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Just bought some of the DLC on sale. Unsurprisingly, I accidentally bought a couple of content bits I already had (the Muslim advisor portraits and ships). Its a pain trying to double check through Steam against whats on the Paradox list (plus I'm stupid). PM me if anyone wants them.
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really queer Christmas posted:Holy poo poo the dlcs are finally at 75% off Shame I already bought everything  Except RB and Mare Nostrum and they're both not even worth having at 75% off
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Aug 13, 2018 18:00
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Now's a good chance to grab up anything you're lacking and are interested in. Paradox used to run 75% off sales on their DLC on a regular basis, but haven't done so in more than a year. It may be another year before the DLC is this cheap again.
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Aug 13, 2018 22:19
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It's been like 2 or more years at this point, hasn't it? I feel like it's been more than a year since it's even been more than 50% off. Also, the next expansion's release date was announced--September 6th.
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Aug 13, 2018 22:55
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Pogue_Mahone posted:Just bought some of the DLC on sale. Unsurprisingly, I accidentally bought a couple of content bits I already had (the Muslim advisor portraits and ships). Its a pain trying to double check through Steam against whats on the Paradox list (plus I'm stupid). Yeah I have that same problem. Plus there's all these packs on steam that bundle random things. I'm 90% sure I have everything except the Sabaton music. Which I might as well get so balance out that crazy Swede pack. MI FATER MI BROTER OHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Aug 14, 2018 00:32
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The new south Asian advisor portraits in this weeks dev diary look amazing.
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Aug 14, 2018 15:26
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That spymaster has a pro mustache
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Aug 14, 2018 15:28
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Loans are generally good for wars, where the return on the investment often easily pays for the loan itself. Being able to completely trash an early game competitor, grabbing land, or even looting and war reparations is def worth some interest. I doubt even the most excellent placed manufactories is worth a loan though. Maybe if you really loving need a fort somewhere ASAP? Also, all this talk about peace-money being nerfed kind of disregards how much you can gain from looting during the war. I guess Norway is too poor to make it worthwhile, but Scania is probably worth quite a bit of cash.
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Aug 14, 2018 16:29
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Zetetica posted:The new south Asian advisor portraits in this weeks dev diary look amazing. I like that they're bundling all the music/advisors/units now. Makes the 7 bucks more palatable.
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Aug 14, 2018 17:23
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Aug 14, 2018 18:31
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Good post av combo I think
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Aug 14, 2018 20:38
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what's the territory nerf exactly
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Aug 14, 2018 21:30
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It's this https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/eu4-development-diary-24th-of-july-2018.1111835/ quote:Expansion:
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Aug 14, 2018 21:37
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Zetetica posted:The new south Asian advisor portraits in this weeks dev diary look amazing. Nice, we have a date. September 6.
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Aug 15, 2018 03:33
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Nosfereefer posted:I doubt even the most excellent placed manufactories is worth a loan though. Maybe if you really loving need a fort somewhere ASAP? From some googling it seems like, the best placed, once you've advanced in production efficiency some, if you've got some interest reduction, would probably be slightly more profit than the interest.
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Aug 15, 2018 09:23
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reignonyourparade posted:From some googling it seems like, the best placed, once you've advanced in production efficiency some, if you've got some interest reduction, would probably be slightly more profit than the interest. I was going to do a quick from memory post, but  The Wiki has a surprisingly in-depth take on this. Wiki
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Aug 16, 2018 17:54
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So I am playing as the Incas trying to do the Sun god achievement and I just conquered a big part of Mexixo, do I need to do the trick that I move my capital to Panama to avoid forming a colonial nation?
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Aug 17, 2018 20:19
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You should be fine, having your capital in the new world stops colonial nations forming there.
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Aug 17, 2018 20:45
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As long as it can path to your capital you should be fine I think, If you take a big chunk in northern America far away without getting a path there it will create a colonial nation. If you do not want a colonial nation in Caribbean you need to have your capital in North America though.
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Aug 17, 2018 20:48
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If you have a gold bearing colonial nation downstream of you, do you just get the money directly or not at all?
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Aug 17, 2018 22:28
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Deceitful Penguin posted:If you have a gold bearing colonial nation downstream of you, do you just get the money directly or not at all?
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Aug 17, 2018 22:42
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Might be outdated info, but I think Treasure Fleets only move downstream otherwise the Colonial Nation will keep them the gold for themselves.
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Aug 17, 2018 22:43
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Just gently caress You: the wanting to colonise the Americas from Asia story.
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Aug 17, 2018 22:55
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Groogy posted:As long as it can path to your capital you should be fine I think, If you take a big chunk in northern America far away without getting a path there it will create a colonial nation. If you do not want a colonial nation in Caribbean you need to have your capital in North America though. Uh, if your capital is in North/South America you cannot form Colonial nations. You can test this by building 5 colonies over to Australia as one of the Native American nations. Even though it fulfills all the other requirements, they will remain under your direct control. You can, however, still fight through Colonialism casus belli by not having a direct path to your capital in the opposite continent; if you are situated in NA but don't have provincial control through Panama into SA (or vice versa) then it is considered overseas. Thus you can pick fights via adjacent colonizer provinces to your own colonies. Sage Grimm fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Aug 17, 2018 |
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Aug 17, 2018 22:56
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RabidWeasel posted:Just gently caress You: the wanting to colonise the Americas from Asia story. Trade flows from the Americas to Asia through Japan, doesn't it?
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Aug 17, 2018 23:00
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AnoHito posted:Trade flows from the Americas to Asia through Japan, doesn't it? It does but I never got a treasure fleet to show up as Cebu and taking most of Alaska and California colonial territories (dominating trade flow).
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Aug 17, 2018 23:05
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Sage Grimm posted:It does but I never got a treasure fleet to show up as Cebu and taking most of Alaska and California colonial territories (dominating trade flow). Weird, I've gotten them as Japan perfectly fine.
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Aug 17, 2018 23:06
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It might be that I didn't have full control all the way down to my trade capital from Japan->Canton->Philippines. It wasn't worth tinkering with at the time. 
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Aug 17, 2018 23:08
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AnoHito posted:Trade flows from the Americas to Asia through Japan, doesn't it? Some of it, yes, but you can't get most new world trade to go to Asia, also there's extremely little flexibility compared to what you can do if you're in Europe.
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Aug 17, 2018 23:42
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Who are some youtubers who are good at fighting wars / battles? I still feel like I spend the whole time chasing after armies. There must be some better ways to trap them or predict where they're gonna go. I wish the AI was a bit more committed to defending its homeland. It's annoying when you successfully siege all their provinces and then their army shows up on the other side of the world to siege one of your random colonies.
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Aug 18, 2018 12:05
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fuf posted:Who are some youtubers who are good at fighting wars / battles? I still feel like I spend the whole time chasing after armies. There must be some better ways to trap them or predict where they're gonna go. As Byzantium I went to war with my ally Russia against the Mamluks. Spent most of the war wondering where the Mamluk armies were, because they mounted very little resistance. Eventually I zoomed out and discovered they'd marched to the east coast of Russia and spent the whole war sieging Russia's worthless eastern provinces. The Mamluks did not win that war.
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Aug 18, 2018 12:27
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fuf posted:Who are some youtubers who are good at fighting wars / battles? I still feel like I spend the whole time chasing after armies. There must be some better ways to trap them or predict where they're gonna go. idk about youtubers, but it sounds like you either need more forts or more pausing. Not sure how much you're using those already, but sticking forts in chokepoints (ideally on defensible terrain) helps a lot with preventing the AI from running around your interior and limits their movement options, giving you a lot more opportunities to catch them. They're expensive but so is having your heartlands occupied and paying an army upkeep to chase the enemy around for months. You can disable fort maintenance during peace to save a buck. If I can afford it I have a line along every border and a few on internal chokepoints. As for actually catching armies, one trick if you're having trouble with them cancelling move orders to evade you is to watch the enemy army's movement closely on a slow speed and pause when they get halfway to the next province. At this point their movement gets locked in and you'll see a little padlock icon. Send your army to attack then and they won't be able to cancel the move and go somewhere else. Wafflecopper fucked around with this message at 13:22 on Aug 18, 2018 |
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Aug 18, 2018 13:19
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fuf posted:Who are some youtubers who are good at fighting wars / battles? I still feel like I spend the whole time chasing after armies. There must be some better ways to trap them or predict where they're gonna go. Watch some DDRjake campaigns if you want to learn how to fight and win wars from a massive disadvantage and without taking any loans.
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Aug 18, 2018 13:47
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Communist Walrus posted:As Byzantium I went to war with my ally Russia against the Mamluks. Spent most of the war wondering where the Mamluk armies were, because they mounted very little resistance. Eventually I zoomed out and discovered they'd marched to the east coast of Russia and spent the whole war sieging Russia's worthless eastern provinces. I have never had the AI do something like this. Not saying it doesn’t happen but why can’t I get the dumbass AI.
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Aug 18, 2018 15:54
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fuf posted:Who are some youtubers who are good at fighting wars / battles? I still feel like I spend the whole time chasing after armies. There must be some better ways to trap them or predict where they're gonna go. Second watching DDRJake. His Lucky Lucca campaign was fun and informative, if you're looking for somewhere to start. He rolled for penalties/bonuses (but almost always penalties) periodically so he would wind up fighting wars with outdated units and other massive disadvantages. Florrywhorry might be good too but I find him too obnoxious to watch.
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Aug 18, 2018 21:00
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Wafflecopper posted:idk about youtubers, but it sounds like you either need more forts or more pausing. Not sure how much you're using those already, but sticking forts in chokepoints (ideally on defensible terrain) helps a lot with preventing the AI from running around your interior and limits their movement options, giving you a lot more opportunities to catch them. They're expensive but so is having your heartlands occupied and paying an army upkeep to chase the enemy around for months. You can disable fort maintenance during peace to save a buck. If I can afford it I have a line along every border and a few on internal chokepoints. As for actually catching armies, one trick if you're having trouble with them cancelling move orders to evade you is to watch the enemy army's movement closely on a slow speed and pause when they get halfway to the next province. At this point their movement gets locked in and you'll see a little padlock icon. Send your army to attack then and they won't be able to cancel the move and go somewhere else. Agreed with this post 100%: Forts along your border, and then during actual war repeated pausing on slow speed until that padlock appears on the enemy unit. I will say I prefer to keep my forts up at all times in order to keep army tradition up. So I don’t usually keep forts inland because of the added cost.
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The DDRJake advice is good and I learned a ton from the Lucky Lucca campaign. But if I had to point to a single video that upped my game as far as wars and made me realize how much I was leaving on the table when I fought, it was his 40 years campaign against the Ottomans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jyet9l4DspU
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Aug 19, 2018 15:18
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Thanks for the tips and DDRJake recommendation. So with the forts, do you destroy the inland ones as you expand? Even on low maintenance seems like it could get expensive very fast.
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doingitwrong posted:The DDRJake advice is good and I learned a ton from the Lucky Lucca campaign. But if I had to point to a single video that upped my game as far as wars and made me realize how much I was leaving on the table when I fought, it was his 40 years campaign against the Ottomans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jyet9l4DspU
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fuf posted:So with the forts, do you destroy the inland ones as you expand? Even on low maintenance seems like it could get expensive very fast. Mostly yeah. I'll only keep inland ones if they're in a really good chokepoint and only if I can afford it. Usually just border forts are enough, but having key chokepoints blocked can be helpful if the enemy breaks through the outer layer. It's really more of a luxury thing though, running good advisers and maintaining a strong army are more important than having the perfect network of forts. Completely unrelated, Ottomans dead before 1600 with no player interference. I have no idea what happened. I haven't seen the Ottomans fail in a few games and I don't think I've ever seen them die so fast. All I know is I was playing Orissa and I saw Mamluk colonies popping up in Indonesia, so I took a look at Turkey to see what was going on. It was mostly unrevealed still but I could see Albania had Constantinople. Later when I noticed the map had opened up I took another look: 
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