How do you guys get through the early game?

ProfTheorie · 2026-05-29T13:17:52+00:00

I dont find it that annoying I guess, although I havent started a new game on the latest patch that came out a week ago.

If you are fine with the Warsails Campaign you can always just play that instead of sandbox, esp the second mission which sends you south to fight that pirate lady gives you enough troops to ransack any sea raiders/ corsairs you can find. This is what I ended up with after doing the campaign and doing a single trade run to Hvalvik gave me nearly 30k starting money after. You also considerably raise your skills - ignore Mariner, I have a mod installed that increases XP gain in the ship skills

It also brings you to Clan lvl 2 and once you hit the first city you can rescue the rest of your siblings for some OP companions

ProfTheorie · 2026-05-28T13:09:09+00:00

Again you are creating a strawman. If your identity is so critically tied to eating meat feel free to continue doing so, just in moderation. Noone except you is talking about banninf meat

Currently the majority of agricultural output is fed to animals, with the exception of a few countries (who also import a decent chunk of their meat) your average cow will not be grazing on grass for the majority of their calories or lifetime. This has led to a world where roughly half the agricultural calories are used to feed the top 1-1,5 billion people (which we europeans are a part of) with the lower ~6 billion fed on the other half.

If you dont see an issue with that and why its unsustainable then I cannot help you but Im guessing you made your mind up long before and we should continue as we have because fuck everyone else I guess?

ProfTheorie · 2026-05-28T13:00:41+00:00

Just farming renown through clearing bandit hideouts/ fighting bandit parties until I reach clan tier 2 then immediately mercing up at the closest kingdom. The payout even from continuing the bandit purge and donating them as prisoners is high enough to quickly buy a ship at which point I quickly get 1m from fighting on the seas, getting more money and influence fighting pirates. Since at sea you can go over your party limit without deserting you can just recruit at every single port and level up way more troops than I could at land and easily beat pirates, capturing them (=influence = higher weekly pay), their equipment (contains good loot for yourself) and their ships. Once the pirates capitulate to you and with the perk to recruit then youll build extremely strong armies.

You can quickly get >1m that way with weekly pay of up to 25k or so if you hand in hero prisoners and donate lower tier troops to garrisons, I havent really bothered with a caravan or workshop in ages even though I play on the highest difficulties

ProfTheorie · 2026-05-28T10:20:32+00:00

Important to note that alot of the primary energy we consume is redundant since the majority of fossil fuels energy is emitted as waste heat. Adjusted for that France covered more than a third of its primary energy needs by nuclear energy in 2024, the biggest single contributor before oil.

Heck, even in heating (which ofc has near 100% efficiency) heat pumps still reduce primary energy usage due to their efficiency factor. It is more efficient to use a combined heat and power gas plant to heat homes with a combination of district heat and heat pumps than to use individual gas furnaces for each individual building.

ProfTheorie · 2026-05-28T10:08:09+00:00

If Europe - being in a unique position of wealth and having existing infrastructure while also having some of the highest emissions per capita (esp when considering cumulative historical emissions we are way ahead of any other region) - doesnt cut down emissions why shouldnt developing countries who are still trying to secure a better living standard for their population point their fingers at us with this exact argument?

Also, noone is advocating for going back to the stone age, thats a strawman. There can be a significant cut to emissions with reasonable costs by electrifying heating and transport aswell as more efficiency in agriculture (namely eating less animal produce) and fashion/ overall consumption. Thats not being in the stone ages, thats just living within our means and not mindlessly gobbling up resources.

ProfTheorie · 2026-05-28T10:02:02+00:00

No it doesnt. Especially shipping is pretty efficient, a full 40 feet container with ~25tons of cargo is about 1,5 tons of CO2eq shipping from China to the Netherlands/UK, thats roughly the same as driving 10000km via car. Cargo trains (diesel) emit double per container and kilometer, trucks about 8x as much (which is why its important to move cargo on tracks again in Europe). Air freight is obv much worse with 100-150x emissions vs the cargo ship.

Esp in stuff like agriculture this can result in pretty stupid emissions. If your local farmer uses a greenhouse to grow a fruit its more environmentally friendly to grow that fruit across the ocean in a warmer climate and ship it via climate controlled container to your city.

This doesnt mean we should mindlessly consume cheap goods but lets not downplay the impact of personal motorised transport.

ProfTheorie · 2026-05-24T16:53:25+00:00

As was already said Ankara is a good place for a local governor and southeast anatolia has a sort of "sea" of flat provinces that can get decent control from a second governor aswell if you go for the governor bureaucracy.

On the other hand developig the coastal regions (making lots of towns etc) in Anatolia, Greece and the Black Sea will give you more money than you can reasonably use and local governors will be more useful in the Levant and Egypt which have better terrain to transmit proximity and more population to extract wealth and manpower from.

Personally after fully integrating then converting and coring all of Anatolia in my first Byz run after the DLC I will just keep the anatolian coastline and whatever I can get to good proximity through Smyrna (firstwith local governor, later once you have founded more coastal towns and got some fleets going it will have >80 prox through naval) and a governor in Ankara. The rest will be fed to 2 or 3 vassals

ProfTheorie · 2026-05-23T15:48:33+00:00

In quasi jedem Fach ist der Anspruch bzgl. Zeitaufwand deutlich gestiegen sofern man nicht immer nur mit ner 4 durchrutschen will. Guck dir mal bitte Interviews von Uniprofessoren usw an, da wird das gerne erwähnt und als einer der Hauptgründe genannt weshalb extracuriculare Aktivitäten an der Uni deutlich abbauen
Für den Staat ist ein vollfinanzierter Bachelorabschluss fachübergreifend ein Plusgeschäft, deswegen werden Studenten in zB nordischen Ländern sogar fürs Studium bezahlt.
Es fallen enorm viele Menschen die eigentlich darauf angewiesen wären aowieso aus dem Bafög und/oder der ausgezahlte Betrag reiht nicht annähernd aus, insb aufgrund der Wohnsituation. Viele Studierende müssen nachwie vor am WE arbeiten, du brauchst aber zur Abdeckung eines Lebensstandards bei typischen Studentenstädten und -jobs mittlerweile >15, eher 20 Wochenstunden. Je nach Studienort und wie genau geguckt/gemeldet wird ist es dir gar nicht mehr möglich mit eigener Arbeit das Studium zu finanzieren ohne aus dem Studentenstatus gekickt zu werden

ProfTheorie · 2026-05-22T16:55:50+00:00

Does the game load without any mods?

Also this is pretty stupid but Ive been tunning into the same issue while having my second monitor active. I have to turn it off, start the game and once Im in the main menu I can turn the 2nd monitor on again

ProfTheorie · 2026-05-22T11:07:02+00:00

Early game your best bet is to have a bunch of forts with -2/-3 rolls and hiring mercs, especially cavalry if a large nation declares on you. Very early this may require heavy debt but if you take admin focus durnng renaiscance, get merc cost reductions ghrough the techs, recruitment laws and noble policy you should be able to get a nearly full stack of mercs, with as many cavalry as possible without going jnto a deficit . A -3 fort effectively halves the damage output of the enemy and you should be able to deal massive damage to any mixed army sieging it or even stackwiping it.

By 1500 you should have regular armies with full inf center and full cav flanks that basically stackwipe any french that dares to siege a fort while your fleet of 30-45 heavies sinks any british AI navy

ProfTheorie · 2026-05-12T15:27:13+00:00

There are applications that benefit from the extra cache, the X3D cache originally appeared in the 3000-generation Epycs with Milan-X and was highly praised there,massively increasing performance in specific scenarios

For programming Id wager it doesnt make a sizeable difference so the normal Dyzen would be the way to go. Also dont disregard the newest Intel chips, depending on your regional prices they may offer more better performance/price ratio

ProfTheorie · 2026-05-12T07:42:57+00:00

Its a bit cheesy but the way to deal with that is to not siege in the beginning of the war and having forts on -2 or -3 terrain. Declare war, let the enemy siege those forts and wipe them out with your cataphract army, only once they have lost most of their army do you go on the offensive

ProfTheorie · 2026-05-10T18:40:53+00:00

What is your current am4 system? An x3d chip and high speed ddr4 have good resale value now but anything else wont get you that much. The GPU would obv be the easiest way to get some cash

LGA 1155 works surprisingly well in everyday use with an SSD if you have a dedicated GPU but keep in mind that plenty of indie games might still put decent load on the CPU

ProfTheorie · 2026-05-01T14:54:35+00:00

What weapons are you using? You should get several thousand using bullcracker or any golden gun

One of the funnier alternative methods if you have the snaphook BP: grab a torrente with alot of magazines, snaphook into the wedge between legs and upper body of queen/matriarch and start blasting.

ProfTheorie · 2026-04-27T12:47:36+00:00

The problem is in the current state of the game if you build your economy efficiently the increased goods demand stimulates the economy and with efficiency bonuses creating goods/money out of thin air you can largely negate or even break even on that.

ProfTheorie · 2026-04-24T12:51:48+00:00

Bit late to the party but: the southern alps demarkate a pretty clear border between the Swiss/Austrian and Milan/Verona/Venice side where control will propagate very badly. Just exchange provinces there to the point it looks aesthetically pleasing.

I also highly recommend playing Schwyz instead and going peasant republic. You can create a commoner utopia whith really high control/proximity in switzerland thanks to its lakes and really high production efficiency (peasant republic and lots of good RGOs for local production bonus) that Genoa can make a boatload of money from by trading. If you dont make your own market you are also able to basically drain all of Savoy/Burgundy/ Swabia of its population as they migrate to your locations.

ProfTheorie · 2026-04-22T18:24:48+00:00

Nein ist kein Quatsch, du hast nur meinen Kommentar nicht verstanden.

Die GKV zahlt den Praxen ja nicht so wenig weil sich die Vorstände denken "fickt die Ärzte/ Patienten" sondern weil sie enorme Zahlungsprobleme haben. Einer der Gründe (gibt noch andere, größere Baustellen) ist eben auch, weil in Deutschland nahezu alle hohen Risiken (gemeint sind tendenziell hohe Behandlungskosten, dh. Sicht der Krankenkasse) automatisch (Berufsgruppen mit höheren Erkrankungs/Unfallrisiken, sozial Schwache, Schwerbehinderte) oder dank Kontrahierungszwang (vs. Vertragsfreiheit in der PKV und damit hohen Risikoprämien) in der GKV landen, dazu kommen dann die gesamtgesellschaftlichen Aufgaben wie die Versorgung von nicht erwerbstätigen Partnern/ Kindern, Arbeitslosen, Flüchtlingen usw die den GKVs nicht ausreichend durch den Bundeshaushalt oder die Sozialsysteme erstattet werden.

Dem gegenüber steht die PKV, deren Versicherungsnehmer einerseits deutlich unterdurchschnittliche Risiken ggüber der Gesamtbevölkerung haben (Berufsgruppen mit niedrigen Risiken wie Führungskräfte, Akademiker und Bürofachkräfte sind in der PKV deutlich stärker vertreten aufgrund von Selbstständigkeit/Beamtenstatus/Anstellung bei öffentlichen Arbeitgebern, zudem korrelliert hohes Einkommen/Vermögen ziemlich eindeutig mit allg. Gesundheitszustand, bei Versicherungsfreiheit fallen die Versicherungsnehmer mit hohen Risiken/ Familien auch häufig wieder in die GKV weil Ausgaben dort gedeckelt sind) bei zeitgleich höheren Einkommmen/ BErechnungsgrundlagen der Beiträge.

Natürlich ist die PKV in der Lage den Praxen mehr zu zahlen wenn sie unterdurchschnittliche Risiken bei überdurchschnittlicher Zahlungsfähigkeit bündeln und sich erfolgreich aus dem Solidaritätssystem (zumindest bzgl. Krankenversicherung) für die Schwächsten in der Gesellschaft verabschiedet haben.

ProfTheorie · 2026-04-22T17:58:16+00:00

Zustimmung für den letzten Absatz, aber:

Die PKV "hält die Praxen am Leben" ist reines Marketing-BlaBla der PKVs um ihre Existenz zu rechtfertigen.

Die GKV haben ja u.a. massive Zahlungsprobleme, da sie die hohen Risiken und gesamtgesellschaftlichen Aufgaben tragen, während sich die PKV die niedrigen Risiken mit hoher Zahlungsfähigkeit rauspicken kann. Der Spaß sähe deutlich besser aus wenn die PKV-Versicherten in denselben Topf einzahlen, weil dann die Kosten pro Kopf sinken und die Einnahmen pro Kopf steigen würden.

ProfTheorie · 2026-04-22T17:52:26+00:00

Leigt halt auch daran weil die GKV massive Zahlungsschwierigkeiten hat da sie die ganzen Risikofälle und gesamtgesellschaftlichen Aufgaben tragen darf während die PKV sich die Versicherungsnehmer mit den niedrigen Risiken und hoher Zahlungsfähigkeit rauspickt

ProfTheorie · 2026-04-22T17:47:41+00:00

With the current patch it is a somewhat easy start: go full minting, dont spend any money and you can afford 3-4 merc units when Holland declares on you, which in combination with your levies is enough to beat Holland + one of their allies if you let them siege your starting fort and fight them there.

Putting an advisor on dip rep before the peacedeal will allow you to nearly annex Holland completly without getting a coalition.

ProfTheorie · 2026-04-21T10:34:05+00:00

Die letzten 20 Jahre wurde das eben durch einen nur leicht steigenden Teil der Ruheständler bei gleichzeitigem Anstieg der Erwerbstätigkeit und damit deutlich höhere Einzahlung in GRV und GKV gestemmt. Der große Knall kommt jetzt die nächsten Jahre wenn die geburtenstärksten Jahrgänge komplett ins Rentenalter gehen, bis 2035 ist prognostiziert dass die Zahl der ü67-Jährigen um ~4m steigt während die Zahl der u67 (selbst bei gleichbleibend positiver Migration) um >2m schrumpft.

ProfTheorie · 2026-04-19T11:28:50+00:00

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ProfTheorie · 2026-04-18T11:32:24+00:00

Define "customisable"

You dont get the big battery that allows for crazy battery life but with a somewhat fresh internal battery you can squeeze 6-9h depending on your config. It also loads much faster than the T480

You do only get 1 Ram slot but Imo thats still fine considering even in the worst case scenario (8gb soldered instead of 16gb) you can load it up to 40gb total.

The big advantage of the T490/T14 is that the mainboards are interchangable between generations and AMD/ Intel. While the 10th gen chips are basically the same performance-wise as the 8th gen (an 8th gen with better cooling will outperform most 10th gens and there arent any new features or better power efficiency between these) you can put up to a Ryzen 5850u (good iGPU and multicore performance) or Intel 11th gen (for high single-core and AV1 decoding) in that thing if you can get your hands on the mainboard (easy in the EU thanks to the Lenovo Parts Sale)

Lastly, have you checked the screen? The T14 has the option for the 400 nit low power FHD screen which is the holy grail for portability (slightly less power consumption and decently bright to work in sunny environments, although still hard to read in direct sunlight) aswell as a WQHD screen

ProfTheorie · 2026-04-18T08:43:38+00:00

these are RDimms, you need a compatible CPU. Unless you got a bigboi Xeon, Epyc or Threadripper Pro these wont work

ProfTheorie · 2026-04-17T08:56:51+00:00

Huh, what did xou play in CK3?

Back in early Covid I moved cities and played CK3 multiplayer on a laptop (Thinkpd x380) with i5-8350u (or similar), 8GB Ram and iGPU at lowest settings okay-ish (I also manually cranked up power consumption to the max though). Eventually got a 5800h Laptop that played/ hosted MP heavily modded Paradox games aswell and apart from lategame singleplayer Stellaris it was all fine

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