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I tried multiplayer for the first time yesterday. I picked Bohemia and a friend picked POLDID. Together, we attacked Brandenburg, which called in its ally Saxony. I made Brandenburg my vassal and went into a war to defend them from Pomerania, and made Saxony release an OPM and lose some claims (on Silesia maybe?). This immediately made a coalition consisting of every single one of my neighbors declare war on me 
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Okay just because PUs no longer break on negative prestige doesn't mean you don't get +95% liberty desire on negative prestige. Converting to protestantism was a big mistake as Poland, especially after I lucked into a union with Bohemia.
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Jan 28, 2016 12:39
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 I haven't played into the late game for a while and I'd forgotten how nuts the AI goes over nationalism. Europe's turning into a bloodbath and the game is more exciting than it's been for the last hundred years (it's probably about 1720?).
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Jan 28, 2016 14:26
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The latest EU DD: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/eu4-development-diary-28th-january-2016.904608/
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Jan 28, 2016 14:40
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Darkrenown posted:The latest EU DD: Huh. So it looks like we might be getting naval manpower? At least that's my guess as to what the new topbar icon is.
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Jan 28, 2016 14:47
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Darkrenown posted:The latest EU DD: What's the little percentage to the right of mil points?
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Jan 28, 2016 14:49
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Ah dammit, the new patch changed all my national ideas during my ideas guy/first come first serve/for odin! run. Missing that extra colonist is gonna hurt. 
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Jan 28, 2016 14:59
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Hoping that it's something like leadership from vic2 for officers/leaders.
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Jan 28, 2016 16:44
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Bold Robot posted:What's the little percentage to the right of mil points? It's a secret new thing Johan is teasing 
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Jan 28, 2016 17:00
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Those map changes look great. Slovak should probably be west Slavic, though
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Jan 28, 2016 17:16
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axeil posted:Huh. So it looks like we might be getting naval manpower? At least that's my guess as to what the new topbar icon is. Both Sligo and Hungary have one port province so it might be; the hat in the icon fits with that used for other naval stuff. But I'd hope it's something like officers instead.
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Jan 28, 2016 17:47
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quote:We also made a complete overhaul of how cultures work to remove the ties to language, and tie them more together to similar cultures, to create more historically plausible countries and relations. Wait is culture gonna have an impact on relations now? Right now that only comes up in like.. who to elect emperor, and pretty much nothing else right? Will it have more significant effects?
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Jan 28, 2016 17:52
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Koramei posted:Wait is culture gonna have an impact on relations now? Right now that only comes up in like.. who to elect emperor, and pretty much nothing else right? Will it have more significant effects? I believe Same Culture gives a small (+15?) relations boost, but I don't remember if Same Culture Group also does that and you only rarely get two countries with the same culture.
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Jan 28, 2016 18:04
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YF-23 posted:I believe Same Culture gives a small (+15?) relations boost, but I don't remember if Same Culture Group also does that and you only rarely get two countries with the same culture. I don't think it has any bonus at all.
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Jan 28, 2016 18:06
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Only did in the HRE elections. That's an interesting change, not basing them off language groups.
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Jan 28, 2016 18:11
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Make all the Yugoslavs different culture groups lol
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Jan 28, 2016 18:13
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a very minor UI change I would like would be a "collapse all" button in the diplomacy screen. i hate scrolling thru the whole expanded list so i try to keep it tidy but it can be a pain, especially as diplomacy heavy countries like Austria. really enjoying the new patch a lot. the estate changes were a little confusing at first. giving out provinces doesn't have any permanent effect now, it seems, since permanently raising the loyalty floor would probably make estates trivial. does it change how quickly they recover loyalty? it's hard to determine.
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Jan 28, 2016 18:23
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Something weird happened when I formed Great Britain  
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So I'm not entirely sure what to do here. I'm trying for Prestor John, so I'm going to have to try and hack lumps off the Ottomans at some point, but I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to go about it. The Ottomans are allied to Muscovy and Tunis. I'm allied to (Edit: Hungary,) Portugal and Castille (who are still sitting on the PU with Aragon and have integrated Naples already). I can't fight Otto directly right now, so I figure I should vassalise Hejaz, feed them Haasa and skirt East through Arabia to use Hormuz as a platform into Persia/India. Saying that, I... am not sure I'm going to be able to deal with an Ottoman/Muscovy powerbloc. Is there anything I can do about this? Shoutouts to super-Lithuania (who rivaled me) and a successful AI Scotland in that screenshot. Wilekat fucked around with this message at 18:42 on Jan 28, 2016 |
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Jan 28, 2016 18:35
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What's the situation south of you like? If you can go for the east African gold you should do so. Neglecting the south was the biggest mistake I made in my first attempt at Prester John. And likewise with you I'd tried to gun for Egypt before the Ottomans could get to it. In my second, successful attempt, I pretty much ignored the Ottomans, vassalised/conquered everything south of the Mamluks. I had my path to the east African gold cut off by Kilwa allying the Ottos, but biding my time, going exploration and expanding into west Africa through the inland corridor + alliances with France and Austria allowed me to take them on. I didn't even need to go for India, through I did end up owning 95% of Arabia+Iraq by the time I went for Egypt.
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Jan 28, 2016 18:43
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Chickpea Roar posted:Something weird happened when I formed Great Britain this happened to me too when I formed the Commonwealth. did you notice if you actually received the prestige? i wasn't paying attention beforehand and didn't notice.
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Jan 28, 2016 18:52
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shallowj posted:this happened to me too when I formed the Commonwealth. did you notice if you actually received the prestige? i wasn't paying attention beforehand and didn't notice. I've only got 46 in the screenshot, so I'm very sure I didn't, but I don't know what I had before.
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Jan 28, 2016 18:58
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Any tips for a Grenada run? I've been trying for a while--got rather lucky with Castile getting stomped into the mud in an inheritance war over Navarra--but Aragon just comes along and stomps me in Castile's place.
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Jan 28, 2016 19:22
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Wilekat posted:So I'm not entirely sure what to do here. Whenever you feel comfortable attacking the Ottomans declare on Tunis and separate peace Ottomans to break alliance with Muscovy only. 6 years later do your real war.
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Jan 28, 2016 19:25
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Also their alliance with Muscovy probably won't last. Unless they have a whole lot of trust, they'll both run out of possible rivals.
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Jan 28, 2016 20:19
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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YF-23 posted:What's the situation south of you like? If you can go for the east African gold you should do so. Neglecting the south was the biggest mistake I made in my first attempt at Prester John. And likewise with you I'd tried to gun for Egypt before the Ottomans could get to it. I own everything in East Africa. The only reason Makuria/Alodia still exist was as a useful buffer I haven't got around to eating yet. The Ottomans piled into the Mamluks just as I was finishing up grabbing the gold, so I threatened Alodia into giving me a connecting province and ate Mamluk while they were weak. This is basically as far as I ever got in my planning, and the situation north of me hasn't panned out anything like I expected. Grabbing Expansion, rather than Exploration, is an option I've been considering -- it gives me another merchant and a bunch more trade power to print money from the East, plus the colonist to go West and a CB to dive headfirst into India. Arzakon posted:Whenever you feel comfortable attacking the Ottomans declare on Tunis and separate peace Ottomans to break alliance with Muscovy only. 6 years later do your real war. Now this I never thought of! I'll have to figure out of I can stave off Tunis/Otto long enough to make this happen. PittTheElder posted:Also their alliance with Muscovy probably won't last. Unless they have a whole lot of trust, they'll both run out of possible rivals. I figure as much. I think they've just joined forces to double-team Lithuania. Hopefully the alliance doesn't stick beyond that.
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Jan 28, 2016 21:29
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A huge, evenly matched League war is some of the most fun I've had with this game. THE YEAR IS 1580 AND EUROPE IS WAR
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If you are not in the hre is there a reason to join the league wars?
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Joopjan posted:If you are not in the hre is there a reason to join the league wars?
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Joopjan posted:If you are not in the hre is there a reason to join the league wars? There's also a triggered modifier you can get for both the HRE being Protestant or Catholic, so if you're a protestant/catholic country outside the hre and you want +1 missionary strength and a couple other things, it can be in your favour to help win the war.
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And you get 0.5 army tradition/year if you join up.
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Star posted:And you get 0.5 army tradition/year if you join up. That and -5% mil tech cost for 100 years.
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Joopjan posted:If you are not in the hre is there a reason to join the league wars? Weakening the HRE.
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Jan 28, 2016 22:32
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Bort Bortles posted:Politics. Pakled posted:Weakening the HRE.
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Jan 28, 2016 22:35
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You can also loot the countryside of your foes while your allies bleed themselves fighting.
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Jan 28, 2016 22:59
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Another thing is determining the fate of any centers of reformation in the HRE. If the HRE remains Catholic, they'll probably get wiped out eventually, but if the Protestants win, they'll most likely remain in place until they go inert in 1650.
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Darkrenown posted:The latest EU DD: I already did my Luck of the Irish run a while ago but man I can't wait to go back to the island and conquer some English with French help, now with the power of Straits!
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Jan 28, 2016 23:48
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Here's an annoying 1.15 thing: when you're looking at your country screen, on the tab where you hire advisors, the keyboard shortcut for both closing it and for opening the new country modifiers is escape. The latter takes precedence, so there's no way to close it without changing to a different tab first (or using the mouse, obv)
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Dreylad posted:Ah dammit, the new patch changed all my national ideas during my ideas guy/first come first serve/for odin! run. Missing that extra colonist is gonna hurt. Roll back to 1.14 so you can finish without the handicap.
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 I've found myself staring way too hard at this trying to spot potential changes. Looks like there's some general map rework for 1.16 that goes beyond what's been pointed out. I can definitely spot some stuff in Russia that looks different. I'm also really puzzled by the choice of Ryazanian as the name for a massive cultural area, Ryazan was never that big of an entity. Also seems odd to split the 'Great Russian' lands up culturally at all, unless the devs really want those cores sticking around. Finally, 1.15 apparently has a crazy bug where you can stack the effects of your traditions to absurd levels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-At2yCLLONA 
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