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Elman posted:El Dorado at least adds some useful stuff with automated exploration, gold fleets and the Treaty of Tordesillas, so it's good for both South Americans and colonizers. Not to mention it adding the nation designer.
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TTBF posted:I'm playing as the Ottomons for the first time and generally having fun even if every war drains all my admin points. I want to declare on Genoa next, but doing so will bring me into conflict with Austria as Genoa is part of the HRE. If I attack a member of the HRE and the Emperor joins, is that a war against the entire HRE or just the relevant parties? The emperor gets to bring in all his allies, but not every member of the HRE, besides who's mentioned in the war declaration menu.
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Jun 14, 2015 15:17
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TTBF posted:Also be warned that if a vassal or PU partner forms a CN they will still get upset at you for colonizing there. Not to mention the pope being miffed.. They really do everything they can to make Catholism as unattractive as possible.
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Jun 15, 2015 16:00
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Upgrading your republic from a kingdom to an empire makes you go from Grand Republic to Great Republic.. Wouldn't you say that "grand" is better than "great"?
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Jun 17, 2015 10:08
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Mygna posted:I got sight on Asia in my Milan game around 1640 and now I kind of wish there was a replay mode to explain how some of this poo poo happened Greece has formed on Cyprus due to rebels in every single game I've played so far since last patch.
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Jun 17, 2015 17:40
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I fail to see why Frederik IV of Denmark has 0/0/0.. I know that Denmark went bankrupt during his reign, but it was hardly his fault, and he -did- save his country from being annexed by the Swedes, leading them to lose the position as primary power in the Baltics to the Russians in the Great Nordic War 0f 1700-1721. He also instituted major reforms for schools and land ownership, so I'd say he'd at least could do with some admin and diplomacy, especially. Was he just a forgotten character?
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Jun 19, 2015 20:08
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 A million beheaded heretics, heathens and disgruntled peasants later, the Teutonic Order can finally declare Pax Teutonicus! The Ottoman hordes are still at large, always boasting a hundred thousand warriors whenever we did battle for the scraps of a monstrously huge Crimea, who spanned from Kiev to Sibir. As the Ottomans grow fatter on the ripe fields to the South, we feel implored to fully establish the bulwark against these legions of injustice as was our duty of old..  Three years later, I say let them come.  One should probably pick more military ideas than Defensive for the first 200 years of the game when doing these, although Devotion's as ludicrously good as it's easy to keep up. I used to prefer theocracies for their lack of stab hits on ruler deaths, but Common Sense has completely ruined any other government form for me - If you haven't tried one out yet, you're seriously missing out, I felt so spoiled during this run! Oh, and joining the HRE, just to see your emperor Austria buddy flip religion, lose the seat and watch it get tossed to Bohemia, your rival, who promptly declare Ewiger Landfriede is no fun, although it did clear an entire front for me to not worry about! ..Now to turn into Prussia and get that goose step achievement!  E: Oh, and how I wish we were able to drag our country's name around, making it fit better.
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Jun 22, 2015 21:53
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Bort Bortles posted:Did you sign A Bitter Peace? Just spending some of my Baltic treasure on prestige projects, you may call me the original Swan King.
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Jun 22, 2015 22:02
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Poil posted:I forced my vassal Dai Viet to convert to Confucianism but they refuse to use missionaries to convert their provinces. I tag switched to them to check and all of their provinces are in the 20-30 months conversion range. They just won't use their missionary. Throw some money at them.
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Jun 23, 2015 13:03
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Poil posted:How in the world would that help? Missionaries have an upkeep when in use, and the AI refrains from spending gold at the dumbest of times. I had the same problem with Finland in my TO game yesterday.
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Jun 23, 2015 13:12
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Poil posted:Oh, thanks. They are sitting at +2 a month though. But I could throw them a buck I guess. Maybe they're in debt? Or perhaps the AI just doesn't bother with converting provinces until they're below a certain month-requirement?
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Jun 23, 2015 13:32
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Kersch posted:WARNING: AI borders! Only click if you have a strong stomach! Eet's beeeautifuuul! 
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Jun 23, 2015 13:43
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Pellisworth posted:Muscovy is kind of a pushover or at least tends to collapse a lot more easily to Hordes and other neighbors. Him owning all the PLC land is more impressive to me cuz there's a solid 500+ development in there and it took me forever to conquer in my TO->Prussia game. I had a similar progress at 1686, and I didn't even pick administrative ideas; it's completely doable!
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Jun 24, 2015 22:21
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Obliterati posted:Common Sense seems to have a lot more colonisers. They also all beeline for Brazil, so you'll have Dutch, French, English, Casillian and Portuguese there pretty sharply. Getting a pop-up telling me that Friesland has been the first to circumvent the globe made my day yesterday.
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Jun 25, 2015 01:00
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Bort Bortles posted:And -1 stability too, right? Yup. I'm pretty sure that the diplomatic idea group bonus removes this, though.
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Jun 25, 2015 10:23
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Koramei posted:sick ..Aaand there goes the okay idea group balancing out the window again. E: Well, it's not THAT dire, but they were still boons to the less used ones.
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Jun 25, 2015 23:06
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PleasingFungus posted:by the time you have 1000 development, you've won. who cares what happens at emperor rank, from a 'balance' perspective? A fair few countries start the game on King rank, even small ones.
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Jun 26, 2015 08:36
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Patch notes posted:- Will now refuse to be vassalised by a country that owns its cores. This sound absolutely crippling to diplovassalizing, or am I misreading this?
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Jun 26, 2015 21:24
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Vanilla Mint Ice posted:You know what, instead of a +1 diplomat at kingdom and +1 leader at empire I think it would be cooler if you get +1 free national policy slot at kingdom and at empire rank. I would be just fine with this change, if influence and aristocracy got something else to make them worthwhile again! E: Uh, that was diplomacy, not influence, and it's not nearly as big an offender as aristocracy, don't take that the wrong way. Really, it's aristocracy I'm worried for, as you really don't need 4-5 leaders. THE BAR fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Jun 26, 2015 |
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Jun 26, 2015 21:30
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Yashichi posted:Why is this a problem? It makes sense that they wouldn't peacefully choose to be your vassal if you own land that's theirs. You can still just declare war and vassalize them if you need to. Ah, see, now it makes sense to me.
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Jun 26, 2015 22:10
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At least the difficulty of maintaining army tradition has boosted quality and defensive immensely compared to offensive, the previous obvious military idea of choice. ..Which may or may not get stomped into the ground with the upcoming AT from forts change.
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Jun 27, 2015 23:32
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Allyn posted:Why is offensive less appealing in this setup? Surely in an era of unreliable AT gains, guaranteed leader pips are even more valuable. Then again I just straight up love offensive and pretty much always have As others have said, it's not that offensive's bad, it's that the others are just as good now!
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Jun 28, 2015 11:08
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Jul 5, 2015 09:33
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I know it doesn't affect my game, but I can't help but feel disgusted when people just SAM their way through the achievements without even attempting them.
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Jul 10, 2015 12:20
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A Buttery Pastry posted:The change is basically just moving the cross so it's a Nordic Cross instead of a St. George's Cross. The really odd thing is Paradox not making it a Nordic Cross from the start. Same with Norway, they all had the cross of today, even back then.
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Jul 24, 2015 10:05
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Zuhzuhzombie!! posted:What's worse is the AI, as France or Poland, saying they'll join your war against Austria only to watch you in silence as you get your poo poo stomped. It's the closest they get to human behaviour, savour it!
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It struck me how I'm missing the single ideas from EU3, especially the one that focuses on art. There's nothing in EU4 that truly lets me ignore warfare and just make the Swan King proud. E: It's even doubly sad, considering the time period. THE BAR fucked around with this message at 15:20 on Aug 18, 2015 |
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Aug 18, 2015 15:17
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Zuhzuhzombie!! posted:Gotcha. So if Im gonna start gobbling up HRE members I need to be aligned with the Emperor. And try and make sure that your emperor buddy doesn't lose the throne.
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Aug 18, 2015 22:40
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Pellisworth posted:They're in kind of a tricky diplomatic and geographic situation at the start. France often rivals you Giving E: Don't give France anything, seriously! THE BAR fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Oct 14, 2015 |
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Oct 14, 2015 20:22
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StashAugustine posted:Ran into a guy at my college playing EU4 the other day. I bring it up cause he was using the terrain mapmode Well, there's your CB right there!
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Oct 15, 2015 21:37
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:
Enjoying yourself has never been a waste of money.
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Oct 22, 2015 19:57
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 It's "successful", and the sentence doesn't make much sense to begin with. I don't know what that "lately have given" is doing there, but it's preventing me from playing any further! Fix it, or I'll rebel flag you guys so hard! 
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Nov 4, 2015 01:28
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If Golden Horde has no dangerous allies, you could DoW them and get military access for Muscovy that way. Figured that might be it?
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Nov 22, 2015 11:14
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Poil posted:The AI seems to always get "lucky" with the colonist chance and grow their colonies really fast. This isn't Civ 5, the only place where the AI is allowed to cheat, I believe, is ignoring other stacks' attrition and having free relation slots for players. Lucky nations is something else.
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Nov 22, 2015 19:44
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PittTheElder posted:AIs also get vastly reduced chances of native risings in their colonies, since they don't know to garrison them. Well I'll be.
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Nov 22, 2015 20:12
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GreyPowerVan posted:Just get EU4. CK2 is bad now. It does feel rather neglected, even though the Horse Lords DLC came out not too long ago!
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Dec 31, 2015 15:48
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PittTheElder posted:Unrelated: theocracies are baller. While being unable to make your rulers into generals isn't. That severely hampers my custom nation RP sessions! There's no reason to be the Knights of Madasque, when you can't bring the sword to the heathens personally.
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Jan 29, 2016 11:02
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Star posted:You can always form Westphalia. Or Hannover!
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Feb 17, 2016 12:47
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I, too, can't wait for the Fetishists to rise.
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IncredibleIgloo posted:As for Monarchies there are a few simple fixes that would make them a lot less awful. Regencies are the single biggest drawback to monarchies and a huge impediment to enjoying the game. Some solutions to that would be to: This sounds like such a simple and elegant solution, which would solve several problems -and- foster more player choice.
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