it is still ridiculously slow for a RT game
Well then, I've played from January 1st, 1936 to March 1941 in ~6 hours and I do not consider it slow - and I play on a laptop. You might want to try not running the game at maximum speed when things are slow, because it usually crams the system up - resulting in a situation where "fast" is actually best, instead of "faster" or "fastest" - because the PC can't keep up.
Have fun with your simulator then, I buy games to play them.
Why? I bet solitaire and minesweeper would be enough.
because the game mechanics (combat resolution especially) are fundamentally unrealistic.
Uh-huh. Before we get into that, would you care to explain me how the game mechanics (especially combat resolution) work?
my point is that it is boring.
Then the game isn't for you, it's that simple. I know that Red Alert 3 isn't for me, I'm not playing it, I'm not whining about it anywhere.
Predictable because of the fucked AI. My suggestion was that they work on AI instead of making things more difficult for the human player. Instead they listened fanboys like you and put in sucky gameplay as 'revolutionary features'.
You lost me there - you were apparently replying to my point about the research system and how it's been improved from HoI2 (actually aligning it more like it was in HoI1) but your reply doesn't make any sense in that connection.
Minors weren't a problem in HoI2, oops. So that's a step backward.
Haha. Can I get some of that stuff you are smoking?
Because every country except Bulgaria being able to join the Allies in 1937 is an improvement?
Because you can't neglect diplomacy completely any more, like you could in HoI2 too. Yes, it's an extra layer of game play you have to take into consideration, making the years before war tiny bit more exciting, playing the influence/faction-game. So you didn't influence anyone (except Bulgaria) and found yourself surrounded by Allies? Sucks to be you but it's not the fault of the game.
Can your retarded tech system be fixed? Yes/No will do.
Probably not in the way you would want it, though you are free to try - as I previously wrote, pretty much the whole game is moddable. I already changed my hg brigades to be paradroppable so I can make Soviet-style corps level paradrops and that took literally 5 mins.
Ninja-edit:
So the answer to you would be no - you cannot remove the brigade system and you cannot bring back tech teams. What you could do is lock down the diplomacy so you'd only have events happening and you could also
dumbdown streamline the techs like they were in HoI2. But you'd still have 3D-map (which you can edit), the general hierarchy system (which is awesome and has been wanted from HoI1) and various other "retarded steps backwards".
