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Ofaloaf posted:Sorry you can't appreciate sophisticated pluralii, scrub. boni is a hard one
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If you protectorate a nation that's currently westernizing, does its westernization get canceled?
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Ofaloaf posted:Sorry you can't appreciate sophisticated pluralii, scrub. Come come, at least use 
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I'm doing a Ragusa game and I took Espionage Ideas first. Let me tell you, it's way better now. Since I'm an Eastern nation, it isn't hard to get at least 1 extra MP a month from Study Technology. Infiltrate Administration is still lackluster for a final idea, but it's real helpful for naval invasions so you know which area is safe to land in, and which one isn't. Sow Discontent is amazing, though. It's +3 revolt risk and -0.50 RT a month on the target nation. The RT isn't amazing but that +3 revolt risk is really good at keeping nations down longer than they would otherwise. It won't ever do much of anything on its own, but I've had it on Austria for like 50 years. They got the Nobility disaster, but have enough -RR that it wouldn't do anything on its own. But my Sow Discontent is keeping them carpeted by Noble Rebels forever. They can't get enough stability to break out of the disaster from the constant revolts. It's awesome.
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Ofaloaf posted:Sorry you can't appreciate sophisticated pluralii, scrub. Iiiii iii iii'i iiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiii, iiii. 
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Kersch posted:Can my nordic name be Bonj Malusson I'm Boney Eye Ma'Loose Legs, the Latin pirate.
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Antti posted:So I'm burning my way through China and Japan, as you do, and France has shown up, grabbing some land in South China and Korea so that they border me. There's no reason to hang on to provinces to re-raze them, since there's a 20 year cool down on razing. Either raze and release, or just raze and keep; once you get big you can just raze and keep, and continuously conquer in one direction or another, essentially generating unlimited manpower and coring stuff for free. That's how I conquered my way from India to the North Sea in 100 years. You could try and conquer those provinces back from France too, you'd still be able to westernize off the cores. Though there's a very good chance rebels will pop up and return those provinces to a Chinese minor, since the Europeans tend not to keep any armies to quell unrest.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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The westernization question was more in the sense of "Should I swap to Qing and become a feudal monarchy so that I can westernize in the first place?" But I agree, 20 years is too long a time to wait to re-raze provinces. It's probably the exact purpose there. I'm actually not that scared of France any longer, because they have been crippled by Aragon and Liege (?!) in this particular game. Muscovy, however, is proper scary now with a huge army, they border me, and they are allied with Muscovy, and I can't fight them both.
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why would you choose to stay as manchu brown when you can turn into wonderful qing golden yellow 
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Because Horde life best life. It's like cheating. But yeah, just depends on how much you're enjoying the game Antti. I wouldn't reform until the moment where you want the decision. Just go on a spree instead.
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If I have an army led by a conquistador, what reasons might there be that it can't enter terra incognita? My cursor has a green arrow when I hover over the province, but right-clicking does nothing. If it matters, the province is the one in the middle of the island Brunei is on (Borneo? I think it's Borneo).
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Could be wasteland, i don't know that area.
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Redmark posted:If I have an army led by a conquistador, what reasons might there be that it can't enter terra incognita? My cursor has a green arrow when I hover over the province, but right-clicking does nothing. If it matters, the province is the one in the middle of the island Brunei is on (Borneo? I think it's Borneo). almost certain that's wasteland
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Oh okay. Should probably put that in a tooltip or something.
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PittTheElder posted:Because Horde life best life. It's like cheating. Yeah I think I'll blob to my heart's content and do the decision on 1820 just to get the achievement. I don't have the 1444-1821 achievement yet either so I'll pick that up on the way. Going to be amusing watching 18th century French infantry melt in front of a cavalry horde. I'm ahead of France in mil tech now.
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I haven't played much with Hordes and need to do that this weekend. Any general tips, I messed around with a few openings and have a general idea of the mechanics but advice would be appreciated. Any tricks to Horde Unity?
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Classic Paradox translation issues; they've misspelled "Ottomanii" 
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BgRdMchne posted:Please just say bonuses and penalties. Making up words doesn't make you look smart. Can we put this in the thread title?
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Buy all the DLC for max bonii
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Can someone explain to me what the point of the Dutch Republic slider between the two factions is for? As far as I can tell, it grants a bonus based on who is in power, but it seems to be the exact same bonuses regardless of where the slider is on the scale. So why should I care about this?
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Palleon posted:Can someone explain to me what the point of the Dutch Republic slider between the two factions is for? As far as I can tell, it grants a bonus based on who is in power, but it seems to be the exact same bonuses regardless of where the slider is on the scale. So why should I care about this? The bonus is less important than which faction is in charge dictates ruler term length. If the Statists are in power, you have elections every four years. If the Orangists are in power, you become more like a monarchy and rule for life. It's best to take events that pull you toward the center, since as you say the bonuses don't scale, but you want the ability to somewhat choose leaders. Dutch Republic gets pretty decent to amazing rulers, pick Statists when you want to roll the dice on a new one and if you get a hot poo poo ruler go Orangists and keep him until he bites it. Edit: a Merchant Republic with +RT bonuses is a tie or close second to Dutch Republic, depending on your goals. You have no regencies, moderate to complete control over your (good) ruler stats, among many other things. The major difference is DR can do royal marriages and is mostly the best of both worlds from the monarchy and republic boniiae, while MR is super awesomest Republic. Edit2: there are plenty of synonyms in the English language for bonus and malus that don't make you seem like a twat for misusing their Latin plurals. Pellisworth fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Dec 19, 2015 |
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Having just finished an Idea Guy run I would say that if you don't mind dumping the points to get the +RT idea then go with a merchant republic instead. Some of my Dutch Republic rulers were really good but for the first 100 years I didn't see many with more than 9 points divided among their stats. You can also get Orangist events that give you +100 to Orange and end up stuck with a series of really terrible rulers for decades. On the other hand, being a Dutch Republic means freeing up about 200 more custom nation points for stuff like + Leader Siege.
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Thoughts on Admin vs. Econ for a third idea for Hamburg (others are Trade and Plutocratic)? My gut says Admin, it's a better idea set in general and the Goods Produced modifier is very nice. The dev discount from Econ is pretty tempting, though, especially since I haven't been able to expand much due to annoying webs of alliances. Econ would let me switch to Merchant Republic but I kind of like having the Burghers around for the huge trade power bonuses in my provinces in Lubeck (though I haven't been able to snag Lubeck itself yet  ).
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Pellisworth posted:Edit2: there are plenty of synonyms in the English language for bonus and malus that don't make you seem like a twat for misusing their Latin plurals. perks and drawbacks
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Antti posted:Yeah I think I'll blob to my heart's content and do the decision on 1820 just to get the achievement. I don't have the 1444-1821 achievement yet either so I'll pick that up on the way. Yeah, it's crazy. In my Mongolia game I'm sitting at a +310% ahead of time cost penalty. Ih Huree is gonna come close to topping 100 development.  I should probably buckle down and play Kazan, finally do a WC. It'd be loving nuts to start as a powerful horde, and get to -50% core cost after just six ideas. Plus that awesome dragon flag.
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Pellisworth posted:The bonus is less important than which faction is in charge dictates ruler term length. If the Statists are in power, you have elections every four years. If the Orangists are in power, you become more like a monarchy and rule for life. I hope you get murdered with a brick for this poo poo my man
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Eej posted:perks and drawbacks perki, drawbi
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Tsyni posted:perki, drawbi it's perkoi, actually e: perkoinen? kojei fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Dec 19, 2015 |
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Pellisworth posted:boni is a hard one One boner, several bonii
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kharaa posted:e: perkoinen?
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Ofaloaf posted:He's a fine member of the Finnish Winter Olympics team! THIRD BASE!
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VDay posted:I think so? Granted I have no actual technical knowledge of the game but there is a clear line where the map just kind of slides over and a Random New World gets plopped down into, so unless there's a limit to how big that area can be for technical reasons I assume it's theoretically possible to make it absolutely huge. I think the obvious thing to do here is to make a single giant Random New World tile that's the entire Europe/Africa/Asia map copied and mirrored, complete with "Secret ____" copies of every country at the start date.
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Roadie posted:I think the obvious thing to do here is to make a single giant Random New World tile that's the entire Europe/Africa/Asia map copied and mirrored, complete with "Secret ____" copies of every country at the start date. This would be hilarious. Especially if they had mirrored historical events.
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Tried a few things for From Humble Beginnings (50 point custom nation, get to 2000 development). Sunni Horde starting with a string of provinces from Benin around the Cape to Kilwa is insanely fun with two theaters to fight in and infinite admin power from razing. Up to 900 development in 1540 with all of Sub-Saharan Africa under my belt. The best part is Hordes can raze their same continent colonies before coring them. Thanks for the 60 Admin/Dip Cape.
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holy poo poo death to the commonwealth. Why does no-one want to stop them except me am I the only one who's sane
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If I ally a Free City and give it territories in a peace deal that I'm the war leader of, it will lose its Free City status, right? I want to conquer a Free City but I don't want to have to fight the Emperor + allies, so I want to find some way to force it out of Free City status.
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Bort Bortles posted:Jesus so Aragon owns all of Iberia except Portugal, who also owns Morocco, and Spain was really serious about continuing the reconquista all the way through North Africa to the holy land? Yup! The North Africa situation is because I took those provinces at the start and Portugal/Castile really really wanted to get rid of me. Castile were doing really well but then they just kind of folded. I took back the North African lands from Castile after which they were down to 3 provinces, none of them on the Iberian peninsula. Then Aragon got jumped by The Papal State after fighting the Ottomans and this happened:  Granada's gonna do it!  Edit: The Papal State just offered me, the defender of the Sunni faith, an alliance. Seems reasonable. kukrunkarmaskin fucked around with this message at 09:09 on Dec 19, 2015 |
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Pellisworth posted:I work in ocean science and constantly hear people use "octopi" as the plural of "octopus." I was taught in primary school that octopi was the correct plural of octopus. I've spent most of my life believing this terrible lie.  At least this means the plural of "us" not being "I" is no longer a strange mind-bending anomaly.
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