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Finally bought the Cossacks and Common Sense expansions. What is this poo poo about not having France take care of all my wars for me anymore? What do you mean, "favors"?  Ok, ok, it was a bit silly before
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It's still pretty silly. Once you can ally with a France, it's still just a matter of time until you accumulate favors with them, and then they fall over themselves trying to win your war for you.
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Apr 5, 2016 22:21
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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PittTheElder posted:It's still pretty silly. Once you can ally with a France, it's still just a matter of time until you accumulate favors with them, and then they fall over themselves trying to win your war for you. It's still an improvement, and if you're a smaller nation it takes 3 years per favor.
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Apr 5, 2016 22:32
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Pellisworth posted:Wait, so mothballing a fleet causes the assigned sailors to just vanish (or die) instead of returning to your Sailor pool or something? Same deal with armies, although I think that's just as lame.
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Apr 5, 2016 22:46
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So I haven't gotten El Dorado, Cossacks or Mare Nostrum, what does these actually add to the game that improves it? Just wanted to know before I put money into them.
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Apr 5, 2016 22:51
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Pellisworth posted:Wait, so mothballing a fleet causes the assigned sailors to just vanish (or die) instead of returning to your Sailor pool or something? Unfortunately sailors don't take too well to being stuffed with mothballs.
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Apr 5, 2016 22:55
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Koorisch posted:So I haven't gotten El Dorado, Cossacks or Mare Nostrum, what does these actually add to the game that improves it? But if you buy them, then you'll have them?* * - I buy all of the DLCs always and this is my logic 
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Apr 5, 2016 22:55
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Koorisch posted:So I haven't gotten El Dorado, Cossacks or Mare Nostrum, what does these actually add to the game that improves it? el dorado has custom nations and a ton of new world/exploration stuff, both of which are cool. worth getting imo. cossacks has some nice diplomacy options, very silly (but reasonably fun) steppe horde mechanics, and a profoundly mediocre 'estates' system. toss-up. mare nostrum is a terrible cash-in by $$$aradox and also it literally just came out, who knows if it's any good? it's a spooky fuckin' mystery. godspeed!
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Apr 5, 2016 23:10
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I started screwing around with console commands to shake up the grand campaign and put some different nations on the map, but when I got around to making Romania it made the Roman Empire instead. Type integrate WAL ROM into console , it's actually got some really good ideas and traditions. I've also found Canada as CAN , and their first idea is singing lumberjacks. 
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Apr 5, 2016 23:15
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Yep, corruption is indeed a poorly implemented hoop. States are pretty annoying but I appreciate the cost discount for territories.
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Apr 5, 2016 23:17
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Well, from what I can tell from Mare Nostrum, being able to hire out your soldiers as mercenaries for hard cash does sound rather interesting. Especially if you're just sitting around waiting for treaties and AE to go away.
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Apr 5, 2016 23:21
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Koorisch posted:Well, from what I can tell from Mare Nostrum, being able to hire out your soldiers as mercenaries for hard cash does sound rather interesting. Can one hire out armies to enemies of countries you have a truce with? Could be a way to keep rivals from regaining strength while you're waiting for that 15 year truce to end.
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Apr 5, 2016 23:40
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double nine posted:Can one hire out armies to enemies of countries you have a truce with? Could be a way to keep rivals from regaining strength while you're waiting for that 15 year truce to end. I don't know but apparently there is a achievement for hiring out your troops to two countries at war against each other so that's a thing at least.
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Koorisch posted:So I haven't gotten El Dorado, Cossacks or Mare Nostrum, what does these actually add to the game that improves it? El Dorado for sure. The new world flavour stuff makes colonising much more fun, and custom nations are probably the single best DLC feature we've had in my view. I'm not too keen on the micromanagement introduced by the other two personally.
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Apr 6, 2016 00:00
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I am doing a Kongo run and what do you guys think about first idea choices? I kind of want to go for Exploration -> then...Administrative. I think Expansion would be useful, but my thinking is that I need to finish either Econ/Admin/Inovative to reform my government so I don't want to pick back to back admin ideas.
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Apr 6, 2016 00:01
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I'm playing fezzan for the fezzan corridor achievement and heh you can fund yourself just by raiding Which is good because holy ssssssssssssshhhhittt fezzan's income is sad and bad.
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Apr 6, 2016 00:06
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My first game with Cossacks and now with Mare Nostrum has been Denmark, and I'm not sure if it's because there have been new and unfamiliar mechanics both times or if it's just a country with a rough start but I find it monumentally difficult to keep any amount of money at all, what with my provinces making next to nothing and Sweden breathing down my neck the whole time. Is this just gonna be rough until I can get Sweden integrated or is there something I'm doing radically wrong? I've been following the game's suggested route in attacking Novgorod and the Livonian Order.
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Apr 6, 2016 00:11
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Just purchased and activated Art of War after buying it on sale. Launched Steam on my desktop only to find the DLC tab in the EU4 launcher greyed out with a "No available DLC" tooltip. Verified game files; restarted Steam; restarted computer. Nada. I need my Paradox fix 
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Apr 6, 2016 00:17
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 So much for this run.  Westernized by 1550 as Ming, had Golden Horde and Korchin as vassals and was going to diplo annex both once I had conquered all of the stuff north of Ming. Game turned super sour once I realized Commonwealth, Muscovy and Ottoman were all allied to each other and began rolling me out of Europe.
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Apr 6, 2016 00:22
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YouTuber posted:
What were your goals for the game? It's only 1600..you have so much time.
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Apr 6, 2016 00:36
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YouTuber posted:
ur map is sick 
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Apr 6, 2016 00:40
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Hey remember how I was ranting about fabricating claims being a lovely way to expand? Now you need a Spy Network of strength 10 to even access claims fabrication as a mission. Edit: disregard I don't know how this poo poo works yet. Pellisworth fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Apr 6, 2016 |
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Apr 6, 2016 00:54
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Pellisworth posted:Hey remember how I was ranting about fabricating claims being a lovely way to expand? is that good or bad?
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Apr 6, 2016 00:57
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PleasingFungus posted:is that good or bad? good I think? You can just buy a claim with 10 Spy Network strength. The monthly Spy Network build is based on distance and a bunch of modifiers. For provinces fairly close to my capital it's about 1.3-1.5 per month so it's faster to fabricate claims than before (base one year previously). On the other hand it slows down you doing other things with Spy Networks, and I'm not sure how fast the distance modifier drops off. It might take a really long rear end time to fabricate claims far from your capital, I dunno.
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Apr 6, 2016 01:07
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Tsyni posted:What were your goals for the game? It's only 1600..you have so much time. That is what the game looks like rolled back to 1.15. The top bar is corrupted and the water looks like rear end. I was going to attempt a WC but it's become impossible since Russia, Commonwealth and Ottomans are a triple Alliance. France isn't even around to provide a counterweight. I'm not even sure I could win a zerg war if I took control of all of India and Persia. Those three are just way too strong.
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Hi paradox guys thanks for releasing the new EU4 DLC so I have something to tide me over until Stellaris.
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Today, from the official forums:BarrosRodrigues, https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/can-you-guys-lend-me-some-money-to-buy-down-corruption.918054/ posted:I have 0 Religious Unity, 94% overextension, and wildly unbalanced research. I just don't understand why I can't deal with corruption.
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Pellisworth posted:good I think? Yeah, my impression so far is that I like it better than the previous system.
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"Oh, the game is telling me exactly why I'm being hit with corruption, but I don't know how to deal with it! PARADOX YOUR PATCH SUCKS PRE-ORDER CANCELLED HOW DARE YOU TAKE SJRB CLAY BYZANTIUM FOREVER!"
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Sky Shadowing posted:"Oh, the game is telling me exactly why I'm being hit with corruption, but I don't know how to deal with it! PARADOX YOUR PATCH SUCKS PRE-ORDER CANCELLED HOW DARE YOU TAKE SJRB CLAY BYZANTIUM FOREVER!" Yeah I'm actually a little heartened by those screenshots because they suggest that it's very difficult to make corruption into such a huge issue that it constantly tanks your poo poo. Even in the situation the dude is in, overextension will fall and religious unity will increase in fairly short order, so it seems like the pro-non western strat of running wildly unbalanced tech is actually still fairly viable.
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There's seemingly a large contingent of EU4 players whose preferred playstyle is to go balls-to-the-wall crazy conquest mode, who bitch and moan with every expansion because of some feature that makes it harder to blob.
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YouTuber posted:That is what the game looks like rolled back to 1.15. The top bar is corrupted and the water looks like rear end. I was going to attempt a WC but it's become impossible since Russia, Commonwealth and Ottomans are a triple Alliance. France isn't even around to provide a counterweight. I'm not even sure I could win a zerg war if I took control of all of India and Persia. Those three are just way too strong. Is it still playable? I have a couple good MP games that I want to finish; I'd hate to think that we can't keep playing them just by rolling back a patch
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Man corruption gets expensive. As the ottos trying for sultan of rum, I took a bunch of a largish Crimea (~80% oe) to snake to Russia and to stem my corruption gain it takes 30 ducats alone till I core. Course then Russia Dows me immediately after I moved most my army back west to deal with rebs so it's difficult to core :/ I also really wish when your spy got kicked out there it would auto restart the spy network once the lockout timer is up. I wasted so much time with Crimea kicking him out over and over while I was distracted in the west it was really hard to generate any claims ImPureAwesome fucked around with this message at 03:11 on Apr 6, 2016 |
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I haven't played since common sense so imagine my surprise playing as a barbar pirate when castille and portugal can just match their army down my throat. Hey fellas, aren't you at war with France? Why are you down here.......
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My initial impressions of Corruption are that it's kind of like Inflation. Generally a complete non-issue, but in some edge cases it can become a problem. But it's very predictable so if you run into Corruption problems it's sort of your own fault. Note that I haven't seen what a bunch of minors with Espionage can do to Corruption yet. I still maintain it's a dumb and unnecessary mechanic.
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I started an Ethiopian game before work since the previous stuff wasn't going to work with a new patch. I didn't get far into the game but im not sure if I want to stick with them. Is Ethiopia a fun game?
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Zotix posted:I started an Ethiopian game before work since the previous stuff wasn't going to work with a new patch. I didn't get far into the game but im not sure if I want to stick with them. Is Ethiopia a fun game? I've had fun with them trying for prestor john and all of Africa and Arabia
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Also, why/when do you want to vassalize? I tend to just take territories and core/ convert. Why/when do you want to vassalize?
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Zotix posted:I started an Ethiopian game before work since the previous stuff wasn't going to work with a new patch. I didn't get far into the game but im not sure if I want to stick with them. Is Ethiopia a fun game? Yeah, it's a ton of fun. Kind of frustrating until you get a meaningful income, but that's why you choose Exploration first so you can expand out of the tight situation you start in and get control of the Cape node.
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Zotix posted:Also, why/when do you want to vassalize? I tend to just take territories and core/ convert. Why/when do you want to vassalize? As much as possible, usually. Diploannexing a vassal costs diplo power and gives you cores on all of its land. Generally, diplo power is less valuable than admin power. So diploannexing means it takes a longer to incorporate the land into your empire, but in the meantime you'll have a vassal who'll contribute more troops to your wars than you'd get out of directly owning their provinces and you can use your admin points on more important things.
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