How is your EU3 Game going?

[Heretic_Cata]

You can save-edit your heir to have adm 6/7 It's no more cheating than sending him to Africa. Also, becoming a republic in your case means enduring a crapload of rebellions for no real gain

Wow, can't believe how easy it is to change the saves.
However this seems like a slippery slope ...

I think i will wait and see the stats on my new heir. (i.e. the third upcoming emperor) And if he has admin skills of 6 and if i don't inherit the 2 PUs i have, then i'll prolly change him. Even so, as soon as the PUs are out of the picture, i'm switching to republic no matter what.

Btw, my current heir has a WEAK claim to the throne - is there anything i can do to fix that ? And how much will this affect me ?

 

[LamaGT]

Wow, can't believe how easy it is to change the saves.
However this seems like a slippery slope ...

I think i will wait and see the stats on my new heir. (i.e. the third upcoming emperor) And if he has admin skills of 6 and if i don't inherit the 2 PUs i have, then i'll prolly change him. Even so, as soon as the PUs are out of the picture, i'm switching to republic no matter what.

Btw, my current heir has a WEAK claim to the throne - is there anything i can do to fix that ? And how much will this affect me ?

I take cheating as repairing AI stupidness or just plain bad luck
The weak claim means that on accession he will have 20 legitimacy, plus you may get stuck in a PU if somebody with vastly more prestige than you claims your throne. No way to repair it unless he dies unfortunately.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

I take cheating as repairing AI stupidness or just plain bad luck
The weak claim means that on accession he will have 20 legitimacy, plus you may get stuck in a PU if somebody with vastly more prestige than you claims your throne. No way to repair it unless he dies unfortunately.

The 20 legitimacy on accession won't be a problem i think. I usually have 85-95 prestige and am dominating my religious group, so no one can claim my throne prolly.

Btw, i just posted a tech map of Europe. And just thought FU NAVARRE for being the top dog in technology. And i conquered and annexed them.
Now i can recruit uber awsome units plus the tech in europe went down !

 

[uat2d]

The relations thing and trust seem to be the issue, since wars with others seem to put dents in those.

Relations as well? Dude, if they're below 190 you have absolutely no right in complaining that you're not inheriting!

Also, try to keep your infamy below 10 at all times, infamy can really screw up your diplomacy and your chances of inheriting.

This will make me even more backward than the rest of europe.

Don't worry too much, just keep on building those production and trade buildings, not spending a lot of money on the military if you're at peace and overall spending your money wisely. Play your cards right and you'll catch them after Westernising, no biggie since you hold fairly wealthy land and are going Innovative.

Btw, my current heir has a WEAK claim to the throne - is there anything i can do to fix that ? And how much will this affect me ?

You'll just start with lower legitimacy, nothing Royal Marriages all over the place and a Marshall won't fix in just a couple of years.

 

[LamaGT]

Relations as well? Dude, if they're below 190 you have absolutely no right in complaining that you're not inheriting!

Also, try to keep your infamy below 10 at all times, infamy can really screw up your diplomacy and your chances of inheriting.



Don't worry too much, just keep on building those production and trade buildings, not spending a lot of money on the military if you're at peace and overall spending your money wisely. Play your cards right and you'll catch them after Westernising, no biggie since you hold fairly wealthy land and are going Innovative.



You'll just start with lower legitimacy, nothing Royal Marriages all over the place and a Marshall won't fix in just a couple of years.

Again, all those rules about trust, infamy and so on are just mysticism. I've had extensive experience with PUs (having played MP for months helps that ) and I can tell you that none of that really matters, except possibly the diplomatic skill of the heir. Of course, they may have some effects but they don't prevent you from inheriting or anything like that.

 

[sophie]

You'll just start with lower legitimacy, nothing Royal Marriages all over the place and a Marshall won't fix in just a couple of years.

Yeah, marriages are among the most nonsensical things in this game. It was weird to me when I first started playing EU3 that there was a feature in this game which (to me) objectively had no downside. Then I started getting embroiled in wars that required a lot of diplomats to finagle. Oh . But yeah, RMs are great. In times of peace I delight in turning the entire diplomatic map light blue

 

[Bowsling]

Europa Universalis, or at least the first two hundred years of it, would really benefit from the Crusader Kings character-based approach, IMO.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Relations as well? Dude, if they're below 190 you have absolutely no right in complaining that you're not inheriting!

It's almost never below 190 ! I check every it every month because for some reason they decrease by -25 every now and then. And i avoided most wars just so it doesn't decrease even more !

You'll just start with lower legitimacy, nothing Royal Marriages all over the place and a Marshall won't fix in just a couple of years.

Yea this was easy to fix. Also don't forget the Diwani script giving me legitimacy constantly !

Also, try to keep your infamy below 10 at all times, infamy can really screw up your diplomacy and your chances of inheriting.

Don't worry too much, just keep on building those production and trade buildings, not spending a lot of money on the military if you're at peace and overall spending your money wisely. Play your cards right and you'll catch them after Westernising, no biggie since you hold fairly wealthy land and are going Innovative.

Ok so i saw my next heir, after the succession. He had admin skills of 5. So i cheated and made it 7. And killed the current ruler in a war with Yemen in Africa.
I kept my infamy below 2 ! for so long and didn't inherit squat so i don't care about it anymore. It's at 15 now - and it will stay high if all goes as planned. I will just look after diplomatic relations with the 2 PUs.
I have LOADS of money. (10.000) But westernizing was kinda expensive - i'm at 8000 now. Btw, i have no idea where all this money is coming from because i have -30 gold per month but +600 per year. It must be some yearly income. It's not trade centers since i kinda suck at trade right now.
Westernized immediately after my edited heir took the throne. I thought meh, i have -2 stab, no biggie. But HOLY CHRIST THE EVENTS ARE KILLING ME. My hired artists are dropping like flies and so are my other advisors. I was lucky to employ a western level6 statesman that gave me +2 stab but i'm still barely hanging around +1 stability levels. And my stability raises by one level once every 1.5 years !

When will these events stop ?????????????????????????????? I'm doing my best to avoid the "Resisting western influences" modifier which seems like a bad modifier in the long run.

On the plus side, my research bars are at 0 for all techs yet i'm researching things like crazy !
Also, i recruited only out of the newly conquered Navarre so i now have top of the line infantry and cannons, no one except maybe a few states in germany have better armies than me. I replaced my main army with an elite force recruited in Navarre.

 

[sophie]

Europa Universalis, or at least the first two hundred years of it, would really benefit from the Crusader Kings character-based approach, IMO.

Yeah this. At the very least the marriage system would be appreciated. The RM system in EU3 makes no goddamned sense.

 

[LamaGT]

Accept the resist western influences right away. You have to time military modernization for when it expires, otherwise you'll just keep getting those events

 

[Dell19]

I've played a lot of EU2 and am finally planning on playing EU3 a bit more and wondered if anyone has some tips or a good guide for new players?

For instance on the tech sliders (land, stability etc) what are the usual settings as on EU2 I usually just max land and infrastructure?

 

[Quintillus]

You probably already know about the EU2 Wiki, but the best guide I've found is the EU3 Wiki. The search feature isn't fantastic, but it's generally possible to find nearly any piece of information you need.

For tech sliders, it depends on your strategy. I don't remember if EU2 had the "too advanced" penalty? Basically, if you get too ahead of the times in one area, it costs more to research it. So just focusing on one or two areas can be counterproductive after a certain point. Still, specializing can be advantageous. Land tech is obviously important, with level 18 being the most important of any (level 34 is probably second). Trade tech can be useful as a free-trade country, which can bring in tons of money, but if you don't trade a whole lot, it isn't that useful. Production (which IIRC is like infrastructure) is good economically, but I'd argue that it isn't critical to excel at it. Government lets you get new ideas, so it can be a nice step up to be advanced there. And naval, obviously it depends on what type of empire you have. The only general rule I'd say is, keep an eye on when your rivals are approaching land tech 18, and don't let them get to it too much before you do, or you could be in for some very difficult wars.

Also, stability is kind of very important, with +6 revolt risk at -3 stability and -3 at +3 stability, plus a 10% tax bonus for each positive stability level. The general consensus seems to be that it's desirably to max out stability whenever possible. There are exceptions (it's very expensive to do so with high war exhaustion, for example, and might be better to wait for that to fall - or you might be close enough to a new tech to make it better to do that first), but if for nothing other than the 10% tax bonus (especially year-end tax), it's usually worth prioritizing stability.

 

[uat2d]

What Quintillus said, prioritise Stability (beware that overextension, war exhaustion and infamy highly increase the costs of this) and other than that, don't mint too much unless it's absolutely necessary (otherwise inflation will cripple you in the long run, it's quite difficult to get rid of it even with the national bank, a master of mint and centralisation) and focus on the techs which will benefit you the most depending on your situation.

 

[Peck of Arabia]

While I'm theoretically grasping the more intricate aspects of EUIII, I find in practice, I end up just bludgeoning my opponents. Not quite what the designers had in mind, I'm sure, but very satisfying nonetheless...

I can't see what could possibly go wrong

Also, Despotic monarchy, ftw!

 

[SamSniped]

Oh come now, why move in that direction? I conquered the Italian peninsula, then went northeast and south simultaneously, all the while conquering most of the New World to form the largest colonial empire in my game, all by 1600!

 

[Tee Kay]

Go Granada go!

(Also that Burgundy is scary)

 

[Peck of Arabia]

Oh come now, why move in that direction? I conquered the Italian peninsula, then went northeast and south simultaneously, all the while conquering most of the New World to form the largest colonial empire in my game, all by 1600!

Castile broke our alliance and tried to claim my throne about 40 years previously and so had to be punished (Yes I'm willing to put petty revenge before my country's long term well being). Also, to be fair, Tuscany, Ferrara, Modena and the Pope are vassals, I'm just too infamous to annex them

Lack of CBs doesn't help, I had one briefly on Naples, but I was too busy in Spain at the time and as soon as I get the chance, too, I'm going to 'liberate' Austria's gold producing provinces.

Go Granada go!

(Also that Burgundy is scary)

I think I may have broken Castile ... Oh well

A "practice war" I had with Burgundy suggests they could flatten me at any point- I'm not sure what's stopping them

 

[Angst]

Still the Denmark -> Scandinavia -> HRE game. 1796 D&T. Decided to go full batshit and truly reclaim the Roman Empire before 1821.

Empire

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World map

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Interesting things... Uh... France moved to Canada and stays there as a pseudo-government-in-exile. Had a number of interesting experiences while cleaning up Western France (used to be owned by everyone and their mother while I controlled Eastern France) which included causing a rebellion, fighting alongside it towards the French, fighting it, fighting it WITH the French while fighting a war with the French crazyeye, the rebels claiming territory for the French while allied to me... Was hilarious to watch. Europe's Afghanistan.

Had to end the awesome Anatolian The Knights crusader state because I wanted to reclaim Rome and all. They still have a tongue of land in the middle of the Peninsula.

The great Mexican empire is Metztitlan.

I'm now going to take a break from this and then play some vanilla (or Whole World mod ) gamestuff as an ironman - that is no reloads if wars go terrible. Doing it as Wirtemberg. Wish me luck.

 

[Civ'ed]

that West Coast of North America looks like the streets here after carnival

 

[Angst]

I think it's... Quito, Aztec, California, someAmericanstatewhichisCalifornia'svassal and Brittany.