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"Lippish Africa" ?? LOL

The VickyWiki is a good place to start! Victoria does have a learning curve but its a great game nontheless :)

I wonder how come Im not plagued by this... I DID get the Springtime of Nations and the Liberal Revolution, but later I had an event removing what I thought was the maluses from both... maybe it was just the latter. Anyhow, admittedly ever since, I get a bit more rebel activity, but its fairly...

Very fair points. The core issue is complex considering that their philosophy is to not link cores to population but Im fairly sure it could be modded in notheless, the modifiers are really wide and cores can be used as modifiers. As for infra, I agree even more. There should be a...

Another pet peeve of mine, fortunately easy to fix, is how ridiculous assimilation rates are. As of the German unification, I had south german "minorities" to the tune of 40 to 60% across North Italy, Hungary, Austrian Poland, Croatia, Bohemia, etc. In Egypt it was even worse in some places...

If only I was #2 because of British Industry... I'm #2 to Russia because Russia has 600 Industry. They annexed Persia and have China into their Sphere. Their army sucks though and Ill invade Poland soon. Britsh Osthannover is in fact only Heligoland at this point (sp?). The British are 5th in...

After my conquest of Egypt, shown previously, I had a good chance to attack France for Alsace-Lorraine whilst it was busy invading Catalonia. The conquest of Alsace allowed me to form the South German Federation. Soon after, I realized I had no chance of diplomatically seizing control over the...

Yeah the assimilation rates are a bit ahistorical right now. As Austria I have South German minorities to the tune of 25 to 35% in Hungary, Croatia, North Italy, Bohemia, etc, by 1850.. :) Using an Immigration NF to the Holy land after annexing greater Egypt, I managed to have slightly over...

My first major military conquest in the real version of the game. After 2 years of good governance in Vienna that saw the birth of Austrian industry and its first steps towards European preeminence, the Emperor was dissatisfied with the Status Quo. It's on the thinnest of diplomatic grounds...

Its more accessible than Vicky1 was back then. Tutorials are better and you dont have to manage your pops as closely. This being said, its still not easy to master. But with a little patience, you could definitely learn to play it; it took alot more to learn the original Vicky.

Actually it does. Austria's decline happened later than the early game. Though New-England did start to industrialize a bit earlier, essentially right behind England and Belgium, Austrian GDP would remain superior to America's for some time. Had there been political will to use it to...

Its out in stores, many break the street date! I decided I wanted a hard copy. Check the official forums, many other people got it too :D Damn France intimidates me. I think Ill start with Japan again after all. Its what I had the most fun with in the demo.

Got my full copy!!! :) Will be away rebuilding Napoleon's Empire. :D

Extremely few modern 3d games are released below the 5Go (5120 meg) threshold nowadays. The standard is a full DVD. The average game torrent for a 2010 release is at 7.1 Go. The largest game Ive downloaded recently was 14.4Go. Yes, ONLY 355 megs. Its TINY.

Same thing in Canada. It uses modern levels of French VS English POP levels. Ie; the population numbers are okay-ish, but regions that were entirely French historically are represented as 66/33 because they are now, etc. Same thing happened in Vicky 1. Read the thread, I posted the hex edit...

The western cores are neat but unfortunately the eastern borders are sadly lacking. They should add cores like in HOI2 that stretch all the way to the pre 1772 partition lines. And keep the western borders on the Oder, of course. Your faction standing with the Polish Cabal has improved!

Overall, when you balance you budget itll stay balanced unless something big happens, but unfortunately "Day One" is a bit different. Essentially it takes a few weeks for the economy to start running, for POPs' cash on hand to adjust to what they need to buy vs taxes, etc. Essentially, if you...

Dont feel bad, many people say the same on the official boards. Thing is, in hindsight Mexico seems easy since the US won historically, but the fact is that their military power was impressive and things really could have gone the other way. Furthermore the game currently models military...

By the way if anyone wants the full soundtrack (by default the demo only has about a fourth of the full thing), here's a torrent of the full thing, including the pre-order bonus track "Lament for the Queen". All the tracks are also on Youtube for anyone unused to torrents. The best track is IMO...

Extra! Extra! Britain bravely fights to the last Belgian! After the Netherlands shredded the Treaty of London to pieces and sent 50,000 men across the "border" with Belgium under Dux Wolterbeek to Restore Order in the separatist provinces, Great-Britain was forced into a summer-long naval...