Comments - Forzain

Universalis is fun as small nations, like Finland. Otherwise you're just stuck unable to do anything, in mods like GFM. TGC also has some interesting mechanics in regards to tall play.

Also, yeah, I only play GFM on Alice. In fact, I only play Vic 2 through Alice these days. Too many good things; better economy, QOL, and the gamespeed - I simply don't have time for regular Vic 2 anymore. It's. So. Damn. Slow. lol

IIRC meiou works pretty good in terms of AI with their own systems, most of the times better than player (since it's so goddamn complex in v3). V2 was cerainly worse in this regard.

I agree with Manor Lords. Banished gives a much harsher feeling! It's too easy to survive atm. Still, it is undoubtedly a masterpiece considering the dev team size (practically 1). You can just feel the love seeping through the game.

And sorry, I haven't tried your mod, I doubt it works out of the box with Alice. I was just wanting to give a tip to @Universalis is fun as small nations, like Finland. Otherwise you're just stuck unable to do anything, in mods like GFM. TGC also has some interesting mechanics in regards to tall play.

Also, yeah, I only play GFM on Alice. In fact, I only play Vic 2 through Alice these days. Too many good things; better economy, QOL, and the gamespeed - I simply don't have time for regular Vic 2 anymore. It's. So. Damn. Slow. lol

IIRC meiou works pretty good in terms of AI with their own systems, most of the times better than player (since it's so goddamn complex in v3). V2 was cerainly worse in this regard.

I agree with Manor Lords. Banished gives a much harsher feeling! It's too easy to survive atm. Still, it is undoubtedly a masterpiece considering the dev team size (practically 1). You can just feel the love seeping through the game.

And sorry, I haven't tried your mod, I doubt it works out of the box with Alice.Universalis is fun as small nations, like Finland. Otherwise you're just stuck unable to do anything, in mods like GFM. TGC also has some interesting mechanics in regards to tall play.

Also, yeah, I only play GFM on Alice. In fact, I only play Vic 2 through Alice these days. Too many good things; better economy, QOL, and the gamespeed - I simply don't have time for regular Vic 2 anymore. It's. So. Damn. Slow. lol

IIRC meiou works pretty good in terms of AI with their own systems, most of the times better than player (since it's so goddamn complex in v3). V2 was cerainly worse in this regard.

I agree with Manor Lords. Banished gives a much harsher feeling! It's too easy to survive atm. Still, it is undoubtedly a masterpiece considering the dev team size (practically 1). You can just feel the love seeping through the game.

And sorry, I haven't tried your mod, I doubt it works out of the box with Alice. Just wanted to give a tip to JugofIssek.

I wanted to pop in here and recommend MEIOU and taxes v3 for Europa Universalis IV. I see a bit of myself in you - when I do play strategy games, I want them as punishing and thus as rewarding as possible (within reasonable terms, I am strictly against arbitrary AI cheats for example). I think we're alike in that way.

MEIOU is incredibly complex. It starts in 1356 and spans hundreds of years. I don't know if you're familiar with EU4 or not already, the basegame that is, if you're not then mastering EU4 will take a lot of time in and of itself. Almost like basegame EU4 is a bachelor while MEIOU is a PHD.

Anyways.. the economics of MEIOU 3.0 is incredibly indepth. Population is intertwined with state governance incredibly deeply. It runs slow, on an old engine, and it can feel arbitrarily punishing at times.. but it's not. The reasons are simply hidden in the threads of an incredibly deep underlying system. For this reason many dislike the mod, to each their own I suppose.

I've also searched for many strategy games which make me feel in some way or another as if i'm experiencing the time in which it itself is set. Here's some of my other favourites (formatted as GAME, MOD, MOD,..):
Medieval 2, Tsardoms TW, Third Age Total War, Stainless Steel, SSHIP
Empire Total War, Pirates Uber Alles,
Napoleon Total War, Napoleonic Era Campaign(!), NTW3
Victoria 2, TGC, GFM, Victoria Universalis(!), Project Alice(!!)
Victoria 3, Hail Columbia!,
Manor Lords,

There are also many, many good iterations of the Mount & Blade series as you mentioned. I enjoy those games for a slightly different reason however.

it's so clsoe to working! TUR keeps getting random provinces all over the place, and pop growth seems so very slightly off from vanilla (from what I could tell), but it would be amazing if this was compatible with PA

Probably hit CTRL+M. Check settings, there's a silly option for "mute sound". Might be checked, if so, uncheck it.

Can England not build past castle? I can't upgrade to fortress, seems as if it isn't in the game at all anymore

I got it, had to restart the game, thanks!

hey - there's a strange bug regarding forts, if one takes out 3 or more generals at once out from the fort, the third general is killed. With "forts" I of course refer to the excellent settlement mechanic you have created - well done by the way!

edit: seems this happens in ordinary cities/castles as well

replenishment doesn't seem to work :( I don't get the trait for any of my generals

wheeeeeen

Kingdom of Prussia in 1888...?

oh.

a little birdie told me this was gonna drop december 1st, is this true?

god just drop it

you should add a way to get treaty ports from china imo

you should drop a beta if the campaign is stable, that's really all we need

interesting, I'll keep a keen eye on this mod!

so is this being worked on still? any idea at all for when any update would come if so?
ago looks good but I remember this being all the hype back in the TWcenter days of the mod

fair enough, I'm mainly worried about their intellectuals, they get really many of them imo (like 5% per state). anyways been enjoying the recent additions (flavour and so on), keep it up!

I'm really enjoying this mod, but it has one glaring issue; the AI seems to lack severely in industry. They seem to prioritize intellectuals and soldiers (especially soldiers!) so much that their populace stays largely farmers for quite a while. I really enjoy that the AI gets more soldiers in this mod, makes the game much more challenging, but I just feel that they should keep up economically as well. Hope you'll take this into consideration, in defense of the mod I haven't been playing so long..

alright man, i'm sure it'll work out great in the end, best of luck!

thanks for the recommendations, greece does sound really really fun actually.
by the way, while I am here, another dream of mine would be to integrate the map from gfm/tgc, you should check them out of you haven't, really makes the normal victoria 2 map feel bland in comparison (though tgc is a bit extreme imo). reminds me of the feeling of returning back to vanilla eu4 after meiou. probably not very realistic but figure I might as well throw some more thoughts on you, thx for taking my thougts in to consideration

honestly you should shamelessly slap some serious flavour on this, like gfm or some **** imo, would make this a really nice mod. I'm kinda put off because this mod seems to lack some events and what not, but then again I can't really play any other mod after actually being challenged by the ai in this mod

ah, I see

this looks so good, this really should be incorporated into TGC imo, would make for the ultimate vic 2 experience

what's the difference between deutsches kaiserreich and german empire?
seems odd to just have one nation be in their own language and still have things like "france" or "sweden"

fair enough, real life always takes priorities over video games
I'll keep an eye on the mod, I'm really itching for a good, stable ACW campaign

Are you gonna be able to hold the 22 jun deadline? That would be awesome.

Give us private servers!

Thanks hun.

How stable is this? Is it playable?

I really, really want to try out this mod. Though I do wonder if I should bother waiting for 6.0 until then - what would you recommend, almighty (mod)creator?