How is your EU3 Game going?

[Rub'Rum]

I consider it cheating.

I guess to keep on cheating legit, I'll have to remove from my brain the fact that I am now aware of this bug.

Proceeding .... ....

 

[remake20]

That is useful.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Yeah, I've had that happen to me. Except upon releading, I had lost my alliance with the person who called me to arms (it was Scotland, so I didn't lose much ).

 

[Rub'Rum]

I'm playing as Novgorod, why is Muscovy already at land tech 6 and I can barely make it to 5?

Because I have a few empty provinces? Is that all explained by that "harder to research with a lot of territories" thing? How is it possible to play any nation with a lot of empty territories then, how does that make sense, how does one play Sweden or Novgorod or Ming, with all this emptiness.

 

[Tee Kay]

Yeah, I've had that happen to me. Except upon releading, I had lost my alliance with the person who called me to arms (it was Scotland, so I didn't lose much ).

I do this often without losing the alliance.

I'm playing as Novgorod, why is Muscovy already at land tech 6 and I can barely make it to 5?

As Novgorod you should be doing very well in trade and be ahead of most Eastern countries in tech. Maybe the Muscovites are concentrating on land tech at the expense of other areas?

Because I have a few empty provinces? Is that all explained by that "harder to research with a lot of territories" thing? How is it possible to play any nation with a lot of empty territories then, how does that make sense, how does one play Sweden or Novgorod or Ming, with all this emptiness.

I'm confused as well. Some topics on the Wiki and on Paradox seems to be saying that size helps research, while others say size hurts research.

 

[Rub'Rum]

As Novgorod you should be doing very well in trade and be ahead of most Eastern countries in tech. Maybe the Muscovites are concentrating on land tech at the expense of other areas?

I thought that too. But I find that my Center of Trade isn't growing or attracting people, and even the neighbouring states who aren't in any leagues refuse to join my league. I have no idea how to make people come to my league.

My merchants are relatively competitive... But there comes phases where I don't notice but suddenly within a year I lose all of them and it's not worth sending them again and again because of the cost.

 

[Hakim]

There are 2 sliders that affects research. One of them is serfdoom/free subjects which I have maxed to free subjects to get a research boost. Unfortunately it lowers the chance for cultural assimilation.

Do you have any neighbour bonus? The research sliders have a tooltip that tells what contributes to the research. I think being neighbour to small, advanced countries helps.

I have popup-and-pause on loosing a merchant so that I can act on it immediately.

 

[D'Artagnan59]

Brittany.

Started by taking the two provinces from Provence, then driving up WE in Naples. Then, I allied with Burgundy and England and we both dissected France, taking Normandy and Poitou. Then, Burgundy took a large part of southern France. Then, I got a PU with Castille (who owns all of Iberia), and Burgundy took almost all of southern France. This left their capital totally isolated, and I took Paris and Orleans for myself.

I decided to attack the Mamluks (whose territory was conveniently divided in half by the Ottomans) next, taking the Holy Land. Then, we ganged up on Burgundy, with Castile releasing Flanders, me releasing Bar, and England releasing about five or six OPMs. Now, they're divided, and Brittany-Castile's next target is England, once I build my navy up to take Gascony and Ireland.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Ok, another quick question. How to you unite the Holy Roman Empire without everyone declaring war one you? I decided to enact the Revoke Privileges reform and everyone decides to leave the HRE and declare war on me (obviously I'm not going to continue and bail back to my last autosave). But how do you do it???


edit: After reading the Paradox Forums, apparently a high BB will cause what just happened (my BB's at 24), so you can ignore this if you'd like

 

[PhroX]

I'm confused as well. Some topics on the Wiki and on Paradox seems to be saying that size helps research, while others say size hurts research.

Each province adds to your research cost. Of course, each province also increases your income. Thus, in general, adding rich provinces helps research, and adding poor ones harms it.

 

[Rub'Rum]

Each province adds to your research cost. Of course, each province also increases your income. Thus, in general, adding rich provinces helps research, and adding poor ones harms it.

Makes colonization almost worthless unless you go for like... the 3-4 gold provinces.

The more I play EUIII, the less I feel in control of my destiny. Any idea I get, or goal I try to achieve, is thwarted or made absurd by some rule.

I started a game as Novgorod and wanted to invade Scandinavia and colonize North America, just because that was my vision. 100 years into the game I realized colonization is worthless, there is this colonization "range" I can't deal with, my research is slowed down by invading worthless Scandinavian provinces.. etc.

All my original goals are dead and I find myself at war with Muscovy, which I wanted to be friends with. Everybody hates me somehow, even though my infamy is below 5. Basically, the game said "no" to me and put me exactly where it wants me to be with its stringent rules. It told me "what are you trying to do dumbass? No, you're supposed to invade Muscovy and form Russia"). Even the missions ("increase land army to forcelimit" then "invade muscovy") don't seem random and make you just do whatever the hell you're supposed to do.

 

[T_F]

Ok, another quick question. How to you unite the Holy Roman Empire without everyone declaring war one you? I decided to enact the Revoke Privileges reform and everyone decides to leave the HRE and declare war on me (obviously I'm not going to continue and bail back to my last autosave). But how do you do it???


edit: After reading the Paradox Forums, apparently a high BB will cause what just happened (my BB's at 24), so you can ignore this if you'd like

Yeah, but even if you have 0 BB you still get around 4-7 DOWing you. (I tested it by reloading over and over again a while back and the minimum seemed to be 4. Hope they're OPMs and not Austria!)


FIRST MMU GAME.
Playing as Portugal, since I'm rather new to MM overall (though oddly my one MMP2 game was Uesugi > Japan by like the 1520s). So far it's 1498, I own Goa and three provinces in Brazil and am on my way to the 'Golden Empires' (which is rediscovering a whole lot of sea that the Brazil event chain already discovered). The crappy thing is I've had to take out a loan since I discovered China with an automatic and unavoidable 50d cost when I had like 15d; and now I'm in absolutely no position at all to repay it. I really hope the gold provinces in Perú and Central America will fix the problem.

Around the world, not too much has happened. Castilla's only grabbed one province off of Granada so far (dragging me into my only war so far), France is absorbing its vassals (and Brittany), and Burgundy's infamy is very high from annexing a lot of Low Countries minors (but all they have to do is vassalize Lorraine and they'll have connected). The OE is conquering Greece as expected.
It was fun watching the Bahmanids get ripped to shreds by like five different nations.

(edit: ooh, 1000th post!)

 

[Love]

I got lucky and had four opm or otherwise small nations.

 

[Chieftess]

What's the best "Whole World" mod out there? I'm just looking for a map (not concerned with rule mods as much, although I have a couple of event scripts in use). I have the "Whole World" mod, but I don't exactly like its' graphics, and the new provinces don't exactly copy the states quite nicely (if you noticed, the American provinces resemble the US states. Why Rhode Island was doable, but not Delaware, I don't know...). I know there's another mod (don't know the name of it) where you don't see the "Permenant Terra Incognita" at the north pole like in WW.

If not, I'll just add in Delaware, the western states, a few extra provinces in South-Eastern Florida, and fill out Borneo.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Yeah, but even if you have 0 BB you still get around 4-7 DOWing you. (I tested it by reloading over and over again a while back and the minimum seemed to be 4. Hope they're OPMs and not Austria!)

Yeah, I did it again with 0 Infamy. And I had exactly 6 declare war on me. Luckily it was only Savoy, Genoa, Gelre, Friesland, Provence, and Urbino. Not Burgundy or Bohemia (both of which were beasts in my game (I'm Austria). Burgundy became a beast after I took down France and vassalized it and Bohemia became a beast after Poland and Hungary both were conquered respectively).

And I formed the HRE about 15 years later (after my BB went down again just in case), and holy crap is it insane. I'm making over 2,000 a year with nothing to spend it on! It's crazy

Then again this is probably because the HRE I formed was much bigger than what would usually form, since when I did it, everyone in France (which was made up of all this little minor states) was in the HRE except for Augverne (I think that's how you spell it) and England. Bohemia also conquered most of Hungary and the Balkans so I inherited all that too. My empire is crazy!


Edit:

What's the best "Whole World" mod out there? I'm just looking for a map (not concerned with rule mods as much, although I have a couple of event scripts in use). I have the "Whole World" mod, but I don't exactly like its' graphics, and the new provinces don't exactly copy the states quite nicely (if you noticed, the American provinces resemble the US states. Why Rhode Island was doable, but not Delaware, I don't know...). I know there's another mod (don't know the name of it) where you don't see the "Permenant Terra Incognita" at the north pole like in WW.

If not, I'll just add in Delaware, the western states, a few extra provinces in South-Eastern Florida, and fill out Borneo.

HTTT takes away Permanent Terra ingognita if that's what you need.

 

[cardgame]

post a screeny, joe!

 

[T_F]

And I formed the HRE about 15 years later (after my BB went down again just in case), and holy crap is it insane. I'm making over 2,000 a year with nothing to spend it on! It's crazy

Then again this is probably because the HRE I formed was much bigger than what would usually form, since when I did it, everyone in France (which was made up of all this little minor states) was in the HRE except for Augverne (I think that's how you spell it) and England. Bohemia also conquered most of Hungary and the Balkans so I inherited all that too. My empire is crazy!

I had something similar on a Burgundy > HRE game. I beat France several times and released a bunch of OPMs while Emperor and they all wanted to join. Poland and Hungary were also each down to 2 provinces. (France consisted of me, Toulouse, Champagne, and England off in Burgundy and Saintonge - all of which hated me.) I had some fun bashing the Turks and going off and conquering Jerusalem. (I had Kypros thanks to a one-off RM resulting in an inheritance as Burgundy. It was kind of weird.)
(Thanks to the HRE's massive income I had complete dominance of the New World too. Forming the HRE just might need some nerfing )

 

[Chieftess]

Yeah, I did it again with 0 Infamy. And I had exactly 6 declare war on me. Luckily it was only Savoy, Genoa, Gelre, Friesland, Provence, and Urbino. Not Burgundy or Bohemia (both of which were beasts in my game (I'm Austria). Burgundy became a beast after I took down France and vassalized it and Bohemia became a beast after Poland and Hungary both were conquered respectively).

And I formed the HRE about 15 years later (after my BB went down again just in case), and holy crap is it insane. I'm making over 2,000 a year with nothing to spend it on! It's crazy

Then again this is probably because the HRE I formed was much bigger than what would usually form, since when I did it, everyone in France (which was made up of all this little minor states) was in the HRE except for Augverne (I think that's how you spell it) and England. Bohemia also conquered most of Hungary and the Balkans so I inherited all that too. My empire is crazy!


Edit:



HTTT takes away Permanent Terra ingognita if that's what you need.

They actually just renamed it "Impassible Terrain". Sort of the same thing - you can't do anything with it.

 

[Hakim]

Makes colonization almost worthless unless you go for like... the 3-4 gold provinces.

The more I play EUIII, the less I feel in control of my destiny. Any idea I get, or goal I try to achieve, is thwarted or made absurd by some rule.

I started a game as Novgorod and wanted to invade Scandinavia and colonize North America, just because that was my vision. 100 years into the game I realized colonization is worthless, there is this colonization "range" I can't deal with, my research is slowed down by invading worthless Scandinavian provinces.. etc.

That colonization range is the range from your closest province with your core, modified by naval tech level. What you need to do is conquer a province close to America early in the game and then wait 50 years to get a core. Naval tech alone will never get you in range.

For this purpose I always aim to take the Iceland provinces in my first war as Sweden, that could be a viable strategy for Novgorod as well. From Iceland you can reach Greenland or even the American continent directly. Once you have a colony in NA, once it reaches 1000 you will be able to colonize the neighbouring province regardless of naval range. Once you've reached NA you can sell - or give away- Iceland.

All my original goals are dead and I find myself at war with Muscovy, which I wanted to be friends with. Everybody hates me somehow, even though my infamy is below 5. Basically, the game said "no" to me and put me exactly where it wants me to be with its stringent rules. It told me "what are you trying to do dumbass? No, you're supposed to invade Muscovy and form Russia"). Even the missions ("increase land army to forcelimit" then "invade muscovy") don't seem random and make you just do whatever the hell you're supposed to do.

Don't take the missions too seriously, cancel them if they're too bad, otherwise just mind your own business until the opportunity comes along.

When it comes to relations, just keep it up with the means you have, royal marriage and such. If you have an military access then fight their rebels. In IN, I get +5 in relation for a battle and +25 something for retaking a conquered province.

 

[Joecoolyo]

post a screeny, joe!

I would, only if I could find my screenshots folder. Ever since I reinstalled EU3 I cannot find the darn thing...

I had something similar on a Burgundy > HRE game. I beat France several times and released a bunch of OPMs while Emperor and they all wanted to join. Poland and Hungary were also each down to 2 provinces. (France consisted of me, Toulouse, Champagne, and England off in Burgundy and Saintonge - all of which hated me.) I had some fun bashing the Turks and going off and conquering Jerusalem. (I had Kypros thanks to a one-off RM resulting in an inheritance as Burgundy. It was kind of weird.)
(Thanks to the HRE's massive income I had complete dominance of the New World too. Forming the HRE just might need some nerfing )

Yah I agree, it's way too easy and way to beneficial

They actually just renamed it "Impassible Terrain". Sort of the same thing - you can't do anything with it.

Oh, I didn't realize you wanted to do stuff with it, my bad