Fri May 11, 2012 2:39 pm
u dont have to be sorry,
i spoke against modding the DB for many months, he speaks against cheating, so you are just falling in the same tune. no disagreement here.
Sven, from our last discussion i remember you went the same way as i, from the very beginning of publication starting over and over and over again... we learned it the hard way, looks alike he learned it in the last third of the game.
most people did not, many throw it away and just test it for now, how it works with 1.02
with official 1.02 i ended the game with half world economy on strike, 75% of my foreign investment on strike, few nations like Persia/Iran totally knocked out by themselves, the broken trade system and so on... 15000 prestige points aways from wining the game having x-times prestige of the second in ranking
still i played it through and played many years with our privately moded trade-price-smuggling system based on the discussions with Sir Garnet, internal in our group and with few advise to understand the files coming from Generalissimo...
for me both is fun, and i patiently wait for further support for PON, what will not come on a broad base in the next months/years for it has no priority in Paradox marketing-P´s
Crown Imperial has 27 years left, yes i agree he most probably did unstrategical upgrading fooled by the numbers and the technological jumps, but he cant run back in time.
he is in the situation when he needs/is about to need all steel what he can grab, and the residual economy stopped for the described reasons. hard to keep on in such a situation.
next turns he will have major battles, then game will fall to zero, no further development on the map...
he is the one who will decide whether to carry on the game as it is, modded or with help you offer him. no one else, and no one shall judge what is right or wrong but him
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DB is officially opened, everyone may use it as will. So i see absolutely no reason of any discussion (reopening such one) whether any player using private mods does it rightfully or not.
At least not 11 months after officially release in a pity sorry state as last summer, which much more work needed than 1.02.
(no reasons of offense to the Devs, they know that i know it better, since they might remember i earn my money with project management)
...not paid by AGEOD.
however, prone to throw them into disarray.
PS:
‘Everything is very simple in War, but the simplest thing is difficult. These difficulties accumulate and produce a friction which no man can imagine exactly who has not seen War . . . in War, through the influence of an infinity of petty circumstances, which cannot properly be described on paper, things disappoint us, and we fall short of the mark.‘
Clausewitz