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So I've reached agreement with POTM, the new laptop is going to be mainly hers, and shes been using it pretty intensely for schoolwork, but she agreed I could load Victoria on it, and play it (and also show her some history from it). I'll continue doing other gaming on the dino.
The game is really something. It runs quite smoothly on the laptop, at least so far - much better than EU2 did on the dino. Ive started as Belgium and still find it overwhelming. There are a LOT of commodities to manage, like the Imperialism games gone wild. Then there are the pops. While there is huge potential micromanagement involved, they relate so well (at least at first glance) to the time period, and the historic themes, they seem to me one of the best things about the game.
I presume the game is keeping track of which pops votes, and their ideological inclinations. Playing around on the politics screen i found myself to have a conserv govt, and wealth based voting. the govt was about to lose badly to the liberals. When i tried Universal suffrage, the Consies won (which actually makes sense for many countries in this period, esp when religion was still a dominant issue) Thats the kind of detail i love in a historical game.
So far so good.
i suspect I will need a glance at the FAQS on the Paradox site to get a better sense of how to keep this game manageable.
The game is really something. It runs quite smoothly on the laptop, at least so far - much better than EU2 did on the dino. Ive started as Belgium and still find it overwhelming. There are a LOT of commodities to manage, like the Imperialism games gone wild. Then there are the pops. While there is huge potential micromanagement involved, they relate so well (at least at first glance) to the time period, and the historic themes, they seem to me one of the best things about the game.
I presume the game is keeping track of which pops votes, and their ideological inclinations. Playing around on the politics screen i found myself to have a conserv govt, and wealth based voting. the govt was about to lose badly to the liberals. When i tried Universal suffrage, the Consies won (which actually makes sense for many countries in this period, esp when religion was still a dominant issue) Thats the kind of detail i love in a historical game.
So far so good.
i suspect I will need a glance at the FAQS on the Paradox site to get a better sense of how to keep this game manageable.
It's a great improvement on the vanilla model.
Mostly cheaper than in the shop, and Paradox earns more money which they can use to develop even better games.
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