How is your EU3 Game going?

[Dachs]

Okay to get Imperialism what do you need (I take it its a government tech level). In my game as Leinster Scotland only has on province left thanks to my ally England. I now have 6 provinces, yeah!

The absolute monarchy government.

 

[Metromonkey]

Well it took me about 1 hour to play 30 years, so it can be a while. Okay to get Imperialism what do you need (I take it its a government tech level). In my game as Leinster Scotland only has on province left thanks to my ally England. I now have 6 provinces, yeah!

To get Imperialism you have to be one of five government types:

1.Absolute Monarchy which becomes available at Government tech level 27.
2.Republican Dictatorship which becomes available at Gov tech 28.
3.Enlightened Despotism which becomes available sometime in the 50s I think (I remember researching it right towards the end of my recent game)
4. Revolutionary Empire or Republic. Again these become available in the 50s and they are also a pain to get. To trigger it you have to have less than 1 stability, huge war exhaustion, less than 0 prestige and then you have to keep it like that long enough for an event to fire which increases the amount of rebels and even then still you have to not go over 1 stability and not destroy all the rebels.

The speed I usually play on is 5 and I pause it whenever something important happens. If I'm at war I'll have the speed at 3.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Yeah, EUIII games take a while. Farthest I've ever gotten was 1580s in a Venezia > Italia game, and only stopped that because of HTTT; but beyond that I've never gotten very far past 1500. (I lose interest in my games too fast, but never really want to play later starts.)

What speed do people generally play on? I'm usually on 4 except during wars when I turn it down to 3, or occasionally if I'm waiting for something (say, for my regency council to go away) up to 5.

I've finished a couple game before (1822), but most don't end very well for me. It's either economic collapse or infamy limit that gets me.

But as for speed, how do you play on 3? I mean for me it's 5 for when nothing's happening, pause for when a pop-up comes up (unless it's just a Trade League thing),
and 1 for wars. How do you play 3 for wars? There's so many crucial decisions to be made in such a short amount of time, I would kill myself if I had to do it at 3 speed.

 

[Dachs]

Usually I do 2 for wars with frequent pauses.

 

[T_F]

But as for speed, how do you play on 3? I mean for me it's 5 for when nothing's happening, pause for when a pop-up comes up (unless it's just a Trade League thing),
and 1 for wars. How do you play 3 for wars? There's so many crucial decisions to be made in such a short amount of time, I would kill myself if I had to do it at 3 speed.

Maybe that's why I'm not a very good player ^_^
I do have a lot of notifications set to pause on popup (like when a battle ends), so that helps; but maybe I should slow down.

 

[Keroro]

I've played through to be end on vanilla once - it took an age. Maybe two ages. A long time anyway. I tend to play on speed 4 most of the time, on my machine that goes by a day a second. When nothing's happening I ramp it to 5 and pause regularly. I find nothing wrong with speed 4 when there's a war, as long as you keep track of all the fronts and pause often.

In a way is reminds me of Baldur's Gate or Neverwinter Nights. The ability to pause renders the speed setting fairly unimportant to me.

 

[remake20]

@remake: You're new, and playing Leinster? You're brave ^_^
Those CBs are only in HTTT. If you've got anything else, everything gives you a generic 'casus belli'. Except Sphere of Influence, Colonialism, Dishonourable Scum (I think), Alliance and the missions; which are all HTTT features. (The missions aren't, getting CBs from them is.)

What speed do people generally play on? I'm usually on 4 except during wars when I turn it down to 3, or occasionally if I'm waiting for something (say, for my regency council to go away) up to 5.

I hated how with more territories you had to defend them all, it was a little too complicated for me, so I wanted to try something a bit smaller. Anyway is the country select screen I took the difficulty down to about half, and now own almost all of Ireland and half of Scotland. Oh and something else interesting, nothing yet has happened, but Castile and France are at war. How exiting.
As far as speed goes I usually play on 5 all the time, I'll slow it down if I'm at war, but I usually go to war with people that I don't have to worry about an invasion. Unless I really need to I play at 5 with pauses.

As another question, has anyone tried building a huge empire going to war with a smaller country (like Argon), saving, then loading the game up as Argon? You can sell provinces, but can you buy them too?

 

[NBAfan]

Are all those available in the vanilla?

Guys, how long do you estimate it takes you to play through a EU III game? It seems to take forever. I mean, I've been playing this one game for like 4 hours and I'm only 20 years in or something like that. I haven't gone past around 1525 because I fail, but by then I've played for like 15 hours at least. I always wonder if I don't fast forward enough.

My games take about three weeks to 2 months. I like an epic game like this. I usually play on speed 5 untill a war or something like that.

 

[Tee Kay]

Started another game as France, a nice relaxing game. It's amazing how quickly one goes from having a "very bad reputation" to becoming a "dishonourable scum", "worse than dishonourable scum" and "hated by the entire world". At this point (And I've only just finished conquering Belgium!) I was excommunicated. England attacked me followed by Castile a year later. Fought off their invasions (as well as the ones from the warring HRE states; I am Emperor by virtue of having vassalized three of the electors at swordpoint) They attacked again (similar timing) when the truce expired. This time both England and later Castile expended all their forces trying to invade France, leaving their respective homelands undefended... Anyway, I decided to be generous.

 

[remake20]

Does anyone here have Xfire that they could watch a live broadcast and give me some tips?

EDIT: I just saw this and thought it might be fun to do another one. I can lead it, but you have to remember I only have vanilla. Anyone interested?

 

[remake20]

Is this a glitch, anyway I was playing as England and I was trying to sell Turk Islands to the Austrians and then all of a sudden I'm loosing 400 duncats a month. What is that about. I'm not at war or anything.

 

[T_F]

Is this a glitch, anyway I was playing as England and I was trying to sell Turk Islands to the Austrians and then all of a sudden I'm loosing 400 duncats a month. What is that about. I'm not at war or anything.

That's.... some kinda bug. -400 a month? That shouldn't happen. (When you go into the ledger, what does it say is causing that expense?)

And sure, go for the AAR!

(@taillesskangaru: An example of why BB means nothing if you're powerful enough.)

 

[remake20]

That's.... some kinda bug. -400 a month? That shouldn't happen. (When you go into the ledger, what does it say is causing that expense?)

And sure, go for the AAR!

(@taillesskangaru: An example of why BB means nothing if you're powerful enough.)

I tried to sell another province as Lienster and the same thing happened, except it was -200 a month. I didn't look, and I didn't save so I don't know, but I still think it was a bug. I'll do the AAR later, wait what does that stand for,, I think it's After Action Report, but that sounds like after a game is done.

 

[T_F]

I'll do the AAR later, wait what does that stand for,, I think it's After Action Report, but that sounds like after a game is done.

Yeah, After Action Report. I think the 'action' is just whatever happens in the update.

 

[remake20]

I'll start one be looking for it soon I'll edit with link. Here it is http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=9002841#post9002841 Everyone join

 

[Love]

Check my great war setting

Me and spain are hated throughout the world. We hate each-other and our only allies is our swordpoint vassals. Moscowy is also huge and bad and has occupied the whole persia. Muscuwy is atm ruled by the king of murun ( )

My infamy is above 100, but it's dropping fast. (I recently conquered sweden and the mamluks.)

A three part war would be awesome. The best would be if muscowy dows spain, in which I would crush muscowy and much later kill spain, they don't have the guts to try to conquer us. My plan is, after the infamy has lowered to get arabia and vianagar.



A force limit Screen shot.

 

[remake20]

K the AAr has started. Look for link above

 

[Joecoolyo]

Check my great war setting

Me and spain are hated throughout the world. We hate each-other and our only allies is our swordpoint vassals. Moscowy is also huge and bad and has occupied the whole persia. Muscuwy is atm ruled by the king of murun ( )

My infamy is above 100, but it's dropping fast. (I recently conquered sweden and the mamluks.)

A three part war would be awesome. The best would be if muscowy dows spain, in which I would crush muscowy and much later kill spain, they don't have the guts to try to conquer us. My plan is, after the infamy has lowered to get arabia and vianagar.



A force limit Screen shot.

Whoa dude, wth? It's the year 1650 and you only have an army of 200,000? I'm playing the HRE and have roughly the same borders (except I own more of Eastern Europe, half of Spain, all of France, and a butt-load of useless colonies), it's the year 1607 and I have a an army of 550,000 men. And I actually watch out for my BB.

EDIT: Though I have roughly the same fleet size.

 

[Love]

Yeah, I forgot to build it up

I started building armies for real when spain broke my alliance. Had to build up the fleet early to crush GB.

 

[remake20]

I started a new game as France and in the first 15 years conquered, Brittany and England. And on normal difficulty. I'm proud.