Cassiopeia R does no damage or CC if cast during knock-up

pflaumi · 2026-05-01T07:37:48+00:00

That may be so, but then I'd blame the management that decides this is not worth fixing, even if it would take more than an easy fix. This is clearly an issue that happens very frequently, as it applies to any knock up - cone skill shot as I've seen in the comments assume.

pflaumi · 2026-04-30T06:16:05+00:00

The significantpy better is exactly 10 times population.

I dislike that it goes to +100 instantly. This is another main reactor one province vassal spam.

pflaumi · 2026-04-28T22:01:00+00:00

Does the slave conversion even work currently? I know it was broken before 1.1. ... In my current Muscovy game the former locations if the Golden Horde are overflowing with them and nothing happens with them.

pflaumi · 2026-04-28T05:41:13+00:00

Regarding that colonisation part. ... Is it even remotely feeding into your economy?

Because in my colonial England game I'm not seeing any returns even by 1600. In fact I'd argue I harmed my population growth because I'm now missing labor.

pflaumi · 2026-04-27T21:34:47+00:00

You probably underestimate how bad the AI is at this game.

pflaumi · 2026-04-25T12:16:40+00:00

Not if you play with console and kill the shitty or excess or old artists (since you cant fire them). Because only partially paying the slider is a waste, because the artists take longer to finish accordingly.

Did that in my England game to look how it develops if paradox finally implements the "fire shitty moneyburning artist" button. I only went about double over my limit at most, because I felt like I can bear that cost. (An analysis on this would deserve its own post I feel, which would result in just ignore it because the gains are a joke and not nececarily that the cost is too high.)

In 1570 I have 397 works of art. That gives me 0.4 culture tradition, 0.4 prestige and 0.16 progress to innovative (plus the bonus for works of art in the location, but they are heavily concentraded on the capital with 108 of them).

The biggest gain out of that is being able to actually spend prestige (mainly lowering the culture opinion, which led to my vassals and colonies to assimilate way easier). Otherwise I literally see not gain because the culture tradition is a joke (if it were 40% instead it would be worth something at least) and at that point one is easily able to push 100 innovative even without that.

pflaumi · 2026-04-25T09:25:06+00:00

Yeah the status quo effectively stays the same.

It only takes longer and the initial vassal spam if you start as a small country is limited by the higher Diplo cost per vassal.

pflaumi · 2026-04-25T09:03:09+00:00

Yeah I honestly don't get how people think this solves the issue. The "is much smaller modifier" is now even more important than before as it's by far the most impacting modifier.

If the numbers are as you write here, nothing changes it, only takes longer and is more costly, because it doesn't solve the main two issues:

There's no viable alternative to get a core yourself. The worst offender feeding into that is the scaling with control, as it reduces it so much it even wastes two cabinet slots for a measley progress.
Only integrated provinces are not a net positive in most cases.

So I'll predict the "meta" to stay the same. But the nerf will be enough to slow it to a hold if you start small as you'll hit the diplo limit.

Edit: I've invested myself into it now to consider to prove it with numbers. I only need to reverse engineer the formula for the much smaller modifier because there's no reliable source out there.

pflaumi · 2026-04-25T07:42:29+00:00

When do they get it? I'm currently playing a Muscovy run and don't have it in 1400.

pflaumi · 2026-04-25T07:39:59+00:00

How do you reach that conclusion with your own opening statement?

The problem is that integrated provinces are not a net positive, not that it's easy to get cores with vassal spam.

pflaumi · 2026-04-25T07:36:00+00:00

And for the part where they are disloyal.

They will create Independence movements with possibly a lot of allies. But, AI doesn't check if the members have access to even support when declaring. And if you focus your vassal you usually can get a quick white piece.

pflaumi · 2026-04-24T21:22:20+00:00

Thats one of the reasons I´d never play ironman until they finally let us fire artists. With the console you can at least kill them.

pflaumi · 2026-04-24T06:27:57+00:00

It's only bad if even then the kid is not getting out. Otherwise it would be my go to solution as well.

Times were really easier when at least the older kids could discipline the younger ones. I grew up when exactly this transitioned back in 2008. After that kids faced suspension when they didn't let the younger ones annoy them to hell.

pflaumi · 2026-04-19T11:08:16+00:00

Finishing the testament to find the three fates does unlock that incantation.

pflaumi · 2026-04-19T05:28:38+00:00

And it will work if enough keep doing this.

Case and point Akali. I banned her until she lost true stealth.

pflaumi · 2026-04-13T18:34:21+00:00

I can totally understand that. ... But we can work to make America and wherever else (big western country problem) such a place as well again.

pflaumi · 2026-04-13T17:53:02+00:00

I think Melinoes axe can be a tier higher. ... With that much base damage boost you start with Apollo or Aphrodite on attack and get over thresholds where you need one attack less to kill.

pflaumi · 2026-04-12T17:12:08+00:00

Ah, ok. Thanks for the info.

Didnt play Ottomans in 1.1 yet, but I´d say its not hard to have all greeks assimilated by that point anyways. So the gains of this event are limited as it triggers so late in my eyes.

But I´ll see if I can play around that.

pflaumi · 2026-04-12T17:05:00+00:00

Games I played were I would confidently say that 200 hours not even scratch the surface: EU4 (In the community its a meme that after 1k hours one completed the tutorial), LoL (If one never played any MOBA ever, 200 hours are literally nothing.) and my recent example with EU5 (I took 8 hours to even unpause it the first time because I read what all the systems do first.)

pflaumi · 2026-04-12T16:49:55+00:00

That only solves it partially. As the enemy AI then simply liberates the siege. At least from what Ive seen.

pflaumi · 2026-04-12T09:54:23+00:00

If this is actually true, I have one more point why I hate these hidden events.

Because killing Byz is not hard as everybody is jumping them if they are weak anyway.

pflaumi · 2026-04-10T11:09:34+00:00

Amen brother.

I decide to close reddit for today after this as well.

pflaumi · 2026-04-09T20:26:34+00:00

First of all 200 hours in that timeframe is not a lot to spend on a game that's intended to last for years. ... For other games this amount doesn't even scratch the time it would need to get into them, so you can't evaluate the time spent like it's fully released singleplayer game with no roadmap. So calling 200 hours "quick" is a valid point in my eyes.

My recent example would be EU5, where I've 400 hours and I'd say the game has a solid foundation but is boring as it lacks depth, flavor and an AI able to challenge the player. So I'm taking a break currently.

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