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What is the weirdest/most memorable TODO note (either as an actual note or as a comment in a file) you've made for yourself as part of your work?
What is the weirdest/most memorable TODO note (either as an actual note or as a comment in a file) you've come across as part of your work that someone else left?
What is the weirdest/most memorable TODO note (either as an actual note or as a comment in a file) you've come across as part of your work that someone else left?
TODO_CD_GABRIEL: Make this tooltip not look like complete garbage (it's still in)
TODO: Revisit before release (found 3 years after release)
Not really a TODO but a placeholder text that got translated into at least Spanish: "Eklund pls" "Eklund pfv" and "Eklund please" "Eklund por favor"
hey pax. as your games usually have a shelf life of 8 years. will you take this into account when making future games. considering there is a cpu core race in 2025 the avarage user will likely have 12-24 cores and enthusiast 32-60. with vulkan multigpu will become a thing and return of ondie gpus on cpus. we will probably see people keeping old gpus and supplimenting with a newer one. will your future engine be more corefriendly and allow mixed gpu setups?
I am a huge fan of the Surviving Mars series and have an interest in The next upcoming "Survival" series.
I have a huge wonder if anyone has an inclining into a game or expansion to the SM game using the Venus colonization ideas that is being discussed in NASA news recently. I could see a game with floating cities, reflective space mirrors, blimps, gas harvesters, and possible vapor electrolysis and heat sink Stirling engines as a power source for the colonies.
You Surviving Mars game was amazing and look forward to your other related projects.
I have a huge wonder if anyone has an inclining into a game or expansion to the SM game using the Venus colonization ideas that is being discussed in NASA news recently. I could see a game with floating cities, reflective space mirrors, blimps, gas harvesters, and possible vapor electrolysis and heat sink Stirling engines as a power source for the colonies.
You Surviving Mars game was amazing and look forward to your other related projects.
Surviving Mars is indeed amazing! However, it was developed by Haemimont Games and published by Paradox Interactive. The Paradox dev studio (PDS) did not develop it, so we can't really answer any questions about it in this thread. I'd try the Surviving Mars forum - https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?forums/surviving-mars.983/
- What is the strangest thing you've had to research?
- What is something that was surprisingly easy to research?
- What is something that was surprisingly difficult to research?
- What is something that was added to a game because of something someone discovered while researching something else?
- What is something that was surprisingly easy to research?
- What is something that was surprisingly difficult to research?
- What is something that was added to a game because of something someone discovered while researching something else?
Easy: Women in History.
Hard: Flavor events for Indian kingdoms in EU4.
Added: I was reading up on people living during the Middle ages for CK2 and found a woman who was jealous of a male courtier her husband liked to favor and so she pushed him "playfully" into the river when they were out walking together one day. Cannot recall if the courtier died or not, but I made an event out of it where if a married count or higher liked a male courtier more than his wife then that wife could get an event where she could decide to push the courtier into a river or not. There were at least two outcomes: The courtier died and the husband could execute, jail or forgive his wife or the courtier lived and the husband could treat the wife better (relationship up), jail her or reprimand her IIRC. The notice I found wasn't long, but it inspired an event series I am still quite proud of.
when you make hoi5 what are the things you most want to focus and work on compared to 4. what things do u think is missing?
would u want to expand on spying/subterfuge, politics, prewar maybe push back date to 1910, trade, return hoi3 chain of command
would u want to expand on spying/subterfuge, politics, prewar maybe push back date to 1910, trade, return hoi3 chain of command
Personally, I think the short timeframe of the game leads to a lot of problems that a longer timeframe would avoid. The singular focus on a single conflict in a very specific period of time means we have to design all our mechanics around this conflict, so we end up with mechanics designed to work perfectly fine in 98% of cases that need to be adapted to account for this one very specific edge case that happened historically (France needs to fall on time, but France should also be as militarily strong as it was historically, so our entire surrender system essentially is build around making France fall when it does). If we had a longer timeframe, especially if it starts earlier, we could lean way harder into the simulation angle and let things unfold dynamically, without having to account for as many edge cases.
what are your favorite mods? is there anything you just wish to copy or expand on?
would probably be hell simulating everything to exact dates. but something that slightly annoys me is the lack of focus on the politics. hitler and stalin werent just some warmongeres. hitler came to power over a 10 years time which was from years of communist uprisings and civil war, same with sovjet it was a tsardom that lennin took over. everything that lead to ww2 was caused in ww1 the constant political schemeing during the enforced peacetime setup the bigplayers. it would be fun to have a lite ck2 rp eventline for the naziparty and stalin/lennin. you captured it with france and southafrica with the endless strikes and revolts. the new spain political evenline is marvelous in this aspect!
trade is another aspect thats lacking uk went from the world trade power to handing it all over to america. sweden both traded with nazis and uk supplying steel. having part of the vic2 economy would be cool.
being a filthy viking i have a softspot for sweden. even tho we were cucks i feel like we could have been a really cool alt history. annexing finland during the winter war which they even offered. securing norway and denmark in a neokalmarunion vs hitler. sweden was a heavy puncher with värnplikten and saab. it would be fun to have a great empire era again and free the baltic states. id pay for that dlc. road to 56 mod is cool
About a month ago, Humble Bundle had a great deal on EU4 and its DLCs. From the Paradox perspective, was the campaign a success? What were some of the success metrics (either for PDX, or the specific EU4 game)? Did the campaign exceed expectations?
Obviously success could be measure by
general exposure raised for EU4 or PDX?
new players attracted?
retained new players, with increase in player hours?
bundle copies sold (over 100k, if I remember correctly, over $1,000,000)
Obviously success could be measure by
general exposure raised for EU4 or PDX?
new players attracted?
retained new players, with increase in player hours?
bundle copies sold (over 100k, if I remember correctly, over $1,000,000)
Aside from the "Pants Act" being passed in a lot of places (suggesting that future dev Easter egg characters perhaps need the Lunatic trait...), how has the recent decision to have everyone at PDS work from home due to COVID-19 affected your work so far?
I have discovered I am more extroverted than I thought, I am really missing seeing everybody at the office being stuck alone at home!
My only consolation is discord chats every now and then and people sharing pictures of their pets
I have discovered I am more extroverted than I thought, I am really missing seeing everybody at the office being stuck alone at home!
My only consolation is discord chats every now and then and people sharing pictures of their pets
Follow-up question: Aside from Cyrus the Hedgehog, are there any other uncommon pets belonging to people at PDS?