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Fister Roboto posted:There's only one button for every manufactory in the macro builder, because manufactories all do the exact same thing. One of the best changes in the patch. ah makes sense. thanks
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So if I reform the religion off of some schmuck as a Native, can I send my institutions to the other prims? (Or could, rather, didn't get the content pack, which I suppose is a shame as it woulda been pretty cool) I have to deal with Spain that's absorbed Aragon, Allied Austria and Portugal, with the latter being unusually swole, what with holding a swathe of N-Africa Their Rivals are the Mamluks and English and I'm not terribly certain I can do gently caress all about them yet. Is the trick just building boats and waiting for colonial nations to form before stopping them at sea or what?
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RabidWeasel posted:Man you have way more faith in people than I do because I just assumed that the largest part of the playerbase is English-speaking and white and they want to play the most powerful country that lets them fufil some kind of ethnonationalist power fantasy. Wait, you've never terrorized the world as France? You've never save scummed the Burgundian inheritance? You don't know what you're missing.
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Moon Slayer posted:Is this actually possible? I started a new game three or four times and every time Aragon starts with Portugal rivaled. It's possible but definitely requires a bit of rerolling for favourable starts. Your ideal one would be a start where Aragon and France have Castile rivaled while France also has Aragon rivaled - though you're more likely to run into France only having Aragon rivaled which is fine, the important thing is just getting France allied asap after breaking with Castile for the trust which you'll need so they don't declare war once you have borders later (assuming you take the safe strat). Break with England and ally with Castile before declaring war on Granada and taking both their strait crossing and the closest province to Aragon once the treaty expires. Usually Granada is allied with Morocco by this point which also lets you complete the conquer Cueta(I think that is its name) while stiffing Castile on any conquest gains and breaking the alliance. Turn around and ally Aragon, wait until the break ally truce ends then take a huge chunk out of Castile while giving Aragon as little as possible - race for the best provinces and especially the ones that let you form Spain. It'll take a few wars but once you're done eating the most important bits of Castile and have good borders with Aragon you then stiff Aragon in the last war and break before allying with France. Declare asap and use France to crush Aragon. Two to three wars will let you eat the important bits of Aragon to form Spain. While waiting for Admin 10 you can then either just recover your armies or start poking about at your southern muslim neighbors to finish off trade nodes. After you form Spain finish eating Castile/Aragon then turn your attentions on France. If you want to play safe, then just stop here and enjoy conquering/colonizing everything in asia/new world/whatever. Otherwise it's time to say farewell to France and start looking for allies with your ideal choices being Austria and maybe Burgundy if they're doing well. Play the normal waiting game for France to get caught in a war - usually with England - before taking your allies and marching on France, prioritizing trade node lands and creating a land bridge snaking across through the Genoa trade node. Spend a few more wars conquering the rest of the node then sit back and watch the vast majority of the wealth in the world flow directly to you. It's an incredibly fun game/strat and very satisfying to eventually pull off. Eventually once your overseas empire is large enough you can just pick on France/England to regularly take their colonies and completely lock them out of ever having colonial nations.
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Mar 22, 2018 07:55
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England is my go to nation when I want to chill out and build a power house economy without any realistic dangers. I.e when I’m lazy.
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Mar 22, 2018 08:30
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If you want a fun game at becoming a rediculous superpower within 50 years, the Timurids (and all the Timurid successor states) got a really strong mission set, in addition to getting permaclaims on everything from the Zagros Mountains to Delhi, one of the mission rewards is 20% RCC for 25 years which lets you get to minimum coring cost for a while (on some provinces).
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Fister Roboto posted:There's only one button for every manufactory in the macro builder, because manufactories all do the exact same thing. One of the best changes in the patch. It was freaking annoying to press every single button to see what was most profitable so I had enough and fixed it. They are still different buildings because of archaic reasons but at least the interface is smart about it.
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Mann trip report:  Pretty fun run so far, once you get the British Isles under your control it's like a world tour of beating up minors for their islands and also a lot of colonising, with Spain, France, the Ottomans, and Ming for end bosses. Wafflecopper fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Mar 22, 2018 |
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Mar 22, 2018 11:43
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I Feel Like a New Mann: Have a colonial nation that owns more provinces than you do.
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Mar 22, 2018 11:49
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Groogy posted:It was freaking annoying to press every single button to see what was most profitable so I had enough and fixed it. They are still different buildings because of archaic reasons but at least the interface is smart about it. 
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Mar 22, 2018 12:11
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I kind of dislike the new missions system. The old system with its randomness wasn't perfect for sure but it also felt a lot less railroady.
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Mar 22, 2018 16:05
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Ming Very East East Siberia Disclaimer: May not belong to Ming. May also not be Siberia.
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Mar 22, 2018 16:12
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Lovin that swole Silesia.
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Mar 22, 2018 16:46
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I think they started out as Krakow, got swole, and formed Silesia  Eastern Europe was pretty weird this game, even Wallachia took a couple of provinces before the Ottos ate them
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This isn't something you see very often: I guess it could be caused by an AI bug. Denmark wasn't particularly weak in this game. They had conquered Haburg, Danzig, Riga, and half the Livonian order, and Sweden was loyal.
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RabidWeasel posted:If you want a fun game at becoming a rediculous superpower within 50 years, the Timurids (and all the Timurid successor states) got a really strong mission set, in addition to getting permaclaims on everything from the Zagros Mountains to Delhi, one of the mission rewards is 20% RCC for 25 years which lets you get to minimum coring cost for a while (on some provinces). The AI Timmy went fully insane in my current run. Ate Ajam and most of the rest of Persia off the bat, managed to integrate every vassal and is currently eating northern India.... I think he's going to form Mughals if he takes the right provinces from his current war which I haven't seen happen in forever. 
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 My first run after the patch. Been so focused on western Europe I didn't notice the Ottomans until they were gone. Checking the timeline it seems they lost a war against Byz, Albania and Karaman in 1451. Byz and Kar then conquered their side of the strait in subsequent wars, with the knights sniping a few provinces. Kar held most of Anatolia until they were broken by Venice, ceding the entire southern coastline and forced to release an Ibadi Bretna. The knights also conquered some in a separate war, but then Byz crossed the straits and started beating up everyone. 
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Firebatgyro posted:The AI Timmy went fully insane in my current run. Ate Ajam and most of the rest of Persia off the bat, managed to integrate every vassal and is currently eating northern India.... I think he's going to form Mughals if he takes the right provinces from his current war which I haven't seen happen in forever. The Timurids were pretty buff ever since their NIs got a minor bump, assuming that all the missions push the AI to be more aggressive I fully expect Ultra Timurids to more consistently be a thing. It's loving shocking that Arbadil and QQ didn't get any missions though.
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Man i would love it if disbanded military units would return their numbers to the manpower pool.
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Mar 22, 2018 20:30
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Moonshine Rhyme posted:Man i would love it if disbanded military units would return their numbers to the manpower pool. It does that when you get high enough army professionalism.
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RabidWeasel posted:The Timurids were pretty buff ever since their NIs got a minor bump, assuming that all the missions push the AI to be more aggressive I fully expect Ultra Timurids to more consistently be a thing. Yeah, the AIs seem to be ultra aggressive now. England goes to war every 10 years like clockwork, conquered all of Scotland in 1480, goes to war with France whenever possible.
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Mar 22, 2018 21:03
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Node posted:It does that when you get high enough army professionalism.
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Yes but it should be a basic thing that happens all the time, even if at a reduced ratio. It should always happen at peace. At war, they can keep the professionalism rule, because then it makes sense from a balance/flavor standpoint.
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Mar 22, 2018 21:05
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How do you Scotland if you're not that good at warfare?
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Mar 22, 2018 21:13
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Poil posted:How do you Scotland if you're not that good at warfare? What worked for me last patch was to NOT ally France, but instead rely on their guarantee to keep the English off my back while I conquered Ireland. Once that was done I waited for England to send all their troops to the new world to fight some indian tribe and then declared war.
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Drakhoran posted:What worked for me last patch was to NOT ally France, but instead rely on their guarantee to keep the English off my back while I conquered Ireland. Once that was done I waited for England to send all their troops to the new world to fight some indian tribe and then declared war. Poil fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Mar 22, 2018 |
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Playing a game as Muscovy. I did the usual war with Novgorod right away, but now they've allied Poland (who has Lithuania in a union). What're my options here? Right now I'm just eating up my vassals and attacking the hordes to the South, but I'm gonna need to go after Novgorod eventually. Wait until Poland picks a fight with the HRE? Denmark has me as a rival, so the Kalmar Union won't ally me.
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Pylons posted:Playing a game as Muscovy. I did the usual war with Novgorod right away, but now they've allied Poland (who has Lithuania in a union). What're my options here? Right now I'm just eating up my vassals and attacking the hordes to the South, but I'm gonna need to go after Novgorod eventually. Wait until Poland picks a fight with the HRE? Denmark has me as a rival, so the Kalmar Union won't ally me. Do they have any minor allies or trade league members you could declare on?
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Drakhoran posted:Do they have any minor allies or trade league members you could declare on? That's an idea.. I think they do have Odoyev in a trade league. No other allies though.
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Pylons posted:That's an idea.. I think they do have Odoyev in a trade league. No other allies though. Declare on Odoyev, force them to break truce and nothing else, then wait 5 years.
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deathbagel posted:Declare on Odoyev, force them to break truce and nothing else, then wait 5 years. The truce I have with them is already up, but I could use the war with Odoyev/Novgorod to take some of their provinces or break their alliance with Poland, couldn't I?
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Pylons posted:The truce I have with them is already up, but I could use the war with Odoyev/Novgorod to take some of their provinces or break their alliance with Poland, couldn't I? The latter is probably what he meant. You can see if you can take provinces instead, but 1) if you take provinces the truce will be longer and if it’s long enough Novgorod will just re-ally Poland before it’s done and 2) the penalties for taking land from allies of the war target might make it undesirable. If you just force Nov to break alliance and nothing else you’ll have a nice short truce and can pounce on them hopefully before they can find another strong ally.
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How 2 kazan pls
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Pylons posted:The truce I have with them is already up, but I could use the war with Odoyev/Novgorod to take some of their provinces or break their alliance with Poland, couldn't I? Yea, I meant break the alliance. If you take provinces then your peace will likely last long enough for them to just re-ally them. Fuligin posted:How 2 kazan pls Wait for someone big to declare on Muscovy and then jump on them immediately, you need to strangle them in the crib. You can take them if you build up a stack of 20 or so, but you have to draw their armies into the grasslands/steppes and take out their vassals separately. Once you break Muscovy it's easy, you just take out the other tribes and always be at war with someone. Drag wars out to make sure you are never at peace because peace kills your horde unity. Raze everything you take unless it's an amazing province. Take the gold mine from Uzbek early to help fund your war machine. deathbagel fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Mar 23, 2018 |
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There's a bug with the English 'Strategic Control' mission in the new DLC. Even though I have France under a PU, I am unable to complete the mission, despite meeting the mission requirements of either directly controlling the capital of France (Paris), or having a subject that controls it. I know that it's bugged because in my first England game where I had France under a PU, I was able to complete the mission. I've also searched Reddit and found a number of other users who are having the exact same issue. This bug is particularly frustrating as this mission chain is particularly important/useful for an England game; completing it gives you claims on all of Brittany and leads to other very useful missions. I have tried restarting the game, making France loyal then disloyal (via the placate rulers choice in subject interactions), along with a host of other experiments, but nothing I do seems to change it, which means I either have to restart again and hope it doesn't happen, or just not play England until it's fixed, which is most likely what I'm going to end up doing. I try to be understanding when bugs arise in games, since as a former network engineer I understand that even the best designed system will sometimes break when exposed to users and all the different variables you can potentially throw at them, but this one is hard to understand, or forgive. The new mission system and revamped English missions, along with the general English focus, was the primary selling point of the DLC, and yet one of the earliest missions you could conceivably complete is bugged. If it was a late game mission or some obscure set of conditions that lead to it, I would understand, but you can get France under a PU within the first 10 years of the game, less if you get lucky. Did nobody play the first 10 years of the game? If not, why not? I've bought every single piece of EU4 DLC on launch, this one included, despite my misgivings over paying for something that in days past, Paradox (and other developers) would have offered for free. The fact that such a basic feature has been overlooked by QA, along with the fact that it breaks the main selling point of the DLC, will definitely make me reconsider purchasing any future immersion packs that Paradox chooses to release, either the day they are released, or at all. Yolomancer fucked around with this message at 01:06 on Mar 23, 2018 |
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Mar 23, 2018 01:03
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Apparently this is a thing that can happen?
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Mar 23, 2018 01:42
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Innovativeness seems really pointless. It's very hard to accrue much of it, and it doesn't really do much for how difficult it is to acquire.
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I find it's really easy to acquire? I'm sitting at like 75 in 1610 or so. I've not lost any in a long time.
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How? The only way to get more than the default trickle is through random events or buying techs way ahead of time, which is usually a huge waste. I guess maybe be the first country to buy ADM 5 and get an idea group unlocked?
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Yeah it barely goes up. I guess you can say yes to all those "get 1 innovativeness and +8 unrest everywhere" events.
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