Paradox Interactive Thread: V2 The cartographers nightmare.
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[QUOTE=ImperialGuard;46282215]A friend in a PI game is the dude who gives you 20 coins for the war effort in CK2. That guy immediately becomes my strongest vassal.[/QUOTE]
That event is so rare that when it happens I shower the vassal in titles.
I remember one game where a count gave me (a king) like 10 or 20 gold, and I was at that threshold where the next tick of gold loss would've put me negative because of mercs. Won a battle, got rid of mercs, didn't go bankrupt.
You, my, friend, are now a duke and married into my family.
[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;46282043]The AI plans to exploit you the same way you plan to exploit it. There's no such thing as friends in any of PI's games, there's only people who profit from helping you and people that profit from screwing you.[/QUOTE]
That's so true. Having this game right now:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/9nXptEP.jpg[/t]
Was allied to Russia just a few gamemonths ago, hell, even my dynasty switched to Rurikovich at some point in time. Then they decided "Fuck you, we want Armenia and shit" and broke the alliance right after their war. World is still in the shaky peace, as I'm allied with France who is in turn protector of Catholic faith, so I can't declare war on HRE, and they can't do the same on to me. Those fucks are allied with Russia in turn, who for some reason is in alliance with Castile (And Castile has England under PU). Which is really pitiful as initially my intention was to form true Roman Empire. Also they are really fucking insane, I can't fight their forces. Constants 3-stars generals and OP ideas. And I was really dumb for not taking Offensive or Defensive, cause when they attack me they annihilate my troops.
I think the game will end with me quietly annexing and colonizing rest of Africa and subjugating half of the Timurids. Any suggestions on what to do in the last ~100 years?
Also, Scottish Louisiana, yeah
Does anyone else think that it's Bullshit that in EU4, the Ai can break truces and royal marriages etc... without taking Stability hits?
I'm playing as Qing at the moment and when I attack the Ming, Japan always joins as their ally. Then 2 years after I beat the Ming, I attack Oriat and Japan will join on their side too despite having a truce with me.
[QUOTE=The mouse;46284132]Does anyone else think that it's Bullshit that in EU4, the Ai can break truces and royal marriages etc... without taking Stability hits?
I'm playing as Qing at the moment and when I attack the Ming, Japan always joins as their ally. Then 2 years after I beat the Ming, I attack Oriat and Japan will join on their side too despite having a truce with me.[/QUOTE]
I also don't think the AI should be able to call you into wars against allies.
[I]"WHO DO YOU LIKE BETTER?!?!"[/I]
I love declaring war on one of my coalition member's allies, so they always pull the coalition member into the fight, and I can annihilate them.
Doing a simulation while I'm away from the computer. HoI3. Observing the world change. Should be around 1946 when I get home. Nothing major from 36-40 but invasion of Poland, Austria, and Netherlands all came early.
[QUOTE=The mouse;46284132]Does anyone else think that it's Bullshit that in EU4, the Ai can break truces and royal marriages etc... without taking Stability hits?
I'm playing as Qing at the moment and when I attack the Ming, Japan always joins as their ally. Then 2 years after I beat the Ming, I attack Oriat and Japan will join on their side too despite having a truce with me.[/QUOTE]
Breaking a truce doesn't cause a stab hit if it's a defensive call to arms iirc.
The AI doesn't cheat when it comes to stability, truces, etc. as far as I know.
Can someone tell me what decision making was made to include the 'Church of Zun' which was worshiped by basically a single dynasty
But [I]not[/I] make a schism event.
iirc, on 4chan, someone found a schism picture event with the updated files from Charlemagne, it was basically a catholic cross and an orthodox cross and a huge fiery rift between them.
Honestly the priorities at Paradox Interactive are really embarassing
[QUOTE=The mouse;46284132]Does anyone else think that it's Bullshit that in EU4, the Ai can break truces and royal marriages etc... without taking Stability hits?
I'm playing as Qing at the moment and when I attack the Ming, Japan always joins as their ally. Then 2 years after I beat the Ming, I attack Oriat and Japan will join on their side too despite having a truce with me.[/QUOTE]
I think that joining a war to help an ally under attack negates the negative effects of breaking a truce, I'm not sure though.
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;46286008]Can someone tell me what decision making was made to include the 'Church of Zun' which was worshiped by basically a single dynasty
But [I]not[/I] make a schism event.
iirc, on 4chan, someone found a schism picture event with the updated files from Charlemagne, it was basically a catholic cross and an orthodox cross and a huge fiery rift between them.
Honestly the priorities at Paradox Interactive are really embarassing[/QUOTE]
This. Also why the fuck did they bother adding an anachronistic Suebi culture instead of other more relevant ones?
What the fuck happened to rebellions in EU4?
i had a 75000 man strong revolutionary army rise up, I attacked them with a 58000 strong army with two 2 star generals, they only had one, they literally wiped out my entire army, not a single man was left alive
and earlier I had pretender rebels rise up, they were 28000 men strong and my 42000 men strong with a two star general got their fucking asses handed to them three times before I actually managed to kill them
[QUOTE=Chernobyl426;46285963]Doing a simulation while I'm away from the computer. HoI3. Observing the world change. Should be around 1946 when I get home. Nothing major from 36-40 but invasion of Poland, Austria, and Netherlands all came early.[/QUOTE]
Welp, France smeared Germany's shit and now Japan & Norway are the only Axis countries left. Late 44.
Yeah, Zoroastrians in Charlemange are kind of fucked if you don't want to be gamey. But it's not really a problem considering historically it wasn't supposed to be balanced in the first place. A Zoroastrian in 769 is more like a norse pagan in 1066.
Anyway, I for one welcome our new Abbasid overlords.
[QUOTE=StickyWicket;46289010]Yeah, Zoroastrians in Charlemange are kind of fucked if you don't want to be gamey. But it's not really a problem considering historically it wasn't supposed to be balanced in the first place. A Zoroastrian in 769 is more like a norse pagan in 1066.
Anyway, I for one welcome our new Abbasid overlords.[/QUOTE]
It's a problem if you want to try out the mechanic without having to be a strategic genius or cheating.
[QUOTE=PollytheParrot;46289789]someone explain?[/QUOTE]
You start next to the biggest blob in the game (The abbasids) who are a different religion and youre basically 3 provinces so youre destined to get fucked unless you REALLY know what your doing, or you cheat the system a bit
[QUOTE=EnlightenDead;46290596]You start next to the biggest blob in the game (The abbasids) who are a different religion and youre basically 3 provinces so youre destined to get fucked unless you REALLY know what your doing, or you cheat the system a bit[/QUOTE]
Hell, I knew what I was doing and made it a decent way up but you reach a point where one of two things happen:
1) You're still not strong enough (and pretty much never will be) to make it worth trying to be independent next to the Great Green Blob, so you stay vassalized, fighting other sheikhs and emirs (which is hard enough because they all intermarry and become allies, leaving you fucking your daughters and sisters with no alliances). What happens when you get your second emirate? The kindly caliph revokes it. If you say no, he stomps you. If you say yes, 4/5 times he'll revoke your other one right after. This has happened to me even with high relations, and it's bound to happen immediately upon succession of a new caliph.
2) Caliph manages to get medium crown authority, leaving you to stew around because you can't fight other vassals and grow. Oh you want to join a faction to lower crown authority? Gimme your emirate you Zoroastrian dog!
I've tried over and over again, with and without the beta patch. GGB is broke.
Hm sounds like a challenge then
After creating Britannia from Northumbria Old Gods start a few patches ago, I think I might be able to do this
What kind of goal would you set?
[QUOTE=EnlightenDead;46290596]You start next to the biggest blob in the game (The abbasids) who are a different religion and youre basically 3 provinces so youre destined to get fucked unless you REALLY know what your doing, or you cheat the system a bit[/QUOTE]
I had an 876 game as the Zoroastrians, where I simply swore fealty to the caliph and kept my chancellor pinned to Baghdad.
It worked pretty well, though admittedly the event troops might have scared him off from trying to revoke my shit.
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;46286008]Honestly the priorities at Paradox Interactive are really embarassing[/QUOTE]
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[editline]21st October 2014[/editline]
daily reminder that Johan is a fat swede who will usurp/claim/invade/subjugate/crusade/jihad/holy war/annex/puppet all of your precious gold
but i love his babby english pronunciations
[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;46291705]I had an 876 game as the Zoroastrians, where I simply swore fealty to the caliph and kept my chancellor pinned to Baghdad.
It worked pretty well, though admittedly the event troops might have scared him off from trying to revoke my shit.[/QUOTE]
? What event troops?
[QUOTE=Freakie;46295563]? What event troops?[/QUOTE]
I believe Karen starts out with somewhere around 3k troops in 876.
I might want to try playing as the Pechenegs, who's leader starts as a tribal duke who believes in a Zoroastrian heresy (of which I forget the name of). Unlike other tribals you can borrow money from the jews which I would think makes things way easier.
[QUOTE=StickyWicket;46296014]I might want to try playing as the Pechenegs, who's leader starts as a tribal duke who believes in a Zoroastrian heresy (of which I forget the name of). Unlike other tribals you can borrow money from the jews which I would think makes things way easier.[/QUOTE]
Manichean. It's still tough because to become emperor of Persia/Saoshyant you need to take Persia (and more) from the GGB while surrounded by kingdoms who believe in their same faith.
[QUOTE=Masamune;46295658]I believe Karen starts out with somewhere around 3k troops in 876.[/QUOTE]
I think the number is random; that game I started with the better half of 6k, but I loaded a new game earlier and only had about 3k.
p sure it depends on your characters starting traits
I got Darkest Hour, so far really fun. Poland managed to hold out against my shitty Blitzkrieg.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/6rJsj0r.png[/img]
When did they add this?
[QUOTE=Swebonny;46301668]I got Darkest Hour, so far really fun. Poland managed to hold out against my shitty Blitzkrieg.[/QUOTE]
Get Kaiserreich
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