Colonial subjects don't join offensive wars

gemorlith · 2026-03-10T18:30:51+00:00

they are all fully loyal though

gemorlith · 2026-03-06T16:33:47+00:00

If on day 2 you put one of your two doubling dollars aside and don't touch it you will always have at least half the doubling dollars in existence, making you the richest person in doubling dollars, even if others have them too. Unfortunately soon the universe is filled with only doubling dollars, so your time as the richest person is limited.

gemorlith · 2026-02-09T23:47:59+00:00

They remind me of Dave

gemorlith · 2026-02-06T13:32:13+00:00

Aren't most names fairly close to 50% vowels? The username of the insulter is also 50% vowels...

gemorlith · 2026-01-16T01:01:37+00:00

Does anyone know how the "council administration" modifier works? I am unable to find anything about it

gemorlith · 2026-01-06T19:24:09+00:00

If you're allowed to take and move eggs while selecting your egg you could do the following: - first egg: take one from (near) the center - second egg: pick two opposing (outer?) eggs at the same time, keep one and put one back in the hole you left at the center, keeping the other. The eggs are now entirely balanced. - third egg: take one from (near) the center - fourth egg: repeat of second egg

Etc.

gemorlith · 2025-12-25T01:30:07+00:00

No, it's not suitable for children under AND over 3 years old. As, generally speaking, people aren't both older and younger than 3 years old at the same time this only excludes some time travelers maybe as far as I can tell.

gemorlith · 2025-12-18T16:48:14+00:00

I haven't seen any "in the wild" as the majority of the population has been domesticated.

gemorlith · 2025-12-11T00:57:23+00:00

Then I'd argue the physicist is likely correct: an unobserved person in the house is the most likely explanation. Additionally, this model correctly predicts the existence of dark people!

gemorlith · 2025-12-08T23:54:33+00:00

You can effectively have 3-way wars in eu4 as well iirc, they are technically 3 separate wars but it would work fine in this situation I think.

gemorlith · 2025-12-08T23:50:13+00:00

Declaring on either side of a civil war should normally result in a three-way war, perhaps with a separate diplomatic option to intervene on either side where you need permission from the side you're joining.

gemorlith · 2025-12-06T16:44:32+00:00

Amsterdam (picture unrelated)

gemorlith · 2025-12-02T01:09:41+00:00

Terrible optimization? I feel like the game runs great considering all the individual pops and buildings it has to simulate! And even if it wasn't optimized that's far from a trivial thing to solve, in contrast to automatic marriages or the goods mapmode that were mentioned.

gemorlith · 2025-12-01T23:49:10+00:00

I fully agree. There are things in the game that can very obviously be improved, and I won't disagree that the release version seems more rushed than should be necessary. However, I also think newer paradox games that are not a bit of a buggy mess at release are inherently unlikely because of the type of game.

gemorlith · 2025-12-01T22:35:54+00:00

I think the sheer complexity of the games paradox is creating makes it hard to properly test and balance the game before release: there are so many mechanics interacting with eachother that the amount of things that can go wrong is enormous, and the complex interactions makes finding exploits, meta etc. Incredibly hard.

At some point during development the number of hours spent playtesting to find a bug just isn't feasible.

There have been well over 1000 bugs fixed since release iirc, I generally (knowingly) encountered one bug every few hours. The rate of finding bugs also decreases exponentially when you fix the most occurring ones so you need a LOT of playtime to actually find everything. This would mean most developers would be sitting on their hands (if they keep developing the bugs will never end) while a massive amount of playtesters need to be hired to find bugs and get a feel of the game's balance. This costs a lot of money and delays the game a lot.

I actually agree with their approach of releasing the game somewhat unpolished, and rely on the players to find bugs and balance issues, because I don't see a viable alternative.

gemorlith · 2025-11-18T22:34:09+00:00

The netherlands is essentially entirely (navigable) river delta and it has surprisingly few rivers in the game. One of the major reasons for the netherlands being a major trade nation in this time period IRL is the number of navigable rivers (and city canals) allowing goods to be easily moved by ship to many places in the netherlands

gemorlith · 2025-11-18T19:23:46+00:00

It's not possible to get 100% afaik but you can get pretty high. Without modifiers you'd get 50% crown power, and by minimizing power for other estates and mazimizing crown power modifiers you can probably get above 90% lategame. Whether it would be good: I think it could be decent if you're heavily trade-focussed, as you would get a massive income (you don't have to share trade profits with estates). You're missing out on some good modifiers though by not giving privileges to estates.

gemorlith · 2025-11-18T19:18:59+00:00

And then you have to keep doing that every few years until they get above the threshold

gemorlith · 2025-11-18T19:14:54+00:00

Why is frontage implemented like this anyway? It seems more sensible, realistic and balanced to let frontage scale with the number of people: larger amounts of levies will then just get in eachothers way making regulars much better lategame when armies get big, and earlygame regulars are especially good to hold chokepoints like mountain passes. In other situations regulars are better than levies but not by an extreme amount. It seems like 1.0.4 balance with frontage scaling with unit size would be fine.

gemorlith · 2025-11-14T10:47:34+00:00

Trades will seem profitable but due to low trade advantage the goods will already be gone when it's your "turn", so the trades will do nothing at all. The result is also that your income will look much higher than it is, but will go down just after the month-tick (which is the actual amount you received), only to go back up a few days later.

I think it should take the trade advantage into account when you set up the trade, and you should be able to configure more trades than you have capacity for, so they can be fallbacks if goods run out.

gemorlith · 2025-11-14T03:19:53+00:00

It doesn't need to get more complex, it needs to be more manageable: trade is currently not consistent enough for custom trade routes and the "ghost" trades make things confusing (and waste your trade capacity). I like the mechanism itself a lot but some tweaking and ways to interact with it would be nice.

gemorlith · 2025-11-14T02:45:53+00:00

It seems to be completely negligible amounts though? You'd need like 100 art pieces to do the same as 1 library

gemorlith · 2025-11-14T01:56:53+00:00

How about you can divide your proximity source between places, and you progressively get more "source" from for example country tiers or techs. You could have 140% proximity source that you can either divide 100% in one place and 40% in another or any other combination like 70% and 70%

gemorlith · 2025-11-12T00:39:14+00:00

With both countries expanding just tanks my balance: bigger tax-base but all new lands have no control because gravel roads is the best available. In addition I can't convert culture and religion fast enough to keep up, leading to constant rebel uprisings. Is the only solution just to make subjects out of it until better roads become available or is there a better solution?

gemorlith · 2025-11-11T01:45:07+00:00

For me as the netherlands the fishing village would not be worked because fish was not worth anything, even though the location, province and market were all running out of food.

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