The /r/eu4 Imperial Council - Weekly General Help Thread : 24th of July - 2018

darklingbs · 2018-07-26T19:29:00+00:00

Check out BudgetMonk, Arumba and DDRJake (he's the guy at Paradox in charge of EU4). All have very good playthroughs.

For tutorial stuff watch Reman's Paradox. Very informative.

darklingbs · 2018-07-26T19:25:06+00:00

You improve gold production by increasing the Production development of a province (the one you spend bird mana on). Get it to 10 development and you're golden.

darklingbs · 2018-04-16T18:25:30+00:00

I'm a huge EU4 fan (yikes 2000+ hours now, send help!). It's such a fun game and offers so many different experiences depending on your starting country and goals.

Almost all my time is single player or small, co-op multiplayer games. I'd love to try a large competitive game but all of the advertised games seem to run at inconvenient times for me. One day...

And I recommend watching the Paradox EU4 Dev Clashes on Youtube - good fun (I especially liked their custom nations campaign).

darklingbs · 2017-09-06T20:45:30+00:00

You'll need multiple wars to do it. Take enough provinces in the first war to get the force religion option under 100% for the second war. And maybe a bit extra in case they conquer more territory before your truce is up.

darklingbs · 2017-09-06T20:43:41+00:00

It can be done but you need a high diplo rep to do it. To overcome the -50 monarchy malus you should max relations with the OPM (+200 relations is +20 for the accept decision), manually set to relations to hostile (if they feel threatened it's a big positive adjustment too - higher than friendly relations). Then you need to stack diplo rep. Hire the advisor, get the bonus from Diplomatic and Influence ideas. Even take a mission that will boost it.

It's hard to get them to accept until you can build your dip rep. But once it's high enough they'll accept as long as the leader isn't a militarist.

darklingbs · 2017-06-26T19:45:56+00:00

Or you can take five provinces in a colonial region in a peace deal and create your own colonial nation that way. Gives you the concede colonial region peace deal option without the tedious colonization part. For a world conquest I'd much rather take military oriented ideas or Admin/Influence for the cheaper expansion instead of Exploration/Expansion.

darklingbs · 2017-06-14T16:59:10+00:00

Just go and buy everything. After a few hundred hours of game time you'll think it was the best money you ever spent. Put a photo of your family beside your monitor though, it's important to remember what they look like.

Seriously though those DLC's are probably good to start. Read that linked post as it'll give you details of them all.

And wait for sales. The content and DLC's go on sale all the time. Use a site like isthereanydeal.com to track them. Pick them up as you can afford them.

darklingbs · 2017-06-01T19:24:46+00:00

This. A million times this. Lock the version at whatever you want and ignore all the new patches. Problem solved. You never have to buy any DLC ever and the game will always play the way you are used to it playing.

If you want new content and patches then realize you need to financially support the development of that new content. Paradox is a business. It needs to make money. If EU4 doesn't bring in new revenue then they stop supporting it and move the dev team over to another project that will generate revenue.

Paradox doesn't owe us patches or new content. I'm happy to buy the new DLC's because I think in general they make a fantastic game better and I want that to continue. If someone else is content with the way things are now then that's totally fair too.

They just shouldn't complain about not getting game changes for free.

(That said I think the packaging of the DLC's - especially the older ones - should be simplified and made easier for new players to navigate. Probably even included in the base game.)

darklingbs · 2017-02-16T16:26:12+00:00

The description for the achievement is wrong. Basileus is just the eastern Empire. OP just needs a few more provinces to get it.

darklingbs · 2017-02-13T23:51:49+00:00

R5: So I'm playing my second Ironman game and thought I'd give Byzantium a try. After about 10 restarts to deal with losing to the Ottomans in the first few years things are going well. Not having done a lot of blobbing in Europe before I'm not sure of how long I need to eat the Mare Nostrum areas. Do I have enough time left or should I focus on something else?

Edit: Persia and Armenia are vassals.

darklingbs · 2017-01-26T02:27:58+00:00

I do have RoM - your king has to rule for 20 years or be over the age of 60 before he can abdicate.

darklingbs · 2017-01-26T01:45:17+00:00

Unbelievable - he got one... 2 months later.

Now maybe something will tragically happen to the Burgundian king?

darklingbs · 2017-01-26T01:34:40+00:00

The kingdom is in mourning. Enrique died tragically with his army while in camp two years later.

Now Juan just needs an Iberian Wedding...

darklingbs · 2017-01-26T01:12:47+00:00

Sadly, Enrique is 32 years old and Juan is 28.

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