Thread 2234200

DAY X
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3450310/Europa_Universalis_V/

what's up losers how's it feel to spend 90% of your time staring at the map waiting for something to happen because johaniums doesn't know how to design a mentally stimulating videogame? thanks for the responses, see ya

why are all the events in this game just choices between losing stability, losing legitimacy or losing prestige

>>2234200 (OP)
Operation total polish death commences

>country rank influences diplomatic range
>I can't invade India despite colonizing the island right underneath them because my dude calls himself a duke and not a king
I hate this system and I hate the HRE

>>2234206
Me when another subject gets annexed as muscovy

I made a spreadsheet for important Techs in Renaisance era.
Try to rush Armory so you can get Manpower and Regurals.
Green sub-optional if you want Gunpowders or use Slaves.
Blue is Navy users skip if land.
Literacy, Crown Power and Cabinet is good for everyone.

>>2234209
what is a german doing in india

Kyiv

You get army upgrades and the AI is too stupid to do the same. They make millions yet they won't transform into a standing army because they feel like their levy is enough. Literally like vicky2 where you get gas and you win 10:1 against everyone

uhm what does the artist limit do exactly? why can i have 6 with a limit of 2?

>>2234205
after pillaging the polish countryside for 2 years and finally looting the art collection in the polish capital of Krakau I finally ended this war that lasted for god knows how long. They started it with a special "Great northern war" cb and the war lasted for probably a decade or more, idk even know. Took all of their baltic possessions and Danzig.

>levies are the optimal unit per frontline in early ages
>regulars are nothing but filler for empty frontline slots
>the larger your country the less professionals you need for your army

Do you guys mix the high initiative infantry with low inititative ones or use one or the other? I'm mixing them but it's annoying to upgrade them all seperately.

>>2234219
notice how the majority of them aren't doing anything but some are creating art

>>2234220
Any tips for Sweden early game? Do i pump the Iron RGOs to max or save for towns instead?

>>2234221
yeah that's why proyssia hired a bunch of regulars so they could fight the levies of big countries

>>2234221
Nah bro. Levies can have only have -10 Discipline. Regurals can have +40% Discipline.
It's like massacring Ming blobs as Oirat in EU4.

>>2234223
that was because i had just got them. now 5 out of 6 are working.

>>2234223
Not true at all, they're doing jack shit because he doesn't use the slider. You can have like 30 artists working at the same time and it costs several thousand ducats per month
>>2234219
You can't hire more via the hire artist button. That's literally it. You can still poach them from other nations and you can get them from events.

>>2234219
it's like a force limit

Gonna try playing the second campaign on hard at least, this is pathetic.

new update?

>Delhi was reduced to 1 location but still has like 10 % of India as vassals
is this what usually happens in this godforsaken subcontinent?

How do you play Brandenburg early game?

>>2234235
theyre playing the vassal meta

>>2234235
Bro you're not gonna believe what happened IRL with mughals

>>2234232
Forum says it's only for crashes. Useless since I haven't had a single one.

>>2234222
I think either one or the other is optimal, I would not mix them, but I don't know which is best.
Either doing damage faster gives you an advantage that snowballs or it doesn't.
I don't think there is such a thing as counterplay with this system, so some unit is going to be simply better.

>>2234222
I pick the unit with the coolest name, duh

>>2234210
is there a way to centralize the Rurkovich union if I passed a reform not for centralization? I tried to vote on it again but lost the vote.

>>2234231
>>2234216
Looks pretty standard for any Paradox game, the longer the game goes on the bigger the gap becomes since the player usually focuses on maximum quality while the AI doesn't.

>>2234235
Decentralization

>>2234216
I did notice my rifle chads dominating way too many AI man at arms or whatever they are called

>>2234249
The problem is that I do not focus on quality at all. My slider is on quality, I don't have any of the discipline things. I have 0% infantry power. Literally all I did was research tech and use the units. They have the same tech. They don't use the new units.

I don't actually understand what the benefits of initiative even are. Can someone explain it for a brainlet

>>2234254
my slider is on quantity*

>>2234224
>Do i pump the Iron RGOs to max
that's what I did, minemaxxing. Notice the copper mine in Falun with a special modifier as well. I only recently started building towns and cities when I finally got some money. A lot of people here have been writing about food problems playing other countries, I don't share this experience at all as sweden. There's also lumber everywhere. So basically Sweden is a extremely poor shithole with some advantages: No food problems, and lumber aplenty means cheap construction. Build masons etc. to make building even cheaper. you need it. there's also a single sand deposit just south of stockholm that's useful if you max it.
Colonize North and Finland obviously. You have to fight Novgorod and have them give up their claims so you can colonize Karelia. They are under the treaties tab I think in the peace negotiations. At first I didn't realize this, but just conquered their most northern provinces to prevent them from colonizing. Made a snake-like fiefdom of those provinces to the white sea.
Also just get rid of Norway, they'll start wars or get attacked by scotland and it's pretty much impossible to integrate them.
Also give the peasants weapons.

>>2234221
>the larger your country the less professionals you need for your army
you reach a point where all your levies combined don't even reach half of your regulars. Spam those manpower buildings

>>2234241
I'll just go for high initiative with heavy cav to see how it goes.
>>2234248
I got some decentralization policies too at some point but I'm not sure what causes your partners to vote yes on your issues. Maybe it's just high relations and trust? My union kinda split apart because the Horde raped me.

>>2234254
Can you see the AI's "expected army size" anywhere? Mine is always tiny, and I get the feeling they treat that number as a hard limit and never build as much as they can afford.

>>2234220
>after pillaging the polish countryside for 2 years and finally looting the art collection in the polish capital of Krakau
This happened IRL and Poles still kvetch about it

>>2234255
If a unit on the frontline retreats or dies and you have someone in the reserves, initiative is how fast they'll deploy on the frontline.

>>2234249
Some minmaxer y*utuber said that quantity is the better value to go for in most situations. Take that as you will.

>>2234255
units don't start fighting when combat starts
they roll dice to start attacking and they roll against something like: initiative + hours of fighting
so units with high initiative should be able to do damage before the low initiative side starts fighting and doing damage
which is better? no idea so far

>>2234216
Historically accurate when its Europeans vs anyone else.

>>2234240
I had one but that was before the first patch

>>2234264
you're thinking of a different stat

>>2234257
The only problem is Sweden has shit towns so early wars are terrible.... Also the colonizing of Finland cost a lot of money...

>>2234257
Pic related is fun if you want more swedekino.

>>2234264
Well what does that matter if they start the battle in the front line?

For example I have two units of infantry available, matchlock infantry and the landschnekt (however the fuck you spell it)
The matchlock guys have 6 initiative but a huge 20% extra taken damage modifier
Lands have 1 initiative but a 10% reduced damage modifier
All other stats are the same
So which one should I use?

>>2234269
No I don't think so. That's said in the paradox combat guide on jewtube

>>2233294
its extremely slow, i had some bulgarian provinces that i just gave back because it would be hundred years before the region was worth anything to me.

>levy went from 11k to 3k after I was done colonizing
wew

>>2234276
>Initiative is the chance that a unit will engage during the combat phase if placed in the center, left flank or right flank.
>Combat speed determines how fast the unit moves from reserves to another section during battle. For ships, it also impacts how quickly a damaged ship can leave the current section to retreat.

>>2234249
>meanwhile AI poland will rape your ass the more you wait

>>2234276
I guess I'll have to go see that video, I looked at the tooltip in the game and it said so.

need like 50 camp followers every time i want to take my moroccan ass down through the sahara to the bank of mali

>>2234279
Just because they move from reserve to a section doesn't mean they joined the combat dipshit. They still need to roll initiative after that

>>2234216
the icon for prestige looks more like it should be for military experience and vice versa

>frogs declared Naval hegemony
>I navally rape them every war
What's happening

>>2234261
I have 200k expected army size. I can't imagine they have less than 150k at their 30m population.
I think it's bugged as fuck, because when I hover on their country it says they have 133k regulars, but hegemony screen says they'd have 43k regulars if they were all fully reinforced.

>>2234286
french arrogance

ok so late game warfare is a fucking slog actually. battles do not matter because noone fucking dies. a full stack with a bit of art and cav is 80k, if both sides are balanced they'll each lose about 5k men in an 80v80k battle, which is less than both me and AI Bohemia and Ruthenia is generating monthly. theres no attrition and almost no sieging because lmao assaults.

occupying capital, occupying anything also gives fuckall warscore because there so many goddamn locations, and everyone has seven different allies on top of it

>>2234286
It is like Britain during WW2. Both America and Japan were navaly superior to them but I'm sure the British still claimed to be the best.

Please explain light ships and trade protection in this game, I liked to do it in eu4 but here my ships just stay on one tile and I can't see any funny number to see if they are doing anything, it made me completely ignore naval stuff (but I am playing in Germany so it's ok)

c'est fin

My explorer fucked a jap hoe, he's the first weeb

What exactly is Europa Universalis? I never played IV, but have played CK2+3, HOI4 and Stellaris.
For some reason, I can't wrap my head around it. It's like a detailed city builder but for a country and with diplomacy and military expansion

20 /30 ducat as britain in 1405 is good or am I retarded?

>>2234294
he's got the swag witcher glasses lmao

>>2234291
they dont move anymore. they may be doing the mission but they stay in the tile u left them

>>2234294
Based

>>2234297
it's a bit lean

>>2234263
I know :D
>>2234270
>Also the colonizing of Finland cost a lot of money...
It's expensive but it pays itself back. They become your cores automatically so you get the minimum 20 control, no wars or integrating needed.
Also spoiler: develop Sala (have people migrate there in advance) you'll thank me later :D

>>2234297
i make 40 ducats as aachen

>>2234275
mix them
in my experience, a full stack of high initiative will make mincemeat out of low initiative troops as they engage one at a time. having like 30-50% of your cav and inf be light variants protects against that but still lets your heavy dudes carry the fight

>>2234296
4 was quite different, the city building aspect was basic and shallow
EU5 has a lot of victoria dna in it for some reason

>>2234296
Map painter

>>2234289
Historically accurate. Here’s your war deciding battle irl bro!
iirc the casualties inflicted by this battle were enough for the French general to consider the enemy’s victory a pyrrhic victory, if not that one it was a similar one

>>2234289
yeah you have to automate that shit and it's still a grind

>>2234305
why not just put everithing on high initiative? is it really countered by mixed units?

>>2234294
>tfw you will never marry a japanese peasant girl with a cute name like Hanae
why even live?

How does the Deus Vult work?

Who buys the food in a fully occupied province? The owner or the controller?

>>2234289
Abuse rivers, mountains, forests, hills, and frontage. Try your best to cut their supply lines.

>>2234315
it doesnt do anything
you can already justify the cb at game start

>>2234309
bit mad that innit

>>2234316
IT GOES TO THE MARKET AND WHO HAS HIGHEST ADVANTAGE BUYS IT FIRST

>play Sweden
>Norway declares war on Denmark
>we are definitely stronger together
>lose because Norway just sits there
Fuck you Norway

>>2234294
>Japanese girls see this and go absolutely wild

>>2234317
you have absolutely 0 clue, why comment when you haven't played past renaissance?

how badly would it fuck up a country for you to scorch every single province?

>>2234326
You sounded like you needed help so I gave it to ya on the house.

>>2234324
Sometimes I wish they would just give the player control of vassal/union armies. Most of the time my vassals just sit in some mountain 2000 miles away from the enemy.

>>2234315
maybe it's a better version of the base cb, or an alternative source for it for countries that don't have it? no idea desu

>>2234289
dont fight unless you have +2 terrain advantage AT LEAST retard

>>2234330
Really should be an option depending on the subject type, they had that for Vicky 2 and HOI3 and then never again

>>2234324
>>2234330
Stick to Eu4 /gsg/ shitters

>>2234330
vassals are already busted, no need to make them better

sneed about mapcel

>>2234331
My guess is that it's bugged and you shouldn't have access to it without the tech

>>2234296
A game about the early modern period that specializes in letting you do just about whatever. I think I'd say it is most similar to Stellaris because of this. Both games focus on country building and discovery while allowing you many options of what to do. Although EU5 has a lot more detail and lets you do a lot more than Stellaris.

>>2234322
No way right? Why would France pay for a german minor's food just because they're in France's market

>>2233404
>Two forts adjacent to each other also takes a shit ton of effort to get past if you build them in spots where the enemy can't easily go around.
Do you legit mean where their zone of control is overlapping each other? Or just in general connected Zone of Control?

paradox: * takes a massive shit on a plate *
paracuck: MASTERPIECE! JOHANS MAGNUM OPUS! WAITER, WAITER! I'D LIKE THE 49.99$ PISS DLC TOO!

The schizo woke up

>>2234327
It's gonna be actually amazing genocide mechanics when the next patch adds the option to not buy food for certain provinces.

>>2234340
Because this frankenstein of a meme game was made outof the harvested organs of their other games with no regard for it making sense.

>>2234308
In game this would give you +2 Warscore

>>2234350
It wouldn't because paradox thinks late game battles don't deserve warscore. There's an 80% penalty to ws from battles in the late ages

>>2234350
>10k casualties in1708
>+2 war score
don't make me loff

Is there really no army template system? Its unfeasible to manually adjust formations every time i make a new army. Also what would be a good "pike and shot" era army composition?

How do trade goods work?

Lets say I need 1.0 Mason. If I get construction that gives 0.5 masonary, does that only give .5 off the 1.0 perpetually? Or will a few months go by and that .5 will add into 1.0? Is it strict addition/subtraction or is it something that stockpiles?

>>2234336
Its more that its just a frustrating mechanic. I agree vassals are busted and should be nerfed but its just not fun to see your vassals standing right next to the battle you have going doing nothing or running away

help what do i pick help help help!!!!! also r8 my cuntry.

>>2234354
Full infantry frontline, art just for sieges, and a wagon if you're feeling fancy

>>2234359
Are you gonna colonize? Pick diplomatic focus, if not, pick Admin

>>2234359
KYIV still exists 1/10

>>2234308
ye fair enough, not every battle is austerlitz or wagram. but when you do win a battle or three and march to the enemy capital and take it, and that gives you +3 warscore in total, we've got a problem

>>2234357
It stockpiles
If you need that 1.0 to make something, it will get made in 2 months if your only source is the 0.5, then it will get put in the market stockpile
If you need to maintain something monthly with 1.0, you'll still be missing 0.5 every month

What should I spend my prestige on before I tank it by marrying commoners?

>>2234313
in my limited experience yes. won't say with certainty though, i havent tracked drill/experience levels properly and that might throw it off.

it also looks like experience isnt decaying properly for ai cuz even after 3 years of constant fighting they have units at 90+

>>2234360
What about cav? Also some gunners or only halberds?

>>2234290
bong navy in terms of active reserve was the biggest in europe, thats the point of the wasthington naval treaty. though the burger navy in 1942 onwards was probably bigger in terms of overall reserve but they kept out of the way mostly.

guys the winter snow is blocking our way, what do we do?
the army:

PATCH IS LIVE
>hotfix 1.0.4
happening cancelled

Total sandnigger death

Markets don't work like trade nodes from Eu4 do they? I can't transfer the entirety of the worlds trade to my home market/node with merchants can I?

As Ottomans, how do i put my slaves in the janissary building? I have lots of slaves but they only work in rgos, is there some way to move them into the building or what?

why does georgia perform so well

>>2234374
>Hotfix 1.0.4 addresses some crashing and other smaller fixes. Stay tuned, we can expect a far larger patch early next week!
>early next week
what happened to the big patch this week? It's actually over

>>2234376
You can't, there isn't enough merchant capacity for that. Even if there was, you'd lose a huge amount of money because the goods would be dirt cheap in your "home" market

>>2234378
hordes of the east vs. big christian cock

Napule is starting to have an enormous population of mostly peasants, 229k of them in 1400. Is this an issue? Should I be trying to move them elsewhere or just let them keep breeding?

>>2234380
It got even bigger

When can I play as a custom Japaese BBCBC (big black cock based country) country "Yasuke and Sons interracial NTR breeding company"?

>>2234346
>>2234361
>you will be able to simulate the Potato Famine in EUV

>>2234376
Trading is completely different, forget everything you know about EU4 honestly.

>>2234368
promote or accept cultures

Despite claims to the contrary, it is absolutely possible for you to not be able to full annex a rebellion if it requires more than 100% war score, even if you click on the "annex revolter" button on the peace screen. If rebels spawn and you crush them with 100% war score, but the land they took was too much, you WILL need to let them form their own country despite wiping them out in the war.

>>2234309
I say this and still shit my pants every time I see France at my border

>>2234346
>It's gonna be actually amazing genocide mechanics when the next patch adds the option to not buy food for certain provinces.
i may have been trying to figure a way to "get rid" of my anatolia province with 90% turk population as greeks
apparently expel people just expels them to whatever has the highest migration attraction, and not across the border

Do ability scores play as eugenics in marriage? Or are ability scores completely RNG?

>>2234398
That's actually fine if your capital has the highest attraction since you can convert all of them easily there

>destroyed all my forts in rebellious areas
genuinely why would you not do this? enjoy spending 300 years to siege the rebel fort instead of 18 days

>>2234395
your screenshot might be more convincing if you showed yourself using the annex revolter button in question

How can I increase my ruler's ability score once they're already king?

>>2234395
>4th great power as ottomans in 1410
How... I feel so weak in 1550, im like 10th power at best still

>>2234402
my assimilation is -33% because i have just been trying to make my estates happy and that pumps spiritualism

>>2234403
I don't understand how anyone can even get rebels in this game

>>2234410
Doesn't matter, your capital (any location where your primary culture is dominant) has 50% buff

>>2234412
play byz

every 2 year is scheduled 4-way rebellion

Since i put the ai difficulty onto hard i can no longer enjoy the base difficulty. I tried doing a full blobbing ottomans game but i got bored after 40 years when i conquered all of anatolia and greece with minimal oposition.

Hard ai should unironicaly be the base difficulty.

>>2234415
>Hard ai should unironicaly be the base difficulty.
Fight France as a small nation then.

>>2234412
I got a civil war because I didn't realise that revoking privileges from an estate with 0 loyalty causes a HUGE spike in their revolt progress lmao
other than that no idea myself

>>2234404
Do you not realize that my mouse is hovering over that button and the popup says "can not select all locations"?

>>2234415
Don’t they just get buffs with higher difficulty? I’d rather the AI just be good.

>new patch won't be out before next week
sadge

>>2234420
genuine answer: no I didn't because I didn't know that that was a button. I'm just used to the "annex revolter" treaty in the next tab over which costs a flat 80%

>>2234420
There’s an “Annex Revolter” button on the war status screen, not the peace deal screen.

>>2234416
>nooo my opm shitter should be able to full annex france in one war!!!!
>i have to actualy play smart and develop my lands, assemble an army, forge alliances and isolate france to finaly put them down?
>NO JUST GIVE ME A I WIN BUTTON

This is how you sound like

>>2234395
You're not supposed to select the provinces bwo. Just click the button

>>2234431
k

>>2234423
The buffs make the ai perform better. Just the estate happines buff makes the ai more stable and not go into a civil war every 5 years.

This and the extra tax efficiency and pop growth makes them consolidate internaly and thus allow them to wage more wars.

>>2234407
parliament: strengthen our rule or whatever it's called. if you pass it the monarch gets +3 in all three categories

Why does it say I have no acess because I have a "market" wouldnt having a market be the main requirement for market access?

>>2234437
How do characters in general get more ability score? Being made general or admiral and winning battles looked like the case.

>>2234440
they dont
join military order for +15 mil
pass parliament issue for +3/3/3

in 400 years i havent seen a single point gain from another source after they come of age

>>2234440
There is a option to make a character join knightly orders which gives them ability point buffs.

I dont know if there are any penalties but i consistently ship my heirs to join the albanian order for admin score

>>2234444
Thanks

>>2234438
yeah you dont have one

So how do I start as knights? I know about building houses in other countries but idk how to translate that into army that could let me blob

>>2234401
Bump
Do children take the average of father+mother ability scores?

>Centralization > Decentralization
Unless you have vassals you're struggling to keep in line then allowing some decentralization till you pull them in may be worthwhile.
>Innovative > Traditionalist
>Aristocracy / Plutocracy
Feels very situational, 5% discipline could be relevant. But whenever you work to curtail the nobles moving to Plutocracy seems a useful part of that.
>Serfdom > Free Subjects
Until pop-promotion speed becomes vital. That seems like the only advantage of free subjects really.
>Belligerent / Conciliatory
If antagonism and coalitions are relevant belligerent is better, if they're not as relevant conciliatory is better.
>Quantity > Quality
More frontage is more damage output. Morale recovery is a niche benefit, 0.1 tactics is just a 2.5% damage decrease which doesn't really compete with dealing 25% more damage. Initiative only seems relevant with small armies that can't easily fill the frontage. Large armies will fill frontage near instantly regardless of initiative. Maybe only being suboptimal for a couple ticks.
>Offensive > Defensive
Army speed and siege ability let you ensure good fights and quicker sieges is important. Defensive bonuses don't seem bad but I don't know when I'd rather have them,
>Land / Naval
Depends on location, if largely coastal Naval, if largely inland or landlocked then land.
>Capital Economy vs Traditional Economy
Traditional Economy whenever your economy is RGO based, likely early game, switching into Capital Economy as manufacturing overtakes raw resource gathering in importance. I'm not sure what the key indicators of that point are.
>Individualism vs Communalism
Communalism if you need to depower an estate saves a ton of stab, can make it possible to revoke powers from an estate that may have been impossible before.
But other than that it seems like Individualism is just better.

Are my opinions on the basic values so far, am I off about any of them?
I've seen people recommend free subjects but I don't really get it.

>>2234450
>send diplomats improve relations with big nations with lots of money
>get military sponsorship when your relations are high
>with military sponsorship you can request funds from them to get shitloads of money
>crank up your diplomatic spending to max for more diplomats and you should be able to get 500g regularly from multiple different big nations like bohemia, france and castille
>recruit lots of regulars (crusader knights) and don't care if your economy is slightly in the red because you can just request more money from your sponsors
>blob with your big army of crusader knights

>>2234457
so I don't really care about force limit?

>>2234455
keeping the aristo-pluto slider at close to 0 is probably optimal just so neither get the power buff

>already play time at 70 hours
>damn i've been playing a lot huh
>check new thread
>DAY X
what the fuck, it's only been ten days?
How the fuck did he do it bros?

>>2234458
Force limit is just a suggestion based on your economy I think. I'm currently at 2500 / 90 forcelimit and my army does cost more that the entire taxable income of my country but it doesnt matter because of all the sponsors and funding.

Should I avoid annexing if my vassal hasn't fully converted the culture/religion of its locations? And wait until it's at least like 90% converted?

i'm actually so excited about the future of this game and the modding potential. i think it has a really good foundation if they can iron out the bugs

>>2234438
It says you don't have a market ie you are not the market owner

brehs it's only 1433 and I already want to automate construction...

>>2234455
>and quicker sieges is important
Sieges last 3 days with the click of a button

ok i just watched bohemia's infantry go from 93% experience to 100 in a monthly tick while they were sieging back their own province

so basically its bugged and/or ai is cheating and it effectively has a permanent -50% dmg taken modifier :)

>>2234470
I'm hoping they flesh out the supply line gameplay.
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/make-supply-lines-more-punishable.1872864/

>>2234464
force limit is based on your pops so it would make sense for ABCs to ignore that mechanic

what happens if i go to war with a state thats in the HRE? do they all join the war?

>>2234220
Why die for Danzig?

>>2234478
I'm a normal country and I haven't noticed anything from going over force limit. No increase on recruitment cost, no increase no upkeep cost.

>>2234472
its already automated enough. just click "mass build" and it builds the most logical buildings first

>>2234211
Thanks for including the tooltips for the buildings. Good post.

I take back my complaints about the peace deal AI. I think the AI gave me a fair if not perfect deal.
I took most of Aragon's land in Sardinia but a small portion is allowed to remain under Aragonese Vassalization. In addition Aragon will anull treaties with Bohemia, Granada and, most importantly, Sicily, essentially clearing the path for a reunification of the Kingdom of TWO Sicillies.
Overall 8/10 after what I was expecting to be a 3/10
Also FML i hit "Disband levies" while they were in fucking Aragon holy shit I just lost 30,000 soldiers

>>2234436
I’ll consider playing hard mode then, as long as the buffs don’t feel cheesy. I hate in games when the AI is retarded but just has buffs that are genuinely unfair. Total War battle difficulty levels are the worst for this. Can you change difficulty mid-campaign in EUV?

>>2234481
Seems like the polacks are doing the dying.

>>2234473
Assaults are better with offensive as well.

>>2234460
estates having power is useful for parliament, I don't see it as a demerit

>>2234488
Better for what? To save the 20 manpower per assault?

>>2234485
the ai is pretty good at giving you stuff but i wish that i could tell them to not give me garbo land

>>2234492
You can transfer occupation

>>2234455
All of this is irrelevant because I roleplay and decide values strictly based on vibes. Centralization is the only exception.

>>2234491
What are you doing to make assaults not cost thousands of men?

>>2234494
>All of this is irrelevant because I roleplay and decide values strictly based on vibes. Centralization is the only exception.
Correct way to play. I blob up to my pretty borders and stop there.

>>2234455
>>Centralization > Decentralization
Always Centralization. Crown Power + Proximity Cost are always good. Decentralization is purely bad, the bonuses are a consolation prize

>>Innovative > Traditionalist
Always Innovative. Max literacy = promotion speed, research, and other stuff. Cultural influence = assimilation, vassal annexation speed, etc.

>>Plutocracy > Aristocracy
In theory always max Pluto, because burghers are easier to tax, more useful, do their own trade, and the other bonuses are good. In practice some stuff gives Aristocracy so it's hard to max out.
In republics it's different, since your burghers are the ones you need to curtail to gain crown power

>>Free Subjects > Serfdom
Pop promotion speed is critical so you want Free Subjects. But Serfdom isn't bad sometimes because poor countries make more money off taxing peasants and RGOs.

>>Conciliatory > Belligerent
Antagonism is a meme, Conciliatory is always better. Dip rep lowers antagonism gain too anyway.

>>Quantity > Quality
If you have a professional army you want Quantity. -10% maintenance is free money. But this one doesn't matter too much overall.

>>Defensive > Offensive
Again, Defensive is just free money, and 10% siege ability isn't much at all. not that impactful.

>>Land / Naval
Yeah this depends on your geography. Though long-term, naval proximity is always better. And 5% RGO size is fairly useless.

>>Capital Economy > Traditional Economy
Always capital economy. -10% buildings cost makes you way more money than 20% RGO output, and the other modifiers are better too. Remember, RGO output is modified by Control but building cost is not. So "20%" is only 4% in a 20% control province. But if you build something there you get the full 10% savings. -20% Food production doesn't matter.

>>Individualism vs Communalism
Communalism is better 99% of the time. I think they fucked this one because the flavor text isn't accurate to the bonuses. Maybe Individualism used to give better stats.

>>2234495
Assaults get significantly less bloody once you start mixing artillery in

You really can't take a lot of clay even with imperialism and stacking a whole lot of modifiers. Sucks balls that getting belligerent is super hard when you're big, because not enough valid rivals cucks you. But even if I had it maxed, I'd only be able to take 20% more. There's another -10% in the enlightenment tree that will make up for it, but still.

>>2234384
Peasants are basically just medieval NEETs and when you build a building they're forced to get a real job. Having lots of them just means you can build a trillion buildings in that province and not run out of wageslaves.
You'll want to boost pop promotion speed so they get jobs faster. And build a construction center to make two buildings at once for twice as many jobs.

Can you only import new world RGOs during that one timed event period? The fuck.

>>2234498
Output isn't dependent on control based retard

>>2234504
That one timed event period lasts like 150 years.

I'll go back to Victoria 3. Half of the game mechanics are not working.
>inb4 cope

>>2234501
yeah I couldn't even take a full province per peace deal in the endgame, very lame.

>>2234509
Well I doubt that. Imperialism is a mutliplicative -50% cost

Oh, never mind apparently levies don't care where you disband them they just teleport back home and are ready for service again.
Kinda lame desu CK2 was more fun in that regard. I'm relieved I didn't lose my army but it's not very realistic to expect 30,000 peasants to make their way back home from 600 miles away across the sea in a foreign land.

>>2234503
They give food too. Also they staff the peasant villages that give some good output.

>>2234510
some hefty provinces are still above 100 war score

>>2234501
I just fought a 5 year long war against Tunis and could only take one single city, they have 5 more in Europe that I need to clear

>>2234203
I'm trans too btw

The concept of RGOs in this is kinda piss. Why can a province only have cattle farms and nothing else in terms of farming? The RGO cap should allow for a few different resource extraction/farming buildings.

>>2234505
The profit from RGOs is added to the tax base then modified by control. Yeah it's still producing more goods but you're not making tax money off them. That can be fine sometimes but building cost reduction is still worth way more

>>2234508
i haven't booted up vicky in a minute. did they make trade as painless as it is in eu5 or do i have to manually perform every one of the ten thousand transactions that happen still

>>2234517
That's not what you said. You said output. That means output of goods.

>>2234516
but a province can have multiple RGOs. that's what locations are for, retardbro. you wanna divide locations up too?

>>2234458
There's no force limit in EU5, it's just "expected army size" which is a general metric based on how many pops you have and the current age. I think you can just build as many units as you can afford and your markets can support.

>>2234516
Open the building tab and filter by laborers. Those are the RGOs you can build in any location.

>>2234498
>RGO output is modified by Control but building cost is not
Money gained from RGO output is modified by control
Not the RGO output.

20% more output is less labourers required, and less upgrades to it required, to fullfill the needs of your centralised manufacturing. Less labourers is more taxes and more levies.
And also reduces the building costs involving lumber, as the raw materials for construction will be more plentiful and cheaper.
Although most buildings require masonry, which would benefit from a capital economy. But need a lot of stone or clay to provide materials for those masons.

>>2234516
Well you can always put an orchard there aswell

>split Brazil into a zillion OPM subjects, divide and rule
>turns out colonies are fucking ass ducat and pop sinks unless you demand to divert trade and actually get something
>but that turns everyone angry so you need to support loyalists, which is -0.10 diplomats/month per country
FUCK

>have 100% war score
>can swallow the entire enemy country whole
>but the enemy would absolutely not agree to become my vassal instead
why

>>2234527
Better dead than a slave
>gets enslaved

How do I increase pluto?

>>2234523
I do like how the game rewards having good RGO output by making bulky goods harder to ship
Like if your industry depends on assloads of iron you'll use up all your trade capacity trying to import it, so you'd better have some already in the ground

>>2234529
Certain privileges and laws, I think Buhrgers have some.

>>2234494
faustian

>>2234528
I don't really get the point desu, I was going to turn the entire place into a fiefdom anyway.

>>2234529
Do you want to make it back into a planet or something?

>>2234501
can you post control?, I want to see how it looks at that stage of the game

>Want to enslave hungarians
>Can only build slave shit in Africa
What the fuck man? Is there no way to enable you to enslave people?

>>2234529
Every game I grant the burghers approximately 20 privileges on day 1, then let the nobles seethe for a bit until they calm down or I kill a bunch of them.

Burgher privileges are too good. Noble privileges are almost all shit.

are fiefdoms good?

If I have 0 control of an area, do I get any of its RGO outputs?

Also, if I own area but is cut off by other country borders, do I still get their output and shit or is it considered disconnected? Not sure how goods are delivered to the market, if its all just abstract and works in a vacuum and its teleporting the goods to my market/stockpile?

>War of Religions starts
>Bohemia, who is ruled by an english king, and Austria are the leaders of the Protestant Union, backed up by Catholic France
>Brandenburg, ruled by a bavarian, is the leader of the Catholic League
Believable worlds

>>2234501
>1752
>K*iv still exists

>>2234542
Europeans have a weird compulsion to trade leaders

>>2234541
control doesn't impact resource production or manufacturing, just taxes and levies
goods will be created but you will not get any money from making them

>>2234541
100% of the goods get created and sold to the market, but 0% of the profits from the RGO selling the goods goes to your estates so 0% of it can be taxed by you.
So if you just need the goods the RGOs will still create it. For example of course a wheat province keeps producing wheat even on 0% control or else the entire globe would starve on game start. But you won't see any tax income from the wheat.

Is there a way to know how members of a union will vote when changing policies?

>>2234544
If you play as France every fucking leader on the continent is
>Our ruler's distant cousin

I'm going to make a mod, I have an outline of complex systems I'd like to implement (starting with a more complex system for values) but I want to hear (You)r opinion on what you'd like improved with the game

>>2234542
>leaders of the Protestant Union, backed up by Catholic France
Historically accurate.

>>2234537
Your fault being a europoor. Everyone else enjoys slavery.

>>2234541
Control does not affect how much of produced goods and rgos go to the market, it affects how much tax you get and how many troops you can call upon.

>>2234536
Not that good. I stopped minmaxing that shit about 50 years ago when I realized I just don't need more money for anything. Almost no modern roads, I didn't build the age5 building for more control, I didn't make towns into cities. Hell I didn't even build a token navy to make the small patch of coastline into 100%. I just have the AI on building automation and let it do whatever. Also I'm trying some memes with my cabinet instead of culture converting the steppes

>>2234537
some countries have advancements for automatic slaving every time you siege a province
as morocco i have a bunch of italians working in the salt mines

>>2234526
What does divert trade do exactly?

>>2234554
interesting, thanks for sharing

>>2234551
Damn the french do be hating austrians and spaniards

>>2234542
Catholic France did side with the protestants.

>11th century Norman kings of England
After this had the king a large meeting, and very deep consultation with his council, about this land; how it was occupied, and by what sort of men. Then sent he his men over all England into each shire; commissioning them to find out 'How many hundreds of hides were in the shire, what land the king himself had, and what stock upon the land; or, what dues he ought to have by the year from the shire.' Also he commissioned them to record in writing, 'How much land his archbishops had, and his diocesan bishops, and his abbots, and his earls;' and though I may be prolix and tedious, 'What, or how much, each man had, who was an occupier of land in England, either in land or in stock, and how much money it was worth.' So very narrowly, indeed, did he commission them to trace it out, that there was not one single hide, nor a yard of land, nay, moreover (it is shameful to tell, though he thought it no shame to do it), not even an ox, nor a cow, nor a swine was there left, that was not set down in his writ. And all the recorded particulars were afterwards brought to him.
>In game 14th century English kings
Exert such little "control" over their island they don't receive a single shilling in tax outside of the south of England

Is it just me or is it pointless to make profit trades since automation/AI will do a better job?

>>2234550
add more BBC's

>>2234554
Am I missing something? Mine is garbage. I've been building and upgrading roads.

>>2234562
all the cow-counting probably cost more than he made back in extremely anal taxation policies

should african colonies by under direct or colonial control? trying to figure out asia trade

>>2234563
Yeah trade just for strategic resources and institutions. And when you need to build something in a new market and it's missing one resouce and the game is too stupid to start the building process and import the stuff later on its own. That pisses me off.

>>2234563
manual trading is super ass, only do it if you want to make something artificially cheap like building materials

Will polacks and ukrainians put their neurons together to discover gravity before tunisians? Find out soon.

>>2234563
The AI does not do a better job though. Trade automation is best for when a gap opens up in your set trades, so something gets traded instead of wasting capacity.

>>2234568
I think they should dumb down the AI to reward manual trading for profit more. There's a whole gameplay loop there which is made obsolete...

>>2234559
The Hasburgers were historical enemies to the french crown, it's normal they try to fuck them in return whenever they get a chance

>>2234565
You're missing stacking proximity cost modifiers.

>>2234571
>not having historical spawns on
Cringeee

>>2234575
I know there's a few buildings and cabinet actions, but what else is there?

>>2234572
i have 200 capacity to dole out and i don't really feel like doing it all when a shift in the market makes it outdated from tick-to-tick

>>2234576
I didn't know that was an option

I'm currently at 50% of France's/Bohemias income, how do I get mmm Richer? 1474 btw
All my neighbors are military powers.

>>2234572
I tried doing manual trades for profit the other day by checking foreign markets' greatest surplus and greatest needs. I couldn't out do the automation/AI trading except for 1 trade I made. Most of the time I was losing money more by manual trading...
Because it kept importing multiple tiny trades like gems for 0.06 cap or something.

how do I get literacy up early game?

>>2234565
are you stacking proximity cost reduction?
>land slider
>centralization slider
>east slav burocracy
>admin focus for age 2
>bridges everywhere
>tzardom reform
just the ones I know from the early game

>>2234563
I like it, basically you automate the random profit trades as if your merchants are handling that, and you use manual trade for your own big state enterprises, like mass importing raw materials or setting up colonial markets.

>>2234518
It’s much better. There is a world market now with auto trade.

>>2234200 (OP)
Do slaves ever lose their African culture and gain an African diaspora one, i.e. African-American or Afro-Latino or whatever? Pretty immersion breaking if all of the slaves in Brazil or whatever are still Mande in 1836.

>>2234582
Paper guilds, scriptoriums, laws and privileges that up literacy. The Renaissance has advancements for it too. Build libraries and universities when they’re unlocked via advancements.

>>2234584
>setting up colonial markets
How do you do that exactly? Don't you need to keep total control of colonial land for that to work?

>>2234557
Gets you 50% of a subject's trade capacity (and advantage IIRC).
With the base 33% from Colonial Nation you control over 80% of their trade, which means all the marketplaces, market villages and fishing villages actually work for you, not a useless piece of shit vassal that grants you a stunning 2.5% of the income it'd get from them.

>>2234438
It says you don't! [have a market]

>>2234583
>>2234588
Damn I got some stacking to do

my hispaniola colony release puerto rico as a sub-subject
how do i wring their necks?

>>2234573
The automation doesn't do imports
It doesn't do building/pop needs
It just exports everything, it's shit

Yeah ok i confirmed it. experience is giga bugged, these pigger boys were at 78% experience before the month tick, now look at them. even their fucking levies jumped to 100%. no wonder noone ever dies.
if anyone's fighting a war please have a look at experience values during defensive sieges. i'm not sure if it would work for player unsiegeing own land but it definitely does not work offensively

>>2234595
Puerto Ricans are subhuman so maybe it is best you just let it go

This is fine

>>2234597
Mine imports
But I think you're right in implying that it prioritizes profit.

one colonial nation in cuba, one in hispaniola, one for the lesser antilles. does this make sense?

Well, the Teutons are no more. I wanted to keep them as a vassal, but they didn't want to agree since they had their own subjects in Livonia, so I had to partition them between fiefs. Also my junior PU Halych stole 3 provinces because there's no way to claim occupation from your allies and not taking them would be just handing land to Lithuania.

Do I get any benefits if I build stuff in my vassals?

>>2234580
Build goldmines and move capital to the shores

>>2234600
I like that countries passively build up antagonism because you talk funny and do weird stuff like one of them dang foreigners

>reasons I hate you:
>You rendered all the settled peoples of the world a dusty pile of skulls crackling beneath the hooves of your barbarian horde (-294)
>You're a fucking steppe gook (-1)
>Mashallah brother (+2)

Why'd they make prestige so fucking hard to come by. As the Ottomans I've gobbled up most of the beyliks, taken Constantinople and pushed into the Balkans and I still can't upgrade to Kingdom rank

Looks like polacks have discovered how to split the atom. Suck it, anglos.

whats the truth about the games ai? is it really that un fun late game?

Is there even a point for the church estate since you cannot tax them? IMO it seems like you want their power at 0%, no?

I miss national ideas. I think they made countries more distinct and I'm starting to feel like this game is cookie clicker. I don't think the formation or army mechanics add anything positive to 5.

>>2234605
your vassals have more tax base to pay you with
you can trade with whatever market they're in like a normal country
it stays when you annex them

>>2234580
byznigger free general

>>2234613
t. Mana clicker enjoyer.

>>2234610
more like they discovered how to split the potato, lmao

>>2234607
I find it so hard to manage. If I don't pre-emptively increase relation with the big dudes then I get 150 AE on everyone around it's insane.
I'm really not sure how I'm gonna conquer india without getting gang raped

>>2234612
you can tax them if you aren't catholic
their satisfaction increases your diplomatic reputation and research speed, and if you have a lot of clergy relative to your population your stability trends up.
by their nature the clergy tend to be much more literate than other pops so it's easy to invest in them for your national literacy + on an international level your research benefits from having a strong liturgical language

>>2234616
But you had national ideas in EU3.

>>2234614
Yeah but how much of that tax base comes back to me in tribute?

>>2234613
go home manaboy, 90% of the time you got the same ideas

>>2234613
National ideas still sort of exist, countries still have national techs only for them. But it's like when EU4 first launched, only the most important majors have those yet.

>>2234613
ideas weren't very interesting but I agree that EU5 needs some version of that.

>>2234613
The national ideas are basically represented in country-specific advancements, laws, and policies. I feel like many people complaining about lack of flavor aren’t paying attention and miss the flavor because it’s not thrown in your face. They could always add more events and make the flavor more clear, however.

>>2234612
Catholic seems weaker because of the 0% clergy tax, but the forced 0% tax means a big hidden research boost.
But imo the church should pay upkeep on cathedrals and such instead of the state, or at least contribute, that's where the tithe money could go instead of the papal colonial empire

>>2234612
>since you cannot tax them
country specific issue
>you want them at 0 power
no, the opposite, the stronger they are the weaker other estates are, meaning you can tax those estates harder from low influence

>>2234623
not much

>>2234628
sure, but said advancements, laws, and policies are practically irrelevant

>>2234622
Yes? And I didn't have to spend mana points to get them.

>>2234634
Playing as England and France I thought they were pretty good. But they're the gold standard for unique stuff right now.

Is there auto Convert mechanic? Or do you need to use cabinet to convert provinces?

>MOBILE GAME INTERFACE
>NEED TO WATCH YOUTUBE VIDEOS TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON
>CK3 FUSED WITH VIC3 GAMEPLAY
>10 FPS
>$60
>AI DOESN'T WORK
>WOKE
>TRILLION DLCS
IS THIS THE WORST GAME OF ALL TIME???

>>2234637
if you have positive assimilation or religious conversion it should happen slowly to all your pops but the cabinet makes it go much more quickly

>>2234637
automate cabinet :)

grim
I'm trading with Venice at a loss already, what more do you want from me...

>>2234634
I just passed a law in parliament creating the Scottish court of sessions and it gave me great bonuses including +0.10 centralization. It’s historically authentic and gives me good bonuses. What do you want specifically? A magical +20% moral bonus at the start because France is a special little boy?

>>2234638
it can't be a mobile game interface because nobody would put five layers of nested tooltips into a touchscreen

>>2234630
ye i went lutheran but i dont tax my pastors cuz i'd rather have the research boost

>>2234613
the AI not being able to utilize the formation system is the problem, not the system itself.

and i dont think i wanna play eu4 since i cant just automate garbage wars away like in eu5.

>>2234200 (OP)
Can anybody explain to me the athens trade? Is Athens importing beef into my market from Caffa or is Athens importing beef into their market and getting a portion of it since part of my country is in their market? I'm new to trade in this game and don't quite understand it.

>>2234639
Okay good to know.

>lose half your population to some shitty black death 2.0 in the 1500s
>all the peasants get promoted to labourers and other social classes and your economy hardly takes any kind of a hit
Goes to show how worthless subsistence farming is.

>>2234646
Which automation rules for automating wars? Didn't notice this was a thing.

>>2234613
They just need to do two simple things to fix it
1. Give more countries unique advances, ideally every country but realistically the major ones, at least 2 in every age
2. Massively increase the bonus from said advance. Like France's Elan! bonus is still 20% morale, that's a good example. It's noticeable or at least the number feels big. 0.1 stability investment, not so much. If it's unique to a specific country it should be a big bonus, it doesn't matter if it's unrealistic. Make that the exception to the rule.

>>2234644
>it can't be a mobile game interface
Literally all free mobile games have the same exact interface

>>2234650
the armies have a mission button. for shitwars i just put half of my stack to hunt, the other half carpet siege

>>2234653
Ohhhh yea

>>2234644
It looks like a mobile game though even if it doesn’t literally work like one. That’s the point.

>>2234649
do empty job slots in town attract immigration?
I imagine at that point your cities would have no peasants

>>2234650
1-2 big armies hunting enemy armies, the rest focus sieging in smaller numbers is what I do

>>2234615
That's not Byzanitum nigger

>>2234656
I haven't noticed any actual immigrants from outside the country, but there has been a lot of internal migration.

I am having a weird issue where some random locations in the HRE lose a shitload of population while I wasn't looking. I thought it'd be disease or the AI expelling population or something but it's specific locations rather than an area so it doesn't look like disase spread and also I've seen it happen to countries that only have 1 location so I don't think they'd be expelling their own population from their own capital. Prosperity, natural growth, migrationn attractionn all look normal. Is this a known bug or is something else going on? I've seen it in multiple games. For example in my current Aragon game, the town of Freiburg has 149 people in it, and it has buildings and shit so.

>>2234466
bump

>>2234661
I've been getting Dutchmen as England, probably because the Netherlands gets razed to the ground every 30 years.

Anyone actually playing as the Papal State? Seems fun but there's like a zillion assorted Italians in these threads and zero popes.

>>2234661

immigration happens within markets

I have a shitty pc and when I ran the game on lowest settings I got like 20fps so I just refunded it instantly, but since I'm a retard with a shitty pc it didn't occur to me that I could disable the 3d map. Is it a massive fps difference to turn it off? Would it make it playable for me?

How do you get food for an army during a siege?
I have food access from the country next door but my army is still losing food and sieges last fucking years in this game.

>>2234659
even more disgusting 2bqhwyl

it looks like you could probably get to the end of the game as a peasant country since the AI just keeps using peasant levies as well forever
>have giga big, happy peasant population with big tax modifiers and pop+levy buffs
>never build anything for any other social class, dont give them power or privileges
>slap every country around with your big peasant cock, destroying non-peasant buildings as you expand
>win?

>>2234616
I'm an EU4 baby and I came to dislike mana and was looking forward to 5. After playing this I think it's gone too far and it makes me sad. The removal of mana takes away the points at which you had to decide whether to spend or save or what to spend on. Instead now it feels like permanent green line go up.

>>2234625
I've played Muscovy and there were some national laws that were unlocked but they seemed shit desu.

>>2234626
I thought the ideas were a bit arbitrary and binary but it gave the countries character. When I went up against France they had this insane morale boost and they had western tech, I knew it was always going to be a slog because it was France specifically. Believe me I hated it many times. Now, however, it just feels like they're hard to beat because they are big with big pop. They could be any other country.

>>2234646
I don't want to have to reformat after every battle, I'm sorry I just don't, and I don't see how it is an improvement over 4 where all you had to do was shift consolidate. I also don't think being able to not have to play the game is a positive for the game.

Guess the game just hasn't hit that good for me and I'm not happy about it.

>>2234665
I have a friend who's only been playing as the Pope since he started and he somehow has managed to lose the Guelphs v. Ghibellines every time, which is extremely funny since I've never actually seen the Emperor win in any of my games. He's somehow doing worse than the AI.

>>2234647
Considering it says Supply +, I'd assume Athens is importing beef.

>>2234668
I was at 60 fps either way but went from "please wear safety earmuffs" to tolerable fan noise by disabling the 3D map. So probably yes.

>>2234668
a 2D map isn't going to make calculations happen faster

I just want to have a comfy game where I make my pops happy and make shit tons of money. Im thinking of doing this in India or East Africa. Anyone played in that area?

>create my own market
>monthy income skyrockets
simple 'as

The diplomacy tutorial is out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4J-oYJbADU

>>2234685
idk about Africa but making money in India is very easy

>>2234684
Yeah sure but this isn't a late game pops issue (for example I can get 120fps in Stellaris that drops to below 60fps at late game), this is just right at the start with the game paused.

>>2234676
>The removal of mana takes away the points at which you had to decide whether to spend or save or what to spend on.
One of the most monumentally retarded takes I have ever witnessed. Now you have to build an ENTIRE ECONOMY, with supply chains and dynamic demand, and decide when, how, and even whether to spend your income--to build infrastructure, to build basic RGO income, to build production capacity. To invest in stability or art or legitimacy or not. How much stability and income to lose in exchange for adopting institutions quicker or slower.

This is just about the equivalent of saying "the decisions about spending are so complex I don't enjoy them, I wish we just had mana back because that gave me instant gratification."

>create a colony on the east coast
>instead of creating it's own market it attaches to the shitty tribal one so the colony doesn't get the market center, crippling it's trade
>england makes a colony there as well but they get to create a market for some reason and steal all my colony's goods

>>2234681
I understand that Athens is getting beef into my market, but I don't really understand how trading works in this. Athens can use their traders to import stuff from the Caffa market to my market? Just seems strange that their market isn't involved in the equation at all

>>2234693
>it's x2
ngmi

>>2234691
Feels like the illusion of complexity. End of the day when you start you focus on satisfying pop needs and then expanding RGO's starting with your capital and expanding out. Eventually you have such an economic snowball that yuo're just expanding RGO's the same way you spam churches and workshops. I don't dispute that what's going on behind the scenes with the supply chains is complex but for the user it isn't. You don't need to know all that you just need to increase what you can/need to.

paradox: * takes a massive shit on a plate *
paracuck: MASTERPIECE! JOHANS MAGNUM OPUS! WAITER, WAITER! I'D LIKE THE 49.99$ PISS DLC TOO!

>>2234691
>Now you have to build an ENTIRE ECONOMY
No you don't. Just build the most profitable things in your capital and the locations next to it with the highest control. Do this for the first 100 years and you'll have infinite money.

>please saar I invite to join the smartism
I'm not even Hindu btw. you can invite people to join certain IOs without being a member lol

>>2234687
>when antagonism > 50 then country can join a coalition
Good to know

In case you have yet to play as a Diplomatic Hegemon, it gives you a Spell to pay 1 Diplomats and infinitely boost a country's Trust/Opinion/Favor, for free!

How do I get the provinces in the southern part of Spain I conquered to trade in Seville instead morocco?

>>2234649
play hawaii
they lose like 90% due black death and volcanoes
absolute lmao

>>2234647
The country Athens is importing beef from Caffa to Naples to turn a profit, because there's higher demand for beef in Naples than there is supply, while Caffa probably has cheap beef.

>>2234694
>Athens can use their traders to import stuff from the Caffa market to my market? Just seems strange that their market isn't involved in the equation at all
If you have trade capacity in a market, you can trade there. There are buildings you can build in foreign countries' land: Trade Office and Foreign Trading Post. They gave trade capacity but in other markets where you don't own any locations. This lets you trade all over the place and make money moving goods around like a merchant.

>>2234696
I'm not arguing that the economy is perfectly balanced. It's far too easy to make money in this game and the estates need to be stronger and take more money and more buildings into their own hands. There is room for improvement there.

What I'm arguing is that the simulation is inarguably robust, and the amount of decisions the player has is still tremendous, especially when it comes to thinks like generating entirely new industries, like army goods, to support standing forces.

I'll give an example here. Right about middle of the Renaissance with firearms and artillery guilds unlocked, I was making about 250 gold per month as England. I was still in the HYW with France and desperately needed a leg up against them, so with such a strong economy I spent decades worth of my income, both passive and stored, to build out my armed forces infrastructure to achieve the first fully-functional standing army in Europe. In the end it almost bankrupted me, although I did get my army. That is, in the style of Dwarf Fortress, !!FUN!!. I had a variety of decisions I could've made and I made the wrong one and paid the price, even though I had a huge amount of income and thought I could sustain it. It was really challenging to dig myself out of the pit and still fight against France, and even though I still think gold generation is too easy the capacity for near-unrecoverable situations like this even as a great power means there are plenty of very serious choices available, you're just not seeing them.

>>2234701
See above. That's also simplistic because sure, you'll be making a lot of money on taxes. But you could get dominated by foreign traders or annihilated militarily if you have absolutely no military infrastructure, or catastrophically limit your economic potential by not focusing on infrastructure. That's not cope, that's real. France out-competes an England that does this if they don't focus on harbor capacity first instead, for instance.

>>2234696
Literally every single game can be played by blindly following the most optimal strategy without knowing how it works. It is too easy to snowball, true, but that has nothing to do with an "illusion of complexity", it's because the game came out last week and it's still extremely unbalanced.

Where do i see Inflation? How do i reduce it?

>>2234705
Techs that give market attraction, or if you're much more lategame being Mercantilist on the slider. But having them in your market isn't always good if they don't have high market attraction, you'll lose a shitload of profit on them. Sometimes (but only sometimes) it's just better to make a second market instead.

Institution spread in a large nation is such a pain the ass. The mud huts got all the shit in 1840 and I'm still at 7% pop with 100 admin advisor spreading it in population centers, and trading for it in the centers. Another reason to have smaller markets I guess.

>>2234713
Next to the minting slider in your economy tab. Mint less and it will go down passively.

>>2234704
These spells are fucking retarded and need to be cut out asap. The whole Great Powers mechanic is dogshit. It's either France or China, or some other blob in Asia that nobody in Europe can even reach. Why the fuck are these countries being compared to each other. There should be Regional powers at best, with less impactful bonuses.

Johan WHERE THE FUCK is my famine slider
These indonesians built cities in every province and now they're all starving and killing my economy

>>2234709
Fair enough, good argument mate. I hadn't really got to that point/experienced that. A lot of what I played was the basic chains at game start + RGO and vassal maxxing so the game was feeling stale. Will give it a revisit.

>>2234713
Based Ellie poster.

>>2234720
Hegemonies should just be a multiplayer meme like victory cards. I imagine it'd be fun to fight over them with other players but in SP it's pointless. Salvage the couple of good powers and turn them into something everyone can do. Like Violate Sovereignty should be a thing anyone can do if you're way stronger than the target. The court language one could be tied to culture war mechanics somehow. Cut the rest.

>>2234466
>>2234663
51% is enough

What determines where slaves get sent after taking a province as muslims?

>>2234720
I just wish you could say no to them at the cost of pissing off a great power. Feels stupid that Spain can force my nobility to start speaking Spanish because they feel like it

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>>2234728
is it a nothing burger?

>>2234728
This is huge. The AI might finally be fixed. So much new stuff they added

>>2234728
holy fuck its massive

>>2234728
MY KNEES CAN'T BEND ANY FURTHER

>>2234728
we are so fucking back. they finally fixed the AI

IT'S UP!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hReMVf08yUI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hReMVf08yUI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hReMVf08yUI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hReMVf08yUI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hReMVf08yUI

>>2234728
Oh my god they added futas

How do I avoid winter attrition for my small standing army? Seems dumb they're starving, why don't they go inside??

PAIN

IS

SALVATION

>>2234739
its just 5 guys who cares. probably the sickest and oldest of your legion

>>2234739
Standing armies take attrition during peace?

>>2234739
Make more food in general. Build granaries to store food.

>>2234739
Send them to the south during winter

>>2234739
They need to stand in zone of control

>>2234737
he sounds kinda gay in a cute repressed way

Whats the new meta after the latest patch?

Do i want to go for Marches.

>>2234748
Conquer rush nepal

Well well well, looks like the swedish pomerania became the pomeranian skaneland

>>2234748
being tall and swedish

>>2234753
>be short and heterosexual
It’s fucking over for me bros. Go on without me.

>>2234720
>>2234704

ye hegemonies are completely retarded, as everyone could tell when it was announced.

maybe, MAYBE you can justify them in the final age

Bizzy got betrayed...

>>2234738
you mean west african countries? cool

Any mods to fix the game?

>>2234691
>>2234696
its fun if you let the system do its thing. it gives me same kind of dopamine hit as when i play anno and i see green numbers. altho for the first 100 years in my game i had no idea wtf i was doing and i solved all my problems by just acquiring more land and letting my estates fix my country.

>>2234760
I feel it's one of those thing Paradox just isn't going to accept is dogshit until player consensus forces them to. There's no way playtesters didn't tell them about the 5x French hegemony, either they didn't have time to fix it or they thought it still worked fine.

What new update? All I see is a small patch update fixing bugs.

>>2234707
This is good advice. Thank you.

>>2234503
I love this analogy and it helped me understand the game a bit more. Thanks anon.

>>2234696
I'm fine with RGOmaxxing being a bit of a dopamine snowball desu, it's just plain fun and there's still a strategic element to RGOs in deciding what to town over/material shortages/food/devmaxxing rural areas for those sweet sweet RGO levels

experience decay ridickuluz

>>2234776
It's also good because locations have set RGOs, until the columbian exchange changes things up anyway. If you could build anything anywhere you'd just max out the same shit every game

I think im done, i got my pretty borders at last.
nothing more i want to achieve in this campaign. maybe i just speed5 to end date to see if anything happens (it wont)

despite the bugs, the hollow mechanics, the clunky UI, the lategame performance etc, ive played 15h/day the whole week without a single crash or anything breaking or bricking my save. i even had some fun along the way

thank you johan for delivering on most of your promises, i will happily buy your dlc for many years.

>>2234297
you're doing good if you're having fun anon! :)

>>2234779
I thought Russia looked bad but Rectangle Netherlands is cursed

>>2234779
>the Grand Principality of Ruthenia exists
Your game is far from over. You haven’t even completed the main quest.

>>2234779
>bunch of germs in your scandinavian empire
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

>>2234742
>>2234743
>>2234744
>>2234745
>>2234746
Thanks. It was the ZoC. Built the castle again

>>2234783
Scandistanis are the same as Germturks, desu senpai

how do i make money in this game?
started as Holland and still a poorfag losing ducats

To refresh peasant levies
disband them
then raise them again???

When should you do Tribesmen to Peasants?

Is there something I'm missing about production methods, or is paper workshop II almost a downgrade from paper workshop I considering the cost?

First time seeing this one

why do jews go extinct in europe every game?

When I marry off my daughters their husbands come to my court, even if they are heirs to another country, shouldn't my daughters be going to theirs?

>>2234209
If you're so powerful to conque India you can upgrade to T3

>>2234799
It’s just a video game, they don’t have their patron, Satan, protecting them as in real life

Can someone help clarify my economic strategy? I know I want to build in high control locations, mostly around my capital, but when do I expand? Is it only when I start running out of building slots, or when control starts to expand outwards? And if I'm building paper, for example, is it better to build, say, 20 levels in one location (provided it can sustain it), or 5 levels across a few different locations?

>>2234803
they're going incognito mode, changing their names, pretending to be christian, moving from town to town. Typical jewish tricks.

>my Knights Hospitalier regulars smashed the shit out of the neighbor's regulars I was worried about that outnumbered them with only about 1/10 losses
>turned their levies into a fine paste

Damn. Idk what I was worried about.

>>2234766
WHY YOU WANT MOD FOR EUROPA UNIVERSALIS V? IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH AS PROCURED FROM PARADOX TINTO? YOU THINK NEEDS IMPROVEMENT? THEN MAYBE YOU FIND JOB WITH PARADOX INTERACTIVE STOCKHOLM! YOU HAVE DRINKS WITH MIKAEL ANDERSSON, TRADE STORY OF MANY GAMES DESIGNED AND DETAILS OF SCHOOL FOR GAME DEVELOPMENT!

OR MAYBE YOU NOT DO THIS. PROBABLY IS BECAUSE YOU NEVER DESIGN GAME IN WHOLE LIFE. YOU LOOK AT FINE GRAND STRATEGY GAME, THINK IT NEED CRAZY SHIT MODS ON ALL MECHANICS OF GAME. YOU HAVE DISEASE OF SWEDISH MARXISM, CHANGE THING THAT IS FINE FOR NO REASON EXCEPT TO LOOK DIFFERENT FROM NEOLIBERAL. YOU PUT ANIME PORTRAITS OF CHINESE PORN ADDICT ON ONE MECHANIC, YOU PUT BLOATED EXPANDED GOODS OF AMERICAN AUTIST ON OTHER MECHANIC, YOU PUT WAY OF DODO SO YOU ARE LIKE GENOESE GUY CHISTOPHER COLUMBUS. MAYBE YOU PUT SEX SLAVE MOD ON TOP TO FUCK YOUI IN ASSHOLE FOR MAKING SHAMEFUL TRAVESTY OF GAME OF JOHAN, NO?

GAME IS FINE. YOU FUCK IT, IT ONLY GET BLOATED AND YOU STILL NO FUN UNTIL 1836. GO TO VANILLA, PLAY WITH DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. THEN YOU NOT NEED DUMB SHIT PUT IN THE GAME.

>>2234797
Yes a kingdom in the HRE
Thanks Johan

this nigga teaching three thousand people to read every month

>>2234803
>their patron, Satan
one of the best parts about gnosticism's lore is that it portrays the jews as the blind servants of the evil demiurge, it's hilarious and fitting

RGO resources still reach the market in full regardless of control, right?

>>2234805
20 in one
Economy of scale basics

>>2234603
Is there anything worthwhile in the antilles?

>>2234824
makes sense, what about expanding out from my capital?

>>2234824
source: your tranny ass?

>>2234821
Holy shit this has to have been a mistake. 1000 months which is less than 100 years and you'd be fully literate (something even modern countries aren't).

>>2234828
Source: the game
Ya fucking nigger
Click on a building and hover on the production efficiency

How worried should I be about liberty desire gained from enforcing culture/religion?

>>2234823
Control has no effect on RGO output but market access does

>>2234829
nah the literacy is hardcapped but still funny

>>2234828
You get production efficiency per level of a building like V3.

>>2234835
Cool, thanks

I've been fighting the Pope for 200 years now but I still keep him around so he buys the land I don't want for a gorillion ducats

why can't i marry my characters when they're in other countries courts???? this genuinely has to be the most retarded thing i've ever seen in a paradox game. it's essentially killed my run since i can't marry my heir or any of my children and i can't even fix it with cheats as far as i can tell. fuck this game

i was reading about nestorianism and miaphysitism before sleep.

anyone else find some comfy obscure shit and read about it sometimes?

>>2234842
Nah I already know all that stuff.

>>2234829
There's a max literacy modifier for every estate.

>>2234826
Look at the production efficiency modifier on your buildings. You get bonuses from a lot of things but the two main ones are:
Having higher level buildings, the higher the level the more efficient they are.
Having at least one of the input goods be an RGO output in the province. NOTE, the province, not the location. Example, you can have a location producing just iron, and the neighboring location (which is in the same province) have a tools guild. The tools guild will receive a production efficiency bonus because it's iron input is in the same province.

>Child has a trait that increases proficiency of a certain education type
>Assign them that education
>Otherwise leave on balanced
This would be the easiest thing to automate in the game but it's literally one of the only things you CAN'T automate

>>2234835
That is just straight up wrong. Market access only has effect on building output not the innate RGO

>>2234848
This guy is right. I have olives at the edge of my market and they make the same amount per RGO as the Olive RGO in my market center

>>2234842
I hope to have a house with a view like this someday. It wouldn't even be that expensive depending on the place.

bros the Kanker is spreading...

What do Vassals give in terms of production goods/RGOs?

>>2234851
India is literally nurgleland

>>2234721
you can demote cities

>>2234842
It's fun to learn how a Bulgarian Heresiarch is indirectly responsible for 'buggery' meaning buttsex.

>>2234852
just diplomatic income i think. they dont grow ur tax base and they give you a diplo vassalizing malus (comparable to "economic base of X compared to you" from eu4) so in my game im trying to annex them asap

>timur dies at 33
REEEEEEEEEEEE

>>2234852
20% of total tax base, which should be more than what you'd get out of 0 control shitholes.

>>2234859
There should be a long-lived trait that can make certain characters guaranteed to live past 80 or something.

>>2234852
The RGO's and building outputs do go into the market. Now whether you have direct control over them or you automatically trade for them to cover your own building needs I do not know but I found that I was needing dyes and I could only increase production in my vassals and after doing so I no longer needed them.

>>2234863
it's a good deal

>>2234863
You get an event as the ottomans to ally with venice and get a claim on the boot of napple

Is there any way to improve a cultures opinion of you if you killed the nation of it?

Should I keep my regular troops or should I disband them then recruit later to avoid paying for maintenance? Which one is cheaper in the long run?

>>2234868
Release a vassal

>>2234841
>annex the country children are staying in so they can come back to my court and i can marry them
>they just keep hopping to different random countries so i can never marry them
this is insane

hungary declared war thru moldavia and took a big shit on bulgaria and i "fixed" it by taking it back, turning the area into vassals and making them give the land back but they're left like little cancerblobs inside bulgaria that i hope they eat up

what could POSSIBLY go wrong

>>2234873
>No! I don’t wanna come home dad! I want to stay here with my friends and drink beer and do bad shit.

>>2234873
This is not ck stop caring about the dynasty

>>2234851
Literally me
https://youtu.be/aL32-pTsfII?si=IEd6ftGr2fGi0IS1

Does importing more Gold and Silver allow me to just print more money? I started importing more but it doesn't seem to have any effect on how much I can print

>>2234878
Nta, I can only enjoy this game when MY chosen dynasty is ruling. I will NOT have my country ruled by some random literal whos.

Is conquering the Adriatic sea for a 'miniature trade monopoly' a real thing? As in, there's actual mechanics supporting such a strategy? Or would it be purely aesthetic compared to a more nominal expansion strat

>>2234855
I fucking wish
>You cannot downgrade a city while there is separatism (no mention of where I can see this value)

>>2234873
Plantagenet HEIRS rule over pathetic Tudor BASTARDS

>>2234880
Is your minting maxed out? What's your inflation like?

>>2234860
They also get the rest of the money themselves to build up the areas too, vassals are a must for actual optimized gameplay

>>2234884
>Is conquering the Adriatic sea for a 'miniature trade monopoly' a real thing? As in, there's actual mechanics supporting such a strategy?
You get trade advantage from every port you own but honestly that's mostly worthless if you are already dominating it. So the blobbing is mostly for it's own sake getting islands helps you get control on the islands which you wouldn't need if you didn't blob to the islands

I really wish there was tariff mechanics. It makes no sense that I just get what I get off of trade and can't control the amount.

Why in the fuck can I not release the Knights if I conquer Rhodes from the turks?

>>2234889
i had an event to impose tariffs on a country to improve my trade advantage for a few years

>patch
>all crashes and some shit about multiplayer
I've had a single crash in 60 hours. Why can't they fix the problems that I'm having.
>>2234889
Yeah I want to protect my domestic weaving industry. Dutch fucking faggots keep flooding my market with their weaves.

>>2234887
0.03%. I don't have any problem with inflation, I just want to print more money without inflation. I'm retarded, is that how it works

>>2234889
I would imagine Johan had it in at one point but it simply broke the economy so much they had to remove it.

Francia kuuuuun!
Ay caramba

>>2234893
Yeah, that is the furthest extent they are modeled, events

>>2234894
MP tryhards are very important sir

>>2234896
I haven't played around with it but my assumption was that more metals would allow you to print more total but wouldn't increase the amount before you started inflating. I have no proof of any of this it's just what I thought when I read the tooltips.

This is what happens when you stack up belligerency.
Sangu pû diu dû sangu

>>2234873
unrelated but is there a command to hide the debuf info? im just playing the game with the hourly tick disabled but the spam on screen is annoying

>>2234903
The tick option is in vanilla now, update your game and stop cheating

>released a vassal with my wife at the helm
>my god tier ruler king keeps going to her court and disappears from my armies all the time
this game is so infuriating holy fucking shit

>>2234888
>>You get trade advantage from every port you own
It seems the only building for this is wharfs which can only go in Seaside Towns

>>2234905
i hope its in 1.0.3 since thats the latest i cna find on russian steam

6th civil war today in a country I'm in a union with.. any way to prevent this or do I just let the nobles win at this point?

>>2234912
no, Civil Wars are absurd atm, only strat is stay at 80 stability

>>2234912
Always select the issue with more votes

>>2234869
you gotta drill them babies

>>2234919
They are a good

>>2234919
>>2234920
I don't control the country

>>2234921
That doesn't really answer my question. My problem is if I start recruiting in wartime I can barely muster 1K troops with my ducats, but if I keep them in peacetime they're a drain on my budget.

Why am I having a bubonic plague outbreak in 1636 wtf aaaaahhhh

>>2234922
They don't follow supply/demand/production rules

>>2234912
I'm playing as Naples and had the same issue with Sardinia and the one Greek state. The greeks sorted themselves out over time and I maxed out the silver mines in Sardinia which might have fixed the rebellions. Not sure if it was just coincidence

>>2234928
>he doesn't know

>>2234933
Well, dang.

>>2234907
I mean every coastal location because each one contributes to maritime presence

>>2234933
Is the one in the 1440s the second or the third then

>>2234928
Just ignore it, it is unironically the best strategy. The neighbors that put their people in houses and whatever tend to collapse from it.

>>2234938
First is 500s(I think), Second is a series of outbreaks in the EU timeframe, and the third is 1900

>>2234927
keep them recruited unless you know you're not fighting for a long time

>2.78 Military Tactics gives you 64% damage reduction
What the fuck mang. No wonder nothing fucking dies.

>>2234944
Is it safe to cut maintenance in half?

>>2234949
Yes. Put a member of the family as a general for a huge crown power buff.

>>2234898
Oh shit this is actually not going anywhere, should I no cb the rebels?

The rebels have 4 forts I need to siege and none of my allies have cannons
The rebels don't even have an army why haven't they surrendered

>grandson is 100/97/97
>ruler just won't fucking die
>son is still alive
He won't get to rule until he's 65

>>2234960
Can't you abdicate?

>>2234957
Can't fight the rebels

>>2234962
I never even thought about that. Let me look.

Is there anyway to stop the autotrader from exporting things I import?

>>2234963
Oh, why is the option available then?

>>2234750
>Lust provoking image
Go for Marches now but you need to conquer Japan before the game ends

The religious conversion cabinet action can target any religion in your group that has more than 1% of the population. So if you wanted to do some meme like Bogomilist Serbia you can pre-convert all of your pops before changing state religion.
Also, fuck the default filters in every tab being retarded lmao
>have been trying to become Calvinist for years
>can't do it because they're barely spreading
>actually, just need to turn off "present in country" after clicking the embrace the reformation button

umm they're all trash?

>>2234965
vicky had a button to forbid export of any good you choose, or to build a stockpile of a good before it's allowed to be exported
Bring it here

Bradenburg bros??

>>2234965
Why would you want to do that?

>>2234974
Rural nobility is great
#fucktheserfs

>>2234462
that's only 7 hours a day

>>2234974
that's what i'm saying

>>2234978
In this one scenario I want to import Gold and Silver so I can mint more, but the autotrader keeps exporting the gold and silver I just imported.

>>2234974
You got 3 good ones for different playstyles what's the issue.

>>2234928
>The plague repeatedly returned to haunt Europe and the Mediterranean throughout the 14th to 17th centuries.[171] According to Jean-Noël Biraben, the plague was present somewhere in Europe in every year between 1346 and 1671 (although some researchers have cautions about the uncritical use of Biraben's data).[172][173] The second pandemic was particularly widespread in the following years: 1360–1363; 1374; 1400; 1438–1439; 1456–1457; 1464–1466; 1481–1485; 1500–1503; 1518–1531; 1544–1548; 1563–1566; 1573–1588; 1596–1599; 1602–1611; 1623–1640; 1644–1654; and 1664–1667. Subsequent outbreaks, though severe, marked the plague's retreat from most of Europe (18th century) and North Africa (19th century).[174]
>According to historian Geoffrey Parker, "France alone, it is estimated that at least two million people died from the disease between 1600 and 1670, no fewer than 750,000 of them (almost five percent of the kingdom's population) during the severe epidemic of 1628-1632."[175] In the first half of the 17th century, a plague killed some 1.7 million people in Italy.[176] More than 1.25 million deaths resulted from the extreme incidence of plague in 17th-century Spain.[177]

>>2234984
There's a gold and silver export ban for this reason

>>2234990
>now you can't import gold between your own markets

>>2234974
yeah
i skipped this tech entirely

>unify culture resets cultural influence instead of summing it
What the FUCK

>>2234990
How do I do that?

>>2234980
serfdom is awful but I guess it's the least bad one
>>2234986
pic is the issue, previous revocation cost me 140+ stab

>>2234987
I wish I could have numbers like this but feel compelled to take breaks whenever I enjoy something too much.

>>2234998
its a law

>>2234989
>two million people died from the disease between 1600 and 1670
meme desease

>>2235002
Of course i take breaks (and I sleep). But I don't turn off the game I just alt-tab

>>2235006
It's not the numbers but the mortality

>>2235001
Do you have communal maxed out?

>>2235001
Then pick the one that lowers nobility power and increases the centralization, what's the issue?

>>2235003
Which one, I'm looking through them all and can't find it

>>2235009
nah I should have focused more on that, true
>>2235011
might switch to that after I've revoked a few more privs

so how bad are the border raids between scotland and england, really? i'm playing scotland.

>>2235014
>let me remove extremely expensive privileges without the buff that makes them cheaper to remove and then switch to the one that's good for removing privileges

how important is the terra firma to venice's ambitions anyways? it's not like the hansa even needs provinces to function

>>2235020
-10 % nobles power is nothing, -5 % equilibrium is bad for removing privs

Naples bullies Venice in every game I play

I remember stumbling upon Shinto incidents through the tooltips. One was relating to the arrival of Europeans. Does the European AI actually make it to Asia currently though?

>>2235006
The big one was the first one at the start of the game. After that there was an immunity buildup.

>>2235012
socioeconomic laws
"precious metal distribution"

>>2235023
>t. lost land in a war as venice

>>2234751
When my ruler died, his son took over Bohemia. He's also count of Moravia. How do I take over the territory? Or can I only annex via vassal

>>2235031
No

>>2235031
They do colonize eastern Siberia but don't take land anywhere with civilization.

>>2235017
In game? Takes some prosperity. IRL? Rape city but no one cares about borderers and there wasn't much state control from either side.

>>2235040
I'm convinced they just ported the AI from EU4 because it was the exact same way

>>2235026
What ever you say retard

>>2235038
Is forming a giant global trade chain even worth it in the game right now? I feel like there is not enough special goods. Getting them should also help improve your estate happiness a lot to incentivize it and allow you to then have new possibilities now that your estates are happier.

Taking provinces that belong to your primary culture is supposed to be 10% cheaper with regards to warscore, but the game checks against the defending country's culture instead, so taking Francien provinces from France for example is cheaper.

I know nothing about naval gameplay, what should I build? What helps with control?

>>2235046
In my dutch campaign I conquered Majahapit and his Java market alone is making me over 1k ducats in trade. I have it automated and most of it is exported to China though and not back to Europe, probably because my trade range isn't that high.

>>2235047
small indie studio etc etc

>>2234847
>Not using expensive education.

>>2235003
You can only enact the law if you have a Silver/Gold RGO. RGOs in your vassals don't count

>>2234859
My Medici died along with his entire heirless bloodline a month after becoming consul, taking all the content with him.

>>2235050
well the control is still radiating from your capital so roads
but in order to increase your maritime presence to gain trade advantage in those markets and to connect hypothetical provinces across sea tiles you need various harbor buildings and a navy on patrol

The maximum Tax of one of my estates has been reduced by a temporal modifier. Where the fuck can I see when it expires?

>>2235057
What would you recommend in terms of navy comp?

So there's basically no reason not to have your King and family leading your armies and navy in peace time for the crown power bonus right?

>>2235044
-10 % nobles power yeah now all my problems are solved lmao

>>2235050
Don't you have the Danube going to the Black sea?

how come every paradox game decides the priority buyer in a situation where multiple nations want limited goods based on some external and arbitrary metric like prestige instead of "who can pay the most"

>>2235050
Research light ships and build those. You probably don't need transports as Romania and you're not going to be able to maintain a strong fighting galley/heavy navy with 3 coastal provinces

>>2235069
Got it, thanks.

>>2235041
rape city sounds pretty nice. if it's just prosperity i won't give much of a shit then.

are tribesmen worth using?

>temporarily turn off minting to bring down inflation
>forget about it
>haven't minted a coin in over 10 years

>>2235078
If inflation could go below 0 you'd have fucked your economy by now

If I start having low market access on the other side of the Mediterranean should I create a new market or just deal with it?

>>2235066
>how come every game uses a system with rules instead of a convoluted system that's harder to even conceptualize?
A true mystery. Developers should lean more often into implementing vague ideas instead of something actionable.

How do you get CBs in the early game?

>>2235082
You can try boosting harbour capacity, but it's a fairly natural cutoff point for a new market unless you're in like Sicily or something

>>2235086
Ask the Parliament.

>>2235051
Oh, then the AI just needs to be made to prioritize it more

>>2235086
Parliament. It's often worth just eating the stab hit for a failed motion to get claims.
Alternatively, just no cb. If you aren't doing anything else with the stab you might as well use it

>>2235088
How?

>>2235095
When you call the Parliament and get support above 50%, you can fabricate CB.

>>2235093
I only see road building, castle building, church and burgher stuff