Cheers to the game developers who have been giving me such great moments of playing since 2007 :)
1) First, a question about how you work : do you hire historians to do the research job ? Creating scenarios, especially for Victoria 2, must be an INSANE job.
Well, since a lot of people are asking about the future of EU4, I'm joining in :
2) I like the thematic DLC approach you have for CK2. The overall improvements are included in free patches, while people who are more interested in specific cultures can buy the DLC. Others don't have to, but still enjoy a regularly updated game. I'd like to know if you're going to use it for EU4. I mean, not only small DLC adding a few eye-candy things, but for example, overhaulings of parts of the world that didn't receive as much love as others...
And yes, I've primarily the New World in mind. :) I'd love to see a fragmented Mesoamerica with lots of provinces, rival city-states, all of that providing an interesting game until the Europeans come. Then, disease events and so on... But also the possibility to survive (like reformed pagans in The Old Gods). That would be awesome.
3) I've the feeling that religious conversions in EU4 are quite unbalanced. Or maybe not unbalanced, but non-plausible. The Ottomans can basically convert all of Greece and the Balkans to Islam very quickly. And if Austria destroys them, then Greece will end up catholic 25 years later. That's a bit too fast.
At least, culture conversions are expensive in diplo points, so you have to choose carefully when doing one (and they also take only a few years to complete, that's too fast). But active missionaries are not so expensive, so when you've got one, why not use him ? That's too easy.
Nations who choose the religious path can convert extremely easily, and others do it fairly easily. Only high tax base provinces resist.
So the question is : is it something you plan to work on ? Or do you have more pressing concerns for EU4 ?
4) Since you've playtested EU4 for dozens of hours... Do you often see the French Revolution event chain firing ? The late game can often be a bit boring because everything is done, no real challenge left, so these events can spice it up. But, from the txt files of the game, the requirements are pretty hard to meet. Even an AI hardly goes into such a bad shape with a major power.
Speaking of revolutions, the American one is, IMHO, too easy to crush for a player who garrisons his colonies.
I'm ranting, I know, but EU4 is great. An excellent sequel.
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Cheers to the game developers who have been giving me such great moments of playing since 2007 :)
1) First, a question about how you work : do you hire historians to do the research job ? Creating scenarios, especially for Victoria 2, must be an INSANE job.
Well, since a lot of people are asking about the future of EU4, I'm joining in :
2) I like the thematic DLC approach you have for CK2. The overall improvements are included in free patches, while people who are more interested in specific cultures can buy the DLC. Others don't have to, but still enjoy a regularly updated game. I'd like to know if you're going to use it for EU4. I mean, not only small DLC adding a few eye-candy things, but for example, overhaulings of parts of the world that didn't receive as much love as others... And yes, I've primarily the New World in mind. :) I'd love to see a fragmented Mesoamerica with lots of provinces, rival city-states, all of that providing an interesting game until the Europeans come. Then, disease events and so on... But also the possibility to survive (like reformed pagans in The Old Gods). That would be awesome.
3) I've the feeling that religious conversions in EU4 are quite unbalanced. Or maybe not unbalanced, but non-plausible. The Ottomans can basically convert all of Greece and the Balkans to Islam very quickly. And if Austria destroys them, then Greece will end up catholic 25 years later. That's a bit too fast. At least, culture conversions are expensive in diplo points, so you have to choose carefully when doing one (and they also take only a few years to complete, that's too fast). But active missionaries are not so expensive, so when you've got one, why not use him ? That's too easy. Nations who choose the religious path can convert extremely easily, and others do it fairly easily. Only high tax base provinces resist.
So the question is : is it something you plan to work on ? Or do you have more pressing concerns for EU4 ?
4) Since you've playtested EU4 for dozens of hours... Do you often see the French Revolution event chain firing ? The late game can often be a bit boring because everything is done, no real challenge left, so these events can spice it up. But, from the txt files of the game, the requirements are pretty hard to meet. Even an AI hardly goes into such a bad shape with a major power.
Speaking of revolutions, the American one is, IMHO, too easy to crush for a player who garrisons his colonies.
I'm ranting, I know, but EU4 is great. An excellent sequel.
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