>>2311071 (OP)
Why is it always Wu?
Why doesn't Mao ever win?

>>2311074
its usually ming because events are stacked in their favor. wu has a decent shot because they show up in one of the best regions of china.

>>2311074
Because I don't want to be reminded of that retard when playing TRAD CHYNA. Also Wú dialect is based https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ko5vtUgpFM. [Embed]

>>2311071 (OP)
>still no missions edition

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Holy shit it's actually over for the Czechs

England saved my ass though kek I'll have to help them against France later

>>2311095
VGH..... total Habsburg domination....

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johan you retard why am I not war leader
>rebellion in a vassal
>all of france somehow joins
>I somehow join
>opm vs opm war

>>2311095
>they agree to half the country including their capital, as well as liberating 6 countries
>only 52 antagonism
Is the coalition CB that good? I've only had it used against me

>>2311103
Liberating gets minus antagonism so I got half their country and barely anyone gave a shit

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>>2311102
t-thanks

>Patch 1.1 coming mid-January to early February
>Byzantine DLC planned for 2nd Quarter 2026

Do you think we'll hit patch 1.3 before Paradox demands more of your precious ducats? Will you pay for it?

>>2311118
>1356
what the fuck is that map? did you get the PU on France and then rename them?

>>2311119
I feel like Paradox is getting a bit nervous about their amazing "fuck you, release the game anyway"-plan.

>>2311124
france somehow became a revolt tag after the original one got annexed (vassal can press annex revolt button and take everything)

>>2311133
it's quite a wellknown bug, if the rebel tag ceases to exist - like if it's a society of pops and has its armies destroyed - the country they called in will become warleader and can be annexed by reaching 10% warscore like the rebel tag would
working as intended, as the swede says

>>2311118
I wish I could just take Brittany and end the HYW
I don't want to deal with the frogs, I just want my celtic brothers

>>2311138
Can't you just concede or fulfill whatever criteria that needs to be fulfilled for the HYW event to stop and then conquer Brittany after?

>>2311119
I'm amazed they delayed the DLC. Thwy should've delayed the whole release

>>2311139
I guess I could

Is it just me or is the Byzantine start soo much easier now?
I just ally with Naples and have them crush The ottomans and the initial rebellion for me.

>>2311143
I think they're one of the easiest starts due to their unique reforms, periodic events that move your social values early barack buildings and the broken cavalry unit

>>2311143
It's even easier than you think. Release OPM subjects so that you only have 2 provinces and get your legitimacy up and you'll never have a disaster. Embargo the Ottomans day 1 and they'll delete all their forts since you own their market. Or just nocb them as soon as possible and let your vassals win the war.

>>2311146
The starting crisis is kinda crushing though

>>2311102
That's not even bad, I got pulled into a war against my ally by myself when 10 (ten) men rebelled in one of their provinces, they didn't even get a province just the 10 dudes that couldn't siege anything in scotland. Then they got wiped by GB army and I was stuck fighting GB and their allies for nothing.

>>2311119
I bought the deluxe edition like a good little goy.

>>2311150
I mean, not really. If you don't want to cheese it like the guy above said you just need to max legitimacy till you can tax peasants, build some barack buildings and get your heavy cav. Then you xan walk over any rebellions till the crisis is over.

A few questions
>Does france or england always invade the lowlands within 30 years?
>Does france always run away with the game?
>Are there any good mechanics to avoid going into a pu?
>Are there any good mechanics to get out of being a subject?
>Do small-medium sized nations just suck to play?

>>2311164
yes
yes
dont marry into stronger countries
independence war
in europe? yes. otherwise no

>>2311168
Is there any way to get other nations to support your independence? Am i just missing it?

>>2311164
>Does france or england always invade the lowlands within 30 year
Yes
>Does france always run away with the game?
Sometimes they get cockslapped and England runs away with the game instead, Bohemia, Hungary, Naples, France and England usually share Europe between the 5 of them so pick your poison.
>Are there any good mechanics to avoid going into a pu?
Marry your niggers. If you need to just change your succession law so you get to pick a better candidate.
>Are there any good mechanics to get out of being a subject?
You can pretty easily get all the major powers to support your independence. You just need to become disloyal first. You can set your cabinet to promote disloyalty which ought to be enough, you may need to wait for a moment of weakness though in some cases (took me like 50 years as Finland vs Sweden), do things like send insults and what not.
>Do small-medium sized nations just suck to play?
Those are the best ones to play. If you are struggling then don't start next to France though.

>>2311102
Cheevo autism
>johan you retard why am I not war leader
Stopping cheevo related abuses probably
>if rebellions cannot call in others they will always lose
>but it players get to sign peace treaties from those he may annex land while ignoring alliances and truces
>so let him get called into a war where he is at the mercy of the ai and cannot peace out. Genius!

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/holiday-tinto-talks-2-29th-of-december-2025.1892336/

>>2311185
>alot

>>2311185
>heavy QA for a few days
lol

I hate how the game leaves wastelands as ugly white splotches on the map. Are they retarded?

>>2311198
Pretty sure the colored wasteland option is just broken

>>2311194
He couldn't even QA his post with a spellchecker.

>>2311194
I swear he made a post right after release saying essentially "I implemented and tested this levy change today and it's coming out tomorrow"

>>2311198
>>2311199
It breaks specifically when wastelands are next to other wastelands in some configuration. I'm booty blasted that there's few provinces in USA that just won't color because presumably they border other wastelands and the wasteland doesn't get that the wastelands it border are "owned" so it won't color up.

Over the holidays I've found myself gravitating towards playing EU4 without even thinking about EU5. Wasn't a conscious choice; I just wanted to play a game that was fun.

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>>2311071 (OP)
Eu4>Timurids are the strongest nation
Eu5>Timurids once again the strongest nation, although they don't exist at game start

>>2311214
It's really not that much to read through. The fact that he even tried having AI do it for him first is a red flag.

>>2311216
Trying out new things is not a red flag.

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I saw someone post a guide specific to Ethiopia before, what the hell do I do to develop myself? There was a suggestion for a capital but I can't remember what it was, all my capitals fucking suck. I can't remember where in the UI the upgrade to town/city button is. I think it had a suggestion about maxing decentralization because the terrain is fucking horrid for control early on. Trying to colonize takes way too fucking long.

>>2311214
Elonchads keep winning

this entire game reeks of vibe coding

>>2311071 (OP)
I see the Hyperwar is finishing up, looks like those Finngolians lost

>>2311243 <- Guy who has never written a single line of code in his life

>>2311071 (OP)
Is Africa still fully colonized by europeans by the 1500s while the far east is on par technologically with europe?
I saw they even added some techs to avoid malaria now.

>>2311243
Paradox invented vibe coding, before LLMs even existed

>>2311227
looking at the top bar resources, everything is going swimmingly. what are you lacking? institutions?

>>2311252
nice concept but doesn't adress the main issue with the war being about "le religion" instead of HRE centralization

what's the use case for PoWs?

>>2311246
retard

>>2311252
utterly pointless until the HRE is fixed

>>2311263
hire them and automate sieges

>>2311263
executing them to establish dominance

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Winnable or should I give up?

>>2311271
>7k regulars
you can solo them

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>>2311271
They even got a union over Naples somehow, words cannot fully describe how much I hate them.

>>2311278
what did you do to Bohemia

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When are people going to admit this game is shit and half baked compared to EU4

>so ashamed she had to hide shit4's all time peak
Embarrassing.

>>2311285
I did a little raping during the hussite wars

>>2311287
>a game that's just released has less content and is not as polished as a 10 year old game with hundreds of patches
Wow I'm shocked!

>>2311292
Literally a direct copy and paste CK3 and VIC3 cope, nice

vicky 3 is unironically a better representation of the era than vicky 2 don't @ me

>>2311294
Because that's how the industry works tard.
Give eu5 a couple years and DLCs and it'll be as good or better than 4.

I'm sure if you give Johan 5 years the UI will eventually stop looking like shit (lol)

>>2311292
>>2311296
Don't reply to the redditor, just report and ignore it.

>>2311296
CK3 is still worse than CK2 btw even with the expanded map
>>2311298
This isn't pdxforums, paradrone

>>2311278
do you not build anything? How do you have so much money this early

>>2311278
why does it have so few regulars? that's a pushover. what version of the game are you playing?

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>>2311271
Another rape promptly delivered
Too bad I'm not the war leader, I'm can't wait to see the retarded peace deals the AI will make.
>>2311302
current 1.0.10. I do have some mods enabled that try to tune down AI aggressiveness, but I don't think that should impact how many regulars the AI builds.

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>>2311305
Meant to post this one, my bad
>>2311300
I have no Idea, all I did was building the most profitable RGOs and buildings the entire time.

>>2311263
antagonismmaxxing

>>2311287
>When are people going to admit this game is shit and half baked
I admit
>compared to EU4
KEK no

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Not as bad as I expected, but still kinda ugly.

>>2311311
You should make Occitania a client state.

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>>2311071 (OP)
How dead is the game?
I played one campaign with the Ottomans up until the 1730s and I haven't felt the need to open the game again.

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>>2311312
I can do that? How?

>>2311313
Its not dead at all.

>time since last post

>Muscovy
>have to take so many locations to form Russia
>the borders already have 0-15 control after integration.
>not even halfway done.

This not any fun anymore, this is just a boring slog. War, take as much land as possible, integrate over decades and repeat. Meanwhile the AI is blobbing and committing bordergore all over the place. Oh and every single major nation has had a dynasty change thanks to queens.

okay

>>2311350
>This not any fun anymore, this is just a boring slog.

Maybe. But look at the bright side: player expansion has been slowed down dramatically. THAT is what matters. That was the primary concern that drove the design decisions here. It's not about if it's fun; it's about if it slows down the player. EU4 players were expanding too well and it was pissing us off. So we stopped it.

we used to make fun of blobbers, now the majority of the fanbase are blobbers.
the west has fallen

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>we should have catered more to the ryukyu wc fags

>get a prodigy as an heir

he's going to go hunting at 16, isn't he?

>>2311311
where is austria going

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How the living FUCK do I make money?? How the hell are all my neighbors making 60 ducats a month and sitting on 5g's?

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>>2311258
Control is shite and the geography is so bad I'm not sure where I even want to put my capital. Innovations would be nice but I'll get there eventually.

Btw does anyone know if you can move slaves around? They are all stacked on my one city and town, would be really nice if I could distribute them around since I've got short-staffed RGOs pretty much everywhere.

>>2311313
>>2311320
It is dying though

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>>2311358
Well it didn't work, considering people have ALREADY done world conquests.

>>2311404
>English reviews: Very positive
That's the only category that matters.

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Did the river changes massively buff Korea or something, this shit is ridiculous

>>2311383
build slave centers where u want the pops, make a billion vassals for pseudo-control, also you get to move your capital whenever your ruler dies, you want to aim alum or whatever its called

>>2311350
Honestly this is a mostly an issue with Muscovy/Russia in particular, since they're supposed to take huge swathes of land, but there's pretty much no incentive to because all the land in central asia is basically worthless. I guess the idea is to make vassals everywhere but that's just as tedious to do.

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>>2311416
Christians can't build slave centers, though I start with a couple. I've had the Itinerant court option several times before I got rid of it and there isn't a city anywhere called Aim Alum.

>>2311415
Korea was already OP before that, so if anything it just made them even more OP.

>>2311419
Doesn't Russia get an absurd amount of proximity cost reduction over land to compensate? I think they have some pretty strong unique techs/events that give powerful bonuses and cabinet slots. It might take you a while to get there but it isn't like Russia had perfect control over Siberia in 1500.

>>2311424
I think he might have meant that you want to aim for Aksum/Axum/however it's spelt?

>>2311414
>counting all the release day bot reviews

>>2311430
>release day bot reviews
Shitty cope my friend.

Holy shit the difference the difference between the Ottomans and Mamluks is astonishing

Is crazy how chill and easy Mams are

Why are Ottos the recommended nation instead of Mams again?

>>2311450
Historically they're supposed to be better but gameplay mechanics get in the way

>>2311313
It's below what EU4 was at this time last year.

hey, uh, dear estates
love you guys
but can you please stop wasting resources on building slave-based buildings when we have no slaves and in fact outlawed slavery decades ago? thanks

Have devs said anything on adding the oprion to return cores to nations as a peace deal option back to the game?
It's quite ridiculous that such an important thing from previous games got cut from this one.

>have fully powered men at arms levy stack keeping a siege up while I go swat a nearby fr*nchgroid army
>one of his vassals sends a single cavalry levy stack
>it somehow routes an army that outnumbers it 20 to 1

>>2311464
>builds 3 rural clothmakers in your path
Nothing personnel your highness

>kick France's ass
>end war taking multiple provinces worth 500k+ pops
>anti-France coalition declares war
>France takes expands further into the HRE
>repeat forever
I AM TIRED OF THIS HYW
AHHHHHHHHHHH

>>2311499
Can't you just join the coalition and keep taking their land with an ever juicier CB?

>>2311500
Cant join it while I have a truce.
All I know is it's irritating.
I own 120 settlements in France+ 35-ish between two Vassals, and I stole Flanders from them, and Burgundy got free from them, but they STILL are a higher GP than me, still have more population and still have higher base tax
However, I will continue to beat them until they die for good.

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>Finish my 2nd Russia campaign (not counting all the test attempts)
>Maybe I should try a different country
>Start 3rd Russia campaign
The region is just too fun. The small start, rapid expansion and low development you need to build a functioning economy on top of gives you a taste of every mechanic EU5 has to offer.

>>2311490
Dont see the problem here

>>2311503
90% of my EU3 playthroughs were probably as Brandenburg, Aachen or Holland

>>2311463
What if EU5 kills the EU saga by being to buggy to play while making EU4 appear too ugly to go back to

>>2311404
I want to leave a negative written review but I already got 200 hours and people will make fun of me

>>2311404
https://www.reddit.com/r/EU5/comments/1psyidh/i_lost_my_entire_army_350k_due_to_a_shattered/
No wonder if unironically game breaking stuff like this keeps happening

>>2311467
> For example, returning land in peace deals was a very useful feature in Eu4 for both game play and role playing. However it is not present in the peace deal system.


>Valid point.. adding for the 1.2/1.3 plans.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/holiday-tinto-talks-2-29th-of-december-2025.1892336/post-31023270

>>2311502
Cant you wait and join the coallition when the truce ends

>>2311514
>something that could be done by integrating a mod has to wait two more patches
Jesus Christ

>From my perspective, the levy/professionals was about fixing bugs and major complaints. As I have mentioned in the past though, these fixes were "changing" things too much
The "" around changing is really funny to me

>>2311521
Johan seems physically incapable of admitting he did something wrong. Killing off levies and making 100% cavalry armies brokenly op is no biggie, your fault for making me do it anyway.

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>france casually joining the HRE
what the fuck

>>2311530
vghhh the legacy of charlemagne restored

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Le funni 1444 date

>>2311530
Do we have a button to add provinces to the HRE like in eu4? I didn't manage to find it

>>2311530
So HRE is saved since outsiders aren't blobbing?

>>2311536
More like the predator evolved to become a parasite and feed from within

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>>2311534
>I didn't manage to find it
This sadly applies to so many things with this game's UI, I don't know what they were thinking when designing it
>>2311536
Until I manage to figure out how to enforce perpetual peace, the members can still eat each other, even with the golden bull enacted

>>2311520
we have to HEAVILY QA it

>>2311541
>Making Johan throw a tantrum again

>>2311538
>, I don't know what they were thinking when designing it
Starting with a really neat design, kept adding stuff to click and then you got this mess of an UL

>>2311530
Is there any actual benefit to joining the HRE if you're France? I think you can do iterant court memes and move your capital to a province that's already within the HRE and after that you just add provinces all the way back to Paris. I guess you get to blob without having to fight the emperor every time? Or you could become emperor and create a giga-HRE

>>2311547
I think you answered your own question

>you can steal research points with spies
huh

>>2311551
they've to kill you now for knowing that

>>2311450
The nile delta region is rich as fuck and got a very high population. Their downside is the shitty climate making their pop cap lower and thus they will peak faster and the rest of their land is shitty.

>make age 1-2 infantry cost as much as as age 1-2 cavalry
>make the cavalry stronger
>make cavalry cost less
working as intended btw

>>2311551
always been the case, but you can only do it against nations with more researched tech than you
in general the pope, small theocracies and OPM tech fast because of their higher general literacy, it also incentivize you to not research too much old tech at a discount and focus on the newer more expensive techs

>>2311562
you can build irrigation everywhere though

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>>2311563
prepare your anus.

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Looks like you CAN enforce perpetual peace in the HRE through parliamentary debate.
The good: no internal wars, my monthly +0.4 imperial authority is safe.
The bad: it also applies to the emperor, and I'm literally cucked out of wars for three years.

What system can be added so the ai does play aggressively but doesnt run away with Europe if they are on a big nation?

>>2311379
Maximize income, minimize expenses. Trade and subjects make good money, other than that make sure you have maxed out peasant and burgher taxes. On the expenses side make sure to sit at 100 legitimacy or at 0 and don't over invest into stability. Invest into RGO's and good urban buildings.

>>2311562
>peak faster
It's not really possible to even "peak" in most regions and population in a single location beyond like 100k is all wasted, you get 1 level of RGO and 1 more building when the extra 50k could just be another city with 150 levels of buildings instead.

>>2311582
HRE just needs a strong emperor and mechanics to protect itself against outsides. AI expansion is not a problem and arguably too low in every other region except the feast where Hungary, Bohemia, France, England and Naples kill the hundreds of HRE minors. Poland never does anything, Russia never forms, GB almost never forms, Spain never forms, Ottomans never do anything etc.

>>2311582
overextension

>>2311582
massively increased antagonism gains for taking HRE territory that you don't have a proper claim on

>AI starts war to put someone on a throne
>doesn't put them on the throne because the antagonism cost of putting said person on the throne is higher than the limit in the defines file
lol

>>2311551
>you can kill characters with spies
>except the king
Feels bad

>>2311591
maybe they don't want you to land your wife and kill her every time she gets 40+

>>2311591
can't you assassinate rulers? thought I saw that option before

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>raise levies for first time in few hundred years
Wú lad!

>>2311569
Knowing Johan cav will now be useless.

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>>2311533
why would you want any of this clutter, what is wrong with you?

>>2311503
For me it's China, having such high pop count while not being a smelly indian is fun.

saw Anglicanism spawn in the wild, but it's a shitty very ahistorical game, with tons of rando dynastys and and this guy who doesn't even have his capital in london.

>>2311620
>bro why would you want to be able to see things immediately in a small box in the corner instead of having to jump through 8 menus and 43 nested tooltips to see one modifier value?????
we'll never know...

>>2311630
can you post a screenshot of this anglican country that doesn't have his capital in london?

>>2311617
marh them all onto some mountain to increase CPU performance

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>>2311632
fuck, I meant to, here.

>>2311631
so you can't navigate the menus and must use hyperbole to make your arguement work.

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>>2311633
Rather just conquer india and delete all their infastructure with food imports turned off DESU.

>>2311631
Everything in this game is cluttter. At least that is useful clutter.

>>2311634
sovl....
london is a decadent hellhole

>>2311582
make antagonism effective by always giving it to the antagonist's enemies and not merely by proximity. very easy fix.

>>2311565
They got arid hot that give them nothing, Ottomans should get a mix of mostly med and oceanic climate that give them 150% and 100% more population. I don't think a couple of irigations can offset that.

>>2311584
by peak, I mean the pop growth from free space diminish faster and the population hit the cap faster. Especially easy to happen with slavery
You can notice this because at the start of the game, they have a slightly higher population than France but after a century, France over take them easily(assuming no blobbing). Their base high pop give them a strong demographic growth until it slow down. France has a population that is spread around and got some of the best land in the whole game meaning they will keep that free space growth for far longer.
Not that egypt suck, but if you just sit on your ass and get rich off selling sugar, everyone will start to catch up.

>>2311585
Fuck off you dumb nigger. Artificial unfun mechanic for eu4 toddlers.
Integration is already slow and give -50% unrest to the pops, if you annex a ton of land then you will deal with a ton of rebels which some countries could back. Also the simple way around it is to make vassals which the AI does.

>>2311591
you can at 100 but enjoy the malus that come with doing that shit

>>2311634
>where should we move our capital to if not London?
>just somewhere that doesn't smell like piss. whatever faken hamlet

Can somebody pls explain to me the EU5 equivalent of the Treaty of Tordesillas?

First of all, what are the "criteria the Location must fulfill" (verbatim from the game) so that I can shift the line?

Also, how do I see where the line is?

And finally, is there any way for me to ignore that shit and do whatever I want as Portugal, or do I have to break RP and convert to Protestantism or something? Cos right now the tooltip says I can't colonise, because I'm Catholic and bound by that stupid treaty.

Overall, do you have any tips for the colonisation treaties and how to deal with them so that I come out on top?

>>2311635
Anon, you might be able to make a retarded sarcastic post, but you aren't able to convince anybody that the UI in this game is terrible.

>>2311700
Covering up so much of your screen for unimportant or easily accessed values is retarded, even if the game has a bad ui your mod is even worse and your retarded takes will just lead to more dumb changes like the parliament icon needing to be a glowing green to cater to blind retards like yourself.

>>2311631
Yeah no, that's a really bad mod, somehow even worse than the base game. That information is not useful, there's no situation in the game where you need to know your research point generation to a decimal at a glance, that will save you maybe 0.5 seconds across a whole playthrough. More information just for the sake of it isn't always good.

>>2311704
retard

>>2311704
It's not even more information, it's "I'm too retarded to hover over the research button to see the exact numbers" it's just moving a bunch of numbers infront of your face for no good reason when that screen space can be used for looking seeing more of whats going on on the map. Also the coloured buttons look awful, are people really so blind they need everything to be bright and shiney or else they can't distinguish things?

>>2311519
I'm almost always in another war when that happens, and that's when Fr*nce tries to backdoor me, only for me to kick their teeth in for the 100000th time.

>>2311675
i think this a very good idea not only because it's mine. it utilizes existing mechanics, is easy to implement, easy to tune with one parameter, easy to understand, dynamic, reactive instead of restrictive. it addresses the problem of ai seemingly lacking any balance of power awareness with regards to its main competitors (rivals). currently england just does not care if france annexes all of iberia, because iberia is distant from england. that completely flies in the face of history and game sense.

give input.

>>2311698
I was never able to do anything with it other than attempt to hurry on a resolution. I never noticed any issue with just ignoring it so I’m not sure what it’s supposed to do

>>2311675
That doesn’t work because no one in Europe should care if Russia annexes some central Asian shithole

>>2311792
if I declare Russia my rival then yeah I should care what they do

>>2311582
>>2311675
>>2311792
>>2311822
I don't know if it would be an unfun mechanic but you could get diplo penalties based on your GP score, if you become too powerful then other GPs will become more likely to want to gang up on you to preserve some balance of power.

>>2311698
It doesn't do anything, every AI country (including your colonies) will instantly ignore it with no penalties, and after you ratify it will automatically fade and the situation in end in ~10 years.

New Tinto Talk about railroading: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/htt-3-30-12-2025-where-do-we-stand-on-the-railroad-debate-for-eu5.1892558/#post-31024165

Johan has indicated that the following are things you should be seeing basically every game and they will keep tweaking until we start seeing this:

>The Holy Roman Empire should not get gobbled up immediately, but keep being fragmented until the last age.
>Hordes should fall apart and disappear by the mid game.
>The Ottoman Empire that grows deep into the Balkans and Levant, creating a France-level-threat in the south east.
>Russia should unite and go towards Siberia.
>Western European powers should build strong colonial empires.
>Europe should grow more advanced and powerful than the rest of the world as ages go by.

>>2311843
Godhan does it again

>>2311843
why did you delete the line about habsburg empire forming to counterbalance france in the west and ottos in the east?

>mamluks builds worlds only heavy
>china collapses into their 50th century this century and mamluks become a great power
>end up naval hegemonm
>fabricates dismantle hegemony
>90% less take land cost
nothing personal Nileniggers

>>2311676
>by peak, I mean the pop growth from free space diminish faster and the population hit the cap faster.
That's a non issue because you already have the population. You want pop growth to get population, if you have it it no longer matters.
If you need more locations to bloat your population then simply blob. It's far easier to do that if you already have high pop in your core.

>>2311698
>First of all, what are the "criteria the Location must fulfill" (verbatim from the game) so that I can shift the line?
No idea lmao
>Also, how do I see where the line is?
You can see it if you click the situation and just check the map. Some of the locations will be colored based on if they are east or west of the point. Notice that America and Africa are in play so likely if the "point" is in Brazil or something all provinces in Americas are one color and then African stuff is another. It requires you to have explored these areas which is not given.
>And finally, is there any way for me to ignore that shit and do whatever I want as Portugal
Yes you can just break the agreement immediately, which is what all parties usually do.
You can also convert if you like.

>>2311582
There should be a threat modifier independent of antagonism. France's weaker neighbors should see that they're mutually threatened and form a defensive pact

>>2311843
I kneel.

>>2311826
I liked this idea from previous games

>>2311843
Blackpillers btfo

>>2311919
They'll need to start dumping hard nerfs and penalties to non-europeans to make euros stronk.

>labmber gets blown out on forums
>posts here about how he got blown out
many such posts

bet lammy would pay big money to see Muscovy railroaded to failure

>>2311946
Lord Lambert is right for once.

>>2311950
broken clock and all

if Timmy invades Anatolia (another thing that never happens) and the Kubdaids still exist, he should secure most of it for them
>why?
his whole justification was restoration of Seljuk rule and they're ruled by a branch of the Seljuks so obscure that their Wikipedia page is only available in Turkish and Russian

>>2311946
This guy is such an insufferable fag. He literally thinks that the less history you see happening in the history game, the better it is. Oh, unless it's about his pet autistic topic, calling the Byzantines the Romans, then he'll rant and rave about how history must be adhered to 100% of the time.

>>2311955
Timmy was just making shit up as he went.

>>2311967
point still stands
>Why am I doing this? To restore Seljuk rule, obviously! The legitimate rulers of R--
>Hey, Mr. Timur? I'm a Seljuk. Can I be the ruler?
>...huh?

>>2311955
His justification for the invasion of Anatolia was "Why the fuck are you trying to get tribute from one of my Emirs?"

>>2311955
>justification
on declaring with conquest casus bellis you should be prompted for justification. it's a choice of similar gravity to the one you have to make when sending an insult.

>>2311843
Every time I read Johan's posts it feels like he only ever uses one sentence on a topic that really needs three. I get it: map painting game players are autists and the devs must be even more so, but that's all the more reason to have someone help him out. Things like
>Russia should unite and go towards Siberia
Yes most people agree, but you're the ones who know what making that happen could look like. Are they planning an economic rebalance that makes fur a lucrative enough goal to encourage expansion? Do they think the proto-Russian countries need more proximity buffs to encourage blobbing? Are they tweaking Mongol culture to make coring their lands easier?

>>2311956
>History autist
>Is autustic
Water is wet

>>2311984
These are aspirational. He doesn't know how it will happen, only that they will make it happen.

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>>2311988
>These are aspirational
>He doesn't know how it will happen
This is my biggest fear for the game. That the plan is that there is no plan.

>only that they will make it happen
1.0 release btw, no early access here

>>2312005
No such thing as early access. If you can gain access to the product by giving them money then it's released and potentially final product. Early access is one of the biggest things jews have succesfully sold goys.

>>2311956
I thought you were exaggerating because I don't pay attention to him but he literally calls them the Romans in his post lol

>is literally the Eastern Roman Empire
>UHHH AKSHULLY THEY WUZNT ROMANS OKAY???? DA GERMINS WUZ ROMAN N SHEEIT!!!!!!

>>2312007
I think early access is a scam too, but knowingly labeling an early access (IE incomplete) product as a full release is even more of a scam

another game to be steered by internet consensus. very sad - a certain shipwreck.

>>2312010
He is so remarkably autistic it almost becomes based. He went on a rant about how he refuses to play Muscovy because Russians are inherently subhuman.

Can a railroadfag explain the appeal to me? I get not wanting dumb shit like hordes lasting to the end of the game or the pope going on a colonizing spree every game but to me those are a symptom of broken gamplay. I could see how somebody who's just going to play a couple of campaigns and be done with the game might have a better time with a heavily railroaded game, but these people advocating for it on the forums are, I assume, the kind of people who are going to be playing this game for hundreds if not thousands of hours

>>2312018
On the forums? Do you have a screencap?

>>2311956
Kek I await the day I see my username called out here

>>2312010
He has a video where he absolutely SEETHES that there is an option to let the game call them Byzantium instead of forcing them to be called "Roman" (even "Eastern Roman" is unacceptable to him) for an hour and just absolutely fumes at anyone and everyone who thinks otherwise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVAXFM8UT0g [Embed]

the name of byz displayed should be whatever the player tag called them historically. to my limited knowledge that'd be some variation of 'greek empire' for most of the west and 'rome' for muzzies.

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Haha, Lambert you fat simulationist retard. Bet your neckbeard ass would want the simulation to EMERGENTLY result in the destruction of Russia and rise of ebin KYIV SLAVA UKRAINI all the time. Can't have proper history HAHA

Mogged hard by Johan pleading his allegiance to railroadGODS.

TRVE patriots are in control.....

>>2312036
You are just as autistic as he is.

>>2312038
And you are Lord Lambert, deliberately entering this thread to seethe.

>>2312019
Maybe I'm underestimating the autism of the average pdxplazafag but I don't believe there are very many hardcore railroadfags who just want to watch timelapses for hours. I really think that there's a misunderstanding between people who think that railroading means HoI4's historical focuses only setting and people who think that railroading means that some kind of Russian state should form and that some Anatolian power should dominate the Eastern Med most of the time.

>>2312040
He's an autistic fuck too.
You both are.

>>2312041
I'd be fine with missions style railroading.

>>2312044
Well, you know, that's fine by me. Lambert is still a fat retarded subhuman.

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>>2312020
it was on his discord. I don't think I have screenshots of that specifically. The dude says some crazy shit on there.
He called a Paradox moderator an insipid retard who had "Power over him." for forcing him to change his Ukraine flag siggy.
Paradox continued to pay him even after this.
As I said, his autism is so powerful it becomes based.

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Simulationfags openly state they want the history game to have as little history in it as possible. Talk of "railroaders want the same timelapse each time!" is a red herring to try and make opposing them sound unreasonable.

This is a solved problem. EU4 had enough railroading to let most historical events happen but they sometimes failed, adding variety. Pretending people want some strawman, same result every time outcome is just a weak attempt at covering for how retarded what they want is.

>>2312054
Why not just play civ on the earth map at that point?

>>2312047
I don't watch him. I'm more of a Zlewikk man myself.

>>2312058
For me its watching Florry lose his mind while his leader kept getting assassinated multiple times a year leading to endless civil wars and rebellions all while still expanding.

>>2312058
I don't watch Soibert either. I watch TheStudent & LemonCake mainly.

>>2312063
I can't watch Lemon cause his voice puts me to sleep.

>>2312060
I wish florry had started making edited videos like he said he would. Simply don't have time for livestreams

Nestled tooltips are messing with my brain, now I hover over 4chan's replies hoping to be able to read replies to the reply of a post.

>>2312065
You can't cram all of florry's hilarious antics into a 30 minute video.

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>entire country is a cloth-paper-book giant factory
do peasants eat books or what

>>2312074
You also get to eat the sheep when you shear them for some reason

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>>2312054
>>2312056
Look, it should be entirely possible for African uh peasants to conquer Europe, right?

>>2312076
Why would you think you wouldn't be able to eat the sheep if you shear them?

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Whats the best army comp ratio now that things will be settled for a couple months? I know heavy cav are still really strong but i saw people mention they nerfed them just a little that having some normal infantry mixed in helps?

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>I'm being sieged by ELVES

>>2312089
Spam heavy cav still. I stomped france's army as netherlands when I was outnumbered ten to one.

>>2312087
You could do that but the wool doesn't grow back after you eat it

>>2312089
Cav hasn't changed yet.
Full pure cav stacks are still the strongest option.

>>2312095
But it does on the baby sheeps. Unless you think they are eating sheep that haven't bred yet? Do you even understand animal industry?

>>2312097
>>2312093
Okay sounds good. What about canon? I know you still want some for sieges at least.

>>2312089
Full cav all flanks full frontage for combat armies
IDK about sieging but I'm using a bunch of inf + a few cannons + an auxiliary
I don't really know if it's optimal, it works for me

>>2312100
if you assault with regular inf you'll take any fort, no need for cannons

>>2312099
Baby sheep grow their coats back after you eat them? What are you saying my man?

>>2312105
You don't eat the babies you dumb fuck.
Learn how animal husbandry works.

>>2312109
Read your own posts

>>2312103
>>2312102
Ahh so people have been running a cav army to murder then some inf or canon to siege? I honestly haven't paid much attention to the army makeups till now cause it was changing up so much at the start.

>>2312110
ESL detected.

Countries that should be nerfed:
Bohemia
Korea
Kyiv
Golden Horde
Mamelukes

Countries that should be buffed:
Austria
Ottomans
Muscovy

>>2311071 (OP)
Why do Russian states just never colonize the east, I was just doing this myself as Korea

>>2312115
Just investing a bunch in a professional army is enough desu but cav is still king. This game would be hell if the AI actually put as much money into regulars as their economy could support.

>>2312118
Its Kiev. Say it right faggot.

>>2312117
Me:
>You could do that but the wool doesn't grow back after you eat it
You, in response
>But it does on the baby sheeps
Explain how this makes any sense

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>Half of the content is modifiers, so nobody cares
>Other half is events. For those events to fire you need to fulfill specific conditions you don't know about unless you look at the files of the game
>Situations suck and are so broken most of them don't work
>Every country feels exactly the same. Except the ones that are broken
>Achivements are the most milquetoast stuff ever made
Dead game.
Buy the DLC lol

>>2312100
For the first two ages with guns you need to put them in the rear or in flanks filled with cavalry. Otherwise they get to the front and dies

>>2312127
Read the rest of the post instead of cherry picking.

>>2312128
>Other half is events. For those events to fire you need to fulfill specific conditions you don't know about unless you look at the files of the game

Good. Obfuscation breathes life in this genre

>>2312136
Practice your language skills.

>>2312142
You first, ESL.

>>2312140
nah, that's dumb
try playing eu4 with a mod that hides missions until you complete them

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>>2312118
>>2312122
It's actually ReichskommiSSart KYIV tyvm.

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>tribe
>supreme court
big thonk

>>2312159
The whole tribal/non tribal distinction is pretty whacky. A OPM with 1 city should cease being a tribe

>>2312103
this will cause death for your pops and will backfire if you are on a campaign far from locations that can reinforce
I don't know the assault mechanics that well as far the numbers goes but if it got more than 650soldiers in it, im not rushing unless I can't wait

>>2312128
>annoyed girl
>girl
I might be a faggot but I know you are a bigger faggot because you post cropped yaoi porn and probably play goi$

>>2312180
>cropped yaoi porn
Dare I ask how you found this out?

It's time to admit that EU5 needs missions.

>>2312175
Speaking of, it always says I will fail an assault. How am I to know if I will succeed or not?
How much standing army infantry do i need to assault forts? I assume you can't really assault with levies.

>>2312175
>losing pops
Like this guy says
>>2311584
Everyone beyond 150000 pops in your cities are just useless eaters

>>2312181
It is very clearly a boy

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>>2312180
Kaname gets a boyfriend and gets to get lovingly fucked every night wearing girls clothes. What about you, niggy?

>>2312182
X Respectfully Disagree

>>2312190
I dont want yo have a boyfriend,I dont want to wear girls clothes and I dont want to be fucked by guys

>>2312118
I want buffs for more Tier 2 European countries. HYW ones like Brittany, Flanders, or Aquitaine, or HRE regions like Franconia, Saxony, or the Hanseatic League (Building based countries are such a joke. Watch them never even talk about them until it's time for their DLC). Everyone is watching to see how Tinto saves the HRE so they'll 100% buff Austria in 1.1 in addition to nerfing Bohemia.

>>2312128
Thank you for paying 85 ducats for access to the Europa Universalis 5 Content Platform. Every country is technically playable! Please wait to purchase your favorite country's DLC before expecting it to be interesting.

>>2312180
>>2312188
Maybe enough internet for today, champ

I want to be anschlusched by grossgermany

>>2312196
Don't try to gaslight me, that is not how female faces are drawn

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>>2312202

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>Sforza dies before a single one of his events fires
Did i get rng cucked out of getting ambrosia republic.

>Popup for 3 secconds.
>Suddenly in debt for 50k.
I hate scaling.

>>2312128
>>Every country feels exactly the same. Except the ones that are broken
Ask me how I know you've only been playing in Western Europe. Game plays very differently between actual different parts of the world
>2312182
(You)