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 Holy poo poo the Ottomans are just gone. Is that Austria? What the gently caress even happened here?!
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Oct 11, 2018 22:38
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Hoping it's Transylvania.
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Oct 11, 2018 22:42
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Austria and Venice have split the balkans and Greece it would seem.
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Oct 11, 2018 22:46
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Yep, it's Austria... somehow. Hungary is independent so  The rest of Europe looks pretty normal except for Iberia:  I don't think I've ever seen the Ottos get wiped out like this before.
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Oct 11, 2018 23:16
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I'm thinking they got skanderberged
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Oct 12, 2018 00:27
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A properly motivated Austria can strangle the Turks in the cradle fairly easily with just a little luck. It's probably the first move for any player Austria.
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Oct 12, 2018 00:33
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Wafflecopper posted:Suez is really useful if you're playing an empire that straddles Europe and Asia and want to move your navy between the med and the Indian Ocean without sailing all the way around africa Oh, I can see that, but in those games I usually just have a local navy for the spice islands region and another for the Mediterranean. By the time the canals appear you've likely already crushed other navies that could dwarf your own, in my experience. and even if not, 10k ducats buys a -lot- of ships.
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Oct 12, 2018 01:29
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I've seen the Ottomans decide to attack Albania first even though they were allies with Hungary, and Mamluks+Karaman seem to like invading the Ottomans if they're losing an early war. If both of those happened in the same game I could see the AI giving the Ottomans a hard time.
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Oct 12, 2018 03:52
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Torrannor posted:Any starter tips, or a good guide how to play EU4? Play with mapgoons, unironically.
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Oct 13, 2018 05:56
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Baudin posted:Play with mapgoons, unironically.  Playing a smallish country and teaming up with somebody with a big country that could still use the army or trade help (Portugal with Castile, Venice with Austria, or one of the Irish minors with England come to mind) is a good way to dip your feet in the pool.
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Oct 14, 2018 05:07
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Yeesh, I forgot how apocalyptic Religious League Wars got when the Ottomans side with Austria. Thank Christ for the Commonwealth.
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Oct 14, 2018 06:45
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Funky Valentine posted:Yeesh, I forgot how apocalyptic Religious League Wars got when the Ottomans side with Austria. Thank Christ for the Commonwealth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CewDmQPt1ss Remains my favourite meme vid. Also with a whole lotta luck as Lithuania you can get PU's over Bohemia, Poland and Muscovy and then steal Sweden off Denmark before the age rolls around.
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Oct 14, 2018 09:29
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Blinks77 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CewDmQPt1ss
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Oct 14, 2018 10:02
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Quick but dumb questions... how many of you never realized the morale bar goes yellow if you don't have 100% land maintenance? Or you have problems spotting the color difference? (I never realized this might be a problem until today after a conversation I had with an old veteran that didn't know this was a thing)
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Oct 14, 2018 11:08
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Groogy posted:Quick but dumb questions... how many of you never realized the morale bar goes yellow if you don't have 100% land maintenance? Or you have problems spotting the color difference? 
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Oct 14, 2018 11:37
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I mean now really looking at it, the "yellow" and the green is really loving close. I was surprised first but now comparing the two I am not at all.
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Oct 14, 2018 11:42
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Groogy posted:I mean now really looking at it, the "yellow" and the green is really loving close. I was surprised first but now comparing the two I am not at all.
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Oct 14, 2018 11:46
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Groogy posted:Quick but dumb questions... how many of you never realized the morale bar goes yellow if you don't have 100% land maintenance? Or you have problems spotting the color difference?
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Oct 14, 2018 12:34
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Groogy posted:Quick but dumb questions... how many of you never realized the morale bar goes yellow if you don't have 100% land maintenance? Or you have problems spotting the color difference? Is he colorblind? The difference is very obvious to me
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Oct 14, 2018 13:05
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Groogy posted:Quick but dumb questions... how many of you never realized the morale bar goes yellow if you don't have 100% land maintenance? Or you have problems spotting the color difference?
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Oct 14, 2018 13:13
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The variant of colourblindness that includes yellow and green is pretty common so a fair chunk probably never realized. E: Fair chunk being a few percent of players.
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Oct 14, 2018 14:07
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I'm not colourblind I just have no reason to think that, of all things, the colour of a bar which usually provides information to the player via its fullness would change only under specific circumstances. Like, when I look at that bar the exact colour of the body of the bar is not the thing that I'm looking for, I'm looking to see how full it is.
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Oct 14, 2018 14:19
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Whoever heard of a health bar changing color
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Oct 14, 2018 14:23
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skasion posted:Whoever heard of a health bar changing color Health bars usually don't change color when staying at the same level of fullness, though. I knew about this, but it's not the most intuitive of concepts. And there are a lot of colorblind people who simply can't see the difference.
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Oct 14, 2018 16:38
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Any tips for good idea groups for England? Trying my first run after Rule Britannia. Also, is it worth it to go anglican?
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Oct 14, 2018 16:49
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Sephyr posted:Any tips for good idea groups for England? Trying my first run after Rule Britannia. Also, is it worth it to go anglican? No real gain to staying Catholic. Early Administrative is almost a must for all that land you're gonna be eating.
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Oct 14, 2018 17:34
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Groogy posted:Quick but dumb questions... how many of you never realized the morale bar goes yellow if you don't have 100% land maintenance? Or you have problems spotting the color difference? I realized this immediately. I agree with others that color blindness would be responsible. Maybe add stripes when not at full strength?
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Oct 14, 2018 17:35
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Unless you simply never touch the maintenance slider or are colorblind, how could you not notice? "Hm all my armies health bars turned yellow just as I reduced the maintenance, well this is mystery that can't be solved"
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Oct 14, 2018 18:41
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I rarely play beyond the point where you have more than like 2 full size armies at once because that's getting into "too big to fail" territory so the amount of screen space taken up by my armies' morale bars is minimal. I'd suggest that if this is supposed to be more noticable that the background element for the army size indicator also changes colour under the same circumstances. Or that the morale indicator doesn't fill up all the way (i.e. it should be based on your theoretical maximum morale at full maintenance rather than your current max morale)
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Oct 14, 2018 19:06
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Change the soldier's animations so they sit down at low maintenance and sorta slouch around instead of marching, like a very tired Sim.
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Oct 14, 2018 19:10
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Sephyr posted:Any tips for good idea groups for England? Trying my first run after Rule Britannia. Also, is it worth it to go anglican? If you're going to be fighting France a lot, Defensive is extremely important for countering their +20% morale bonus.
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Oct 14, 2018 19:22
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Unless France also takes defensive. 
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Oct 14, 2018 19:23
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Yeah, if you’re planning on fighting the French, you definitely want Administrative and Defensive. I mean, generally you want those, but if you’re investing in crushing the French, Exploration can wait until your 3rd idea slot. Hell, you can leave it until your 4th as long as you don’t have your heart set on a particular part of America or the Cape.
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Oct 14, 2018 19:47
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you only have to fight france once and it's well before you get ideas. unless you don't want a free pu
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Oct 14, 2018 20:07
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Groogy posted:I mean now really looking at it, the "yellow" and the green is really loving close. I was surprised first but now comparing the two I am not at all. Not... really? It does sound like a color-blindness thing. I know a bunch of games have put in color blindness modes.
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Oct 14, 2018 20:07
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Beamed posted:No real gain to staying Catholic. Disagree, depending on the circumstances. I'm running a game as Catholic Britain and I was able to stake a claim on the entirety of North America and most of the Caribbean, with no real competition, due to Tordesillas abuse. Factor in Curia control bonuses (if you can get em) and Proclaim Holy War and Anglicanism can be a straight downgrade imo
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Oct 14, 2018 20:09
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RabidWeasel posted:I rarely play beyond the point where you have more than like 2 full size armies at once because that's getting into "too big to fail" territory so the amount of screen space taken up by my armies' morale bars is minimal. The yellow provides a nice visual indicator that "this army is at low morale but is also at max morale", which differentiates it from "this army is at low morale but it will regain some at the end of the month"
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Oct 14, 2018 20:21
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Groogy posted:Quick but dumb questions... how many of you never realized the morale bar goes yellow if you don't have 100% land maintenance? Or you have problems spotting the color difference? I think I noticed it about 30 seconds after I turned maintenance down the first time. If you don't notice it, you're probably not really looking at that bar in the first place, so it's probably fine.
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Oct 14, 2018 20:26
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oddium posted:you only have to fight france once and it's well before you get ideas. unless you don't want a free pu What do you mean, just once? I thought there'd be the early war (usually over Maine), and the you get the CB to unite them, meaning at the very least 2 wars.
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Why not a slash through the morale line to show that you're slashing army maintenance? edit: Also it's weird as hell there isn't a custom new world option or just a tick for uhhh, Sunset Invasion All I really wanna do is add Antartica, Atlantis and Mu really Deceitful Penguin fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Oct 14, 2018 |
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