Paradox Studio Thread

[Unyielding Stupidity]

And for the love of god I hope paradox does pops down to the individual. It’s easily the best way to build game mechanics, give each pop a name, age, family, race, religion, culture, and then you can do all the pie charts you want for any grouping of any people in the world.

Do you want to kill your CPU? As that's exactly how you kill your CPU. End-game EU4 already has performance issues without a system like that, adding that in would make the game so performance-heavy that it'd be unplayable. A pop system like Vicky 2 might work, but any further than that and you'd kill the PC of anyone that tried to play the game.

 

[LatinasAreTheFuture]

Do you want to kill your CPU? As that's exactly how you kill your CPU. End-game EU4 already has performance issues without a system like that, adding that in would make the game so performance-heavy that it'd be unplayable. A pop system like Vicky 2 might work, but any further than that and you'd kill the PC of anyone that tried to play the game.

Oh no way do should paradox keep developing eu4 and adding on features. My idea was in regards to some future game, possibly not even eu5.

 

[Stoneheart]

As that's exactly how you kill your CPU. End-game EU4 already has performance issues without a system like that, adding that in would make the game so performance-heavy that it'd be unplayable. A pop system like Vicky 2 might work, but any further than that and you'd kill the PC of anyone that tried to play the game.

Well Rome and Stellaris have a pop system and they have much more complex pop systems,

 

[Emperor Julian]

On my recent replay of ck2 I turned off reapers and conclave and found the game actually ran smoother. Reapers due in particular bloats the game up with endless busy work and being screwed by the random numbers game, Especially if you're trying to do an ironman.

Edit: Judaism really needed a patch before they called is a day, it's basically christianity minus all the flavour mechanically.

 

[ClipBitch]

I am still pissed about all the money I blew on Stellaris. I bought all the dlc (as of a year ago or so) and then a week later a patch completely changed the game and nuked everything I liked about it.

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

On my recent replay of ck2 I turned off reapers and conclave and found the game actually ran smoother. Reapers due in particular bloats the game up with endless busy work and being screwed by the random numbers game, Especially if you're trying to do an ironman.

Edit: Judaism really needed a patch before they called is a day, it's basically christianity minus all the flavour mechanically.

I turn Conclave off because I enjoy being able to do things without having to micromanage the council.

CK2 is meant to be fun and, for me, having to wrangle council members doesn't really work. There's also the way Conclave makes Jews useless.

Spoiler

If you have Sons of Abraham on, Jews can turn up at your court. These Jews usually have high intrigue, diplomacy or stewardship and so they're ideal council members. If you use Conclave, those Jews will invariably have a low opinion of you because you're a foreigner and of a different religious group to them, meaning that they'll vote against you on the council. So you end up with a bunch of Jews who clutter up your court and who you can do nothing with because they'll always reject any attempt to demand conversion.

Great planning, Paradox!

 

[Emperor Julian]

It's the relentless tempter tantrums from your vassels for not being on the kings council which put me off. The weird part is it isn't particularly realistic since "fuck you I'm the king " was the norm with the 'council' in the period, if there was a council at all and not you and your homies in a pagan shack in the arse end of Scandinavia.

 

[Cisna H. Scumale]

Spoiler

If you have Sons of Abraham on, Jews can turn up at your court. These Jews usually have high intrigue, diplomacy or stewardship and so they're ideal council members. If you use Conclave, those Jews will invariably have a low opinion of you because you're a foreigner and of a different religious group to them, meaning that they'll vote against you on the council. So you end up with a bunch of Jews who clutter up your court and who you can do nothing with because they'll always reject any attempt to demand conversion.

Great planning, Paradox!

I didn't realize CK2 is based

 

[Fuck Y'all]

90% negrate was just broken

 

[Snekposter]

https://www.pcgamer.com/paradox-int...y-is-driving-developers-away-from-its-forums/

Oh no, the Paradox devs are getting shittalked by players for their horrid design choices. So anyways...

 

[Kane Lives]

I am still pissed about all the money I blew on Stellaris. I bought all the dlc (as of a year ago or so) and then a week later a patch completely changed the game and nuked everything I liked about it.

Paradox at least still keeps the old versions of the game on Steam, though I noticed they have removed version 1.9 at some point. You can switch to it via Beta Opt-in.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

https://www.pcgamer.com/paradox-int...y-is-driving-developers-away-from-its-forums/

Oh no, the Paradox devs are getting shittalked by players for their horrid design choices. So anyways...

How bad is it over on the Paradox Forums now? It's been a few years since they instituted new policies for "toxicity" which made it easy to get suspended or banned because they kept putting out DLC and patches that contained game-breaking bugs anyone would catch after a few hours of playtesting. And that was before they put out Early Access shit like Imperator Rome. I can't imagine how bad things are now.

I never bothered complaining to the devs over their poor playtesting since I never play without mods so never buy their DLC on release. But something is clearly wrong when Paradox games have exploded in popularity this last decade yet their quality on release seems worse and worse.

 

[Bobbobson]

90% negrate was just broken

And many positive reviews are clearly sarcastic.

 

[Snekposter]

How bad is it over on the Paradox Forums now?

To quote a poster:

I am sure some caveman with no name started the trend for humans to walk on two feet and eventually run. But he ain't no Usain Bolt. While the Horse Armor DLC is that caveman, Leviathan is the Usain Bolt of bad DLC's and the reviews on steam back up my claim, even if you don't consider that most of the positive reviews are sarcastic in nature.

Its pretty fucking bad.

EDIT: I would like to point out that Leviathan was apparently done by the new Madrid office. Clearly, we can see the Spanish work ethic shine through with its quality.

 

[Stoneheart]

Oh no, the Paradox devs are getting shittalked by players for their horrid design choices. So anyways...

They need to bring back Jake and fire all the fags...

 

[vulg]

They need to bring back Jake and fire all the fags...

‘ello sweetums, yue wan daddy bahck aye heer?

 

[Drihten]

https://www.pcgamer.com/paradox-int...y-is-driving-developers-away-from-its-forums/

Oh no, the Paradox devs are getting shittalked by players for their horrid design choices. So anyways...

The paradox forums are not having it

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/devs-speak-out-article.1471364/#post-27489211

"Pay attention to what Paradox are doing and how they are shifting the narrative of the conversation.
They claim, in public, they are receiving death threats and people are calling for them to lose their livelihoods. Neither of these things are okay, and people who do this should be ashamed of themselves.
But the narrative then somehow changes to, if you're harshly criticising this game, you're basically in bed with those very, very few people who are saying terrible things.
Thus, Paradox are basically immune from criticism. You either fall in-line and praise the psychological horror of a release that is Leviathan, or you're in bed with the worst kinds of people on the internet.
It's an intentional PR move from Paradox. Nothing else."

They've fucked up without a doubt, and now they're clipping Imperator's wings that it sprouted with 2.0 just to clean up the scatological mess that Paradox Tinto created.

 

[Kane Lives]

‘ello sweetums, yue wan daddy bahck aye heer?
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Did Jake get fired or something?

 

[Tercio]

It's disappointing how low Paradox has fallen these past few years. I've been sick of their DLC policy since EU4 and I'm glad Leviathan is getting ass-fucked like no tommorow

Victoria 2 is their magnum opus, even though it's a clunky mess and shows its age, it doesn't feel like a cash grab like the newer titles with like 20 DLC

 

[vulg]

It's disappointing how low Paradox has fallen these past few years. I've been sick of their DLC policy since EU4 and I'm glad Leviathan is getting ass-fucked like no tommorow

Victoria 2 is their magnum opus, even though it's a clunky mess and shows its age, it doesn't feel like a cash grab like the newer titles with like 20 DLC

I think a lot of the love shown towards Vicky2 is mostly in spite of new Paradox rather than genuine love for the game, in the same way people cherish New Vegas to spite new Bethesda.

both Vicky2 and New Vegas have some pretty deep flaws, the love for the games are more symbolic of what the future could've been rather than the future these companies took us in.

Vicky2 and New Vegas are both great, but they're no where near "magnum opus," they're just not the casualized shit that these companies have evolved to feed us.