u/AccursedQuantum

You are standing by the switch for a runaway train. On the track is just one person. They are going to die if you do nothing.

However, if you throw the switch, you will redirect the train onto another track. Here, there are five people. These five have been encased in protective suits to keep them safe from runaway trains... except the suits were designed by the lowest bidder, and there is a 20% chance for each suit it will fail. If you throw the switch, you could be killing all five. Or maybe none of them. The odds of nobody getting killed are (0.8)⁵ or a bit over 32%... but that means the odds of at least one person's death is just under 68%.

Do you throw the switch?

I know people do the Grand Campaign games where they start in CK, then import to EU, then import that to Vic, and finally (maybe) to HoI.

That sounds fun... but it is still only part of what I want.

No, I want the *grand* grand strategy RPG. I want the military complexity of HoI4, the economic and political depth of Victoria 3, the diplomatic options of EU4 (or more!), and all of that using the character driven focus of CK3.

And I want it to go from the year 700 to 2000.

So what do you think, Paradox... if you combine all your teams together, can you make it happen? 😃

I'm a new player, still getting my head around the game. Been playing Colombia and I seem to be getting the hang of things... and then I keep running into situations that make me say, "Oh, wish I hadn't done that 30 years ago because of the effect now..."

In this situation my frustration is with the legitimacy system. Basically wanted to play an enlightened despot kind of game where I appease conservatives with a monarchy or dictator and appease liberals with civil liberties and free trade.

Colombia starts with conservatives heavily in power, so I take a few decisions to empower landowners, church, military, and get monarchy established. Down the line, I spend some elections getting momentum to the liberals, finally get them elected (with 50.1% of the vote after the military switched parties - and it is really weird having the armed forced with an authoritarian leader running the liberal party), and in spite of them winning the election I still have 70+ legitimacy for keeping conservatives in power and 15 or so for putting the liberals in. The thing tanking it is ideological incompatibility.

But... the point of getting the liberals in power was to change the laws. Except at my level of legitimacy, I can't change any laws, because the current laws don't match the ruling party. This seems bass-ackwards.

How am I suppose to liberalize my country if the only people who support the law changes aren't able to even when they are supposedly in power?

In planning to move to the UK, I have been digging deep into area statistics, Google Maps, council pages, room rental sites, and more, and have narrowed my moving preferences down to these towns. But one thing I really don't have is local perspective. For those living in these towns (or in communities nearby), can you give me some insights into what it is like to live there - both good and bad? Do you like living there, or does some other reason keep you there?

Johnstone, Paisley, Renfrew, Cambuslang, and East Kilbride - near Glasgow
Beverly - near Hull
Birkenhead and Wallasey - near Liverpool
Heanor, Ilkeston, and Long Eaton - near Derby and Nottingham
Leyland - near Preston
Newcastle-under-Lyme - near Stoke-on-Trent
Gateshead - near Newcaste-on-Tyne

Anything people feel like sharing is appreciated!

Everyone knows the US is gun heavy, but even that varies from stare to state - some you can buy a semiautomatic rifle over the counter while in others a simple revolver will take weeks of background checks and permits.

There are very few countries where it is completely illegal for civilians to own firearms, but in some cases it is still practically impossible - the needed forms are in the locked basement behind a sign saying, "Beware the leapord," and the clerk who accepts them is only there the Tuesday after the new moon.

So how about your country? Is it relatively easy, or nearly impossible, or somewhere between?​

Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland all have parliaments dedicated to issues in those countries, but also have representation in the UK parliament as a whole. Why doesn't England have a parliament that deals with English specific issues?