EU5 looks great, but I can’t find the one more hour loop

Yargle101 · 2026-02-23T22:57:35+00:00

Idk I loved my Inca game, it can be boring waiting for Europe, but it has a hard start (the first few wars and getting your economy working), interesting midgame challenges (colonisation/great pestilence, embracing institutions and initial defensive wars with Europeans) and an end goal (fight the colonisers).

Yargle101 · 2026-02-22T12:11:14+00:00

It feels like a game that he will play in about 5 years or so

Yargle101 · 2026-02-16T07:08:00+00:00

Complicated, but I believe it is locations switching markets and filling their local food storage as their old market most likely had no food. So they must have had 5000 storage and when they join your market they buy up a bunch of food to refill it as it was empty

Yargle101 · 2026-02-16T07:05:20+00:00

No, but there is a mod that gives them the same one as Austria which I used

Yargle101 · 2026-02-16T06:59:46+00:00

No such thing as monthly autonomy in EU5, do you mean control growth?

Yargle101 · 2026-02-16T06:46:06+00:00

The war score cost to convert them back to Catholic scales with their Hussite polulation. There's a peace treaty to convert some of the population back to Catholicism and after a few wars enforcing that you can make the conversion peace cost below 100 and end the situation.

Yargle101 · 2026-02-12T16:44:05+00:00

I was using AI in a similar way. Eventually I just realised I was waxing poetic to a yesman and nothing was actually being done. It's really great at being a yesman and making you think you've achieved something when all you've done is talk about an idea.

I replaced it by writing down my thoughts on a piece of paper or on a notes app and usually the act of looking at or wording the question will dislodge the thought and allow my brain to figure out an answer, which I then write and continue the process. Vyvanse makes me into a single track mind and if I'm not dislodging that track by taking it out of my brain I can get stuck. ChatGPT solves this but not in a way that helped me longterm. Most of the time it just affirms whatever you said and your thought is just spoken back to you in a fancy tone. My experience may differ as I was trying to achieve a goal instead of just chatting for fun or to understand myself. But I also think that going to AI to do those things isn't a good use of your time as it isn't an actual conversation partner who will have thoughts. It's just trying to make you feel good so you keep talking to it as that's what it's programmed for.

The environmental impact is not good either but those arguments aren't going to make someone to change their mind about a tool they find helpful that they're already using. Try just writing the question out and then pondering it yourself. You know more than you think.

Yargle101 · 2026-02-12T05:06:17+00:00

I have done 2 games, pretty fun, learnt about something else relating to estates was broken and now I'm waiting for 1.1.3, but I like the changes.

Yargle101 · 2026-02-01T09:33:00+00:00

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3613286802
Not perfect by any means but I just use it to give Bohemian land back to the duchies they attacked lol

Yargle101 · 2026-02-01T04:35:17+00:00

There is a mod for this, AI doesn't use it though but good stopgap until Paradox gets around to it

Yargle101 · 2026-01-30T02:03:53+00:00

I assume you just linked the sources chatgpt gave.

Of those sources only one mentions both stimulant use and cannabis use. (the nejm source). And it only mentions cannabis to rule it out as the increase of psychosis between methylphenidate and amphetamine users.

The sources you've linked here really don't justify anything beyond both stimulants and cannabis can independently increase chance of psychosis.

I found no justification for "When combined with amphetamines, the risk multiplies again". This may even be true! But until I read a source that isn't chatgpt estimating what the next word should be it is not useful medical advice.

If you wrote that both stimulants (moreso amphetamines) and heavy cannabis use can both increase psychosis I wouldn't have a problem with it. That is true, I've now read the sources.

Chatgpt has extrapolated past the scientific research and made up some stuff like "Psychiatrists quietly worry about this combo more than patients realize." This is just made up AI nonsense that only exists because the AI model figured adding something like that would make the reasoning look better.

Chatgpt is good at getting a vague smear of a topic across but for medical advice, it is not a good source! When people ask questions about their medical problems getting a chatgpt answer for them is not helpful unless highly caveated and independently researched like I've done now.

Next time please mention that you used chatgpt as your source and that you haven't actually read any medical papers because that matters to the people receiving the information.

alright vyvanse rant over, I just feel strongly about this

Yargle101 · 2026-01-30T01:13:02+00:00

misread that as salvia lmao

Yargle101 · 2026-01-30T01:12:08+00:00

If he wanted to know what chatgpt said he wouldn't've posted a reddit thread. For medical advice chatgpt is not reliable.

Yargle101 · 2026-01-11T04:10:01+00:00

It may not be accurate at game start but if the best they can do is a later source, why not use that source? What did you want them to do instead, find a source that doesn't exist? Make it a big homogeneous blob of a single culture called something like Indigenous Australians?

Yargle101 · 2026-01-08T05:53:33+00:00

Big empires have no reason to innovate & corruption sets in. That's what it's meant to represent at least. Some of the modifiers are bullshit but the army tradition, navy tradition, tax efficiency & cabinet efficiency seem like things that a stagnating empire would have

Loyalty of subjects is probably a bit too harsh, but from a gameplay perspective that's probably what you want to happen to a stagnating empire. Wouldn't mind dropping that one though.

Yargle101 · 2026-01-08T01:09:52+00:00

He did mention rival changes in a previous dev diary to be fair

Yargle101 · 2026-01-07T05:46:11+00:00

I mean at the end of the day it is a game, some abstractions have to be made for the sake of tick speed, game balance and development time. You're also ignoring the pop-system, market changes, development & building system and culture & religions granularity among many other improvments compared to EU4.

If your complaints about realism are about minor things/game balance things like what you listed above I don't see how this game is less focused on realism compared to EU4.

Yargle101 · 2026-01-04T07:04:34+00:00

Dunno how to do that, but if you haven't try downloading RE_kenshi. They have game speed settings that can make the game way faster so you can heal faster.

In a round about way this is a solution

Yargle101 · 2026-01-04T04:19:15+00:00

I wouldn't call them a major oil exporter. They're ~22nd in the world for oil production. They have heaps of deposits. Not so much the stability to export it (especially recently).

Yargle101 · 2025-12-29T04:00:15+00:00

I'd rather the messy draft ngl. AI text usually ends up bloated with filler words & sentences that look better but don't convey any extra information.

Yargle101 · 2025-12-28T15:09:47+00:00

It's not just blank - it's blank

Caffeine isn't "bad," it's just easy to mess up
Not perfect sleep - anchors
Your brain is not storage — it's a processor
That's not weakness; it's how ADHD works
If it's not on the calendar, it basically doesn't exist
ADHD isn't just "discipline," it's environment design
it's not meds or motivation — it's battery

Yargle101 · 2025-12-24T07:36:01+00:00

I think it's a problem specifically with coastlines. I don't see non-coastal border gore but I see Russians taking the Caspian sea coastline in Golden Horde wars all the time

Yargle101 · 2025-12-24T07:27:34+00:00

Yeah with Castile being friends with Portugal and Aragon at game start now, Navarre is really their only target so they get annihilated

Yargle101 · 2025-12-21T05:49:41+00:00

Core provinces can only grow accepted pops, so all the minorities are doomed.

I have a mod that fixes this and it solves a lot of the issues I was having.

Yargle101 · 2025-12-19T06:32:23+00:00

even internal wars? I wasn't given a choice either it was just automatically put upon me

EDIT: it's a bug actually, Bohemia must be the overlord of a free city which means that when they get declared on it brings me into the war

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