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A while back I got this game and decided to buy a few DLCs that were on sale on HB Jesus loving christ is playing the game without all of them schizophrenic. Why is giving vassals land tied behind the Cossacks, the only one not on sale, of all things? Same with colonial stances. Before I got, one of them, I couldn't develop land but without developing you couldn't develop to get institutions so you were turbofucked if you weren't in Europe, because all of them spawn there pretty much. The game is also way less ahistorical than CK2. Apparently there's lucky nations that always are the same? What the gently caress. Also it's loving bullshit that Andalusia has a thriving colonial empire and then dipshit OPM Portugal gets Colonialism just because. I got so mad at that I just broke truce to take them and uhhh, then got pummeled into the ground also sitting with a drat ole guide next to me to go through the arcane poo poo that is the combat is a mixed blessing after ck2 At least it isn't just "slam more mans into them = victory" I suppose Deceitful Penguin fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Jan 17, 2018 |
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Jan 17, 2018 22:15
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Why do my vassals hate me for letting them go? Why are vassals so incredibly gimped? Why can't I let them wage their own wars? So many questions
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Jan 18, 2018 01:41
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skasion posted:You’re their rightful lord and are responsible for their safety. You can’t just be like “lol not my problem, bye bitch” and give them a kick on the rear end, or they will feel abandoned and salty (not to mention diplomatically isolated and vulnerable). The point of vassals is essentially that you can use them to dodge admin power coring costs by giving them the territory you conquer and later annexing them. They pay the admin cost and core the territory, and you pay later in diplo power instead. They can’t wage their own wars because they have no right to conduct their own foreign policy, if they do it’s because they’re intriguing with your enemies to break free of your suzerainty. Wage war on their behalf, instead, and reap the benefit. Senor Dog posted:Because this isn't crusader kings 2 I also keep going broke and running out of manpower but I hear this is normal when starting out. Does make war a bit more serious. I also gotta admit I do not enjoy boatfighting in the least. I keep forgetting to build more and leave the ones I have to die. (I know to mark them to return to port at war NOW, mind you.) ... I still think it's odd I can't gradually give them independence though or downgrade them into protectorates or something. I'd to want to at least set them free with a guarantee...
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Jan 18, 2018 12:16
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Did anyone do Manns Best Friend: As Mann, Control only the Isle of Man and the Canary Islands
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Jan 18, 2018 15:46
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These missions seem pretty funny at times tbh Why does a mission to help me with loans give me less interest after I get less than one? I'm struggling with the interest now, not when I only have one left! Or do they trigger events to help you with it, like ambitions in CK2?
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Jan 18, 2018 19:30
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Is there much of a difference between Spain and Castille? Playing as the latter and I'm eyeing up forming it in the future but the whole peninsula is Catholic and "No province owner can be in the Muslim culture group" or whatever is still crossed out? Groogy posted:It's sort of soft, we delay it with an hour every time someone uses the term "cuck"
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Feb 2, 2018 01:22
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Senor Dog posted:Check the canary islands, or madeira, or the other islands. Which reminds me: My miltech is now almost double that of my dip and admin tech, due to rampant conquests and my lust for vassals Even with neighbour bonuses, I'm worried about catching up. I'm focusing admin, but is there anything I can do other than just wait and hope? Btw, seriously regretting Fez; I don't have whatever DLC lets you give provinces to your vassals and me giving them vast amounts of land did gently caress all for their liberty desire and now France is backing them, the loving cads. I am basically Castille that got the, Iberian Wedding and my sole ally is Austria that got the Netherlands. Could we take on France? (Btw, having to enter the ledger to compare/contrast army sizes is super irritating. Why isn't that info there in the dip screen like in CK2 or Stellaris?)
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Feb 2, 2018 02:56
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Yeah, I heard that that France starts swole and only gets swoler; we're still at miltech 7 and so I thought it would be nice to get the entire peninsula and maybe shake a few minors out of them for the hell of it Truth be told, I'd rather ally them and dunk England together but alas, both of them rivaled me so that's that. What's a good first idea? I vassalized Portugal to get them to start colonization for me, though I'm probably gonna have to feed them more of Morrocco first before they really get that going. Any other things I should be doing?
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Feb 2, 2018 03:55
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it turns out that france was lucky and the only way to find this out is looking at fort strength??? this war is not going to go well and England, the cowards, didn't try and dogpile them with me
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Feb 2, 2018 15:37
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Any hints as Ethiopia? I took defensive/exploration, defender of the faith and have achieved regional superiority aside from with the Mamluks, who have basically double my force limit and much larger (i.e. any) allies. I have Alodia in a lesser Union and have been feeding it the wrong culture to my north, while Makuria is an ally that I feel is increasingly useless but I worry the moment I let them go the Mamluks will eat them. Yemen and the rest are on the verge of a coalition but aside from the Mamluks absorbing their vassals there's no bigger players than me there. I'm on par/exceed everyone in miltech, lag in admin and dip Should I just keep going south to get the gold mines and try and grab the Cape before the Europeans get there solidly or should I head as quick as I can to the spice islands? Should I keep my trade capital in the Ethopia node or move it as soon as I have decent power elsewhere I can feed into? Any particular hints? I picked discipline and missionary strength as my two Coptic powers, was that a mistake? Can I switch them out?
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Feb 6, 2018 05:35
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Arright, when I saw the Mamluks looking half green, I slammed my way in. Managed to get all the way to Alexandria and cut off the Ottoman but he seems to have mostly wanted stuff near my other target in Antioch. Not looking forward to that, tbh, and meanwhile Kilwa has grabbed the gold that rightly belonged to me. Taking them out is just a matter of finding a way to fabricate on them or maybe just attack their allies and make them co-belligerent? Dirk the Average posted:How on earth is a new player supposed to come in and understand how the game works? This is after watching a shitload of streams and playing other Paradox games.
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Feb 6, 2018 21:03
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Why are my boats so retarded? I'm so used to the boats in CK2 just being "load your fuckers into a boat, or put it in the middle then chain your morons through them" that this mess is infuriating Yes, leave the loving general behind and only load the horses first, five at a time, when you have 6 transports. This is a great plan!
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Feb 7, 2018 01:12
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Xinder posted:I lost an OPM desperation war earlier today and had to restart because I forgot that the general won't go with the first boats for some reason. And then you can't assign them in a boat ~because of reasons or whatever~ Completely loving idiocy. AnoHito posted:It's even more insane that this is after they already fixed it. It used to be even worse. The fact that the bote combat poo poo is also pretty much the same as CK2 combat: "just slam more mans" is pretty helpful, tho I have no idea what heavies do, I just try to have more than the other guy and spam galleys when it says its better there Also what the heck can I do about inflation? Is it just take economic/the advisor or pay it down? Because it's third idea time for Ethiopia and I was thinking humanism would probably be good so I can just keep conquering without having to deal with all these dang revolts but I'm only two more wars away from 3 more gold mines and a few years away from coring 2 more
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Feb 7, 2018 02:42
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Agean90 posted:I want a random old world mode. Like you know someones gonna show up but you have no idea what they will be like and from what direction
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Feb 8, 2018 01:43
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Huh. I turned off random new world and spawn fantasy new world and Australia is still there What gives? Is this a known bug?
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Feb 8, 2018 06:06
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Australia is in the "Old World" hemisphere and stays. I didn't realize that Paradox were Australia truthers, this is absurd. Do they also believe in Atlantis and Mu???
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Feb 8, 2018 17:45
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Ok, this is complete loving crock of poo poo: I am the sole loving nation in THE WORLD as far as I know with a real colonial nation (thanks random new world) but because my capital isn't coastal I not only did not spawn the institution, I am not getting any growth of it at all! This is such utter loving bullshit! The goddamn printing press has just spawned and I'm gonna lag even further behind now because some retard thinks Colonialism can't happen if your capital doesn't happen to be next to the Ocean! Well known non-Colonial Empire France wouldn't get it except that all the Europeans get it ~just because~
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Feb 9, 2018 03:45
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Prav posted:you could always, uh, move your capital Jesus gently caress, time to suck up to the Ottomans and wait for it to spread that way I guess skasion posted:Just develop for it at that point. Yeah you’re blowing a load of MP on it, but it’s just gonna be wasted on tech penalty otherwise. I guess I can find some spots of lands that aren't horrible and try and develop them
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Feb 9, 2018 04:25
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Oh my god are you kidding me? Australia doesn't count????? Welp, time to Holy war a buncha new world fuckers to get a quick New World nation then! Also I don't have Cossacks because it wasn't on sale in the Humble Store so don't have estates or uhh, whatever gives edicts. That's the China one? I watched a video by Reman about maximizing this poo poo a while back but yeah, I'm probably gonna do it in Egypt or something; don't have a lot of Farmlands or Cloth provinces
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Feb 9, 2018 05:05
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:How the gently caress is the Papacy's fleets of transports and Light ships completely clowning on my fleets of Heavy Ships? I've lost forty heavies to them losing like five Lights, across four battles where I had ten Heavies in my fleet and they have ppbbbt 17 Lights and 50 transports?
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Feb 9, 2018 05:28
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Wait, are you telling me that I can't ask for land AND give up land in a deal??
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Feb 10, 2018 17:33
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I feel like almost all the random new worlds are way, way smaller than the regular OG one, is this just wrong or what?
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Feb 17, 2018 03:18
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AnoHito posted:I'm not sure if they're strictly smaller, but I always just seem to get unimpressive chains of small islands. I feel like the tile set could really use more continents. You know, so it feels more like a new world and less like just more ocean.
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Feb 17, 2018 04:12
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For colonization, I feel like a lot of the micro would be solved by simply changing colonization from a province level to a state level. You could have it gradual, so you'd first get the province you targeted, but when it reached, like, the half or three quarters mark, it would start leaking into other provinces in the state. Even if it was just "target each province in a state before asking me to move the fuckers" it would still be better than the current one, except if you want to target all the coastline to lock out others I GUESS
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Mar 12, 2018 06:39
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double nine posted:man I'm watching DDRjake's unlucky lucca and his growth despite the many setbacks make my playstyle look all the less competent. I really need to learn how to wage war like him What I really don't like is that he keeps referencing Rance, which is uhhhhhhh
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Mar 13, 2018 01:31
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Ok, if I give my vassal lands that I border but they do not, can they core it? I feel like feeding my pet Blackfeet a buncha other natives but I don't have whatever DLC lets you give them land and I don't feel like losing 10 prestige a pop just to connect the lands edit: nevermind, it actually tells me when I try it! Now, if only I knew why it won't let them core~ Deceitful Penguin fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Mar 13, 2018 |
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Mar 13, 2018 02:09
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I'm going for Ideas guy and I'm wondering where to play. I thought it might be fun to go North American and then pick Siberian frontiers as one of my ideas/traditions, but then wondered if I could combine that with Sunset Invasion, but didn't someone mention problems with reforming the religion if you picked a higher tech group? Also what's the deal with High American? Is it better than Western? Also, Ironman requiring Historical Lucky Nations is utter garbage. They loving suck; why not let it be random or none?
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Mar 14, 2018 17:27
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why the gently caress do the reforms only work with the mesoamerican tech group why would you do that? why the heck would you not let the high americans do it too? Also it's incredibly irritating to try and reform as them when everyone and their mom allies right away and no-one wants to ally me because I'm a filthy Nahuatl, but if I try and grow I get hosed over by doom super fast What even happens if it fills up completely? Also it's great when the AI declares humilations on me and then I get a loving truce on them! I almost, almost miss the system as it is in CK2 where if you were the defender you had not truce against the aggressor (no not really but not being able to declare multiple wars, instantly and at game start is pretty irritating too) And I can't vassalize that way. There's something disturbingly idiotic about protective humiliation wars Ok, so what are the tricks here, other than just abandoning Nahuatl and going back to Sikhism/Shinto? Is Inti worth a drat?
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Oh yiss, finally got the drat Nahuatl campaign rolling, the trick ended up picking infantry combat ability as the other tradition, then Prussian Monarchy and pimping out my monarch so that they have both morale and discipline while never, ever making them a general. Then just pumping up that militarization. I can't create a vassal with this government type right? How the heck you're supposed to do this legit is beyond me and I'm already worried what will happen when the Europeans arrive, but what the hell right? Louisiana is now the Swampy Jewel of the World, while I wrap up the last of the N-Americans before heading downwards. That may be a mistake, tbh, but making my name bigger is so satisfying and each lil conquest opens up more places to plop down Frontier Outposts before I get the tech from reforming. I should probably start warring the other Centro-Americans though, if only to get some real development. As a ~Primitive~ I don't get full gold from mines right?
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Groogy posted:I can say from really good authority, there isn't Why aren't you joining the Kaiser side in the dev MP Also, how do I stop my vassals from being Native councils? will converting their lands to Nahuatl, then releasing, be enough? Deceitful Penguin fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Mar 17, 2018 |
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Mar 17, 2018 03:47
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oddium posted:the Mann achievement ended up being own all the islands as mann no wait it was nobody is an island, poo poo, my Scottish Britpop references are useless! Also in my Nahuatl game, it turns out that Spain ate Portugal, while France is eating England. There's every chance I might have to reform off of Norway at this rate...
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Man, I had no idea the East Coast had all the good development. Makes me feel sorta dumb for going for the West. How the hell are you supposed to defend America anyway? The whole thing is super huge and micro-ing armies is somehow even worse than in CK2, where armies seemingly slide along randomly and you can't just order your armies to follow an enemy one.
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Senor Dog posted:have you made forts? I guess I should be using them more proactively against my enemies, but money is weirdly tight considering that I control most of N-America centered on the middle Also goddammit Trade War supplanting Flower War! Fuuuuccckkkk Also why doesn't the "Don't declare a war doofus, you have a truce with these fuckers" just tell you when it runs out there, like in CK2?
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Mar 18, 2018 02:24
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AnoHito posted:I think there's a message setting you can change to do that. It pops up for me at least. Luigi Thirty posted:It's 1536 and no Europeans have shown up in America yet. Shouldn't they be here by now? I want to reform Iroquois, dammit. in the Caribbean. And after cheating a bit and checking the world while on the loading screen, it looks like Denmark absorbed Norway before they could get exploration and Spain loving over Portugal and absorbing Morocco means that it's unlikely anyone else will join. France is in Sierra Leone. There is a genuine chance that if I handle poo poo right, I might be able to beat them to the Spice Islands
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appropriatemetaphor posted:Pretty sure when you attempt to declare way there's a red like -5 stab breaking truce. I just wanted to go back to Lakewood 
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Mar 18, 2018 03:55
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Yeah, speaking as someone who just came from CK2, it felt really weird that I could just demand all the gold from all of my enemies most of the time, especially when war reps were already in. Like, keeping a lil country around as a piggybank to hit over every now and then was strange and unrealistic Also really hoping for a sale and that their website works this time or that the sale extends to HB
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Soooo tempted to actually catch up completely on DLC here, but the only thing Britain is good for is being invaded
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Wait, what the hell, where is my Flower War CB against the N-American minors???? edit: ahaha my preset Nahuatl minor suddenly changed to Inti, false alarm Deceitful Penguin fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Mar 20, 2018 |
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RabidWeasel posted:Man you have way more faith in people than I do because I just assumed that the largest part of the playerbase is English-speaking and white and they want to play the most powerful country that lets them fufil some kind of ethnonationalist power fantasy. Like, all my last games have been various attempts at glorious murder against Europe. It is, btw, deeply irritating how central Europe is to the whole shebang. I would pay big loving bucks for premade alternative setups, alternative institutions or something like that, that would still be Ironman compatable.
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