How is your EU3 Game going?

[sophie]

I lol'd

Touché.

 

[Racsoviale]

GO! DESTROY THE CATHOLIC HERETICS!!

I would if I could, I imagine France could be broken up into 4-5 nice states, but look at the date

(and upgrade to DW ASAP! that ugly map...)

I'm not too fond of some of the mechanics, and another major turn off is how expansions in EU3 is handled in Steam. I cant downgrade if I dislike those changes if I go and buy it

 

[Antilogic]

I try not to go innovative if I'm already of the latin tech group because stab's a pain, but then that just means most of my games end up with me entering the pattern of Free Subjects/Narrowminded :O

I think this works also if you are going for colonies (doesn't narrowminded give you extra colonists or a bonus to colonizing?).

I am trying to switch back after attaining a solid tech lead in one of my games--go Free Subjects/Innovative, then Free Subjects/Narrowminded (planning on using the heresy events to bump myself along quickly). We'll see how it works.

 

[Duke of Britain]

You don't really need innovative to get a tech lead, Free Subjects gives a much better bonus, less penalties, and when you play a trader like Holland or grow enough, you can easily get tech (territories only increase tech cost up to a point, after it, it doesn't increases with territory from what i've heard)

 

[Dachs]

Hooray for Paradox failing to realize that moderation bonuses for sliders turn them from pointless minmax instruments into genuine roleplaying elements

 

[Truronian]

(territories only increase tech cost up to a point, after it, it doesn't increases with territory from what i've heard)

Extra territories always increase tech cost. You're penalized most heavily for territory gains when you're small... 8 provinces nets you a 100% penalty (double cost tech) while each territory after that adds a 'mere' 2.5% to you costs.

More detail here

 

[bestbrian]

Extra territories always increase tech cost. You're penalized most heavily for territory gains when you're small... 8 provinces nets you a 100% penalty (double cost tech) while each territory after that adds a 'mere' 2.5% to you costs.

More detail here

The link is broken, Truronian.

 

[Antilogic]

Hooray for Paradox failing to realize that moderation bonuses for sliders turn them from pointless minmax instruments into genuine roleplaying elements

That's not all--they may have added something like a moderation bonus in Magna Mundi, but in the base game, you always want +/- 5 while you are selecting which side to be on.

So it has a min-maxing tool embedded within a min-maxing tool. It's like a turducken of munchkinism.

 

[Duke of Britain]

Well, in D&T they are different, they influence way more than in vanilla, so in it you wouldn't always want -5/+5.

 

[NBAfan]

Well, in D&T they are different, they influence way more than in vanilla, so in it you wouldn't always want -5/+5.

Mods are awesome.

 

[Arakhor]

What's your opinion of Death & Taxes? I'm always a bit put off by graphical/map overhaul mods.

 

[salty mud]

I didn't think D&T changed the grapbics at all, just gameplay.

 

[Arakhor]

Apparently, the new version includes CanOmer's DAO-Lite map changes.

 

[Dachs]

What's your opinion of Death & Taxes? I'm always a bit put off by graphical/map overhaul mods.

Why would you be put off by a map overhaul when the map so badly needs it?

 

[Arakhor]

Well, previously, all the other map overhauls had required multiple game directories and mucking around with the cache files. Added to that, most of them added Strannik's altered terrain map, which I loathe.

 

[Dachs]

Oh, well, yeah, but that was pre-DW, when everything was more or less crap.

 

[Arakhor]

Maybe I'll try out D&T when I've finished my Scotland->Great Britain game in the Miscmods Dark Europe campaign (Black Death scenario).

 

[Truronian]

The link is broken, Truronian.

Should work now

 

[NBAfan]

Well, previously, all the other map overhauls had required multiple game directories and mucking around with the cache files. Added to that, most of them added Strannik's altered terrain map, which I loathe.

You can just plop the mods in the Mods folder now, no overwriting necessary anymore.
My personal favorite mod is SRI

 

[Duke of Britain]

My personal favorite mod is SRI

It is a nice mod, but i myself don't like many changes (especially not being able to have more than 1 PU at same time)
MEIOU is (Easily) the best mod for DW, D&T comes as second in my opnion.


My first game as a native american...

Considering the Regency is formed up by nobles that just doesn't sounds right...especially considering i have yet to touch that slider

Oh, and my Inca empire sometime after destroying Quito, the last bastard traitor state (a coallition attacked me as Qusqu when i was under a civil war, was damn hard, but i ended up getting WP, even my allies had betrayed me in it)

EDIT :

Yo, my game in D&T with Civ'ed :

Just after inheriting both Castille and Burgundy! (i was Aragon)
I have also annexed Granada, but he had to leave

I had 4 provinces in Brittany thanks to Burgundy, but i'm selling them to France.