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bwiser

Great. Is this a comprehensive patch? What is to be done / considered others than execute the exe file?

bwiser

Have started a game a Belgium. On turn 4 Prussia declared war on me - quite a bummer and will not have a chance on this ...

bwiser

Dear Miguel, I just want to say - thanks for this masterpiece! Can't stop playing it :) Actually I wanted to start a new PON campaign but then got distracted by Espana 1936. Though I am not Spanish I was always interested in the Spanish Civil War ever since my youth when I read Hemingway's For Whom ...

bwiser

Question about commodity pricing is subject, thank you. Loki recently said it is random. He also made a good point in comparing it to the more "realistic" model of Vicky 2, which overall comes across to the player as more opaque and rather generic where I tend to agree For me there are other aspect...

bwiser

that sounds very promising. If needed I will fight tooth-and-nail side-by-side Vittorio Emmanuelle II against the illegitimate occupier. I'll keep you posted how things unravel .... I hope that I will survive Austrian stacks when it comes to war and I will have a lookout to Bavaria. Loki - thanks fo...

bwiser

But that's how history sometimes works. Such decisions are being and had been made on the green table. Also, think about it - that will be as far as I know the only goody for Belgium during the whole game. Regarding conferences: I guess, it would have been very cool, if the Philippes would have incl...

bwiser

Dear Loki et al, as I just started my new game with France its important role in the Italian unification came to my mind. Here a couple of questions: 1.) Is the event chain only working for AI France and AI / Player Italy or is also Player France / AI Italy doable - I mean me helping Italy out in th...

bwiser

The changes are minimal, basically correcting the FF event and a bit on the Indian Mutiny, as this only affects the events I wouldn't worry about save game continuity. To be fair, PoN's patching process has been very save game friendly ever since the very early 1.01 series of changes. Great - thank...

bwiser

Loki, can you send me at pocus@ageod.net the latest edited files, so that the patch can be rendered official asap, it has been already too long I fear. Please process some turns with them though to be sure they are ok :) oh - great ! Are there many changes since the 17-Aug version / will it be save...

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just to report, this change removes the T1 assassination and immediate wars etc. Many apologies for missing it (or more strictly for managing to delete a line) One other chain that was breaking was the Indian Mutiny. Thanks to James Burns for spotting this one. If you make it fire on T1 it works as...

bwiser

it *can* happen in vanilla but both event chains have a flaw. The German one is about the AI and the Prussian-Danish war, the problem is winning this war is essential to trigger a province transfer that is then needed to trigger the Franco-Prussian war chain. Italy has a problem with the Garibaldi ...

bwiser

Great to read that. Another question I have: Is this a full comprehensive patch as I intend to do a clean install on my new computer with the first version when PON was released?

bwiser

This is indeed great news! I have a question regarding the AI Germany and Italy unification event chains, which used to be a bit buggy. Have these been improved in the recent patching, or the event chains by Loki and / or Christophe / or HerrDan been included ? I would love to start a new 1850 game ...

bwiser

Thank you for sharing this, bwiser. Brilliant strategy, and it does show how PON can make the period come alive like no other game. Like no other game, PON rewards planning, logistics, political wisdom, and thought. So much easier to have the Afghans fighting for you rather than against you, someth...

bwiser

What I did in Afghanistan was 1.) militarily, first build up strong supply lines (depot, supply carts) with depots to the Merv border, send in 1 large army and otherwise have small Cossack rider units and sending the supply carts back and forth. The task of the large army was to hold and crush the B...

bwiser

My pleasure, bwiser. Yes, France is very interesting, and challenging, especially when you consider how hard it is to keep such a militant popylation happy. Good luck with your Russia game, it is quite a challenge to rule that vast land, with all the rebels and external enemies. Thanks for you good...

bwiser

Hi I think you'll still need to tell the AI to make naval builds a priority. Its good it has the infrastructure. I think the basic problem is the AI is being too logical - at the lower priority, building up your navy, especially once you shift to coal is very expensive both as build costs and as a ...

bwiser

I think that after my Russia game I will try (again) France. Super-interesting nation in PON with all these special assets, dispersed colonies, the struggle in Africa and Asia and the big nemesis directly on the eastern border.

vaalen - great description - thanks

bwiser

matter of taste really. I ended up with one I called 'use and delete', and put all the one off events I created into there. Used them, then deleted them (I actually have a word document somewhere with all the events I came up with stored). The reason for this is that every event is checked as part ...

bwiser

matter of taste really. I ended up with one I called 'use and delete', and put all the one off events I created into there. Used them, then deleted them (I actually have a word document somewhere with all the events I came up with stored). The reason for this is that every event is checked as part ...

bwiser

that script effectively does 2 things - it tells the AI that a fleet is as important as land builds and, with the shipyards, makes it that bit easier/quicker for it to build. If it doesn't take the hint, you could try AI.SetNavBuild = 200 (or higher). Christophe reported that '100' worked well for ...

bwiser

So that means, that I just need to "encourage" the AI to build naval bases - the rest will do the AI ?? That would be a huge relief - Loki, I will try this - would 2 naval bases be enough for UK, France, Germany and 1 naval base for Italy? I assume that Matrix / Slitherine is a way better home now f...

bwiser

In vanilla the game design reflects what Germany went through in these years. It was strongly concentrating on its inner works and the unification process which was a pretty hard and non-linear process , strong decisions (e.g. Austria y/n), culminating in the ultimate nation-building event with the ...

bwiser

then it should work - though I do not tell from experience since I am still running the last 1.03 (d or e) version

bwiser

Well, I certainly appreciate all the help and advice...I think I am going to put PoN aside for now and wait for more work to be completed in future updates...I love the game, scope and potential but am disheartened by the number of bugs that still remain to be fixed...I guess I will move on to "TEA...

bwiser

I do not have these issues, but I read that there are some issues like these in patch 1.04 RC 2 without Pocus' hotfix. Which version do you run?

bwiser

Loki - once again - thanks for sharing your expertise and your fast answers !! I am a bit confused which routines to take: Following your links Christoph "only" created the Japanese build up - which surely will be useful for my Russia game , but I did not find a "generic" build up routine or other c...

bwiser

I read several posts and threads about large parts missing in the Naval aspects of the game, also I think that I experienced this myself - being Russia I was able to fight the Crimean War without any AI Naval interference ( i.e. I was not forced to protect my merchant marine). Which are your experie...

bwiser

Great - thank you all so much for the answers ! @Loki: I just won wars against Bokhara and Kokand and built up my imperial army - maybe I will follow your idea hunting down the redcoats in their vested India :) Sorry to come back to my OP: It actually seems that UK does not have Military Outposts in...

bwiser

I am back in my Russia game now and back again enjoying PON - I was missing it :) Today I have a question re Afghanistan: I out-competed Britain there and was able to declare a Russian Colony. Unfortunately the Brits were able to establish Military Outposts in the very south of Afghanistan in region...

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Re: PON official quickfix 1.04.3

Excellent game !!!

Player France, AI Italy and the Italian unification - Patch 17-Aug

Navy, naval build up and effects on gameplay

Is ousting of foreign military outpost possible without declaring war