How is your EU4 Game going?

[Quintillus]

It's fitting that the Ottoman threat to Vienna should be so drastically reduced in the year 1683. It fits in so nicely with historical events, and much more so than the Ottomans falling in 1420 as in EU3.

And that is a devastating blow. Cuts their European possessions off quite well. Though they may yet attempt to re-annex Byzantium, perhaps?

 

[calad]

Briefly started a new game as the Ottomans yesterday. There's... there's a lot going on? I was kinda overwhelmed trying to figure out what I should be doing first. I know the Ottomans are supposed to expand but it's hard to know which direction to expand in at first, they're literally surrounded by possible targets and it seems like going too far either way will put into contact with powers that I'm not sure I can handle, Mamluks in the south and Poland/Austria/Hungary in the north. Guess this will be a trial and error deal where I may need to start over a few times until I know how to properly deal with it all.

About Ottomans. First idea must be diplomacy because you need as high as possible diplomatic reputation. Without diplomacy idea your aggressive expansion penalty will be high all the time and gets lower really slow. Also dont think it is possible by year 1568 to have all historical lands. I have tried and you have to be really lucky to succeed that. Or really good.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

What's this ? haha

Spoiler :

Is it a bug or is it like this in all games ?

There's also PROV1999 to the south of it. Obviously i had to colonize them immediately.

 

[Nintz]

In my game that's Christmas Island and the Cocos Island. Not PROV1998/1999. Validate your install maybe?

 

[Heretic_Cata]

All the other provinces are ok.

Overall i didn't have bug/strange happenings. Just some disappearing rebel armies and some crashes once.
The 2 provinces is a new one !

 

[Civ'ed]

Check the localisation files. Might be a problem there.
Can you play Ironman? If not, reinstall.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

I dunno if i can. Never bothered to check. But i will reinstall anyway after i finish my first game. (100 years or so left)

 

[Heretic_Cata]

I laughed:

Spoiler :

 

[NedimNapoleon]

Good one from Paradox. I noticed that when a bank goes down under and you loose money the banker on the image looks a bit too stereotypical....if you know what I mean

 

[Mosher]

Good one from Paradox. I noticed that when a bank goes down under and you loose money the banker on the image looks a bit too stereotypical....if you know what I mean

Does he have a big nose and like to mutter goyum under his breath?

 

[NedimNapoleon]

Let me post a pic and comparison.
NO RACISM INTENDED MR MODS. I JUST WANTED TO POINT SOMETHING OUT AND THIS IS THE MOST STEREOTYPICAL IMAGE I COULD FIND FLOATING ON THE INTERNET.

Spoiler :

 

[uat2d]

Spoiler :

 

[Nintz]

I had to check in the files to see if Pdox honestly put that in there.

They did not, that is a mod. Just for others' reference.

 

[Mosher]

I had to check in the files to see if Pdox honestly put that in there.

They did not, that is a mod. Just for others' reference.

Well, it does look like he is playing the /gsg/ minimod.

So no surprise there.

 

[grandad1982]

I'm playing as the Mamluks. Not Rushing anything or expanding to heavily. Nearly 200 years in and have most of the Arabian peninsular, lands down the Persian side of the Gulf and I've finally pushed the Ottomans out of Asia Minor. Also got Istria.

Spoiler :

I was Allied with Hungry but they took Constantinople and I wanted that so I dishonored our alliance and made them a rival. I was in a regency so couldn't declare on them and they had time to core Constantinople. With their +200% to core cost in now costs me 960 AMP to core I'm less than pleased with them!

Spoiler :

I made them spit out Bulgaria and Serbia as part of the peace deal. I also got them to throw in Istria so I can think about westernising.

I'm really pleased with my ally Algeria. They have helped me out in wars very well and should stay my friend as I'm going to keep Tripoli as a vassal to buffer us from the broken "border friction". having Poland and Lithuania is also nice as I can spank Hungry more if needed. Been sucking up to Bavaria to but they are at their diplomatic support limit so no ally yet... Archaea spawned as Sunni so I'm trying to inherit them (might calim the throne but the -20 prestige is a bit of a turn off.

Spoiler :

I don't intend to expand into Europe. I'm going to tidy up Arabia and Asia Minor then look to grabbing some trade power provinces in the east.

My main problems ATM are overextension and low legitimacy. Rebels

 

[BSPollux]

I have played a real lot, and I think EU4 has the same problem (problem for me...) as Civ: Once you stabalized your initial situation, you soon reach a point from where aquisition of territory is your only option to make anything happen at all.

It should be difficult to hold a big country together and keep a stable government. And I dont mean dumbed down things like mass-comets or something. Creative ways, based on real world events, or at least things that are similar. Long, problematic event-chains that can cause a crisis that shakes your country for decades, demanding your full attention if you want to keep your empire together.

I guess making it difficult to rule a big empire would conflict with the 'i wanna conquer the whole world' attitude of many players.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

I have played a real lot, and I think EU4 has the same problem (problem for me...) as Civ: Once you stabalized your initial situation, you soon reach a point from where aquisition of territory is your only option to make anything happen at all.

It should be difficult to hold a big country together and keep a stable government. And I dont mean dumbed down things like mass-comets or something. Creative ways, based on real world events, or at least things that are similar. Long, problematic event-chains that can cause a crisis that shakes your country for decades, demanding your full attention if you want to keep your empire together.

I guess making it difficult to rule a big empire would conflict with the 'i wanna conquer the whole world' attitude of many players.

I did had 2 major distabilizing events as England.
One was when i had my inflation above 10. After that i had a gold rush and some other +3 inflation event. At that point i had the major "Your currency sucks really bad" event which basically said: "Oh i see you are struggling with inflation SO HERE IS +10 INFLATION AND -2 STABILITY TO HELP YOU". I couldn't even reduce inflation with admin points then, and all i had was -0.1 inflation. That meant tens of years of soaring prices which i could not afford to pay.

The second major event i had was a bit later in the game when a major revolt broke out right in the capital. At that point i had -1 stability and the even gave me a further -2 and a 45 regiment army right in the capital. Needless to say they wreaked havoc on 1/4th of the island because it took time to gather up all available regiments i had on the entire globe to put down the rebellion (they wanted a republic IIRC). With -3 stability and the ongoing event (which ended when the rebel leader was killed) you can imagine the revolts that were going on EVERYWHERE. The rebel leader was killed just in time, before the country collapsed.

Had fun with those events tho.

 

[BSPollux]

I did had 2 major distabilizing events as England.
One was when i had my inflation above 10. After that i had a gold rush and some other +3 inflation event. At that point i had the major "Your currency sucks really bad" event which basically said: "Oh i see you are struggling with inflation SO HERE IS +10 INFLATION AND -2 STABILITY TO HELP YOU". I couldn't even reduce inflation with admin points then, and all i had was -0.1 inflation. That meant tens of years of soaring prices which i could not afford to pay.

The second major event i had was a bit later in the game when a major revolt broke out right in the capital. At that point i had -1 stability and the even gave me a further -2 and a 45 regiment army right in the capital. Needless to say they wreaked havoc on 1/4th of the island because it took time to gather up all available regiments i had on the entire globe to put down the rebellion (they wanted a republic IIRC). With -3 stability and the ongoing event (which ended when the rebel leader was killed) you can imagine the revolts that were going on EVERYWHERE. The rebel leader was killed just in time, before the country collapsed.

Had fun with those events tho.

Hmmm maybe I was just lucky? I never ever had my stability drop below zero for more then a day (click pause, raise) and my inflation never reached more then like 5% or something. i played with france, england, spain and brandenburg(->Germany->HRE) plus some short games which didnt seem too intresting. When the first years are over everything went smooth. maybe because the other nations allways mess up in stupid wars?
Edit: I'm quite a noob in EU, started a few months ago with eu3 and only played a few weeks

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

My Brandenburg->Prussia game. At present I am the Holy Roman Emperor, and I've fully unlocked my national ideas. As a result, and in addition to some of the ideas I've researched, I'm up to 135% discipline. Once I finish the Quality ideas that will get up to 150%. At present I'm basically building up and collecting potential allies for a future showdown with France. There is a large coalition with me, Spain, and Austria being the primary members with many minor nations also involved. Looking at the ledger it looks like it would be a close fight, as while we do have a slight numerical advantage, I doubt the AI will mount an effective cooperative campaign. If Britain decides to join in it would be a decisive advantage for the coalition, but they have mostly been ignoring the continent.

 

[BSPollux]

My Brandenburg->Prussia game. At present I am the Holy Roman Emperor, and I've fully unlocked my national ideas. As a result, and in addition to some of the ideas I've researched, I'm up to 135% discipline. Once I finish the Quality ideas that will get up to 150%. At present I'm basically building up and collecting potential allies for a future showdown with France. There is a large coalition with me, Spain, and Austria being the primary members with many minor nations also involved. Looking at the ledger it looks like it would be a close fight, as while we do have a slight numerical advantage, I doubt the AI will mount an effective cooperative campaign. If Britain decides to join in it would be a decisive advantage for the coalition, but they have mostly been ignoring the continent.

My Brandenburg game was extremly intresting as well. When I was in your postion I was emperor as well and I punished all the war offenders in the HRE to collect those reform points. They came in as crazy and I reunited the HRE quickly. And thats basicaly a win scenario. I stopped playing there, not knowing what to do.