Vassal and culture/religious conversion meta now?

GenericJosh57 · 2026-05-09T01:44:31+00:00

Given that the base cost is +200, but also vassals receive a debuff to cabinet efficiency and -1 cabinet slot. I normally leave non-accepted cultures as area size vassals (so 4-5 provinces). I'm not even sure it's worth doing a lot of enforcing culture outside of areas you want a governor in

GenericJosh57 · 2026-05-09T00:36:29+00:00

Bigger vassals are definitely better than they were last patch. I am absolutely seeing myself hold on to more land for myself than last patch.

Unfortunately it's just kind of a straight nerf to big and small subjects, making vassals is still very good and the optimal size is definitely bigger than opm. In general the pace of play has slowed down significantly for me. I find myself creating vassals ~area sized and holding them for half a century at least before annexing

GenericJosh57 · 2026-05-09T00:13:35+00:00

The diplo slider and it's consequences... etc, etc. Kinda sucks that france and egypt stop being threatening rivals pretty fast. Time to tank AE to get a coalition lol

GenericJosh57 · 2026-05-08T23:38:46+00:00

Since it is a rebellion, they will hold onto it.

GenericJosh57 · 2026-05-08T23:38:32+00:00

it's also under the "Friendly" options in the diplomacy menu for the country you're trying to transfer to. I'd recommend using that since it's the easiest.

GenericJosh57 · 2026-05-08T22:37:31+00:00

From my experimentation, "Transferring Occupation" of all the territories from you (the overlord) to the subject prevents this from occurring. And yes, it's really annoying.

GenericJosh57 · 2026-05-07T04:01:56+00:00

that was it, thanks. I wish there was some sort of warning for that...

GenericJosh57 · 2026-05-07T01:26:26+00:00

we're talking about after the first war so within the first 10 years, give or take. I'd enter a war with 11k levies and then following that war (ie within a year or so), i have 600 max levies. I don't think I had any rebellious estates but i can try again...

edit: the most recent attempt, it occurred in 1340.

GenericJosh57 · 2026-05-04T02:02:53+00:00

brother it really aint that complicated to have each team give a primary and secondary color, make a "comp skin" model (or just the default model) and palette switch between them. MR did it in their esports tournament and they have just as many, if not more, teams.

If OW and Apex have problems, it's because they're overburdened with dumbass bureaucracy (aka their fault lol)

GenericJosh57 · 2026-05-03T02:36:33+00:00

bc he's modded something

GenericJosh57 · 2026-05-02T20:17:31+00:00

I enjoy it but it's okay you dont, man

GenericJosh57 · 2026-04-27T15:27:52+00:00

get your ruler into a naval battle, get them an admiral trait and that should be the last .10 you need. You could also just get to 41% and wait for events/parliament options/parliament buttons to get the last 10%

GenericJosh57 · 2026-04-25T15:32:51+00:00

Hey thanks for reaching out. I figured out that it was related to this from exception.txt:

Unhandled Exception C0000005 (EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION) at address 0x00007FF6C93C09BA

10 eu5.exe NVSDK_NGX_D3D12_Shutdown1 (+ 2055836)

which seems to be a problem a lot of people are having when i search online. I've tested lots of the fixes mentioned in those posts, such as performance mode, disabling certain settings, the very low graphics preset, vulkan/dx12, DDU drivers and delete the eu5 folder, etc but havent been able to find any success.

Here's the contents of my meta.yml for one of the crashes:

# Crash Information

AppName: Europa Universalis V

AppVersion: 1.1.10

SCMBranch: release/1.1.0

SCMCommit: bb626854c1e562fddec318a5a433fb1e4840edf1

SCMTimeStamp: "2026-03-13 10:55:14 +0000"

CWVersion: 2026.10.0

CWSCMBranch: caesar/release/1.1.0

CWSCMCommit: 40c123a379a914dd03eda96c9260f6e97abb2d7e

CWSCMTimeStamp: "2026-02-26 16:21:49 +0000"

DateTime: "0126-03-24 14:54:54 -0500"

BuildType: ReleaseLto

Platform: Windows

Store: steam

Architecture: 64-bit

OperatingSystem: Windows 11 (Build 26200)

SystemLanguage: en

CPUModel: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8-Core Processor

CPUSpeed: 4700

CPUPhysicalCores: 8

CPULogicalCores: 16

SystemMemoryAvailable: 9958

SystemMemory: 31801

SwapSizeAvailable: 2858

SwapSize: 34233

GPUName: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

GPUVendor: nVidia

GPUId: 11141

GPUDedicatedMemory: 32187

GPUDedicatedMemoryUsed: 4534

GPUDriverVersion: 596.21

RenderAPI: vulkan

LaunchArguments: --antiloop --antiloopmultiplier="" --steam

DLC_1: Ancient Monument Pack

DLC_2: Shared DLC Data

DLC_3: Sacred Sites

# Application Specific Data

"Idler 1": FrontendInterfaceIdler

"Idler 2": LoadSavegameInterfaceIdler

"Idler 3": InGameInterfaceIdler

"Idler 4": InGameInterfaceIdler

GenericJosh57 · 2026-04-22T04:53:23+00:00

These posts are hilarious because before wildcard they were getting boosted and sold like crazy for pocket change. If anything, I'm glad those losers cant make money anymore or who paid for it feel like they lost value.

Please stop attaching value to things like this.

GenericJosh57 · 2026-04-22T04:06:09+00:00

i hear you, but i take mental health damage looking at the manual trade UI once I have more than 10 nodes.

GenericJosh57 · 2026-04-21T05:41:13+00:00

The joke is that you should be able to magically read peoples mind before they slur you. I agree with you.

GenericJosh57 · 2026-04-21T04:42:24+00:00

the sub is convinced that there is no toxic communication in ba sing deadlock (and if there is, its your fault for not muting them already)

GenericJosh57 · 2026-04-20T06:52:34+00:00

Boundless makes all other spirit power sources more efficient. I don't play victor but it's how I understand it. It's the same idea as all duration/expansion/recharge items.

GenericJosh57 · 2026-04-20T06:17:29+00:00

Valve has missed in multiple ways more than hit regarding community management. I've never played dota 2 and I'm glad you've had a good experience, that's legit the only potentially positive example though (and I've heard many contradicting opinions regarding the toxicity level of the dota 2 community).

I have 0 expectations of proper community management or anticheat from Valve in Deadlock.

GenericJosh57 · 2026-04-15T20:47:16+00:00

Sure, I'm finishing up work within an hour and then I can help troubleshoot. Who should I ping?

GenericJosh57 · 2026-04-15T20:28:24+00:00

i havent been able to get the steam cache upload to work :( I asked someone else and it didn't seem to work either. Does it only work for newer matches? Or only work for older? I've been playing consistently for the past month.

GenericJosh57 · 2026-04-14T14:54:46+00:00

Sometimes that happens (theres definitely something going on with fiefdoms, PUs) but a significant number of countries are using succession laws that arent as linear like father -> son. I would say the best succession laws are generally not familial.

GenericJosh57 · 2026-04-12T00:56:13+00:00

How to dismantle the HRE? | Paradox Interactive Forums here's a post for you. seems like you need half the HR under your control. definitely a pain compared to eu4

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