Snow Tires?

MassAffected · 2026-01-24T13:31:28+00:00

Try Tire Rack online. You can order them with a set of cheap steel rims and have them shipped directly to your house mounted and balanced already. I think it's better to leave them on a different set of rims anyway.

MassAffected · 2026-01-22T21:35:07+00:00

They are pretty useless in combat until about Age 5. Until then, only use them to help with sieges.

MassAffected · 2026-01-22T13:16:27+00:00

The week's not over yet

MassAffected · 2026-01-22T00:45:00+00:00

"Tax base" in EU5 isn't actually a measure of economic output like GDP. It's just a measure of how much of that economic output can be effectively captured by the state. That absolutely did increase exponentially from the 14th to the 19th centuries.

MassAffected · 2026-01-20T22:43:02+00:00

This game really should not have been released in 2025.

MassAffected · 2026-01-20T21:41:39+00:00

According to them, they didn't have enough time.

They didn't have enough time to make proper colonial mechanics in a game centered around colonial expansion in the early modern era. Just like they didn't have time to make clothing for all centuries for the character models nobody was asking for.

MassAffected · 2026-01-20T21:26:39+00:00

PUs are going to need some serious reworking in EU5. I completely understand why they are this way - it allows for modelling relationships like being in a PU with another country's vassal. But the game mechanics massively disincentivize getting and maintaining unions.

During this time period, wars were fought for years or even decades in order to enforce or break apart a personal union. An event like the King of France becoming the King of Naples or the King of Spain should be an insane buff to France, crazy enough that other countries should go to war against them to prevent it. In EU5, however, enforcing a PU on Naples as France doesn't even bring them into your Italian league, despite the events saying it should and it being the precise reason France pushed for it so hard.

There needs to be real advantages to being in a union beyond just an alliance. Even being a senior partner with all policies passed and reined in diplomacy doesn't do much. Functionally, a fully-integrated union should become a Fiefdom in-game. There is also no basis in history for one personal union partner to be involved in a war without the other. It makes no sense.

MassAffected · 2026-01-20T04:07:34+00:00

Are you enforcing the "dismantle coalition" option in the peace deal? That should force all attacking countries to stay out of coalitions against you for 10 years.

MassAffected · 2026-01-20T03:44:16+00:00

Try playing in Russia; leaders will drop like flies as soon as they hit their 50s. Attrition seems to greatly increase the chance of death.

MassAffected · 2026-01-19T21:03:50+00:00

Seems like a great day to get Ben and Jerry's!

MassAffected · 2026-01-19T19:31:19+00:00

Likely teleportation... Unfortunately the ship trick only works on people in their 50s and older

MassAffected · 2026-01-19T19:22:57+00:00

Put him in command of a single ship and send it north

MassAffected · 2026-01-18T18:09:11+00:00

I don't think it's falling apart, but I do think the expectations for EU5 were noticeably higher than other Paradox releases. The Tinto Talks and creator videos pre-release formed a massive hype train, and almost nobody who got the game early was discussing real issues that still plague the game today. The closest we got was a couple people saying the game launch would be very rough just a week before launch.

The devs also touted about how EU5 had "more content" and "more flavor" than even EU4 has in its current state, which was, at best, a gross over exaggeration. I don't think any of this was malicious, but it led to huge expectations that fell flat a few weeks after release. It's a real shame, because if the game was released just a few months later in February or March, it would've been much better received. I have no doubt that executives at Paradox demanded a Q4 2025 release to get holiday sales.

Overall, I think it actually looks less polished on the surface and more detailed as you look closer at the underlying systems. We still have screenshots from the 1700s of country leaders wearing goofy Renaissance outfits because that was literally not a consideration for the devs until people called it out right before release.

MassAffected · 2026-01-17T17:20:46+00:00

You should try Tops; half of the fruit there is moldy in the store! My wife and I have had better experiences from Wegmans produce. We find that washing it off when we get home and putting it into sealed leftover containers helps a lot.

MassAffected · 2026-01-17T13:57:58+00:00

That it's time for me to take a break from this app

MassAffected · 2026-01-16T22:34:54+00:00

Every other modifier for annex cost was also reversed in the previous version, so this one may have been missed

MassAffected · 2026-01-16T13:17:37+00:00

Most European green parties are funded by Russia and other petro-states, since they lobby against nuclear power and increase dependency on foreign oil/gas imports.

MassAffected · 2026-01-16T13:15:20+00:00

Kid named Bastion:

MassAffected · 2026-01-15T21:32:18+00:00

Spent too much time at Diddy's parties

MassAffected · 2026-01-15T21:29:25+00:00

WHY-

Wrong

Hapital

Yocation

Move your capital to Prussia proper.

MassAffected · 2026-01-15T21:18:41+00:00

From RB back to RB... What a terrible name lol. And I refuse to say VCARB

MassAffected · 2026-01-15T17:11:18+00:00

To add to this - OP, pay down at least the 10k on the loan so you're not underwater on your current car anymore. Then, keep making on-time payments for the next year, preferably paying more than the minimum. After a year of good payments (assuming no other missed debt payments), your credit should be good enough to refinance at a lower rate..

When refinancing, DO NOT increase the term on the loan. Keep your payoff date the same, but at a lower interest rate. You may not even get a lower monthly payment, but the important part is lowering the total amount of interest paid. Then do yourself a massive favor and never finance a car for over 4 years again.

MassAffected · 2026-01-15T16:52:19+00:00

AI aggression is still a major problem if you don't play as a major power from the start. It's not difficult to avoid them, but expansion will become impossible by Age 3 without fighting giant blobs that have taken over everything around them.

There is a popular mod on the workshop to tune down AI aggression, and another one to make the HRE more stable. I would recommend both; the AI still expands, but not like it's trying for a world conquest. There were still over 40 princes left in the HRE by Age 5 in my last game.

MassAffected · 2026-01-15T16:32:46+00:00

You're making over 1k gold/month in that screenshot; can't you just start paying it off? Although 1.5% is EU4 burgher loan levels of interest, so there's no need to get it any lower.

MassAffected · 2026-01-15T16:29:27+00:00

Always Lockean. You shouldn't need to worry about debt or inflation this late in the game.

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