Supreme Ruler 2020 Gold

love this game. been playing since it was on disc. will continue for as long as they let me.

I bought this game on CD many years before using steam, so my "35 hours" is only for Steam version. After playing a savegame for one in-game year's worth of playtime, the speed of progression in the game trickles to a slowdown, where even at the "fastest" speed, one day takes a couple of minutes. This game was never optimised, and should never have been re-released as a "gold" version without some CPU tweaking.

Avant d'entrer dans le vif du sujet, il convient de préciser que le joueur téméraire qui s'essaye à Supreme Ruler 2020 sans avoir goûté à l'édition 2010 s'expose à une sérieuse déconvenue. En effet, la première impression ressentie lors des parties de chauffe est tout simplement épouvantable. On est noyé sous des tonnes d'informations, de variables, et de paramètres à régler sans que l'on n'ait la moindre idée de ce que l'on doit faire. Heureusement il y a le manuel (fichier PDF) en Anglais. Pas d'inquiétude, avec DOC TRANSLATOR vous faite, gratuitement traduire l'intégralité du manuel en Français. Très bonne traduction et vous avez une documentation qui vous permet de découvrir tranquillement le jeu. Le tutoriel est mal conçu... Pour ma part j'ai fait éditer le manuel de 56 pages. En couleur, mat, spirale, format A5 pour un pris très raisonnable de 19 euros chez COOLIBRI.com. Titre info : J'ai fait éditer d'autres manuels et je n'ai jamais été déçu. Ma configuration : Processeur : 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700KF 3.40 GHz Mémoire Ram : 32,0 Go (31,8 Go utilisable) Système : Système d’exploitation 64 bits, processeur x64 Une carte graphique GeForce RTX 4070TI Deux disques durs de 1T chacun. Pas de Wifi branchement par câble Ethernet RJ45.

This game has so much going for it which is why so many people like it, even me up until now. There are tons of mechanics that come with a steep learning curve and there isn't much more than a basic tutorial. It'll take a few hours and multiple new games for the average RTS player to get accustomed to. Once you become more or less adept to these mechanics, such as transporting units (along with figuring out transport weight limits), economic management, and diplomacy/warfare, you'll actually start to have fun... ...until your units randomly decide to just do whatever they want, like attacking an enemy completely outnumbered even though you clicked "entrench". Or, after careful planning, gathering dozens of units, loading them into transport ships that are the right size, then sending them to their far off destination only to realize that the ship randomly decided to B line completely off course half way there! Good luck finding it! Or, when wanting to load missiles to a unit that shoots them, and they just don't load! I had tanks that were getting curbstomped and were automatically retreating, except they were retreating towards even more enemies! Even when I would manually click for them to go to a safe spot, they'd keep moving toward fire until they got destroyed. I gave a transport ship the command to unload units at a pier and it just decided to stop along the coast and not move. I clicked again for it to unload at the pier and it would just "twitch" and stay stuck. I had to manually click away from the coast and toward the pier for it to work! Sometime when I send a unit to get repaired, they'd autodeploy and go off and get themselves killed or heavily damaged for me to send right back to repair! The final straw was when I was sending 6 transports across the pacific (I was playing as the US) and Japan decided to break their alliance and declare war, but that's not the problem. After they sunk my transports carrying countless units, I was understandably... annoyed. So, I decided to go Truman on them and turn them to glass! Except, when I got my submarine in range, I clicked to load the nukes... AND NOTHING!!! The nukes wouldn't load! Not only that, they even disappeared from the list! This game just doesn't follow commands! Keep in mind, these issues aren't because units lacked fuel or supply, the transport ships were fine until the last couple of hours and the ground units retreating the wrong way had nothing to do with supplies. These were all glitches! It really sucks to spend hours and hours learning a complex game just for it to be broken due to stupid glitches. Don't waste your time.

IMO the most realistic geopolitical simulator. The ammount of quality mods and forum topics are insane compared to later games in the series. The times i got my army wiped out because of my mistakes made it so much fun. It takes some time to go on the offensive. First you need to make sure you have the military goods and units to wage war. Attack some weak countries to get the population where you can compete with the superpowers, if your are not playing as one, build your economy and the snowball keeps rolling bigger and bigger. In later series developpers left paradox, features are not fully fleshed out, and the features they add are basicly only for players. Like suport opposition where you get casus bellie AND improve your economy in an artificial way. Or regions that loose their whole army because they added merchant marines that get killed in all kind of buggy ways as soon they leave port. There is no competition at all in later series and i never again lost a war, so boring. The biggest issue is that you can't change core issues as modder. So buy this game for 3 dollar on sale, to let paradox know we need a good modern geopolitical simulator. Not goverment sponsored propaganda.

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Do lots of detail mean lots of fun? Not to me. For a strategy nut, maybe so. I do like having all the scenarios, and the chance to play just about any country. Even a tiny one like Costa Rica.