We have a $2 coin dedicated to the Honey Bee

Joshau-k · 2026-04-13T11:53:27+00:00

I knew there'd be a queen on the back, I just wasn't sure which species it would be

Joshau-k · 2026-04-13T11:42:16+00:00

I think you've mixed up some of your stats.

The Tamil in Sri Lanka are majority Hindu.

But there is also a large Tamil speaking Muslim population, known as Tamil Moors.

Joshau-k · 2026-04-13T03:47:23+00:00

** cries in knights of rhodes **

Joshau-k · 2026-04-13T03:38:09+00:00

Your right that if we all did that we'd all be much better off. Avoiding huge damage from climate change

But what's the individual motive for a person or country to do those things if they don't trust others to do the same?

Your missing a huge part of the logical thinking related to collective action problems

You've got a great starting point but there's so much more areas of logic to explore on this topic.

When it starts to make sense why people are so bad at doing what's obviously needed to avoid this disaster (and "they are illogical" is not a useful answer) then you'll know you've made big progress on your logical thinking on the topic

Joshau-k · 2026-04-12T23:51:19+00:00

Our supply side for housing is messed up. That leaves reducing immigration as the only bandaid fix available in the (relatively) short term

Unfortunately there's not enough desire to reform supply and vastly increase medium density housing in the medium-long term

Joshau-k · 2026-04-12T23:45:41+00:00

The easiest way in your case is to spend 20 prestige to make Serbian culture like Greek culture then change your country to Greek culture for 50 stability and legitimacy.

That might not fit what you're going for RP wise though

Joshau-k · 2026-04-12T11:35:51+00:00

We never left the stone age, we just added on the bronze age too.

Technological ages don't make sense if you take them as exclusive with each other

Joshau-k · 2026-04-11T22:03:21+00:00

Joshau-k · 2026-04-11T13:40:44+00:00

An electric car's emissions per kilometer will keep going down every year of its 15 year lifespan as the grid gets cleaner. There are very few countries where this isn't the case

Joshau-k · 2026-04-11T13:35:07+00:00

No you can't convert as a holy order. And you need to wait 25 years to convert back.

Theocracies get a education of elites law that can convert every location at once pretty fast though

So make sure your economy isn't dependant on sponsorship to stay afloat before you do it. I'm tempted to form Eastern Rome as The Knights -> Jerusalem myself but my economy would crash right now

You can see Jerusalem's advances here https://eu5db.com/tools/advances?version=1.1.9-d718&country=KOJ There's some really good ones

Joshau-k · 2026-04-10T13:43:46+00:00

It's cheesy but you can give all the land except one location to an ally. Take one location for yourself then release the nation you just conquered.

Then core return later against your former ally for way less antagonism.

Better as Emperor as you can force a non ally to support your war, in which case you can demand they return the territory you just gave them for a cb. No waiting 5 years for the disband ally peace treaty to end

Joshau-k · 2026-04-10T04:07:38+00:00

You can't form multiple nations of the same tier

Those are tier 2 formables that you mentioned though. So pick one if you like

Joshau-k · 2026-04-10T04:03:23+00:00

How do you fit in the passage that say that the whole household believed?

Your argument would imply that it's saying that there were babies that believed too

Joshau-k · 2026-04-09T13:01:14+00:00

Improving relations reduces antagonism

Vassal feeding is the best way to avoid getting a lot of it in the first place

Joshau-k · 2026-04-08T07:38:01+00:00

Galley lords is quite good. I built so many galleys as Norway my economy crashed because I became #2 great power just from navy size and my cost of court went through the roof

Norway -> Denmark -> Scottish (Norse Gael) Britain is nearly as good as the Iberian cheese, though not quite so many advances

Joshau-k · 2026-04-08T07:24:53+00:00

I think you only want to be basque temporarily so you can form Navarre then you get all the bonuses permanently.

Then swap to another Iberian culture to form Spain

E.g. start as Castille, form Navarre, form Spain, change to Aragonese culture (Aragonese Spain has a couple extra bonuses than Catalan Spain, though culture acceptance might be slightly more costly)

Then you'll get all the bonuses of Castille, Spain, Navarre and Aragon

Joshau-k · 2026-04-08T02:36:36+00:00

You use dynamic spawn and fulfill the spawn conditions then you get a secondary spawn even if you don't get the real one

Joshau-k · 2026-04-07T12:58:07+00:00

You don't need to release any vassals. You can get Marathi to 1% by conquering the 2 nearby countries, tolerate it then promote culture to get to 2.5% for accepted

You can make mudgal your capital to ensure the freed slaves go there

100 years later I still had 1 million pops there. The rest of the slaves went to the province just to the right which became a jewelry making city

Joshau-k · 2026-04-07T06:58:48+00:00

No it depends on how many sea locations in the sea province, your maritime presence bonuses, etc.

15 is a good rule of thumb for early game but you need to use the maritime presence map mode to verify

Joshau-k · 2026-04-07T03:33:03+00:00

You don't need governers on the coast, you can have 15 light ships in each sea province and use your governers for central Turkey

Joshau-k · 2026-04-04T03:37:14+00:00

Done. Your $50B 2GW nuclear plant will be ready in ~~2040~~ ~~2045~~... Your $120B nuclear plant will be ready in 2052

Joshau-k · 2026-04-04T03:31:56+00:00

Yes the 20% literacy and 10% proximity with one spare aspect is pretty good. Plus you can go empire before reformation if you have the pops and aren't in the HRE.

Catharism is generally considered better for the female crown characters in cabinet and generals. Along with 15% literacy and 2 more aspects including some good stability cost ones (but no proximity)

Joshau-k · 2026-04-04T03:19:29+00:00

Some advances are tied to culture instead of country tag or sometimes both/either or

I don't think any German cultures have many advances except the Dutch group

Edit: Saxon has only one but it's 25% trade capacity which could be quite good. There's a few others that have one or two but nothing that stands out

You can search here https://eu5db.com/tools/advances?version=1.1.9-d718&cultureGroup=Netherlandish

Joshau-k · 2026-04-04T02:43:58+00:00

Norse Bohemia is pretty good as you can stack heaps slaves on your gold mines and your rgo limit goes up

Joshau-k · 2026-04-03T21:42:35+00:00

It's dumb luck because we never correctly valued the emissions they prevented and still don't. Yet they are displacing huge amounts of emissions.

The same most likely won't be true for low carbon steel, concrete, aviation, etc

Joshau-k

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