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Anonymous01/02/26, 19:52No.2314137Victoria 3 /v3g/
>passing laws is now slightly less annoying
Amazing! At this rate the game will finally be be fixed by 2035!
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Anon01/03/26, 12:09No.2314512
Vicky 3's warfare system is actually good and I don't miss playing with shitty toy soldiers at all.
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Anon01/04/26, 00:10No.2314899
Huh? Whuzzat? Law passing changed?
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Anon01/05/26, 12:04No.2315781
did you forget the rest of the OP
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Anon01/05/26, 12:05No.2315782
for future dumb fucks
https://rentry.co/v3gpasta
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Anon01/05/26, 21:30No.2316103
Decree: Promote Social Mobility
Requirement: No Hindus and(?) No Caste System
Effect: State enforced education + vocational experience for everyoneWhy is it called social mobility if it's about creating harder workers, not increasing promotion and demotion?
Why is my marxism simulator not about fighting the rigid social hierarchy where the rich get richer, and instead is all about educating people until they're eligible to become factory owners, workers, civil servants, and most importantly, taxpayers?
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Anon01/06/26, 09:26No.2316340
The law casino is actually a dogshit system altogether. It's kind of impossible to fix. It has to remain dogshit due to how the game was designed, but man is it BAD.
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Anon01/06/26, 12:44No.2316398
I wish the law system was different:
>if you are The State (autocracy, single party, etc), you propose reforms
>if you are any degree of a democracy or distributed power (oligarchy), governing interest groups with legitimacy propose reforms, the frequency scaling with how democratic you are
>any governing parties that don't actually agree on a reform don't propose it, the same as how political deadlocking happens currently in the game
>anarchy means you yourself cannot propose reforms, illegitimacy also stops you same as currently
>authority no longer reduces enactment time but instead is the mana you use to affect the current reform's success or failure
>>authority spent early will improve the chance for your preferred outcome the most
>>authority spent will help or hurt relations with interest groups with a slow decay - an inflammatory law will tip disorder into rebellion if it's not left up to the Will Of The People (dice rolls + interest group clout) to decide
>>authority kept in reserve can be used to change Randumb popup event outcomes and directly negate a setback or even send it back a step if that 5% success chance somehow got it to the last phase and you don't want to roll the dice and have a new law you don't like!
There's a semblance of a private economy in the game and it's gotten better since release's fully state planned economy, but the politics is still autocratic and democracy isn't very democratic. It would be nice if players were told "Oh, you want to enact fully automated gay space communism? Have you considered reactionary monarchy, socialism, communism, or the third way?" with some players being laughed at for unknowingly re-enacting historic conservatism of delaying suffrage because it's taking away their control.
Maybe the system could also support competing reforms, where if someone proposes Charity Hospitals you can say "Fuck that, let's have Public Healthcare!" before you're locked into a difficult law like poll tax.
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Anon01/06/26, 13:05No.2316409
I checked the reddit
I'm surprised how self aware some of them are
>hey what interest group r u? I'm a trade unionist intelligentsia because I'm a student, lol
>I'm an engineer IRL, so in game I'm the petite bourgeoisie
>lawyer, so petite bourgeoisie
>blue collar in a union, trade union
>peasant
>dependant (unemployed)
>dependant (homemaker)
Makes a slight change to the "Here's my run where I became the top GDP in the world. Oil and gold mine conquering optional. Why yes my country is now Hindu-Islamic and here's the chart to prove it."
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Anon01/07/26, 03:58No.2316919
Is it possible to play Byzantium without going full globohomo? The Turks keep rebelling.
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Anon01/07/26, 19:39No.2317336
The new coup mechanic sucks ass. I found only one way to avoid it without eating penalties: only hire unpopular commanders. It's better when everyone hates your generals.
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Anon01/08/26, 02:08No.2317505
This game is dead. DEEAAAAAAAAAD
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Anon01/08/26, 10:50No.2317642
>nerf sovereign empire
vs
>buff all other power blocs
thoughts?
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Anon01/08/26, 14:33No.2317696
Shamelessly shilling my own retarded video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoRPUakY4yo
I play Denmark, trying to develop the Financial Centers (+ MHs and CHs) to the point where the economy depends exclusively on dividends from financial assets (no more national industries or resources).
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Anon01/09/26, 19:18No.2318573
In fact here are all the use cases for all power bloc types:>Military Treaty
You want 20% training rate and nothing else.
>Ideological Union
You want -33% stall chance and nothing else.
>Cultural Commonwealth
You're doing a nation formation cheese run.
>Religious Convocation
You want 5% birth rate and nothing else.
If you're catholic then it becomes a worse version of trade league (this is praiseworthy).
>Trade League
You want an actual power bloc but aren't a monarchy.
>Sovereign Empire
You want an actual power bloc.
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Anon01/09/26, 20:52No.2318633
>play autocratic government
>cant just pass any law i want
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Anon01/10/26, 15:24No.2319017
This is the best Paradox game apparently.
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Anon01/11/26, 03:00No.2319497
When am I going to be able to use my home country's techology in a foreign investment ? Can this shit be modded in any way ?
Its retarded to have a corporation from a modernized country be limited to just building farming huts outside of it.
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Anon01/12/26, 16:30No.2320338
Why cant i put a gun to my central bankers head and tell them to just print more money in thus game?
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Anon01/13/26, 04:50No.2320734
maybe I missed some part of the tutorial, so what's the best way to hold positive income? I drop down to -13k whenever I want to build anything, but I'm presently stuck with my infrastructure limit and only just started getting steel production so I could build train engines for my privately-built railroads
what're good ways to increase SoL, while we're at it? It's not too clear
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Anon01/14/26, 00:18No.2321353
Protip: The current meta crop is bananas. Always build bananas if you can. It's more profitable than opium.
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Anon01/14/26, 02:25No.2321404
I think locking companies behind technologies (except cases with oil, electric and auto non-charted buildings) is retarded. They should have locked prosperity bonus behind tech
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Anon01/14/26, 02:33No.2321412
Genuinely though, what the fuck were they thinking when it came to warfare in this game?
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Anon01/14/26, 04:55No.2321446
why the fuck do i need to get a mod so that Infrastructure limit is shown in the building tab
it's critical information when building en masse
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Anon01/14/26, 21:48No.2321810
just realized ashkenazi jews are more tolerated in germanic countries then french, italian and slavic peoples
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Anon01/15/26, 10:55No.2321997
is subjecthood the best citizenship law after multiculturalism?
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Anon01/15/26, 18:09No.2322142
>play poortugal
>queen is now a shopkeeper rather than a bureaucrat
>unelected oligarchy with elections
>colonies are growing slower than day one release vicky despite being on colonial affairs 2 by default
>arm immediately being twisted by an interest group for a law, so try to follow through
>group who doesn't want it decides to "support" it
I swear this event used to check if an interest group actually cared about it.
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Anon01/15/26, 19:26No.2322206
Meta-wise, multiculturalism is best. Personally I hate it because it's ahistorical and disables assimilation. Second best is Subjecthood + Colonial Racialization. It's almost-multiculturalism that allows slavery. Third place is a tie between regular Subjecthood and Cultural Exclusion. Cultural Exclusion is the default all countries should be on, unless you plan on directly conquering and holding a lot of unaccepted pops. They each have their own upside and downsides.The rest are trash and should never be used.
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Anon01/16/26, 08:41No.2322473
play as USA
>monarchy, corporate state or presidential republic
>autocracy, oligarcy or single party state
>state religion
>subjecthood (if monarcy) or cultural exclusion
>conscription
>national guard
>isolationism
>lazeus faire
>commercial agriculture
>colonial exploitation
>militarized police
>relgious schools
>private healthcare
>outlaw dissent
>no workers right
>child labor allowed
>legal guardianship
>no social security
>closed borders
>debt slavery
>combination act or anti-strike laws
MAGA!
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Anon01/16/26, 20:08No.2322728
can you turn usa or new england into a colonial administrations if you puppet them as britain?
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Anon01/16/26, 23:23No.2322856
The new investment rights subject interaction is awful. It causes your (already puny) investment pool to build iron mines in your overlord instead of your country. Being a subject is so bad you want to stop being once ASAP in 100% of all cases. I don't understand why the devs hate subjects so much.
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Anon01/18/26, 14:53No.2323658
>game will be playable after 10 years of DLC and updates.
so like every other PDX grand strategy?
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Anon01/19/26, 21:48No.2324705
India richest cleanest superpower saars
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Anon01/19/26, 22:39No.2324740
LOL
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Anon01/19/26, 23:05No.2324755
is free trade and laissez faire the best economic laws? i rarely played so long that socialist laws becomes available
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Anon01/20/26, 01:21No.2324815
>make a whole dlc about latin america
>still mess up paraguay which is arguable the most unique amd interesting nation in the region at the time
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Anon01/20/26, 13:52No.2325059
EIC somehow got independence and then blew up; I'm gonna move right in and protectorate everybody for the authority boosts but should I annex any states for myself?
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Anon01/20/26, 15:37No.2325099
Is V3 more of a sandbox simulation than a game or am I actually retarded? I've tried to get into it multiple times, and even after my latest run where I've started to understand correlations and mechanics it just doesn't feel like a coherent nation-state experience. I'm either trying to manage laws/politics or endlessly clicking around tabs trying to balance supply/demand/import/export of goods, but I never feel I have a holistic view of my country and clear goals as opposed to V2/EU4/HOI4/CK2 etc. It feels more like fiddling around with an engine or a coding project.
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Anon01/21/26, 22:15No.2325898
> oh shit Vic 3 is on sale
> give it a goo
> basic gameplay loop is fucking with your economy, passing laws, international politics, and war
> economy is waaaaay overbaked, opaque mechanics, too much micro
> passing laws is a complete gamble
> international politics involves retarded AI, swaying is super limited and broken
> warfare REALLY sucks
> check out reddit for tips
> even the subreddit thinks the game sucksYou know a game sucks when even the cucks on reddit can't find reasons to glaze it, holy shit.No part of this game succeeds. It's just a spreadsheet with timers welded on and the only reason people play is because it creates an addictive skinner box. It's compelling but not enjoyable, the strategy game equivalent of tiktok.
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Anon01/24/26, 00:40No.2327122
Anglo chads...
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Anon01/25/26, 07:09No.2327924
>I hate the racists and fascists
>I want the [historically hyper racists but hyper neoliberal communists in this] in charge
>>just imperial conquest to destroy national identity, lmao
>>>yeah don't, you'll get a lot of rural folk, I hate peasants>don't take private schools, those are racist
>>did you read the law? it helps the intelligentsia and public schools creates assimilation, aka creates more shopkeepers
>>>yeah but it's racist
(and one redditor believes it hurts when going wide because conquered pops can't afford education to get jobs... he doesn't realise unincorporated states have zero institution access)>organise IRL
>>haha okay and I'll be suicided by 11 gunshotsI feel like my shopkeepers are always led by a democrat, a market liberal, a radical, or a feminist. Maybe that's because I don't specifically choose to piss them off. Maybe that's also the same reason why I don't get communist takeovers - it's too easy to please every group. And the less said about how the game models racism the better.
Then again the OP of that is just pissed off Le Nationalist faction exists.
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Anon01/27/26, 12:38No.2329010
>reach 1936 again
>gave up microing the economy, again
It's weird how compounding the problem is
You'd think it's just the railway production method that sucks
>requires building a lot of
>bad for low pop (island) provinces
>cannot be switched over all at once
>you will never have enough steam engines
>without alternative industries, it might be a bad idea to unemploy people
but then you hit electricity and it's the same problem all over again with the exact same steam engine consumption issueI don't know why countries are willing to trade a state for the same state but opposite borders in a treaty, I wish there was a better UI so I know what I'm actually trading because region names are not helpful, I also wish it was integrated into the actual swap state function so the AI would gain more acceptance for joining split states... and I wish the AI would recognise that enclaves are not good to keep a hold of nor to create via a treatyThe military access treaty seems to break when the other side is puppeted/protectorated by someone you don't have a military access treaty withI still don't understand why ethno-nats are "fascists" and join the "fascist" party to then trigger the "fascist" election events when literally every other mechanic states fascists are fascists and integralists
The most extreme politician I got was a single positivist
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Anon01/29/26, 16:22No.2330331
>Annex Netherlands as Belgium
>Dutch East Indies is still a thing
>wtf
>Turns out the Netherlands survived over in Suriname and kept all their subjects
This should not happen
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Anon01/31/26, 03:42No.2331312
On a scale of 1-10, how dead is this game?
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Anon01/31/26, 07:15No.2331364
Played at launch. I have no DLC. What does playing a game today like that do for me? What's different if I give PDX my shekels?
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Anon02/01/26, 06:59No.2331902
The war system is so ass, I don't even want toy soldiers but make it better somehow
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Anon02/02/26, 13:11No.2332484
>every country is the same
>every patch of ground is equally occupied by serfs who equally produce in equal amounts to everywhere else in the world
Okay paradox, I guess we are one race, the human race, and our flag is just a social constr-
>some people farm silk better than others
oh, okay.I'm surprised they didn't apply this as a regional modifier since it'd make more sense. America conquers Japan? They still know how to farm silkworms. China conquers France? They wouldn't bring silkworms to France (I don't know what the silk farms in France/Italy/Spain are supposed to represent if they don't know how to farm silkworms).
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Anon02/10/26, 15:36No.2338844
as bad as this game is at times at least they managed to not screw it up like Johan is doing to eu5
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Anon02/11/26, 11:37No.2339786
Soooo.... is this game good?
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Anon02/12/26, 13:58No.2340827
>replaced Han with Mongols
>added bunch of names to Manchu/Mongol cultures
>plays Qing
okay what wild ride should I expect?
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Anon02/14/26, 06:14No.2342501
LOL
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Anon02/14/26, 18:51No.2342858
>won't be adding limited wars until the next volume.
Genuinely can't describe how much I hate these fucking clowns.
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Anon02/14/26, 23:33No.2343043
I formed the United States of Austria and managed to integrate all potential cultures except for Slovak and Szekler(who cares), should I grab Ethnostate or National Supremacy? I took back Silesia from the Prussians so I'm wondering if Ethnostate will degrade the Northern Germans' SoL.
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Anon02/15/26, 04:04No.2343184
>r/victoria3
>Why is there no Macedonian ethnicity?
>"There is no British ethnicity IRL"
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Anon02/15/26, 20:48No.2343821
Why were artisans killed off in Victoria 3 ?
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Anon02/15/26, 22:23No.2343903
Why is cuba overrated by the great power score system?, building sugar plantations and independence is enough to catapult you to great power status with no navy or army to speak of.
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Anon02/16/26, 20:59No.2344728
Why didn't IRL countries click the "abolish racism" button? Were they stupid?
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Anon02/16/26, 23:06No.2344868
Why were most IRL countries still mostly peasants in 1936, were they stupid?
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Anon02/23/26, 00:15No.2349197
Victoria 3 is an idle game
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Anon02/23/26, 00:49No.2349222
>be portugal
>get reserve coffee going
>I'm #2 producer
>check competitors
>cuba at top of list
>can't have that
>ask spain to stop exports of coffee to the world market for an IOU
>cuban coffee plantations collapse in a year
>now #1 producer
It's just that easy
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Anon02/26/26, 05:56No.2351659
This game is so dead. The 4chan threads are dead, the official forum is dead. The only active part is the reddit, which is filled with commies who don't even play the game. Most threads are somebody asking a question and getting wrong answers in response, since nobody there plays the game.
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Anon02/27/26, 19:25No.2352786
Going for Gross Germanium world conquest, trying to get as many Germans as possible through assimilation. It's still only 1882 but I already have 126 million Germans, for comparison there's only 450 million Chinese in the world.
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Anon03/01/26, 20:19No.2354058
>german empire
>does not control all of germany
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Anon03/02/26, 05:46No.2354275
I have these DLCs and...
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Anon03/06/26, 12:00No.2356817
I understand making the Petite Burgeoise rabid anti socialists, but why are they ultramonarchist absolutists?
These retarded serfs hate having rights, when they should be the vanguard against absolutism in the early game.
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Anon03/06/26, 18:05No.2356973
Just saw Austria collapse and now want to do a Prussia GroBgermanivms run
I haven't actually ever touched Prussia in 3, how do I ensure Austria falls apart?
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Anon03/07/26, 08:47No.2357369
How do i break britain?
I was about to follow this guide
>https://youtu.be/1O4pz4br8Ew?si=5d2XGYmM9kDF4Up2
but comments seem to indicate that this doesnt work anymore. I Just need a to jump to first place then i can finish this healthy man of europe achievement
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Anon03/08/26, 13:50No.2357897
I would be curious if depeasanting via farms, plantations, mines, fisheries, consumer industry, heavy industry, or even barracks, is "better" for starting your engine
I know you will need a mix as you entrap men into a lifestyle of consumerism, and no resource in the game is "unneeded", but it's not something you can measure just by playing and both tech and market availabilities change what you can do, I suppose that's the pointI also wonder when you would ideally swap away from child labour's literally free disposable income, or add more capitalist consumers via public trading (that's still a thing, right? I never looked too closely when it happens because it's a very boring and meaningless tech), or add women to the workforce (more consumers, theoretically lowers wages for five minutes)
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Anon03/09/26, 04:19No.2358380
Bro, who gives a shit about world conquest? This isn't Europa Universalis.
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Anon03/10/26, 05:30No.2358954
Im still trying to understand this game, can someone explain this to me
>https://youtu.be/uIA93uGuiBE?si=bLJcKDeogVwxxg0T&t=4174
I notice that he pauses construction seemingly for no reason that I can think of. And not only this one time, several times he does it in the video, all the way until hoarding gold. What is the reasoning for this, does anyone know?
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Anon03/10/26, 16:08No.2359177
>no peasant, church or fascist interest group emotes
Must have run out of money
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Anon03/11/26, 03:53No.2359522
DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NOW TIMMY?
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Anon03/11/26, 13:53No.2359691
Bought the game because it was on sale, and holy fuck I’ve never played anything more boring in my life. In no other Paradox game was I able to sit on speed 5 and STILL feel like the game was moving at a crawl.
Where’s the fun and how do I find it?
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Anon03/12/26, 00:34No.2360115
I wish the 3D models for characters were better.
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Anon03/12/26, 17:23No.2360572
It's anonced
>naval diplo plays + japan (navy in free patch?)
>Russia and russian revolutions
>Chyna chyna chyna
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Anon03/13/26, 21:45No.2361413
WHEN ARE THEY FIXING WARFARE
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Anon03/14/26, 07:01No.2361589
When are they going to add interstate electricity distribution ?