Confirmed to be a new IP so not Stellaris 2.

Hyperproxy is an Alternative Cold War Total Conversion mod starting in 1970, coming from Victoria 3.

(Being worked on since February) Discord Server

Cool Flat Map, amirite? (Flags WIP)

In Hyperproxy for Europa Universalis V we find a scenario where the main point of divergence (apart of other not that relevant) is the Nuking of Bucharest in 1945 by the US, which caused a more Soviet-leaning Europe and the creation of the Franco-British Union to fight back against Soviet influence. Since then, Italy got split North-South, and the Soviet Union started a controversial slavification program in East Germany.

Starting situation in Europe, shoutout to Castille-Portugal Spain with its Galician insurgency.

Progress on the imposed Slavification of East Germany, the unrest keeps growing.

The Chinese Civil War has been paused in an armistice since the 1950s, while an Unified Korea has adhered to Neutrality. The Naxalite–Maoist insurgency has evolved into one of the main conflicts in the Indian Subcontinent while in the other side the Laotian and Cambodian monarchies are very unstable from communist influence from the PRC and North Vietnam.

The Non-Alignment of the SE Asian Monarchies might be saved with the recent entrance of USA in regional politics.

EXTRA: Starting religious situation in the area.

Decolonization goes in a different way in Africa due to the Kingdom of Kongo, its sphere of influence and the Boer Union in the southernmost parts of Africa. Meanwhile in the north, Egypt and Libya are pushing for the Arab Socialist project, with the Republic of Arabia and the recent Baathist Iraq.

The Kongo-Ethiopia-Imerina triangle will be able to stop the Boer, the Arab and the Communist Revolutions?

There is also the Religious side of it!

In the Americas we find an United States led by Robert F. Kennedy fully recovered from the pariah status on the late 1940s. In this last decade, the 1960s, USA has successfully built a sphere of influence in the pacific, with Indonesia, the Republic of China and the Republic of Japan. The aggressive recovery of US influence, the already distrusting european allies lead by the Franco-British Union led to the divide of NATO into two separate organizations, the European Defence Union, and the remnants of NATO in North America. 1972 Elections are close, and there are rumours that the distrusting Democrats will not support RFK running again, despite the high approval due to the potential lose of the right-wing voters of the party.

Big Murica'

Yet internally split.

In South America, we find the Patagonian Worker's Councils, a soviet satellite state controlling the southernmost lands on Earth outside of Antarctica, and the varied dictatorships in Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, and the latest addition, the Coup in Henryville (Rio de Janeiro OTL) in the french-speaking Antarctique.

Bolivia with small coastline and Dutch speaking Brazil?

If you have read all the post, thank you for reading! Here is an extra picture that has some of the new RGOs. Soon we will start posting dev diaries in our server! (Link at the top)

Oil and even Uranium in Texas? Some freedom will protect it

the image shows the bug that happens. This screen is frozen exactly like this.

I'm running into a frustrating issue with Victoria 3 where I can load into the country selection map and hit "Start", but as soon as the main game finishes loading, one of two things happens:

1. The display turns completely black, but the Victoria 3 mouse pointer is still working and visible. Clicking the mouse also makes the v3 mouse sound.
2. The main map loads, but the top and bottom toolbars freeze mid-animation as they slide into view and i get random quite big black squares on the screen. I even once had my flag icon turn into the pink unhappy placeholder face lol.

Weirdly, This issue only happens on the second time i launch the game. If I do a fresh reinstall, the game plays fine for one session. The next time I launch it, it crashes/freezes again. Deleting the cache also lets me play exactly once before the issue returns.

My PC seems to be working fine whilst V3 is crashed, with my second monitor working fine (I'm actually writing this post while looking at the black screen on monitor 1).

Ive verified integrity of the game files as well.

Having to reinstall the game every time I want to play is getting pretty annoying! Has anyone encountered this or found a permanent fix? Any advice would be appreciated.

1 week gap

And CSA does not spawn

I need both CSA and FSA

Title: What if Alexander never conquered Persia? We made that start playable in Imperator: Rome

We converted our Bronze Age campaign into Imperator: Rome, which created a pretty interesting alternate starting point:

Persia is still powerful, Zoroastrian, and Alexander's conquests haven't happened.

So instead of rebuilding Persia after Alexander, you can start from this world and decide what happens next — including trying to recreate Alexander's enormous conquests from the Persian side.

We've released the converted campaign along with the mod setup and instructions for anyone who wants to try it:

https://persicusimperium.com/paradox-interactive-mega-campaign-downloads/

The original conversion/playthrough is part of our بازیانه (Bazianeh) Paradox mega-campaign project.

I'd genuinely be interested to see what other players do with this starting position.

Been thinking about doing a mod that tries to make the Clan gov type (ie the one default used by most Muslim rulers) a bit more interesting to play and interact with. As part of that I'm curious what folks think about 'em: like playing as them? hate playing as them? do you enjoy messing with the different Tax Decree types you can do or find it busywork? too OP, not OP enough? Do you care at all interacting with House Unity or is just too fiddly to bother with? Do you think it's an improvement on how Decadence was handled in CK2? Let me know your thoughts!

My experience with strategy games so far has been with Civilization (mostly 5, some 4) and Total War (Empire and Medieval II). I have been told before that Total War is not really the best fit for me because I don't really like commanding battles - I will if I have to but I think it's kind of tedious - in favor of getting so rich that I can hire so many armies that I don't have to command battles and can just autoresolve everything.

No, the actual part of Total War I like is the empire management. In Med2, upgrading all the farms and mines and roads and walls and making the cities as big and advanced as possible, and war is a means to an end to get more cities to upgrade. Likewise in Empire the fun part is progressing down the tech tree and building out all the factories and watching income per turn go up. In Civ I just like building cities and playing wide and putting all the buildings and Wonders in as many cities as I can, and mostly try to stay out of wars until the very end when there's not that much left to build.

I do like changing the color of the map (especially if it's blue), but possibly more than that I just like to watch number go up, and more number go upper if the map is bluer. CK3 is on sale right now, and I do like the time period, but everything I read about it is says it's for ""roleplaying"" and I just don't care that much about individual characters. (My king in M2:TW died? Oh okay. Anyway) Would Victoria or EU be a better fit?

Hello!
I am interested in getting into Europa Universalis (I have way more time than I'd like to admit in a bunch of other Paradox games, notably HOI4, Vic3, Vic2, and Stellaris) and currently own EU4's base game, with a very loose grasp on how some of the game mechanics.

Anyways, I was wondering if it was best for me to get some of the DLCS for EU4 next time they're on sale, or buy EU5 and get its DLCs as they come out.

I am personally leaning towards EU4, but only because it's older and fleshed out (and I already own it) but I want to hear what other's think, because I've really not heard much on or about EU5, and my research has given me a pretty mixed consensus.

Edit: I'm gonna try out 4 with the subscription until a sale comes across, and if I like it, then I'll start buying up the DLCs as they go on sale. If I dont, then I'll probably pick up EU5 next time its on sale. Thanks for the suggestions!

Yo, so I have been planning to buy EU4 but I know how Paradox games go and how their games tend to need some if not all DLCs. I also know the general recommendation is to get the EU4 DLC subscription and that the base game alone is not worth it. But, I also know the game got some essential DLCs made free so I wanted to ask if the base game is now worth it? If not what other DLCs are considered essential or must have, or is it a bust without the DLC subscription? Thx in advance.

Also bonus question, what Paradox Games are worth it only base game/with minimal DLC?

if Paradox made it company policy to make base games free after 10 years would this help the company or harm if? I own all of their games and DLCS btw, just had the idea and wanna know what everyone thinks about it.

We are starting a Victoria 2 multiplayer campaign and looking for Turkish players. Country picks are open right now.

We are about 7 people at the moment. If you don't have any MP experience, it doesn't matter, no problem at all. We have no problem bringing new players into the campaigns.

We are planning to play Victoria Universalis for this campaign. ( We play IgoR and other mods too )

MP will be on Tuesdays, around 21:00–00:00.

DM me if you are interested. ( Game will be hosted with static IP, we are not gonna use any programs such as Radmin or Hamachi )

https://preview.redd.it/e9fngfq1vbjh1.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6d093804fef800f22933a11d4b678538dcb0d01c

We know it's a "non-historical GSG" led by Dan Lind, from Hearts of Iron.

It's odd but almost every mega campaign I see, England/Britain oddly takes the role of Spain in the EU4 section, in that they colonize most of the continent really fastly, leaving the others with scraps. Even in mega campaigns, going all the way from Imperator Rome, where England/Britain practices Hellenism, whoever controls England still ends up controlling what we would call Spanish America?

As said in the title. The entire state of Multiplayer is bordering unplayable. Constant out of syncs and the resync button never works beyond the first week.

Even restarting and loading the save often results in an OOS in the first week. As with the recent post a few days ago in this subreddit, about how the contents of the save game folder of all players impacts a loaded savegame OOS chance, is beyond acceptable.

The fun thing is: Some OOS can be safely ignored. The military formations one for example. Just clicking "Play without that player" and the multiplayer still works and everyone can play together. We played 30 years after receiving that OOS and everything worked fine.

Yet despite all that and the multiplayer forum of Victoria 3 are filled to the brim with the same type of out of syncs for years, the dev team just completely ignores it. Not a single word about it in the dev diary, no mention in the hotfixes, no dev activity in the paradox MP forum from the QA Team.

OOS should be handled like CTDs, because essentially that is what it is. Every player has to restart the game and empty their savegame folder. Join the game, wait for savegame transfer and load into the game, only to get another OOS. We had many savegames that had to be abandoned because it just went OOS all the time.

TLDR:

Paradox should care more about OOS and fixing them. I know only about 10% of players play multiplayer. But for those players it's one of the main reasons to play the game. Additionally a lot of creators mainly stream/record a lot of content in MP sessions.

Edit: Paradox has responded in the comments. They are aware of the issues and working on it.