the next age of history Let's talk about Grey Eminence.

[Chairman Baad 2,000]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1858700/Grey_Eminence/

So there's a new grand strategy game in the works called Grey Eminence. Apparently some of the devs from the MEIOU and Taxes team have been working on this for a long time, and have just announced it yesterday. The game is said to have a map with a whopping 1,000,000 TILES. (Compare that with AoH2 having 4,000 provinces or the old HoAoH2 having ~17,000.)  The game is also made with moddability in mind; the game's description mentions a built-in world editor and the ability to "alter virtually any feature in the game". 

So what do you think? Is Grey Eminence the next step after AoH? M&T is a high quality mod... We'll see where this project goes. May this game be spared from reaping.

Edited March 31, 2022 by Chairman Baad

[Chairman Baad 2,000]

So I'll write down everything I know about Grey Eminence here. I'm collecting info from the team's dev diaries, as well as their Discord server.

• The map is made up of 1,004,880 hexagonal tiles (and 12 pentagonal tiles)
• Each tile has its own population, buildings, and geography, which are tied to many systems including demographics modelling, production, consumption, trade, climate, and more
• Grey Eminence is built on the idea of simulationism; the systems in the game "represent the phenomena that drove mankind towards modernity as faithfully as possible"
• Each and every country in the game has several groups of "elites" competing for power: the nobility, clergy, merchants, military, and even the state bureaucracy can influence your country's decisions
• The estates are also made up of characters, each with their own personality, history, ambitions, and fears
• Many core systems in the game will function even without player intervention; it might take 600 years for you to build a farm, but the nobility can still act during that timeframe
• Grey Eminence has virtually no hardcoded mechanics. Everything can be modified, from the UI, to the AI, to the graphics, to even the core system logic
• The base game will include a built-in world editor, the same one that is being used to set up the default 1356 "scenario" (the devs refer to it as a "game world" in the diary)
• Grey Eminence is able to store so much data because it utilizes Unity’s Data-Oriented Technology Stack, which you can read about here
• As of the first dev diary, the game is at least a year away from a full release

That was from the dev diary. Now for the Discord:

• Less common and less traditional ideologies are very likely to be in the game (e.g. anarchism, libertarian socialism, and theocracy)
• The map tiles are "not infinitely small, but much smaller than EU4 provinces"
• Events are hardcoded to specific conditions rather than a specific year, allowing for emergent gameplay
• There are formable nations. A lot of formable nations.
• Technologies aren't gated by year, so local factors are part of the equation that comes with their invention/spread
• Nothing stops you from modding in technology farther than 1956; there's a specific reason the devs chose to stop there, which will be revealed in a future dev diary
• In regards to guerrilla warfare and localized conflicts, a dev said "total war isn't the only form of conflict in the game"
• There are wasteland tiles, but they're "a lot more interactive than you'd think"
• It may be possible to connect two tiles from a large distance for troop movement (think of AoH's "Move To")
• The world editor will include importers for maps you want to model in-game, and exporters to share whatever you create
• Countries are very customizable; far beyond what was possible in M&T
• The terrain will be dynamic in terms of deforestation and clearing jungles
• As of now, only the 1356 scenario has been set up
• Mechanics will change across time periods
• Efforts have been made to represent the rise of private capital (and not just banks)
• Tiles are grouped into provinces; you can interact with provinces or individual tiles (and yes, country territory can change tile-by-tile)
• A tile (in the base game) is always 510km², but what's in the tile can change
• You can choose between a hexagonal map mode or an organically shaped map mode

So yeah. That's Grey Eminence in a nutshell. Every Tile Independent mod when?

[Seabseab2 19]

  On 2/12/2022 at 6:01 AM, Chairman Baad said:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1858700/Grey_Eminence/

So there's a new grand strategy game in the works called Grey Eminence. Apparently the devs of MEIOU and Taxes have been working on this for a long time, and have just announced it yesterday. The game is said to have a map with a whopping 1,000,000 TILES. (Compare that with AoH2 having 4,000 provinces or the old HoAoH2 having ~17,000.)  The game is also made with moddability in mind; the game's description mentions a built-in world editor and the ability to "alter virtually any feature in the game". 

So what do you think? Is Grey Eminence the next step after AoH? M&T is a high quality mod... We'll see where this project goes. May this game be spared from reaping.

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No, this is just different overall, nowhere near the next step of Aoh.

[Hydra 87]

  On 2/12/2022 at 11:22 AM, Chairman Baad said:

So I'll write down everything I know about Grey Eminence here. I'm collecting info from the team's dev diaries, as well as their Discord server.

• The map is made up of 1,004,880 hexagonal tiles (and 12 pentagonal tiles)
• Each tile has its own population, buildings, and geography, which are tied to many systems including demographics modelling, production, consumption, trade, climate, and more
• Grey Eminence is built on the idea of simulationism; the systems in the game "represent the phenomena that drove mankind towards modernity as faithfully as possible"
• Each and every country in the game has several groups of "elites" competing for power: the nobility, clergy, merchants, military, and even the state bureaucracy can influence your country's decisions
• The estates are also made up of characters, each with their own personality, history, ambitions, and fears
• Many core systems in the game will function even without player intervention; it might take 600 years for you to build a farm, but the nobility can still act during that timeframe
• Grey Eminence has virtually no hardcoded mechanics. Everything can be modified, from the UI, to the AI, to the graphics, to even the core system logic
• The base game will include a built-in world editor, the same one that is being used to set up the default 1356 "scenario" (the devs refer to it as a "game world" in the diary)
• Grey Eminence is able to store so much data because it utilizes Unity’s Data-Oriented Technology Stack, which you can read about here
• As of the first dev diary, the game is at least a year away from a full release

That was from the dev diary. Now for the Discord:

• Less common and less traditional ideologies are very likely to be in the game (e.g. anarchism, libertarian socialism, and theocracy)
• The map tiles are "not infinitely small, but much smaller than EU4 provinces"
• Events are hardcoded to specific conditions rather than a specific year, allowing for emergent gameplay
• There are formable nations. A lot of formable nations.
• Technologies aren't gated by year, so local factors are part of the equation that comes with their invention/spread
• Nothing stops you from modding in technology farther than 1956; there's a specific reason the devs chose to stop there, which will be revealed in a future dev diary
• In regards to guerrilla warfare and localized conflicts, a dev said "total war isn't the only form of conflict in the game"
• There are wasteland tiles, but they're "a lot more interactive than you'd think"
• It may be possible to connect two tiles from a large distance for troop movement (think of AoH's "Move To")
• The world editor will include importers for maps you want to model in-game, and exporters to share whatever you create
• Countries are very customizable; far beyond what was possible in M&T
• The terrain will be dynamic in terms of deforestation and clearing jungles
• As of now, only the 1356 scenario has been set up
• Mechanics will change across time periods
• Efforts have been made to represent the rise of private capital (and not just banks)
• Tiles are grouped into provinces; you can interact with provinces or individual tiles (and yes, country territory can change tile-by-tile)
• A tile (in the base game) is always 510km², but what's in the tile can change
• You can choose between a hexagonal map mode or an organically shaped map mode

So yeah. That's Grey Eminence in a nutshell. Every Tile Independent mod when?

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PC BURNER 2000

[Atlantid 31]

  On 2/12/2022 at 6:01 AM, Chairman Baad said:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1858700/Grey_Eminence/

So there's a new grand strategy game in the works called Grey Eminence. Apparently the devs of MEIOU and Taxes have been working on this for a long time, and have just announced it yesterday. The game is said to have a map with a whopping 1,000,000 TILES. (Compare that with AoH2 having 4,000 provinces or the old HoAoH2 having ~17,000.)  The game is also made with moddability in mind; the game's description mentions a built-in world editor and the ability to "alter virtually any feature in the game". 

So what do you think? Is Grey Eminence the next step after AoH? M&T is a high quality mod... We'll see where this project goes. May this game be spared from reaping.

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whats the difference between this and EU4 with the extended timeline mod? i only see this game as a more polished eu4 clone.

[Chairman Baad 2,000]

https://nestinars.com/news/dev-diary-2/

https://nestinars.com/news/dev-diary-2/ https://nestinars.com/news/dev-diary-2/ https://nestinars.com/news/dev-diary-2/

Embed!

https://nestinars.com/news/dev-diary-2/

EMBED, YOU PIECE OF SHIT!

https://nestinars.com/news/dev-diary-2/ https://nestinars.com/news/dev-diary-2/ https://nestinars.com/news/dev-diary-2/ https://nestinars.com/news/dev-diary-2/ https://nestinars.com/news/dev-diary-2/

FUCKING EMBED! AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Weeell shit. Looks like DDs won't embed. Oh well. This DD is on population.

Edited February 26, 2022 by Chairman Baad

[Anjeliux 28]

Aoh3 On Steroids

And also, as always 

*Sad Android Noices*

Anyway if this game came to Android it will Burn mi Phone Instantly.

[Dolphin General 1,846]

  On 2/12/2022 at 6:01 AM, Chairman Baad said:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1858700/Grey_Eminence/

So there's a new grand strategy game in the works called Grey Eminence. Apparently the devs of MEIOU and Taxes have been working on this for a long time, and have just announced it yesterday. The game is said to have a map with a whopping 1,000,000 TILES. (Compare that with AoH2 having 4,000 provinces or the old HoAoH2 having ~17,000.)  The game is also made with moddability in mind; the game's description mentions a built-in world editor and the ability to "alter virtually any feature in the game". 

So what do you think? Is Grey Eminence the next step after AoH? M&T is a high quality mod... We'll see where this project goes. May this game be spared from reaping.

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seems already better than any of lukasz games

[Lorenz_yeet 17]

  On 2/13/2022 at 1:12 PM, Hydra said:

PC BURNER 2000

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nah

[Lorenz_yeet 17]

  On 2/16/2022 at 10:36 PM, Anjeliux said:

Aoh3 On Steroids

And also, as always 

*Sad Android Noices*

Anyway if this game came to Android it will Burn mi Phone Instantly.

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Stop comparing Aoh games to paradox games or other grand strategy games, aoh2 is just un unfinished game, but even if moddable the game mecanichs are just very bad

[Chairman Baad 2,000]

Looks like word of GE has reached Kerem.

[Anjeliux 28]

  On 2/17/2022 at 8:35 AM, Lorenz_yeet said:

Stop comparing Aoh games to paradox games or other grand strategy games, aoh2 is just un unfinished game, but even if moddable the game mecanichs are just very bad

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I was joking, i already know, and also i agree to what you say. The game itself its very bad.

[A Montanan 112]

Dang. That Looks Like A 100,000 GB Game

[davidtjk 239]

 

  On 2/12/2022 at 11:22 AM, Chairman Baad said:

So I'll write down everything I know about Grey Eminence here. I'm collecting info from the team's dev diaries, as well as their Discord server.

• The map is made up of 1,004,880 hexagonal tiles (and 12 pentagonal tiles)
• Each tile has its own population, buildings, and geography, which are tied to many systems including demographics modelling, production, consumption, trade, climate, and more
• Grey Eminence is built on the idea of simulationism; the systems in the game "represent the phenomena that drove mankind towards modernity as faithfully as possible"
• Each and every country in the game has several groups of "elites" competing for power: the nobility, clergy, merchants, military, and even the state bureaucracy can influence your country's decisions
• The estates are also made up of characters, each with their own personality, history, ambitions, and fears
• Many core systems in the game will function even without player intervention; it might take 600 years for you to build a farm, but the nobility can still act during that timeframe
• Grey Eminence has virtually no hardcoded mechanics. Everything can be modified, from the UI, to the AI, to the graphics, to even the core system logic
• The base game will include a built-in world editor, the same one that is being used to set up the default 1356 "scenario" (the devs refer to it as a "game world" in the diary)
• Grey Eminence is able to store so much data because it utilizes Unity’s Data-Oriented Technology Stack, which you can read about here
• As of the first dev diary, the game is at least a year away from a full release

That was from the dev diary. Now for the Discord:

• Less common and less traditional ideologies are very likely to be in the game (e.g. anarchism, libertarian socialism, and theocracy)
• The map tiles are "not infinitely small, but much smaller than EU4 provinces"
• Events are hardcoded to specific conditions rather than a specific year, allowing for emergent gameplay
• There are formable nations. A lot of formable nations.
• Technologies aren't gated by year, so local factors are part of the equation that comes with their invention/spread
• Nothing stops you from modding in technology farther than 1956; there's a specific reason the devs chose to stop there, which will be revealed in a future dev diary
• In regards to guerrilla warfare and localized conflicts, a dev said "total war isn't the only form of conflict in the game"
• There are wasteland tiles, but they're "a lot more interactive than you'd think"
• It may be possible to connect two tiles from a large distance for troop movement (think of AoH's "Move To")
• The world editor will include importers for maps you want to model in-game, and exporters to share whatever you create
• Countries are very customizable; far beyond what was possible in M&T
• The terrain will be dynamic in terms of deforestation and clearing jungles
• As of now, only the 1356 scenario has been set up
• Mechanics will change across time periods
• Efforts have been made to represent the rise of private capital (and not just banks)
• Tiles are grouped into provinces; you can interact with provinces or individual tiles (and yes, country territory can change tile-by-tile)
• A tile (in the base game) is always 510km², but what's in the tile can change
• You can choose between a hexagonal map mode or an organically shaped map mode

So yeah. That's Grey Eminence in a nutshell. Every Tile Independent mod when?

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Not even the fastest pc can handle this game

[Businessoverrights 21]

Not even NASA would be able to run this game on lowest graphics lol

[Chairman Baad 2,000]

https://www.nestinars.com/news/dev-diary-3/

Again with the embed fails... Whatever. This DD is on countries.

[Hons 26]

im looking forward to this looks fun

[pengu 3]

i hope my pc can actually run this when it comes out jesus christ

[Chairman Baad 2,000]

  On 3/29/2022 at 2:28 PM, pengu said:

i hope my pc can actually run this when it comes out jesus christ

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The devs are using new and special technology to make it work. See here: https://nestinars.com/news/technology-overview/

Edited March 29, 2022 by Chairman Baad

[Talking Ben 2 36]

Yes

[Italian PeC 663]

As soon as this drops imma go "bye bye aoh2"

[Chairman Baad 2,000]

  On 3/31/2022 at 3:45 PM, Italian PeC said:

As soon as this drops imma go "bye bye aoh2"

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Same. Screw Age of Bugs and screw Luke-ass. Android players: cry about it.

[Atlantid 31]

  On 3/29/2022 at 4:35 PM, Chairman Baad said:

The devs are using new and special technology to make it work. See here: https://nestinars.com/news/technology-overview/

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ive got an rtx 3080 and i7-10700k ill be just fine running this i bet.

[Chairman Baad 2,000]

New dev diary on culture. Again no embedding...

https://www.nestinars.com/news/dev-diary-6/