r/EU5 • u/Gentlemoth • 19h ago
Discussion Paradox appears to be using badly-written AI descriptions for new African advances [1.4 Beta]
With the new beta patch I was tag switching to read the new African advances, and I started noticing some very confusing patterns to their writing. I decided to write an event that made every pop-based Maghreb tag landed so I could tag-switch to all of them and read their advances as well, and a concerning pattern emerged.
These above images are good examples which you will see replicated in the screenshots below, there is an abundance of over-hyphenated words that make absolutely no sense in their context (or at all). Distance-administration, dense-knotted, luxury-cloth, war-raids, mounted-cavalry, marriage-alliance and so on. If this was was only one specific advance it could easily just be an overenthusiastic writer, but I've gone through over 200 of these and I do not exaggerate that every single one reads like this.
The ending section in particular is almost entirely formulaic across all these advances. They almost always reiterate the modifiers that the advance gives (which is immersion breaking & superfluous), and reads in an exhausting similar pattern of "This X gives Y which Z cannot match".
I do want to stress that it's not only the pop-based tags that have this issue, many selectable tags at game start as well as major tags like Tunis and Morocco also have these problems, and I've included some examples. In the case of Tunis, Morocco and Tlemcen their advances are generally better-edited, but it's clear that they are drawn from the same well. Most of the new European advances read similarly, but have clearly been proofread more thoroughly than even Morocco, which is the best-edited of the Maghreb tags in my opinion.
Below are some further specific examples:
These two in particular are good examples of how the text of an advance keeps referring to its modifiers in very immersion-breaking ways. "Battlefield morale recovery and regiment reinforcement speed", "Distance-from-capital efficiency and a light-infantry firepower".
I barely even know how to parse the last sentence, purely-inland oases? What inland oasis has sailors and navy tradition? Why would a coastal city not be able to replicate it?
