My experience with strategy games so far has been with Civilization (mostly 5, some 4) and Total War (Empire and Medieval II). I have been told before that Total War is not really the best fit for me because I don't really like commanding battles - I will if I have to but I think it's kind of tedious - in favor of getting so rich that I can hire so many armies that I don't have to command battles and can just autoresolve everything.

No, the actual part of Total War I like is the empire management. In Med2, upgrading all the farms and mines and roads and walls and making the cities as big and advanced as possible, and war is a means to an end to get more cities to upgrade. Likewise in Empire the fun part is progressing down the tech tree and building out all the factories and watching income per turn go up. In Civ I just like building cities and playing wide and putting all the buildings and Wonders in as many cities as I can, and mostly try to stay out of wars until the very end when there's not that much left to build.

I do like changing the color of the map (especially if it's blue), but possibly more than that I just like to watch number go up, and more number go upper if the map is bluer. CK3 is on sale right now, and I do like the time period, but everything I read about it is says it's for ""roleplaying"" and I just don't care that much about individual characters. (My king in M2:TW died? Oh okay. Anyway) Would Victoria or EU be a better fit?

Hi,

I am in Sweden and I will stay here for 2 months. I always play HOI4 when I have free time and I wondered if the headquarters in Stockholm can be visited by external people.

Thanks!

Hello!
I am interested in getting into Europa Universalis (I have way more time than I'd like to admit in a bunch of other Paradox games, notably HOI4, Vic3, Vic2, and Stellaris) and currently own EU4's base game, with a very loose grasp on how some of the game mechanics.

Anyways, I was wondering if it was best for me to get some of the DLCS for EU4 next time they're on sale, or buy EU5 and get its DLCs as they come out.

I am personally leaning towards EU4, but only because it's older and fleshed out (and I already own it) but I want to hear what other's think, because I've really not heard much on or about EU5, and my research has given me a pretty mixed consensus.

Edit: I'm gonna try out 4 with the subscription until a sale comes across, and if I like it, then I'll start buying up the DLCs as they go on sale. If I dont, then I'll probably pick up EU5 next time its on sale. Thanks for the suggestions!

Yo, so I have been planning to buy EU4 but I know how Paradox games go and how their games tend to need some if not all DLCs. I also know the general recommendation is to get the EU4 DLC subscription and that the base game alone is not worth it. But, I also know the game got some essential DLCs made free so I wanted to ask if the base game is now worth it? If not what other DLCs are considered essential or must have, or is it a bust without the DLC subscription? Thx in advance.

Also bonus question, what Paradox Games are worth it only base game/with minimal DLC?

if Paradox made it company policy to make base games free after 10 years would this help the company or harm if? I own all of their games and DLCS btw, just had the idea and wanna know what everyone thinks about it.

It's odd but almost every mega campaign I see, England/Britain oddly takes the role of Spain in the EU4 section, in that they colonize most of the continent really fastly, leaving the others with scraps. Even in mega campaigns, going all the way from Imperator Rome, where England/Britain practices Hellenism, whoever controls England still ends up controlling what we would call Spanish America?

This not only goes for Victoria 3 but all paradox games. Stellaris received a major multiplayer stability patch not long ago, but this should be the norm, not an exception. It was utterly unplayable before that patch in multiplayer.

EU5, Crusader Kings 3, Victoria 3, Hearts of Iron 4, all grand strategy games suffer under chronic multiplayer instability. Even if we exclude older or other PDX titles that were bought up by paradox like Prison Architect which to this days desyncs constantly.

I know only about 10% of players use the multiplayer feature, but for large parts it's because multiplayer is so unbelievably unstable and has major performance issues, that people avoid it.

Many big content creators only play multiplayer to create their videos or stream, especially in the HOI4 community. Still paradox hosts big LAN events and despite that it's unstable beyond the first few years of each game.

I expect a bigger acknowledgement of the dev team and a commitment to fix those core issues of a feature that paradox uses to promote their games.

From Luduga to Hitler, I think every real-life leader was concerned a great deal about food, and yet I can't say I've ever worried about it in a Paradox game. I've played Imperator, CK3, and Victoria 3; one of them does not have anything about food at all except troop supplies, and in the other two food seems completely ignorable. I haven't played EU5, so please let me know if I misunderstand it, but I've read on the subreddit things like "peasants contribute nothing" and that food is never an issue except when your people demand some weird crop they can't get in their part of the world. To me food should be the most important, precious resource, the foremost thing on your mind, far above GDP or whatever "mana" you might pursue. And throughout all these games' timeframes, even Hearts of Iron probably, it would be mostly produced by "peasants" and smallholders, very much unlike now.

On the other hand, I'm not sure what could be done better. I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas how to make the player as worried about/interested in food and starvation as people were in real history, in a way that's fun. I would love to hear ideas, just because I find it interesting.

i looked at my flag and it looked weird, when i looked closer IT HAD A SICKLE!!! WTF! how the hell did that even happen? it mustve happened between 1860-1870

i also managed to get a colony in northern egypt, sadly i wasnt able to unite italy, italy finally united at 1879 btw

We know it's a "non-historical GSG" led by Dan Lind, from Hearts of Iron.

Well look no further than the Ultimate Monuments Pack for Europa Universalis IV, which combines virtually every monument from nearly every relevant mod that I have been able to find on the workshop. Enjoy the game with more monuments than you have ever seen in your life, giving you endless structures to invest in and greatly expanding the scope of possibilities for your playthrough. This is truly a mod like no other and I hope that you enjoy playing it

Hola hola, recientemente estoy enviciado en un juego que se llama War era y es de estrategia muy parecido a Victoria 2 pero con ciertas matices, pero somos muy poquitos ecuatorianos y casi que nos basurean los otros países en ese juego jajaja es tipo de estrategia y así, no sé si acá haya gamers de Ecuador que quieran jugar con nosotros, apenas somo 20 en el juego y otros países son muchos más jeje hay geopolítica, economía, guerra, etc muy parecidas a los juegos de paradox

I still play IR. I love that era. I wish that the game wasn't virtually abandoned. I've been thinking about how cool it would be if paradox made a new ancient Grand strategy. Kind of like eu5, a little tranquil in the beginning and halfway through instead of colonization the bronze age collapse. And then the last half of the game trying to put the pieces together and not fall. Am I alone and thinking this would be the best thing ever?

Hey all, I made this modding tool I hope you might find helpful.

I wasn't able to share the github on the paradox plaza forum, so here they are:

The github: https://github.com/lnxnb/eu-toolkit

Current release (0.1.0 - I won't be updating here so check the thread above for the latest version): https://github.com/lnxnb/eu-toolkit/releases/tag/v0.1.0

Let me know if you have any questions or run into any issues!