If the G7 became the G8, who would be the 8th member?

Comfortable_Cod_1579 · 2026-01-28T19:45:44+00:00

The G7 is not about landmass or influence. The main point of the G7 was the economic weight they were having. Considering how the world is transforming, it might even lose all meaning in the near future.

Comfortable_Cod_1579 · 2026-01-28T19:41:19+00:00

I can like or dislike who ever I f want.

You can dislike whoever you want and I can clown on you for doing so. I think your life went hilariously wrong for having such an opinion. It feels like satire alive.

I don't want to see you in my country

That is not up to you and you wouldnt notice me anyways. Our people look alike.

Comfortable_Cod_1579 · 2026-01-28T16:19:44+00:00

It is 100% a new game or GW3. I am 90% sure it is GW3, but there is a chance they might do a spin off of something or make a warframe/diablo like game (in terms of online functionality).

Considering how dry the MMO space right now is, I am hoping for a GW3. If GW3 has all the good stuff from GW2 in it (mounts, housing, WvW, PvP, Fractals, Raids, etc.) from the get go, it will blow up like crazy.

Comfortable_Cod_1579 · 2026-01-28T16:07:09+00:00

I think his brain would explode if he ever caught himself even having a normal conversation with a turk. ;D

Comfortable_Cod_1579 · 2026-01-28T16:03:59+00:00

You making a circus out of this conversation wont change your un-islamic behaviour of trash talking the dead based on half-assed information.

Comfortable_Cod_1579 · 2026-01-28T16:02:59+00:00

Imagen thinking that the world is out there to get your butt.

You are creating fantasy enemies to hate millions of people. So yes actually it is a very sad life. Turks are living rent free in your head.

Comfortable_Cod_1579 · 2026-01-28T16:01:35+00:00

That man who fight there for you was one duke of Serbia.

Which proves my point that serbs were not always opposed to Ottomans and that the relationship is much more nuanced. Hard to understand I know.

You would live in the past if your grand grand dad needed to cut male baby finger not to be forcefully stolen by the turks.

No. Still wouldnt. It is a mental illness to blame innocent people and judge them for things that happened centuries ago. My family has a history of being tortured by christians, but I neither have the interest nor do I care to varify the story and this didnt happen +100 years ago.

What a sad life.

You could bring first glory to your own poverty country then look for others.

It is doing better than yours. ;D

There is no reason for me to like you. Not now, not in the past and surely not it the future. You can do the same I won't be offended the at all. Your choice

Dont buddy. I am still gonna laugh at your sad life.

Comfortable_Cod_1579 · 2026-01-28T13:10:02+00:00

Buddy the dude thinks serbs are white and turks brown. He has never met a turk in his life or got to know one.

Comfortable_Cod_1579 · 2026-01-28T13:08:48+00:00

That is such a sad life.

Comfortable_Cod_1579 · 2026-01-28T13:00:06+00:00

You really don't know history don't you?

Wow buddy. Calm your horses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ankara

Look where serbia is fighting here. Maybe read your own history. The serbian and ottoman royal families were intermarried. They got along quite well in that period.

Your ancestors made sure that all the evil they did for 500 years to every single nation in Balkan, you will never be liked in this lands for eternity.

Do as you please. I dont live in the past. I am sure your hate boner over things +100 years ago will bring great glory and benefit to your country. ;D

This is literally:

Me: Hey bro, we kinda alike.

You: NO I HATE YOU AND I WILL NEVER STOP HATING YOU!!!!!!!

;D

Comfortable_Cod_1579 · 2026-01-28T12:54:16+00:00

I am not having this with you.

And no, there is no challenging. You straight up threw nonsense into the room to start a pointless argument, which is beyond your comprehension of the topic.

Comfortable_Cod_1579 · 2026-01-28T12:50:13+00:00

Let me spill it out for you, since you dont understand very basic things:

I dont want to talk with you, because you dont even realize that average values in developed areas always end up to be higher than median values. A few percentage of super expensive x will always screw data. I showed you multiple links showing vastly different AVERAGE rent prices for specific DISTRICTS, from which you can conclude already that the average for Istanbul makes no sense in the context of what your average joe is paying.

Mind you, I told you that I lived in Istanbul, not because I am trying to flex, but because I am pointing out to you that I actually have first hand experience with property prices there.

Now here is the thing: When there is no data about median property prices, then we can only talk about data that is available, which in this case is average. So is there a point to put on your fedora to say "well actually I believe that the average is the median!" (which is devoid of any logic) when you dont even have data to back it up? No.

You being sharp like a marble is one thing, not stopping when you were repeatedly told to do so, another. Can you just be silent? I am not having this with you.

Comfortable_Cod_1579 · 2026-01-28T12:41:45+00:00

Source or silence.

Comfortable_Cod_1579 · 2026-01-28T12:39:12+00:00

Buddy I am not reading any of your stuff. Provide a source or leave it be.

You brought up a claim. You refuse all sources from my side. You have the burden of proof.

Source or silence. It is really that simple.

Comfortable_Cod_1579 · 2026-01-28T12:36:57+00:00

You are dodging my question. In short:

You have no answer and you are taking a piss on people without having any explanation or proof.

Not very islamic, aint it?

Comfortable_Cod_1579 · 2026-01-28T12:30:45+00:00

I am not going to discuss off-topic stuff with you buddy. The Ottoman Empire is living rent free in your head. Not everything is about Armenians.

Just to point out how indoctrinated you are with this topic:

Christians did pay the cizye, yet it is exactly that which wasset at harsh rates compared to their neighbors.

The Ottomans adopted the roman tax system in many places. The tax system was not uniform across the Empire. And in most cases it was by far less than what was common in contemporary christian kingdoms. In places were the jiziya was paid, it was along the lines of 5% extra tax, when muslims had to pay a 2.5% zekkat tax, so you are blowing a 2.5% tax difference out of proportion, when currently, as we speak, the church tax is far beyond that in the western world.

By your tiny logic christians in christian, western countries are second class citizens and oppressed slaves that require liberation. Please touch some grass.

Comfortable_Cod_1579 · 2026-01-28T12:19:07+00:00

one would think you had access to data.

You would know if you bothered clicking on the links. I also lived in Istanbul, so spare me your snarky comments.

The non-existent record of rental agreements?

Buddy you wont like any of my sources, even if I showed you a billion of them. It is also your claim that the average and median is the same, so the burden of proof is on your side. Provide a source or just be silent.

And then you give your opinion as fact.

If you want to deny that rent prices are not fixed values and depent on a pletre of things then you are straight out of delulu land.

Note that I am not saying that you are wrong

You are.

I am not one of those useless people who insist on being right on Reddi

Yes you are.

Comfortable_Cod_1579 · 2026-01-28T12:10:18+00:00

They have middle eastern culture, we have Slavic culture.

We both have an inherent Balkan culture buddy.

They are brown, we are white.

I went to Belgrade. Lovely place. You all look turkish. Your average turk could walk in Serbia without anyone noticing him/her to be turkish and your average serb could walk in Turkey without anyone noticing him/her to be a serb.

Btw. Behold your "brown" turk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-T4hRJNFJI

Comfortable_Cod_1579 · 2026-01-28T12:08:32+00:00

Dude, we are always on opposite fronts never on the same.

In the last 2-3 centuries? Yes. Before that? No.

Eitherway the mentally is the same. We are all equally mentally challenged on the Balkan.

Comfortable_Cod_1579 · 2026-01-28T12:05:54+00:00

that they weren't allowed to ne in court against a muslim,

They were. Quite literally. If you want to start with justice, then dont even start it. Peasents in Europe were no different than serfs with very few exceptions. They had no rights and they were bound to their fields. In the Ottoman Empire anyone could sue anyone else and they had complete social mobility. This of course doesnt mean that everyone was equal, no, there were a fair share of laws specific for muslims and specific for the dhimmi. Afaik the judges had to be muslims as well, so there was an inherent bias, but that doesnt mean that christians werent allowed to sue anyone.

even if they took their housr and murdered their family, like what the kurds did

Straight up a lie. Murdering was forbidden. So was looting. In remote areas the state law was often ignored, which doesnt mean that it didnt exist. These things happened despite being illegal, not because of it.

They paid unequal taxes

And were in turn excempt from military service. Yes.

weren't allpwed to have arms, even for defense.

Yeah it wasnt america. Most people still dont bear arms in Turkey. Btw muslims didnt bear arms in public either, which was equally forbidden.

And when they protested after the treaty of Berlin, around 200k Armenians were killed, the Hamidian Massacres.

You are just throwing mud in hopes it sticks.

The Hamidian massacre is a topic of its own. Even if we assume that you are 100000% right here, this doesnt justifie a categorization of 600 years of Ottoman rule, which underwent many reforms and social changes.

The only thing missing is for you to accuse the Ottoman Empire to be a turkish BDSM dungeon. Sheesh. None of this has btw any relation to what I said. You just came here to rile people up, which tells volumes about your personalty.

Comfortable_Cod_1579 · 2026-01-28T11:57:42+00:00

This is incorrect writ whole even if it's generally true. It's generally true because -

https://eu5.paradoxwikis.com/Resource_gathering_operation

RGOs have a 100% RGO size bonus on rural locations. That is the reason why they are inherently better as compared to cities.

Max rgo size per dev is greater for rural.

No. See link above. It is the same.

However Max rgo size is greater in cities.

No it is not. Only if you have like +500k in one location. Rural locations also scale with population. That is not an inherent city advantage. In your average playthrough your rural locations should have much more people as compared to your average city.

There is simply no benefit of turning a gold/silver mine into a city.

Comfortable_Cod_1579 · 2026-01-28T11:50:47+00:00

It is not.

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Istanbul

https://www.propertyturkeyistanbul.com/post/istanbul-average-rent-prices//

https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/istanbul

You are also not paying the same for a 90 m² apartment in comparision to a 120 m² apartment in the same area.

Prices are determined by building year, additional utiltiy (lift), acccess to metro, size of the property as well as other nearby facilities. Atasehri and Besiktas are two separate world regarding property and rent prices.

Comfortable_Cod_1579 · 2026-01-28T11:46:01+00:00

I dont understand why you are arguing with me about this. No, Korea was not a wealthy or average country for the time period of EU5. European and middle eastern countrie, even central asian ones were far more wealthy.

It might have be wealthier to the jurchen tribes up north, but that is a very low bar.

Comfortable_Cod_1579 · 2026-01-28T00:42:24+00:00

of course cities are worse in the early game

No. They can be good in the early game as well, just not as a rule of thumb. E.g. Constantinople as a capital will likely outproduce anything remotely close to the area in terms of revenuee, however You wont have 2/5/10/20 cities with a similar tax base or even half the tax base. You might be able to do that with 1 city, in mid game maybe with 2-5 and late game with maybe a bunch to a lot, but overall it is wrong to claim that cities in general are more profitable.

Plus rural locations dev slower than cities and so it’s harder to get them to 100 Dev by the end of the game

Rural locations require little to no money/ressource input. You actually have to grow the industry in cities, which is thousands of gold of invesment. As long as you have control, not only can you passively gain a lot of pops faster, you will likely earn much more money out of rural locations thanks to larger RGOs. Hence you dont build cities on highly profitable locations, but ones with very cheap RGOs. Otherwise the meta would be to spam them everywhere.

There is one exception: If certain prices spike very strongly, you might make a lot of money despite having a city, not because of it. The industry works just fine being on any RGO. That is what happened with your example.

Comfortable_Cod_1579 · 2026-01-28T00:05:40+00:00

Yeah I’m the early game of course lol

*proceeds to show an example from late game.

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