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Yeeaaahh, hardcore expert is... basically another way of saying "I hate myself and want to experience the most miserable this game can be." There's not really many ways to make the game less enjoyable, and option wise (as opposed to personal challenges, like a pure magic run or whatever) there straight up isn't without modding. Most of the game wasn't designed in any way, shape, or form, for it to be played that way. It's there because folks asked for it, but it's seriously piss poor so far as design and balance integration goes.

So far as a thorough treatment of biome spread goes... honestly? If the presence basically anywhere on the map bothers you, just. Use a map editor. Either delete the spreading stuff outright, or take a few minutes (as opposed to hours or days of raw time) to ring the junk with something they can't spread across. As noted, the in game means to deal with it is expensive and inconsistent. Pretty genuinely not worth your time, unless maybe you're willing to cheat up infinite money and/or ammo so you don't have to deal with the logistics involved.

Oh, it's not really there as a specific counter, per se. Just something that seems like it would be obvious given the change in the effect. I could actually see it making some fights harder, even -- if you actually did something where berserk could cause unit density to flux, and by extension cause the units to spread out, I'd imagine it'd make stuff like 'zerker provinces notably more difficult and/or inconsistent. Do neat things to AoE/arrows/etc., too.

'Course, if you were actually playing with the mechanic instead of just having it as a static effect sort of thing, spells that specifically target certain densities -- not necessarily low or high, mind, but varying depending on the spell -- would be another obvious step, there. That cornered rat spell could grant bonuses the more stacked up units are, heat/cold auras (or fear) could have an adjustment based on density (probably not generally enough to outperform larger units with higher bases, but enough it's notable, and possibly synergies for specific units, too), all sorts of stuff like that. Certain priests or song-using units having a choral effect when close enough to each other (with density adjustments letting you stack more into an area) or somethin' would be thematic enough I'm suddenly wondering why something like that isn't already in the game (auto-commune when close enough to someone or X number of someones with the same trait?).

Almost certainly not needed from a balance perspective, of course, but imo unit density would be a hella' neat mechanic to be able to explicitly play with rather than it just being there or something incidental to an effect's impact.

Nah, not this time. Does so happen that particular turn of phrase is rather fitting... fortunately not very fitting, though. Stuff was just a bit of spicy noodle seasoning. Still stung nearly as much as the hindsight stupidity did.

Gods, if basic sanity wasn't being fornicated into controversial statements the national discourse regarding immigration would be massively different.

Any case, the GOP don't really give a fuck about undocumented immigration, per se. It's not particularly about lowering the amounts (especially if it increased the number of documented immigrants, since those are near as much -- if not more -- of a target as undocumented ones) or actually improving border security or whatever the hell. Just about using it as a stalking horse to rile up their base.

It's just reading all thees movement changes, to me in my head I'm going: "Ok so still one province for foot troops. Still one province. And that one...still one province."

I still haven't actually looked at the changes being planned, but most map move 1 dom units (at least in 3 or 4) are either fairly specialized/elite or effectively garbage. There's sorta' exceptions with certain particularly heavy armored nations, but even those have a real nasty problem with getting ran around, out attritioned due to greater ease of reinforcement (mapmove 1 vs mapmove 2 generally means the latter gets where you need them in half the time, at the absolute least until pretty deep into some of the research trees), etc.

Having an army that can move even at two makes a helluva' difference when it comes to... most things. Expansion is about the closest to an exception, and depending on what you run into even for that, being able to redirect to a different front, pull back to defend, and so on, is still a major advantage. An army in transit functionally isn't an army save for purposes of posturing, heh. Also can make it a fair bit harder to get artillery'd on, depending on the situation. It's just a pretty major advantage all around.

Huh. Don't think I was expecting D5, but it's a fairly pleasant surprise (or will be, onces it's released and I can actually afford to buy it ) anyway.

... will say that performance improvement for better graphics card thing seems sketchy as all hell, though. As a person that has a fairly shitty one on a definitely shitty computer, experience tends to suggest that kind of statement means "It will now run like complete ass instead of just mostly ass for you, if it runs at all" for us poor bastards. Hopefully it doesn't end up like that.

Beyond that... anyone know if mention of modding has been made, yet? Still that one D3 mod I've been hoping will eventually bug me enough to port over, and I can't imagine that'll be easier from 3 to 5, ha.

Blame it on the Republicans for repeatedly calling Obama socialist and obsfucating the term, so, it's kind of become a "whatever the heck you want it to mean" word. At least here in the US.

Oh, that pre-dates obama by decades. Straight outta' compton red scare, that one. In context of the US socialism is only one step from communism as a term, and a generalized invective with little to no specific meaning regardless.

Unfortunately for foreign socialists of whatever stripe, we americans have taken your word and fornicated  it into an indefinitely shaped pile of ill natured mush. Alas, it was a good word, lost before its time.

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