Technically Tibet isn't small. It has multiple provinces, all of which are huge. The tax is just terrible.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grif
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Technically Tibet isn't small. It has multiple provinces, all of which are huge. The tax is just terrible.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grif
Another vote for Tuscany.
My Hansa's trade income is high enough in 1465 to run two level 3 advisors.
This feels weird.
New patch looks like it has some serious bugs. Any succession game will have to be postponed until it settles down somewhat.
That's pretty typical for big Paradox patches. There should be a hotfix soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grif
I doubt that the bugs will cause anything like a save break, so unless any of them is specifically going to hurt us within the first 50 years or so, we should probably just start. The longer we wait, the more likely people are to lose interest or forget about it, after all.
Do we have someone designated to start out, or are we rolling for it? We could at the very least start rolling for the first turn, if nothing else.
I'll set everything up tonight after work, looks like Tuscany is the winner.Quote:
Originally Posted by AgentPaper
As it is, Japan is currently broken. (Apparently annexing a daimyo will cause you to become the Emperor of Japan, and another daimyo annexing another will continue to do so, etc). This extends to any vassal-overlord wars in general.Quote:
Originally Posted by AgentPaper
There's also the small matter of rivalries being rather broken at the moment, with unselectable rivals, but that is a smaller issue, albeit still annoying.
So, I gave Byzantium a shot, fully expecting to be wiped off the map by a vengeful Ottoman Empire with seven times my troop count. Instead I've bungled into getting a bunch of land back from Venice and the various minors (though Crimea forced me to concede Kaffa). I'm still nowhere strong enough to take on the big green with something like 18K troops vs their 42K.
But a weird thing happened. When I retook a province, it gave me a +15 or so modifier to each of my administration score when determining my world ranking, propelling me to #1 in the world by a long shot and allowing me to build up enough score to become the #7 world power before vanishing. All conquests since (and all conquests by NPCs) give +0.0. What the hell happened here?
Is it a one-time bonus for getting back cores, maybe?Quote:
Originally Posted by Flickerdart
I don't think so, in my Majaphahit game I got it after conquering Aceh and I didn't have any cores there.Quote:
Originally Posted by OrcusMcP
Interesting story.
Apparently the Auld Alliance mission is borked for Scotland. Or at least not working as intended. Despite already meeting the objective of the mission, it still appears in my list of possible missions every other mission.
Not that i'm complaining or anything, +1 free stability every couple of years is handy.
It's only my third game, but I finally discovered how to win the 100 years war as england.
1. Immediately give up. Will cost two provinces
2. Ally and intermarry with everyone close to France. For me, that was Provence, Brittany, Austria, Castille, Portugal, Aragon and Savoy.
3. Build a medium-sized army
4. Wait for truce to end
5. Declare war
6. Laugh maniacally as your side now outnumbers the Frenchies 3:1 at least.
7. Be sad because you now probably have negative diplomacy points.
8. Be consoled by ownership of entire French coast
9. Repeat conquests as necessary
Next is inheriting the throne of Spain and renaming myself the European Empire inofficially. Mwahaha.
Since when did this pose a problem for The Terror That is France? :smallwink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Eldan
Generally speaking, if you take France down early enough, then they don't have the full extent of the France Powers to resist a simple numbers game like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Driderman
Specifically things like Elan! which gives them +20% morale or any of their Idea groups finished.
I guess that might work. It's basically why I stopped playing EUIV (for now, at least), I got tired of games either having to revolve around hindering France, or taking place far away from Europe. I don't really like to be forced to worry about how to curtail France from the get-go when I start a game as Tuscany, Pomerania or such, for example.Quote:
Originally Posted by Leecros
unfortunately, that's just generally how things go in Paradox games and i think Napoleon proved how dangerous France could be historically too. However, you don't really have to always worry about France. As you metnioned, you could play outside of Europe, even playing a nation such as Russia or The Ottomans tends to be far enough away for me to not really worry about them(unless they get !!ENORMOUSLY MASSIVE!!). I've also had some of my most enjoyable games as Manchu and Ming...With Ming being the most recent.Quote:
Originally Posted by Driderman
and currently i'm actually playing a rather successful game as Scotland and have no intentions in curtailing France as they've been my ally from the start. So France isn't really all gloom and doom, but I do agree that they can definitely be a pain unless you're far enough away or best buds with them.
In other news, I really wish there was something you could do with map information. Right now I don't really explore more than i need to to colonize, because i feel like exploring too much speeds up map spread, which of course leads to the AI discovering uncolonized land, which then leads to messy colonial borders. Maybe if you could sell map information? I know that would speed up map spread even further, but it'd at least be some sort of incentive to exploring more than you have to to colonize.
Whenever I try to do this to countries they randomly declare me as a rival half-way through (because there's nobody else strong enough around). How can this be stopped?Quote:
Originally Posted by Leecros
I don't really think there is a way. Just about every time I ally with France, once I get too powerful, they turn on me and declare me a rival. Probably just the way the AI works.
It's probably more along the lines of how Rivals work rather than how the AI works. I've certainly been in situations where I've had only one option for rivals...that being an ally. I, as a player wouldn't pick an ally as a rival, because i know better. However, if the AI is programmed to always have maximum rivals, then they will pick you as a rival even if you're an ally.
I think it'd be easily fixed if there was some distinction along the lines of "If one has over 100 relations with a nation, they will not even appear as rivals". I thought they did add some sort of mechanic along that line, but i guess they didn't.
In my scotland game, i've avoided becoming France's rival largely by focusing on colonization...thus most of my power is distributed between my colonial nations rather than concentrated on myself.
On the topic of colonial strategies, as a country like Spain or France, what's the best way to keep other countries from establishing major colonies? (Or at least limit them)
'Devour Portugal before it colonizes' is a good way to start. Alternatively, you should be able to get fleet basing rights from Portugal if you ask before they pick the exploration idea.
In my personal experiences....you can't, or at least it's incredibly difficult to do so. If you're playing as Spain, the best way to take down early major colonies is to crush Portugal into the ground, but that isn't going to stop England or France from colonizing.Quote:
Originally Posted by IthilanorStPete
However, if you want to do any kind of colonization with anyone, Spain and Portugal are your biggest enemies....er threat. They just have so much of an advantage between already having some early colonial expansions(portugal starts with the Azores), National Ideas that promote colonialism(Portugal gets +25% colonial range and +15 yearly settler increase and Castille/Spain gets a +25 yearly settler increase and straight up +1 colonist), and Idea group selection(Both Portugal and Castille will both take Quest for the New World very very early).
They also have the advantage in Colonial Nations. Colonial National Ideas do NOT give colonists and Colonial Nations go with the same Idea groups as it's parent nation would(If it was controlled by the AI). So that means if you play as a nation that doesn't do any colonizing...like Ulm, You simply won't see your colonial nations colonize at all...Whereas the Castilian and Portuguese colonial nations will.
My personal strategy with Scotland was to colonize through Greenland and hit Canada and then just beeline down the coast, doing what i can to cut off all coastal access for other nations to colonize. You could use the same strategy in EU III and take complete control over the whole americas...However, because EUIII started earlier, you could start colonizing before the timeline of EUIV even starts. Thus, while i currently have most of North America and parts of mexico completely shut down from other European Powers, South and Central america are still divided between Castile and Portugal
Something to keep in mind though: They can't or won't colonize without their coastal provinces. That means that if you don't want to full annex a nation like France or Spain to stop them from colonzing(as that would take too long), just take their coastal provinces.
Annex them. No, really, as Castile you can pretty easily take down Portugal from the get-go, and then take your time picking apart France and England, since they take a long time to start colonizing anyways. And of course, France if France, and can easily stomp all over Castile before they so much as take Exploration, or at least before they can do anything special with it. England is harder, unless you can win the HYW, but still very doable.Quote:
Originally Posted by IthilanorStPete
I hear creating a colonial crust on the New World's coast to block other nations from colonising can work as well. (Though with slower colonisation in general with recent patches, that becomes debatable)Quote:
Originally Posted by IthilanorStPete
I can't think of a problem that annexing someone doesn't fix...except overextension.Quote:
Originally Posted by AgentPaper
It fixes that too. Got overextension from conquering the Ottomans? Annex them, then release them as a vassal!Quote:
Originally Posted by Leecros
It might be best as Spain to vassalize portugal, and then let them continue to colonize.
Ah, diplo-annex cheese. :smallbiggrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by AgentPaper
I think I'll try a Castile game, aiming to conquer Portugal early on, move in on Central/South America in earnest, trying to grab the North American coast to stop other countries colonizing. Thanks for all the advice!