User Research Survey! - [CLOSED]

[Killer-Cosmo]

Pretty sure they mean do you use the battle plan function and just let the plan do the work with little to no micro. Similar to attaching air wings to armies and leaving them alone.

If this were the case, why does it mention convoys specifically?

 

[Irishman845]

If this were the case, why does it mention convoys specifically?

You can manually move troops to a port and then move them elsewhere or you can draw a front line, fallback line or garrison order and the troops will automatically move with transports. What they are looking for when asking the question is do they need to spend time programming automatic functions that no one uses or can they focus on something else.

 

[captainroot]

Ugh, it's one of these marketing data ones.
Being brutally honest;
I come to the particular game forum because i care about that particular game.
Filling in a survey to help the devs make their game is good.
However I don't want to fill in a survey to help a suit predict sales numbers on the next stellaris: galaxy command/star trek: infinite

Well, I get your point, but I can't lie: the question about my level of interest in the Cold War period brought a smile on my face and made me hope just a little more again.

 

[KubiG37]

GoE is a terrible example for "pure" historical.

Of the four nations added, one does literally nothing (despite being the inspiration for the name of the DLC) and two are steamrolled with minimal effort.
Poor India's left to pick up the historical slack

It's just a really lazy and simplistic scripting though. Not the fault of the GoE itself. Both Iraq and Iran are basically scripted to 'always lose' no matter what, which is a terrible design.

Iraq at least needs to lose some territory to be able to pick the focus that surrenders it.
But Iran - oh my god, it always surrenders too, but the focus doesn't even require anything for it to lose! (Actually it stops working if they DO capitulate) AI just picks it no matter what.

I've seen numerous times how Soviets failed spectacularly, Iran actually pushed them back a bit, then a boatload of Axis troops arrived via caucasus, pushed into Soviet Union. Then out of nowhere, Iran is made puppet of UK and northern part is given to Soviet Union. Hundreds of thousands of Axis troops become landlocked out of supply in central Asia and eventually die.

But as I said, this is not fault of the focus tree, the tree has different options, but the AI is hard-scripted to pick one option, even if it doesn't make any sense. It could be a lot better, and it is certainly possible, since I was able to do that with mods.

 

[brantodb01]

Well, I get your point, but I can't lie: the question about my level of interest in the Cold War period brought a smile on my face and made me hope just a little more again.

HoI:East vs west, coming to an app store near you.
Buy 5 civ factories for 5.99...oops we need to shutdown for using stolen assets.


Yes, I'm overly cynical but once. sorry, twice. Wait, many times bitten many more times shy

 

[Kvizerad]

Nobody mentioned that survey is not avialable for Russian IPs. Really Paradox, are you that much don't care?

 

[Varvs]

This just feels like wasted time but i did it anyways. Suspecting that HR/PR oversight has free time or roleplays working to not get fired themselves. bland questions from a bland corpo.

 

[EustaceCS]

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in our lands.

Looks like not all feedback is welcome.
Looks like my feedback is not welcome.

 

[hannibal_pjv]

I hope there's more focus on historical paths for focus trees. Ahistorical is good, but I feel like historical paths have been neglected a bit, especially in GoE.

You know that historical is… Your country is conquered. End of the game…
That is why alt history is allways the ”more interesting” option. All countries in GoE should be practically useless in historical path…

 

[Kosaki MacTavish]

You know that historical is… Your country is conquered. End of the game…
That is why alt history is allways the ”more interesting” option. All countries in GoE should be practically useless in historical path…

Tbh, i thought that we would get a proper Azad Hind historical breakout path against the Raj in style of Vichy France in GoE....

Probbaly we would get an option to play as them when Japan spawned them in the upcoming Japanese DLC if you own GoE.

 

[hannibal_pjv]

Tbh, i thought that we would get a proper Azad Hind historical breakout path against the Raj in style of Vichy France in GoE....

Probbaly we would get an option to play as them when Japan spawned them in the upcoming Japanese DLC if you own GoE.

Maybe! But dlc based on previous dlc… not easy and does not happen often. Most of the time they are la resistance based aka espinage options.

 

[Killer-Cosmo]

Maybe! But dlc based on previous dlc… not easy and does not happen often. Most of the time they are la resistance based aka espinage options.

It's not that it isn't easy; Paradox could spend the same amount of effort on fixing bugs and prior DLC as creating a whole new major DLC, and people would be overjoyed

Problem is they can't sell stuff people already own

 

[SultanSaz]

I hope there's more focus on historical paths for focus trees. Ahistorical is good, but I feel like historical paths have been neglected a bit, especially in GoE.

Disagree with you, the alt history is the part that makes the game fun specially for the last DLC cause historically you are screwed except for Raj during WW2 but still the amount of content is ridiculously less than for example what the south American dlc got them those nations are even of less import yet they got actually good content.

 

[him_15]

Done.

 

[Joshua Happytree]

Looks like not all feedback is welcome. Looks like my feedback is not welcome.

Nobody mentioned that survey is not avialable for Russian IPs. Really Paradox, are you that much don't care?

It's not PDX fault, it's SurveyMonkey. They block Russian and Belarus IPs. PDX probably just didn't know this.

 

[Selenter]

If players hadn't banded together to fight against the studio's management disaster, you would never have gotten the biggest patch fixes.

 

[e_quality]

I took the survey and have a few suggestions for SP (nearly 3k hours):
1. Japan, the USA and SEA need a face-lift to make the Pacific war a thing, because right now the Pacific War really isn't a thing. Guadalcanal never happens. Both Foci trees are ancient.
2. Food is something you should consider including along with division limits for performance. No one is fielding these many divisions and feeding them.
3. If the AI can't handle island hopping make pre deploying and staying I'm islands more expensive for the player in terms of supply.
4. Since equipment tags became a thing the US starting fleet of cruisers and aircraft carriers have the wrong tags, the Wichita isn't a light cruiser but has the shield tag so it doesn't reinforce fleets with heavy cruisers (the turret tag). Same thing with the Lexington which should have a CV tag but doesn't(has a turret tag instead of plane). Doing this every game gets old.
5.The attack on Mers al Kabir never happens if you play as the US, so the Churchill sequence of decisions ends with emergency arms deliveries. This is due to the UK having so many decisions but not enough PP to actually take them. Same thing with invading North Africa.
6. The USSR never follows through on Potsdam, because there is no Potsdam and Yalta doesn't do what it should.
7. Research bloat has hit the USA, you never field everything you could because you lack slots to do so.
8. You don't actually do anything with spies in the US till you're the spymaster so you don't do operation Bolivar.
9. Having Iran join the Axis because the USSR and the UK can't topple them in SP is stupid.
10. Having the DR, El Salvador and Venezuelq join the the Sphere or the Axis when the allies are winning is hilarious.

Edit:

11. Having the USSR lose Stalingrad because it's garrisoning the Kharabosk coast is silly.

Edit 2:

12. Lend lease is broken especially to China.

I agree with all of the list above (and I have more than 3k hours in SP). If some effort could be directed towards the things mentioned above it would greatly enhance SP.

I would like to add to the list the super small fix concerning that the US Palmyra Garrison starts on Phoenix Island, and the US Phoenix Island Garrison starts on Palmyra, and this has been so since forever.