How is your EU3 Game going?

[SouthernKing]

I'm not DLing until a stable version is out.

 

[Duke of Britain]

Honestly, i think you should've made best use of the holy war CB...considering that you done a cultural shift i can see why you would not use it a lot at the start, but later?
Tough with the added time it probably won't be too hard to do a WC, even whiout crusading a lot.


Also, the base tax actually is very important because it affects your yearly census as well...
And of course, there's efficiency into the play...and the german unification only provices + base tax on the German region.
I wouldn't call that increase low at all.

 

[Antilogic]

The basetax+1 to all provinces in German Region is shockingly so minor (showing that basetax+ is generally negligible); I actually forked a save and saw how much it would increase income, barely raised tax income from 400 to 600 after a few decades (while production is naturally huge at at least 1000 ish).

It is at least noticeable compared to the other unification events: +1 base tax in one province. ONE.

That sucks. Might as well cause my computer to open up a trap-door concealing a punching glove aimed at the crotch.

 

[Antilogic]

You are allowed to tag-switch to Germany multiple times?

Production does become the most significant source of money, especially once manufactories enter the picture. I always figured the science boost plus the population were worthwhile tradeoffs since it won't pay itself off by the end of the game, but I've never really put too much thought into it. I just build them like crazy (once-every-other-year to once-a-year, depending on my income levels).

 

[Duke of Britain]

Well, just to be clear, when I said "barely raised tax income from 400 to 600 after a few decades", I meant a few decades of going back and forth from Papal State to Prussia and Germany (I was King of the Papal State and Pope of Germany) and back again to repeatedly get the +1 basetax in the German region; I only did it to the point that Brandenburg (as a benchmark) had 23 base tax, so about 10 times I think; I guess if I had more patience I could spend the rest of the game trying to match tax income to production income, but there's a world to conquer (but then again, I could be conquering the world while doing shenanigans, but that's approaching Victoria or Civ3 levels of boring micromanagement)!

As for the Holy War CB, I was too busy setting up a bunch of PUs and burning my infamy on CB-free vassalizations for HRE; I did butt heads with the powerful Turks from time to time, but HRE politicking took up most of my infamy (and I was never at zero infamy except at the start).

I suppose I barely notice the yearly census tax (at this point, anyway) because unless I just burned all my money on overpriced, never gonna pay for themselves manufactories, I have an abundance of cash reserves, so the month-by-month money going into research or stab feels more important. Before going superpowered, I tend to have National Bank and a Master of the Mint so I don't really notice cash reserves even then.

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Actually, once I inherit all my current PUs, I think I'll do the shenanigans again while burning infamy to white number level. A few extra taxes can't hurt.

Holy War CB goes after 1650, PUs don't.

Really, the basic of a WC as an European strategy is : Holy War the max you can until 1650, then kill the Euros.

Also, like i said, tax will always be important, it will increase your yearly census tax, giving you more ducats...while also helping (a little) your investments on technology.

 

[W|M]

A rule of thumb is that they stop being worth the investment after costing 3000 gold each.

- Releasing a country voluntarily now removes your cores from their provinces.

lame

Losing those cores means you don't get big prestige hits for keeping those cores which you can't remove for a long time.

 

[Antilogic]

It also means that I can't easily recover Habsburg lands after releasing them temporarily to shift culture to Saxon-dominant for culture shifting for Prussia forming; actually, this would apply to all culture-shifting shenanigans.

Some of us consider that A Good Thing.

 

[Duke of Britain]

It also means that I can't easily recover Habsburg lands after releasing them temporarily to shift culture to Saxon-dominant for culture shifting for Prussia forming; actually, this would apply to all culture-shifting shenanigans.

And what is the sense in that?
You're shifting yourself from Austria to Prussia by abandoning your old lands, so it actually makes perfect sense that the Austrians wouldn't be happy with that and wouldn't accept your rule again that easy

It also prevents exploits.

 

[uat2d]

Spoiler :

Typical Paradox pathfinding:

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I've never had this event, what are the prereqs? It's awesome, I didn't even have a core there!

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I wonder how I lost that:

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Pisa belongs to the Neapolitans!!!

 

[madviking]

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Pisa belongs to the Neapolitans!!!

+52 war ex wat

 

[uat2d]

Yes, that is absolutely insane. Probably if you divide it by every belligerent it's much less though. No wonder, I was fighting Austria, Bohemia, Poland and Lithuania, among others, at once. Scorched Earth can do wonders.

 

[SouthernKing]

I'm bored, give me a country to play as until I decide what my next CK2 game is.

 

[NedimNapoleon]

Bosnia

 

[madviking]

I'm bored, give me a country to play as until I decide what my next CK2 game is.

Count of Gloucester

 

[W|M]

Genoa, preferably in MEIOU.

 

[Radio Noer]

My France game is going well, I converted to Protestantism and immediately began pouring money into stability to get it back up. Declared war on an inner provence and annexed it. Then Burgundy declared on me, I handily took out its armies and took three of it's territories. Great Britain is beating up on Castille but Austria is helping out in the north.

Spoiler :

 

[Duke of Britain]

Picz

Please tell me this is Aragonese Spain...Castille is for derps

Anyway, the third situation happened in history...you lost because your soldiers were tired and exhausted (no morale) so they had to retreat...think for a while about it and it makes perfect sense.

I'm bored, give me a country to play as until I decide what my next CK2 game is.

Brazil in a random save file i could give to you...it's the same that grew to the blob i posted pages ago, but on game start


Or...ARAGON!

 

[Bowsling]

I think the point was that the other guys lost 8 times as many men as him, but his troops retreated, so it was called a loss.

 

[Kyriakos]

Good players always choose Byzantines

 

[NedimNapoleon]

I never played with Byzantium, I hate it, I always play with the Ottomans or Bosnia and I destroy Byzantium.