Comments - AlexGrandi

makes me think of an epic turanian union formed by turgey ugh
too bad it'd be too memey

i could say it's because of kazakhs in mongolia, that it's because turks cooperated a lot with them and etc
but the real reason is so they're stronger and have an actual reason to blob into the steppes
mongolia is a giga-boring game where you do nothing until 1900's, they deserve it

1 - That's exactly why i did that, AI just changed it instantly so what's the point. If in vanilla it worked properly idk, but it didn't in bandi.

treatyport?
but that stuff is a mess trust me

If you refuse them harshly, doesn't it never pop up again?
Just dont say "maybe later" because then they ask later

numod more like shitmod

i played China maybe once, but Manchuria a bunch of times. That's the real Qing empire right there, the old Qing Empire is decadent and sinofied

You'd have to cheat to remove their cores

Yeah you can sphere them for annexation, and you get the CB's
It's like in NNM, HPM didn't create it

I'm pretty sure the second irredentist Italian decision gives you cores on Corscia

If you puppet Canada or Rupert's Land and such they petition to join as states
Don't remember though if i added the same for Quebec

Nope
But if you free New England early on and then when the civil war happens you stop them from unifying, the US is basically gimped and you can maybe puppet the remaints

Interesting, looks quite good other than maybe the weak Prussian industry
I would like to see the changes, although any economy change is one i am hesistant to make because you never know how big the effect is going to be

Yeah there's a decision to become Imperial Japan if you want, but most important decisions are available for both anyways

Horrifying borders, thanks for the report

Thanks for the report

Yeah i wanted to nerf Italy this patch and it worked kinda well, they were way too strong before

Sardinia-Piedmont becomes Savoy when it loses Sardinia

Also, good idea about NGF, i like it. Although maybe only in like 1860 or 1870 if it has not formed by then

What do you mean Sardinia become Egypt?

You can't inherit civilized Egypt
Jerusalem you can organize if you take the levant, along with Coptic Egypt, and christian Syria as long as you are a relevant government form with moralism or something of the sort
You can crusade for Jerusalem as Papal Italy or also attack for if if you're France and the Turks side with Russia in the oriental crisis
It's a meme puppet though, way too few pops. Better to just take the land yourself

I thought about it but decided agaisnt it
It would cause the reverse problem of vanilla
In vanilla you rush social democracy for healthcare
With realistic birthrates you'd rush out of social democracy
In victoria 2 population matters too much to have such a change, since it can't really represent just how much more certain pops IRL mattered compared to others just with literacy
To have realistic population growth, some complete revamp of the game would be needed to represent such different value in pops

Ok BUT you have to deal with looking at Egyptian Argentina for the rest of the game
I don't mind exploits like that, the best strategy in Victoria 2 will always be blobbing into China and taking random British industrial states, or for example in HPM just taking the nigerian coast in 1836. It's completely up to the player i say, if you want to have fun as westernized Egypt in 1842 why not

Sadly no, the issue is clear once you tag over to the AI - they queue up 30 ships in one port despite having hundreds of ports, which means that once they lose their navy they can take quite a few years to rebuild

But the AI can still beat the player if you don't invest into the lastest naval techs, and especially the UK and France can have hard to beat navies if you aren't quite a big country with a modern navy

Pretty sure you can't

Very very interesting observation about shipyards, i will take a look into that
Also, i just merged Nahua with Mayan and Zapotec and maybe some other meme culture, it's just that mexico has some native american minors quite far south

weird, i'll check it out

Pyrenees you can get via great war dismantlement, but maybe a state change there for a blobbing spain would be nice. It would result in the Basque being split but i think it doesn't really matter, i'll take a look into that
Tribal Sami is a good idea, but i don't want to merge them with finns. Scandinavian culture unifying is cool as a decision so i think i'll leave it at that.
About Flemish and Picard, i've been thinking of what to do with them for a long time, but never really decided on what. They are there just for Belgium pretty much, since Belgium accepts Picard, and also so that Belgium doesn't accept the Dutch.
About Baltics, not gonna merge them, just like i won't merge South Slavs.

Also forming the HRE as Austria is very alt-history, while the German Confederation literally existed IRL, Prussia didn't even want to unify the germans until the 60's because they just accepted Austria was the leader of the GCF. I tried fixing this but it's impossible, Prussia and Austria are just iredeemable enemies until Austria becomes Austria-Hungary

btw how the **** do you do all that as Persia, i lose half my army to afghanistan, take turkmenistan and then wait until i westernize. Then when i think about attacking the turks they are allied to the Germans and the French and the UK at the same time

And Portugal, i'll see what i do. I've been thinking about doing something there but i never bothered so far because i don't like blobbing very much, i just sit at roughly original borders and try to bleach colonies with good rgos

Good idea for the phillipines, i'll implement it
Portugal is just too poor at game start, if you play as them you'll see it. As for dutch i have no idea of how they can even go bankrupt, it's possible they have an event/decision that costs money, those often cause the AI or even players to go bankrupt. I don't think i'll give them a cheat event but i'll take a look if the dutch or portuguese have any event that costs money.

Anyways, i think Brazil can claim Entre Rios already after Cisplatina, and they like annexing Paraguay and Bolivia even without needing cores. And yeah i wonder how i can make the Brazil-Portugal union work without making Portugal just be better Brazil. Maybe a big cheat modifier somehow so they get immigrants, without changing capital to the new world, + negative immigrant attraction in mainland Portugal, and then they core all of Brazil but without brazilian accepted until like 1870 or later
As for Brazil, i think as a player you should just conquer Portugal if you wanna make such an union

About Austria, yeah i've been trying to fix it for a long time now. Prussia is often stronger than Austria but the austrian spherelings are really strong. Hopefully in the new patch it'll work

Also wtf you fight civilized Ottomans as unciv Persia? Never tried that, seems really hard. Although i guess if you attack with Egypt it might work. In my Persia games the anglos never want to sphere me, it's always the turks and russians fighting for influence and in the end they cuck eachother out of sphering Persia. But anyways i kinda like current Persia, when they don't get colonized they are quite strong and can even blob into the Ottomans by themselves

Also, from watching the AI fight the boshin war, it seems like if the Shogun is uncivilized, Imperial Japan doesn't even have to occupy much before winning, just from battles they win. But if both are civilized it's a bloodbath

ну и почему не поставить фокусы в чехию или трансильванию? ведь там много немцев
мы объединили австрию чтобы её усилить, объединение никак не мешает силе фокусов

I still don't understand, please explain what you mean in Russian

>high literacy Burma and Korea
Literacy in the game is not quite what literacy is IRL, and those countries were the backwaters of backwaters so giving them such high literacy would not make much sense

I'm against Japan turning Manchuria and Korea into states because Japan already becomes top 5 in industry almost every game, while IRL their industry was garbage until the 1900's. Basically i think Japan is already super overpowered in every game compared to what they were in real life

Eisenstadt was in the kingdom of Hungary, that's why there is no such choice. It's only in the Austria state so that you can take it if you so desire, but such a compromise seems more realistic. I am not quite sure, but i think that fascist Germany can get cores on it
About Dalmatia, good idea i think

What do you mean? More regions would make it harder to use focus effectively