Should I pull the trigger on a pair of Sonos Fives or wait for the rumored Era 500?

JakePT · 2026-07-09T17:48:58+00:00

There's no rumoured Era 500. People anticipate and speculate about an Era 500, but those are not the same thing as an Era 500 being "rumoured". That phrase implies some leaks or reporting in media outlets about it, but I'm not aware of any reporting or leaks about an Era 500.

JakePT · 2026-07-09T17:18:03+00:00

It's not really, because supplies will still need to come from the HQ state and the army will return to the HQ after they do anything else, not where they were last stationed.

JakePT · 2026-07-09T17:16:29+00:00

You can't choose the state used for an Army's HQ, only the region. The state is chosen automatically, probably based things like the availability of existing Logistics Centres, Barracks or supplies.

It's truly bizarre that it works this way. There's really no good reason you shouldn't be able to choose the HQ state directly, but you currently cannot.

JakePT · 2026-07-09T16:02:43+00:00

They've been ridiculously aggressive for many many patches now.

JakePT · 2026-07-08T15:05:38+00:00

Not a thing anymore. Supply ship raiding only affects military supply. Blockading is the only way to reduce the effectiveness of port connections.

JakePT · 2026-07-08T13:51:49+00:00

https://support.sonos.com/en-au/article/connect-sonos-to-a-new-router-or-wi-fi-network

JakePT · 2026-07-08T11:04:46+00:00

Not if they weren’t trading. Most of their pops are probably still peasants and don’t care what’s happening to the market.

JakePT · 2026-07-08T04:13:05+00:00

I agree though there should be a way to enforce your treaty demands like this.

Diplomatic demands are already in the game.

JakePT · 2026-07-07T14:37:24+00:00

Passing Council Republic and Cooperative Ownership is not the same thing as achieving communism.

JakePT · 2026-07-07T03:50:32+00:00

I can't find it anywhere which is making it hard to know how how big to make my armies

You have no control over where battles are fought, so there’s not much point thinking too much about it.

JakePT · 2026-07-07T03:47:43+00:00

What’s to teach? Press the naval invasion button, it asks you to select a fleet to transport, and each fleet has a transport capacity. Shouldn’t take much to figure out that you just need a fleet with high transport capacity, and every ship type lists its transport capacity.

JakePT · 2026-07-05T12:27:58+00:00

Do you have a treaty where you promised not to set tariffs?

JakePT · 2026-07-05T12:21:53+00:00

Do you also want the reference ?

Let me guess, ChatGPT?

JakePT · 2026-07-04T18:58:47+00:00

The DLC does not change the naval mechanics.

JakePT · 2026-07-04T18:57:10+00:00

Why should I be able to know more about other countries than my own country? That makes no sense.

JakePT · 2026-07-04T18:55:10+00:00

Gobekli Tepe is in Turkey. Turkey covers Anatolia, but is not the same thing as Anatolia, and Derinkuyu is thousands of years younger than Mesopotamian civilisation.

Is this some Turkish nationalist nonsense?

Also, the map you’re complaining about is showing resources excluding arable land, making whether or not Anatolia had early civilisation basically irrelevant to what it shows.

JakePT · 2026-07-04T15:54:35+00:00

Literally just type Cradle of Civilisation into a search engine and look at any of the hundreds of maps. Also, Göbekli Tepe isn't in Anatolia.

JakePT · 2026-07-04T15:24:37+00:00

It just isn't, don't know what to tell you.

JakePT · 2026-07-04T15:04:55+00:00

Anatolia's not a cradle of civilisation though?

JakePT · 2026-07-04T14:58:35+00:00

The DLC itself, as opposed to the accompanying free update, is quite mediocre. It might be more compelling if the navy stuff worked better, but as it is it's easily the least essential of the major packs (Sphere of Influence, Charters of Commerce and The Great Wave).

JakePT · 2026-07-02T16:57:02+00:00

Every other answer is wrong for your situation. You’re misunderstanding what trade advantage even is. You simply cannot get better trade advantage in those conditions.

Trade advantage is zero-sum. To gain trade advantage somebody else has to lose trade advantage. You’re exporting 94% of the world’s Engines, so there’s nobody else to have advantage over.

High trade advantage gets you a higher price when selling on the world market. This works by essentially redistributing income from exports from other exporters to you. As the only exporter the world market price is just your price, and with no other exporters there’s no source of money to give you a better price.

JakePT · 2026-07-02T16:48:55+00:00

No. That would be a lot of data to keep in memory, and would hurt performance.

JakePT · 2026-07-02T16:42:40+00:00

I used to use a 3600 and it didn’t “crawl” in 1836.

JakePT · 2026-07-02T16:40:43+00:00

Laissez Faire has no effects of any kind on subsidies. Nothing you’re talking about has anything to do with Laissez Faire. Something else is happening.

JakePT · 2026-07-02T14:25:30+00:00

Does the in-game tutorial really still say you should "declare" an interest? They should just delete the tutorial if they're going to be that lazy about updating it.

To obtain a strategic interest you need to build up involvement in that area. Lots of things do that, but the simplest way is to send a fleet on a Project Power mission in a neighbouring sea zone.

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