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PittTheElder posted:Regarding 1, it's shown on the budget window. If you look near the bottom of the tab there's a spot that will tell you how many provinces you have, and your total development. I forgot about that. Thank you.
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2 - No, when you convert them they will go away and it is unlikely you will have enough provinces to keep them happy so giving them a province will just add 10RR to it. Eat the +2.5% tech cost. 3 - Economic if you are going for all the gold in east Africa, which you should. Alternatively take Exploration and colonize Southeast Asia and Africa and you should hit 500 pretty easily. It will also provide a base to take over Malaysia and funnel that trade to your nodes.
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Arzakon posted:2 - No, when you convert them they will go away and it is unlikely you will have enough provinces to keep them happy so giving them a province will just add 10RR to it. Eat the +2.5% tech cost. Good point about the pocket of gold provinces. Kilwa is actually impressively large somehow and I can't quite take them out or their allies yet (40k troops, really?,) but they're in my sights for sure.
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Why are my early armies getting their rear end beat so bad? What changed in this new DLC/update?
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jaegerx posted:Why are my early armies getting their rear end beat so bad? What changed in this new DLC/update? I always like to pretend my discipline is 10% lower than what is displayed in the game. Living in this delusion explains your quandary.
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Dec 29, 2015 10:30
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Holy poo poo, how did I not know about shift-clicking the "consolidate regiments" button? That makes a huge difference! (it turns your army into as many 1,000 man regiments as it can but keeps the 0 man regiments around to reinforce)
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Dec 29, 2015 12:40
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Gort posted:Holy poo poo, how did I not know about shift-clicking the "consolidate regiments" button? That makes a huge difference! !!!!!!
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Dec 29, 2015 17:48
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Gort posted:Holy poo poo, how did I not know about shift-clicking the "consolidate regiments" button? That makes a huge difference! It literally tells you this if you mouse over the consolidate regiments button.
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Dec 29, 2015 18:43
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I wish the game would automatically shift click the consolidate button before a battle for you.
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Dec 29, 2015 18:52
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Node posted:So I finally got a decent start going as Najd for Jihad (which I doubt I will be able to complete this time, my start was terribly slow) and a couple questions arise. As Najd you are an Asian nation so you can't core India as distant overseas, it will be full cost. For cheaper provinces try expanding into Africa.
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Back To 99 posted:I wish the game would automatically shift click the consolidate button before a battle for you. You don't always want to do it, it's a tradeoff. A full strength regiment will handily beat one that isn't, but if consolidating makes your combat width shorter than theirs and they get flanking bonuses, they'll get a huge bonus against you even if their regiments are more depleted.
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And reinforcements are on a per regiment basis, so you actually reinforce faster if you're filling 20 half-strength regiments than 10 no-strength ones. The flip side of that is that it's cheaper to only reinforce the 10 at a time.
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Back To 99 posted:I wish the game would automatically shift click the consolidate button before a battle for you. This would be really bad if it caused you to be outflanked. Getting outflanked is often worse than having weakened regiments. Small QOL request: I need a "recall agent" button on the popup you get when you get caught fabricating claims. I'm so used to just dismissing it and not thinking about it.
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PittTheElder posted:And reinforcements are on a per regiment basis, so you actually reinforce faster if you're filling 20 half-strength regiments than 10 no-strength ones. The flip side of that is that it's cheaper to only reinforce the 10 at a time. The reinforcement system is kinda bizarre really - ten regiments of 900 men will reinforce about 1,000 men in a month, while nine regiments of 1,000 men and one regiment of 0 men will reinforce about 100 men in a month, despite the army having the same number of men in total and the same number missing. Maybe for Europa 5 it would be better if you just said, "This army will max out at 15,000 infantry, 15,000 artillery and 4,000 cavalry" and then the game fills up the regiments one at a time at a constant reinforcement rate each month.
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Does anyone have any tips for Byzantine? I've tried rushing an Alliance with Hungary and Poland with a dip rep advisor and even tried better relations guy to see if it helped. Ottomans always declare before anyone will even consider an alliance. I thought I had a chance when they took a mission to eat serbia but that change to make AI want continuous borders seemed to make them want to kill me first.
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Too Poetic posted:Does anyone have any tips for Byzantine? I've tried rushing an Alliance with Hungary and Poland with a dip rep advisor and even tried better relations guy to see if it helped. Ottomans always declare before anyone will even consider an alliance. I thought I had a chance when they took a mission to eat serbia but that change to make AI want continuous borders seemed to make them want to kill me first. Restart until you have a diplomatic reputations advisor and can ally Poland before Ottomans invades you. That's basically it. Note that you're probably still screwed even if you manage this first step, because (as I've personally experienced) if you make one wrong step the Ottos can still chew through the entire armies of Poland, Lithuania, and Hungary and still have half their manpower reserve left over.
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I wonder if the AI spams shipyards because I keep wiping their fleets or if it's just not smart enough to know they are a waste.
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 After ten thousand years, I've finally completed "first come, first serve" (unite the americas as a western tech custom nation). Tips for anyone who wants to follow suit:
...and in retrospect, it might have been wiser to choose a color that wasn't very nearly identical to one of the major colonizers'. *5 ducats/month + occasional lump sums of ~500 ducats seemed to be enough to keep them colonizing busily.
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Dec 29, 2015 23:03
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Is that Naples taking over all of North Africa?
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QuarkJets posted:Is that Naples taking over all of North Africa? Yes. Shortly after the Imperialism CB was unlocked, they took North Africa in two wars. It was... surprising. Other highlights include a Protestant HRE dominated by Bohemia and... iirc the brown mess is Brunswick? Bavaria was also a major German power, but the Ottomans have essentially destroyed them, along with chunks of Bohemia, Russia...
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When does Civil War progress reset? I meet all the conditions for it not to occur according to the wiki, but its stuck at 93%. I basically have not been able to do anything for 50 years because of a lovely weak claim monarch that refused to die and its almost guaranteed that Jihad is going to fail. I can't get into any wars because overextension over 10% gives it a +1 monthly progress.
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Node posted:When does Civil War progress reset? I meet all the conditions for it not to occur according to the wiki, but its stuck at 93%. I basically have not been able to do anything for 50 years because of a lovely weak claim monarch that refused to die and its almost guaranteed that Jihad is going to fail. I can't get into any wars because overextension over 10% gives it a +1 monthly progress. Mouse over it on the stability screen; that'll tell you, iirc.
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PleasingFungus posted:Mouse over it on the stability screen; that'll tell you, iirc. I am. I meet all the requirements for it to not progress.
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Node posted:I am. I meet all the requirements for it to not progress. That particular disaster requires you hit a benchmark of Legitimacy to reset progress(maybe 75 or 90?). It's weird because there are multiple tooltips, one over the icon of the disaster, and another over the progress bars, but one of those two will tell you as long as you mouse over it and wait a few seconds for the complete tooltip to load
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I've never seen it actually reset just stop progressing. It's a very tame one though so I'd just let it fire and move on, especially if you're just sitting there twiddling your thumbs for a long time in fear of it.
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I have a pretty successful Novgorod game going, attempting Frozen Assets which should be no problem. A couple observations about Merchant Republics: -drat do I miss the clergy estate in particular. -2 RR and +2% Missionary strength which might as well be nationwide since you can have it where you actually need it. -It's not immediately obvious, but be careful of how much you're boosting Goods Produced in enemy nations. Remember that Merchant Republics give +% Goods Produced equal to their trade power share in a node, so even though you're pulling in some nice cash by trading in your enemy's nodes, you're giving them ENORMOUS amounts of additional production income.
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It reset itself. My monarch that replaced the crappy one is 100 legitimacy. It took some time for the game to register it, I guess. I'm kinda mad. It took over 40 years for the previous no-legitimacy monarch to die. It was a woman, so I couldn't assign her as a general and suicide her. I guess I should have let that disaster fire like suggested. I'm pretty sure this Jihad run is going to end in failure, even though I'm westernized. It's 1691 and I have 131 provinces. 
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Tip beggar here, does anyone have any good strategies for Mongolia going for The Great Khan? I tend to try to get support for independence from Uzbek, but even after I get free Ming tends to just warn/eat me. I dream of a day of seeing all these exploded Mings I see in this thread happen for me during a game.
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cool and good posted:I've never seen it actually reset just stop progressing. It's a very tame one though so I'd just let it fire and move on, especially if you're just sitting there twiddling your thumbs for a long time in fear of it. Yeah it only happens once per game so just loving do it, waiting for it to get fixed can be awful.
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Dry Hump posted:Tip beggar here, does anyone have any good strategies for Mongolia going for The Great Khan? I tend to try to get support for independence from Uzbek, but even after I get free Ming tends to just warn/eat me. I dream of a day of seeing all these exploded Mings I see in this thread happen for me during a game. An early success of a Manchu tribe pretty much guarantees Ming exploding. Forming Manchu gives you cores on all of Ming's provinces to the northeast of Beijing, and I think if Manchu takes those, or maybe it's those + Beijing, it gives Ming a horrible modifier for revolt risk and everything just falls apart for them. That's the guaranteed Ming explosion. Aside from that, you'll just have to rely on them having bad luck with standard events / monarch deaths leading them into a similar spiral.
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Kersch posted:An early success of a Manchu tribe pretty much guarantees Ming exploding. Forming Manchu gives you cores on all of Ming's provinces to the northeast of Beijing, and I think if Manchu takes those, or maybe it's those + Beijing, it gives Ming a horrible modifier for revolt risk and everything just falls apart for them. That's the guaranteed Ming explosion. Aside from that, you'll just have to rely on them having bad luck with standard events / monarch deaths leading them into a similar spiral. So Basically do my best to make sure the Manchus can punch Ming without hoping they turn and punch me instead. Worth a shot!
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Node posted:It reset itself. My monarch that replaced the crappy one is 100 legitimacy. It took some time for the game to register it, I guess. I'm kinda mad. It took over 40 years for the previous no-legitimacy monarch to die. It was a woman, so I couldn't assign her as a general and suicide her. I guess I should have let that disaster fire like suggested. I'm pretty sure this Jihad run is going to end in failure, even though I'm westernized. It's 1691 and I have 131 provinces. Civil War is one I usually let fire. The events aren't bad and you get 3 stability when it's over. And the pretender could be a badass.
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Civil war is great. You get full legitimacy and 3 stability.
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Average Bear posted:Civil war is great. You get full legitimacy and 3 stability. God dammit.
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Dry Hump posted:So Basically do my best to make sure the Manchus can punch Ming without hoping they turn and punch me instead. Worth a shot! Pretty much. Get independence with the help of the Uzbeks, and get to blobbing, probably in a mostly westward direction. Beating Ming is possible, the goal is just to always stay ahead in mil-tech. You can use the bonus for fighting on your own territory and cavalry heavy armies, and you can win battles. The tough part is taking any forts to actually gain territory; when I was given the choice, I took the white peace. Ming imploded shortly afterwards, which allowed me to start eating into China. If/When you get to that point, be very mindful of coalitions. If all the Chinese minors join in against you, you'll in for an even worse time than you were fighting Ming.
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Remember that War Exhaustion is reduced by the warscore cost of the peace deal. So the rudest thing you can do to Ming is to run them up to 20 WE and white peace.
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I was unaware of that mechanic. That's amazing.
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TTBF posted:I was unaware of that mechanic. That's amazing. I'm sure you've probably noticed (and maybe been frustrated by) the AI seemingly dumping a ton of WE right after you end a war. It's not so much they're spending diplomatic points to reduce WE, their existing WE is reduced by the warscore cost you enforce on them.
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Pellisworth posted:Remember that War Exhaustion is reduced by the warscore cost of the peace deal. So the rudest thing you can do to Ming is to run them up to 20 WE and white peace.  That makes so much sense. I'd noticed them dumping the war exhaustion, but couldn't figure out why.
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You can avoid it slightly by keeping wars open until they have rebellions, peace out before they manage to siege anything. If you're lucky they even bug out and spawn with your tech, which can be hilarious.
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