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I think to be perfectly honest your just lucky and that isn't something we can replicate sadly. But i am glad your able to get some enjoyment out of it and i hope soon in the future most of us can join you m8. Sorted my hard drives out had to reinstall everything and now i can't even play the game because steam is starting download and it never actually does really extracting the urine this is why the hell did they make it so steam dependent don't we suffer enough anyway :(.
 
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If you're using a 64bit OS, I'd advise you use the 64bit enambler for ETW (google it). After I used it, my crashes were reduced to a minimum :)
 
With the new patch i have been able to play and so far three crashes in 160 years of game time so a lot more stable then it used to be. As for the so called economy balancing they did that is a load of rubbish so many times i was getting 10k plus a turn and for that to all disappear and me facing bankruptcy.

They need to get the economy back to what it was it might not have been the best but it wasn't as bad as what we have now. Also i have also seen an ai opponent with an army loaded onto ships although despite 30-40 turns they never actually landed in my territory but it is progress. A couple more big patches and maybe this game will be ok but it is now better for me then it has been since purchase.
 
Will that enabler help with the insane loading times too, make it cache more?

And yeah, they need to get the economy back, call it very easy or whatever, this is way too hard, just wasted 2½ hours of my evening as Ottoman losing 3 regions at the end of 60 turns, 7 nations at war with me, all trade routes raided and only able to support 2 stacks of units despite having 8 regions well developed.
 
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Will that enabler help with the insane loading times too, make it cache more?

And yeah, they need to get the economy back, call it very easy or whatever, this is way too hard, just wasted 2½ hours of my evening as Ottoman losing 3 regions at the end of 60 turns, 7 nations at war with me, all trade routes raided and only able to support 2 stacks of units despite having 8 regions well developed.
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The economy has gone crazy, I went from making nearly 30k-45k a turn to 10k or less a turn, but with everything now costing more :(

Also I don't get the campaign AI, why on earth would a country with only one territory attack an empire the size of mine (~30 territories) without any provocation? It makes no logical sense, why is everyone hostile towards you?
 
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Stupid patch... as soon as I start playing, I notice on the economy screen I have gone from 46k per turn to -6k :(. So I end the turn and Prussia blocks my capital port and all my navies are abroad :( . So now I have -67k per turn, random lag still happens, and the only other difference is hull strength on ships going from 21 to 4875. I wish they hadn't bothered.

oh, also is there an official support forum? because all I can find is lots of different ones all with people moaning and one person saying 'wait for the patch it will all be great'.
 
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http://www.totalwarforums.com/ Thats the address of the so called official forum i am perm banned from the official site as they didn't like any criticism of CA or this game and how it was released although as i understand it now they are more lenient given the number of people that are complaining though may ban still stands.

Well this game is consistent in it's inconsistency if you get what i mean the original game was a complete lottery and it seems like the patch is as well though it is working for me it isn't working for a great many people and for others they never had any problems before the patch and now they do.

This balancing they are talking about as far as i am concerned is little more then hamstringing the human player rather then sorting out the shortcomings of the AI and i don't see that changing anytime soon. There were ambitious goals for this game i seem to remember many features mentioned during development that don't exist in the release game.

So although right now my game is working better it isn't good enough to change my view on the next game they release which will be a wait till it's in the bargain bin then buy.
 
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Also I don't get the campaign AI, why on earth would a country with only one territory attack an empire the size of mine (~30 territories) without any provocation? It makes no logical sense, why is everyone hostile towards you?
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A fanatical belief that your ideology is pure evil and that it's up to every right thinking country to stand up to you? I personnally think they're right - I bet you harbour secret ambitions to conquer the world and subject the other nations to your will...
 
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A fanatical belief that your ideology is pure evil and that it's up to every right thinking country to stand up to you? I personnally think they're right - I bet you harbour secret ambitions to conquer the world and subject the other nations to your will...
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But why, even after I attacked their enemy for them, had been trading with them since the first turn and given them the occasional state gift?

Fair enough if I attack/provoke them or attack an ally.
 
They have totally ballsed the economy up, I own most of mainland europe bar 6 small regions, all of north America, Canada, South America and north Africa, and I cant sustain 30 ships and 150 units.
 
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I guess the economy tweaks are to stop you steam rolling places when you start to really get going, and to make the game more of a challenge.

I've found that its okay but you just need to disband any large standing armies you have in quiet theatres, and manage the armies you do have better instead of just placing big stacks all over the place.
 
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