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That wasn't a dream, it's a prediction.

It means you'll install it and if those changes aren't made you'll lose interest and ask for a refund.
Be strong and stay patient my friend, for one day there will be a mod with 200 Australian SOP's.
200 is far too many there should be around 67 ( it should be 71 but the map isn't big enough to have all 5 different Torres Strait Islander nations split) and 69 after an event for a country trading spices from Indonesia to Europe

i used the Tindale map which might not be the most accurate but its the only one i had that could be easily edited
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200 is far too many there should be around 67 ( it should be 71 but the map isn't big enough to have all 5 different Torres Strait Islander nations split) and 69 after an event for a country trading spices from Indonesia to Europe

i used the Tindale map which might not be the most accurate but its the only one i had that could be easily edited
What makes the inner desert more conducive to having SOPs over the more fertile coasts?
 
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This was said on Reddit.

I'm a little annoyed that the forum goers get less information than people on reddit do
Why would they announce to the forum when they know some at least one schizo dedicated unpaid volonteer will report the news to the masses.

I for one understand somewhat the reasoning : keep the forums for "core contributions" and actually building the game, proposing, refining etc. and have DD for "actually saying to the world a game is coming". I don't know exactly what the campaign planned is, but I think they DO have one, even if it may have been changed based on calendar pressure / community pressure.

In that sense DD will most likely be more refined and simply "retell" in broader stroke how the game will play / why it is interesting to play, and depending of how many people these take, it could even be possible TT keep on living in a "different schedule" that keeps on trying to co construct the game with dedicated fans. After all as long as the fans are happy to contribute and the studio gets free feedback, it's all for the better imo. A bit of what I like in kickstarter campaign where you shape (even if in infinitesimal ways) the product you end up using.

Definitively support the call to "go out and touch grass" if the hype is too unbearable to you. It IS still a game we're talking about after all.
 
Guys I think they'll start to get annoyed at us
This post is probably the best way for them to contain the schizo posts apart from the TT and TM posts. At least it's funny sometimes.

Bak to vital talks, the release date will be posted last week of Summer and the game will release for the 2025 Paradox Autumn Sale !
 
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How will this schism ever be restored? Will there ever be a way to discern The Faithful from the Sheep whom left the Flock? How can we overcome this tragedy?

Please, o great False Hamster Prophet shed your untrustworthy light upon us and appear in someones dreams with the real release date so every Frog Prophet can rejoice and harmony can be restored.
Well based on the way the western schism is portrayed, we'll probably need to spend some religious influence, and we'll be united again once one of the prophets get enough support from the forum curia. And it won't ever become permanent anyway.
 
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i hate google, i google "tindale 1974 map projection" and 3 of the 6 images arent even of the 1974 tindale map

the top left image is a 1966 map of Aboriginal Australian languages
the bottom middle image is the 1996 Horton map
the bottom right map is the 1940 Tindale map not the 1974 one
 
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This was said on Reddit.

I'm a little annoyed that the forum goers get less information than people on reddit do
My turn for the schizo theories: I think the announcement and all the contents released, followed by the mass push for TT/TFs, was a deliberate choice by the devs to not only make the game known to the public, but also use the massive traction to churn out much more feedback posts than they usually would, which they could simply bookmark and review at their own pace after the initial hype wears off. I'm sure this hype brought in a lot of new active users here to participate and discuss as well. And the gameplay videos are much easier way to show the game to the public and receive mass feedback, without having to hand the game as an open Alpha or sth.

Hype will easily regrow when the devs proceed to the next planned period of content reveal and marketing campaign, where I think it will start introducing the official Developer Diaries, along with more gameplay videos, special contents, and other potential interesting things to ponder over such as Dev Clash. From there, a steady dose of hype until release can easily be maintained, with the announcement craziness period being left in the past.
 
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Why would they announce to the forum when they know some at least one schizo dedicated unpaid volonteer will report the news to the masses.

I for one understand somewhat the reasoning : keep the forums for "core contributions" and actually building the game, proposing, refining etc. and have DD for "actually saying to the world a game is coming". I don't know exactly what the campaign planned is, but I think they DO have one, even if it may have been changed based on calendar pressure / community pressure.

In that sense DD will most likely be more refined and simply "retell" in broader stroke how the game will play / why it is interesting to play, and depending of how many people these take, it could even be possible TT keep on living in a "different schedule" that keeps on trying to co construct the game with dedicated fans. After all as long as the fans are happy to contribute and the studio gets free feedback, it's all for the better imo. A bit of what I like in kickstarter campaign where you shape (even if in infinitesimal ways) the product you end up using.

Definitively support the call to "go out and touch grass" if the hype is too unbearable to you. It IS still a game we're talking about after all.
This is no mere game, EU5 is life itself.
 
Another one for the pyre!
If I were a developer, I would create an Easter egg for Aragon in which two sects want to burn each other at the stake because of abstruse omens, as their predictions for the return of Jesus differ by one year. The player can either generate a few omens itself to keep both on their path to madness for longer, or burn one or the other camp.
 
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IF they go with official DDs, then it will take a while before release, but it might make some sense for them to do so, given TTs are old by now and no longer contain accurate information. I still think they broadly give a good overview of the game, though.

Could DDs be limited for a couple of weeks before release, just to show to the world they indeed made a game?

Or are we underestimating people's intelligence? Anyone with a brain can make a very short research and see that TT have all along been about EUV. Even without a brain, you can ask AI and they will tell it to you.
 
ask AI and they will tell it to you.

"where can i find the developper diaries for euv"

chatgpt and gemini think I'm talking about "Extreme UltraViolet Lithography "
copilot advises the EUIV wiki

Gemini also adds that I might be looking for "Europa Universalis V", and advises a random Malforian devdiarytalk youtube video from early this year (https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=wxQMJ76UqijJnOsL).

So, unfortunately, and at least right now, AI doesn't tell you :(
 
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It has been 60 days since announcement without the game being released, and apparently I have become “damn near intolerable”

The missus may or may not be appreciative of my rantings and ravings about this game, yet I remain undeterred

Chat, what do divorce papers look like?
It has been 61 days since announcement without the game being released, and a new smooth brain idea has occurred to me

If the game won’t come to CommonIberianW, CommonIberianW will go to the game. Watch out Tinto, I am now looking for houses in the local area to purchase
 
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That reddit doomium post means absolutely nothing. They could literally announce the game next week and release it in 10 weeks with 10 DDs that sum up the new features for marketing. Really the fact they even started the Youtube series and the crunch they've seemingly been going through point towards a sooner release than later. They probably have some kind of milestone they need to hit (less than X documented bugs?) before the internal release date can be made public. Not announcing the release date is just to give themselves the possibility to delay if things go terribly wrong.

Which is to say that the game will release at the end of November. 146 days left. Stay vigilant xisters.
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