u/FrauleinHabsburg

What would you guys think about the next Paradox DLC being strictly an improvement on their AI? Not another half baked focus tree or clunky mechanic, I mean just a dedicated improvement to the AI.. inmprove the decision making capability of the AI, better balanced navy, better managing of front lines (not the AI just leaving large stretches of their front lines empty while they reshuffle), actually attempting to build new supply hubs, actually using spy agencies and if not then not even build them and waste civs buying the upgrades for it they wont use, better template designs, stuff like this.

At this point I think thats what the game needs,,, and really a DLC that can really work on making sure the AI can handle all the previous DLC mechanics properly (not constantly trying to trade 7 planes over 3.5 years on the market etc)?

I am kinda past the point of getting excited for new mechanics as the system tends to feel a bit bloated as it is, I really think a moment to stop, regroup, and REFINE what they have would be sooo beneficial before just trying to cram in another group of stuff....

At your DSPs are all the routes somewhat equally difficult? Does anyone know if your DSPs area has a couple routes which are just consistently problematic?

We have a few routes that just seem deliberately set up badly, itll be your typical 187 stops but they arent all in one tight neighborhood area, your first 30 stops of the day will be businesses on a busy main road and in multi story business centers where you have to find the suite number. This portion of the route always takes almost 2 hours mostly due to traffic, each stop requires you getting back out onto the main road which is slammed. Then you finally get to move to houses and your first stop are these apartments with ridiculous layouts, 4 story units. After that you get to do houses but its these small neighborhoods located off another highway road, having to jump onto the highway road to get to the next group of 3-6 stops, and each time this just takes several minutes JUST waiting for traffic. The route is just these clusters of deliveries all spaced along an insane distance. Ive been rescued on this and rescued people on this route and they always have people using gas vans on it when theres tons of overflow and its well within range for EV. It just seems like they deliberately do it to screw with us or something.. cubing out a small van with that.

The route that has had multiple people quit at my DSP this last week is one that begins in the downtown area, edge of whats considered downtown, all very narrow one way streets, no parking, everyone who lives and works in these areas parks in the roads so youre ALWAYS legging it with your packages and overflow to your house, apartment or office building because the only parking spot that can fit an EV is a block away. After 40 or so stops like this fighting traffic you have a solid 8 minute drive up into the foothill area, where every single house is built on hills so you have to hike up steep driveways and staircases on every single one. At the end of this route, it finishes in the most obnoxious apartment complex ever because it ALWAYS groups stops from buildings across from eachother... so you go into building A, then the next building is across the parking lot for the next few stops. You pull up inbetween the next pair and repeat across all 8 units like this.
The most notable part of this is having to drive out to a secluded private gated community, its a 20 mph road WITH speed limit signs of course, and its such a time suck driving clear down this long slow road for 3-4 stops.
And this is still routed for 185 stops. The steepness of the yards gets ridiculous after 50 stops, 1 in 3-4 of course grouped, each one a mini hike and with a steep staircase, but you STILL have another 50 to go like this. it is so taxing. Im 5,4 115 lbs soaking wet, im athletic, i have endurance for my other 190 stop residential routes, this is a different league all together.

The DSP is dirty because they promise 1 dollar bonus per rescue but of course if you get rescued they deduct it, I got my 48 rescue bonus dollars docked because I got thrown on this terrible route 3 times because so many people quit. Each time 15-20 stops taken and I ended up in the negative in bonus' and it feels like such a dirty move... the route is not finishable.

And Amazon moved me BACK into this terrible route because so many people quit. Its getting too hot for this. God it makes me so mad I was on a normal route for the last month and did good, and this is my reward.

At stand up the DSP has stated several times that they know some of the routes have been busted and theyre trying to ask amazon to fix. They never do.

Does every DSP have these types of routes? that just cant be done? Even without breaks and whatever else, just the amount of time it takes getting to do and from these stops with traffic and distance AND STILL with a full load, why would they route it that way? not finishing the route still doesnt get you moved off, deliberately or not. It doesnt get finished and they dont care and let you just get rescued by someone who had a 165 residential route.

I think a more than reasonable compromise Amazon should be willing to make is on days when temps hit above or below certain temps, we get "weather pay". You make your flat 21 or whatever an hour, on days when the temp hits 103, an extra 2 dollars an hour.

Especially when you consider Prime day is always in the middle of the summer which is just a special kind of messed up to do. They will have these announcements the week after Prime day boasting about how we moved an insane amount of packages etc as if we are supposed to be proud or happy. You smashed it, we made the same amount.

Amazon could make a profit and still pay out bonuses or small compromises from time to time. They'd still be able to make their share holders happy, and throw us a bone.

Our DSP right now is struggling because several of our routes are just routed objectively bad, nobody can finish them, they are known problem routes and every day at stand up they tell us we're working with Amazon to fix them.... It's been 6 weeks now and the last 5 days we had 6 people just walk because these routes are insanely brutal.

It is just crazy to me. I am not naive to the way things work, I don't think we deserve 100 dollars an hour. But some kind of occasional bonus or having some routes actually fixed... Something.

I have yet to get a single 5 dollar thank your driver thing either. Ever.

Group stops, no more than 2 locations per group stop, no more than 5 packages. If there's over flow or more than 6 packages, break it up. Apartments, only group apartment units in the same building no multi building groups. Hot or cold days, extra 2 dollars an hour.

These are such simple things Amazon refuses to give.

And IDC we technically work for the DSP. Everyone knows we work for Amazon and the DSP is just a middle man who has no autonomy whatsoever.

If Amazon can enforce a set rate to pay drivers they can designate a 100 bonus for showing up and delivering for prime week or something.

I just don't understand why they're so bad. They don't fix their routing. Didn't they bring in a bunch of h1b workers? Apparently Americans can't do these jobs so they hired a bunch of people from India much smarter than us and still they can't fix the routes?

I guess the bottom line is they don't have to... they can just count on more people needing jobs bad enough to tolerate the grind and repeat the cycle. they figure the lowest amount that will keep people around long enough to get others hired... and we have so many people coming here there's always more people who need jobs. customers who every single day have mountains of boxes coming to their door step because they are ADDICTED to buying their cheap plastic foreign slave made trinkets and latest popular products they're tricked into wanting.

I want to play a normal historical game because I'm a pretty casual player, not meta player, single player without crazy dlc so I'm boring I know.

But the problem is right now latest version China is so weak Japan is just crushing them. I need China to somehow get buffed to be able to resist Japan more than they do because otherwise Japan ends up with a huuuuge Chinese puppet by the time they attack on the Pacific in 41.

Any ideas on how I can buff them enough so they don't just get beat up?

Maybe I should try giving them techs to help increase their production?