>>2454455
Oops, wrong link in the OP:
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/update-1-3-official-community-feedback-survey.1935703/

Nigger general

>>2454455
>niggers can't stand not having the bump dopamine rush in a slow blue board

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To celebrate the new thread here is my one tag, one religion, one culture orthodox, Muscovite, Hindustani, Timurid Middle Kingdom headquartered in Axum Ethiopia, starving like an African child edition finally finished.

Every exploration done, every province colonized, all tags eliminated, all pops converted and assimilated. The bubonic plague punched me down to 420M pops which I find appropriate for this run. It has been months in the making but it's now done and I feel satisfied.

I will now reenable food, research all food techs and pop growth techs I skipped and see how high the pop goes before the end date.

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Someone please explain to my retarded ass how cultural assimilation works, because I've been pursuing anything that improves assimilation for this entire run and somehow am still completely in the negative.

I don't understand the math. I start off with -10 due to integrated, then I have a ton of positive modifiers and at the end it somehow brought that to -15, even MORE negative than the base value. How the hell is that possible? How could I possibly bring passive assimilation into the positives like this?

>>2454484
Doesn't the discriminated zero any positives?

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/tinto-talks-117-1-4-news-and-schedule.1935833/
>We’ve indicated before that Ambitions are one of the features we're most excited about. They’re conceptually designed to give nations both short and long-term goals that shape how you play and open new paths for diplomatic cooperation and conflict. However, we only get one chance to release them. A feature this central needs to land complete, balanced, and genuinely add to how you play, not go out early because it makes a changelog look fuller. You've told us before when we've released things without the balancing and polish they needed. We heard that, and we're choosing to give Ambitions the time they deserve, so we’ll be releasing them in update what we’re calling the Discovery update, Late 2027

Ambition tree bros.. not like this..

>>2454484
You only get passive assimilation in your cores because those are the only province with a positive assimilation value
>ton of positive modifiers
Those just make the number go bigger, so +50% of -10 gets you to -15.

>Late 2027
The game will already be cancelled by then.

>>2454484
>Someone please explain to my retarded ass how cultural assimilation works, because I've been pursuing anything that improves assimilation for this entire run and somehow am still completely in the negative.
2-10 is -8, then the rest of the modifiers apply to that number, since it's a negative number the final result will be negative. You need to use a wizard or accept a culture to get a core to remove the -10 before you can get any passive assimilation.
>How could I possibly bring passive assimilation into the positives like this?
You literally can't. I think there's only one tag that can do this without a wizard which is what I plan to experiment with after my next game
t. The one culture one religion guy from above

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>>2454491
it's so over

>>2454491
>Late 2027
I thought you were shitposting. What is wrong with these people

>>2454495
>>2454497

Modifiers that are explicitly stated to improve cultural assimilation make my assimilation MORE NEGATIVE than it already is? That's the most retarded thing I've ever heard. Is that working as intended? So I should actually be avoiding anything that is meant to improve assimilation because it'll only worsen my assimilation.

Also, if I need to accept a culture to get a core for my assimilation to go positive...don't accepted cultures not get assimilated? I thought you had to be discriminatory against a culture to get it to assimilate and if you accept it, it gets to just continue alongside yours unassimilated?

>But make no mistake: Discovery being big doesn't make 1.4, or 1.5 insignificant. Each of these updates is packed with bug fixes and stability work alongside improvements you've been asking for. We're going through the list, and if something isn't addressed right away, it's not forgotten; it's coming.

Least obvious AI generated text

>>2454505
The percentage of a negative number will be a negative number. 80% of -10 is -8
So you just have to get base number to at least 1 to make percentages add a positive number

>>2454491
>so we’ll be releasing them in update what we’re calling the Discovery update, Late 2027
>Alongside this content delivery system update, Discovery will also bring a rework to Colonization, based on your feedback.
Am I reading this right? Late 2027 for a colonization rework??

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And here's 1837. Managed to claw up 42 million more Muscovite with bread rations enabled.

>>2454505
>Modifiers that are explicitly stated to improve cultural assimilation make my assimilation MORE NEGATIVE than it already is?
Why would it matter to you if the assimilation is -100 or -1, nothing happens until the base value is positive anyways. Either the number is larger than 0 or it's not.
>So I should actually be avoiding anything that is meant to improve assimilation because it'll only worsen my assimilation.
No you need to get positive base value if you want passive assimilation. Then those modifiers actually do something.

the entire culture system needs a rework but it will have to wait until next year
the pre-baked DLC schedule essentially rapes paradox because they are 'locked in' to providing these DLCs on the dates/quarters stated on the pre order and now they cant fix their game because they need to work on the DLC instead of the dumpster fire of the game

>>2454491
>Colonisation rework
>Ambitions
>Content pipelines
>LATE 2027
It's over this game is dead.

>>2454491
so, the game is still shit then, at least to late 2027?
Since it's paraslop, I'll ask that way: What hasn't been fixed from what was broken at release until now? Have sim chuds given up? Is Johan still huffing his paella farts?

>>2454491
>A feature this central needs to land complete, balanced, and genuinely add to how you play
So it's fine to release games that feel were coded by a bunch of retards but mission trees must be perfect from day 1.

Ryagi's counterattack failed, Mein Fuhrer...

>>2454491
>no colonization or mission trees until 2027
lmao eu5 is done

>>2454546
late 2027*

> To be brutally honest,
>I love this industry, but time and time again I see "We've delayed 4 months" 3 times rather than 1 big 12 month delay cutting to the chase. (as an example).
>There is a universe where we tell you "They've been delayed but we won't say when" or "They've been delayed until early 2027" and then that turns into late 2027. And I'm glad I don't live in those universes personally.
>I think a big part of transparency is being transparent to yourself as well, and we need to pick up ambitions and narrative content after we have delivered on our promises with 1.4 and 1.5, in addition to giving it the scope/time it deserves.

> Ambitions are planned to be something where you want to do X and others would oppose you. We had the frame work there, but we ran into 3 problems with it. First, it was hard to make good ones with contests that were not military or external economy competition, making them fairly limited in applicability. Secondly, making the AI understand them was and is way beyond the scope of reaching this patch. Now, people don't care much if the AI can't fullfill missions in eu4, as they are "for that country only", but if your content relies on X and you can't do X yet its not good enough. Finally, the current implementation we had that would be ready was not up to par when it comes to the UI.
t. johan

>>2454551
Johan-sama, I kneel...

>>2454522
>the pre-baked DLC schedule essentially rapes paradox because they are 'locked in' to providing these DLCs on the dates/quarters stated on the pre order and now they cant fix their game because they need to work on the DLC instead of the dumpster fire of the game
Valve LITERALLY killed EU5.
This would never have happened if it was an epic games exclusive....

>>2454509
I choose to be optimistic and see a colonization update being pushed back so far as a sign that it will come with a later start date option that's closer to the colonization age so those of us here to colonize can jump right into it

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>>2454557
>colonization update being pushed back so far as a sign that it will come with a later start date option that's closer to the colonization age
I hadn't considered the start date angle but that actually makes a lot of sense

second start date is a mistake btw

>>2454491
>You've told us before when we've released things without the balancing and polish they needed
Yeah but I don't think we realised that meant a year and a half dev cycle

>>2454569
Spaniards only "work" 4 hours a day, so they need a bit more time to get it right.

1337 start date was a mistake btw

>>2454522
Are you saying the entirety of Tinto is currently dedicated to making glorified country packs for the Auld Alliance and recreating Spain raping the Maghreb from EU4?

>>2454585
This is true.
>but le hundred years war!

>>2454592
does the HYW actually work yet?

>>2454522
>the pre-baked DLC schedule essentially rapes paradox because they are 'locked in' to providing these DLCs on the dates/quarters stated on the pre order and now they cant fix their game because they need to work on the DLC instead of the dumpster fire of the game
Would've been better with the pre-CK2 expansion pack model desu. They'd have patched the game to 1.X then 1.3 or 1.4 would've been a 20 dollar expansion

>>2454585
It should have started May 30th, 1453 with all Byzantine cores removed so they can never spawn in.

>>2454612
>byz causes historyfags to seethe 600 years after they died

Tinto needs to be executed publicly. Imagine being the head of paradox watching this absolute dumpster fire of a studio totally mismanage your new flagship game.

>>2454612
Johan, please.

>>2454616
>Imagine being the head of paradox watching this
Johan managed not only to sell an unfinished game, he sold 4 DLCs that they hadn't even started working on. Johan and the C-suite must be best friends, drinking champaign laughing at the paypigs valiantly defending tinto

>the basedniggers on paracucks forum are congratulating the "team"(johan) for this announcement
What the fuck is wrong with these faggots?

>>2454620
It's shit but I'll at least give them some credit for being honest about how badly the fucked up these systems.
Better for them to promise 1.5 years until it releases than for them to constantly push it back every 2 months because "uhmmm we needed a bit more time to polish :)"

For me, late 2027 is still too soon. I would rather wait until 2030 for the game I paid for in 2025 to be playable.

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>>2454620
They're doing better than reddit at least

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maybe Russia will finally form in late 2027
pic is 1611

>>2454626
Why are you even still playing after blobbing like a nigger for 250 years

>>2454626
no
i don't know what is exactly wrong with eu5 trade, but it doesn't support wide empires like it should
eu4 unironically does this better

>>2454628
Why are you even here if you don't like forming Germany?

>>2454630
g*rmans are the cause of all the worlds problems for the past 2000 years

>>2454628
to win the league war for the protestants, which i now did. i still never make it to the 1700's

>>2454623
>they heckin anthropomorphized their shitty developementerino!
>>2454628
Not him, but I hate how if he released an aesthetic Poland puppet it'd immediately revolt against him due to the retarded way liberty desire works.
The whole puppet system is set up under the blobbing eu4let assumption you're supposed to have vassals as temporary measures before you annex them. Should be like liqqy 2 (praise be upon her) where you can have infinite puppets and they never rebel

>>2454631
Who cares? Its a video game.
Just like if you don't like playing Byz and reforming the Roman Empire, you don't belong here.

>>2454631
Well some of them adopted German surnames, I will grant you...

>>2454629
i can tell. i have gold in one market and the one right next to it sits on "we need gold" for years till i go in there and set the trade up myself. the AI can't even handle something that basic and just loops senseless trades elsewhere.

>>2454637
(((merchants))) prioritize profit over national interest.
I'll shit on a lot of EU5 development, but this is quite clearly a feature and not a bug.

Im so glad Johan has delayed a feature which already exists in mods for another 18 months. I'm sure the 50 players that remain at that point will be overjoyed

>>2454640
I know I will be, Jim.

>>2454639
i need an austrian painter to fix that issue

>>2454620
>praised tinto for releasing the game early
>praised tinto for adding broken features
>praised tinto for saying they'll try not to add in so many broken features
>praised tinto for making a roadmap
>praised tinto for not sticking to their roadmap
Paradox have cultivated a retarded, cult-like fanbase on par with World of Warcraft and yearly sports videogames for their ability to ignore reality and proudly open their wallets. On one hand they deserve to be commemorated for it because it surely took a lot of work over 10+ years to socially engineer autists into forming such parasocial relationships with a literal corporation. On the other, if they'd spent the time actually training up engineers and carrying knowledge forward from game to game instead of forcing each game to reinvent the wheel, maybe they wouldn't have to run a cult.

>>2454646
Funniest for me was when they completely broke the entire economy by making stockpiles provide supply, thus cratering EVERY good's price to minimum, and there were STILL a handful of people saying it was a good change because it's just an issue of there not being enough demand.

>>2454633
i didn't even want to touch poland but hungary kept conquering more and more of it, so i had to go in there too. most of the game was me struggling to stay even with hungary (brandenburg start) which had conquered austria early (as usual) but he moved his capital to vienna and joined the HRE. he actually became emperor too after bohemia had the hussite switch. i hadn't seen that move before and it caused me great trouble for a while.

>>2454648
>*dials up good demand by 50x*
>hastily deploys it in an untested hotfix

>>2454649
what version and/or mods are you running

>>2454470
>one faith one culture requires inhuman starvation and genocide on a global scale to accomplish
Man I love games with pops. How many people do you think you killed to get here?

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>>2454651
current patch and as i'm too lazy to write them all out, pic related.
essentially speeding up some tedious/boring things and testing to keep europe ahead of the world in tech with that eurocentric mod. which seemed to work tunis still had age 2 troops when naples invaded with age 4.

>>2454655
feels like you made it a bit too easy to consolidate so now the world is just nothing but ugly blobs desu

>>2454491
They really don't do anything in half-measures, huh. Delaying a feature because it's too big, alright, but to kick the can all the way to a year and a half from now... I can't tell if this is wise long-term thinking or just cutting things for time. I mean, everything they said there was right. But will anyone still give a shit almost 2 years from now?

Now that I think about it, they're probably calling it the Discovery update because they'll add the new start date in the Age of Discovery with that one.

>>2454658
not enough actually if you look at a map of the 1600's, there should be more blobs!
unfortunately russia never forms and the ottomans can't beat hungary or the mamluks. polish-lithuanian commonwealth is also just a wet dream.

>>2454652
The total amount is hard to estimate, depends on how you count really. Directly the number is lower than you might expect because I'm not so much killing people rather than preventing them from being born in the first place. One way to look at it would be to compare the 420 million I ended up with with some test games final total population (since I own everything). Then again random observer games distort the population too because population caps keep the pop artificially "low" all the same I also hit pop cap in some provinces. Even that has complications with the way diseases work and such.
The "starving provinces" warning was basically crashing the game (extremely optimized for some reason I guess they didn't expect someone to starve the globe) if I hovered over it so I didn't pay attention to it directly but during the little ice age there was this handy count of starving provinces in the situation window and I think I peaked at something like 2500 provinces out of the 4000? provinces the game has. At least I think that's how many there are I think I could assing something like 3900 provinces to vassals when creating those so the real count is probably around the 4k mark and I did starve some more after that too. I would guess I starved 2/3rds of the worlds provinces. Some of those I then manually restarted when they were converted but most I just left as they were.
I think the number is in the hundreds of millions in at least some technical sense. I think I killed over ten million in battles with Timur alone though maybe I remember that wrong, I'm sure it was some big milestone like that and million seems low.

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>>2454484
You can also further decrease your opinion of emilian cculture in the culture tab by right clicking YOUR OWN cultural opinion as a culture group leader. Don't get it twisted with cultural acceptance though. Furthermore marketplaces add crazy hamburger assimilation.

>>2454655
I wish I didn't have to subvert what the devs want me to do with CB's and parliaments but the AI just sits there and does nothing after they removed 'no cb war' from the AI in 1.3~ because 1.2's high aggression setting was apparently too aggressive (Playing the game). It doesn't feel like anything is designed around cb's being free but I want the AI to be able to do stuff.

Have they deal with merc spam yet? That's the no1 thing that keeps me from trying it again.
>inb4 yes, they did something even worse

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>>2454700
Somebody on the dev team was screaming that the 4chudders were right all of last week and they finally dropped a patch addressing our 2 biggest complaints yes.

As hard as it is to say, EU4 did trade a hell of a lot better than EU5 does.
To actually simulate Asian spice trade to Europe you would have to manually set up trades for every single step of the journey, and all of them could break at any step along the way if you don't micro it to hell and back.

>>2454698
well that mod CB isn't "free" the AI still needs to create it with a spy network. it's just always available and opens up what the AI can and should do.
also comes with pretty big AE reduction bonus to help them take more stuff in their usually costly (attrition from being retarded) wars.

>>2454706
>their usually costly (attrition from being retarded) wars.
Reminder in 1.0 and pre release this didn't happen and the AI was scarily competent with it's big stacks and used vision to it's advantage constantly.

>>2454707
just further proof that the dev's vision isn't always the right one. we didn't need a more retarded AI and we should have more freedom with CBs.

>>2454707
Development tends to work in reverse order.
>first ever version nobody knows how anything works
>also the most competent the AI will ever be, and the hardest the mechanics will ever be
>settle into a rhythm, understand the game
>time to dumb it down for the new players
They did this with control as well, and the game has consistently been worse for it. It's just a line go up sim now.

>>2454704
You actually don't have to do that, when AI builds marketplaces it gives burgers way more free trade capacity and the burgers sit around making trades that are profitable which, supposedly, adds tax base to the location that the burger trade power is based out of. The problem is that every single AI nation in the game is broke and debt spirals because of a few key reasons which prevents them from building marketplaces or essential goods which stops TRADE altogether.
1. Many nations don't select reforms because "they're not good" even when the reforms just add crown power and nothing else which is objectively good. The weights for actions like that are fundamentally all broken because the developers don't know how their own game works so they don't know how to make AI prioritize doing some things over other things because if they make AI act like youtubers who all cheat and savescum the AI just die.
2. Until 1.3.11 trade didn't make money unless you were a merchant republic.

>>2454714
My issue is goods don't chainlink in any capacity.
Yes, the AI will freely move cloves from Indonesia to India.
But they're sure as hell not going to move those to East Africa, or West Africa, or God forbid, Europe.

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>>2454663
It's not too bad, no HRE makes it look worse than it really is.

Needs to be more sub-kingdoms and autonomous regions thoughever. Scotland and Ireland were personal unions for another hundred and two hundred years, respectively. The Ottomans had their large subject princes. Etc, etc. Control definitely needs to be made harder, and there should definitely be some sort of AI logic for keeping large subjects around late into the game
>>2454704
It worked fine on early patches in a manual sort of way, sending cloves to europe was and is a money printer. The problems are that A. the reduced trade range makes that harder to do, and B. trade automation and burgher trades can't into anything more complex than trading goods between single markets based on immediate demands

>>2454714
3. The autobuilder was broken until 1.3.1ish. Just didn't work AT ALL, so the AI never built buildings. This is the other cause of merc spam. You can rewind give yourself 10000 gold in console and test this out for yourself. This is very frustrating when you have an empire making 1000 gold a turn and you don't want to sit clicking a million buttons.
>>2454716
4. And, as you've highlighted, the middle east is also a shithole (worse than irl). In the real world the silk road went through mongolia and the ottoman empire and the inability of the AI to form regional power blocks to take out hordes handicaps trade in a dozen different ways. It also doesn't know how to release vassals and make powerful centers of control, and probably doesn't know how to use governors either.

>>2454491
>Late 2027
they are fucking with the players at this point

>>2454721
>probably doesn't know how to use governors
lmao, no probably about it
the AI does not understand how control works in any capacity, they frequently have their capital in a tiny exclave while the rest of their country is the wildwest

remembered that Korea got peppers hundreds of years before anyone else and had a little giggle

>>2454506
paradox has been writing all recent dev diaries (at least from the start of 2026) with ai, it's crazy how basically no one has noticed yet

>>2454724
I suppose the ai hasn't learned to relocate its governors or build cities to accommodate them yet

>>2454723
Every publicly owned company does nothing but submit it's customers to endless humiliation rituals, it's a jewish thing. Paradox is unique in that it also did that when it was privately owned as well as far back as leviathan and the release of hoi4 just being worse hoi3.

>>2454728
There's a whole thread on it on the forums where a guy points that out and points out that the game had a fuckload of vibecoded slop in 1.2 and 1.3 with emdashes stuck in everywhere it wouldn't make sense and it has a million downvotes and angry replies.

>>2454731
link?

>>2454716
Trade absolutely does chain, you'd notice this if you played in India/Indonesia or as, say, Cyprus. Limited amounts of eastern goods do flow into Alexandria/Damascus from further east, the problem is that the flow is shit due to range and throughput problems

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>>2454732
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/is-tinto-using-llms.1925301/
Here you go

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>>2454734
hypothetically why can't they just raise impact of scarcity on goods so it's worth more to trade it and for Portugal to burn its trade capacity on doing so?

>Trade absolutely does chain
>the problem is that the flow is shit due to range and throughput problems
love when people disagree with you on 4chan, only to later agree with you in the same exact post

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>>2454738
>sweden in top

>>2454740
Not him but it really does chain. It's just worth more for merchants in armenia to export 1 unit of chairs to the golden horde than 1 one unit of clovers to Europe.

>>2454740
He's right if you don't play the game only in singleplayer, having a hormuz and middle eastern player drag trade forward fixes literally every problem and all they have to do is build marketplaces which is in their own interest, which the AI would do anyways if they were smart. So the issue isn't that goods "don't" chainlink in "any" capacity as you wrote, the issue is that the AI has a bunch of economic issues totally separate from the trade problem that prevents it from playing the game at all and trade just so happens to suffer.

>>2454738
>papal and florence having friendly ai
wtf is this slop? they were cut-throat states, they simply never expanded aggressively but they did conquered other nations when they could, like the papal state with romagna and florence with siena

>>2454747
Burgundy being on there makes me chuckle

>>2454745
>It's just worth more
It's worth more for the AI to do both but it can't build one extra marketplace in any set of circumstances because it's too busy building and fully maintaining forts 'just in case' the player shows up.

>>2454747
Probably due to the want of a propper diplomatic system keeping North Italy from consolidating into a blob 100 years into the game.

Is there a way to make declaring a war WITH a casus beli cost 7 stability?

Also, is there a way to reduce relations between nations? eu5's problem, which eu4 didn't have, is that every nation sits improving relations with every other nation around them and those relation improvements take literally 100 years to decay as opposed to how that worked in eu4. I actually like this system alot more but "land desirability" doesn't reduce opinion like in eu4. What's the easiest way to make nations that are similar (same religion, same culture group bare minimum) hate eachother? Ie brandenburg and pomerania, or austria and bavaria.

>>2454739
See >>2454746 it's an AI/economy problem

>>2454739
Why Portugal specifically?
Do you have a game you'd like to share with us where AI Portugal actually went colonizing and created a colonial empire? Do they have market presence all over the place?

Also a major issue I'd like to highlight is that colonial empires don't have a chance in hell to push trade forwards because if they conquer an area overseas it punishes them by reducing their research speed because of low control among other things. They'll never build buildings or develop an area and more importantly they'll never build marketplaces. Idk about colonial subjects or trade companies I've never seen one in the game before but I imagine they're broke as hell and treated like england treats ireland. Total neglect and perpetual starvation instead of moving those valuable goods forward into europe because technically developing london is ALWAYS better (if england wasn't busy deathwarring in the netherlands instead of course.)

>>2454717
>Scotland and Ireland were personal unions for another hundred and two hundred years, respectively
that's on the devs, england rapes their island in about 30 years with and without mods.
as for control, maybe a system that only gives you control in a province capital would work better. would also mean you build those up with more and new government buildings to get control there. naturally big city capitals give more control than a rural village and only a (expandable) percentage of the total province tax would be earned there. should feel more alive than a local governor in all 4 corners of the empire.

Like imagine you're the mighty british empire and you take a treaty port in india and all it gives you with it's 6 marketplaces is 6 trade capacity. How the hell are you supposed to move goods?

>>2454758
Having a high relation with a country will make declaring war on them cost stab, even with a CB. Not sure if you can make it cost exactly 7. You can insult the country to instantly lower your relationship with them.

>>2454759
Use a diplomat to start building a spy network on the country you want other countries to hate more. The spy network will start ticking up somewhere between 1 and 2 per month. For 5 spy network points you can sabotage relations(?) which lets you pick a country to lose 50 relation with them. It fades over like a decade, and you can't stack it to make the same country lose like 200 points with someone. I've used this on France before to try and make their vassals more disloyal during the HYW, don't know how much impact it actually had.

what even is supposed to be in this colonial rework they've moved to christmas 2027?
i hope to god they're going to fix all colonial nations having stupid native names before then

>>2454775
Sorry, for both questions I meant with mods I'm working on something that makes the AI aggressive again that you guys might like if I can actually finish it.

>Fabricate CB on country I've never been at war with
>Go to declare war
>It is allies with a nation I have been at war with a few years ago
>Because that country (which is not a co-belligerent) has a truce with me, declaring on this other nation that I've never fought before counts as breaking a truce and and gives me a stability an AE hit

What the fuck is this shit? "You have a truce with someone I'm friends with? It's basically like you're breaking a truce with me, then!"

The reason it's going to take 1.5 years to make EU5's AI to use the ambitions system is because that's how long it will take for the Vic 3 team to put out their AI update, then have Johan reverse engineer it into EU5.

>>2454783
I had this happen too and it SAYS that but what it actually meant for me was that I had relations to high with the nation I was declaring war on and it was actually just lying about the truces thing. Or, in one case, the country had become a personal union of the other nation which still counts because it's the same ruler, which does actually make sense.

>>2454783
This is why I don't play in ironman though if I ran into this issue I would just tag over nations, dissolve that alliance, enable yesman, add a new alliance to a nation of the same size, disable yesman, and then tag back.

are they not going to fix ai joining independence movements of your subjects for no reason?
this shit should have been a hotfix last week

Explain why i should play this slop instead of EU4

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>>2454794
The honest answer in 1.0 and 1.1 would have been so that you could help iron out bugs as a longtime eu4 player so that the new eu5 playerbase would have a GOOD game and so that your friends who stayed on eu4 (because eu5 is too expensive) would be able to buy the game in a year after release confident that the product was as one might expect from a billion dollar company. Paradox's development model has been to use ai slop to drive the game backwards in the last 3 or 4 months though so I have no idea why you would play eu5 unless you're already invested much less buy it.

>>2454792
Wait 1.5 years, chud. No one EVER said this game was supposed to be playable or good yet. You knew what you were getting into so this is actually your own fault

>>2454794
You've raised your standards and going back will now be sad and difficult

>>2454738
idgi

>>2454794
Play EU3 instead of that slop trash EU4

>>2454803
>You've raised your standards and going back will now be sad and difficult
True, numbers of provinces alone is enough to cringe when looking at the eu4 map.

What's the magic trick to not getting raped by tribal cavalry if I start surrounded by them?

>>2454803
I disagree. Eu4 does a really good job of getting the dopamine flowing. It's hollow as shit and becomes pointless a century in the gane but that's not that different from eu5.

>>2454803
angry post irony like this should be bannable

>>2454794
Angry troon and brownoid babble aside, because this game has a (basically) fully fleshed-out pop and goods economy, whereas EU4 is stuck with the shitty mana and dev system. EU5 will always have more depth to its gameplay and more potential for engagement because of that. You don't have sorceror kings in Siberia summoning up a thousand cannons because they spent enough sword mana to get the tech. The basic skeleton of the game is just better, and it always will be

>>2454794
just wait for 2027, it will be fixed

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>>2454826
marry me

>Make a roadmap and release details about how you plan to fix the game in 1.5
>A few weeks later announce the major part of the fix will be delayed until after all the planned(see: contractually obligated by steam) dlcs are done
>This gives ryagi and Johan the ability to do the lowest tier nothingburger content for the dlcs and updates (see: rise of Phoenix) and collect a paycheck
>Skip to auld alliance release
>50 people buy the last DLC
>Paradox shuts down Tinto and shitcans eu5
>Game dies just like imperator
>Paradox lets ddrjake take over development

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>>2454837
You're right but what I don't understand is how everyone involved knows that this is what they are doing and why the devs continue to proceed along this retarded path knowing it will harm their careers and their bank accounts when they could just course correct and git gud at their jobs.

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Just when you thought Tinto couldn't keep making things worse for themselves lol

Gaben should just refund all the premium edition buyers

>>2454846
They already had to ban the turkish lira from steam to stop paradox from setting their games to $1 in turkey. The precedent has been set for specifically cracking down on paradox interactive through massive platform wide policy change.

>>2454846
>we should make DLCs before fixing the main game
In a common sense world, nobody would buy the DLC.

>>2454851
It's a preorder (predator) bonus as well. I knew I'd buy eu5 and put a couple hours into it and be well beyond my refund area even if it were shit and I wanted to play it with my friends so I "pre ordered" an hour before it came out and that means I got all the dlc.

>>2454826
>The basic skeleton of the game is just better, and it always will be
delusional take of the year award

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>>2454872

thank yo johan for confirming the game will never be engoodened (because you're gonna just end up abandoning eu5 in ~7-12 months)

I'm free, i no longer need to check each "update" hoping the game isn't shit. it's over. back to hoi2 and liqqy. shame ill be dead before eu6 exists and is good

Qrd on Denmark? It filtered me quite hard.

>>2454879
Play Bavaria until you understand the game desu

>>2454879
same as any nation. spam rgos
spam markets
spam castles in tactical places
have wizards increase control
declare a war
wipe all enemies
take 1 location for 500000 antagonism
declare war on new coalition
take 1 location for 500000 antagonism
repeat until 50000 heavy cav
get bored
restart

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>got muscovy's heir at my court for some reason
>can't marry her off or kick her out
characters are obnoxious

>>2454879
Also jokes aside install a mod that reduces 1000000% HRE antagonism by some amount that shit is retarded.
>>2454883
It's for enforcing claims a system that was never added.

>>2454883
the game would be massively improved if you stripped the character system from it
imagine how well it would run without that slop

Kiev

>>2454921
It needs to focus on the characters more or less, but the current use is bad. Governors being buildings instead of characters is retarded. Wars of the Roses where cadet branches of dynasties are meaningful in gameplay could be kino, though Johan and co would probably fuck it up.

>>2454921
I'm actually a big fan of the character slop itself but the 3d models were never necessary and reduce performance so much it's unreal. They should have used quick and dirty handdrawn 2d sprites to be honest. It's some 3d model mandate from the shadow government considering terra invicta did the same thing where you have to look at an ugly tranny the whole time. (I got my refund on that shit)

>>2454935
It would take considerably more effort for them to make a proper 2d character system like CK2 than just copy pasting the CK3/V3 system.
Looking forward to 3d Hitler, Churchill, and FDR in HoI5 though.

>>2454937
>like CK2
Why bother? the 3d figures look HIDEOUS and 2d stick figures with interchanged hair colors and jaw shapes would do better so service the dynasties of europe than what they have now.

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>>2454618
>champaign

>>2454944
He's based if he also spells jalapeno hollapino

>>2454590
yes

>>2454736
the paragoyim are waking up to the reality that tinto is entirely fabricated and is just johan in a hotel banging hookers and doing drugs

>>2454774
Light ship trade power would fix this

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Johan finally did it. He killed eu5. And now that they announced they aren't going to bother fixing the game until their DLCs are shat out, nobody is coming back for at least another year+. It's never been more ovyr.

>>2454585
I mean the black death is cool but it clearly wasn't worth pushing back colonization for
I guess byzaboos are happy though

>build navy/army
>unit costs more than 1 year of income
>build road
>it costs more than 10 years of income
I thought this was supposed to be a simulation?
All this because otherwise getting control would be too easy?

>>2454747
You want them to not blob so italy doesn't consolidate in 1300's and papacy in particular stays alive and relevant by hopefully allying with other italians which gridlocks italy. Florence is there for the same reason, so it would stay small and help gridlock italy so the italian situations actually work.

>>2454966
Consider getting more income if that's actually true.

>>2454970
To do that I need roads to increase control or boats for maritime presence

>>2454978
You really don't if you are at a stage where road costs 10 years of income. You will get much more juice out by spending your gold on stability and messing with the estates or laws or building up your capital depending on what your particular scenario is.

>>2454978
Just move your capital to a better province and then use your court's cousin-wizard to teleport people there. Then you have 100 control in a place that matters. Siphon as many as people as you can into that province.

>king decides to add you to his council
>You suddenly gain the ability to transform a bantu negro into a pure Aryan Norwegian
What does Johan mean by this

>>2454990
You always had that ability, you just weren't being paid to do it before.

>>2454992
This unironically describes the average 4chan wizard if only they were paid

>>2454803
>You've raised your standards
What the fuck are you talking about I haven't even bought EU5. Go die in a hole shill.

>>2454830
I don't ever plan on buying this dogshit. Eu4 is the same game except it's polished and features are abstracted. I don't want development represented by 30 different numbers.

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>>2454999
Okay bye

>>2454999
>EU4 is polished
Lol

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>>2454999
I'm happy this general is such a kind and welcoming place that you felt comfortable posting something this genuinely retarded.

>>2455002
>>2455010
>>2455024
Ryagi crashout

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>>2455033
>SAAARRR I MUST COME HERE AND COMPLAIN EVERY SINGLE DAY ABOUT THE GAME I WILL NEVER PLAY SAAAARRR!
nigger brownout

>>2455035
Stop insulting your programmers, Ryagi. Racism is not cool.

>>2455036
>your programmers
you mean the 10 claude instances?

>>2455035
hi johan

Ryagy is so damn ugly, watching his face in this OP and remembering the shit he says is bad for the soul. OP you are a massive cocksucker faggot and you will die of explosive aids you dumb nigger lover.

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>>2455044

>estate satisfaction is now just mana
WOWZA instead of building paper mana and casting increase stability spell, I instead build commoner rabble happiness mana and spend it on the increase stability spell!

Are you serious, Mr. Johan Andersson? Showing up to a community interview wearing dark sunglasses? That doesn't come across as "cool style" — it comes across as having no interest in properly engaging with the players. When the project is already plagued by bugs, performance issues, and all sorts of other crap, that kind of image feels especially strange and, frankly, pretty disrespectful. And the new expansion inspires more disappointment than excitement. Instead of finally addressing performance problems and fixing long-standing issues, we're being sold yet another piece of questionable, low-quality content. Maybe the base game should have been brought up to an acceptable standard before pushing yet another paid DLC? At this point, the whole thing leaves a truly awful impression...

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>eu5 2.0 releases in 2028 and the game is finally good
>paradox can the development and move tinto to ck3 mines
dejavu

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>>2455050
Seethe and cope
Johan is /fit/

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Don't want to fight the League War?
Just say sorry and give them a few bucks.

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>>2455061
Just don't kill people for their religion, it's that easy.

>>2455060
Blam

>>2455061
you can cheese giga coalitions the same way

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My vassals had a rebellion and I din't get a popup. I only got a popup when the country they called in, which I didn't get a popup for either by the way, occupied a province of mine. Seems like pretty important stuff to me but Johan knows better.

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Loading up my realistic history simulator so I can ask the pagan gods to throw ice spells on my enemies.

I am 400pounds and just got McDonald's

>>2455105
Fix your game Johan

>>2455052
imperator was always doomed because outside of like five nations you don't know or give a shit about some random made up tribe that there is zero history for because they didn't have the written word, so once you've played the obligatory rome game, the obligatory carthage game, the obligatory sparta game, some gay celtic tribe, then migrated PVRE ARYAN germanics to sri lanka, there is nothing left of interest. paradox games are fun because you get to live in BELIEVABLE WORLDS

>>2455124
>so once you've played the obligatory rome game
Let me guess, you think you need more?
Put the game down and wait a year or two and then come back and play it again
I put thousands of hours into EU4 back when it was new and once I’d played every country I was interested in, I put the game down

>Start a Holland run
>Get to Renaissance
>It gets immediately embraced
>wat.jpg
>It's spread to the entire world
>Take a look at my actual province, it has the first 10 institutions already present (before they even spawn)
>Turns out that my game files just have a file that gives the entire world most institutions
>Delete file and restart the game I guess
I have no idea how Johan coded that one but this is a certified johan moment.

>>2455131
They keep amazing us with new fuck ups.

>>2455136
It's an old fuck up actually, the guy on the forums had the solution from last November. But yes a surprising one for sure.

>start run for first time in months
>vassal rebel happens
>nearby horde joins in
>vassal won't peace out even when I occupy all rebel land
>gets raped by tribal cav
thank you johan for putting in such clever mechanisms to keep me from getting addicted to this game

Ryagi basically admitted that countries DO play all the same and the team is actually aware of that btw
He said so on Steam

>>2455130
rome isn't fun to play, its completely broken in how strong it is and how hard you're railroaded to hegemony
the farther you play from rome the harder your eventual showdown with the gigablob will be and the more fun you might be able to have, but there is only so much fun you can have fighting rome for the nth time and its not enough to justify an entire game
but don't take my word for it, look at how quickly it was abandoned because there was no one to sell DLC to because the game was an empty shell built to sell DLC but nobody stuck around to buy it

>>2455131
why even play holland, their advances are so much worse than the other dutch states

The most disappointing thing about EU5 is that it's just EU4 with more bells and whistles to distract you from the reality that it's still just as shallow as EU4 always was
I don't believe they will fundamentally change the game enough that it can ever be anything more than that

>>2455146
man it's so good that they solved the mana design issue... Too bad it's even worse now without it

>>2455163
no they aren't they're the best by far to the point where its gay that if you play frisia you are just playing an objectively worse netherlands (BUT PEASANTS)

>>2455163
I like the trade bonuses, I want to do a trade game this time so it seemed like the no brainer choice + it's sort of canonical for netherlands.

>>2455164
vicky 2 won (again)

>>2455142
went back and apparently you can't change the "switch country" rule after the game starts now.
I hope this game fails and Johan sees his last major project turns to ash.

>>2455181
Why would you think you could switch it? If you don't want to switch countries just leave it on or off and if you do want to switch then leave it on. Setting that lets you cheat but also locks if you want to play without cheats is better than one that flip flops on demand, you may as well just always leave it on if you could swap it mid game.

>>2455191
Then make it a one-way switch.
Johan is just grumpy because he was forced to enable achievements without ironman.

>>2455177
What does that game even does differently? EU5 has a lot of moving parts and that's it, we know every country is just about trying to set up the economy.

>>2455197
People played victoria 2 when they were 12 and confused lack their of understanding for the presence of complexity.

>>2455197
Vicky has the low key but major advantage of being a fairly short game with limited granularity (at least in terms of econmic gameplay), so setting up your economy is the core of the game but that takes like 30 minutes. The rest of the game is researching the right techs and building grossGermaniums until you reach 1900 and you've won the game. Then you quit, which is just in time because the economic simulation shits the bed past 1910 anyway.
It's the best game paracocks ever made and the pacing is a huge part of that desu.

>>2455213
>building grossGermaniums until you reach 1900 and you've won the game
The game starts in 1850 doesn't it

>>2455124
>because outside of like five nations you don't know or give a shit about
Honestly I'm willing to bet England, France, Spain, Russia and Prussia or Byz are the overwhelming majority of countries people play in 5. Its years ago but for 4 they released player stats and England and France was about 30% of all players games on their own.

Reminder to visit the store page sometimes only to bump the negative reviews.

>>2455232
its crazy to me most people will flock to countries who start the game already having won
largest nations i've started as were teutons or denmark

>>2455236
>muscovy
>starting the game already having won

>>2455236
If the seething eu4lets didn't already indicate it to you most EU players (thanks to EU4) just want to powergame the overpowered nations and follow the mission checklists to get the heckin yummy +20 morale -100% AE free handjob every 30 minutes bonuses and pretend they're masters of strategy

>>2455223
1836

>>2455236
And they made an entire DLC about just giving the Great Powers a full fucking banquet of bonuses from muh mission trees
>>2455237
In 1444? Almost
It's the "hardest" of the great powers but that's not saying much
>>2455238
And now we can count on missions 2.0- sorry, AMBITIONS, because the monkeys were whining too loudly that they wanted their glowy button dopamine hits back
Might as well since we already have The Cossacks style estate clicks

>>2455238
Playing small shitholes is peak EU5 desu. Would strongly recomment playing as a OLM on Madagascar

if you view the game, or in fact any grand strategy, in terms of "hard" vs "easy" nations you're gigaretarded
the whole point is you're supposed to roleplay the games, deliberately take suboptimal choices

you retards are the sort of people who solely marry for claims in crusader kings, blob over the entire map, then complain the game is "too easy"

>>2455232
>all the whining in this and last thread about how the game is over in less than a hundred years
I think I figured out what the cause of that particular problem is
>>2455245
Missions are bad, but the Estate buttons are worse imo since they're so blatantly gamey

>>2455237
literally the strongest nation in russia, they eat everyone around them and blob every game

>>2455232
>Honestly I'm willing to bet England, France, Spain, Russia and Prussia or Byz are the overwhelming majority of countries people play in 5
>People play the countries that have content
WHOA

>>2455267
you dont play the game but thats fine because nobody here does anymore

>>2455245
>And now we can count on missions 2.0- sorry, AMBITIONS
Based GODhan saving the game.

>>2455268
go ahead and try to point out any of those nations you disagree with
YHNPTG

>load up EU5 v2.3 - Monaco update
>begin my 38th game as the Ottomans in the new 1454 start date
>immediately start my Janissary Miss- I mean National Foc- I mean Ambition
>get rewarded with a new unit type that is 3x the strength of anything anyone else can field for the next 2 ages
>activate the Sultan of Rum buff that grants me 10 prestige a month and the restore Roman border CB
>proclaim myself Caliph, granting me a CB to conquer any muslim majority location
>Conquer Vienna in 1454
>proclaim myself Holy Roman Emperor
>every member of the HRE votes to convert to Islam because they still just say yes to everything
>conquer Spain in 1454
>sail across the ocean to the New World (randomized)
>the Aztecs have unified the continent into a Hyperborean style technological powerhouse
>stackwipe them with my Jannys and eat them in 3 wars
>end the game as global hegemon in 1470
vgh, can't wait

>>2455271
>not in russia
>civil war chains every game until muscovy kyiv and georgia divide it
>does nothing and dies
muscovy blobs every game, so does kyiv granted but they dont fight each other until everything else is split between them

>>2455279
Based LietuvaGAWD
Ukrainian women are built for LITHVANIAN BVLLS

I guess half the world is Portugal then huh

>>2455281
I know what I'm doing Christmas 2027 (assuming no delays)

uhhhh no?
russia has directly owned the territory im talking about, portugal never had more than brazil, angola, and mozambique

>>2455298
well it'll be january 2028 until the patch actually works

The Pope said so nigga and the word of GOD transcends borders on a map

>>2455289
you dont play the game

>>2455299
explain Goa

dont pretend your not in like, 3 different sedevacantist trooncords, fernandez

>want to play as ming
>fight with popups for an hour on speed 7
>red turbans havent even started
>already bored, close game
If only this game was good enough to attract chinese modders to fix china

>your
Jeetbro...

it was for comedic purposes, guess YOUR just not on the same level of ironic shitposting as i am

>>2455245
>In 1444?
We're talking about eu5 retard.

>>2455286
Ukraine started flying through baltic airspace to bomb places like Omsk now

>>2455312
Surely NATO won't accept this violation of their airspace?

>>2454491
There genuinely doesn't seem to be any point in playing the game for like the next 2 years

>>2455317
What else is there to play?
>v3 is masturbatory student politics
>ck3 is fart events for sim girlies
>hoi4 is a visual novel for incel zoomers
>liqqy is old
its ogre, grand strategy is dead

>>2455320
Stellaris?

>>2455322
Not into sci-fi, I want a history simulator
>read a book!
guess i'll have to

>>2455320
OpenVic will save grand strategy, just like OpenRTC and OpenMW

when are they going to make the AI capable of transporting its own troops?
England's entire army just sits in Dover while France, who has no navy, rapes Aquitaine and any other country that sided with England

>>2455320
this post is pure larp by someone who is mentally stuck in 2011

>>2455323
>simulator
So you're one of those people?
That seethe when someone plays Byzantium cause they're supposed to die?

>>2455315
None cares about the baltic states, Nato doesn't and neither does Russia. So both look the opposite direction when Ukraine flies through the baltic states and across the russian border.

>>2455327
I seethe when someone plays Byzantium because they're playing it wrong

>>2455327
Why do you Nahuatl Ulm WCers always assume just because someone like plausible history they don't like any alt-history?
Can you seriously not see a difference between a Byzantium player averting the civil war by either placating or disposing of John Kantakouzenos as a point of divergence and forming Kurdistani Ryuku to spam epic meme buffs?

>>2455330
How are they supposed to play it?

>>2455332
And beyond that, how do you measure plausibility? Should there be hard limits for byzantium to take back anatolia? Egypt?

>>2455341
The same way you measure beauty of a flower.
I've not come up with a strict scientific formulation for it.
For example, Germany taking Namibia is based, because it happened in history. Germany taking Pennsylvania also COULD be based, because it was a destination for a lot of German settlers and could logically happen.
Ulm converting to Nahuatl religion and conquering the world is NOT based because it could NOT have happened, and anyone playing that way is just trying to take advantage of the mechanics to "win" the game, completely disregarding the whole historical premise of the game and the systems set up to simulate reality.

It's the playing chess with a pigeon paradigm. Ulm WCers are shitting on the board and strutting around like they won.

i just don't understand ulm wcers
these games are HISTORY games they're set in HISTORY, they have countries from HISTORY, the events are based around HISTORY, what the nations did in HISTORY, all the techs are from HISTORY, all the situations are HISTORY, these are 100% history games
and yet they go to steam
they see the tags saying history
they see the historical map
and they buy it
not to simulate history
not because they care about history
but because they want to spend their mana, paint a map, and do it as weird and wacky religions and cultures for epic bonuses, like it was a fighting game or some shit

why of all the games in the world would you choose a HISTORY game if you don't give a shit about history? there must be tens of thousands of games with magic spells or potions or whatever bullshit where you can get all the high scores and cheevos you like
so why play a HISTORY game if you don't like HISTORY?

this alone would be bad enough, but they then sign in to 4channel.com and tell ME that I am the one who is wrong because I WANT HISTORY, apparently I am a retard because I bought a HISTORY game because i like HISTORY

FUCK ulm
FUCK nahuatl
FUCK ryuku
FUCK mana
FUCK cheevos
FUCK blobbers
and most of all FUCK >>2454470

>>2455353
That's a lot of seething.

>>2455359
Yes, it is. And rightfully so. Go form your Ulm blob on /r/eu5 where it will get all the upvotes you could ever hope for.

>>2455362
Or I can have fun playing the game and post my shit here infuriating autists like you.

no game which doesn't portray the problem of imperfect information is ever going to be a simulator.

>>2455365
You don't have fun though.
For me every single game is a new experience, Japan, Britain, Ottomans, Russia, they all play differently because I am roleplaying as the nation and they all have vastly different starting conditions.
For you every single nation is just
>funny meme tag
>funny meme culture
>funny meme religion
>blob over the entire world
You will never be able to have different experiences, you can not play the game in any other way. The second you've got your cheevos you bounce, you're not even playing it for enjoyment, you just want the achievement icon to light up and then your brain shuts off again, because you're an NPC incapable of independent thought.

>>2455369
>You don't have fun though
I wouldn't play if i wasn't having fun.
Keep seething tho.

You're trying too hard.

>>2455372
You don't have fun actually playing the game is my point.
I grant you, you get a surge of dopamine once you've completed your meme game and can post in on /r/eu5, or here when you escape containment, but you don't actually have fun while playing the game.
I do, because every time I do anything in the game I am immersed in my decisions, rolelplaying geopolitically, as these games are SUPPOSED to be played, and that brings me happiness, because I am capable of putting myself in the mind of a statesman of the time.
You lack that capacity. You can only see meme modifiers, cheevos, or other people telling you what to do.
If I asked YOU now to come up with an interesting idea for a playthrough, what would you say? You'd roll a random religion, a random culture, and a random tag, and set about on your WC. Alternatively you'd look at the achievements, see a stupid pun achievement and set about wasting several days of your life getting all the medicament goods in the world as Ganja, or some other equally tedious and tenuous asspull.
I on the other hand would say what if Milan managed to use the wealth of it's silk industry to springboard into a regional power and challenge both the Pope and the HRE, and I would genuinely enjoy every second of that game.

You are incapable of thought.
You are incapable of logic.
You are incapable of enjoyment.
You are a NPC person, there is nothing behind your eyes, your brain runs on pure base instincts of what you are told to do.

I think this might be a bot

>>2455382
>You don't have fun actually playing the game
You're an autist. I don't think you understand what fun means. Not reading the rest of your post.
Seethe more.

see how scared and frightened the ulm blobber is when he's forced to actually confront what he is
not one but two passive aggressive epic no reply posts
i get it must be hard for you to have to actually look in the mirror and see yourself for what you are, but try to think of it as a learning moment, your path in the road now has two options, you can continue being a brainless ulm blobber npc OR you can accept what i'm saying is true and change yourself
most are too weak and will take the former, but i believe in you, bro, you can be better, just say no to the nahuatl ryuku cheevo

>>2455391
You don't need to shut out my posts because they force you to confront who you are. I appreciate how hard it must be for you to come to this realization, that you're completely non-sentient, but you CAN be better. You CAN change.

>>2455394
>You don't need to shut out my posts because they force you to confront who you are
No I shut out your posts because you're posting b8.

>>2455403
You can't refute a single thing I say, and because actually acknowledging it is too painful for you instead you just dismiss it.
I wish you well and hope you continue to believe you're having fun for as long as possible.

>>2455406
Can you post a screenshot of the last campaign you did?

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fuck my nigger life
fucking FUCK

>>2455411
>100/97/94
Hunting accident was inevitable.

>>2455411
oh noooooo just load the month autosave

>birding
If you're gonna cheat just use the console.

>>2455411
wish this happened to johan

>>2455483
shut up, ryagi

do you guys think ryagi got a humilation fetish?

>>2455281
>activate the Sultan of Rum buff that grants me 10 prestige a month and the restore Roman border CB
why would this be in the ottoman content? you should have said you started as a random beylik and formed Rum before using some kind of exploit to become the Ottomans as well (Rum and Ottomans should be mutually unformable) and then used another exploit to become Byz

>>2455411
>already have random chance for any character to die at any time
>copypaste events from EU4 that target your heirs specifically because there were no other characters in EU4 to essentially double the chance heirs die
"Yeah, I'm thingken like a brilliant" -Johan Andersson

as a based and christpilled zoomer tradcath i'm happy that 1.4 will feature a catholic rework

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>>2455084
I play lithuania just for this. Pagan god spells are the coolest part of the game. I love managing my court wizards knowing the AI doesn't have/can't use them. It's like playing an immortal wizard king that has seized control of the throne through epsteinesque blackmail rings. eu5 is the best game ever if they could just fix a few more weird bugs I would be happy.

I feel bad for railroadies and sandboxies though they thought they were buying eu5 not Warlock Master of the Arcane 3

skimming this thread, i'm glad i escaped the parashart kool-aid. same shit different toilet. what an embarrassment.

>>2455521
Okay bye BR0WN

>catholic rework
And it's just the same spellbook from EU4 where you can ask the Pope to cast spells in exchange for your influence (mana)

>>2455527
Agreed, influence should instead be based on concrete numbers based on how many archbishoprics you have, how influential they are in the catholic church, and the strings and favors you can pull as a king. I would go as far as saying it should all be automated and the locations that have many catholic themed estate buildings should be the only places that get the bonuses, even. Use the character system for governors as we should be, and put those governors in charge of especially heretical areas and the catholic church should reward you more with direct bonuses to taxation by pulling that money out of the churches coffers.

No more mana. no more spells. No more influence.

>>2455527
>And it's just the same spellbook from EU4 where you can ask the Pope to cast spells in exchange for your influence (mana)
this is most christpilled, Pope Leo XIV (a based tradcath) approves

>>2455516
I unironically would love a Warlock 3. I no lifed the first one for a week.

>>2455483
lol

>>2455411
Bro got hit by containtheplayerkillearlyheirbackendfunction49.dll

I would suggest enabling monthly autosaves and reloading when this happens.

do people even care about character stats in this game? not only are they often nonsense (my ruler makes buildings across my entire empire cheaper to maintain) but they are largely not needed to suceed and fail to have as much of a psycological impact as monarch stats in prior games

>>2455595
Yes cause it affects levy size, off the top of my head. Don't forget you can assassinate heirs for FREE in a not-very-well-thought-out mechanic.

>>2455597
This is something I've never ever seen mentioned in this thread until I just brought it up btw and it's further proof nobody here plays the game except me. Incoming paradox nerf.

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Is there any benefit to trying to fight for this? Castile is my #1 ally and the only thing keeping the Turks off my back so far

>>2455604
idk what happens I've never played all the way until those leagues ended desu.