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My first nation was Manchu but it was a long time since they were available at the start. 
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Poil posted:My first nation was Manchu but it was a long time since they were available at the start. Jianzhou is still pretty easy, but perhaps not the best for beginners.
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Nov 13, 2019 00:29
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I think France is a great starter country because your immediate goal is completely obvious, and by the time you're done clearing up your back yard you're well positioned to do just about anything you want.
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Nov 13, 2019 15:08
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Sinteres posted:I think France is a great starter country because your immediate goal is completely obvious, and by the time you're done clearing up your back yard you're well positioned to do just about anything you want. I tried to get my brother into the game a couple years ago with this argument. He took a 5 second look at all the menus, asked me who he should attack, and truce broke against England before 1444 was over. The coalition war against him was pretty hilarious.
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Nov 13, 2019 15:28
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I'm going to throw out a suggestion for a starter nation that people are going to go 'what, that's crazy you idiot' but hear me out: Timurids. Yes you're going to have disloyal vassals in very short order and you might implode. But all you have to do is attack Ajam ASAP and gobble up all your cores. Your vassals can't declare independence while you're at war, and after the war your balance of power with your vassals is much better. Just win that one war, which happens in like the second month of the game so if you're going to screw it up you'll have screwed it up fast and can quickly restart. After that it's smooth sailing. You can insta-annex like 3 of the vassals once 50 years passes. Eventually form Mughals, one of the best tags, and conquer in all directions. Great mission tree, great ideas, perfectly located to expand into India, the Middle East, or go exploring (or do all of that)
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Nov 13, 2019 19:17
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A lot of folks just start with castille and watch a tutorial youtube. That's what I did anyway and now I've got like 1440+ hours or whatever
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there are no good beginner countrys because eu4 is hostile to beginners. Bets idea is to get drunk then multiplayer it up as like,,, idk Scotland and Ireland and help each other take down perfidious Albion before betraying eachother
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Nov 13, 2019 21:38
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I taught a few friends and imp Zone posters by playing multiplayer together. It's a fun way when you have a safety net.
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Nov 13, 2019 21:39
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I tried to do this for CK2 to teach my friends but....let's just say CK2 multiplayer is not kind netcode wise. 
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Nov 13, 2019 21:43
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CK2 just doesn't flow well for multiplayer.
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Nov 13, 2019 21:44
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Yeah but I figured it'd be better to teach them with me there to help them out in wars instead of sitting in comms and just answering the many, many, many questions a new player has with CK2.
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Nov 13, 2019 21:47
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Average Bear posted:CK2 just doesn't flow well for multiplayer. At least the stability has vastly improved. We're 3 sessions into a 10-14 player game in Mapgoons and we've had exactly none issues, we did feel speed 2 is the only reasonable one though because of popup spam but happily you can reduce most of it with filters.
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Nov 13, 2019 21:57
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the real problem with ck2 multiplayer is that it's just however many people playing the same game of ck2 then, you know, doing anything together really.
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Nov 15, 2019 02:02
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Gamerofthegame posted:the real problem with ck2 multiplayer is that it's just however many people playing the same game of ck2 then, you know, doing anything together really. I used multiplayer to teach a friend to play CK2 by answering his questions while simultaneously assassinating and seducing my way through his entire court to see how long it would take before he noticed.
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Nov 15, 2019 02:46
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I mean the good thing with CK2 is you can have a learning friend as a vassal without it really impeding them or you in any particularly negative manner as well.
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It's been a couple seconds since I played victoria so please someone help me figure out where my money is going. I'm definitely losing money; the part in the top menu is the one that's accurate. It's the 
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Nov 25, 2019 00:28
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looks like you're buying lots of stuff for the national stockpile. are you building armies/navies/factories?
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Nov 25, 2019 00:33
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I had queued a shitload of forts and then forgot about it because the market had somehow run out of explosives. That must have been it! thanks
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Nov 25, 2019 00:35
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I believe that projected daily balance is going forward. Your daily balance listed is down because you bought £2567 in stockpile goods the previous day. The goods you will buy/stockpile depend on what you are currently building and if you have the money you usually end up buying it all upfront, so the game can't accurately predict what you will spend on goods except for the ones required for military/factory maintenance.
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Nov 25, 2019 00:35
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Yeah my problem was that the breakdown of the current day balance had the wrong math. I only have 300 hours in this game though so it's very possible I'm missing something. That was not irony.
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Nov 25, 2019 00:47
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Spend less on candles!
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Senior Dog posted:It's been a couple seconds since I played victoria so please someone help me figure out where my money is going. I'm definitely losing money; the part in the top menu is the one that's accurate. It's the Have you tried returning tariffs to 0, subsidies can be screwy
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Senior Dog posted:It's been a couple seconds since I played victoria so please someone help me figure out where my money is going. I'm definitely losing money; the part in the top menu is the one that's accurate. It's the My economy basically went from +500 to -1200 after having the libs elected to powers in germany. Gonna go over the game later. Hopefully it's just like you and it's a sudden onset of buy orders that went through for some reason. Hopefully my economy survives "laissez-faire"
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Nov 25, 2019 01:25
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RabidWeasel posted:Spend less on candles! NEVER!
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Nov 25, 2019 01:35
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Ricky > V2
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Nov 25, 2019 02:07
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Has anyone here ever beaten UK's industrial score with any other country? In all my time playing Vicky I still haven't accomplished this
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VostokProgram posted:Has anyone here ever beaten UK's industrial score with any other country? In all my time playing Vicky I still haven't accomplished this I think I did in my communist mega-Germany game but that save is long gone granted it probably helped that England spent the last 40 years of the game constantly at civil war
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Nov 25, 2019 03:50
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VostokProgram posted:Has anyone here ever beaten UK's industrial score with any other country? In all my time playing Vicky I still haven't accomplished this i did it in both ricky and vicky 2 as ottomans, but it was because i conquered most of russia
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Nov 25, 2019 05:11
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I managed to do it with India once in Vic1. Bengal was an overpopulated industrial hellscape in that game, holy poo poo.
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Nov 25, 2019 09:03
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Beating them on population is probably the only way, if you industrialize say China you'll have workers lining up faster than you can build factories. So you can eventually catch up to England and then pass them once they don't have people to work on new factories.
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I was messing with the game once (If you use the console to spam inventions, the buffs stack untill you reload the game, at which point that removes "duplicate" buffs) I did pop growth and literacy for a little while - with Pop Growth you eventually hit an exponential mass where you can reload and everything still grows ridiculously as you now have 1-2m people in random high province life rating places like Moscow or something, and they migrate out slower than they grow. Either way it has a ridiculous effect on people wanting to work in factories - I stopped paying attention to industrial score when it was in the 5 digits before synthetic dyes. It was a good reminder of why every mod wants to ruin china being playable for a human being anyway.
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VostokProgram posted:Has anyone here ever beaten UK's industrial score with any other country? In all my time playing Vicky I still haven't accomplished this Yeah, if you manage to industrialize early as China, you can easily do it.
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Nov 25, 2019 15:38
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Or you can dismantle their empire and enjoy the whole island being a revolving door of revolutions.
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Isn't every revolving door a door of revolutions
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How well do Paradox's current titles work on 4K displays? I'm not worried about framerate, but more about whether UI elements can be scaled nicely.
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Crusader Kings 2 and Stellaris work well. Mind you, even in Stellaris they sometimes break new UI element by not adapting them to UI scaling and so you may get misplaced tooltips and such. HoI4 I didn't play that much but I noticed that even after years of patching some tooltips are just missing when you're in UI scaling mode. Mostly works OK otherwise. EU4 has hidden experimental scaling support and they bringing up an official one later. It doesn't look or work well. Functional, but you'll have a lot of broken tooltips and scaling doesn't seem to use a good filter. Imperator worked perfectly well on release. It is possible that it's worse after they've reworked a lot of UI in last two patches, it happened with other Paradox games, but I think they've learned their lessons there. Really it's strange how problematic UI scaling is in strategy games. Total War only started doing it properly in Three Kingdoms, Warhammer 2 is basically unplayable for me if I try to enable UI scaling.
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I need more content designers for CK3! We've had the occasional goon success story in the past, so if you think you have what it takes (and don't mind relocating to Stockholm) please give it a shot: https://career.paradoxplaza.com/jobs/784482-content-designer-crusader-kings-iii
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Nov 29, 2019 14:41
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You can buy elk and reindeer meat in Sweden, pro country!
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Party In My Diapee posted:Or you can dismantle their empire and enjoy the whole island being a revolving door of revolutions. Pro move is to play France and just storm every available man woman and child over the channel ASAP. Then you liberate India.
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