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>>715788868 (OP)
how is Vicky 3 now? I haven't touched it based on how rough the launch went but that was nearly 3 years ago now
>>715788981
Based. Vicky 2 is the best Paradox game, I love being an industrial superpower and bullying smaller nations in accepting unequal treaties.

VVHU

>>715788868 (OP)
that viccy 2 map mod looks pretty good

>>715789125
it's gotten incredibly better since the last dlc which changed the whole trade system and there's finally world market.

That means don't even need to industrialise now and can build a shitton of trade centres to import everything you need while specialising in a few goods that you excel at.

It makes playing minor countries and building tall way more interesting.

Based Victoria 3 chad, still waiting on a mod to update before playing it again

>>715789981
What mod

The capacity to conquer land is constant in Victoria 3, with some techs lowering it against unrecognized countries.
Your capacity to industrialized and build industry to employ people is constantly growing.
Meaning that at some point you're not going to be able to build industry for people you control directly or indirectly, and all that's left it building industry in other countries.
Which means you're industrializing your potential enemies.
I find this conundrum frustrating and don't want to play the game due to it.

>no victoria games let you ban imports or exports of specific goods

>>715791198
The game will be long finished before you have to build industry in potential enemies because the game lets you build industry in any country as long as you have the rights. You could industrialise in small countries or countries on the other side of the world and reap the rewards without ever having to worry about them.

Conquering land is severely limited by infamy, and if you ignore it the wole world will unite against you.

>>715788868 (OP)
Vanilla map colours for this game makes me bleed from the eyes, that looks SO much better it's unreal.

>>715789159
What mod?

>>715789890
Can I still do my dumb strat of releasing Poland as Russia and immediately declaring war on Prussia for Ponzan and the Polish Corridor and win by coercing Austria and Russia to take them out for me?

>>715788868 (OP)
If took me until about the 60 hour mark to finally "get" it.
I had a lot of fun playing an independent texas.
I just wish the mechanics for passing reforms were a bit more obvious (basically, get libtards in power for political stuff, a socialist or commie dictatorship for social reforms)

>>715794929
politics is way more nuanced now and the commie way is not really the best and is now hard to achieve due to how strong industrialists are.

laissez faire + free trade and basing your whole economy on the free market is extremely powerful IF your country is rich and can invest overseas (otherwise all the big companies will invest and steal everything from you).

>>715794874
Don't see why not but it's a bit like cheating if you have to play Russia first to release Poland and then switch.

>>715794874
With the new treaties it's easier to play krakow and get all 3 GP to play each other. FIrst war to fight austria and get galicia and indepence.
2nd war beat up russia and release poland and then get all of that for free via event.
Then find a way to beat up prussia for final borders.
Later on you can go back to whacking on the russians by yourself and forming the commonwealth if you want to meme it up.

>>715790596
Better Politics mod, to me it feels kinda wrong to play with the default interest groups.

>>715793982
you underestimate my building sector,
I had building capacity in the thousands in the middle of the game and the whole of japan employed
small countries would be buried under industry in 3 months, their peasants completely eliminated as a class, if they allowed me to invest in them

>>715789125
Have they added an overpriced warfare DLC yet?

>>715788868 (OP)
V3 is good as a cookie clicker game you keep open on the side

>>715789125
>how is Vicky 3 now?
the game still slows down to a crawl.

>Play Victoria 3
>"Hmmmm... Should I play in Asia today? Europe? Africa...?"
>"Nah... back to South America."
Why do I enjoy that stupid continent so much?

>go laissez faire
>game wins itself for me
gg ez

>>715794361
CWE

>>715803787
This was the most interesting period of their post-columbian history before the US cucked them out of global relevance forever

>>715803787
It's basically a sandbox (until the US spheres everyone) and you are building your nation from scratch.

>>715804058
what happened to that cold war era mod created by CWE team for V3?

>>715788868 (OP)
why finland so big

>>715788981
>collapses because the US is no longer subsidizing its existence
And nothing of value was lost.

>>715804593
Still being developed supposedly. Honestly someone needs to fork cwe for vic 2 and fix the absolute mess of garbage that was left behind.
It's one of the most bloated and broken mods out there.

>>715791198
>Meaning that at some point you're not going to be able to build industry for people you control directly or indirectly, and all that's left it building industry in other countries.
>Which means you're industrializing your potential enemies.
This is pretty much China's story in the 20th century. I still build railroads for them do it every time for those sweet silk and tea RGOs. Snatching Taiwan away is also good if you just need the tea.

>>715804058
I can never get that fucking mod to work, it always crashes on startup. Shame because it looks fun

>>715789159
>VHU
Is this the thread?

>>715789125
The actual fundaments on vicky 3 are amazing. The simulation and the emergent properties from it make vicky 2 look like pong. It's scary how accurate it can get sometimes without any railroading, as far as economic principles go.
The game content itself is much worse though. Broken or just poorly thought out events, the UI is still somewhere around half and full retard, performance is very bad. It's like they took a rough diamond and threw it into a septic tank for us to find. Still can't go back to vicky 2 though.

>>715806919
California provides a net of $83 billion to the federal government even with its benefits.

>>715808951
>>715791198
Ah sorry thought we were talking about vic 2 nvm

The fact that Paradox couldn't even be bothered to name all of the provinces just shows how lazy they're getting. It's shocking to me that autists continue to hand out money for this cash grab shovel wear garbage.

>>715809398
Don't they literally steal water from Nevada?
I was memeing with the "nothing of value was lost", but Cali would definitively fall apart without outside assistance.

>grand strategy game with no combat
what were they thinking?

>>715809253
as good as any other

>>715810902
They know retards will pay another $30 for it as "DLC".

>>715810902
Was V2 combat decent?

>>715812882
Same as every other paradox game. Your tech level might matter more, especially late game.

France is the most fun Euro country to play in 2

Sacre blu…

>>715810902
Ironically its also the best grand strategy game ever made, its like warfare in these types of games was always bad.

>>715817861
Stop coping faggot, the only reason they didn't add actual good combat is because they cannot do it properly.
Just look at how many "fixes" they've done to the combat.

>>715818154
Yes they cannot do it properly so they "simplified" the whole thing, that is also why it is the best grand strategy game on the market.

>>715788868 (OP)
>vic3
lol, babby's first gsg

>play Japan
>China is stable as a rock the entire game, ends up allying with Russia or Austria and makes invading a huge PITA
>play literally anyone else
>China explodes in 1860

>>715789125
It's getting better desu, still waiting for that combat overhaul, once we got that, you can actually call Vicky 3 having good bones, and something for the devs to finally create future content for proper.

>>715788868 (OP)
Virgin Grossdeutschland vs Chad Grande Gaule

>>715821715
not very grob of you bro

>>715788868 (OP)
>Vicky 3
Pure shit

here's the most delusional fag on /v/ >>715817861

>>715821715
>Not playing gigamerica and BTFO Canada faggots, Brit faggots, Mexico faggots, and Spain faggots

>>715789125
it's good enough now

warfare could be expanded but it's serviceable. it does its job as an economy and technology check and it does its job good while leaving some room for the player to optimize

>>715791198
skill issue

>>715810743
i wonder what they do with all that water

>>715817861
Politics sim is never deep enough to justify bad warfare gameplay.
If you're getting mogged by browser games like Crisis in the Kremlin you need to rethink your whole system.

Can I turn the whole of Europe into Black owned territory in these games?

>had a dream was playing a popular paradox mod
>said mod specialized in having in depth genocide mechanics
>look it up and the mod was based on a book and developed by Bill Maher
>disgusted with myself
>wake up
What did my brain mean by this

>>715825492
>developed by Bill Maher
>genocide mechanics
>Bill Maher
Well, there are some coincidences and connections between what you described

>>715825594
I’m aware