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Stop posting and get working on Vicky3, thanks!
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So the advice of “choose any power you want gently caress the big guys” is good advice. I jumped into a game as Baden because of a personal connection to the area and it has been learning the hard way, but learning quickly, and results when you get them are very satisfying. Still have a lot to figure out but being a tiny nation, particularly in the HRE, is legit because it requires a lot of strategic diplomacy to get anywhere and you really get to figure out how to maximize profits, etc because you have very little wiggle room with errors due to such low manpower or initial income. I am now making 4 ducats a month, allied to Austria, Switzerland, and Bavaria, and have a 14k army and I feel (and arguably regionally am) powerful as hell.
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Jun 14, 2019 11:28
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dialhforhero posted:Kebabs are tasty I do say. Turkish food is loving awesome in general.
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Jun 14, 2019 12:53
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One thing I am still trying to figure out is assigning estates. I think I get the balance of loyalty/influence but the actual assigning estates is still a bit unclear. I also don’t quite understand autonomy or religion. Autonomy plays into the estates so if someone could provide a jist of whats up I appreciate it. Reading guides as I play as well. I had to convert to Reform (funny being a southern German state) from Catholicism because apparently I was the seat of the reform movement somehow and there was nothing I could do. My missionary was -104% effective so I just caved. Are things like that unavoidable? I am a bit upset as I had a lot of Papal influence. It was peaceful, though so I guess there’s that. Also is there any way to get countries to NOT ally / end alliances with others? I kind of hate Austria though since there is an Austrian emperor. It is hard to expand because either Austria defends who I want to attack (Ansbach) or starts a war CONVENIENTLY just in time to lock me out of attacking (Ravensburg). Meanwhile they NEVER join my wars. Also dog-piling is definitely a huge problem. Is there any way to see how big a countries army is BEFORE you declare war? I hate how there is this hidden 15k army off screen that welps your poo poo after everything seemed to be going your way and you though you mopped all the other dudes up but NOPE here’s that random crusade ay we had chilling. dialhforhero fucked around with this message at 13:03 on Jun 14, 2019 |
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Jun 14, 2019 12:55
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dialhforhero posted:I also don’t quite understand autonomy or religion. Autonomy plays into the estates so if someone could provide a jist of whats up I appreciate it. Reading guides as I play as well. Autonomy is a rating of how much of the stuff a province produces you get. So if a province is 0% autonomous, you get all its manpower, tax and trade. If a province is 0% autonomous, you get none of it. A province you've given to an estate has a floor of 25% autonomy, so you're giving up a quarter of its stuff. (Although note that that's just a floor - you lose nothing by giving a province that's more than 25% autonomous to an estate). You can raise autonomy by 25% for a big bonus to unrest (people like being able to keep their stuff and not be conscripted) or lower it by 25% for a big penalty to unrest.
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Jun 14, 2019 13:17
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Torgo2727 posted:Aaaaaaaaand back to lurking I go! Probably easier to just google poo poo then asking about it here anyways. Jfc.
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Jun 14, 2019 13:54
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The reason you give provinces overall to estates is to gain access to their bigger interactions like "punching" them for extra monarch points every 25 years. Without enough influence you are reliant on random events pushing influence up or down before you can do more interactions. Their more local benefit is while it sets that 25% floor to autonomy for a province, a category that is affected by autonomy acts as if it's been set to 0%. So for Nobility that means the local manpower and land force limit gives the full amount no matter the current autonomy while the rest are penalized as normal; therefore you will want to give them provinces that have high Military development and low scores in the other two categories. Similarly Burghers and Clergy are best suited for Diplomatic and Administrative development, respectively. On top of that, these estates provide a bonus to provinces under their control while they are loyal, the tradeoff being additional unrest while disloyal. Going back to Nobility, control gives the province +20% manpower while loyalty is above 40. And a bit more on autonomy. Newly conquered provinces that were below 75% autonomous are now set to 75% when you gain control and tick down slowly as the years pass, more so when you're at peace. As a territory that is as low as it gets (though the game will keep track of the actual number). Stating the province but not spending the admin points on the province pushes that limit down to 50% and spending the admin points to make it fully yours kills the limit entirely.
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Jun 14, 2019 14:07
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Hey you realized your oopsie and retracted so dont feel the need to stop posting. Its nice to see more people post in the thread (except Average Bear, apparently). And Google often returns old out of date answers so its better to post. You told him to gently caress off without any explanation. He's not coming back, he PMed me. And don't say "oopsie", you're a grown rear end man.
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Jun 14, 2019 14:37
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Just what I love to read in the EU4 thread, unsubtle Srebrenica apologia.
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Jun 14, 2019 14:39
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dialhforhero posted:One thing I am still trying to figure out is assigning estates. I think I get the balance of loyalty/influence but the actual assigning estates is still a bit unclear. I only assign estates to provinces to get them above 40% influence (because that's the threshold for most of their interactions). Keeping them above 60% influence is good because you get the best level of national bonus from them, but if you're above 40% you can easily reach it without giving them more provinces. 75% influence is also good because it gets you the most monarch points, but an extra 50 mana every 20 years is hardly significant, and it puts you at risk of events giving them too much influence. In the early game, especially if you're a small nation, it's good to specialize them - clergy for high tax provinces, merchants for high production provinces or those with trade power bonuses, nobles for high manpower provinces - and always on high autonomy provinces. In the mid to late game the effects are far less noticeable and not worth the effort of micromanaging so I just put them wherever. Fister Roboto fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Jun 14, 2019 |
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Jun 14, 2019 14:46
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it owns bvery hard that i came to make a low effort whingepost and instead got the ground floor of a monumentally stupid series of posts that apparently ran someone out of the thread (tbf being told to gently caress off is very hard to deal with imo). I love to post on somethingawful, where this is normal to do.AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Hey you realized your oopsie and retracted so dont feel the need to stop posting. Its nice to see more people post in the thread (except Average Bear, apparently). And Google often returns old out of date answers so its better to post. dont let bear bully you! you can say oopsie or whoopsadoodle or anything else you like, i will defend you with my posts and honour!
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Jun 14, 2019 14:46
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Average Bear posted:You told him to gently caress off without any explanation. He's not coming back, he PMed me. “oopsie” is what your new friend who you are excited about PMing with called it.
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Jun 14, 2019 14:47
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Fister Roboto posted:Nobody actually plays Vicky 2. Hilarious hyperbole extremely top notch
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Jun 14, 2019 14:48
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Games posters are such worms.
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Jun 14, 2019 15:27
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miss the kk av
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Jun 14, 2019 15:47
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I do too oddium... I do too
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Jun 14, 2019 15:50
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Average Bear posted:You told him to gently caress off without any explanation. He's not coming back, he PMed me. 1.) Torgo2727 posts accidentally saying a racial slur 2.) I say gently caress off 3.) Torgo2727 realizes his error and edits his post, saying "I made an oopsie" 4.) I see that he edited his post and edit my gently caress off post 5.) I reply to him saying he is going to go back to lurking saying he shouldnt do that if he made an honest mistake, re-using the world "oopsie" 6.) You call me out for using the word "oopsie" You're the one acting like an ignore angsty teenager so maybe you should try to instead act like a "grown rear end man". For reference: Torgo2727 posted:I've made an oopsie with this post A key takeaway here for me is that I could have included more info than "gently caress off" (though to be fair others had already called him out for using kebab) or simply not posted, but considering you are not being punished for being a racism apologist I might as well keep posting.
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Jun 14, 2019 16:43
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Average Bear posted:Games posters are such worms. Nah you’re just a dumbass
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Jun 14, 2019 17:27
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I apologize for both racism and Serbian war crimes. I'm sorry for both of these.
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Jun 14, 2019 17:36
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Come and check out a brand new weekly game in the mapgoons discord here. It's starting up in a few weeks and we'd love to see some new players join up. We'll be using a balance mod created by Mountaineer and there will be a cash prize.
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Jun 14, 2019 18:38
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edipil posted:Come and check out a brand new weekly game in the mapgoons discord here.
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Jun 14, 2019 18:48
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Average Bear posted:Kebab is hardly the worst insult in the world, especially how its become sort of a cutesy shorthand for the ottomans. It originates from some hilariously broken English rant from a Serbian nationalist. It got a more sour taste more recently due to its usage by the NZ mosque shooter. That's the reason the woke bloodsuckers above jumped on you without explanation. At least, that's the causes belli. If you ask me it's just a stale meme in the EU4 community. Baguette is stale too but hardly offensive or offensively unfunny. "kebab" is 4chan racism and as you yourself just said was quoted by a *literal mass murderer* so, you know. Lum_ fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Jun 14, 2019 |
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Jun 14, 2019 18:53
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:I probably cant commit to a weekly game but I am curious about Mountaineer's balance mod, got any details you could share on that? Check out the mod link in the thread, he's posted a brief change log of the major things he's done. You're welcome to still join the game even if you can't make all the sessions, just keep in mind the absentee policy.
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Jun 14, 2019 18:53
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edipil posted:Check out the mod link in the thread, he's posted a brief change log of the major things he's done.  I found it now. Thank you!
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Jun 14, 2019 19:04
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:I probably cant commit to a weekly game but I am curious about Mountaineer's balance mod, got any details you could share on that? It's mostly my attempt to fix things that bother me in our multiplayer games. The main changes are: Shattered world so there are no real major powers at the start, reduced discipline modifiers across the board, and significantly reduced mercenary availability. Still working on that last one, you can still get too many mercs with certain policies and ideas.
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Jun 14, 2019 19:07
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Mountaineer posted:It's mostly my attempt to fix things that bother me in our multiplayer games. The main changes are: Shattered world so there are no real major powers at the start, reduced discipline modifiers across the board, and significantly reduced mercenary availability. Still working on that last one, you can still get too many mercs with certain policies and ideas.
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Jun 14, 2019 19:23
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Anyone know why I can't give a gift to my vassal, Spain? It wasn't letting me do it before because I had loans and was running a deficit but this month I have a budget surplus and it's giving me some undefined reason I can't give em money.
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Jun 15, 2019 00:23
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it says right there, it's because of .
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Jun 15, 2019 01:58
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That's a well known bug; the reason is there, but the font size is just really small. Try zooming and enhancing.
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Jun 15, 2019 02:47
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dialhforhero posted:Also dog-piling is definitely a huge problem. Is there any way to see how big a countries army is BEFORE you declare war? I hate how there is this hidden 15k army off screen that welps your poo poo after everything seemed to be going your way and you though you mopped all the other dudes up but NOPE here’s that random crusade ay we had chilling. I don't think this got answered: you can check the ledger (L shortcut iirc) to look at exact army/manpower/navy counts for any country you want to fight. It's even searchable now, easier to use than ever before! You'll also see unit counts on the war window, below participating nations, and you can hover over each category to get the breakdown of exactly who is bringing what. One or both of those should ward off nasty surprises like that.
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Jun 15, 2019 04:32
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Gitro posted:I don't think this got answered: you can check the ledger (L shortcut iirc) to look at exact army/manpower/navy counts for any country you want to fight. It's even searchable now, easier to use than ever before! You'll also see unit counts on the war window, below participating nations, and you can hover over each category to get the breakdown of exactly who is bringing what. One or both of those should ward off nasty surprises like that. Thanks. I was reading a guide and found the ledger and it is like a whole new world of info
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Jun 15, 2019 13:08
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greater serbia pics bing
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Jun 15, 2019 20:52
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Everyone talks about Greater Serbia, but I gotta wonder what's so great about it? Now Greater Slovenia is a thinking man's national ambition.
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Jun 15, 2019 21:04
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Space Bat posted:Everyone talks about Greater Serbia, but I gotta wonder what's so great about it? Now Greater Slovenia is a thinking man's national ambition. I've killed men for less.
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Jun 15, 2019 21:36
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Space Bat posted:Everyone talks about Greater Serbia, but I gotta wonder what's so great about it? Now Greater Slovenia is a thinking man's national ambition. Nah Greater Slovakia is the thing. Oh you Beautiful Baby Blue Nitra 
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Jun 17, 2019 08:04
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The only way to achieve neutrality as Switzerland is to conquer everything else.
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Jun 17, 2019 09:53
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Radical Neutrality
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Jun 17, 2019 14:29
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Rocks fall, Chaotic Neutrals die.
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Jun 17, 2019 15:35
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I have a bunch of claims from an event in another country, in a place where I have no direct frontier with, as there is a small country in the middle (allied to anally of mine, so I can't just swallow it along the way) Can I conquer and core it despite not being adjacent? Does coring range only apply to overseas/coastal stuff, or will it let me grab and core stuff in just a bit further away? Does having a claim affect it at all?
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Coring range only applies to coastal stuff (landlocked provinces are always 9999 away), you or one of your subjects must be adjacent in order for you to grab those provinces in conquest. There is an Age of Revolutions thing that does allow you to grab any province but you're going to be waiting for quite some time; it's the last age.
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