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Jazerus posted:Well it's basically a symptom of DDRJake's disinterest in figuring out what his provinces are good at and making them better at that, which makes him bad at buildings, development, and estates. I dunno if he just thinks that's boring to watch and it's intentional when he has an audience or what, but other than slapping down the clergy to speed up conversion times he never gives anything to his estates unless he has to even when the bonuses of, say, giving a high trade province to the merchants obviously outweigh the 25% autonomy. I can imagine how difficult it is for all these guys to stream EUIV though, there's a delicate balance between keeping the pace up, being thorough, and also occasionally reading/responding to twitch chat. As much as I hate to watch monarch points go green font, I'd also hate it if the streamer was pausing every four seconds to crosscheck all their numbers. The thing I hate about DDRJake is that for all his disinterest in optimizing, he still manages to do things like take over Europe as Nevers on his first go.
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RabidWeasel posted:Nobody posted the latest EU4 dev diary, I wonder w- I feel like this would be a huge slog, although being able to form it as a pagan is a neat touch.
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Just blew a really promising Ceylon start (ate the entire southern half of India) by provoking and turning on Bahmanis (the northern half) too early. I don't know why I always forget how dangerous Bahmanis is, they have great troops from their army tradition/Shia morale and they have enough money to run all mercs all forcelimit all the time. I think the problem is I wasn't fast enough to grab the coastline from Orissa and got bottled in. edit: oh what the hell, i had a great start going, declared on Venad to get their ally Vijay in during a truce timer. While everyone made a beeline for my territory Kochin swooped in and annexed Venad, meaning somehow Vijay became the warleader for the defense of a territory belonging to a neutral party and got to call in all their friends. Prop Wash fucked around with this message at 12:55 on Apr 3, 2016 |
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I still don't understand the purpose of unbalanced tech penalties. I always want to be ahead on miltech and I don't care about diptech. They're punishing the symptom, but they really ought to be addressing the cause, and now I just have to pay a few extra ducats. Why even bother?
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Apr 6, 2016 20:32
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Chump Farts posted:Well, juggling where I fight helps. After beating up Provence a bit, I went to war with Burgundy so long that I got half their poo poo. Too bad the Emperor Palatinate got the other half. Now I'm trying to the get the last of my poo poo from England and so far the HRE gives no poo poo if I do that or gently caress with Provence and Brittany. Bad achievement suggestion: as Emperor Palatinate, have your ruler die in battle to revolutionary rebels
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Apr 23, 2016 23:23
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Or just make Vicky 3 (please)
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May 5, 2016 18:43
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whoever took over as their UI guy is making a huge mess with the design
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Jun 9, 2016 21:51
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QuarkJets posted:It's not an either-or situation though. You can use war to extract huge amounts of gold + land from rivals, which lets you build some gold-producing buildings, which let you maintain a larger army, which lets you better extract huge amounts of gold + land from rivals. Saving up a big gold reserve can be helpful, but a better income helps you do that. Or fight a war with somebody else and take all their money in the process. A big gold reserve at the beginning of the war is worth way more than a bunch of buildings that haven't paid themselves off yet, and by the time they would have otherwise paid themselves off I now own a bunch of land that makes up for it. So forth and so on until the game ends. I get what you're trying to say but do you really have any evidence that playing a tall game in EUIV is an effective strategy compared to playing wide?
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Jun 30, 2016 21:37
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SurgicalOntologist posted:I don't know why the screenshot comes out like that. It's actually crisp, not blurry. The screenshot looks like I took a picture with an unsteady hand. But in any case, I love the style. I'm the 4-digit treasury number that only takes up half the available space
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Jul 4, 2016 22:01
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awesmoe posted:Does this apply to developing provinces containing gold mines? I'm super new and double-super retarded so I like specifics Paradox found a bug where spending development on gold provinces might actually be a good use of the development mechanic, and corrected it. The higher the development level, the higher chance for your gold mine to deplete. the euiv wiki posted:As of Patch 1.15, Gold producing provinces with a production development of over 1 now have a yearly chance to become depleted (halving gold production). At Production development level 2 the depletion chance is 0.01% yearly, higher development levels have higher chances (lv3 has 0.04%, lv4 has 0.07%, lv5 has 0.12%, etc...). Each depletion reduces the province's Goods Produced by half (effectively halving the ducat value of gold produced). The player can see the current chance of depletion by hovering over the production development increase button on the province panel.
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Jul 5, 2016 20:55
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+1 mil point over a certain AT threshold is a fun idea. Better than the boring +1 to all MP over 50 power projection anyway, PP is so boring and arbitrary.
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Jsor posted:It would be nice if there were a few more ways to get institutions, though I like that it makes paying attention to development something you actually do. Maybe something like "court foreign scholars" where you target a country you have positive opinion with that has embraced the institution, and pay a large number of ducats/mth (or even something like diplo/month). Maybe have other modifiers while doing it like +national unrest because you're spreading those dirty furriner ideas. "Fund Itinerant Young Noblemen," an option that allows you to subsidize the travels of younger members of your court so they'll bring back foreign ideas
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Oct 17, 2016 05:36
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Tsyni posted:Started an Ethiopia game. Yeah, it's not bad. Too bad you're gobbling scrub tier provinces left and right and all across Somali. Smh. Just a little farther south and you punch through into the gold mines and wildly profitable trade nodes though!
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Oct 20, 2016 07:04
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QuarkJets posted:Obviously not a true Bowie fan I would absolutely download and use a mod that changes all the leaders on the loading screens to various Bowie incarnations Edit: even if it disables achievements
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Nov 6, 2016 10:17
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Just getting back into EUIV after a break, apparently I have Cossacks but not Mare Nostrum or Rights of Man. I'm picking up RoM, because hooray CKII-style leader attributes, but MN seems extremely skippable. I watched a few videos and it looks like Condottieri in particular are annoying - are there any awesome can't-miss features in the MN DLC that I'm missing?
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Have vassals always been able to reject annexation in the middle of the process? I was at like 600 points out of 1000 and I didn't even get a refund  Vassal feeding is kind of a frustrating strategy now - it feels like it's way too easy for liberty desire to balloon up and there's no great way to bring it down again. Once you get to that point, you're just stuck with a couple of disloyal vassals forever with no options other than releasing them as vassals and re-annexing them the hard way. I guess the moral of the story is to take Influence ideas if you want to play the vassal game, because it doesn't even seem possible without them. And now all these rear end in a top hat rivals have hit dip tech 21 and are keeping me in permanent Sabotage Reputation state, so I can look forward to being -3 dip rep for the rest of the game
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Nov 13, 2016 09:30
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I like the concept a lot, but after playing a few games in the new version I think it's best to revert. I don't think they've given up on overhauling forts, but the system was incredibly counterintuitive and confusing.
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Nov 15, 2016 11:32
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Man, nothing beats playing a Jianzhou game and watching Ming explode by 1462. I don't even know why they lost the Mandate, but their loss is my gain! Unfortunately I'm behind on Mil tech because I have a 3/1/1 ruler that refuses to die.
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Nov 18, 2016 10:26
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Baronjutter posted:Haven't played this bad boy since common sense dropped. Been reading the poo poo out of the wiki but still had some questions and looking for general tips. Sounds like you know what you're doing with the Estates, just remember to pump them for Monarch points whenever they're not on cooldown. If the clergy are 60-100% loyal they give you +2% missionary strength to any provinces they own, so they can help crack difficult heretic strongholds in addition to -2% unrest and the tax modifier bonus. Keep everything under 80% influence though or you run the risk of Disaster. You can safely ignore Estates with very little risk, but a little bit of management will get you some nice stuff. Institutions need some more work. In the meantime, it mostly means that non-European powers have the ability to keep at low tech penalty by devoting a lot of MP to development. For example I'm playing Jianzhou/Manchu/Qing and I'm rolling around with 0% tech penalty. In practice it's not a huge thing since most other powers are keeping up with you (and if you intentionally develop provinces to make institutions appear, you're spending a lot of MP that they WON'T have to spend). But it does punish large non-Western powers, because you'll be desperate to embrace institutions as soon as you can and you'll have to spend a whole lot of money to make that happen. But that's fine, because most large non-Western powers have a whole lot of money. Corruption ticks up for overextension, low religious unity or unbalanced tech. If you let it grow the game will kick you in the balls with lovely events, so just set the slider to full Root Out Corruption, accept that the game will punish you for doing those things, and never think about it again. It's kind of a pointless mechanic and it adds nothing, but there you are. On the other hand, keeping it at zero rewards you with 40 to all monarch points and occasionally some stability. So that's nice.
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Mechanical Ape posted:What's the intent behind sailors? Is it to put another limit on shipbuilding, like if your navy gets wiped you can't just replace it in a year, even if you have the money for it? Because if so, it's never really come into play for me. That, and also about a landlocked country not being able to secure a coastal province and immediately pump out a billion heavies. I always assumed the sailors I was hiring for my ships were essentially mercenaries anyway? It was a silly, pointless mechanic and the last thing EUIV needs right now is more of those, so I'm glad they're floating the idea of removing it.
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Detheros posted:Oh nice, they even went full Quantity. Is that Russian green I see up to the north? Make them fight a grinding hell war instead.
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Malacca can be a real big problem if they get going. They have high development and almost total control over a great trade node. The new version is a strong buff to them too, because their circumstances let them keep up with Institution spread pretty easily. It's not too hard to cheese a war with them if you have naval supremacy, though. Just take over the south island and play strait blocking games while you kill their armies one by one.
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Dec 28, 2016 15:04
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Humanist is good as Ottomans because they can conquer so fast in so many directions and Humanist pretty much removes revolts from the game. You dont need Religious to convert provinces and taking it just for the CB seems a bit much. The CB can be pretty great for AE reduction - you're taking some very high-value provinces from some very angry people, and even as the Ottomans, a coalition war can be bad news. It doesn't make any sense that Europe is less angry with you because it's a holy war, but EUIV
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Elman posted:I wouldn't normally recommend going Humanist first, but for a new player? They're not gonna blob super hard, so they don't need Religion's superior CB (fabricating claims and the Ottomans' missions should be enough), or Administrative's cheaper coring. Managing rebels, however, could be a big problem. I think it just depends on which problem you want to solve. Rebelsplosion and coalition warfare are both nasty surprises the first time they happen to a new player, and the Ottomans are susceptible to both. I do agree that Humanism is probably the better choice, with the caveat that a new player should always mouse over the aggressive expansion.
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Tahirovic posted:The goal of Switzerlake has to be Switzersnake into Asia. Switzersnake: Own 100 provinces, none of which border more than two other owned provinces
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spectralent posted:So it's not the game settings "normal" or "historical"? That's actually intended behavior. IIRC when the converter first debuted a lot of people were angry that their awesome alt-history European nations were immediately clicking the "Form Nation" button. You can change it in the mod file or just tag switch over in-game and click the button for them.
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I'm glad for army tradition and army professionalism to be two entirely different and completely unrelated statistics
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Fister Roboto posted:The AI really has no loving idea how to prioritize war targets. Here's me getting my poo poo pushed in by France and Spain in a defensive war for my ally Britain: England has never been a good ally in any version of EUIV. Deep in your heart you know that, and that's why you have to abide by the NAPA principle, my friend Never Ally Perfidious Albion
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oddium posted:papal state can now raise Archangels in every province of catholic faith. they automatically convert provinces they siege Who knew that the latest version of Fall from Heaven would be an EUIV mod?
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