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Gort posted:Dropbox? Didn't know that would work for a save game. I can't find the save game location either.
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TorakFade posted:Back again with the Italian super-renaissance: not even 1700 yet and I have kicked everybody's rear end. France and Spain are no threat anymore, actually nobody is a threat anymore besides the Ottomans - the Italy ambition of -50% unjustified demands coupled with influence + admin ideas mean I can kick rear end, take all the land I want, and core it almost all at once. With better relations over time people forget about my rear end-kickings rather fast too. Pretty sure you need to take Greece/Constantinople as well as liberate the Holy Land. At that point you might as well make sure you own every province bordering the Mediterranean. MARE NOSTRUM!
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Fintilgin posted:Pretty sure you need to take Greece/Constantinople as well as liberate the Holy Land. At that point you might as well make sure you own every province bordering the Mediterranean. Mediterranean does mean "our sea" in Latin, so go be a good successor to the Roman Empire and own the entire thing!
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Oct 4, 2015 00:29
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TorakFade posted:A question - I am allied with Great Britain and rival to France, and GB wanted to reclaim some cores on the mainland, so I thought I'd help them out; but while I'm sieging southern France and keeping them occupied, GB's 40k strong army is chilling in London, they didn't even try to cross the Channel. Britain is an infamously unreliable ally in every Paradox game because the naval invasion A.I. is temperamental at best. That 40k stack may disappear one day and reappear in the Canary Islands, for instance, and then stay there for the rest of the war. They won't even ask for it in the peace.
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Node posted:Mediterranean does mean "our sea" in Latin, so go be a good successor to the Roman Empire and own the entire thing! Mediterranean just means "inland." You're thinking of Mare Nostrum.
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Oct 4, 2015 01:14
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Node posted:Mediterranean does mean "our sea" in Latin No it doesn't. Just looking at it, Mediterranean pretty clearly means something like "middle of the land," presumably because it's almost completely surrounded by land. The Latin for "our sea" is right there in the post you quoted, though -- Mare Nostrum.
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Is there any achievement related to unifying Islam? Asking for a friend.
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double nine posted:Is there any achievement related to unifying Islam? Asking for a friend. No, but there should be. That is a serious conquest. Maybe uniting Islam... as a nation starting with the Ibadi religion in 1444! edit: There should be one for restoring the Pentarchy too, which would be a much easier achievement. Node fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Oct 4, 2015 |
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Jastiger posted:Didn't know that would work for a save game. I can't find the save game location either. Documents\Paradox Interactive\Europa Universalis IV\save games\ You can also share some screenshots and we could figure it out, click your country shield in the top left then open the Stability and Expansion tab and get a screenshot of that as well as zoom out until your entire country fits on the screen, in political mapmode (shortcut W), and take a screenshot of that.
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fermun posted:Documents\Paradox Interactive\Europa Universalis IV\save games\ To take a screenshot hit F11. They're saved in a screenshots folder next to your saved games.
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Oct 4, 2015 02:50
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double nine posted:Is there any achievement related to unifying Islam? Asking for a friend. I swear there was an achievement for being a muslim and owning Cordoba, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Mecca, Delhi, and Jakarta or something like that, but I can't find it now. Was it removed?
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Oct 4, 2015 03:13
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It's a decision that you can take for some nice bonuses but there's no achievement.
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Oct 4, 2015 03:46
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Werewhale posted:I swear there was an achievement for being a muslim and owning Cordoba, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Mecca, Delhi, and Jakarta or something like that, but I can't find it now. Was it removed? There is a decision for Muslims that require you to own pretty much every important historical Muslim province in the world, ranging all the way from Granada, Palermo, Baghdad, Thatta, and something else in Indonesia. And every province you own has to be Muslim. I would have been able to check that with the Ottomans, once. Except I conquered Rome, and this was before development levels. The base tax of Rome had gotten so high that no combination of ideas, events, and inquisitors could make progress converting it. I guess I could have tried selling it, but it's frickin' Rome man.
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Oct 4, 2015 05:33
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Jastiger posted:They were a different religion so I began converting. It took time but it worked...on the one missionary I had. The rest rebelled snd kicked my rear end. The most manpower I could muster was about 22000. They had 4 armies each of 16000. And won every battle. How does that happen? How do I make my guys fight better? And how did they get such huge armies? In the early game, your biggest enemy is often not another country but your own people. Once a rebel faction's revolt percentage reaches 100%, they will take up arms against you - if you've made several provinces worth of your peasants mad at you, that can mean, as you found out, that they are a lot stronger than you. You should keep this in mind when making decisions, including what territory to take and how much. Taking several provinces of another religion and trying to convert them can be very dangerous until you are a great power. This is especially the case because Zealots, the rebels that rise in response to conversion, are much stronger than most other rebel types. It's not an indicator that your armies suck to lose to them - they always have a better general than you can usually have for yourself early, so they will win otherwise equal battles. Additionally, newly conquered provinces have Nationalism, which is a hefty bonus to revolt risk that gradually fades over time as the province accepts being part of your empire. You should not try to convert a province shortly after conquering it unless you are confident you can handle any rebels that could appear, because an ongoing conversion adds even more revolt risk. Jazerus fucked around with this message at 05:54 on Oct 4, 2015 |
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Jazerus posted:In the early game, your biggest enemy is often not another country but your own people. Once a rebel faction's revolt percentage reaches 100%, they will take up arms against you - if you've made several provinces worth of your peasants mad at you, that can mean, as you found out, that they are a lot stronger than you. You should keep this in mind when making decisions, including what territory to take and how much. Taking several provinces of another religion and trying to convert them can be very dangerous until you are a great power. This is especially the case because Zealots, the rebels that rise in response to conversion, are much stronger than most other rebel types. It's not an indicator that your armies suck to lose to them - they always have a better general than you can usually have for yourself early, so they will win otherwise equal battles. If you start Poland it was the two provinces to the South that were Marches and the ones next to them. They were part of Poland from the outset but got all pissed off when I lost some battles to the Teutons. Ugh. Good advice though, for sure. Strangest thing about the save game, I have no save game folder there. I dunno if they are being saved elsewhere as auto saves, but it just isn't there. its there for Victoria, for Hearts of Iron, but I have no saved game folder in my EU4 folder. Crazy.
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Oct 4, 2015 06:38
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Are you playing Ironman? If so the saves go to the Steam cloud, with local backups. See: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/where-to-find-your-savegames.877037/
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Node posted:There is a decision for Muslims that require you to own pretty much every important historical Muslim province in the world, ranging all the way from Granada, Palermo, Baghdad, Thatta, and something else in Indonesia. And every province you own has to be Muslim. conquer neighbouring province, convert to sunni (or shi'a), sell it back to the core-holder, wait for them to start converting it and declare war. Hope for Islamic fanatics spring up and convert rome for you in their rampage? I realize this is all long ago but that may be a way to circumvent the issue?
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Oct 4, 2015 10:24
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double nine posted:conquer neighbouring province, convert to sunni (or shi'a), sell it back to the core-holder, wait for them to start converting it and declare war. Hope for Islamic fanatics spring up and convert rome for you in their rampage? I realize this is all long ago but that may be a way to circumvent the issue? Probably. That was a long time ago and I was still learning stuff. It would have been easiest to give up Rome, but my pride was at stake.
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Oct 4, 2015 10:54
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Is there a building that reduces inflation. Mutapa's gold mines are causing some issues.
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Been a while since I've played this game, but looking at the steam reviews for the Common Sense DLC, everyone seems so buttmad over it. What's happened here? Is EUIV/Paradox on a decline or are pubbies being pubbies?
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Oct 4, 2015 13:00
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BeAuMaN posted:Been a while since I've played this game, but looking at the steam reviews for the Common Sense DLC, everyone seems so buttmad over it. What's happened here? Is EUIV/Paradox on a decline or are pubbies being pubbies? double nine posted:Is there a building that reduces inflation. Mutapa's gold mines are causing some issues. Increasing your non-gold income is the only thing you can do other than having a master of mint. You should be able to massively dominate trade in your home node which can help a lot. Just make sure you have a very aggressive start so you can break out and start messing with East Africa and Arabia ASAP.
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Oct 4, 2015 13:18
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BeAuMaN posted:Been a while since I've played this game, but looking at the steam reviews for the Common Sense DLC, everyone seems so buttmad over it. What's happened here? Is EUIV/Paradox on a decline or are pubbies being pubbies? Dumb people are upset about the fort changes, which are in fact not part of the DLC.
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BeAuMaN posted:Been a while since I've played this game, but looking at the steam reviews for the Common Sense DLC, everyone seems so buttmad over it. What's happened here? Is EUIV/Paradox on a decline or are pubbies being pubbies? Fort system changed in a way that upset a lot of people and still does to pubbies, even though it frankly makes wars a lot more dynamic and interesting. This came with a patch on the DLC launch day. You also need CS to improve your provinces with the new development mechanic, but it's such a monarch point sink that even with the DLC you'll barely use it.
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RabidWeasel posted:
Oh no, I'm not playing as Mutapa. I'm playing as someone who conquered Mutapa.
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double nine posted:Oh no, I'm not playing as Mutapa. I'm playing as someone who conquered Mutapa. The same advice pretty much applies though. You can take economic ideas, get a master of the mint advisor and increase your non-gold income. Those are the ways to combat inflation. Other than simply paying the 75 adm every once in a while.
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Sorry to interrupt, but..I can't find my save files. Where else would they be saved if not in the EU4 folder?
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Jastiger posted:Sorry to interrupt, but..I can't find my save files. Where else would they be saved if not in the EU4 folder? (my) documents/paradox/eu4/saves
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So I bought this on release day and played about 80 hours before putting it down for a later date. I recall playing a game as Spain from 1444 to the 1700s and building a colonial empire, and playing Bavaria to around the thirty years war. Today I decided to pick up the major dlcs (except for common sense) and get back into EU. I was wondering if I could get a primer on all the changes since release, and maybe an interesting nation to play for my refresher game. For reference I have ~500 hours in CK2 and had a few hundred in EU3, so I'm no stranger to challenge and want to avoid playing England/Spain/France for the thousandth time.
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It's only logical.
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skasion posted:Get Common Sense This So I decided to have an Ironman Russia game with no real goal in mind. And I have hit a little snag when it comes to the Europe theater.   For being heavy on lucky nations, Not many managed to survive to keep it. The Ottomans had a very bad first war, in that they got dog piled by Venice, Mamluks and even Byzantium. keeping them alive a little longer than expected, Ottomans did come back, But not for long. France...I am not sure what happened here, Burgandy seems to want to go big red blob, Netherlands revolted, and was quickly suppressed violently Spain and GB have had very normal games, Austria too if you don't count loosing the HRE in the first week, giving it to Bohemia. like to belive I am in a strong position, But some one is in an even stronger one, The Commonwealth . They are really insanely powerful and seem to have kept their lucky nation tag. wars are very painful since if I don't have stacks twice as large I will get destroyed in the first month from moral depletion . He is running around with 100k stacks. I can run around with 300k, if I could afford that in manpower and in gold per month. I think I found my goal, Live long enough till I can throw enough manpower at the problem 
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Sokrateez posted:So I bought this on release day and played about 80 hours before putting it down for a later date. I recall playing a game as Spain from 1444 to the 1700s and building a colonial empire, and playing Bavaria to around the thirty years war. Today I decided to pick up the major dlcs (except for common sense) and get back into EU. I was wondering if I could get a primer on all the changes since release, and maybe an interesting nation to play for my refresher game. For reference I have ~500 hours in CK2 and had a few hundred in EU3, so I'm no stranger to challenge and want to avoid playing England/Spain/France for the thousandth time. I really like playing in northern italy, so you can try that
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Sokrateez posted:So I bought this on release day and played about 80 hours before putting it down for a later date. I recall playing a game as Spain from 1444 to the 1700s and building a colonial empire, and playing Bavaria to around the thirty years war. Today I decided to pick up the major dlcs (except for common sense) and get back into EU. I was wondering if I could get a primer on all the changes since release, and maybe an interesting nation to play for my refresher game. For reference I have ~500 hours in CK2 and had a few hundred in EU3, so I'm no stranger to challenge and want to avoid playing England/Spain/France for the thousandth time. There have been a whole lot of changes, via six expansion packs. Wiz became project lead and not incidentally, the three most recent expansion packs are the best, though there aren't any bad ones. New features include new mechanics for North, Central, and South American natives, autonomous colonial nations, a bunch of changes to trade, development levels replacing province base tax, lots of exploration changes, forts that block movement, a decent 30 Years' War, a custom nation builder... I don't think it's entirely necessary to spend $10 on CS. The free features are very good while the paid features are definitely nice but none is very important. Some parts such as Karma just seem dumb for now.
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Playing my first game of this (Have Art of War, Common Sense) and I managed to westernize as Korea. However, I just realized this gives Ming a westernized neighbor. Have I doomed the world? 
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So I colonized a lot of the Bahamas as Portugal since there's some major trade nodes there and nice base taxes. The issue with all this is that I neglected my home in Europe and now there's once province left there. I was just going to wait until the bitter end in Europe and continue life entirely in the new world. However my colonies don't seem fully under my control anymore? Worse, they are at 40% desire to become their own nation? Can I claim my colony as a new "hub" since my traditional lands are being swallowed up?
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Miles Vorkosigan posted:Playing my first game of this (Have Art of War, Common Sense) and I managed to westernize as Korea. However, I just realized this gives Ming a westernized neighbor. Have I doomed the world? Ming doesn't conquer all that much, which means they're usually very up to date on tech, and so don't westernize. If you do the same thing in say, India, a wave of westernizations will spread from you. Incidentally, Wiz has acknowledged on the Paradox forums that the team considers both Westernization and keeping up in tech too easy, and would like to do something about it, but they haven't thought of a fun way to do it yet. Avocados posted:So I colonized a lot of the Bahamas as Portugal since there's some major trade nodes there and nice base taxes. The issue with all this is that I neglected my home in Europe and now there's once province left there. Once you have 5 core provinces in a colonial region, they form an autonomous Colonial Nation (CN), which you can never reabsorb. If you've lost all your home provinces, they'll be pretty sick of taking orders from you, hence the liberty desire. You can release them and select the option to play as them though.
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Note that 40% liberty desire isn't too bad; it's only once they get over 50% that there's an actual risk of rebellion.
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PleasingFungus posted:Note that 40% liberty desire isn't too bad; it's only once they get over 50% that there's an actual risk of rebellion. I had Persia (playing as Ottomans) as a vassal with 550% liberty desire at one point. They didn't do anything except sit around not helping during wars.
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PittTheElder posted:Incidentally, Wiz has acknowledged on the Paradox forums that the team considers both Westernization and keeping up in tech too easy, and would like to do something about it, but they haven't thought of a fun way to do it yet. Huh I'm surprised they think that. Yeah you can do it, but at the cost that you can't spend your points on very much else, whereas the western countries absolutely can. Even when they're not ahead in tech western countries have all sorts of other legs up over the rest of the world.
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I read it as "westernisation and thus RotW states having good tech is too easy" rather than them thinking that the general RotW tech rates are too high (they're not).
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