It doesn't work either on a macro or micro level. Countries are all the same, the way to modernize is always the same, politics rarely becomes an issue unless you deliberately cause a revolution.
And the way you game around that nonsense, by trying to heave people into party leadership that agree with what YOU want instead of what would make sense for the party, is the little cherry on top.
It's a problem that has plagued PDX games since at least CK2, where events have no connection to character traits whatsoever. Somehow your pro-Slavery king will force through abolition and the Intelligentsia will switch to hardcore authoritarianism on a dime for no real reason. How hard is it to add a couple of checks to these events that test for fucking character traits?
I read that event thinking "Hmm, that's not so strange, for Spanish nationalists to want Gibraltar. What's the problem he— Did I just read 'Philippine'?"
I wouldn't go that far.
Construction queue simulator.
All I could do was watch in horror as I lost colonies to invisible walls preventing my troops from going anywhere
You haven't read this thread back when the game was still in development. Half the Codexers were ecstatic about the prospect of no longer moving toy soldiers on the map or whatever and how it would all be more "strategic"
I was one of them and we were right.... in theory.
) to advance. I expected to be kept busy by the rest of the game so the AI could handle more details of warfare. Instead both warfare and the rest of the game is mostly just waiting for bars to fill.
Last time I tried HoI4, it kept shuffling troops back and forth illogically across frontlines (thus negating any entrenchment bonuses) and basically gave up the moment I broke through the front.
I honestly don't underatand how you could play a Paradox game without unit stacks simply because I often have to console command or save edit to make the AI move their units in ways that make them win wars.
That's what I mean. Imagine that system without the bullshit, working as one would think it was intended.
Funny thing is that the AI is very competent at managing the front in DH... But it seems a trend that Paradox's AI gets worse and worse with each new release.
I have a very limited knowledge of the inner workings but I their problems stem from wanting to make sandbox where they should actually care about only a limited number of plausible scenarios, which they could much more easily handcraft.
I mean they literally could reuse frontline system from HoI but make units invisible/AI only and teleport for naval invasions and it would work out better...
I don't think so. DH has tons of completely ahistorical mods, and the AI is just as competent in any setting. It's not flawless, of course but "AI leaves too small a garrison to defend England against invasion" is an orders of magnitude smaller problem than "AI sits by and watches as I blitz through its lines and conquer the heartlands."
