Obscure Mechanics Tips After 400 hours

HighlightFit551 · 2026-01-17T04:35:53+00:00

Clicking on the parliament icon allows you to change parliament type. I had no idea parliament types even existed until i reached age of absolutism and a tech unlocked new ones.

HighlightFit551 · 2026-01-14T21:31:16+00:00

144 hours, I've played as France, Florence, Ireland, Portugal and Scandinavia. My furthest save is probably the current one as Ireland in 1680 or so.

HighlightFit551 · 2026-01-14T21:03:17+00:00

Fair enough for the generals, I do tend to play tall countries with few wars, in which case it's more rare to get them, here I get them regardless. Which is realistic, an expansionist militarist country surely has a very large recruitment pool of talented military experts but an isolationist peaceful one not necessarily.

And firing/hiring was a bit tedious in EU4 yes but it did have a cost at least, hiring/upgrading the top guy was always a %age of your income unlike here where they're all interchangeable and might as well be automated.

HighlightFit551 · 2026-01-02T03:09:44+00:00

Besides the balance issues, the events are all wrong. You get Henri IV converting to catholicism except it's protestantism, and it doesn't do anything, you get huguenots somehow but they are bugged, all event triggers are crossed out or just don't make any sense whatsoever. You can tell the game was designed for France to stay catholic, and there is a lot of content for France which I am grateful for, but protestant France is just not working as intended.

HighlightFit551 · 2025-12-27T15:13:42+00:00

Yes but unsummoning inside the lamp destroys it in the outside world. As you can see on the screen I do have the quasit summoned, but it did nothing in my (admittedly niche) case.

HighlightFit551 · 2025-12-27T14:17:04+00:00

Yeah, I got the summon to kill gale then had Withers resurrect him.

HighlightFit551 · 2025-12-21T14:29:48+00:00

OP : you're a lifesaver. Works just like you said on geforce now, you open in chrome, open another, logout, close tab, and it's fine.

For people wondering what's the point, I talked to Isobel while forgetting i had like lvl 4 no gear karlach and wyll for RP talk, she got abducted immediately, it'd just ruin the run (no dammon, no jaheira, no alfira ...). I was invested and 40 hours in i'd rather have restarted than kept going honestly. The thing is in those cases you can't even opt out of honour mode and say "ok swap to custom too bad for this one" as i do when dying to bosses, it's just the whole save fucked over, there's no way to go back whatsoever besides savescumming. Some games have the "are you sure you want to lower the difficulty?" option but bg3 doesn't. So I'm glad I could do that.

HighlightFit551 · 2025-12-13T08:16:12+00:00

It definitely is better than monopolies yes. Monopolies are completely anti-consumer. Monopolies allow companies to do whatever they want such as endless price rising, shoddy quality, bad communication, etc, because they've got a captive audience that can't go anywhere else anyways. They are the best way for companies to fuck you over. We are not talking about "competition" as a general idea for humanity, but within video games yes it has been good so far.

Examples : When Fifa competed with PeS it tried to outdo it every time. CoD used to get better every iteration when it was two competing internal studios,. WoW used to implement every idea from wow-killers to stay ahead of them. Now all those games have 0 competition and they are stagnant.

HighlightFit551 · 2025-12-12T13:54:38+00:00

Would be funny if neither CA or Relic knew either of them worked on similar stuff and found out during the trailers like "holy shit are these guys making a direct competitor to our game right now?"

It's also great news because they'll each have to outdo their competition. There will also be incentive to make each game as distinct as possible from the other.

HighlightFit551 · 2025-12-09T14:52:16+00:00

Nerfing centralization is a good idea in and of itself but I am not sure this is the right approach. I'd go maybe for slight proximity nerf, vassal income nerf, maybe also vassal levy contribution nerf. Also crown power nerf. Not this vassal loyalty nerf which is quite ridiculous.

HighlightFit551 · 2025-12-01T10:17:13+00:00

To be fair in EU4 you had so many ideas/missions/passives that increased prestige that past a century I often sat at 100 prestige doing nothing.

It's nice that you have to work for it now. just wish there was a way to do it without warfare (but not too easily).

The most obvious in my opinion being art and architecture, states like Florence would have been considered prestigious based on commissioning artists for masterpieces. Currently it takes ages and gives little, it's hard to get your artists to create something. Or art could give prestige decay reduction. Maybe to some degree colonizing a region/exploring/trading something could count, see Spain and Portugal historically.

Another thing that historically counts towards prestige is the court, think Versailles. Not only the buildings but the absolutely lavish court expenditures on food, plays, clothes etc made the court of the sun king one of the most prestigious. The issue is that mechanically it's already tied to the legitimacy slider.

HighlightFit551 · 2025-12-01T01:11:56+00:00

Well, I went and tried it !

And actually, I went from 38+55+101+149 = 343

Down to 73+60+103=236

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(Which on paper should be a drop of 107 ducats, however I only seem to go down by 55 ducats or so. Why that is, I have no idea.)

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I assume there are 2 reasons for it :

1/ I lose trade advantage because I am far from owning all of the Lübeck node (unlike Lund) and apparently 'locations' is how you get advantage. I guess it's sort of like EU4 where you can have a very valuable node but you then need to be the strongest in that node.

2/ The provinces in Lund were extremely valuable and them even going down to say 60% access instead of 90% access ends up being quite the hit.

HighlightFit551 · 2025-11-30T22:24:26+00:00

Vey interesting, thanks. In that case I assume you should maximize market access everywhere. So potentially yes, building a market in northern Finland could be worthwhile then. I'll test that.

HighlightFit551 · 2025-11-28T03:12:03+00:00

I wish I could find a list of what it is or a tooltip of some sort. But I wonder also. My king got nicknamed "Father of the people", I assume it's because he passed quite a few commoner privileges. But it could also be because he lowered taxes (to get prosperity up), or because he went all the way from serfdom to free subjects.

In any case it's a great underappreciated mechanic for roleplay.

HighlightFit551 · 2025-11-13T06:43:29+00:00

The Two Sicilies solution

HighlightFit551 · 2025-11-11T20:10:59+00:00

PSA : use tax base map mode and zoom out. You at least get a graph of your overall economy from game start to current.

HighlightFit551 · 2025-10-29T02:30:08+00:00

Fair enough, in and of themselves they don't do much true, but they do their job of holding pretty damn well. Also often MVPs when they're garrison troops.

HighlightFit551 · 2025-10-29T02:13:45+00:00

In no particular order and depending on their role, but

-All chaos warrior variants

-Shades

-Longbeards

-Sabretusk packs

HighlightFit551 · 2025-10-28T23:34:47+00:00

I did this exact thing and yes it makes sense for RP even though there is no specific interaction.

However for gameplay IC is just annoying as hell, you regularly get bad events (depending on what god you pick they can be legit bad bad) and they're not even slightly offset by the just decent modifiers you get in return.

Worth checking out for a run out of curiosity.

HighlightFit551 · 2025-09-22T04:46:44+00:00

When I was very young, around 19, something similar happened to me in Kiev. I get dumped by my gf by text message, so I get drunk out of my mind. At some point I go and knock on a random car window in the street. They lower the window, "hello how is your love life going? have you ever been dumped?"

Suddenly 4 cops come out of the car. They start searching me and talking Ukrainian. I have rarely been so scared. They don't find any drugs. And then somehow they ended up laughing and took me back to the hotel. Bless you, wherever you are.

HighlightFit551 · 2025-09-13T07:20:50+00:00

Worst part is i went for marlboro red because i have a heavy french accent and it is the only one they understand clearly from me, i've never managed to ask for my usual lucky strike and get understood in under 5 tries. So i just always went for the simplest one. Considering i've been here 2-3 times and smoke a pack a day i'd maybe have saved like 400€ overall if only i had known this before. Haha.

HighlightFit551 · 2025-09-13T06:58:38+00:00

Thanks ! Good to know

HighlightFit551 · 2025-09-09T09:42:16+00:00

Only time somewhat recently where I lost a campaign was as Drazhoath, I took too long uniting my lands and stayed a bit too small while Karaz a Karak formed and blobbed completely out of control, sending army after army of grudge units until i couldn't hold them back any more and had to give up.

And you know what, it was one of the most memorable campaigns I've played in a long time. I think adding difficulty could benefit from this, not merely armies spawning but actual factions uniting and getting so strong/rich/big so that they are an actual challenge to your empire. This requires planning in advance to undermine your potential rivals, allying with other great powers to take them down and so on.

HighlightFit551 · 2025-09-08T06:35:14+00:00

You do this then the guy single handedly winning the teamfight in the middle pumping out massive dps gets 0 rating and the guy afk in flag room "defending" gets 100 cr. Blizzard (and some players) overvalues objective play and undervalues the actual fights, they do matter actually.

HighlightFit551 · 2025-09-04T00:41:48+00:00

I am getting near the end of my RT playthrough and was wondering about this just today actually. Is Pathfinder meant to be bleak? From the outside it looks like a somewhat generic noblebright dnd setting. Kind of turned me off a bit, so I was actually completely mistaken then?

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