>lets make the game slow as shit and also remove claim fabrication so youll be doing nothing most of the time lolWhat were they actually thinking here?
>>2274083Eu3 did it first.
>having a pretty good go of it attempting to unify Ireland pre-1500>have high kingship of ireland and my king dies out of nowhere with no heir before I can call all the tribes into a tribal confederation>scotland invades with an army of 2500 out of nowhere>ok lemme just->I have no levies to raiseWelp run's over. What the fuck causes this? Should I just never disband levies?
>>2274083If you are a Christian kingdom you can fabricate casus belli agsinst non-Christian nations.If you are muslim you can call Jihad against non-muslim nations.You can get a CB using your Parliament every 4 years and losing 7 stability.Or just declare a no CB war.Either way this gsme has a lot of problems and the lack of CBs is not one of them.
>>2274083I though the economy shit would be cooler, but when I look back on my 70 hour playthrough, I realize ive spent probably 50 hours building roads for a .0005% bonus to control and book printers, and pretty much nothing else except waiting for the next tick.(Also bohemia is retarded and ruins immersion)
>>2274174>ruins immersionThey were literally the strongest nation in the HRE
>>2274083I hate how much time I put into a run before I hit Age III just to watch it fall apart. How the fuck am I supposed to unify Switzerland before Savoy and Austria picks everyone apart?
>>2274092the funny thing is that scotland was nerfed hardin the release they could get an army of 10-15k, but devs decided that all levies were going to be 2% so now they get like 2k maxno sign to fix this btw, devs dont give a shit that historically scotland was able to raise at least 10-20k around the start date
>>2274083>remove claim fabricationfinally, I have been saying they should remove that non-sensical shit since eu3
>>2274092I have not played EU5, but why can't you conquer Ireland within 10 years like in all other PDX games?
>>2274083shift click provinces to spend coin mana to make more coin mana to shift click more provinces to make more coin mana
>>2274247This.It's a really fun game, you just have to understand its complexities. I can't wait to see what new mana the DLCs introduce.
Tell me how to play this game, I really can't figure out how to not get trampled by anything that isn't an island nationI have a lot of fun until a dominant power just bulldozes me and whatever dumbfucks I figured would be strong enough to enter an alliance with
>>2274237Earldoms call on England even though they're in the Hundred Years War, and Earldom of Pale starts large so have to work your way up into the High King of Ireland as one of the tribes, then form a tribal confederation to get them all to do what you want in times of war. If you can't do that, you're fucked.
>>2274283For armies, frontage is very important. Armies should have 11 frontage across the board and be made of mostly regulars with a levy army attached to it. I'm not sure about the exact mechanisms but it seems like that way the regular army does the damage and the levy army helps absorb the morale hits. Make multiple armies in this type of setup so you have ones to defend and ones to attack. Full levy armies can occupy territory. Mix in artillery to siege.
>>2274308>implying I get far enough to field anything more than 300 regulars pre-1500
>>2274311Try a bigger country, then.
>>2274319but I wanna make Switzerland or Ireland or Maya or somethingI like formable countries. Maybe Sardinia's more my speed because navy's piss easy (already did Ryuku)
>>2274202that was austria though
>lets recreate shitoria 3 that everyone hated but add toy soldiers this time so they shut up loli fucking hate paradox so much
>>2274223and england always gets btfo by france when the 100 years wars starts despite england being the one that btfo france
heres your historically accurate 100 years war bro
>>2274326Another entry in ahistorical floaty garbage that appeals to the subhumans who play paradox games now - the line go up crowd. If you look at leddit and paradox forums threads about the game, you're exposed to the awful realisation that the average moron is completely fine with doing nothing but clicking the same buttons over and over again for 8 hours, as long as they get dopamine line-go-up stimulation every thirty seconds.
>>2274409>average moron is completely fine with doing nothing but clicking the same buttons over and over again for 8 hours,isn't that what most games are?
>>2274409>>2274417So reductionist... video games are just pressing buttons for stimuli.
>>2274418Actually Retarded.
>>2274409EU3 is unplayable without overhauls
>>2274324austria was a shithole, habsburgs became relevant only because of their control over actually good lands and crowns like netherlands, hungary and GODhemia thougheverst
>>2274083Skill issue
>>2274329not even mods make france not shitstomp ingerland every single game
>>2274329>>2275078They need to somehow simulate french nobility being retarded as shit, and it will be fixed.
>>2274083Filtering out zoomers and ADD kids.So which one are you?
>>2274283If only this game had a tutorial...
>>2274321Let me ask you something, you dumb fuck:Do you want to learn the game?Or do you want to get trampled?It's like you are a special kind of retard. You are picking OPMs and insignificant minors and they are surprised that it's hard and other countries easily overcome you, while being too fucking stupid to play the tutorial and learn the ropes. To say nothing that this game is still build on prior EUs, giving you no excuses to be clueless.
>>2275371>Do you want to learn the game?I just lost the game.
What were the Content Creators™ thinking when they were hyping up prerelease builds? I've seen people who were shilling this game before release now acting frustrated at all the issues and unfinished stuff even though they had to have experienced most of them in their thousands of hours of prerelease playtime each. An obvious explanation would be that they just wanted to get their bag at the expense of their viewers, but how likely is it that /everyone/ on the prerelease was doing that? Probably ~100 people had the game and not one of them had any principles? Makes me think that Paradox got plenty of feedback that the game was obviously not finished and decided to ignore the feedback and ship anyway, and the Content Creators™ were delusional enough to think that their concerns would be addressed by launch.
>finally try out this GSG>everyone says how complex it is>add the highest profit building when you have money>build more of the highest profit RGO when able>over produce building supplies so everything is cheap>combat comes down to who can materialize the biggest doom stack out of thin air>diplomacy is just right clicking and improve opnion>stare at the map waiting for enough money to do the next "best profit" thingDamn this shit is complex.
>>2274083>What were they actually thinking here?"People complain about mana? Let's show them why it's necessary by giving them what they think they want"
>>2274083border dispute cbs actually WORK PROPERLY in the newest patch. I would agree with you but the main CB you should be using early game literally just did not show up before todays patch. i.e. unification of a province area
>>2275566>finally try out real life>everyone says how complex it is>build the most profitable business when you have enough assets>produce the most profitable resources when you can get enough assets>over produce building supplies so everything is cheap>combat comes down to who can get the best military>diplomacy is just improving opinions when its good for you>stare at the wall waiting for enough money to do the next "best profit" thing
>>2274424I'm not the one being a reductionist fool. What's your favourite game? I would like to see your complex game
>>2275762NTA but tetris
>doing nothing most of the timeYou're bad
I don't know if it has something to do with the mods I'm using, but since 1.0.8 none of the couples in my game are having children. Anyone else had this? My guess is that it's a bug or caused by the Auto Noble Marriage mod.
>>2275533Nah in actuality most of the paradox/strategy YouTubers aren't even good at games, don't care about you, don't care if the game is good. They just make videos where the goal is to make you think they know what they're doing so that you will watch their videos so that you can learn how to play the game the right way like them instead of learning how to play it yourself. I have ~240 hours in EU5 and I'm already certain after watching a few videos that I know more about the game than these people like ludi, red hawk, laith, etc.Their "learn everything about x" videos are complete trash where they're just reading tool tips to you instead of giving actual strategies or talking about optimizations. Their playthroughs are just rambling "and then I did this" and they don't even seem pleased to be playing the game
>Try to game the western schism by stealing all the pope's cardinal provinces from him beforehand>Maybe because I took Rome, the western schism actually resolves instantly.>Don't think much of it, except i'm bummed from not getting all the cash money I wanted from it.>Fast forward to 1500 and reform desire is still 40% because it didn't get to spike during the schism.Is it good, or bad to have a potentially very late reformation?
>>2275903What about generalist?
>>2275863People that say this pause the game. Every time you pause the game you should feel ashamed.
>>2274083>hurrdurr I want easy claims because conquest is all my imagination extends to :(I want to strangle you map-painting addicts.There's more to nation building than making land your colour.
You can get a free cb every 5 years, you also have claims from vassals, jihads/crusades and if you really want you can no cb. It's still very easy to expand in this game.
>>2276183it's just, if you play eu4 for a 100 years you'll probably own the whole Mediterranean by then
>>2276193Thank god EU5 changed that then
>>2276183-7 stability isn't free especially with scaling where it is now. Nor is prostituting yourself to your estates for votes to avoid the stability hit free.
>>2275903>ludi, red hawk, laithThese are all grifters who I would expect to trick viewers into giving them money. The only one who hasn't been caught cheating (yet) of these three is Laith. I feel like I've learned a few things from autistic freaks like Lemon Cake, Generalist, Playmaker, Student though, and afaicr they all recommended the game without reservation on launch.
>>2274409>retard gets filtered>pretends it's other people who are morons
>>2276221I don't disagree but I'm just saying that's where it's coming from
>>2274083There's something weird about modern Paradox games. It's becoming more and more like RPGs with people mostly minmaxing to bloat their country with stat modifiers. +10% this, +10% that, and so on.
>>2275863OK I'll bite. I have around 100 hours on the game by now, what are you filling a typical in game month with playing on speed 1? I personally play on speed 3 or 4 with monthly autopause on to check on certain goods, but with the way stuff updates monthly I genuinely don't think the game is designed to be played at anything other than speed 4 except in war. You will go crazy genuinely playing on speed 1
>>2275903>and they don't even seem pleased to be playing the gamehappens to every vidya youtuber, games aren't as fun when they're your job
>>2275903student, playmaker, zlewikk and generalist are the only ones above 100 iq
How do peasants or levies get hauberks and bascinets? I thought they had pitchforks.[1b. Provision of troops by Leicester, July, 1322]Expenses of twelve foot-soldiers sent to the kingTwo hauberks bought from Hugh the Tailor, £1.2s.0d. One bought and cleaned 12s.5d. and another cleaned and mended 13s.2d. 1 pair of plates with the metal [parts?] of two bascinets, 16s.4d. For repairs and refurbishing, including of the caps and their linings, 3s. 1 pair of plates and for nails and nailing, 12s. 1 pair of plates and one bascinet, for nails and nailing, and for a new lining for the bascinet, 14s.6d. Also, for one pair of plates and one bascinet, with two pairs of gauntlets, 25s. Also 8 aketons and 1 bascinet. to William le Cu for all his armour, 15s. Also 3 aketons, 4 bascinets and 8 pairs [of gauntlets]. And for assembling and freshly nailing two pairs of those gauntlets, 1s. 1 pair of gauntlets, 2 bascinets, and for cleaning one.Total: £13.19s.8dPaid to the men for their weapons, 36s. (3s. to each of them). Paid to them for hackneys, 24s. For cloth bought for their jackets, 57s.6d. For shearing it, 12d. And for cutting out [the pattern] and repairs, 6s.6d. And for silk and sendal, 6d. For two and a half ells of fustian, 10d. For card and sendal for their pennons, and thread together with the cutting out [of the shape], 12¼d.Total: £6.7s.4¼d.
>>2274290If you grab the borders at the top-right of ireland then england will go usually to war with you to make you a tributary. This is a good thing since it means you are allowed to attack the pale without england being called in and all you lose is some manpower and money. From there you can make a town to get a sergeantry to beat pale's ass with horsemen.It's still pretty far from just 10 years but it's a lot faster than having to square up with england and scotland>>2274092I think this happens when nobles have a melty, maybe the regency gave the nobles a lot of power? Your best bet might be to take out loans and bribe them before the month tick if it's possible.also wtf is this advancement supposed to be
Playing as an OPM sucks
>>2276692Organizing warfare must have been a pain in the ass in the Middle Ages.
>French wars of religion start>The relevant panel where I can get the edict of Nante is blank>I'm stuck waiting 25 years of this shit.It worked fine on 1.0, and is now broken on 1.07. Fucking nice.
>>2275903>ludi, red hawk, laithDon't watch those clickbait cheating grifters
They need to fix the fucking league war, the entirety of western and central europe is put on standstill for 200 years because neither side wants to deck and nobody wants to attack into the blob league alliances.
Why is it taking a literal *200 years* to integrate a province? Is it because it’s partially occupied by another faction, or because of the population?
>>2277632If you hover over tooltips it'll tell you why it's taking you so long. If you're not near your diplomatic capacity then it's much better to just let a vassal integrate and core a province for you, then you seize territory and diploannex them when they're small enough to be diploannexed in 2-3 years.
how is the price of a good calculated?
>see people complaining how easy it is to make gold and that it needs a nerf>dooood! like im playing ottomans/castille/bohemia like make it harder for me!!! too much gold!!>they play on normal btw>trade gets nerfed to the ground >even historically strong traders like genoa/venice are dogshit and "trade" becomes synonymous with "dood new world spice trade xD"Really a shame. You used to be able to perform better than the automated AI with trade, now 60% of the time even when the AI opens a trade it ends up being negative. Yeah lemme trade 1 trade capacity at a time for .75 profit with a 50% chance the tooltip is wrong when my trade capacity is 120
Big fan of 1.0.8 never refilling occupied garrisons so you can spend 5 years sieging stuff down only for the game's avoidant Scipio Africanus ai to come in and assault all of your 10 man garrison castles in 20 seconds. Press Refill does nothing.
>>2277785>with a 50% chance the tooltip is wrongtooltips and actual portions of the UI just being fucking wrong a third of the time is my biggest issue right now. It's eu3 levels of basic shit is just missing
>>2277834Only regulars can refill garrisons
>>2278180I haven't raised a levy in 60 in game years.
anyone else experience naval transportation being totally fucking broken, both for the player and the AI? My ships refuse to move more than a few hundred troops at once despite the fleet supposedly having a total capacity in the multiple thousands. Trying to war Morocco as Spain is just impossible because it takes months to move 1000 solider across a single sea tile and by that time the enemy army has arrived and wiped out whatever troops have crossed
>automate most things in government>most recent smaller faction i annexed was piss poor at feeding themselves>literally don't have enough RGOs and food-production buildings available to keep from starving>automating government just drops 20-30 ducats a month buying food just to stopgap the problem>have taken out like 500 in loans for this fuckass land>can't quarry enough stone to make tools>don't have enough tools to quarry the stone>need tools for literally every building in the country, including colonial charters where I attempt to build into unexplored areas to feed this leech area>rebels everywhereI'm kind of sick of this tbqh
>>2278405>stone toolsPlaying in Africa and America isn't supposed to be easy.
>>2278409Sure, but I wish there was an easier way to navigate (automated) trade goods and tell it to prioritize building needs as opposed to imports for profits. That way you could just toggle it when I'm getting the epic 'You have 14 buildings that are missing tools'.
>>2278413Automated trade always goes for profit. If you want suboptimal, you have to import manually.
Open beta doko?
>france casually taking a bite from the british homeland and COLONIZING northern russia>netherlands eat up a good chunk of north germany>austria does the same in south and middle germany>ottomans refuse to take constantinople>poland, hungary and naples have been in their PU hugbox for nearly 200 years and no end in sight (cockblocking me with 5 provinces from forming prussia)>castile hates portugal more than muslims and removed them instead>golden horde never dies>tunis on sicily, vastly more powerful naples dumbfounded>milan became switzerland>kyivWAKE ME UP
>>2278676in my games nothing ever happensdo you play on very hard instead of hard?
>>2278865sorry i'm only on normal. i'm not crazy enough yet to suffer through brandenburg's early game on hard and above.that and the constant patches that break things. for example i now have 4000 peasant levy regulars after a civil war.pretty sure that isn't normal and that they should've disbanded with the others instead of flipping to regulars. but who knows maybe a religious civil war makes some peasants regulars somehow.
ngl the constant patches are a good thing if the end result is the game being fixed soon, in the end it's better than older paradox releases that had no content
>>2277785it doesnt even matter if you have a lot of gold because your expenses mostly scale up with your income. im not sure why youd ever build buildings that arent essential for your military right now
>>2278917huh I thought difficulty would impact how much the AI tries to expand their countriesIn my game they all play extremely tall and barely attack each other, it's 1730 and the ottomans have taken neither constantinople nor have they conquered all of anatolia. The mamluks still exist and control much of their territories from 1337
>>2278921In every patch they fix two things and break seven.
>>2278930very odd. for me portugal dying is always a given and france + bohemia WILL rape germany.though it's surprising that bohemia didn't do much in this one but everyone else suddenly did.
>>2278676Scandinavia looks like that in every game for me, partial Danish blob with nothing else ever happening. I don't know if there's no Kalmar Union event in the game or if it's just so obscure the AI never fires it.
>>2278972gotta wait for the Lion of the North DLC to add "flavor" like that
>>2278981I only wonder because there are loads of events I've never even seen. Like apparently there's an event to make Flanders stay neutral in the HYW
>>2278987well i have never seen a polish commonwealth either for example. lithuania never cooperates and poland is stuck under naples + hungary PU. there should be events for that too but alas.
>>2278959> fix six things and break seven
>>2278972>I don't know if there's no Kalmar Union event in the game or if it's just so obscure the AI never fires it.Nope, doesn't exist, I played Denmark into Scandi thrice and never saw anything about it. I don't even think it would be that good with how ass PU's are to annex in this game.
>be ai country at that gets decked against with imperalism>get 99% occupied because you own one random colonial bumfuck province>still doesn't satisfy wargoal of occupy country>can't get peaced because you still have the defender bonus and player can't demand something with less than 10 warscore even as your people get ruthlessly occupied>sit forever as 99% of your country get pillaged while you smugly think to yourself on your throne that you're "winning"Fix the fucking warscore totaling paradox
>>2279117Unless I'm misunderstanding PUs are the best type of subject to annex as long as you aren't at risk of them taking seniority from you. Annexing one big subject is just awful compared to annexing several small ones at once
>>2279264Except you can't enforce culture on your PU's which results in even slower annexations, and you have to deal with unassimilated cultures when you're finally done, as opposed to cutting them into like 3 subjects who all culture convert for you and get annexed at about 75% faster overall.
>>2279264the game is so fucked
What is the coolest addition they could add to the game?>Playable rebellion's and estates.
>>2279209occupying landa which contain a certain % of a countries population (let's say 90% for an example) should allow for the enforcing of whatever peace terms up to 100 war score. If every inch of your country has been taken excluding like 100 guys in he hinterlands who barley had any loyalty to the central gov to begin with its just over.
>>2279468I think you can if you enable country switching
When Johan decided you can't declare war at 95% rebel strength because he couldn't fix the rebel power/force calculation if you had levies raised he made the game impossible to truce juggle.I can't prevent coalition wars from firing. This is extremely unfair.
>>2274083I used to love watching EU4 YTers like that german autist guy that does pretty cheese strats but holy fuck, Paradox needs to ban EU5 being shown on videos because literally nothing happens.
>>2280016Just go back to EU4, idiot.
>>2274465such as? i tried death&taxes and it was garbage compared to vanilla
the game is nice and I like the new senate mechanic
>>2274083are EU5's rebellions better than IMperator's civil wars?
What is killing my armies when i invade Morroco? On any other war, I get very litle attrition, but anytime I set foot in north africa, my armies dwindle noticably. I have perfect food supply, they don't even have to be sieging, they just sit on a city, and 30k becomes 20k over the course of a few months.
Assimilating is the funniest thing in the game for me, I just wish they made it slower. The way the game works right now I can imagine an autist dedicated enough to make a one culture world conquest>>2276254Prostituting yourself to estates is very good, just need to pick the right estate. I reached 20% burgher power as Byz in 1400, this allowed me to usually get automatically +20% parliament support whenever I bribed burgher voters, which is a good thing because usually burghers have the best agendas and the best bribes.
>>2280828It's just another shape of map painting, it's also stupid, I imagine it as a conquering power wanting to make their culture accepted to the people they conquered because the other option implies using a cabinet member for turning blacks from kilwa into Turks, or pajeets into Italians (papal states colonized and reached India, sad!). I like that I at least have the option to accept the culture, raise my opinion of them, expel and then recolonize (never tried the last one, I assume I can do it)Also, agree -7 stab is a non issue, you call the parliament gacha precisely because you can afford a possible stab hit or because it's worth t
why?
>>2280991Good, my gigastacy 100/100/100 ruler is now able to get off her ass and tell those sissy men how it's done.
>>2274324>Game starts in 1337>Bohemia is at it's literal peak nad golden age>Austria is a fucking shithole that won't get important for another 150+ years and strong for another 100>MUH AUSTRIA>MUH IMMERSIONAre you American, underage or both?
>>2280767malaria wrecks you anywhere in africa if you don't have natural resistance by having your capital in africa
So, if you get a bunch of cardinal, eventually, you hit some kind of soft limit, and the papal AI starts randomly refusing you 90% of the time, which then reimburse you waaay more (600+) religious influence than you paid. You can ask for a cardinal seat every year, so every year, you get a few hundred religious points to get the bulls you want, or pump up your saint list, or...that's it, actually, you can't do much with it.
>>2274329>fiddling>not creating great states out of little cities >not creating great industrial superpowers out of rural backwaters I truly don't understand this. Why would you want to play a whore like France or Bohemia that thousands of other players have played?I'm confident I'm the only person in the world who's known my countryfu Diez in the flesh. Y'all are degenerate whoremongers.
>>2281572You can pump up values by law shifting around, and keep perma prestige from canonizing, also avoid income loss from legitimacy loss events/hits, it's not nothing i guess and religious influence isn't really something that does all that much to begin with.
>>2281697Am frenchI play FranceSimple as
What a pile of shit game.The fucking commies at Paradox were bad enough with Vicki III and all this planned economy bullshit, but the age of revolutions is GIGARETARDED.If those fucking danish blue haired commietrannies hated colonialism so much they should have capped the map to Europe. Having the French revolution on steroids occur everywhere on earth in 1725 is so fucking dumb and annoying. Constant perpetual revolutions from colonies with 200+ subject opinion and 0 hope of success.
>ai just parks their armies on their coast because they dont know how to move armies on boatsbravo johan
>>2281697I wasnt playing france or england its just how the 100 years war always goes, ai france always curbstomps ai england
>>2280828Prostituting yourself to your estates is in fact bad, the game is in reality rigged against you on all scaling costs because of its bullshit size calculations, and your blob impresses me not.
Has anyone else noticed that the trade automation will try to make trades it can’t fulfill due to trade advantage?
>>2274092Control directly influences the amount of levies you can raise.
>>2276183The two Moldavias are cracking me up.
They need to add empire formation on certain events, the AI is never going to figure out how to maintain the 70 prestige needed to click the button.
>>2274174The absolute state of paracucks.
what is this dogshit
>Bugged french wars of religion>Too bad, I'll wait it out>After 25 years of eating shit, it ends "unconclusively" and threaten to occur again in 10 yearsFuck that shit, i'm cheating.
>>2276183What is the point of forming nations in this? You don't get missions nor ideas, just advances, most of which you won't have time to research even by spamming literacy buildings everywhere.
>>2274083You're supposed to be killing Muslims, not Europeans.>>2274085This.Holy wars until 1650 and then marriages and revolution counterrevolution wars for Europe in the end.America and Oceania are free from infamy due to colonization.
Forum trannies looking at bohemia and France blobbing and still were "muh nothing ever happens" and trannie lover devs actually listen to those niggers instead of fixing real problems
>>2282561>Prostituting yourself to your estates is in fact badIt's a non issue you idiot.
>>2285723You're retarded the estates don't even have an agenda. They won't run your country for you so you're not even making a choice to align with one of the estates, they'll spazz out with capricious rng and pull you in 30 different directions every couple years.It's fucking bad and it's better to actually think long term and have your sliders where you want them. This isn't fucking complicated.
haven't played for a month or so, any good patches since then or did jewhan give up already?
Heavy cav being the only strong unit in the early game sucks. Why would you build crossbowmen, men-at-arms or handgunners at all? Just watched someone in my multiplayer get absolutely annihalted by a heavy cav only army. That doesn't make sense. Late medieval armies weren't made up of knights only. Why are levies stereotypically absolute fodder? They fell for the CK3 pop history meme of le peasant with pitchfork. Why do cannons move up to the frontline and suicide themselves? This game has the weirdest balance ever.
Say I have a third noble civil war. Is there any way, after I defeat them, to easily take some of their power again? Can I do nothing to strip some privileges off them or anything to stop them having so much power?
>>2281697>invent the non-word "Liverwurst" because you can't decide which language to use>The Black Forest is literally on the other side of the country from Braunschweig>Produced by a company by the name "Watson"What an absolute Frankenstein of a product,a sadistic mockery of real German food. Angloids get the rope.WE WUZ GERMINS N SHIEEET
>>2274083>tell me you’re an ADHD riddled EU4 toddler without telling me you’re an ADHD riddled EU4 toddler.
