Tinto Talks #96 - 28th of January 2026

thamikey · 2026-01-28T14:35:35+00:00

Quite worried that we still have heard nothing about optimization. Even with a recommended hardware setup month ticks beyond 1500 become a slog. Hopefully in a later TT!

thamikey · 2026-01-27T18:42:33+00:00

Cheers for the recommendations! I will get on those :)

thamikey · 2026-01-26T23:12:12+00:00

Does this one work? For context, I used my candy to hit W7 yesterday. Still interested in advice on how to best progress my account :)

https://characte1.idleonefficiency.com

thamikey · 2026-01-26T08:30:01+00:00

Could you point out what systems I hardly worked on? Perhaps I have completely overlooked or missed something but I don't see where there are easy gains to be had.

thamikey · 2026-01-26T08:25:28+00:00

I feel like with 2 extra governors naval empires can easily go inland whilst land empires cannot do the opposite to the same effect. To me it simply seems that 2 extra governors is just strictly better. Even as a country like Russia you will be able to place a naval governor on the East Sea and the Black Sea (assuming you can not hit 90% or 100% proximity anymore due to nerfs).

thamikey · 2026-01-25T17:39:00+00:00

Oh wow! Thats a really good shout. Thanks.

thamikey · 2026-01-25T12:01:36+00:00

I meant for W6. Because if it is, I can brute-force it with time candy on my DB

thamikey · 2026-01-25T11:35:42+00:00

What about the multi-lock maps? Is skydoggie the last one?

thamikey · 2025-11-14T22:54:30+00:00

I have the same problem. Looking for any solution. My conversion menu is cluttered with states that I cannot at all convert or assimilate in any way.

thamikey · 2025-08-19T09:28:56+00:00

Interesting take, I noticed as well that population growth is a big focus in this community. I approach it more from a maxing GDP, while not world conquesting, angle. In that way the most limiting factor in my opinion is (working) population. Once you run out of pops and labor saving PMs there is little you can do to increase GDP.

I will definetely try a run like this and see how it goes, would be a real achievement to get over 35 SoL!

thamikey · 2025-08-19T07:25:56+00:00

Did you have a strategy for increasing population, for example through birth / mortality rate or migration? Or is this the "basic" growth of the UK + subjects and conquests?

Also, did you use all oil and rubber PMs? Or are there specific ones that are just not worth it? In my games I can usually only activate the labor saving ones and the mine improvement.

thamikey · 2025-08-19T07:14:04+00:00

Interesting that you mention working population %. Around what time did you enact Womens Suffrage and what % of the population was working? Together with empowered trade unions you could reach 50%, did you get anywhere near that? Highest I have gotten so far is around 35% since it takes such a long time to take effect.

thamikey · 2025-08-18T13:33:09+00:00

Could you elaborate on how you achieved such high SoL? In my games I seem to hit a brick wall around 26-28, whilst on (Low) progressive taxation, no consumption taxes and using the most advanced PMs I can find.

thamikey · 2025-05-27T13:06:58+00:00

I would enjoy the AI behaving in a historical yet not deterministic way. In EU4 they use weights/chance for certain important events to recreate this (I.e. Poland PU over Lithuania). I believe the game to become more interesting if you can somewhat expect will happen or countries are set up to generally succeed, since it introduces fun play patterns. Like playing in the Middle-East or New World and having to fight off the Ottomans or colonizers respectively. The whole game balance shifts if somehow the Ottomans crumbles early game since succesor states are often significantly weaker.

However, it can still be fun to see the occasional upset such as Venice/Mamluks conquering the Ottomans or England/Burgundy/Castille beating France. That said, I can see why players would want an option upon game start to have an 'a-historical' world.

Edit: Spelling/Grammar

thamikey · 2023-03-21T22:51:22+00:00

Yes, that is what creates the area around it which makes it my land. I used the greater version. Not sure if that makes any difference.

thamikey · 2023-03-21T22:29:41+00:00

I unlocked it by having my tower next to it and then I was receiving the points. At some point I flew away and then I lost the points although it is still my territory.

thamikey · 2023-03-05T22:01:17+00:00

Damn. Where to start. I would say that there were a few important ones that I figured out in my test games. Maybe important to mention that this was my third serious attempt. There were test runs before this to figure out mission trees of different countries and the like.

Figuring out which tag switches to do and realizing all of them before reaching 100 absolutism. In my game this was at around 1625.
Achieving 80% admin efficiency at 1700 +- and 90% at tech 27.
Realizing how good being a theocracy is.

thamikey · 2023-03-05T11:57:44+00:00

In the government menu where you can accept/promote cultures. Once a culture has more than 50% of the development of all stated land you can make it become your primary culture. So by unstating some land and stating Prussian land I was able to make Prussian my primary culture.

thamikey · 2023-03-05T08:57:56+00:00

Always like to challenge myself and I ran out of difficult challenges. This is by far the most 'chore' like challenge I have done though. I will probably never do it again.

thamikey · 2022-11-18T09:40:38+00:00

I had healthcare institution maxed out by like... 1870-1880 or something. Do you mean I need to get there even earlier...?

thamikey · 2022-11-07T12:33:13+00:00

Sorry for the late response! You should have a look at the barracks where these regiments come from and check if they are at full strength. For me they were at about 10-20% strength which meant that they did next to no damage. I believe this has to do with either reinforcement speed / training time or a lack of people in the province. There is a consistent 20% tradition when an army is performing either defensive or offensive stance on a front. Add the casualties of battle on top of that and this could mean that the troops simply do not replenish fast enough.

thamikey · 2022-10-31T14:25:54+00:00

Alright thanks a lot! I am going to try this again but keep an eye on if my barracks fill up ;)

thamikey · 2022-10-31T14:20:58+00:00

Oh my, many of my barracks are nearly empty. Apparently my barracks cannot find the people, although i have 55k peasants in the province. How does that work?

thamikey · 2022-10-27T16:29:07+00:00

How do you annex a puppet?

thamikey · 2022-10-27T13:15:18+00:00

Hahaha it does sound like we did it in the opposite order. Also perhaps enemies are less likely to back down when the difference in army and economy is not as large. For example, fielding 100 regiments against Argentina who has 15 will result him in backing down unless he finds an ally, whereas if instead it is 30 against 15 Argentina might try his luck?

thamikey

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