>Game stopped receiving updates in the literal middle of the overhaul
Yeah, now the functional systems are dysfunctional and the features that were to replace them never came. Truly, the best possibility!
Nta, but army update was never finished, so now human player is the only one with functional armies that can fight, as AI is still using the old scripts for army recruitment and composition, despite those no longer being in the game.
It has so many good ideas, but they are oddly executed.
Take governors, for instance, they have loyalty and corruption.
If their loyalty drops below 33% they refuse reassignment, and corruption determines how much money they steal from their province
So if all your governors are 100% corrupt, you won't get any money, which is cool idea.
Again, the issue is information and execution.
Because player know exactly the corruption of exact governor, you can easily just reassign them before their loyalty drops below 33% loyalty.
By sending an "inquisitor"
You would have characters, that you can send to inquiry governors.
Each inquiry would take 6 months, after which the inquirer would report with a corruption estimate.
However, based on the inquirer's personality and wage, the report might not be accurate, they might be too incompetent to detect corruption, or they might themself be corrupt and be bribed by the corrupt governor not to report any corruption.
So, the point would be that much like in real rooting out corruption would be hard, because corrupt people tend to protect other corrupt officers.
So, the only way you could get the end of is by sending different people to inquire and determine which of the inquirers is honest.
If you send 5 people, to investigate Egypt, and 1 of them says nothing is wrong and the other 4 say the governor is corrupt, obloquy the 1 inquirer is bullshit and should not be trusted.
I guess the point is that if you have a large empire with +10 provinces, preventing corruption is impossible, but you can still focus on making sure the richest provinces are not corrupt.
It sounds like a lot of micromanagement. Also, governors in antiquity were expected to deliver a certain amount of wealth to metropolis, be they Persian satraps, Roman proconsuls, or even Athenian "allies". Corruption shouldn't lower the amount of money the state is getting from the province directly, but rather the long-term prosperity of the province. The corrupt governor has little interest in directly stealing from his beneficiary; he would try to extract as much wealth as possible from his temporary subjects instead.
>the the amount of money you received and divide it by the money you expect to receive >take that number and times it by 100
That's how corrupt your governor is.
I prefer this game over Victoria 3
that's a really low bar bro lol
Victoria 3 is better than 2 now and I'm tired of pretending it's not
Ironically enough, the fact that they stopped updating it is making it one of the best paradox games
>Game stopped receiving updates in the literal middle of the overhaul
Yeah, now the functional systems are dysfunctional and the features that were to replace them never came. Truly, the best possibility!
What systems are you talking about you sperg?
Nta, but army update was never finished, so now human player is the only one with functional armies that can fight, as AI is still using the old scripts for army recruitment and composition, despite those no longer being in the game.
Did modders drop it aswell?
Modders actually kept at it making overhauls because they can work in peace without updates breaking their progress every few months.
best paradox game
i hope they pick it back up someday
Same. Didn't even dislike it when it came out.
They should at least released some more flavor packs.
It has so many good ideas, but they are oddly executed.
Take governors, for instance, they have loyalty and corruption.
If their loyalty drops below 33% they refuse reassignment, and corruption determines how much money they steal from their province
So if all your governors are 100% corrupt, you won't get any money, which is cool idea.
Again, the issue is information and execution.
Because player know exactly the corruption of exact governor, you can easily just reassign them before their loyalty drops below 33% loyalty.
How would you handle that? Because I do feel there should be a way to discover if somebody is corrupt or disloyal.
By sending an "inquisitor"
You would have characters, that you can send to inquiry governors.
Each inquiry would take 6 months, after which the inquirer would report with a corruption estimate.
However, based on the inquirer's personality and wage, the report might not be accurate, they might be too incompetent to detect corruption, or they might themself be corrupt and be bribed by the corrupt governor not to report any corruption.
So, the point would be that much like in real rooting out corruption would be hard, because corrupt people tend to protect other corrupt officers.
So, the only way you could get the end of is by sending different people to inquire and determine which of the inquirers is honest.
If you send 5 people, to investigate Egypt, and 1 of them says nothing is wrong and the other 4 say the governor is corrupt, obloquy the 1 inquirer is bullshit and should not be trusted.
I guess the point is that if you have a large empire with +10 provinces, preventing corruption is impossible, but you can still focus on making sure the richest provinces are not corrupt.
It sounds like a lot of micromanagement. Also, governors in antiquity were expected to deliver a certain amount of wealth to metropolis, be they Persian satraps, Roman proconsuls, or even Athenian "allies". Corruption shouldn't lower the amount of money the state is getting from the province directly, but rather the long-term prosperity of the province. The corrupt governor has little interest in directly stealing from his beneficiary; he would try to extract as much wealth as possible from his temporary subjects instead.
Right, the issue income the PDX game is always scaled and not fixed.
Corrupt governors would find their funds by extracting additional taxes
>the the amount of money you received and divide it by the money you expect to receive
>take that number and times it by 100
That's how corrupt your governor is.