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Hearts of Iron IV - 32nd Development Diary - 6th of November 2015

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LoK-y-Yo said:
It is my opinion that goes against history. USA has a history about their dictatorial friends.

Also, making it only pro-democratic makes it useless if USA is not a democracy anymore. Makes more sense if it were "pro-USA's ideology civil wars.
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Umm... If the USA goes Fascist or Communist, wouldn't they just invade instead of mucking about with all that rather unpredictable cloak & dagger stuff? o_O

Swinds said:
Is the USA limited in any way on what it can build? Carriers or Battleships from the Washington/London agreements?
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We've had it stated several times that the various treaties which restricted warship construction will not be in the game. :(
 
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Lesser states? How about 'smaller' instead?
 
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DeclaredYuppie said:
Also- the interface of locations on the right side of the screen. I count 36 total, so I'm assuming that's the US land division total. Is that an interface that allows you to quickly locate all your overseas assets and whatnot? Or does it do more?

Either way, it looks nice and should help keep track of all the little islands :)
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They are the different theaters you have troops in :)

The slots for generals you often see at the bottom of screens are for specific theaters, since you'll have many generals in many theaters all fighting at the same time.
 
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TheDecider said:
Interesting with all the easily available options, will provide ample replay value.

Well you can have an alliance with a faction leader, or maybe this is only available between two faction leaders or two faction-less countries...(countries on the same "level" ?), anyhow remember the German-USSR Unholy alliance national focus? This is probably similar to that in that you only form an alliance, you don't actually join that faction.
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That could make sense. There's always a lot of complaining about who should be the alliance leader for the Allies or if there should be co-leaders or something. If what you're suggesting is right, it sounds like an interesting way around that issue AND also some of the issues that came up a lot in the peace conference thread,

edit- also this makes me wonder what the historical NFs for France will be based on the NF tree we've seen. Do they list France as an ally to the British faction? that way when France falls it can trigger a peace conference instead of having to wait for the fall of England?
 
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DominusNovus said:
Lesser states? How about 'smaller' instead?
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Grandpa Simpson: "I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I'll recognize
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DeclaredYuppie said:
That could make sense. There's always a lot of complaining about who should be the alliance leader for the Allies or if there should be co-leaders or something. If what you're suggesting is right, it sounds like an interesting way around that issue AND also some of the issues that came up a lot in the peace conference thread,
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It's possible you can't create these kinds of alliances normally, but that's what the national focus system is for, a way around specific rules according to the devs.

that-guy-is-it said:
But how can Latin America go to war with one another? I WANT TO REUNITE COLOMBIA AND BUILD AN EMPIRE THAT STRETHES FROM SONORA TO BUENOS AIRES!
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podcat said:
Since the question will be asked about guarantees.... it's worth pointing out that guarantees no longer come into effect if both sides of a war are guaranteed by you. So this means that the nations inside the US sphere of guarantees are protected from external attacks, but does not limit internal wars between nations. This should make playing a south american minor a lot more interesting than before!
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So you can just war away and create you Latin empire :)
 
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For me the main point in the DD is the fact that some US states are merged since they are judged to be too small?

What about other smaller states elsewhere in Europe or the Caucasus? Can you release Azerbijan or Georgia as a free independent republic? No?

I mean is merging of states general in the whole map?

Why would you do that? Surely memory is not a problem for a new game?
Was there some technical issue and this was the only way round it?
 
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novapaddy said:
For me the main point in the DD is the fact that some US states are merged since they are judged to be too small?

What about other smaller states elsewhere in Europe or the Caucasus? Can you release Azerbijan or Georgia as a free independent republic? No?

I mean is merging of states general in the whole map?

Why would you do that? Surely memory is not a problem for a new game?
Was there some technical issue and this was the only way round it?
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short story?: mostly because some states are so small that units and other graphics on the map will not fit in to them...see the thread and the explanation about the size of the english channel....

shortest story?..Gameplay
 
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novapaddy said:
For me the main point in the DD is the fact that some US states are merged since they are judged to be too small?

What about other smaller states elsewhere in Europe or the Caucasus? Can you release Azerbijan or Georgia as a free independent republic? No?

I mean is merging of states general in the whole map?

Why would you do that? Surely memory is not a problem for a new game?
Was there some technical issue and this was the only way round it?
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I suspect since certain things are tracked at the state level (like a lot of buildings, right?) they want to keep states roughly equal in size or else you could have issues. I.e. making Rhode Island a state by itself gives you an entire extra area to do industrial buildup, even though it's about the size of my bedroom.
 
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Big Nev said:
Umm... If the USA goes Fascist or Communist, wouldn't they just invade instead of mucking about with all that rather unpredictable cloak & dagger stuff? o_O



We've had it stated several times that the various treaties which restricted warship construction will not be in the game. :(
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Quite right Big Nev however that would make the game non historical very quicly. I was trying (un-successfully) if there was a limit via the focus tree or something else to keep the game a little more historical (i.e. with what was built)?
 
novapaddy said:
For me the main point in the DD is the fact that some US states are merged since they are judged to be too small?

What about other smaller states elsewhere in Europe or the Caucasus? Can you release Azerbijan or Georgia as a free independent republic? No?

I mean is merging of states general in the whole map?

Why would you do that? Surely memory is not a problem for a new game?
Was there some technical issue and this was the only way round it?
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A state is not, at all, the same thing as an independent nation. Connecticut will never be released as an independent nation, so there is no real reason for why it must exist as a state. Azerbaijan and Georgia are an entirely different matter.
 
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/Hits Paradox in the nose with a rolled up newspaper.

No, Paradox! Bad dog!
 
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leemurthexvi said:
So what your telling me is if i want to unite South America as say Brazil i need to do so quickly while USA's army is ill equipped to stop me.
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you can take over the entirety of south america without the usa intervening, unless world tension grows too high
 
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