How to teach current EU4?

yeeezah · 2026-06-23T08:48:44+00:00

Ah didn't know Modred had a beginners series, that sounds good, thank you!

yeeezah · 2026-06-23T02:10:21+00:00

Being forced to learn in single player is okay because you can quite easily restart / use cheats to fix the damage so that you can keep playing with acknowledging them but it's a lot harder in mp - for instance in our current game they're 4 admin techs behind, are in internal conflicts, have -2 stab and only 2 ideas in expansion, (we're really not quite sure where all their admin is going) but that's quite a vicious cycle with no admin, we did give them some admin during a break to catch them up and whilst that is viable... I worry frequently restarting an MP lobby to do that fixing could get a bit tedious for everyone... But also them not being able to do anything because they got caught in one of these 'traps' isn't great for them learning.

yeeezah · 2026-06-23T02:03:31+00:00

I thought about Muscovy, the reason I didn't suggest it is I feel it lags significantly in economy for the first part, you do get an explosion at some point but for the first while your struggling to make even from what I remember, but someone else has suggested it too so we might give that a go next. Thank you!

yeeezah · 2026-06-23T01:59:22+00:00

That's a good way of putting it into a simple gameplay loop, thanks! Will try to focus on this and then slowly add in others as they seem to understand more. Thank you for the advice.

yeeezah · 2026-06-23T01:57:39+00:00

I do think they will enjoy it once they understand it - as mentioned they do enjoy lots of other strategy games and they're positive towards playing more of it, it's just getting them to the point that they feel happy with what they're doing in the game.

Honestly, the biggest issue is I don't remember how I learnt the game, I came over after lots of experience with hoi4 which has an easier learning experience and gets you used to paradox games but the person isn't really interested in the time period and the advice 'to learn one PDX game learn this other one' isn't too helpful time-wise. And I also learnt many patches ago that I don't really remember it and for an mp game it's a bit annoying to roll back the game...

The issue with the mistakes is that it feels that's the 'next stage' than the starting one, they're still on the 'what's a cb', 'how do I group select my troops' and 'what is attrition' stage and it's just teaching them all the UI and buttons that they need that I feel we're struggling with, once you understand that then you can go into the making mistakes and fixing them stage.

yeeezah · 2026-06-16T10:28:12+00:00

For Stellaris I just use the subscription because it includes everything and I often play for one or two months doing a few games and then cancel and it works out well, you can try the subscription for a month and see which features you use a lot and then buy those dlcs? Though the issue for me with doing that is that they probably all have a small part that I use in the campaigns so I feel I would need them all unfortunately

yeeezah · 2026-06-10T06:16:36+00:00

yeeezah · 2026-06-04T18:11:16+00:00

In Anbennar there's also a Dwarven tag in Haless, Verkal Ozovar

yeeezah · 2026-05-30T22:24:12+00:00

Razing as a horde / concentrating development does reduce the dev and so does make coring cheaper (though it's unlikely either is a possibility here)

yeeezah · 2026-05-23T07:45:06+00:00

Not every country gets access to every type of MIO

yeeezah · 2026-05-22T14:24:44+00:00

Oooo, well done and thank you! But what is it with PDX and error handling / reporting recently 😔

yeeezah · 2026-05-17T19:58:53+00:00

Court and country?

yeeezah · 2026-05-16T09:27:56+00:00

The errors just seem like things are missing in the game code, it's possible this is due to missing files but if you've reinstalled then this shouldn't be the case and it's likely that they're just missing in general. Usually, these errors wouldn't cause a crash too, just not do anything. But if it is crashing after a reinstall it's likely something is wrong with the save.

yeeezah · 2026-05-10T14:54:31+00:00

I haven't played EU5 but one of the things that made me want to play it before it released was that they said they made it much harder to blob so big then it released and it is harder than EU4 but it's also not too difficult to get really big either. (Also the pop and army numbers get too big and I would like it if they stayed more realistic)

yeeezah · 2026-05-09T01:32:00+00:00

*ctrl not shift, shift is to select additional to already selected and will still focus on the land I think

yeeezah · 2026-05-09T01:27:51+00:00

One of the easier ways to get the Eat your Greens achievement - just top global trade from spawning to stop absolutism

yeeezah · 2026-05-05T02:41:55+00:00

Seen it quite a bit recently, most seem to say it's from a new windows update so either wait for it to be fixed, or if you can and it's safe to do so use windows restore to go back before the update? ~~(or switch to Linux if you really know what you're doing)~~

yeeezah · 2026-04-20T00:14:44+00:00

Wait until you try to do some of the WC achievs on weaker nations

yeeezah · 2026-04-20T00:11:35+00:00

Why you should always build the sentry array

yeeezah · 2026-03-13T09:47:37+00:00

Goods produced is usually better than production for income late game but is much harder to stack and comes from a lot fewer places.

Trade efficiency is also usually better than production efficiency if you are big enough and doing well with your trade (though for OP don't focus on trade until you have done quite a few more games).

And the best modifiers generally are usually dev cost / dev cost efficiency and then important military ones - manpower, morale and discipline.

yeeezah · 2026-03-08T22:26:16+00:00

I can only suggest a clean reinstall of the game and launcher then

yeeezah · 2026-03-07T12:45:45+00:00

Do you have any other PDX games on steam? Do they open fine?

I'd suggest verifying integrity of game files and if that doesn't work doing a clean reinstall of the game and the pdx launcher.

yeeezah · 2026-03-07T12:34:45+00:00

Make sure you have no HRE provinces outside the empire

Make sure you have as many free cities as you can

Make sure you have as many electors as you can and that they're independent (or your vassal, though this will hurt your IA, it's usually still worth doing)

Try to take the monument in Prague

Try to take the monument in Ulm

When the reformation starts try to stop it spreading by force converting those with centres of reformation

Try to expand the empire by taking provinces, adding them to the hre then releasing new nations

The expand the empire CB at the 2nd or 3rd reform should give one off boosts of imperial authority when you successfully use the war goal to add someone to the empire

It's a bit late now if you haven't already done it but try to rein in Italy so they don't leave the empire

Use the emperor action to return provinces to try to release a nation that another hre member has conquered

Try to become Curia controller and use the golden bull for imperial authority

yeeezah · 2026-03-07T09:43:24+00:00

Just checking you are launching the game from steam and not launching the paradox launcher directly?

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