https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jltPHYJOZo&t=18s So ignoring the parts that are specific to CK3, how would people view this type of system for diplomacy and war planning in Empires? Too detailed taking away from the main focus? Difficult to get working in a less character centric system? The vi...

I hadn't come across the term 'map painting' until a recent discussion on something I posted last week, when this very useful phrase was used to describe the approach of less realistic games than Empires. Now, I can see that Empires represents a more subtle, challenging game than we would have with...

I am only now getting into the later game (Turn 130 currently on my Rhodes game). I can still only imagine Turn 500. I note that the map is full of people. The population overlay shows most of the world with 'High' population levels. This also means there are tons of buildings and trade goods every...

Damn. That's bad news. My leader has the very bad military trait, I have two 0-0 generals, and a ton of enemies with stronger armies. I hate that something that arbitrary will basically end my glorious Massalia run. I wish there was a way around that. Has anyone figured out a way to edit the save f...

... generally section 8 in manual have so many typos/inaccuracies yeah, sorry about that .. it is a bit rubbish I think the point is: 8.2.1. Gaining Legacy Legacy is gained from: ww Having regions with over 2,500 culture points per turn; ww Having regions with between 1,250 and 2,499 culture points...

In case you missed it, shockk has not won the game yet. He posted that it would take 50 more turns to merely surpass the highest AI legacy. It would take even longer to actually reach the winning threshold. So WC is possible, but may not win the game any quicker than building legacy. By his own adm...

The point is that the AI is trying to win the legacy game. It doesn't react to a WC the way humans would because it's not programmed to recognize that play style. It can quite easily be tweaked to do that. It would even make sense for the AI to trigger mass revolt at some tipping point. That's the ...

The point is that the AI is trying to win the legacy game. It doesn't react to a WC the way humans would because it's not programmed to recognize that play style. It can quite easily be tweaked to do that. It would even make sense for the AI to trigger mass revolt at some tipping point. That's the ...

I'm not speaking about size exactly, although yeah, I don't think stable WC should be possible. It's just that ''rise and fall'' cycle that is the main feature of the game and which is supposed to create ''fun'' late game (according to my understanding) is not actually forced by current mechanics. ...

If you buy the game, then play any way you want. That's a universal truth. However, let's use truth in advertising shockk's strategy. In MP, the other humans would band together and crush a player using this. The AI doesn't do that, because it's programmed to actually play the Legacy game. The game...

If you buy the game, then play any way you want. That's a universal truth. However, let's use truth in advertising shockk's strategy. In MP, the other humans would band together and crush a player using this. The AI doesn't do that, because it's programmed to actually play the Legacy game. The game...

To sum up everything from MoLAos: "you were all wrong to disagree with me despite my poor arguments and aggressiveness". On the contrary I was never aggressive. It was other people who were aggressive and nitpicking. Instead of addressing point of statements they were always trying to loo...

Props to my man shockk for putting in the work on this. God knows I could never play a single game all the way to turn 250 or w/e. Mostly confirmed my major beliefs about the game that many people were ridiculing me for, so nice to see for sure. Had a ton of fun reading this. shockk even did it trul...

If you think the Dacians play similarly to the Arverni or even the Gothones you aren't paying attention :-) Depends on your definition of similarly I suppose. However what I meant was that Greeks states play similarly to other Greek states, Gallic states play similarly, etc. It wouldn't be very his...

I agree with you Bombax. I'm sick of losing the Epirus short scenario in four or five turns and that's on Easy. Easy or very east if there were such a thing should give you a draw even if you do nothing. But the "Hard men" like to show how brilliant their minds are...... Thanks my friend,...

This post is off to me. The list isn't endless and most factions play pretty similarly. There aren't really any unique nations outside of major historical stuff like Macedon, Diadochi, Carthage, Sparta, and Rome and Maurya. And even with Maurya its not that different. Basically their unique mechani...

This all sounds pretty crazy to me. You definitely stop getting slaves when you have markets up. The losing a region even if you win the battle thing is real, though, and hopefully it gets patched. Also sell slaves totally works, but you never sell more than 25% or 10 whichever is lower. The moving ...

While I appreciate all the great work that went into developing this fine product, my first impressions are mixed playing Rome. While I like the military management - very innovative - and 3M (Metal-Manpower-Money) management, I'm not caring for the management of decadence or of slaves or whatever ...

benzidrine wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2019 7:24 am In my game Macedonia declared war on me then immediately became a Roman client state. I don't seem to be able to make peace with them and I have good relations with Rome.

Have exact same problem with my game. Can't peace out a client state that was at war with your when they got vassalized.

Hi there, First, this game is pretty great, and the new concepts like Decadence present some interesting new dynamics. I would like to submit a few balancing/labeling issues you may want to consider. Easy is surprisingly hard. On easy, with a revolt risk of 3%, there is definitely going to be a rev...