I've always wanted to get into paradox's grand strategy games, but I found them a bit too opaque to understand. Is CK3 a good starting point to try again? Is it more approachable than 2?
ck3 feels way easier to get into than 2 and also does not have the weight of hundreds of dlcs adding features to it for a decade so yeah like give it a shot it feels great
Stellaris is pretty approachable too and has a surprising diversity in forms of government.
I like to take fully automated luxury gay space communism for me it’s logical conclusion, a socialist democracy of people who’s conscious was mapped on to robots (I have a lot of transhumanist sympathies) and who’s living standards are set to luxury,
I never realized shared burden had a stability bonus hahaha
Honestly most of the game I have it set to that but when I can make a matter decompressor/am at the point I can steam roll everyone I raise it. I really don’t play on the harder difficulties so I’m sure there’s A better way to min/max
Oh yeah. I love Stellaris. Nothing like having a society made up of so many species the pie chart starts having to reuse colours, gate networks over every inhabited system, siphoning energy from a star and matter from a black hole and liberating the galactic proletariat with your space force via wars of ideology.
Yes, CK3 seems like a good intro. The tutorial is actually useful, there's an in-game encyclopedia, etc. Stick with the Ireland start til you get the hang of it, then you can explore tribal governments.
I played CK2, and it was way more impenetrable. Got the hang of it eventually (shout-out to my Tibetan Empire!), but that took a lot more trial and error.
I've always wanted to get into paradox's grand strategy games, but I found them a bit too opaque to understand. Is CK3 a good starting point to try again? Is it more approachable than 2?
ck3 feels way easier to get into than 2 and also does not have the weight of hundreds of dlcs adding features to it for a decade so yeah like give it a shot it feels great
Far more approachable I would say
Stellaris is pretty approachable too and has a surprising diversity in forms of government.
I like to take fully automated luxury gay space communism for me it’s logical conclusion, a socialist democracy of people who’s conscious was mapped on to robots (I have a lot of transhumanist sympathies) and who’s living standards are set to luxury,
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I never realized shared burden had a stability bonus hahaha
Honestly most of the game I have it set to that but when I can make a matter decompressor/am at the point I can steam roll everyone I raise it. I really don’t play on the harder difficulties so I’m sure there’s A better way to min/max
Oh yeah. I love Stellaris. Nothing like having a society made up of so many species the pie chart starts having to reuse colours, gate networks over every inhabited system, siphoning energy from a star and matter from a black hole and liberating the galactic proletariat with your space force via wars of ideology.
Yes, CK3 seems like a good intro. The tutorial is actually useful, there's an in-game encyclopedia, etc. Stick with the Ireland start til you get the hang of it, then you can explore tribal governments.
I played CK2, and it was way more impenetrable. Got the hang of it eventually (shout-out to my Tibetan Empire!), but that took a lot more trial and error.