Also, hardware T&L, though that wouldn’t be an added problem with most graphics cards.
Paradox makes the very best computer games. Eventually :p.
I might just wait a game patch cycle or two this time. I’m a big fan of Crusader Kings ( once it hit 1.05 ) and of role-playing my strategy games, so I expect I’ll be fond of this iteration of EU as well ( EU II is likely my favorite game ever, but CK is close ). But for once I’m not in a rush.
For one thing I got the sudden urge to dust off my old ( ancient? ) copy of Imperialism II for the first time in a couple of years and that’s currently eating up all my time :D. Thank god for replayable classics.
- Tamerlane
Well, I’m still trying to get my Geforce 6800 to run on my damned computer. I upgraded, but it lets out this long beep when i turn it on with the new card in it.
That doesn’t make me happy after we upgraded the power supply.
I have an nVidia 5500 and it runs, but it’s very twitchy. Tough to get menu popups out of my way when I want to do something.
Hehehe, damn popup notifications were a pain in EU2. Nothing like playing the game at Normal, or AboveNormal in MP, trying to fight a multi-continent war, and getting pop-up warnings about your provinces revolting after the seventh year of your war. 
For the record, I’ve purchased a Radeon X1600 Pro, which I hope to be able to install and get to run on my computer. This should allow me to play the game, as well as a slough of other games that are now requiring much the same sort of specs. A visit to Best Buy the other day was a real eye opening experience in this regard. :eek:
Well I ended up getting it after all.
It’s a pretty good game. I’m enjoying it, and wondering if anyone wants to swap stories.
After a couple tries to get the hang of things, I decided to start a real game as Mecklenburg. As a small, but ecomomically stable company I decided my best bet was getting money and stability. Other than a small war with Denmark(which narrow-minded historians have chosen to call the war of Mecklenburgian agression, Boo)in which I decided to keep a couple small island provinces, for stability you know, I avoided war for the first hundred years or so really well. Wester Europe quickly consolidated into Portugal, Castile, Aragon, and Burgundy. Austria created a decent sized empire from Italy to Turkey. But Northern and Central-eastern Europe remained a quagmire of small countried trading territory back and forth. England was left alone mostly by the real threats and gathered in all of Scotland, Ireland and began on Greenland and Extreme North America. Norway an Sweden got rid of all the compitition on the north, but ended up in a quagmire of a war between themselves that has lasted for 250 years, off and on, and never had the extra resources to break out anywhere else.
While most of the bigger empires fought each other, and the small countries struggled to survive, I looked into Colonial expansion with little competition. I quickly established a presence from Nova Scotia to Virginia, over to Michigan. Due to an unfortunate translators mistake, I might have sort of conquered the Iroquois, And their rich Fur bearing land.
Only then did I find out that a small Castillian beachhead in Florida and exanded into a Large piece over to the Mississippi and up to Ohio. I abandoned further expansion of Northern New Mecklenburg and sought to cut them off, to the west. Gaining rich Cotton land west of the mississippi along the Gulf, and even a thin link all the way over to the gold rich land of California. Encountering the Maya, who in a gross warlike culture had taken all of Mexico and Texas, through Central America into South America. Clearly their souls needed saving, And I am now soverign of a sizable empire, and global leader in trade.
Several jealous Neighbors Back in Europe Learned what an Economic Giant can do quickly when forced to war, and a decent portion of Northern Europe ended up pacified by my troops, and joined my portfolio.
Then just recently a long ago forgotten Mariage of a minor relation gave back 1000 fold when the Leadership of Austria died and they threw their Fortunes and their land in with mine. Not quite the expanse they once held, but allowing me to become a major player in Europe. It also gained me control of the Papacy.
Now I look at the glorious modern era of 1680 with quite a choice to make. Should I continue to expand Colonially:. There are large empty portions of North American Mountians and great plains sitting empty, but my advisors tell me the profits from such land are meager. There is good land in South America, but the Portugese and Aragonians(?) have grabbed some good stuff, and it would be a drawn out war, but I could overwhelm them with certainty. There are also the Incas sitting around all infidely on good land, and looking like they need saved too. Or perhaps a new direction into and across the Pacific.
But the Homeland is tempting as well. Several lands that arn’t reaching thier potenial in petty squables could benefit from strong leader ship in the future, and My Northen lands would look pretty good if joined to the mediteranian stronghold of Austro-Mecklenburgia, purely for logistical reasons of course. Burgundy has given me no reason to trust their intentions either, and perhaps a lesson needs to be taught.
How is yours going?
Hehe I’m having fun.
Very nice narrative wolfman.
What happens when you hit the end year? Does the game end? I’d hate to play for a really long time and be at just the right moment to finish conquering everything just to have the game tell me “Yeah, you just hit an arbitrary date in the code. Thanks for playing! Game over!”.
Does anyone have a good tutorial for this game? It looks great, but I’ll be damned if I can figure out what the heck I am doing. Let’s say I start as Mandarin China. I have some icons I think are armies. I can send them to neighboring territories, which takes either freaking forever or about 10 seconds, depending on where I set the speed. So I either get bogged down with micromanagement and charts that probably contain the mysteries of the cosmos for I can tell, or I end up plowing through about 3 years game time in under a minute and my people rebel.
So anyway, my army will get to the enemy territory, some bars will move about, and they lose every time. Seems to me my army twice the size of theirs should be a pretty sure win, but maybe there’s some sort of bonus to defending? Blaaah, I say.
Yeah, I really need a good tutorial.
You can find almost anything you need to know at The Paradox Message Board. Not sure if they have a FAQ section up yet.
I hadn’t heard anything about the EU series of games before reading this thread. I’ve sickened myself a bit with Civ so I’m looking for a new life-waster. The original EU is only 1 Euro to download! Ah fuckit, I’m downlading EUII at 14.99…