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What are your expectations for the EU5 release?

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Sooty Soot said:
Who the fuck thought it was a good idea for 5-area provinces to take 20 years to integrate, and at that stay at 0 control for the whole time? I went from the 300's in the rankings to the fucking 1000's, and that was with no wars mind you, all that happened was I lost stability and my prestige went down to 0 but I was still making money.
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I am pretty sure its to encourage slow and stable expansion especially early on. Otherwise the big nations will just map paint instantly since their levies are so massive.
 
Lonjil said:
I am pretty sure its to encourage slow and stable expansion especially early on. Otherwise the big nations will just map paint instantly since their levies are so massive.
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This could easily scale with antagonism, higher antagonism/AE and/or large amounts of high dev land = slower integration times, they could at least cap the control at 10 or 20 if they want you to be methodical about it. The integration tooltip was bugged, anyway, it said it'd finish in 1401, before that it said the 1390's.
 
Sooty Soot said:
This could easily scale with antagonism, higher antagonism/AE and/or large amounts of high dev land = slower integration times, they could at least cap the control at 10 or 20 if they want you to be methodical about it. The integration tooltip was bugged, anyway, it said it'd finish in 1401, before that it said the 1390's.
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Yeah I think antagonism is broken at the moment anyhow. I took half of italy in 2 wars and had zero consequences from it. I am not sure if the systems to control expansion are working atm.
 
Lonjil said:
Yeah I think antagonism is broken at the moment anyhow. I took half of italy in 2 wars and had zero consequences from it. I am not sure if the systems to control expansion are working atm.
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As Holland, I got coalition after I full annexed one of my rivals by all the countries around me, it was like 6k vs my 2k. annexing just one province that I had a claim on and improving relations with Munster who was the heavyweight behind the coalition was enough, but even then my levies didn't recover at all after 15 year of sustained peace.
 
RickyLaFleur said:
I'm really enjoying eu5 so far. I've only played MP with friends and the game is really stable to my suprise as the host. Havn't made it far tho do to playing on 3 speed the last few nights. My long term goal if our campaign doesn't bug out/break is to recreate the Netherlands and it's entire empire. I will destory the Anglo menace, dominate the spice market and conquer the sea. Any true Dutchman will fulfill this destiny. View attachment 8138615

On another note what the fuck am I supposed to do about the French?!
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If you're playing Holland just befriend them. You're most probably not going to be focused on acquiring land their way anyway, and you can just blob into England or HRE instead. Or just stick to historical Dutch borders, colonise and grab Austria (not sure if they're still guaranteed Emperor) as an ally as well.
 
Sooty Soot said:
This could easily scale with antagonism, higher antagonism/AE and/or large amounts of high dev land = slower integration times, they could at least cap the control at 10 or 20 if they want you to be methodical about it. The integration tooltip was bugged, anyway, it said it'd finish in 1401, before that it said the 1390's.
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Yeah I've noticed the integration time is a bit fucky. Was integrating a province when about half it was cored suddenly. I suspect it's because some areas are a bad terrain (or some other modifier) that make them take significantly longer to integrate? Or just wack UI.

Kane Lives said:
If you're playing Holland just befriend them. You're most probably not going to be focused on acquiring land their way anyway, and you can just blob into England or HRE instead. Or just stick to historical Dutch borders, colonise and grab Austria (not sure if they're still guaranteed Emperor) as an ally as well.
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Yeah probably the best idea is to suck french cock till our italy player unifies.
 
Unified some parts of the Netherlands, I'm slowly progressing my PU with Hainaut and I somehow got really lucky and got a PU over on Brabant without doing anything, making good money too. The only mods I have installed are ones that decrease integration time (I think it speeds it up by a factor of 10) and a mod that disables hourly ticks.
 
Sooty Soot said:
Who the fuck thought it was a good idea for 5-area provinces to take 20 years to integrate, and at that stay at 0 control for the whole time? I went from the 300's in the rankings to the fucking 1000's, and that was with no wars mind you, all that happened was I lost stability and my prestige went down to 0 but I was still making money.
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Lonjil said:
I am pretty sure its to encourage slow and stable expansion especially early on. Otherwise the big nations will just map paint instantly since their levies are so massive.
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RickyLaFleur said:
Yeah I've noticed the integration time is a bit fucky. Was integrating a province when about half it was cored suddenly. I suspect it's because some areas are a bad terrain (or some other modifier) that make them take significantly longer to integrate? Or just wack UI.
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It's definitely slow by intention. Best strategy right now is to vassalize and annex down the line, which is somewhat in line with how the early game went in real life. Haven't reached the late game yet, but there are techs unlocking integration improvements and increasing the number of cabinet positions also speeds up the action. Honestly don't mind the paradigm switch from EU4, early game expansion feels more methodical and less like a rush to snowball territorial acquisition before the AI does.
 
Does anyone know how to increase the likelihood of an institution (specifically the New World institution) to spawn in your country?
 
BruceOfHeem said:
Does anyone know how to increase the likelihood of an institution (specifically the New World institution) to spawn in your country?
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You'll need to set the gamerule to allow for dynamic institution spawning, New World specifically requires your capital to be in North Africa or Western Europe, have at least 2k burghers in a port location with your primary culture dominant, and have discovered at least one of the shown areas.
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WarrenZHarding said:
Just noticed EU5 is slowly creeping up in Steam rankings. Up to 74 percent positive after the patch from 70 on launch.
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The day one patch they did fixed most bugs I was running into so I imagine thats why its going up plus people learning the systems more. I think it can be a good game it just needs some serious love and tweaking.
 
Lonjil said:
Fun sidenote modifying the UI changes the checksum so ui mods = no achievements. We love Paradox!
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The explanation for this is that in the modern Clauswitz engines UI mods can do way more stuff such as cheats so this is done to preserve ironman, even though other paradox games (I think only Viccy 3) have enabled achivements with mods that change checksum
 
In other news Cities Skylines 2 has released its first expansion, only a year late! Still no asset editor tho.
 
Midwit said:
In other news Cities Skylines 2 has released its first expansion, only a year late! Still no asset editor tho.
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Correct me if I am wrong, but isnt that game still severely buggy, has bad performance, and is still missing key features of the first game?

It appears its a free weekend so I think I will download it and see what its about!


Edit: There is no UI scaling so the ui is about 1/3rd my screen. This is off to a good start
 
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