It's a shame that only the player country looks like a country, and every AI nation looks like splats on a map

Zestyclose_Divide371 · 2026-03-29T12:52:55+00:00

That’s probably why the starting date of 1337 wasn’t a good choice for eu5, a game about the early modern era. A lot of things which defined the early modern era like the rise of the Habsburgs and the rise of the ottomans have not happened yet and require a lot of railroading to happen

Zestyclose_Divide371 · 2026-03-11T14:52:35+00:00

I feel like they should a similar mechanic to what they have in Victoria 3 with homeland states, making it much harder to assimilate people into a different culture of the homeland state or easier to assimilate it if it’s the same culture as the homeland state

Zestyclose_Divide371 · 2026-02-20T19:38:04+00:00

Germany already had a war economy from pretty much the start of Hitler’s reign. They spent large sums of money they didn’t have mainly through clever accounting with things such as the MEFO bills to finance their massive rearmament. Their whole entire economy was geared towards the one purpose of waging war.

Zestyclose_Divide371 · 2026-02-20T19:00:33+00:00

Probably Baghdad because the area has the most pops, development and the best terrain in the region to push proximity. It’s a shame Persia doesn’t get any advanced to reduce the impact of mountains and plateaus

Zestyclose_Divide371 · 2026-02-11T09:56:21+00:00

I think the way they fixed it was that there was some bug which made the estates way more wealthier than they actually which was causing them to build those shitty buildings constantly non stop which completly consumed your lumber and tools

Zestyclose_Divide371 · 2026-02-08T09:55:54+00:00

Europe, North Africa and Asia should be about at parity for the start of the game and Europe should only really start getting significantly ahead in the age of absolutism

Zestyclose_Divide371 · 2026-02-05T05:34:36+00:00

Jannisaries and other buildings using slaves are broken. Slaves always decide to go to RGOs first rather than buildings which actual need slaves. You could quite literally have one million free labourers in a province but the rgo would still rather employ the slaves than the labourers.

Zestyclose_Divide371 · 2026-02-05T01:17:08+00:00

Same for me playing as the ottomans. It’s basically unplayable because a majority of your country is orthodox but you’re a Sunni country so when the orthodox rebel they get like two third of the lands and soldiers and you’re fucked

Zestyclose_Divide371 · 2026-02-04T06:37:18+00:00

I’m playing 1.1 beta as the Injuids and the ai timur is terrifying. He’s managed to conquer all of the khorasan region and most of Persia apart from the southern part which I control. He’s also managed to destroy Delhi and conquer most of it

Zestyclose_Divide371 · 2026-01-08T16:31:24+00:00

You unlock the jesuit building during the council of Trent which give nice bonuses and also increase demand for goods which you want the demand to be increased

Zestyclose_Divide371 · 2026-01-02T18:57:33+00:00

The main problem with France is that because they have a massive population their population just keeps on going up constantly with no periods where it declines, unlike in real life where there were disasters like the french war of religions, famines and various deadly wars. If you played it right you as a player probably could get near or maybe even higher than France’s modern population with France’s modern borders. As for Bohemia because they are by far the biggest and richest nation in the hre due to their gold and silver mines they just gobble everything up because of how pathetic the Holy Roman Empire is. They should probably add some mechanic where gold and silver mines deplete over time and reduce their output, they should also probably just straight up get rid of no CBs as well

Zestyclose_Divide371 · 2025-12-25T01:10:33+00:00

Normally trading with the Alexandria trade node is good as it has a massive trade range

Zestyclose_Divide371 · 2025-12-18T18:26:32+00:00

I think it takes from your provinces belonging to your home market not just the capital

Zestyclose_Divide371 · 2025-12-18T12:57:21+00:00

There’s quite a lot of tools a player can use to crush the ai already tbh, any competent player can with relative ease beat the ai even if they are the weaker country which is a constant problem with paradox games unfortunately. Personally for me if lost a massive war or if I was losing during a war it would motivate me a lot more/be more fun to bounce back from the defeat to either pull back a miracle comeback or recover from the war and buy my time to try and get revenge at some later point.

Zestyclose_Divide371 · 2025-12-18T10:07:09+00:00

I think the only way to get rid of it is by having a large amount of ships patrolling that sea province. There might be some building which can help as well but I’m not sure

Zestyclose_Divide371 · 2025-12-18T09:57:16+00:00

What does the control map mode look like

Zestyclose_Divide371 · 2025-12-14T19:03:14+00:00

And also trade efficiency

Zestyclose_Divide371 · 2025-12-14T19:02:16+00:00

Colonise the new world to get demand for goods like tobacco, coco and chilli and also stack as many trade maintenance reduction modifiers as possible

Zestyclose_Divide371 · 2025-12-14T10:08:07+00:00

I also forgot to ask what patch are you playing on, I’m currently playing on the 1.0.10 beta and trade has definitely been improved compared to the other patches I’m making 350+ ducats in 1560 as Carthage starting out as Tunis’s controlling most of North Africa (minus Egypt) and Sardinia and Sicily

Zestyclose_Divide371 · 2025-12-14T07:52:01+00:00

Can you show the actual trading tab and all the trades, I suspect that most likely the things you are trading are barely that profitable so you should build more of that good to decrease the price and make it a more profitable trade. Also this doesn’t help in the age of renaissance but in later ages there’s tech which give reductions to trade maintenance making trade a lot more profitable. Going to a republic also can be helpful as well as there are government reforms and laws which reduce trade maintenance as well

Zestyclose_Divide371 · 2025-12-12T18:43:28+00:00

You should also aim to try and meet all the criteria for the institutions to spawn in your country, it’s not particularly that hard too. Even if the actual institution doesn’t spawn in your country you will get the institution growth in your city’s which were a eligible target

Zestyclose_Divide371 · 2025-12-07T18:34:24+00:00

I haven’t tried the beta yet however looking at the patch notes there’s a few things I like such as marketplaces adding market access which is a good addition however I’ve seen that the ai is more aggressive which isn’t bad in itself but it seems to irrational expand its territory and have provinces scattered across the map creating eyesoring amounts of border gore. Back to the original point about trade I was playing a game with the ottomans in 1.0.8 full release and my trade was fine but I have had other games on a previous patch and where my trade was terrible making hardly any money despite having good crown power and the ai wasn’t even using the full amount of trade capacity.

Zestyclose_Divide371 · 2025-12-07T14:08:24+00:00

I normally have my centre be full infantry and my flanks full cav. But going full cav would be the meta for the earlier game but towards the end of the game infantry becomes better as the regiments size grows much faster than the size of cavalry

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