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How worthwhile is spawning institutions rather than waiting for them to spread your way, if you're a long way from Europe (East Asia, Southeast Africa)?
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Red Bones posted:How worthwhile is spawning institutions rather than waiting for them to spread your way, if you're a long way from Europe (East Asia, Southeast Africa)? Very. Also I replaced all my cav with big guns and this seems to work way better, despite lacking cav.
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Jan 25, 2018 20:53
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Red Bones posted:How worthwhile is spawning institutions rather than waiting for them to spread your way, if you're a long way from Europe (East Asia, Southeast Africa)? Extremely very. Especially if you’re landlocked, just dump your diplo points into as good a province as you can (farmlands/grasslands) and then dump remaining points into it as needed. If you can, try to put the seeded province in the middle of your country to prevent it spreading for as long as possible so your rivals don’t get the benefits of your dumped points.
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Jan 25, 2018 21:02
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I wish Age objectives and rewards were a little less specialized (barring the unique nation rewards obvs). I basically ignore it unless the goals are already congruent with whatever else I'm doing
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Jan 25, 2018 21:03
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Red Bones posted:How worthwhile is spawning institutions rather than waiting for them to spread your way, if you're a long way from Europe (East Asia, Southeast Africa)? IN terms of monarch points spent, I think it ends up about even, but by turbo-developing you also get a super good province out of it, so it's definitely worth it anyway.
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Jan 25, 2018 21:07
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In east africa you get the added bonus of dev pushing a gold province so you get to basically double your income at the same time
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Jan 25, 2018 21:10
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Fuligin posted:I wish Age objectives and rewards were a little less specialized (barring the unique nation rewards obvs). I basically ignore it unless the goals are already congruent with whatever else I'm doing A lot of them are extremely good though, and it's not like you can spend splendor on anything else. Why wouldn't you take them?
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Jan 25, 2018 21:16
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Fister Roboto posted:A lot of them are extremely good though, and it's not like you can spend splendor on anything else. Why wouldn't you take them? Yeah when age of absolutism starts I beeline for the yearly absolutism bonus asap.
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Jan 25, 2018 21:28
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The first ones seem pretty niche, apart from the AE reduction one and the colonisation one if you're a coloniser. Maybe I just usually quit before they get relevant. I'm terrible at actually finishing paradox games tbh
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Jan 25, 2018 21:50
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really queer Christmas posted:About to finish my Sikh Punjab -> Bharat -> Unite India playthrough and I'm finishing up by beating up on Vijayanagar. It's super fun to completely leave a nation destitute and occupied by rebels, take one province, then go to war with their ally and have them join despite having nothing to fight against me because I have 166 aggressive expansion hey chief where can i get that map pack
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Jan 25, 2018 22:08
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. Also Ming still sucks, though maybe I got unlucky with them having several top tier monarchs.
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Jan 25, 2018 22:11
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spectralent posted:The first ones seem pretty niche, apart from the AE reduction one and the colonisation one if you're a coloniser. Maybe I just usually quit before they get relevant. I'm terrible at actually finishing paradox games tbh Age of Discovery has free war taxes which is good for anyone e: I do agree that some times with some countries in some ages you find yourself in a situation where you find yourself with enough splendor to pick a bonus and no bonus worth picking in your specific situation, but I think there is almost always at least one bonus per age which is good for any given run. It’s more a problem for picking a second, or more likely third or even later bonus. skasion fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Jan 25, 2018 |
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Jan 25, 2018 22:14
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pog boyfriend posted:hey chief where can i get that map pack TBARW with the white text submod, the objectively best EU4 map mod.
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Jan 25, 2018 22:36
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pog boyfriend posted:hey chief where can i get that map pack http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=309155854 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=310638421 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=297339191 When you download them, it will say the mods are out of date but just ignore that- they still work.
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Jan 25, 2018 22:49
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RabidWeasel posted:TBARW with the white text submod, the objectively best EU4 map mod. Honest question, what is it people like about white text? To me it looks absolutely godawful and I cannot even begin to comprehend the appeal of it
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Jan 26, 2018 03:45
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More legible, especially against dark colours/noisy backgrounds. You could get the same legibility with a white outline around black text, but lol that'd probably look even worse
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Black is perfectly legible though? Unless you have a really dark monitor or something maybe idk
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Wafflecopper posted:Black is perfectly legible though? Unless you have a really dark monitor or something maybe idk Black on dark green isn't very legible, for instance. For light colors, dark text is great, and for dark colors, light text is great.
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Jan 26, 2018 03:53
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Wafflecopper posted:Black is perfectly legible though? Unless you have a really dark monitor or something maybe idk  Can you read any of that poo poo in northern italy? If it was white text, you could.
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Jan 26, 2018 03:54
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Could you though?
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Jan 26, 2018 03:57
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i could read it if you zoomed in, cheers
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So I decided to play Burgundy as my first EUIV Ironman game... well after 3-4 flubs I finally got through the game and got the Burgundian Conquest. It was a pain in the rear end to get into the Empire, I had to boost up the province development of Picardy so I could move my capital... then I had to give away all my other non-empire territory to my vassals, then I declare War on England immediately surrender my capital and bam in the Empire, and shielded from France. Because when I tried to go third way... France kept rivaling and murdering me brutally. Except the play-through I figure out how to do this I end up with a France that allied me and an Austria that hates my guts. Although France as an ally gave me a big loving stick for when Austria tried to stop me from seizing unlawful territory and they just got owned, especially since I allied Bohemia too. It took till around 1780 because I eventually turned on France once I got the nationalism casus-beli and slowly ate them, until the amusingly only held provinces on the other side of the Pyrenees and I could finally vassalize them... and their pretty decently sized colonial Empire. Austria somehow got eaten by a Super Salzburg, which annexed all of South Germany, Switzerland and Austria and ended up in a PU under my king. It took like 50 years to integrate them and I released a vassal Austria and got the Burgundian Conquest. Also Castille colonized the 13 colonies... the USA revolted around 1630 somehow won and expanded across the continent. Then the age of revolutions was boring because the revolution started in the Crimean Khanate and they got crushed in a few years by Russia and the Ottomans.
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oddium posted:i could read it if you zoomed in, cheers Click on it to make it bigger.
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I never use the culture map and so never had to read tiny text on a dark green background. If I did need to I'd zoom in a little yeah. But I've never had a problem reading the text in normal political mode or any of the map modes I use the 1% of the time I'm in something else. That said if you find the white text easier to read then power to you. Just stop posting screenshots of it and hurting my eyes, tia 
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Has anyone actually had a decent revolution happen? it always seems to spawn in the weakest countries (probably because the disaster requires low prestige for god knows what reason) and just get crushed in about a decade with no fanfare. Also I never seem to be able to get it.
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AnoHito posted:Has anyone actually had a decent revolution happen? it always seems to spawn in the weakest countries (probably because the disaster requires low prestige for god knows what reason) and just get crushed in about a decade with no fanfare. Also I never seem to be able to get it. I think they should change the triggers/modifiers so it always happens to either a great power or a nation hanging around the bubble that can actually do something with it.
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Jabor posted:Click on it to make it bigger. italian culture is big enough if you ask me
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spectralent posted:The first ones seem pretty niche, apart from the AE reduction one and the colonisation one if you're a coloniser. Maybe I just usually quit before they get relevant. I'm terrible at actually finishing paradox games tbh The only one I'd call niche is colonization one, because it obviously does nothing for you if you're not colonizing. But it's really good if you are. The -5 unrest state edict is great, especially in the early game when manpower is tight. Being able to chain forge claims can be pretty useful. It lets you reach distant targets that would have otherwise required a no-CB war. Also the same ability lets you take vassals from other countries at half price, which can be very useful. Free war taxes is amazing, if I can ever remember to actually use it. +1 to combat rolls on your capitol's terrain is, at the very least, a bonus to defending your capitol. The bonus to inf/cav ratio is pretty much useless though, unless you can use it to push your ratio to 100% AND you can afford to field full cavalry armies. Typically by the end of an age I can grab most or all of the abilities, and I usually only have 3 or 4 objectives completed. Even if you don't care about the splendor abilities themselves, it's still worth it to complete age objectives if you can, because they give you power projection. A lot of people overlook this. It makes it a lot easier to hit the 50 threshold.
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Is there anything for EU4 like the miscmods scenarios? Those were fun.
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Fister Roboto posted:The only one I'd call niche is colonization one, because it obviously does nothing for you if you're not colonizing. But it's really good if you are.
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James Garfield posted:Is there anything for EU4 like the miscmods scenarios? Those were fun. This is very much a wip and you'd need to backdate your EU4 version to work but I'm working on updating it https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=303749032&searchtext=
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If I was gonna complain about an age's objectives/abilities I'd go with the reformation. It's just... so so reformation based, with NOTHING as a replacement for anyone outside it.
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Firebatgyro posted:Ibadi Constantinople thats a new one I am guessing the AI hosed up and conceded to Ibadi rebels or something, but it's pretty funny.
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I'm colonizing/conquering the malacca and Philippines trade nodes. So far, I've just thrown every province I acquired into a trading company, but I'm not sure if that's the best way to do it, because the provinces are very high development and if I trade-company the province I can no longer convert it. The goal is to push as much trade as possible into the Madagascar trade node.
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reignonyourparade posted:If I was gonna complain about an age's objectives/abilities I'd go with the reformation. It's just... so so reformation based, with NOTHING as a replacement for anyone outside it. You’ve still got the +1 to sieges that are blockaded (which works on landlocked provinces), +90% institution spread in state religion provinces, and converting provinces giving prestige. Which I think are all useful to anyone worldwide. Though yeah, there’s definitely a case where a couple are good for anyone per age and the rest are highly specialized.
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double nine posted:I'm colonizing/conquering the malacca and Philippines trade nodes. So far, I've just thrown every province I acquired into a trading company, but I'm not sure if that's the best way to do it, because the provinces are very high development and if I trade-company the province I can no longer convert it. The goal is to push as much trade as possible into the Madagascar trade node. If you don't put them in a trade company or state them they'll be stuck at 75% autonomy, which means you'll make way less money off of them. Due to the state limit it's probably better to put them in the trade company, especially since that also has the benefit of giving you an extra merchant once your trade power in that node gets big enough. If you want to convert them then you have to do it beforehand. I guess you can always take a province out of the trade company and convert it later, but it'll be next to useless for a couple of years afterwards. AG3 fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Jan 26, 2018 |
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Jan 26, 2018 16:49
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So now that Ming can't Tribute absolutely everyone apparently they've found a new way to gently caress you
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I'm thinking that they have interesting ideas about Islamic dietary restrictions.
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