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MasterofMagic

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I recently bought a Paradox game EU:IV and I couldn't read half the fonts. The letters are way to small and need to be increased by double. I had to return it on Steam and I'm sure I'm not alone. If you throw out the baby boomers of America you're going to lose quite a substantial amount of sales and find a lot of refunds given out.
 
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I'm sorry to hear about that, but you are pretty much the only person with that problem.
 
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Scaling is an issue Paradox could improve on, true; and indeed it is not the first time I have seen people taking this issue very seriously.

If your screen is small, you should probably not use the highest resolutions.
 
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Lemont Elwood said:
I'm sorry to hear about that, but you are pretty much the only person with that problem.
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That's not true. As a matter of fact, I've seen the issue discussed several times, and (at least for EUIV and CKII) there are mods to make the fonts bigger.
 
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eon47 said:
And they complain about millenials...
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You put this map-game thingy up on the interwebs and I couldn't read any of the words on the pictures or video advertisements so I bought to find out what the words said and it didn't even come with a pair of reading glasses!

I demand a refund, and I'll be filing a complaint with the AARP!
 
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This is one issue I think it's appropriate to suggest mods for. There's a really good one for this, makes the tooltip fonts much clearer and makes the colours easier to distinguish too.

Edit: And I can't believe I'm saying this again: Paradox are great at responding to civil posts. Your title might make it difficult to get the response you're looking for.
 
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Respect your elders folks, maybe he doesn't know what resolution is. I would be frustrated too! Just registering for the forum was probably an ordeal. But hopefully the resolution solved the issue.

Some day we will all be 50+ and playing the latest editions of EU and CK and HOI and struggling with the confounded new machinery. Give the guy a break.
 
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Opopo1122 said:
Respect your elders folks, maybe he doesn't know what resolution is. I would be frustrated too! Just registering for the forum was probably an ordeal. But hopefully the resolution solved the issue.

Some day we will all be 50+ and playing the latest editions of EU and CK and HOI and struggling with the confounded new machinery. Give the guy a break.
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Respect is earned, not given. And it helps to be courteous.
 
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niallmcfc said:
Respect is earned, not given. And it helps to be courteous.
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Okay calm down. This isn't your dojo or the Thunderdome, it's a gaming forum. And I would practice what you preach. Does someone being discourteous (a somewhat subjective term, especially on the internet where tone is difficult to pinpoint) mean they are free game for other's discourtesy? By that logic we would just get into a discourteous vicious cycle - and then where would we be? Huh? Huh? Discourteous town, that's where. And who wants to go there? You apparently.
 
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While I think the OP could have been a good deal more civil about it, this is an issue with PDS games if you:

- Play them on high-res monitors - 1440p and up; or
- Play them from an armchair/couch at 2-3 metres away (something I do).

Given EU4 was one of the five games that Steam chose to highlight when initially promoting their Big Picture approach, I thought this was a little ironic, as playing from a couch on anything below a 50 inch (or bigger) screen at 1080p is quite challenging.

That said, I just down-res to 720p and it's fine. It's fine to suggest mods, but the first one I tried crashed the game when I gave it a run. I might give another a crack at some stage, but it'd be handy if all those people suggesting mods actually provided some suggestions of which mods to use. Mods are a bit of a minefield. For every one that helps a tonne, there are five (or more) that break things or are more trouble than they're worth, and filtering through them is a bit of a chore.
 
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