Europa Universalis IV

[Agame]

I thought this was going to be the 'Holy Fury' of EU4, seems pretty lackluster and the bugs and general unbalanced-ness also take the shine off.

But we have Jo-HACK-han back in charge so I'm sure that will help...

Not feeling this one, probably gonna wait till sale.

 

[Fedora Master]

>Buying DLC

 

[NJClaw]

I'm still on my first game as France. Allied so well that nobody would touch me, except when the allies call you to their shitty wars.

Now exploring Indonesia and Australia, though there are so many nodes in-between that it makes more sense to focus on America.

If you want to keep your allies only as coalitions-deterrents (they gains reduced AE and coalitions won't fire if you are in a very strong alliance), you can uncheck the "Join Offensive Wars" in the diplomatic screen (where you can see a nation's Trust and Favors towards you): you will no longer gain favors with them (so probably you won't be able to call them in your offensive wars), but they will no longer drag you into long resource-wasting wars.

Africa and South-East Asia can be intimidating at first, but they offer 1000x the rewards you can gain colonizing the new world. Once you control the West Africa and Cape nodes, you are set to drown in more money you will ever be able to spend.

 

[Theodora]

EU4. Learned the hard way to respect the aggression score with 5 coalition wars against much of the HRE in beginning.

Now trying to figure out the easiest way to avoid the French Religion Wars disaster or whether to just go through with it.

Did you watch many videos before getting into it? Curious who they were if so, as it sounds like you're managing things better than most noobs (though France is pretty strong — though not as strong as if you'd started them on 1.30 ^^).

The Cossacks vs Dharma DLC, which one should i buy?

Is that all you're missing?

Cossacks -- tengriism, steppe hordes mechanics, diplomatic features like promising allies territory in wars, or threatening smaller countries. Originally added the estates mechanic, though now just locks certain estates: the Cossacks (for Eastern Christians), the Dhimmi (for Muslims), and Tribes (for Steppe nomads).

tl;dr: nomads and muslims, though the mechanics around war are generally helpful.

Dharma -- Hindu mechanics, trade companies (if you don't already have Wealth of Nations) and charter companies, lots of new mission trees and a bunch of new estates in India, and some expanded weather and trade centre mechanics.

tl;dr: India and trade heavy nations.

 

[Life of the Party]

If I had to pick a tutorial nation it would be Poland. It's a strong country but cannot into space, you have a very helpful and forever loyal ally in Lithuania that is essentially a part of your own realm even before you officially annex it, you get to expand in all directions and your rivals get progressively more formidable.

Instead of the Hussites they should've added the Church of Bosnia. That would at least give you a reason to actually play Bosnia and we all know there's no kebab like the Demiurgebab.

Tried Serbia and Herzegovina fell to the rebels in 1446. There's just no point until they fix it.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

EU4. Learned the hard way to respect the aggression score with 5 coalition wars against much of the HRE in beginning.

Now trying to figure out the easiest way to avoid the French Religion Wars disaster or whether to just go through with it.

You should check out this mad lad's vids:



Recently posted his latest war academy video after a long hiatus and his stuff is great.

And for the prestigious merchants on the 'dex:

 

[fantadomat]

EU4. Learned the hard way to respect the aggression score with 5 coalition wars against much of the HRE in beginning.

Now trying to figure out the easiest way to avoid the French Religion Wars disaster or whether to just go through with it.

You should check out this mad lad's vids:

There is only one composition that really matters,20k horses and 10k cannons! In the name of Tangra,it is time for genocide!

PS:Nice to see you back mate .

 

[Heroic Liberator]

PS:Nice to see you back mate .

Thanks, mate.

 

[Lady_Error]

You should check out this mad lad's vids:

I already watched those.

If you want to keep your allies only as coalitions-deterrents (they gains reduced AE and coalitions won't fire if you are in a very strong alliance), you can uncheck the "Join Offensive Wars" in the diplomatic screen (where you can see a nation's Trust and Favors towards you): you will no longer gain favors with them (so probably you won't be able to call them in your offensive wars), but they will no longer drag you into long resource-wasting wars.

That's indeed good to know, thanks.

Africa and South-East Asia can be intimidating at first, but they offer 1000x the rewards you can gain colonizing the new world. Once you control the West Africa and Cape nodes, you are set to drown in more money you will ever be able to spend.

Well, the problem is that my most trusted ally (Castille) controls both of those, and together we are #1 and #2 of the Great Powers, while my other ally (Ottomans) is #3.

Did you watch many videos before getting into it? Curious who they were if so, as it sounds like you're managing things better than most noobs (though France is pretty strong — though not as strong as if you'd started them on 1.30 ^^).

I watched maybe 5 or 6 vids, first the basic stuff and then about trade. Looking up things on the Wiki too.

 

[Lady_Error]

About religious wars: I switched to Humanist Ideas and got the 25% extra religious unity, so that with the 25% of the Edict of Nantes I cannot go below 50%. But the wars countdown continues as long as you're under 75% I guess?

The good thing is that Austria is also Catholic, so they even refused to help an HRE member which I invaded and then forced to convert back to Catholicism. Is the only way to take out the Centers of Reformation through invasion and then converting that province back to Catholicism? Will they continue even after the Age of Reformation?

 

[NJClaw]

Africa and South-East Asia can be intimidating at first, but they offer 1000x the rewards you can gain colonizing the new world. Once you control the West Africa and Cape nodes, you are set to drown in more money you will ever be able to spend.

Well, the problem is that my most trusted ally (Castille) controls both of those, and together we are #1 and #2 of the Great Powers, while my other ally (Ottomans) is #3.

Time to break the alliance, then.

About religious wars: I switched to Humanist Ideas and got the 25% extra religious unity, so that with the 25% of the Edict of Nantes I cannot go below 50%. But the wars countdown continues as long as you're under 75% I guess?

If they haven't changed with the last patches, you either had to switch to Protestantism, have 90% religious unity or finish the Humanist ideas group.

The good thing is that Austria is also Catholic, so they even refused to help an HRE member which I invaded and then forced to convert back to Catholicism. Is the only way to take out the Centers of Reformation through invasion and then converting that province back to Catholicism? Will they continue even after the Age of Reformation?

Yes, you have to conquer the province with the center of reformation and convert it. After the Age of Reformation, the centers disappear on their own.

 

[AwesomeButton]

I'm still on my first game as France. Allied so well that nobody would touch me, except when the allies call you to their shitty wars.

Now exploring Indonesia and Australia, though there are so many nodes in-between that it makes more sense to focus on America.

I was going to ask how did you manage to avoid a war with Spain, but I see you are allied. If you are into a long campaign, try to keep Turkey from getting out of control. That was my mistake in my last campaign that went into the 18th century. I normally play with either France, Spain or Russia.

 

[Sranchammer]

This game feels a lot easier than I remember.

 

[Lady_Error]

Time to break the alliance, then.

First Castille will help me take the English colonies and crush the HRE with its Reformation Centers. Though since both Britain and Portugal are my rivals, it'd be hard to take on Spain.

 

[Life of the Party]

The last time I played France I tried to restore Rome and got bored somewhere in Syria.

 

[Higher Game]

This game feels a lot easier than I remember.

I think most games like that do it to wink and nudge you towards mods. EU4 has lots of good minor powers too.

 

[Howdy]

I caved and bought Empire. Loaded up and no fucking paradox games work from steam at all. I tried everything. Ended up flushing my entire win10 system down the toilet, installed mx Linux on a fucking amd 3600 and now everything is fine. .

I really don't know what happened, something on the paradox website was saying configure the .exe to launch in 640X480, then reset resolution in game and re launch.

 

[AwesomeButton]

EU4. Learned the hard way to respect the aggression score with 5 coalition wars against much of the HRE in beginning.

Now trying to figure out the easiest way to avoid the French Religion Wars disaster or whether to just go through with it.

You should check out this mad lad's vids:



Recently posted his latest war academy video after a long hiatus and his stuff is great.

And for the prestigious merchants on the 'dex:

I watched the first two. Do players need someone to read out loud the wiki to them nowadays?

 

[Heroic Liberator]

I watched the first two. Do players need someone to read out loud the wiki to them nowadays?

Same as those plebs esteemed gentlemen that prefer to listen to an audio book rather than to read a book.

Though admittedly videos like this have their perks since they also provide visual examples of strategies and what not.

 

[Theodora]

I never managed to get into audiobooks between the effort in finding them, and the bullshit and variance in transferring and playing them on a phone. (Not to mention they’re even worse for notes than ebooks.)

But videos are very useful for Paradox games, and will be until they fix their interfaces (at least CK3 is getting there?).

 

[Lady_Error]

If you want to keep your allies only as coalitions-deterrents (they gains reduced AE and coalitions won't fire if you are in a very strong alliance), you can uncheck the "Join Offensive Wars" in the diplomatic screen (where you can see a nation's Trust and Favors towards you): you will no longer gain favors with them (so probably you won't be able to call them in your offensive wars), but they will no longer drag you into long resource-wasting wars.

Is that in the Art of War DLC? Because I don't have that check box where the number of favors is listed.

 

[Lady_Error]

Had a mini world war and took away almost all British colonies while completely crushing Austria and Hungary with the Ottomans and Bohemia.

Now it's basically me and Castille gobbling up most of the new places.

 

[Agame]

So it would seem Paradox dun completely screwed the pooch with this patch. So much stuff is broken with the AI, countries stuck permanently with 1000s of ducats into debt, army stacks that never move during war, obviously the HRE is completely broken, people have managed to Revoke in 1460, countries like Novgorod, Pope, Aragon, Balkans area all joining HRE. Getting 0 cash from peace deals because a new feature to click maximum cash for peace has broken the interface. What a fucking trainwreck.

Good to see Johan ruining another release. Can someone call agent 47 and arrange for this guy to have an "accident" on his way to Barcelona?

 

[Theodora]

Isn't it usually a bit of a mess before the hotfix? Not saying it's good, just not uncommon.

Paradox is ultimately too small for the number of titles that they're trying to develop and support. And in that sense, Barcelona is a positive. One would hope after CK3 launches, they'd avoid launching any PDS games in 2021, but unfortunately that's not how capitalism tends to work (just look at Creative Assembly and Troy ... kinda disappointing after what a good job CA Sofia did with Empire Divided and Rise of the Republic).

We hear you, we are reading your feedback.

We are working on several issues for an hotfix, however, specficially regarding the HRE balance, we have reverted a mistake that made AI ignore its logic for joining the HRE. We are also tweaking numbers regarding Imperial Authority gain, amongst other things.

Sadly nothing will be out before the weekend.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/the-1-30-2-hotfix-plans.1398462/

 

[Agame]

Isn't it usually a bit of a mess before the hotfix? Not saying it's good, just not uncommon.

Paradox is ultimately too small for the number of titles that they're trying to develop and support.

Agreed. Would have been perfectly fine with them never releasing Stellaris (generic boring AF space 4X we have plenty of) and Imperator, instead just focus on the other titles and make them the best they can be. But I guess its gotta be 'Capitalism and muh exponential growth'.