My theory of the dip is that dusty got back into runescape, I've started getting rather involved with a camp leader program,ross is playing MH tri and most everyone else is into dwarf fortress.

my theory is people tire of hegemony game and with having a solid budget theres only like, 5 moves you can do every 5 (now 4 so its 4 moves) days, so there's no reason to post

 

nobody tries to do anything ridiculous like hex used to do, so we don't get worked up, major wars are now done in pm's and only a mod report gets posted followed by a page or two of "ooooh" and "aaaah" until someone offers a peace treaty after winning one round but by no means winning the war and it's accepted because people have no backbone (also why we always have at least one traitor in every game)

By the number of posts that apear while I'm gone I'd say you're wrong Archi.

 

Retech, you're thinking of Snubbe, and he's Swedish.

Well actually it is cause people think there is only a few things to spend their budgets on, when on actual facts there are so many things other.

fake.

Edited August 9, 201015 yr by Edelweiss

I think part of it is that research is now tightly controlled, so no real arguements start.

 

Wars don't go anywhere because people sent 1,000 people, then 60,000 then everyone in their country, plus their allied countries....So at the end no one has anything left, so the game collapses into people saying 'We will carry on if no one else does'

 

One of the things is that budgets are now on a 'pass go' system, meaning you can just sit around accumulating money...and since the profit you get from any expense takes 10 resets to pay of....

Say you are invading your neighbour, you are looking at an outlay of 5 million in the troops you buy and 500,000 in the troops you use....

Even if you take 5 provinces off them, the supposed max, it would take 10 resets, or 40 rl days to pay off the money spent...

 

Improving infrastructure and tech takes even longer...so the game is virtually static, and since it is set in the past you can't research your way out without people whining about how it is unfair.

 

 

 

tl;dr

The game gets boring because the game is going nowhere fast.

The face I made is in my avatar.

 

Also Dusty kinda beat that with your troops always recover unlesss they're entirely killed, and the province system.

Gosh it is pretty boring.

 

I declare war on Archi with aims to get to the Prussian capital.

Deployment cost of all soldiers 6,320,000 Ducats.

 

Edit to prove time.

 

Lulz

Prussia deploys its landmine field for 10 million ducats.

The field is across the Austro-Hungarian border.

I was joking Archi.

Has Dusty approved a landmine field?

 

Also, that's why no one posts on the thread. Apparantly you can react to something right away.

Also Dusty kinda beat that with your troops always recover unlesss they're entirely killed, and the province system.

 

You still have to outlay 500,000 for the troops...so the profit you make from one reset is cancelled the next war.

You would have to be constantly engaged in war to make a profit much faster...and since small countries have armies of equivilant sizes to your country, and equivilant budgets....

Has Dusty approved a landmine field?

 

Also, that's why no one posts on the thread. Apparantly you can react to something right away.

 

He approved me mining the Baltic...same principle here, except smaller area to be mined.

Yeah I feel the mod should take into account surprise.

YOU MINED THE BALTIC?!?!?!??!?!?!?

 

Lots of Baltic countries start getting pissed.

I lead an army of cows infront with bigger feet pads so that the cows explode not me.

infact, I needn't worry, they can't actually get any mines done in such a short time.

Well just use trade route and such, he can't minefield that, if he did then that's a huge section his border unuseable.

I lead an army of cows infront with bigger feet pads so that the cows explode not me.

infact, I needn't worry, they can't actually get any mines done in such a short time.

 

This is why no one posts in the thread...It incites stupid plans by others to counteract the stupid plans people post.

 

YOU MINED THE BALTIC?!?!?!??!?!?!?

 

Lots of Baltic countries start getting pissed.

 

HELP SOMEONE IS TRYING TO MOD THE GAME! I AM SO ANNOYED WHEN PEOPLE DO THAT!

 

Yeah I feel the mod should take into account surprise.

 

Probably.

My theory of the dip is that dusty got back into runescape, I've started getting rather involved with a camp leader program,ross is playing MH tri and most everyone else is into dwarf fortress.

That and the fact that my lower backs been killing me for the past week so I can't really sit at the computer for extended periods of time.

 

Lots of Baltic countries start getting pissed.

Yes

 

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What do you guys think of a budget reset every year in-game (so two days irl)?

Perhaps you could hire a scribe that could dictate your words as you lounge comfortably in a recliner, drinking a cold beverage.

What do you guys think of a budget reset every year in-game (so two days irl)?

Not really a fan, game starts moving so quickly that it burns out...

It would really speed up the pace of colonization and the pace of the game as well (which is either good or bad depending upon how you see it). Honestly I'm fine either way though.

Perhaps you could hire a scribe that could dictate your words as you lounge comfortably in a recliner, drinking a cold beverage.

Or get a laptop that can be used for something other than a door stopper.

 

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Russian nobility invades the Isle of Wight

 

-Russian nobles attack the Isle of Wight with troops armed with spears and sticks

-Residents perplexed, and simply shrug and go back to farming

-Most of the Russian nobility's "army" deserts and sails away

-Isle of Wight occupied by 20 Russian nobles and 200 poor quality line infantry, and a broken fishing boat

-????????????????????????

 

I have no idea either.

 

News from the USA:

Tea Brigade: General Banks

 

1000 Imperial Guard

2000 Grenadiers

1000 Hussars

1000 Lancers

7100 Line Infantry

4 cannon

+2500 Skirmishers 3,000,000

+2000 Lancers 4,000,000

+2000 Line Infantry 2,000,000

 

 

Revolutionary Army: General Gudyer

 

2,000 line infantry

4,000 skirmishers

2,000 dragoons

3 cannon

+1000 Line Infantry 1,000,000

 

Total: 6000 infantry, 2000 cavalry, 3 cannon.

 

The Coffee Brigade: General Granger.

 

3,000 Line Infantry

2,000 Dragons

3 cannon

+2500 skirmishers 3,000,000

 

Cost of additions = 13,000,000

Treasury = 5,000,000

 

Update for Rev France and Russia coming after I omnomnom dinner

Russia's actions are condemned by the King of England. This attack on England was unjustified, and a cease and desist order is given, or retaliation is neccessary. It would be unwise to start a war with a nation while you've only just recovered from a revolution.

Russia's actions are condemned by the King of England. This attack on England was unjustified, and a cease and desist order is given, or retaliation is neccessary. It would be unwise to start a war with a nation while you've only just recovered from a revolution.

 

Note that it states that it was Russian Nobility, and that I don't have any control over the nobles anymore.

 

 

 

As I recall, you were the one who invited them to England.

 

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Now that I think about it, this seems like one of Archi's plans.