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AnoHito posted:Hard to say, since India is so unpredictable that by the time you get there, pretty much anyone could be in charge. A no CB on the Maldives usually works, though, considering they're isolated as hell diplomatically, and I think they're usually within range. If Ceylon manages to stick around, they're pretty useful, too.
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Fister Roboto posted:The only one I'd call niche is colonization one, because it obviously does nothing for you if you're not colonizing. But it's really good if you are.
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Eh, Innovativeness seems like a good mechanic to me. It ties in nicely with older mechanics, boosts nations that can afford to tech ahead(generally the ones that aren't paying mountains of ADM and DIP to core/take territory), and it should make Europe a bit stronger vis-a-vis India and Asia without being too kludgy. The name; however, is irredeemable.
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AnoHito posted:the reduced negative effects of diplomatic actions is amazing because it means royal marriages are just a thing you do with no real consequences.
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Sephyr posted:Is there any other fun African nations to play as, other than Ethiopia? Been considering a Mali run.
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Yeah, if you’re planning on fighting the French, you definitely want Administrative and Defensive. I mean, generally you want those, but if you’re investing in crushing the French, Exploration can wait until your 3rd idea slot. Hell, you can leave it until your 4th as long as you don’t have your heart set on a particular part of America or the Cape.
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Man, the last time I tried Prester John, the Ottos were in the process of crushing Russia and had already eaten Hungary and basically the entire Middle East. That was about 1600. I really have to play the push north more aggressively, but just once I’d like to see them fail without me having done anything.
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ZypherIM posted:Yea they wanted to be Chinese so much that at the time the game is starting their ruler created an entire alphabet from scratch based on phonetics and poo poo so that they wouldn't have to memorize thousands of chinese characters, letting them educate more people.
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Isnt it also an artificial construct made by the winners of the Great War to try to help stabilize the region/fill the vacuum left by the decision (by these winners) to dissolve Austria-Hungary rather than something that was likely to happen naturally like Germany and Italy? That wasn't even the dumbest thing they did in that peace treaty either. Probably not even close.
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ilitarist posted:It's a concious choice. There are similar disasters like Oromo migration in Ethiopia. Devs decided to represent those things as nasty debuffs cause what's the alternative? The calendar says it's time for your country to basically die? Invent some ways out of those events by turning them into disasters that you can evade? I think this is one of those things you can't properly represent in a game of this scope where everyone is playable. From a gameplay perspective, it would be neat if all these immigrants increased development(perhaps after the event chain ends), even if only just manpower.
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Terrible Opinions posted:There are many many issues that contributed to the rapid disease spread and high lethality. You have populations that are either highly urbanized (most of central America) or highly interconnected through rapid transit like the Incan roads or the Amazon river for the Amazonian civilizations* or coastal boats for the Eastern North American natives. Then you have a population with relatively little genetic variation and few recent migrations. Additionally the Americas had very few domesticated animals and none that shared as many diseases with humans as the pig. Whereas Europeans just straight up lived in contact with farm animals at the time. So native immune systems did not have the acquired immunity to numerous animal to human transmissible diseases that were more or less background noise for Europeans.
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AnEdgelord posted:I don't know why they went with the current trade company system instead of doing something like the trading post system from CK2 where you can have a building in a region that doesn't give you control of the province itself. You could make it something like "provinces with this building in it count as owned for purposes of trade/colonial range and trade node control", you could even make it so having a building in the region like that gives you a CB on the province so its still a tool for territorial expansion in overseas holdings.
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open_sketchbook posted:me: let me play as korea-colonizing-north-america again surely unrest slash japan won't gently caress me Oh, and eat any daimyo that breaks free of Ashikaga immediately: it's basically free territory.
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StealthArcher posted:CK3: Noblesse Oblige adds Angst, hope you like managing your children's teenage drama as a number and also it mysteriously affects Muslims into adulthood.
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yikes! posted:Taking the 2nd colonist out of exploration has made me really hate it. I think I may just go Expansion only unless I'm in Iberia, and rely on normal spread and the policy that reveals adjacent provs to deal with the terra incognito. I love playing Ethiopia, can you tell? I mean, they absolutely needed to nerf Exploration, because old Exploration was broken good and pretty much a no-brainer in most cases(and Expansion was terrible). But I don't think it's exactly in a good place yet, especially with the ever-increasing quantity of provinces.
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Really, India owns these days. Take Humanist, because most Indian nations get native heathen tolerance bonuses, so you just tolerate the poo poo out of everyone and make mad bank. There are also some really good achievements to aim for, of all different difficulties. You can focus on India, or go and mess around in Southeast Asia and the spice islands(big profits and super easy to cash in on if you're collecting in Bengal). Manchu, Korea, or a daimyo are all fun plays as well(some of those daimyos have fantastic mil-focused idea bonuses)
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:IIRC Ayyuthaya, Taungu, and Dai Viet have them. I mean, unless you count Turn the Tables for Ternate/Tidore.
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PittTheElder posted:I had completely forgotten about orange Denmark tho
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PittTheElder posted:Yeah there's been definite power creep, with England being the worst one. By being able to spend your monarch points on development, especially with the discounts you get, you can be more developed than China by Iike 1600. It's dumb. Of course, it feels like one of those internal politics deals they’re allergic to modeling.
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Aethernet posted:My main problem with Expansion is that it's in the Admin line and there are far too many desirable groups in there already. It doesn't help that it's objectively superior to exploration too, unless you want Dahomey to do the first circumnavigation or something. Of course, you can always pick Exploration, do some exploring to get access to choice territory like the Cape, and then just dump it for Expansion.
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Anyone have any experience going ham as a Hussite? Might give that a try sometime soon. First and foremost, the church powers are completely bonkers. -1% yearly army tradition decay is nuts and a no-brainer and led to me rolling super generals on the reg despite not having offensive OR quality(I should have gotten Offensive, honestly). I suppose you could stack it with the tradition decay from Aristocratic to good effect too. The other church powers aren't quite that broken, but there are a lot of good ones. I ran Bread&Wine the whole time: +1 tolerance of the true faith and +5% goods produced is pretty nice, particularly since Bohemia and Silesia are loaded with glass, iron, and cloth. The one that gives +1 heretic tolerance is useful in the very beginning(it does something else good I don't remember). There's +manpower, +manpower recovery, Pacifism(+33% improve relations at the cost of a stab hit for declaring war. Probably could have helped me avoid some of the coalition wars I had to fight if I had remembered it), -10% warscore against other religions might be situationally useful(would be nice to stack with the Reformation Age power). You get a Center of Reformation for converting your starting lands to Hussite, which eventually flipped Poland(!) and a few minors for me. Hussite naturally has +2% conversion against heretics, so converting provinces was a cinch, not that I really needed to, since Bohemia gets +3 tolerance of heretics in its ideas. There are downsides though: you're basically in the same boat as Reformed once the War of Religion kicks off, and you'll lose your electorship, which your kingdom title is tied to(which shouldn't be the case for Bohemia), so you'll lose a diplomat and some governing capacity. You're also ineligible to become Emperor ever, so you're locked out of leveraging any of that. If Austria PUs Hungary and you can't keep the Poles happy, that would also be an immediate issue. Speaking of PUs, you can get PUs on Hungary and Poland via your missions. Kurgarra Queen fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Aug 27, 2020 |
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I think I remember seeing somewhere that you can cheese the "Surrender of Maine" event by releasing Normandy. But probably the best thing is just to give them Maine, deal with the War of the Roses, and get together with some of the very large number of majors that hate the French. It occurs to me that you could probably force the French to transfer their vassals to you(assuming you can get the relevant age perk unlocked and a favorable war arranged before the Reformation fires in ~1490), which would enable you to turn at least part of their vassal swarm against them. Should be satisfying, if nothing else. It's been a really long time since I played England though.
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Poil posted:Why does a nation with half the ideas aimed at being a pirate republic have +1 legitimacy? (I bet it's landlocked too so it can't actually hoist the black flag?)
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:I had no idea you could flip Jewish, that is awesome. Edgar Allen Ho posted:Sadly it’s a pretty flavourless religion
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Wafflecopper posted:AE ticks down annually, you can just wait a few years. Improve Relations modifiers speed up the rate at which it ticks down. You could maybe no-CB into Ireland/N Africa where the culture/religion are different but no-CBing also gives AE so be careful Also it's ridiculously easy to stumble into it. Just a few provinces from Burgundy or Savoy will do the trick. Force-vassalizing Lorraine? Definitely coalition time. I had one game where I had to fight two coalition wars back-to-back. I won, but I abandoned that game and stopped playing EUIV for a while, because carefully fighting a swarm of minors is annoying. Detheros posted:Anything in Malacca, Moluccas, and Philippines trade nodes can spawn it, also there's a province in India with it.
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AnEdgelord posted:Greenland was actually the biggest source of Ivory for Europe until they lost contact with the Norse Greenlanders and the Portuguese made contact with West Africa.
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Sephyr posted:If you can ally anyone with a good navy (Castile or Denmark), I've had decent luck in being able to cross the Channel and start grabbing English land. Once you have the first province there to launch wars from, it's a cakewalk, and Rivalry+claims helps keep AE manageable. Naturally, you don't give them anything. If you do it in the first war, you can even kick the English out of Ireland and eat that between big wars(no one else cares about it).
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Yeah, forcing Burgundy into a Personal Union is going to get you coalitioned unless Burgundy’s practically non-existent. Ideally, you have Influence or Diplomatic Ideas to help keep (some of) the heat off, but a reasonably swole France can keep all but the most powerful coalitions at bay long enough to white peace out(it’s an awful grind though). Worst case, you cough up some cash and/or territory that won’t be too hard to get back. Colonizing as France is great, because you can go HAM in Africa, Asia, and/or the Americas when the heat’s on in Europe.
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I remember being excited for the ZOC system, but it's so full of weird edge-cases, end-arounds, and kludges designed to keep the AI from loving itself that it just turns into a huge headache and somehow the AI always finds a way to carpet siege the poo poo out of everything anyway(or just rolls up a ridiculous general that melts your forts like butter).
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Watching the paradox stream of EU4 on twitch this morning, partially to lol at fan reactions more, and rediscovered another hilarious paradox thing: the automated twitch chat mod autodeletes comments that say "Victoria" or "Vicky" or "Ricky" in the PDX channel I honestly don’t think we’re ever getting another Victoria, at this point. It never sold that well(IIRC) and we barely got the 2nd one out of old Paradox. Now that PDOX is a corp...
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Ming also had that weird thing where the Emperor’s could just…not do his job. So the…Wanle Emperor, I want to say, went on strike and just refused to do anything, which ground the bureaucracy to a crawl. I would suggest maybe some mission themed around fixing that and/or a potential disaster for Ming where an Emperor goes on strike, increasing power costs or some such, but I don’t think East Asia should be a bunch of states shackled by special problems while Europe is free to do whatever. Plus, I doubt it would actually hurt Ming much. IIRC, another recurring problem was army pay: that is, the Ming(and many previous dynasties) paid soldiers very little. And they very seldom got to do any good looting either.
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Haven’t played in a while: what’s the current meta re: military ideas? I’m playing as Lithuania, and have Muscovy cut to size, but, predictably, have an Ottoman issue(they inherited Crimea in the 1450s, because gently caress me). I’m allied with Poland and Austria, but Austria wandered off to siege poo poo in the middle of nowhere while the Ottos overran Hungary, costing us the war. My own armies were merely adequate: I have Defensive for the morale, what should I get next? I was thinking Quality or maybe Offensive so I don’t need to rely on AI armies to even things up as much.
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MonsieurChoc posted:I re-rolled and got The Sun Never Sets on the Indian Empire. Decide to try as Bengal, never really tried them.
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Various Meat Products posted:Morocco isn't that tough of a start. Day 1 EDIT you start with Strong Duchies, but it's not that hard to keep your vassals under 50% LD, RM the two that aren't theocracies. Fabricate on Tlemcen and increase opinion with the Ottomans and ally them, they should flip friendly at 100+ opinion. Build some heavies. Eat Tlemcen. Ally Tunis if they aren't rivaling you. Then attack Grenada. Castile and Portugal start with a truce timer on Grenada so you have some wiggle room. Just full occupy Grenada and wait. Eventually Castile will attack Grenada, at which point you vassalize them and call in your allies. Stomp Castile, break their alliances, take land. Make sure you get a short truce with Portugal so you can fight them again before they can re-ally Castile. Attack Portugal and stomp them, laugh at England's lame attempts at landing troops. Rinse and repeat. Ally France if possible. From here you should be able to easily beat up on Iberians on cooldown while also taking land in Africa. I did 3 abortive Muscovy games that I quit in frustration because I felt I wasn’t doing it right: not expanding fast enough or whatever. Playing whack-a-mole with nomad stacks, outnumbering the Ottomans but getting nowhere because Austria sent its entire army into Crimea to hide from the Otto stacks sweeping through Hungary, watching Sweden eat poo poo, etc. So I decided to do a Mysore game for the first time, and loving everything is beautiful. I ate my neighbors, improved relations with the Bahmanids, *they* allied *me*, then they white peaced Vijay just when the war was won, allowing me to punch out all of my cores without pissing them off. Then they subsidized me .8 ducats a month, I allied Orissa, and Vijay seems to be in a death spiral and I’m the jerk whose getting all their sweet clay while the Bahmanids and Orissa do most of the work. I should probably build a navy at some point. Also Mysore has randomly rad ideas: army morale(in the starter), CCR(first idea!), increased fire damage, and discipline.
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ilitarist posted:https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/eu4-development-diary-7th-of-september-2021.1489871/ But, more importantly, it's extremely awesome and a funny finale to a victorious underdog campaign.
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Groke posted:Heading south to get all that gold serves the dual purpose of taking over the Zanzibar trade node. (And then you have the Indian Ocean right there. East African nations can quite easily become extremely filthy rich.) It's a bit harder to break into Indonesia/Malaysia these days though: they tend to have a lot of boats and galleys are better in a lot of those seazones. I learned that the hard way when a resurgent Majapahit and friends drowned my heavies in galleys in my recent Ajuuran game(and to think they just announced they're buffing it up right when I was doing Golden Horn with them...)
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Lum_ posted:The main problem with going horde as Zimbabwe or Mutapa is that you lose the god-tier estate bonus from merchants that virtually eliminates inflation due to gold and any chance of gold mines depleting.
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Mongolia is busted too. It's not even 1600 and I've crushed the Oirat, conquered out to Kashgaria, and snapped Ming like a twig, ate Manchuria and part of Korea(Japan formed and ate part of it after Ming died). Now I busy the horde by burning China on a timer. Probably going to turn on Bukharia (those weak coward Uzbeks abandoned the Old Ways). I haven't completed the "Reform Great Yuan" mission because it gives 25 Horde Unity and that's about 20 more Horde Unity than I need. It even looks like Muscovy ate poo poo somehow. Took Horde and Econ ideas and now have Admin going because these damned Chinese provinces are crazy expensive to core(with claims!) even after I raze them. It'll also help with the governing capacity. Quick opening tip: you can get Ming to support your independence, but you shouldn't: you should get Uzbek and Chagatai instead. Take Qaraqorum and Ming will probably dec Oirat because they're weak. You do this because the first mission requires you to own and have a core on Qaraqorum while independent, and Ming will hassle you to be a tributary if you're both at peace, and you can't core it before they get pissed off and decide they want to murder you(apparently refusing to be their tributary tanks trust and you need a minimum trust level to volunteer to be their tributary). But that first mission gives you a permanent modifier that gives Horde Unity and Prestige in Qaraqorum, a ton of claims on Oirat, AND bumps you to Kingdom-tier. It makes your early expansion go much more smoothly. I figure Oirat gets to jump straight into "murder Ming and raze their poo poo".
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Various Meat Products posted:Some of us don't mind restarting until we get that one perfect, beautiful god rng seed. I'm an idiot masochist though so maybe don't follow my example.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Poland's war and Danzig vassal is event-driven. Ally Poland, attack the pommern fucker to the north of you then the TO before Poland's event, snipe the necessary provinces, become god king of wehraboos in 1520. Until you're big enough to eat them too, of course.
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