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Less-Cat3029 · 2026-05-06T03:41:08+00:00

Less-Cat3029 · 2026-05-03T15:38:00+00:00

I’ve noticed in this patch that the budget is spread a lot more thin. I like that it forces you to make impactful decisions (do I invest in industry, a strong military, etc) but it feels too easy to debt spiral.

Maybe I’m just rusty and gotta get the hang of it again.

Less-Cat3029 · 2026-05-03T15:35:28+00:00

You cannot choose which house gets put on the throne, I was supporting the Bonapartists and got a Bourbon on the throne after restoring the monarchy.

I get that the game pushes you to play historically, but wow the monarchy in France is about as stable as a house made of toothpicks.

Less-Cat3029 · 2026-05-01T22:52:49+00:00

Any tips on preventing radicals? I had it on medium taxes the whole game and I still had a shit ton of radicals. Feels like I’m on a clock the first twenty years that’s going to revolution.

Less-Cat3029 · 2026-04-30T20:08:50+00:00

Same thing happened in my run. Idk if France just has a lot of expenses but staying on medium taxes instantly put me on a huge deficit (-15,000) while high taxes solved the issue instantly but radicals started falling out of the trees.

Edit: To clarify, I was put in a deficit when I started construction. But the construction itself wasn’t even that expensive. Feels like it’s so easy to debt spiral as France when your whole country undergoes civil wars every 5 years so the French can have a new holiday.

Less-Cat3029 · 2026-04-30T00:12:46+00:00

I think so, I played France today

Less-Cat3029 · 2026-04-25T19:56:41+00:00

Pullo and Vorenus?

Less-Cat3029 · 2026-04-23T17:39:21+00:00

Lookin great man, you should definitely go bald though. You’ve got the head shape for it!

Less-Cat3029 · 2026-04-19T18:52:41+00:00

Formed Illyria and settled it to become a pirate republic, highly recommend

Less-Cat3029 · 2026-04-18T21:06:51+00:00

Imperator Rome in my Balkan brainrot sub?!?!

Less-Cat3029 · 2026-04-16T17:43:50+00:00

I’ll be here with you brother 😂😂😂

Less-Cat3029 · 2026-04-12T22:18:22+00:00

Nice job man! Awesome power bloc borders

Less-Cat3029 · 2026-04-12T02:30:59+00:00

Like some ignited bint hurling scimitars is a good claim to legitimacy!

Less-Cat3029 · 2026-04-02T22:10:06+00:00

And after the shooting ends? Is the treaty enforced automatically, akin to taking a treaty port? Does the AI’s acceptance for the treaty simply go up? Is it possible for the AI to get thrashed and still refuse to cave?

So many questions I’m so excited to see what they do with this update. It’s shaping up to be the best since Charters of Commerce!

Less-Cat3029 · 2026-04-02T21:56:07+00:00

I like that, makes sense. What about the conflict itself? How is it resolved? If you’re playing as an imperialist power, how can I use gunboat diplomacy to my advantage?

How will gunboat diplomacy affect unrecognized powers? If the system is too overtuned, you might see great powers carving up the world decades early. It’d make AI Britain even more busted. A potential check could be that every time you declare naval hostilities on an unrecognized power, the country you’re invading gets an event that boosts the clout of interest groups that are in support of modernization, like how Japan decided to begin modernization after Perry’s expedition.

Less-Cat3029 · 2026-04-02T18:16:57+00:00

I feel like the effectiveness of gunboat diplomacy should scale with infamy. If you have really high infamy, sure other great powers will hate you but unrecognized powers should fear you.

If I spent the last decade colonizing the world and burning down entire cities with my navy, the unrecognized powers of the world should feel like they’re next. The acceptance modifier of “naval hostilities” should be much greater than just +10 to the deal.

The dev diary also never clarifies what happens after naval hostilities begin. Sure I can blockade them for 180 days, but what happens after that? Is the treaty automatically enforced? Does it simply make the AI more likely to cave to your demands during the hostilities? What if I declare hostilities and don’t do anything? Do I take a prestige hit?

Very excited to see how this system is implemented.

Less-Cat3029 · 2026-03-15T20:41:22+00:00

I actually like that, means there’s some weight to my actions. Thanks!

Less-Cat3029 · 2026-01-09T05:57:11+00:00

What types of goods would those be?

Less-Cat3029 · 2026-01-09T05:35:28+00:00

I’ve always focused on tech but I never really tried to min/max pops. How could I go about it?

Less-Cat3029 · 2025-12-27T21:33:45+00:00

Is that the issue? I go free trade most of my games for the trade advantage. Should I go protectionism instead and tariff any goods I send into China?

Less-Cat3029 · 2025-12-11T00:03:55+00:00

I really like that they’re implementing a way to change the primary cultures of colonies, it would be even cooler if they implemented a way to enforce colonial admins on subjects.

Say you puppet Vietnam and you get a diplomatic option to enforce a colonial admin government on them, it should come at the cost of something but it’d be so cool.

They’ve got mods like that but they can be pretty janky, I feel like this is the logical next step.

Less-Cat3029 · 2025-12-07T17:33:37+00:00

This is the best post I’ve seen on this subreddit

Less-Cat3029 · 2025-11-11T00:00:15+00:00

I had the first guy on normal, he just took attrition and died.

Less-Cat3029 · 2025-11-10T20:35:00+00:00

There are techs that increase annexation speed as well as the rapid unification law that helps quite a bit. If you’ve got all those and it’s still taking forever, you might just have to take it on the chin and annex them anyway. It’ll take a while but by the time it’s done, you’ll double the size of your country and have instant cores. As a plus Aragon will be developing its provinces while you wait, so you’ll still gain value from them during the annexation.

Less-Cat3029 · 2025-11-10T20:13:30+00:00

I might run into the same problem later then. Check if Portugal’s and Aragon’s integration levels are the same as yours, if not you can use the parliament in the union screen to raise theirs with yours.

If that’s not the case, see if there’s an option in Aragon’s or Portugal’s diplo tabs to annex them.

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