[QUOTE=DanRatherman;28242544]Scratch that, I formed a Teutonic Game. Anyone care to assist me in the removal of my inflation? This seems insane that even with a loss due to spending I still have such high inflation.
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Me and others have said it so many times already, please, listen, and everyone else who has problems with inflation, listen as well:
[b]Do not, for anything, other than going below 0 gold, mint any money, it will create inflation faster than anything, you might get some extra money, but think of it as money that could be spent on better technology, and money that you'll be spending along the rest of your game because everything will cost a little bit extra unless you remove your inflation.[/b]
Usually if I play a country that needs to train a lot of soldiers like Castille, France, Muscovy, the Ottoman Empire or whatever, I take national bank as my first NI so that I can mint a little without getting inflation. If you want some extra room to mint, go centralized, it also gives a lot of other benefits, the only bad thing about centralizing is that with each step you are almost guaranteed to get a bad event while with other sliders you don't always get a bad event, however, this bad event is worth it in the long run. What's -1 stability or a small army of pretenders going to hurt you at the start of the game? It's not gonna do anything unless you start at war or something, and the bonus you get from moving towards centralization every ~10 years far outweighs any bad events you get for a very short time after moving the slider.
So basically what you want to do is at the start of the game move the treasury slider all the way to the left, so that it says "at this level of mint we get 0.0 inflation per year", some countries won't be able to get 0.0, some will actually get -0.1, meaning that you can move the slider just a little to the right until it says 0.0, so you can get some gold without creating inflation.
If you are losing money each year (forget about monthly income, you always lose money each month, but the big bucks come each year). Try to find other sources for your gold, for example winning wars and demanding gold (especially from new world countries after ~1500, easy sources of gold, you can get a 100% victory condition and use it all to demand gold from them, an easy 4000 gold each time). Never hire troops that you don't really need, always keep your army upkeep slider lower not higher than ~50% during peacetimes so you don't have to pay your troops full income for just standing there. Don't hire any worthless advisors, if you see a 6 star advisor you don't really need but you might need him later on, maybe it could be worth it, but not some shitty 1 or 2-star advisor, unless you need his type very very much (like if you're in a war and he can improve your army in some way).
There are many other ways to save your money - don't send merchants when they're just going to go bankrupt a few days later, you waste gold each time you send them and if they don't stay in the market it'll be quite a waste.
Hope you heed my advice.
I think Brazil provinces has a shit load of gold iirc, that's also a good alternative and what I'm trying to do right now in my Portuguese game.
Just got divine wind, played as France.
Waged an epic war with half of Europe for 7 years (1401-1408) which ended up with me annexing Brabant, and reducing Burgundy down to 5 provinces.
I also took 2 provinces from Brittany.
The world hated me for a while, but now its 1420, and I am still making amends. Gotta build up my reputation again, need more alliances.
I am also working hard and fast to build up my economy to start colonizing America before 1440, I hope.
Okay I have to ask since this inflation is getting bullshit, is there any way I can cheat and make it zero or so? I can do about put my treasury about at .03 just below the inflation mark and I set two of my advisors to the minter guy and yet I still only get around .20 to make it go down.
I actually managed to get inflation to completely stop by lowering minting to 0 and then rushing to help my allies in war. Once in, I raised war taxes, getting me positive revenue, which I invested in tax tech. After a while, I had enough positive flow to stop war tax.
[QUOTE=kamikaze470;28250146]Okay I have to ask since this inflation is getting bullshit, is there any way I can cheat and make it zero or so? I can do about put my treasury about at .03 just below the inflation mark and I set two of my advisors to the minter guy and yet I still only get around .20 to make it go down.[/QUOTE]
I'm not sure if there's any way after you've already started, but at the beginning you can choose to turn inflation off, at the menu.
[QUOTE=Achilles123;28250536]I'm not sure if there's any way after you've already started, but at the beginning you can choose to turn inflation off, at the menu.[/QUOTE]
Playing under that would be reeeeally lame, but yeah I think you have to change it before a new game
[QUOTE=DanRatherman;28250182]I actually managed to get inflation to completely stop by lowering minting to 0 and then rushing to help my allies in war. Once in, I raised war taxes, getting me positive revenue, which I invested in tax tech. After a while, I had enough positive flow to stop war tax.[/QUOTE]
Don't forget that war taxes may give you extra yearly income but they reduce production and trade income and it might hurt you more than it helps (usually it doesn't).
Here is how my Granada game is going at 1328, I've conquered the Iberian but I'm unable to form Spain for the time being but I've finished converting everyone to Sunni and removing Aragon's provinces from the HRE. Also the Black Death has been destroying my manpower and tax base :(
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Those are my 3 plans for what my next attack would be, I think I'm leaning towards 2 or 3 primarily because I don't want to have territory right beside Great Britain unless I'm able to take them out (which doesn't appear very possible for now unless I attack through France)
Definitely expand through africa. You'll need a larger empire/more power before you can take on England
It looks like Britain took over France.
Stay away from Africa and go for the New World.
Well at 1328 Im not sure how likely he will be able to head there. especially as a muslim nation
[QUOTE=luverofJ!93;28264406]Well at 1328 Im not sure how likely he will be able to head there. especially as a muslim nation[/QUOTE]
Yeah you've got that right, even though I've westernized into the Latin tech group I'm at 115/140 trade research required to get the Quest for the New World so I probably won't be getting there until the 15th century. Normandy just claimed defender of Catholicism so I'm going to make a move for Sardinia and Sicily.
Between me and Great Britain, I have an army of 186 regiments and they have one greater than 190, our navies are about on par with ~110 big ships each. They actually started with that entire portion of France in 1250 which is the only reason why they are so powerful now.
Hey guys, just bought this + all expansion packs. I tried to start with that orange Japanese daimyo, but got fucked over. Any tips for starters?
Play france.
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Yes. The Glorious Prussian Kingdom is born from the annoyingly weak Teutonic Knights, several dozen provinces stronger than it normally is at it's founding. We are strong and now is our time!
I did every in-game tutorial and i still did not understand this game.
[QUOTE=deltasquid;28282550]Hey guys, just bought this + all expansion packs. I tried to start with that orange Japanese daimyo, but got fucked over. Any tips for starters?[/QUOTE]Play Portugal, somewhat nice country to start out with since you won't get buttfucked by wars in the first few years.
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[QUOTE=An Actual Bear;28286400]I did every in-game tutorial and i still did not understand this game.[/QUOTE]Play the actual game and you'll figure out everything as you'll go. I never even played the tutorial at all and I still have the grasp of the game. v:v:v
I never did the tutorials and just winged it, mixed results had a good run with castille but in the end failed to properly secure all my places and got hunted down by the Ottomans followed by England backstabbing me and Portugal and Aragon refusing to come to my aid, ultimatley got overrun.
Had another run as Novogrod, made alliances with everyone else in Russia and funded the Golden horde to start attacking Europe and take the areas when the Golden horde collapses but I couldn't afford to keep sending them gifts so I was backstabbed by them and even with the help of Muscovy we ultimatley got conquered by the Golden horde when their timurid allies arrived and finished us off
Never ally with France. Those idiots will run their army into the ground fighting on eight fronts and making you help. Then, when Sweden attacks you for no reason, they cancel the alliance and refuse to help. Pricks, my new mission is to fucking kill them before 1821.
So I spent the last little bit learning how to edit country/history files + made a custom flag and I just changed it so that instead of forming Spain it is something a little bit more suitable for my Sunni kingdom...
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;D
[QUOTE=An Actual Bear;28286400]I did every in-game tutorial and i still did not understand this game.[/QUOTE]
The in-game tutorials don't really help much, try googling "EU III manual" and read through the 100 or so pages - that's what got me started.
Aw man, I was doing well in my first game as france, I had just entered the 16th Century, declared an Empire, and had multiple colonies (and a few colonial cities) in Africa and Canada. Unforunately the reformation and inflation were tearing me a new asshole and then the swiss, portuguese (who had absorbed most of castille), and aragonese declared war on me - they and the rebels ripped the country apart and I lost.
Who should I start a new game as?
[QUOTE=Oneperson;28288653]The in-game tutorials don't really help much, try googling "EU III manual" and read through the 100 or so pages - that's what got me started.
Aw man, I was doing well in my first game as france, I had just entered the 16th Century, declared an Empire, and had multiple colonies (and a few colonial cities) in Africa and Canada. Unforunately the reformation and inflation were tearing me a new asshole and then the swiss, portuguese (who had absorbed most of castille), and aragonese declared war on me - they and the rebels ripped the country apart and I lost.
Who should I start a new game as?[/QUOTE]
Hungary!
The way I initially learned was through a series of Youtube videos because the tutorials always crashed on me
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wj1rtbb4-E[/url]
I tried playing with Castille. Aragon and Portugal ganged up on me, I tried to fight Portugal but got owned and then France joined in.
This game would be so much fun if I could get a general feel of the flow. What should I do in the first years of the game?
Well it sort of varies based on what year and who you play as, but right after the initial load I check out the nation tab and work out tech, budgets (top of this page has good advice, keep in mind minting money is BAD if all you want to do is keep your monthly gold great than 0 without any sort of inflation reduction), army/maintenance, national/religious properties.
During the first few months I use about a quarter of my money on getting to my regiment limit, most of the rest on building improvements if I'm lacking any in my provinces and then close to the end of the year I spend it on more regiments before the yearly income rolls in.
While that is going on, as Castille, you should definitely establish royal marriages with any Catholic neighbouring countries as that will generally prevent them from attack you because a war between married nations gives -2 stability regardless of Casus Belli. Once yours or their monarch dies the marriage will be broken so you will have to ask for it again if you want it unless they do first. Also look for alliances around this time, if you were to get France, England, Burgundy, Portugal or any other significant Western European on your side you won't be as easily ganged up on.
I can't really think of much more at the moment, so I hope that helps
This is so horrible. I'm playing as Sweden and has sworn to protect my ally Poland. Then out of nowhere Ottoman Empire decides to pound Poland with their 40000-50000 men army.
I did nothing...
So I finally got the hang of the game somewhat and as Castille, I entered two highly successful wars: one against Aragon, the other against France.
1406, and I have 4 new provinces and Sardinia as a vassal. Is this good, or am I rather slow?
[QUOTE=deltasquid;28305118]So I finally got the hang of the game somewhat and as Castille, I entered two highly successful wars: one against Aragon, the other against France.
1406, and I have 4 new provinces and Sardinia as a vassal. Is this good, or am I rather slow?[/QUOTE]
Do you have a map or screenshot of what it is like?
Note to self: when attacking a level 25 fortress, do not suicide ~50000 troops against their walls in frustration to constant <Status Quo> updates at "This city will fall any day now". It took about 20 years of constant particularist rebellions until everything returned to normal.
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