gfanikf posted:

What is currently the best country and time period to get used to the game mechanics with (ie like Ireland in CK2)?

PleasingFungus posted:

also, gonna take a moment to boast:



it is I, the 0.01%.

I wonder how many players that is?

Frontspac posted:

I don't know why, but I think it might be because they have claims there.

Zettace posted:

So I bought a couple DLCs (not including Common Sense) during the sale and came back to the game for the first time in months. However, I've noticed that the building slots lock is in my game even without buying the Common Sense DLC. How do I overcome this lock without the DLC?

Pellisworth posted:

Nah it the gender assignment doesn't matter, the only way the Iberian Wedding works is with Castile as overlord and Aragon as junior partner. For it to trigger, you need the rulers to be a male/female pair and which is which isn't relevant

Back To 99 posted:

Huh, i don't understand why are you loving administrative ideas so much. Can't really see any great bonuses in there? And quantity also seems bad if you already have plenty of manpower, compared to other military ideas that will make you win more battles and lose less men.

PleasingFungus posted:

Catholic.

It might have something to do with me showing up 50 years after the leagues were started?

Baronjutter posted:

I wish there was a way to see WHY the AI hates you in the empire.

VDay posted:

Nice! Am I understanding the league wars mechanic correctly in that you have to be part of the HRE to take part in the war? How'd you go about that as Sweden, just take some of Denmark's lands and then join up? Thinking about going for the Sweden achievements once the patch comes out for realsies.

ZombieLenin posted:

So non-catholic countries can join before the reformation/league war? Something seems off about a a Serbian orthodox state joining the HRE.

Bort Bortles posted:

He is asking if an orthodox country can join the HRE; not one of the league sides.

Trujillo posted:

Except for when you're attacked by a coalition. Then you still get a -1000 penalty to allying.

Speaking of coalitions, how much AE on average does it take for someone to join a coalition against you? As Florence I got too ambitious and took out Siena when I still had a little bit of AE and got jumped by everyone. It was still a decent trade off for me because even though the coalition made me release Sardinia I still kept Siena which is way better but I'd still rather avoid big coalitions.

Prop Wash posted:

Paper Mana
Bird Mana
Sword Mana
Baguette
Blurple
Skandenberg
Wrecked
Ottoscum

Sorry for your aneurysm!

Thunder Moose posted:

Silly question :with universities now providing a 20% local development cost buff:

Does it mean local as in THAT ONE PROVINCE gets a 20% cost reduction, or local as in all local provinces.

If the second, do they stack?

Avocados posted:

What could be the cause of a massively unstable income? I'm still doing my Russia run, and I was making 20 golds a month. A year passes and I have a deficit of -16/monthly, despite me just colonizing a few siberian provinces.

e:A large amount of my income comes from trade, could world alliances, wars, and embargos end up hurting me?

John Wilkes Booth posted:

Came back to EU4 after a long hiatus, played an easy game as Muscovy where me and Austria double-prong attacked the Commonwealth into oblivion and I took off to the east unopposed.

I'm looking to play a game where I form Germany, that was my biggest accomplishment in EU3 and I'd like to relive the glory. What's a fun nation to do it as?

Guildencrantz posted:

Just formed Germany as TO->Prussia, I'm the biggest empire in Europe and have the awesome claims that I should be able to grab over the next 30-50 years. It's before 1700. Any ideas for goals more interesting/cool than "lebensraum the gently caress out of Europe with ridiculous space marine soldiers"?

Redmark posted:

I don't know much about the Personal Union mechanics; what causes unions to break, generally? I got baited into declaring war with allied Poland, not realizing that they'd lost their PU with Lithuania. Last I'd checked, Lith was at about 30% liberty desire. I don't think Poland got into any wars in the interim, and they're still allied.

I'm hoping I can play hide-and-seek with massive Muscovy armies long enough for Poland to get its poo poo together, but they're getting beaten by a 3-star Tverian general lol.

Koramei posted:

Is that a Tunisian North Sea?

PittTheElder posted:

Yeah, the UI is getting cramped, not that that's easy to fix. UI design is almost always the hardest part.

More upsetting is that parts of it just take forever to load; I'm in the late 1700s in my game, and I just don't deal with trade any more, because when I select the trade map mode, the game hangs up for like 5 seconds. What it's doing in 1700 that it's not doing in 1444 I have no idea.

But Estates are useful and good.

Bort Bortles posted:

Something seems off about this:


Cant figure out what, though.

axeil posted:

Canada: One or two more wars? Not sure if I can get enough warscore in the next one

Jay Rust posted:

I inherited land in Burgundy, and I wanted to connect my French/Lowlands holdings, so I ate Flanders, pushing my AE pretty high. Then, a few years later, when my AE got to around -30 in the HRE, I threatened war for a piece of Brabant, since the Threaten War window said I'd only take 15 or so AE. But, nope. That was a trap. So here I am.

Lord Tywin posted:

So this is probably the first time when playing any of the Europa Universalis games that I have gotten this far. I just formed Germany and I wonder what to do next? Are there any fun achievements that I might be able to get? Since I started as Prussia and took Innovative, quality and offensive I have space marines so nobody is really a challenge.

Vivian Darkbloom posted:

Oh my. There are a few extra ideas, nbd:



but then there is a tobleronetriangular interface for adding them

double nine posted:

I started a game as Aragon and ... the Iberian wedding gave me Castille as a vassal? I thought it was always the other way around? What triggers this because I spent a lot of admin and AE biting chunks out of Castille that I apparently didn't have to ...

QuarkJets posted:

El Dorado also has the amazing new world events for conquistadors, and I liked the changes to naval exploration.

SurgicalOntologist posted:

Baron Corbyn posted:

They ended up sending me the exact same offer I wasn't able to offer them.

Rookersh posted:

Can anyone explain EU4 to me?

Crusader Kings 2 was my first Paradox game. It makes sense, it's about politics dickery and family dickery. There's also war/conquest/politics/building up provinces sure, but the core of the game is trying to keep a dumb dynasty together.

I bought Hearts of Iron 4 and that makes sense. It's the "war" game. You set up your factory lines, focus on producing armies/teching up armies, and after spending 5 hours preparing for it, you burn through what you built in the 3-4 hour long WW2. The better you planned/prepared, the better you do, and there's a heavy focus on alt history/doing dumb poo poo like having Poland beat Germany in the initial invasion. Also makes sense.

EU4 just seems to be the nationbuilding/war stuff of CK2 but without the oddball dynasty stuff? Am I missing something? What's EU4s "thing".

Captain Theron posted:

So I picked this up in the steam sale with the goal of colonising the new world as Venice, but apparently the trade nodes don't flow back to me. Who do I need to gently caress up to maximise serene trade?

Wafflecopper posted:

From 1489:



They knew Asia was there but to say they knew what it looked like is a bit of a stretch.

Colonial Air Force posted:

Thomas Paine gets two DLCs. Nice.

Eej posted:

Eastern units start outpacing Anatolians.