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TTBF posted:I keep my army sliders at about 25% in case a war suddenly happens. If I'm called to war I can put my slider to full and wait two months to accept and then be at max morale.  Takeda orange is the only way to go! You start with a gold mine which you can develop to give you an insane advantage over the other daimyo rulers since you can afford to buy all of the mercs. Ally a couple of the big boys and just start taking out your neighbors 1 after another.
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LumberingTroll posted:Just started getting into EU4 and I noticed there is steam workshop support, are there any must have mods? No.
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Is there a mod that makes the map 2d? I have a work laptop I would like to be able to play EU4 on, and it runs okay, but I figure since I have no onboard graphics card its the 3d map giving me a hard time and slowing the game down a lot.
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Wiz please add a Jewish religion requirement to First Come, First Serve so its like roleplaying one of the lost tribes the Mormon's believe in. Link for the non-Americans who don't know about Mormons.
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LumberingTroll posted:Just started getting into EU4 and I noticed there is steam workshop support, are there any must have mods? No. There's a couple mods people like for multiplayer, since it breaks up the major powers, but even there I don't think there's a significant fraction of people using mods. A big part of that is probably that the major DLCs keep changing things so much and so often (in good ways) that maintaining anything would be incredibly difficult.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Arzakon posted:Wiz please add a Jewish religion requirement to First Come, First Serve so its like roleplaying one of the lost tribes the Mormon's believe in. There's at least the possibility of finding one of the Lost Tribes if you make a fantastical random new world, fwiw.
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Bort Bortles posted:Is there a mod that makes the map 2d? I have a work laptop I would like to be able to play EU4 on, and it runs okay, but I figure since I have no onboard graphics card its the 3d map giving me a hard time and slowing the game down a lot. There's this: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=317529391 but I'm not sure just how much impact it has since it doesn't actually flatten the map. As for the guy asking about other mods, the most useful ones are just stuff like different font, map graphics, and different/more keyboard shortcuts. Nothing super critical but worth looking into once you get into the game. Keep in mind the gameplay-oriented mods will disable achievements if you care, but graphical stuff should be fine.
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I do not understand why anyone would want to play the game like that. The map is so pretty I find myself wanting to play in terrain mode, but I just cannot.
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Arzakon posted:Wiz please add a Jewish religion requirement to First Come, First Serve so its like roleplaying one of the lost tribes the Mormon's believe in. Funny, my First Come, First Serve game I'm playing a Jewish nation. I just wanted to see JEW plastered across the capitalistic waste of our great country of America though. Nothing to do with Mormons.
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PittTheElder posted:I do not understand why anyone would want to play the game like that. The map is so pretty I find myself wanting to play in terrain mode, but I just cannot. Huh this is the first time I've seen anyone say this. EU4 looks pretty drat mediocre. Even beyond the map, the graphics are functional but also kind of flat and weird. Paradox could do well to hire some better artists really, some of theirs are pretty alright, but they also have some sorta eh ones, and there are a few places that it really shows up, like the native american loading screens/ some CK2 face packs. For all their faults, Creative Assembly (who do the Total War games) have a loving stellar art department, if you wanna see a good looking map game take a look at some of theirs. Or Hearts of Iron 4 actually, that one so far looks real pretty.
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Anyone know if you can do high altitude lakes on RNW tiles? It's flat, defined as a lake tile in the .txt, and renders with a flat lake bottom texture in political mode, but otherwise renders as forest/desert in terrain mode.
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Something seems off about this: Cant figure out what, though.
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Bort Bortles posted:Something seems off about this: Reads just fine to me 
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Bort Bortles posted:Something seems off about this: The Ottomans are the scourge of Christendom in this context.
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Ormi posted:The Ottomans are the scourge of Christendom in this context.
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Bort Bortles posted:Is there a mod that makes the map 2d? I have a work laptop I would like to be able to play EU4 on, and it runs okay, but I figure since I have no onboard graphics card its the 3d map giving me a hard time and slowing the game down a lot. No. There are mods that flatten out the map, but it's still just really flat 3d.
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Bort Bortles posted:Ohgod I need more sleep. I read that as "taking on the cause of expelling Christendom, a scourge, from Europe". That's actually a totally valid way to read that sentence as it's written. They could have made it much less ambiguous and you shouldn't really feel too bad about misinterpreting it.
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Yeah I had to read that a few times before I understood what they meant too. 
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Bort Bortles posted:Ohgod I need more sleep. I read that as "taking on the cause of expelling Christendom, a scourge, from Europe". They probably should capitalize "Scourge" as it is part of a proper noun.
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Pretty ballsy to take on Arthas like that!
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Bort Bortles posted:Ohgod I need more sleep. I read that as "taking on the cause of expelling Christendom, a scourge, from Europe". Your interpretation is entirely sensible. They need to capitalize "scourge", and possibly follow it with a clarification, e.g."the Scourge of Christendom, the Ottoman Turks."
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My privateers have been plundering half the value of Spanish treasure fleets for several decades now, you'd think they'd be even a little bit upset about it but no.
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Clearly we need an achievement where you start as Poland and eliminate Christianity.
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Lol I love when Navarran Succession makes France and Castile butt heads really early. 
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LumberingTroll posted:Just started getting into EU4 and I noticed there is steam workshop support, are there any must have mods? Not that change gameplay, no. There's plenty of great graphical/music mods though that make the game prettier. My "must-haves": Colourblind mod Transparent Political Map WE HAVE CASUS BELLI
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Okay you know what would be cool, if only really appropriate in the closing stages of the game, would be the ability to built a 'custom country' partway through the game as part of a peace deal. Like you can tell France to grant independence to say six provinces, then you get a menu so you can decide stuff about this new country. Doesn't have to be as extensive as the actual custom nation designer but yeah, would be neat.
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LumberingTroll posted:Just started getting into EU4 and I noticed there is steam workshop support, are there any must have mods? "Bigger diplomacy view++," "Bigger peace view++," "Bigger production interface," etc would all be must-haves, imo, but they don't seem to work? 
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Mister Adequate posted:Okay you know what would be cool, if only really appropriate in the closing stages of the game, would be the ability to built a 'custom country' partway through the game as part of a peace deal. Like you can tell France to grant independence to say six provinces, then you get a menu so you can decide stuff about this new country. Doesn't have to be as extensive as the actual custom nation designer but yeah, would be neat. That's basically client states.
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does anyone have advice for keeping colonial nations loyal with this agitate for liberty thing? i'm doing a morocco run, it's 1621 and i'm very close to forming al-andalus. 3 of my 5 colonial nations are totally loyal, but mexico and west indies are both pushing 99%: 25% tariffs, 25% agitate for liberty, and well over 55% for the relative strength modifier. obviously this last one is my biggest problem but i can't figure out how it's calculated - force limit comparisons? actual regiments mustered? do navies factor in? should i start building those force limit buildings to try and bring this back down? i started annoying both of them on purpose to get them to rebel but neither country will actually declare war and let me stomp them. what happens if i release them? i assume we will get a truce for a while - could i DOW them after and try and get them back into submission? is there something i'm missing to get them to like me more? maxed relations would bring me down to say 75-80% desire for independence with them, and i can't just keep burning my prestige placating them. also, how can I make money as morocco? i'm usually running a +4-6 ducats surplus but i need more. should i switch my home node over to sevilla? my share of trade power there is roughly 15-18% - i collect maybe 7 or 8 a month off of a total of 30, using a merchant. i have to go beat up the new world OPMs every few years to steal their hundreds of ducats from them to actually fund new armies/fleets. i also did a byzantium game and it was really easy. is this a new change? i just allied hungary and wallachia and when Ottos DOWed me we had no problems at all defeating each of their 20 stacks in the field. edit: i took exploration/economic/quality/trade/admin ideas, in that order. trade didn't help much; i didn't notice only one node feeds into Safi. maybe I should expand into west africa and take over the gold mines? i put it off to focus on colonizing and forming andalusia. shallowj fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Dec 22, 2015 |
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Are any other nations supporting their independence? That gets factored into the relative strength modifier. When CNs ally, it also adds their strength for that calculation.
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PittTheElder posted:That's basically client states. I really just have to grab one of the mods that unlocks client states early. I've never used them because they come so late in the game I don't even need them. Every time I think drat! I could really use a client state right now it's like 1540 or something.
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The important thing about client states is you use them for pretty border nations around you starting 1799 or so. Just like Napoleon; craft your own pretty europe to screenshot in 1821.
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PittTheElder posted:Are any other nations supporting their independence? That gets factored into the relative strength modifier. When CNs ally, it also adds their strength for that calculation. No one's supporting them, but i think they are allied to each other, which must be it. I did a tedious search through the ledger to find the states with enough espionage ideas to agitate them and it's either Ulm or Croatia. Anything I can try to do to get them to stop infiltrating my colonial nations? Improving relations didn't seem to help - maybe allying the offending nations? is there a trick to getting my colonial nations to DOW me so I can just crush them? maybe just disband my mercs for a bit then rehire them? i'm allied with Ottos - maybe cancel that alliance for a bit?
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PittTheElder posted:That's basically client states. Wait really? I should probably try releasing one of those at some point then!
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shallowj posted:Anything I can try to do to get them to stop infiltrating my colonial nations? Improving relations didn't seem to help - maybe allying the offending nations? Annex them
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shallowj posted:is there a trick to getting my colonial nations to DOW me so I can just crush them? maybe just disband my mercs for a bit then rehire them? i'm allied with Ottos - maybe cancel that alliance for a bit? They're waiting for you to be weak. So yeah, cancel alliances or disbanding troops will be moving in that direction. But it'll also make every other AI way more likely to jump you. 
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I feel like i read somewhere that they were going to make mercs more expensive in Cossacks. Like make it exponentially more expensive like colonies. Is that true or have I had too much gin?
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EwokEntourage posted:I feel like i read somewhere that they were going to make mercs more expensive in Cossacks. Like make it exponentially more expensive like colonies. Is that true or have I had too much gin? I think you made that up. They did rework the way the mercenary pool works though, so it's a percentage of your force limit instead of filling up every month.
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