How is your EU3 Game going?

[Tee Kay]

It seems that this game eats up a lot of ram. I only have 2 gb though. Anyway it has got to a point where saves take more than a minute, and loading the save screen takes around 2. I can see it deteriorating from there as well...
Someone mentioned erasing the achievements content helps. Do you mean erasing the content of the txt, or erasing the actual text file (or even the entire folder?).

I know there's a bug with achievements that makes the save files ultra-mega-huge. Use Notepad++ to open the save files (ordinary Notepad can't handle such large files), find where all the achievements are listed (near the bottom) and delete them all. This means you won't be able to play with achievements, however, though I think it's been fixed in the beta patch now (DL it from Paradox forums )

It helps to delete save files from time to time too, since it takes much longer to save the game and also load the saves menu if you've a lot of saves.

 

[Leifmk]

Playing around with EU3+HTTT (not getting DW until it's been thoroughly patched).

Have one Muscowy->Russia game nearing completion which I've basically "won" in terms of making Russia secure, stomping out the Ottomans entirely, liberating Jerusalem and also engaged in some rather ahistorical oceanic colonization (nearly every island in the Pacific, Australia/New Zealand, and the west coast of North America + a good chunk of the continental interior). Stayed below the Infamy limit nearly the whole time, and no inflation to speak of either. Only a few decades left and I guess I'll just cruise through those. Next Russia game I'll stay away from the ocean and instead try to crush all of Asia (ALL OF IT).

On the side, am a few decades into a pretty silly Castille -> Spain game where my main aim is to take the Americas (ALL OF THE AMERICAS). Crushed Granada in less than a year, then went after Portugal to head off any competition, and decided to conquer Morocco for the heck of it after that while preparing for oceanic exploration. Less than a century into the game, I've got a strong presence in the New World by shipping across troops to crush American tribal civs.

 

[JohnnyW]

I've been enjoying Castille too, but I hate having high infamy. Do I just need to accept it and continue crushing everybody like a ruthless dictator?

 

[Tee Kay]

I've been enjoying Castille too, but I hate having high infamy. Do I just need to accept it and continue crushing everybody like a ruthless dictator?

Pretty much.

In earlier games, if you're strong enough it doesn't really matter so much since you can just crush everyone. IIRC, since HTTT if you've a high infamy you'll keep getting events which raises your revolt risk, making it much harder to keep your gains especially if you have a large empire.

Ways to keep infamy low: hire diplomats, build embassies, vassalize instead of annexing, use casus belli, the "Cabinet" national idea, etc.

 

[Kyriakos]

I know there's a bug with achievements that makes the save files ultra-mega-huge. Use Notepad++ to open the save files (ordinary Notepad can't handle such large files), find where all the achievements are listed (near the bottom) and delete them all. This means you won't be able to play with achievements, however, though I think it's been fixed in the beta patch now (DL it from Paradox forums )

It helps to delete save files from time to time too, since it takes much longer to save the game and also load the saves menu if you've a lot of saves.

Where can i dl the patch from? I cannot find it anywhere in the paradox forums.

 

[Tee Kay]

Tech support forum

(note achievements are disabled for the beta version)

 

[Leifmk]

Yeah, starting lots of wars without proper CB is a bad idea.

Actually in my current Castille -> Spain game I used a silly exploit and attacked Portugal first without a CB, taking as many provinces as I could (they're too big to annex in one war), and only then did the "crush Granada" mission which gives like -20 Infamy (which you'd have to try pretty hard to get that early in the game anyway). That way I only had to live down the infamy from the second war of unprovoked aggression (when I took the last two Portuguese provinces). And against Morocco I had the Holy War CB where you can take provinces/annex for only 25% of normal Infamy, and the Native Americans are going down even cheaper than that.

 

[JohnnyW]

Yeah, starting lots of wars without proper CB is a bad idea.

Actually in my current Castille -> Spain game I used a silly exploit and attacked Portugal first without a CB, taking as many provinces as I could (they're too big to annex in one war), and only then did the "crush Granada" mission which gives like -20 Infamy (which you'd have to try pretty hard to get that early in the game anyway).

lol, it's funny that I did exactly the same thing on a total restart this time (after posting the above). I conquered Granada but didn't offer peace until I declared on Aragon who brought in Portugal. I took 4 from Aragon and 3 from Portugal then annexed Granada. I have 12.7 infamy in late 1403 with an additional 10 provinces!

I'm going to try to form a PU with Portugal to peacefully annex them, but I'll do whatever it takes to get Aragon as early as possible so I can get a core on his capital to form Spain.

 

[Kyriakos]

Another patch question, is 5.1 beta the latest one?

 

[Skwink]

Oh Boy. I'm a total noob to these games, and I'm about to dive into my first full game of EUIII!
I've been playing HOI III, but I got annoyed when I couldn't just randomly declare wars on Nations.

 

[Kyriakos]

Hm, first impressions from Divine Wind patched with 5.1 beta are not good. For some reason the ottomans are directly allied to algiers. This effectively means than unless Castile DW on Algiers they have another pool of men to aid them.
Also i cannot even DW on Candar now, since their ally Karaman is allied to Algiers.

I guess i could always edit the game, but i am dissapointed.

On the positive side the save time is a lot faster now. But i guess i won't be playing another game, untill a later patch (if at all).

 

[Jos Ballenbak]

quick question about DW, how do I "kill" the Golden Horde? the only offers you can make them are gold-related, and I can't see all of their territory (Terra Incognita(I am aware that a conquistador could do the trick, but it is 1455 so no conquest for the new world is activated).

 

[Tee Kay]

Hm, first impressions from Divine Wind patched with 5.1 beta are not good. For some reason the ottomans are directly allied to algiers. This effectively means than unless Castile DW on Algiers they have another pool of men to aid them.

Castile usually DoW Algiers sooner rather than later anyway, and Castile pwns Ottomans+Algiers in any fight (they shouldn't, but that's Paradox for you). So you'd just have to wait.

quick question about DW, how do I "kill" the Golden Horde? the only offers you can make them are gold-related, and I can't see all of their territory (Terra Incognita(I am aware that a conquistador could do the trick, but it is 1455 so no conquest for the new world is activated).

I think if you're at war with the Golden Horde you can uncover their terra incognita. Same with any other country if you're at war with them. Just order your army to march in to the white (note: it takes longer for your armies to reach unknown territory and there might be a large army waiting for you when you get there, so watch out )

 

[Adam7Eight]

Coincidentally enough, I just played a game as Algiers and got my ass handed to me in no time by Castile. Ottomans and Morocco were no help. That was not a fun game.

 

[Dachs]

Hm, first impressions from Divine Wind patched with 5.1 beta are not good. For some reason the ottomans are directly allied to algiers. This effectively means than unless Castile DW on Algiers they have another pool of men to aid them.
Also i cannot even DW on Candar now, since their ally Karaman is allied to Algiers.

I guess i could always edit the game, but i am dissapointed.

Um, it's just more game-balancing to prevent Byzantine revival from being so ostensibly "easy".

 

[Tee Kay]

Coincidentally enough, I just played a game as Algiers and got my ass handed to me in no time by Castile. Ottomans and Morocco were no help. That was not a fun game.

EU3 doesn't do North Africa justice. Barbary corsairs were kick-ass.

 

[Kyriakos]

Um, it's just more game-balancing to prevent Byzantine revival from being so ostensibly "easy".

Well that is a bit too much though, i think. This game is supposed to be fun too, not just an uphill battle Already, before the patch, the intricate system of alliances meant you had to be careful playing as the Byzantines. Imo there was no need for added difficulty, the ottomans by themselves already have a 30K army.

I mean the computer Byzantine Empire never will do anything. But making it impossible for the player to do something too is just wrong. I always take Epirus first, then move on to Candar, then Trebizond, and then the Ottomans. I once tried building my empire without attacking the ottomans, and ended up with Crete, Albania and Achaia as well, but that is pointless since you can only revive the empire by crushing the ottomans, something already only possible realistically if they lose some of their troops in a war with someone else.
I never went the loan way, since it seems to be too dangerous, only once did i take one loan in some game.
And given that so many people seem to play as the Byzantines, there should be some balancing that does not make it impossible for them to rise. I mean you could also ally Trebizond with some powerful force, and then Janina, and the game would effectively be over

 

[Tee Kay]

This game is supposed to be fun too, not just an uphill battle

It should be an uphill battle for the Byzantines.

 

[Leifmk]

I'm going to try to form a PU with Portugal to peacefully annex them, but I'll do whatever it takes to get Aragon as early as possible so I can get a core on his capital to form Spain.

Oh yes, forgot to mention, I had the dumb luck to suddenly inherit the Aragonese throne for free pretty early in the game -> Spain for essentially free.

Now it's still not 1500 yet and I have almost completed the conversion of what used to be Morocco (only a couple provinces still Muslim), have conquered all the Mesoamerican tribes as well as the Creek lands in North America, and am eyeing the Huron tribe for my next victim. Have explored along the coast to the entrance to Hudson Bay in the north, and just past the extreme northeast corner of Brazil in the south -- and now I've got a core in the Canaries, so a large part of that Brazilian coast is in colonial range (and so are several provinces around Newfoundland, counted from Lisbon). Time to adopt Colonial Ventures and go mad, I guess.

 

[Maniacal]

I mean the computer Byzantine Empire never will do anything.

They try, I've seen them (briefly and randomly) gain a few provinces. In my current DW game they keep "respawning" in Kaffa in Crimea and currently hold a few different regions. They are just too small, poor and isolated from allies to do anything.

If you want to survive as the Byzantines yourself you should probably invest in some alliances with strong neighbours.