1921

Haha, holy shit. I endured those tracks thinking they would grow on me, they “had to be included for a reason, right?”. I’d wince every time my play session serenity was shattered by shitty guitar riffs so out of place it’s not funny.

1922

Regarding colonization, does Conquest of Paradise only add that you can switch to take control of one of your colonial nations instead of your original country? If that’s the case I don’t particularly care about that.

1923

It doesn’t add that ability. It provides native American mechanics, random new world generation, the support independence diplomatic action, and probably a couple other things. The really good stuff was in the free patch, to their credit.

1924

Yeah, for example the tribal migration mechanic is only available with the patch. The tribal mechanics are thoroughly overhauled, so you are playing them as their own game now, instead of a boring no progress version of the European game.

1925

uh oh. I have 18 minutes to hold on and wait for the next 75% off sale - or cave and wonder when I’ll decide I have time to try to figure it all out. Kind of wish I’d waited 20 minutes before checking.

1926

I realize this is well beyond the 20 minute window, but just to reiterate what I’ve probably said a dozen times in the thread (sorry if I sound like a broken record!): it’s not necessary in the least to figure it all out before being able to play and enjoy the game. It’s an onion, you can jump in and poke around and start having fun without understanding everything to start. Each time you play you peel another layer back and learn something new.

1927

So I dove into this this weekend and spend a couple of hours with it. Did all the tutorials then started as Castile. Very fascinating so far.

1928

Or remember something you forgot. Something which turns the 2 year plan to conquer parts of Italy into the thirty year plan of dismantling Spain and Austria through a series of proxy wars.

In other words sometimes the game will still surprise you after 200+ hours.

1929

Dude, go back to your space game thread! And get off my lawn!!!

1930

You do know that aliens built the Pyramids, right? He’s hoping to conquer Egypt and get the alien invasion event.

1931

1932

I suppose that anyone who posts Mr. Rogers flipping the bird can stay… :-)

1933

What’s with the weird colonization mechanics? You can only colonize if you’re not too far away? Huh? So as Denmark I have to conquer other nations to even be able to colonize in the new world?

1934

Or get whatever ideas improve your colonization range (or is it tech, I can’t remember).

1935

Still not gonna make any difference unless I invade other countries (or get there when everything has been colonized already)

1936

It simulates not being able to colonise far away places too early (otherwise you could colonise Australia in 1444 or other weirdness). Upgrading diplomatic Tech will give you base colonial range boosts, and there are diplomatic ideas that boost colonisation range in percentage terms (and these can be quite large). You will want to get both if you want to colonise ASAP. The percentage boosts in ideas will magnify when the base range gets expanded through tech. To make that happen faster, do not unnecessarily spend diplomatic points and make sure you have a +1 advisor in that area at all times.

As Denmark, you will not be able to start colonising as fast as Portugal or Spain, and that is as it should be. However, if you want to you can be one of the first in North America, particularly when you annex Norway (I have forgotten whether colonisation range goes from your own personal land or subjects land as well, might want to check that).

1937

Yeah, colonization range mechanics are critical to having a game with even a shred of historical realism. As an example of why, EU3 shipped without them. In my very first game, Pommerania, the Teutonic Order, and Japan all had empires in the Caribbean by 1470. It was inane.

1938

As Denmark, you will not be able to start colonising as fast as Portugal or Spain, and that is as it should be. However, if you want to you can be one of the first in North America, particularly when you annex Norway (I have forgotten whether colonisation range goes from your own personal land or subjects land as well, might want to check that

Pretty sure vassals give colonial range.

1939

That’s racist.

1940

AE seems insane again. Expanding into the HRE is near impossible. I can’t remember the last time I was having coalitions this big form. It also seems your allies get more AE now too?