Ah and probably why Vic mechanics havent been more universally spread in paradox titles.
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Since they have yet to implement the agree disagree systme here:
Disagree. You wanted it not to be something so you made your facts fit that, other people wanted it to fit something so they made the facts fit that. Humans always make the facts fit whatever they hope to be true. It's one of the nig problems we've had when developing science and the reason that scientific methoc looks like it does (to minimize the damage of people doing this). Also several of your comments are just wrong.
Since they have yet to implement the agree-disagree system here:
Agree.
Most of the hints could have meant literally anything and could be read in any way, and until the copyright reveal and the Steam leaks happened there was plenty of space to think that it could have been a game in an ancient setting just as there was plenty of space to think that it was not. It wasn't unreasonable to think that Rome 2 could have taken the form of a new franchise with a different name, and "no stabbing of pigs" didn't rule out Rome just like "don't fear to be a badboy" didn't rule out Europa Universalis 4 (if anything, it openly suggested that the game would have been Rome, but it actually was just Paradox trolling its fans again).
But obviously Rome "fanatics", or Romists to use the words of our little genius here, are just unreasonable children who deserve to be mocked for having a preference in settings, right? How dare they voice their desire for something they want?
Inconceivable, truly. Also, what an idiot.
Oh, please. I know that Aristotle already knew that observation and repetition were key to understanding a phenomenon. I'm talking about widespread adoption of the scientific method by the Academia. And this came into being between lockian Empirism and Enlightment.
I personally don't think they were trying to troll, but I agree that given the hint they actually gave for EUIV, the one about "there will be no stabbing of pigs" is rather poorly chosen, if you want to signal that this was indeed not a Rome game.
Quite literally of course, it means exactly that, but given their hint history it leaves it open for intepretation.
The picture and hint 6 were more indicative though.
In europe, the latest time, in other times and places it's been just as prevalent. And you're wrong about Locke, Bacon said to study the world by looking at the world before him (roughly a century). And they are just the first english speakers to make the statement. Da Vinci suposedly had similair ideas (a century before Bacon).
Understanding of mathemetics and physics helped the ancient civilisations build their wonders of the world. measure distances and so on. Everything static they could measure. And they did.
In india there were philosophers who proposed the energy nature of matter before the birth of christ. That's more than two thousand years before eninstein.
There is nothing wrong in having a preference and voicing that preference, but while it can be agreed that hints didn't rule out Rome completely - although many, especially the later ones, made it more and more unlikely - it's undeniable that some fans of Rome were anything but reasonable and mature at some point (namely after the leak of Stellaris on Steam and after announcement that sealed the deal).
Number 6 narrowed it down but antiquity wasn't amongst what it excluded. The picture however set it in stine that it was a sci-fi game. Coupled with the copyright info and the leak that stellaris was aspace game we were left with two possible outcomes.
Augustus and stellaris is the same.
Paradox is workign on botha sci fi game and a spce game.
And since the first is simpler it wa smore likely.
Perhaps. I didn't know if they were joking or not to be honest, but for sure some were bitter enough to wish Stellaris to be a failure as a game and as a financial product (only because it wasn't Rome/HGS), which is not something you should be wishing for a company whose games you like to play.
I enjoy how hint #1 gave it away in hindsight. Someone went to public trademarks and found Paradox's late June filing for a grand strategy game called Stellaris. It wasn't until July 23 that it posted to the public database, but you can't hide public filings.
hint 6 might not have completely ruled it out, but the chances of it being an antiquity game became exceedingly slim there.
I'll be honest, I kept hoping, but I didn't really believe it'd be a Antiquity game
I wonder if you share PCs when working at HoI / EU. That would explain some things...
Pretty much every hint had tons of people arriving at the correct conclusion, only to get railroaded by the paranoid\second-guesser party!
Funny thing, I never made the connection between the content of the quote itself and the leak: just that it was Blade Runner, so sci fi hurr durr.
Funny thing, I never made the connection between the content of the quote itself and the leak: just that it was Blade Runner, so sci fi hurr durr.
Seven Heavens maybe? And the old Biblical cosmology has three levels.
Also interesting is this: http://www.endlesssearch.co.uk/philo_cosmology.htm
There is even the part 'the Laws of Three and Seven'