the last stream they published

[KonradKurze202]

Ah, yes, also a good way to spend a few weeks. Only for all the other systems you rely on to get changed by someone upstream with no notice

EDIT: Granted, the situation I have in mind is unlikely to happen in a small sized company where all the devs sit in neighboring cubicles.

Oh I know what you're thinking of
Last company I worked for was a multi-billion dollar company, so much bureaucracy everywhere and so many deadlines. We could never refactor anything despite the fact that we always made tickets to do it, their priority just kept getting pushed down

Luckily my new company (I keep thinking of it as the new place even after almost a year) is nice and small 6ish independent teams of 10 people each (some overlap), my team has 5 devs. We just got to a whole nice refactor of a tax app. Redid it with react and redux and sails. Made a nice waterline adapter, made everything nice and modular. It was awesome I even get to work with SMS systems now! I love it =)

 

[Oscot]

Does Paradox actually have any customers who aren't professional programmers?

 

[Alexander Seil]

Does Paradox actually have any customers who aren't professional programmers?

A disproportionate number are also academic types in technical disciplines. I'm in that category, though I've had a close brush with corporate software development.

 

[Quickslow87]

Does Paradox actually have any customers who aren't professional programmers?

A very curious question. I wonder if Paradox ever does any focus groups or market research to better understand their fan base.

 

[Taciturn Scot]

I expect there to be lots of bugs when the game is released. It's best not to be too idealistic: hope for the best but plan for the worst.

 

[Okawoa]

They should keep 01_EMBASSY_PROPOSE as an easter egg that liberated robot species mistakenly splurt out. Would be funny if you negotiate a treaty and the sentient-AI mentions: IT IS OUR PLEASURE TO JOIN "SHORT_TERM_ALLIANCE_102." OR: WE ARE DELIGHTED TO UNITE WITH "NON_ROBOT_DOMINATED_FEDERATION_16"

 

[aruon]

I don't really care if there's 01_EMBASSY_PROPOSE and other such problems. The game looks functional to me.

i think people would prefer 01_EMBASSY_PROPOSE over any actual localisation if the populace of that stream hilariously losing their damn minds (repeatedly) is anything to go by.

A very curious question. I wonder if Paradox ever does any focus groups or market research to better understand their fan base.

they do. i think there's been 3 in the past 4-5 months. the most recent was what could be summed up as: "Mobile...?"

 

[aitaituo]

They should keep 01_EMBASSY_PROPOSE as an easter egg that liberated robot species mistakenly splurt out. Would be funny if you negotiate a treaty and the sentient-AI mentions: IT IS OUR PLEASURE TO JOIN "SHORT_TERM_ALLIANCE_102." OR: WE ARE DELIGHTED TO UNITE WITH "NON_ROBOT_DOMINATED_FEDERATION_16"

It would be hilarious if robot empires used no localization at all.

 

[djboro]

Does Paradox actually have any customers who aren't professional programmers?

No.

 

[KonradKurze202]

Does Paradox actually have any customers who aren't professional programmers?

It's kind of an interesting correlation. Their games tend to be more complex than most games, and have bunches of intertwined systems (Production & Trade in EU4, Vassal Holdings & Laws in CK2, too many to list in HoI). It is probably more appealing to those of us with a more 'logic oriented' mindset. Like I actually enjoyed math classes (Calculus were the most fun of them), and I adore logic problems (had to take a logic class back in college, and I swear that class was almost something I might do just for fun . It's also conveniently slow paced and still very exciting, allowing us to take our time and enjoy it (plus just being able to get an hour or two in after work and before sleep is nice).

 

[Oscot]

It's kind of an interesting correlation. Their games tend to be more complex than most games, and have bunches of intertwined systems (Production & Trade in EU4, Vassal Holdings & Laws in CK2, too many to list in HoI). It is probably more appealing to those of us with a more 'logic oriented' mindset. Like I actually enjoyed math classes (Calculus were the most fun of them), and I adore logic problems (had to take a logic class back in college, and I swear that class was almost something I might do just for fun . It's also conveniently slow paced and still very exciting, allowing us to take our time and enjoy it (plus just being able to get an hour or two in after work and before sleep is nice).

> I'm here for wacky alternate history hi-jinx
> everyone else plays because they like integrated database multithreading
o-okay...

 

[Alexander Seil]

There's also a sub-forum full of Game of Thrones geeks in the CK2 modding section.

 

[lpdpig139]

Does Paradox actually have any customers who aren't professional programmers?

ME!

 

[moglus]

Does Paradox actually have any customers who aren't professional programmers?

Paradox games are actually what got me into coding.

(Which is what i should be doing right now, but alas as usual i just eternally procrastinate on this forum...)

 

[Clophiroth]

ME!

And me. I´m supposed to be a linguist XD