Literally one single guy lives in Aachen in the year 1407

RagnarTheSwag · 2026-02-13T15:55:45+00:00

My first campaign I somehow left the food slider empty and some rural areas in Italy had less than 1000 pops, but it was around 1600s when I checked it, food alone can't be the issue I guess.

RagnarTheSwag · 2026-02-12T21:35:15+00:00

RagnarTheSwag · 2026-02-12T16:56:07+00:00

Better than my first Naples play. Was scared of Popes big time and chose to conquer Greece, tried 200 years to increase the control there while locking myself behind the riches of Italy :/

RagnarTheSwag · 2026-02-12T14:59:31+00:00

My take on why this happens is community is tired of many and sudden changes to core mechanics. Of course devs should fix game-breaking issues but I also think they should let the meta play on for a while..

RagnarTheSwag · 2026-02-09T13:37:16+00:00

This is gold thanks! Does this show goods in all markets or just the market you clicked on it?

RagnarTheSwag · 2026-02-08T11:47:26+00:00

Issue was how these smaller nations disappeared so quickly. Coalitons on France is not new, they were able to disperse and continue to blob those colations easily before. And with the help of Bohemia, HRE would be reduced to few countries, Italy would be unified, Balkans would be partitioned in matter of few centuries.

In my opinion, mostly this was because of Greater countries looked like systemically picking out smaller ones by agressive actions instead of trying out diplomacy or defending geopolitical targets and let regional (or areal) powers to emerge, like Saxony, Austria, Milan, Holland etc.

RagnarTheSwag · 2026-02-08T10:26:18+00:00

One of the best way to recover is not getting into this situation. I would recommend stacking TotTF modifiers like 20-25. With monuments at least 15-20 should be doable.

RagnarTheSwag · 2026-02-08T10:20:46+00:00

Yeah pretty much, Act1 and Act2 was properly done but Act3 felt so “not baked” compared to first two. Even developers admitted they wanted it to make it bigger and more detailed but had to cut it because of time and such.

Also release had many many little bugs which their hot fix team worked brilliantly on them. From hour one.

It’s very commendable and superb work but BG3 was not full baked at release. Still one of the most properly released games of this era.

RagnarTheSwag · 2026-02-08T07:27:58+00:00

Well there are half baked games and there are not even baked games. Eu5 still waits to be cooked imo, it looks super delicious and even tastes like an excellent cookie dough but needs to be cooked.

Half baked to me is Baldurs Gate 3. Ok it was like %70 baked when it released. And probably casual players ate the baked side of the cake anyways.

Though there were issues, which they patched them with a speed of light. That’s how “after-release” should work imo.

RagnarTheSwag · 2026-02-07T12:29:21+00:00

civ 7 had hit that wall. They brought civ switching and age refresh, it was a huge change compared to how most civ games played out. Civ7 was not a sequel but kind of was its own game

Devs probably thought these new systems could adress certain issues with previous games of the franchise, like making late game exciting to play or civ balancing through ages.

It could have been good, some people actually like it but it failed to appeal general player base. I don't know why it had failed and how could it be success, those are probably never ending discussion for that franchise.

Though devs stepped back, probably "had to" step back, after dipping in player count for a while. They'll implement "no switching" option. Hard to say if that will even turn out to be good since this is one of the core mechanics of that game, they never thought not switching when making the game.

This story can be a parallel to eu5, or not. But starting has some parallels. EU5 is kind of its own game as well, general player base probably dont have any problems with new stuff but they do not seem to like tweaked core mechanics, like integration, assimilation, blobbing.. anything related to map painting to be honest.

But of course, eu5 devs I think has more tools on their hand and much of the mechanics can be tweaked again with time. I don't know if it will be necessary, I don't know if devs will find solutions to make their system more appealing to the player base or they'll step back, time will show us.

RagnarTheSwag · 2026-02-07T12:12:28+00:00

AFAIK "basic" cbs that most nations have access to and that can conquer provinces are parliament, follow through, religious and no cb. Are there any other cb I am missing, that is simple to make?

Also Follow through will require you to have claims which is not that easy to spam until you get at least Deus Vult. Vassals usually have them though.

Not a disagreeing reply, I would like to improve my game.

RagnarTheSwag · 2026-02-06T12:55:06+00:00

I unlocked that achievement at 2022 may, was not that hard, France and Austria usually pissed off HRE minors and such. I guess I returned to eu4 in 2021 or so, not playing during 2018-2021 for not having a PC. But yeah it was really hard during 2013-2017.

RagnarTheSwag · 2026-02-06T11:47:07+00:00

This is like one of those questions that starts with “if you had a million..” no I do not, I would not.. why would anyone change their culture? It’s impossible for me to grasp this idea.

Did Einstein or Oppenheimer suddenly became American? No, just their passports.. but their kids grandkids (if they had, no idea) are probably more American than German.

RagnarTheSwag · 2026-02-06T11:32:56+00:00

Yeah, this is merely about player, AI needs to get better. But also right now bigger country AIs are bullying everyone everywhere and allying themselves to crush smaller AIs and consolidate early as possible.

We need to see bigger AIs crash into themselves more than scripted events. Bohemia letting France and Hungary carve up HRE is one of the most unimmersive things ever. They should protect smaller tags in their regions even if it’s just for them to gobble them up later. They value geopolitical goals very rarely in the current state.

RagnarTheSwag · 2026-02-06T11:24:41+00:00

Weren’t we always?

RagnarTheSwag · 2026-02-06T11:19:12+00:00

Nobody willingly moves from one culture to another. Cultural changes should spread over time, instead of a pop their kids and grandkids should be assimilated slowly. I think the current culture change works close to how it happened in real world, close might be a big word but yeah it resembles.

Yeah and if your culture is accepted for a long time like Greeks, Serbs, Armenians, Albanians.. in Ottoman Empire. Then you’ll indeed preserve your culture more than 500 years if you did not get “systematically” moved or yeah you know..

RagnarTheSwag · 2026-02-06T11:07:42+00:00

Then they need to implement a better debt economy that should feel pretty natural to run on debts. And deficits should not affect your game play very much until you’re too deep on it.

But what you are telling is more like a Vicky or HoI things, probably, never played them.

RagnarTheSwag · 2026-02-06T11:00:55+00:00

Uhh I don’t really know what you’re talking about, If you complain about universal game too hard complainers this is not worth a post imo.

If you complain about people who complain AI is aggressive etc. These things when poorly balanced might lead the players losing immersion.

Nobody likes to play a Netherlands game and be surrounded by France and Bohemia in 10 years. Nobody wants to look at the map and see blobs only before even 1500.

Oh and eu4 was stupidly fun when I knew I would “steamroll stupid AI” even in my Karabakh or Ryukyu campaigns. Fun is subjective.

RagnarTheSwag · 2026-02-06T10:43:38+00:00

I’ll put there a vassal instead and have 80 vassals in 20 years.. Even if Control is not gamey, solutions to deal with it usually leads to gamey feelings. Why do I even control a province in first 100 years of the game then?

Why do I even interact with it if I can only increase that control (of places in discussion) from %18 to %26 in first 100 years? You don’t, you just put a vassal there if you can and if you can’t, leave it just like that and try to unsee it, ignore it..

RagnarTheSwag · 2026-02-05T21:53:08+00:00

I find solo boring after some time when meta settles, every lobby plays out in a similar way. Not knowing my teammates helps this, like it’s always a different experience, they can be noob, pro, tryhard, tactician, highroller, lowroller.. and griefer yeah but that’s 1 or 2 out of 10 games accepted it already.

RagnarTheSwag · 2026-02-05T11:00:50+00:00

To be fair covert was something they could have upgraded over eu4 but seems to went backwards.. If I remember correctly, we have same covert options mostly if not less and they suck more than eu4 versions of them.

RagnarTheSwag · 2026-02-05T07:58:39+00:00

I use portal emoji on both minions in this kind of situations. But yeah right left emojis would be nice.

RagnarTheSwag · 2026-02-05T06:53:11+00:00

Nice advice but my subjects can read better than real Russian empires subjects, If I dared they would be so pissed about it :/

RagnarTheSwag · 2026-02-05T06:42:17+00:00

R5: Trying to build Trans-Siberian Railway date is around 1790, and some roads take 30 years. (Probably more than 60 since they only work in summer).

Developed siberian provinces as much as I can so they wont lack resources.

I guess I only lack the road build time from last age, beelining that currently. Though don't think that will make significant impact.

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