If you want a big pool of crown estate characters to assign to positions and have decent options to pick from you need to actively be marrying them yourself, and for a game that prides itself on automation, it sucks this must be done manually

I ended up building a significant part of my economy around fish because I was pushing the navy so hard and I needed some way to make all of these fishing villages self-sustaining, so now I export a metric ton of fish to France.
The most annoying subsystem so far is characters

i expected it too, i was just surprised it didn't happen earlier.

"this time will be different" no, nothing ever happens

a helpful starter pack to find stuff you may be interested in and/or is local to you

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She looks great

now i know what it takes to get you to listen to music willingly

what's happened in the game so far?

you're the one who responded to a joke post accusing the OP of being MAGA, so perhaps stop throwing stones from a glass house here

I'm convinced the Pope just hands these out as a bit sometimes

I agree, and like, I don't think its malicious exactly, its just that these people plain don't care about Asia. They refuse to really engage with anything outside of their limited scope of medieval Europe

Classic case of older guy shoots his shot with woman way too young for him and gets humiliated for it

#booksky

"How do we grow our storefront?"

"Have something people want they can only get from us"

"No"

"Stupid gimmicks?"

"Now you're speaking my language"

one thing i didn't see them talk about is game exclusives, which is what Valve had in the early days of Steam and got the platform growing. Valve was a popular and prolific game publisher before Steam, they had a catalogue people really wanted!

And like, I was pretty much against him since the beginning, but if lefty and Dem voters can justify voting Kamala despite her being a part of a genocidal administration in the name of pragmatism, then I think Platner getting the same treatment makes sense

well Byrd's relationshio to West Virginia is a separate matter from his effect on the national Dems. Even if he did alot of good for the state, the fact he was a klansmen did affect Democrats elsewhere and change what kind of coalitions and politics were possible

This honestly might be more damaging than if it was revealed he took part in war crimes lol. Like atleast then you can bullshit about "the fog of war" and "can't talk about it for national security reasons"