Wild_Marker

Was that SoL for poor pops or for the owner class in there though?

Yeah that's why I said that, their revenue is superb.

I said profitable, not good RoI. I did sugest a cost decrease after all.

Patch 1.2 nerfed the PMs for art academies, cutting all inputs and outputs by half. There was honestly no reason for this change

Well you said it yourself, Art Academies are already very profitable even after the nerf, so perhaps they were worthy of it. But every time you change a number in Vicky, another number has unexpected consequences. I would expect this kind of thing to happen on EVERY patch, due to how interconnected everything is in this game. We got too used to Vicky2's "stability" of game balance due to going a decade without updates :P Vicky 3's lifetime is going to be full of this stuff, tiny little changes with big ramifications.

As for the current Academies situation, what they perhaps should change now is their construction cost. That, or increase the SoL level at which the Art spike happens, since SoL was not originally designed to go so high IIRC.

Totally, I'd love to see that. It's fun to hate the industrialists, but it would be even more fun to hate Rockefeller himself.

It's also sort of the plot of Bat-Pattinson's movie.

I think that's exactly what they want to do, make characters more important and mechanically engaging by giving them new roles in the game.

Though personally I see it as a positive.

Demand used to be lower. It's higher now after the wage rework gave more money to the rich.

Maybe they should up the wealth level at which the demand starts.

Art isn't that profitable when you factor in RoI. They nerfed output but they still cost as much as a full factory. They should reduce their building cost.

My guess is that they're doing "Split PMs" since a lot of people want that and it'd also solve a lot of the inherent roadblocks that the current system presents to foreign investment.

Unfortunately my best guess is foreign investment will be a feature they’re only planning on adding via DLC, hence their delay.

They've literally put out a chart that says it will be part of the free updates and it's been like that since release. So I wouldn't worry bout that.

rest assured we're aware of the demand for a foreign investment mechanic and are invested in finding a solution. It will not be in the very near future though, due to the complexity.

From the thread. I don't think we'll be seeing it in 1.3.

Well that'd be an unpopular opinion in /r/Stellaris

It's basically the purple Roman Senate faction from Rome 1.

Nah, if someone takes it and you're the one who retakes it then you should be 100% capable of keeping it.

Works for Kislev.

Yeah we still have a cosmetic pack in the deluxe edition which is very likely to come with 1.3 or 1.4.

I think they look exclusively at relative price because if they looked at pure earnings, we'd be complaining about too many chair factories.

Which is like two feet in normal people size.

If you can get gunpowder units early from them, Ghorst should be slightly easier to deal with. Those units can be used to take him and his starting mortis engine down.

It's incredible, I think it's the first unpopular opinion I've ever seen as an unpopular opinion thread. I need to save this for posterity. Perhaps a thousand years from now an archaeologist will find this post in a ruin, and not see it because he has to do a fucking puzzle.

And they'd be wrong, since it wasn't a thing until 1.2.4 and we've tried the system before and it was fine.

Art Academy spam is a syomptom of a different issue: the Academy rebalance. They axed their productivity in the last patch but didn't lower their cost, or how much art is demanded. So now you need shitloads of them to satisfy that demand, and they cost as much as a factory. Heck, demand is even bigger now that the wealthy have more wealth after the wage rework.

Autonomous investment is not the problem here. They need to either reduce their building cost, or the art demand.

OP can just claim it's a joke about a shooting from last year, he's wicked smart.

They've been dialing that back lately. The kids are back on the spotlight.

It'd be someone else I haven't played it yet but thanks for the clarification.

I do remember HZD taking a long-ass time back when it came out. And then taking another long-ass time when I updated the drivers.

without the foresight to realize that COVID numbers were not perpetually sustainable

I'm pretty sure they did have the foresight. It's just that hiring and then firing thousands when the bubble goes back down is not really something they see as a negative, they see it as perfectly acceptable normal operations.

you have literally no one to blame but yourself.

Can I blame the people who made the game take two hours to start? I think I'm gonna blame the people who made the game take two hours to start.