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Wafflecopper posted:I just got it myself, beat you by one year One year? I'm deleting my achievement, it's meaningless. I probably could have gotten it earlier if I had thought ahead a bit. When I got to China, I was taking some of their extremely high development provinces like Chengdu and Xi'an before I realized that spending so much admin on a province was slowing me down. It's not like I needed to become any more powerful at that point, I had a 670 force limit that I couldn't even afford half of.
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Anyone else get weird graphical glitches like this when they've been playing a while? A restart fixes it, but it's a bit annoying.
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Gort posted:Anyone else get weird graphical glitches like this when they've been playing a while? It's a known bug and apparently there isnt any way to stop it from happening. But like you said it only happens several hours into a game and is fixed by a restart. Hopefully it gets patched out with 1.15 later this month
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The most recent patch was supposed to fix/help with that.
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Gort posted:Anyone else get weird graphical glitches like this when they've been playing a while? 
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How tough is Gothic Invasion compared to Jihad? I'm thinking harder but not sure by how much.
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Pellisworth posted:Edit2: a major thing is I'm running 10/mo in fort maintenance, probably could cut down. I ran exactly 3 forts for most of my horde game. 1 in my capital, and one each on either side of the Bosphorus.
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Hey guys, do you think I have a chance of getting A Decent Reserve in my current Ming game? Here's what the world looks like:  It's June 1760.
Is it too late? I've not yet taken quantity and I'm in a position to expand into India, Persia, Anatolia and Central Asia but the prospect of gaining 820k manpower in 60 years is...daunting.
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Contingency Plan posted:Hey guys, do you think I have a chance of getting A Decent Reserve in my current Ming game? Here's what the world looks like: I don't see it happening. Try that as Muscovy or the Ottomans.
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Contingency Plan posted:Hey guys, do you think I have a chance of getting A Decent Reserve in my current Ming game? Here's what the world looks like: I don't like your odds. Keep in mind having the cap of a million isn't enough, you actually need to have a million in the pool available.
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Contingency Plan posted:Hey guys, do you think I have a chance of getting A Decent Reserve in my current Ming game? Here's what the world looks like: what are those borders doing
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Contingency Plan posted:Hey guys, do you think I have a chance of getting A Decent Reserve in my current Ming game? Here's what the world looks like: Those borders are an abomination.
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I'm playing as Golden Horde, I vassalized Georgia and spanked Crimea, Muscovy and Kazan. But then Ottomans rivaled me and now I'm getting destroyed by them. I allied Uzbek and Timurids, but neither of them joined my defensive war. I'm not really sure what to do about this. I have about 40 regiments to their 80, plus I'm constantly running a -10 ducat deficit. Warscore is about 20% and the minimum demand that they want is like 15 provinces, which I'm certain is just going to turn this into a losing game for me as they continue feeding on my territory. Is this the inevitable outcome of a typical GH campaign?
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Bort Bortles posted:The new way you set RNW up is really freaking awesome, btw. Any idea if you will consider doing a whole random World option once you have more tiles built? +1 for a whole random world option!
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Arrath posted:Are event outcomes determined when the window pops up to deter save scumming? Rag on me all you want, but as Castile I've had a ruler languishing in Regency for a decade now and at 12yrs old I get the event that he's ill. I can either pay for 50% chance or pray for 75% chance of death. Of course, the replacement heir if he dies is a newborn so I'd be hosed into another stretch of Regency. That council of dickheads is tanking my legitimacy and I just want for go ahead and diplomatically form Spain for the first time. Honestly, if you're willing to savescum you're way to that just use a console command to kill your ruler until you get an adult.
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Arrath posted:Are event outcomes determined when the window pops up to deter save scumming? Rag on me all you want, but as Castile I've had a ruler languishing in Regency for a decade now and at 12yrs old I get the event that he's ill. I can either pay for 50% chance or pray for 75% chance of death. Of course, the replacement heir if he dies is a newborn so I'd be hosed into another stretch of Regency. That council of dickheads is tanking my legitimacy and I just want for go ahead and diplomatically form Spain for the first time. If you aren't playing in Ironman you should be able to just use console commands to kill your ruler until you get an adult and then give yourself legitimacy
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The multiplayer game is starting tomorrow at 15:00 EST (20:00 GMT) if anybody wants to throw his or her hat in at the last moment to play the Game of Thrones. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3743383
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Lori posted:The multiplayer game is starting tomorrow at 15:00 EST (20:00 GMT) if anybody wants to throw his or her hat in at the last moment to play the Game of Thrones. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3743383 I'm hesitant because I'm not really able to commit to weekly full play sessions. Would that be okay? Is it possible to join as a random nation every couple weeks, or join as a nation that the host feels like would be worth having a human control it for that day but that would otherwise be computer controlled?
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So what's the strategy for Oirat? I've started twice and can't get more than 40 years in without Ming coming up and wrecking me. Mongolia being a constant pain is a problem I haven't solved yet either.
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420 Gank Mid posted:If you aren't playing in Ironman you should be able to just use console commands to kill your ruler until you get an adult and then give yourself legitimacy Eh, I rolled with it. Luckily as he died a really pretty nice heir was born, I suffered through the next 15 years and now 40 years later Queen Isabella of Spain rules triumphant across large chunks of Africa. I'm probably a bad person for taking a bunch of slave producing provinces before slavery even became big buuuut it's making me a huge amount of money.
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I've restarted a dozen times as Kazan and I have never had Uzbek not rival Timurids, which means I can only ally with one, and I thought the best Thing To Do as Kazan was to ally both?
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dublish posted:So what's the strategy for Oirat? I've started twice and can't get more than 40 years in without Ming coming up and wrecking me. Mongolia being a constant pain is a problem I haven't solved yet either. Use your aweome starting general/ruler to run a pain train on Chagatai, Yarkand, Buryatia. Get them sweet gold mines. Ally a couple of the Manchu tribes and any other decent-size neighbors, this will help you deter and fend off Ming. There's a fair bit of luck involved. Stay Tengri, get the +2 Heathen Tolerance and other cool decisions, recommend syncretic Hindu for even more tolerance but you can switch fairly freely for diplomatic reasons and nationwide bonuses. Burn everything, take Admin first and Humanist third.
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QuarkJets posted:I'm hesitant because I'm not really able to commit to weekly full play sessions. Would that be okay? Is it possible to join as a random nation every couple weeks, or join as a nation that the host feels like would be worth having a human control it for that day but that would otherwise be computer controlled? That is totally fine.
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How does anyone play on Ironman? I cant stand this stupid bullshit you have to deal with: http://imgur.com/E7nuqIv I have a 5 shock general, am defending, and am barely outnumbered with even tech and I get STACKWIPED?!? What the gently caress?
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Being outnumbered by 4000 at that point is not "barely outnumbered", you are being hit with compounded flanking bonuses. edit: I'm not saying its not bullshit to be stackwiped, its just not wholly unexpected.
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Yeah, that amount of flanking is terrible for you. Especially early on you want as much infantry as they have front line.dublish posted:So what's the strategy for Oirat? I've started twice and can't get more than 40 years in without Ming coming up and wrecking me. Mongolia being a constant pain is a problem I haven't solved yet either. Try cutting Mongolia loose right off the bat? Easy peasy to conquer them later.
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Even as a horde, early on especially, you still need to fill out your front row of combat as best as possible, investing in cavalry that much just means you'll be fighting every battle flanked whereas if you had 5 infantry instead of 2 cavalry there you probably would have had a shot
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PleasingFungus posted:what are those borders doing Rekindling the Fires as (mustard-yellow) Zoroastrian Malaysia.  
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Literally history's greatest monster.
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Wafflecopper posted:Tempted to try and unify Islam now but it would mean taking on Spain and Poland. They're allied, so I'd have to take on both at once. I did it! Almost missed the achievement though because I got coalitioned by Austria, Poland and friends and they occupied some of my provinces before I could finish converting them. Was able to fight them to a white peace in late 1820 and got Dar al-Islam with less than a year to spare. Also picked up Georgia on My Mind, pretty good haul.
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Did some skimming on the various big European wars of the 18th century and the scope and complexity of some of it was pretty mind boggling. It got me hoping that down the road dynastic politics, coalitions and succession wars get re-worked and fleshed out a bit. I really like the idea of actively trying to build a coalition would be a neat mechanic that it would do a lot for non-wartime strategic diplomacy as well as making the mid-late game more interesting and challenging. I guess kinda like an expanded dynamic version of the 30-years-war religious leagues, only with a sub-game where you try to entice other nations into joining (or leaving an opposing coalition) instead of just hoping random AIs find a reason to join.
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Frontspac posted:Did some skimming on the various big European wars of the 18th century and the scope and complexity of some of it was pretty mind boggling. It got me hoping that down the road dynastic politics, coalitions and succession wars get re-worked and fleshed out a bit. I really like the idea of actively trying to build a coalition would be a neat mechanic that it would do a lot for non-wartime strategic diplomacy as well as making the mid-late game more interesting and challenging. I guess kinda like an expanded dynamic version of the 30-years-war religious leagues, only with a sub-game where you try to entice other nations into joining (or leaving an opposing coalition) instead of just hoping random AIs find a reason to join. Expand the favor system so you get them from non-allies as well, spend favors to invite countries to a coalition, they can either join or lose prestige? Just spitballing.
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I get the feeling Gothic Invasion is a haha funny joke achievement right now. My observations after 20 restarts: 1) Georgia is always declared on within a year by QQ and vassalized. They would be a useless ally anyways except to deter an attack from Crimea, Circassia and Gazimuhfucker hate them and won't give them military access so they could reach you. 2) Circassia is your only possible ally. Raising relations to the max with Muscovy or Poland (or Lithuania, if they don't form the union) won't even get you a royal marriage, let alone an alliance. Well, you can ally Trebizond, but that does nothing for you. They can't reach you either, and they can get eaten up by QQ or the Ottomans any time. 3) Crimea has declared war on you. I don't mind achievements where I have to restart a few times to get the ideal conditions, like I did for Jihad, but I think the changes to this game has made this achievement exponentially more difficult than what it used to be in base/early versions of EU4. The only thing I could see is working is if somehow Lithuania did not get into a union with Poland, and was confident enough to fabricate a claim on Crimea, not be afraid of Crimea's allies (Nogai, usually) and attack them immediately, so you can go over your force limit and declare a war of opportunity. Obviously I haven't seen this happen. Of course if anyone has any other suggestions I haven't thought of I'm willing to try them.
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DDRJake did a Gothic invasion run at some point iirc, might be worth tracking down. I think it was before common sense though and he might've gotten super lucky with the opening. But yeah there are a couple of achievements that have gotten harder/easier because they were made for basically a different game than what EU4 is nowadays.
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VDay posted:DDRJake did a Gothic invasion run at some point iirc, might be worth tracking down. I think it was before common sense though and he might've gotten super lucky with the opening. I specifically watched the first couple episodes of Jake's and Shenyyr? doing it. The game is so different now. Like you said, it was pre-Common Sense at the very least. Getting alliances was easier for them, too.
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dublish posted:Expand the favor system so you get them from non-allies as well, spend favors to invite countries to a coalition, they can either join or lose prestige? Just spitballing. If they redo the coalition system I'd like something where you can decide in advance how your coalition target will be divided if you win, perhaps by spending favors/getting favors or something. That's at least how I've understood that some of the coalition wars worked back in the days, like during the Napoleonic wars. Star fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Jan 9, 2016 |
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This seems reasonable.  Unfortunately my tech group didn't change, so I had to kill the process.
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How fun are the Timurids to play? Their rebel problems seem undesireable...
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double nine posted:How fun are the Timurids to play? Their rebel problems seem undesireable... Yeah, their starting situation is pretty tough due to rebels and instability, plus their NIs suck for a Horde. If you wanted to go for forming the Mughals then maybe but if you're just looking for a Horde start to try there are a lot less frustrating ones. Edit: in particular, not having an early coring discount like Kazan or the Manchu hordes is a huuuuge disadvantage. Hordes are chronically starved for ADM points, getting your coring discount with your first idea set (ADM tech 5) vs. unlocking it with your third set (ADM 10) is a big difference. Timurids don't get a coring discount at all. Pellisworth fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Jan 10, 2016 |
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