like better optimization, it runs dead slow on my machine. Also, more differance between nations colours, Bulgaria, Turkey and Italy all have almost identical colours

Someone please tell me why? why make a decision like that? How can you benefit from moving stalingrad was there some flaw in the AI code that stops victory points from being put too close together?

"ah well lets just move stalingrad this way and smolensk that way.... bang now it works, hope nobody notices"

 

[unmerged(138550)]

even if it you forget the derogatory use of the term it is still the wrong name of the party.

I understand that it is the wrong name and it is not grammatically correct but how is it derogatory? I've always interpreted it as someone misspeaking.

Your Wiki article only says it's an epithet but it fails to explain why. Why does it offend you?

 

[unmerged(41229)]

I understand that it is the wrong name and it is not grammatically correct but how is it derogatory? I've always interpreted it as someone misspeaking.

Your Wiki article only says it's an epithet but it fails to explain why. Why does it offend you?

Yes, a lot of the time it is misspeaking. Yet, Republicans refer to the party in that manner in an attempt to imply that it is not in fact "democratic". It was in the article, didn't you see it?

I am not offended by it as much as annoyed and slightly amused. It makes me wonder if they had a republican working on the parties and he wanted to take a little jab.

Most likely it was a swedish/us english type of thing.

EDIT: From the wiki article itself.

"There’s no great mystery about the motives behind this deliberate misnaming. 'Democrat Party' is a slur, or intended to be – a handy way to express contempt. Aesthetic judgments are subjective, of course, but 'Democrat Party' is jarring verging on ugly. It fairly screams 'rat'."

 

[unmerged(57914)]

Agreed with Taybaxter. As a lifelong Democrat, I know the only people who calls us the "Democrat Party" are not doing so in a nice way.

I love how they got Farm-Labor correct, though - except for making it a separate party, when it was simply a regional caucus within the Democratic Party.

Regardless of perjorative, here's the party's website:

http://www.democrats.org/

The name of their party is at the top-left side of the screen.

 

[kingterranes]

Please avoid this discussion else this will be closed


And ye, i am serious

 

[unmerged(57914)]

No one's implying that PI slipped a perjorative into HOI3 to take a knock at the current ruling party of the US. There's simply a pretty big typo in one of the party descriptions that should be fixed.

Particularly since Vicky had such detailed differences, including names, of the US parties pre and post Civil War.

 

[unmerged(73662)]

Agreed with Taybaxter. As a lifelong Democrat, I know the only people who calls us the "Democrat Party" are not doing so in a nice way.

I love how they got Farm-Labor correct, though - except for making it a separate party, when it was simply a regional caucus within the Democratic Party.

Regardless of perjorative, here's the party's website:

http://www.democrats.org/

The name of their party is at the top-left side of the screen.

...hmpf...Americans...:wacko:


One can easily fix any typo by modding the .csv-files, now get back to the thread!