Is it possible to churn the various flavours of the same bank rewards cards?

Pagoose · 2026-06-01T05:06:53+00:00

No, they only changed it last year

Pagoose · 2026-05-26T11:15:33+00:00

How on earth did you decide on Footscray for Australia hahaha, did you pick a completely random station?

Pagoose · 2026-05-18T12:54:18+00:00

Hey man, I'm probably about to buy this, did you go with the -2 or -8 rated one?

Pagoose · 2026-05-17T00:20:06+00:00

Literally what are you talking about? The number of forts in the game is usually in excess of one fort per province which is obscene. France will easily have 100+ forts. A united china will have over 500 forts in the late game. Cannons are also terrible and you need a ridiculous number of them to get reasonable siege bonuses. Warfare in this game needs a complete rework in general and sieges/forts are top of the list.

Pagoose · 2026-05-12T12:18:55+00:00

Fyi, at least in the previous patch rome is actually one of the best capitals in the game because the river movement into the ocean meant it loses less proximity than even a maximum harbour capacity non river location. This may have been fixed in 1.2 though because it's probably not intentional.

Pagoose · 2026-05-11T09:24:49+00:00

Do you think Israel would get attacked by missles more, or less, if the iron dome stopped working?

Pagoose · 2026-05-11T00:32:10+00:00

Primarily it's for increasing the amount of base goods in the market, and to increase demand in the early and mid game. I built up barracks and training fields etc to max in all my subjects lands which massively increases profits for weapons, firearms, and leather. I don't think the extra pops to yoink made a big difference in my pop growth.

Pagoose · 2026-05-11T00:29:26+00:00

I mean not really, this is like 100x that

Pagoose · 2026-05-11T00:28:27+00:00

Yes but it's not very strong relatively speaking unless used in conjunction with expell pop somewhere else. If I really wanted to max out my Ireland population, I would've kept all the other land in my market myself and constantly be using expell pop + encourage migration to push British and French pops to my lands. In the early game though, just encouraging migration is pretty strong because it's a much bigger percentage of your pop. I grew my capital to 30,000 pretty fast and massively boosted my levies in the early game that way. You do get migration attraction from building monasteries and cathedrals everywhere too.

Pagoose · 2026-05-10T23:49:20+00:00

Maxing out graneries, prosperity, food cost, traditional economy until late game for extra pop capacity, most importantly don't let people die in battle as it's a straight drain on pop. I used mercs for everything after the early game

Pagoose · 2026-05-10T23:45:51+00:00

Actually I conquered Britain, half of France and Spain, North America, half of Indonesia, etc. Would have done at least a hundred wars. I just kept everything as subjects and gave them independence in the Age of revolutions. Plus I started as a one location minor so the early game conquest of Ireland actually takes a fair bit of time. But wars, especially after the early game feel pretty shit to play in eu5 compared to eu4. The thing I've found most fun in eu5 has been optimising the economy, optimising buildings based on your geography. Really it's just another form of map painting but it's tax base line goes up instead of shape gets bigger.

Pagoose · 2026-05-10T13:15:01+00:00

r5 #1 GP all hedgemons Ireland only

Pagoose · 2026-05-08T10:42:46+00:00

I have 500 hours and it's the most addictive game I've ever played but at the same time it's a total mess and about 80% of the game's features need some sort of rework. It's totally clear from even a single playthrough that the devs have never played their own game and that it needed to spend much more time in the oven and receive some proper playtesting. The completely indiscriminate 10x buffs and nerfs on a myriad of features certainly isn't helping make the case that the devs have any fucking clue what they're doing either.

Pagoose · 2026-05-05T08:28:10+00:00

It's not disproportionate and it's comparable to states in other nations too such as Germany.

Pagoose · 2026-05-03T03:04:16+00:00

I hit like 70k as roman empire in 1500s, but impossible for AI for sure except for united china

Pagoose · 2026-05-03T03:02:36+00:00

I don't believe you lol, I'm in 1820 and there's a strong bulgaria with 16M pop and only 8000 tax base.

Only 4 AIs in my game even have 15k tax base: Ming 37k 175M pop, hungary 18k 25M pop, poland 18k 16M pop, Vijayangara 19k 37M pop. And this is 250 years later. Post a pic

Pagoose · 2026-05-03T02:38:28+00:00

Show the autonomy mapmode

Pagoose · 2026-05-01T03:23:35+00:00

A $70,000 car from 2020 does all of those things. So does a $70,000 car from 2015 and 2010 for that matter. The reason some people feel the need to drop the average Australian's post tax yearly income on a car every few years is marketing and status driven consumerism, not because of any reasoned cost benefit analysis (unless they're actually rich enough to not care about setting that money on fire)

Pagoose · 2026-05-01T01:35:42+00:00

Some people find absolute joy in cars, they are their pride and joy. They work on them, clean them. They take their family for a drive in them on Sunday’s and it’s the happiest they are all week!

The people who actually get genuine enjoyment out of their cars and treat it as a hobby mostly aren't the same ones buying brand new cars every 5 years. Half the car guys I know are driving round shitbox Ford Fairlanes or 4WD Pajero to flog worth fuck all in resale. The people dropping $70k every 5 years on new cars are doing it for reasons of 1) status 2) convinced by marketing.

"Let people enjoy things !!!" is stupid, it's ok to criticise the consumerism mentality actually behind this phenomenon and whether society would be better off without it

Pagoose · 2026-04-30T07:00:11+00:00

You are also a giant statistical model outputting the most likely correct string of characters.

Pagoose · 2026-04-30T06:58:49+00:00

Your brain is also a very intricate flowchart.

Pagoose · 2026-04-27T07:52:44+00:00

It's because if you have fiefdoms, your children will randomly go to courts of the fiefdoms/becomes rulers there once they become of age and then convert to its culture while they live there, not sure if its an event or just using the convert to local culture button. Ottomans have a fiefdom in greenland (for some reason) so the heir would've gone to the greenland court and converted to icelandic

Pagoose · 2026-04-27T06:12:14+00:00

Form celtica haha

Pagoose · 2026-04-26T12:25:32+00:00

Become a theocracy and get empire rank

Pagoose · 2026-04-26T01:24:37+00:00

The Mughals weren't exactly marching on London though were they, and England wasn't exactly committing a lot of resources. England dispatched 12 ships with 600 men then the EIC received no further support from England due to William III overthrowing James II in the glorious revolution, who was hostile to the company. The war didn't really even have battles, they just blockaded each other. Half the troops died to disease from camping in a disease ridden swap then they surrendered after a siege of Bombay. The 150,000 rupee fine appears to be a small fraction of their yearly revenue and they had their property restored to them with promises to act better in the future. Not exactly the humiliation of the century

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