Yeah, I used to speed run games casually. I really enjoy watching the SDA charity marathons and I like to think this is how those runners feel when they suddenly discover a new sequence break. The most enjoyable part of this playthrough has been gazing at the screen glassy-eyed thinking "How does this work...I wonder if I can get it to work to my advantage"
Although I miss playing EU4 "normally". I can't wait for this Ryukyun hell to end.
Most members of the HRE dropped out of the coalition. high prestige + full religious ideas * over 20 years of peace while I fight with the Ottoman and deal with the fallout means that me AE with many members (and pretty much everyone) reduced to near nothing, even to some countries who I ripped to shreds. Some countries just have a grudge that will never end though, like France and Aragon.
And that will not be a problem soon. I am declaring wars against said HRE members who are out of the coalition. I concede defeat to the emperor giving him a massive +25 authority. The empire will be unified soon enough!
I couldn't sleep until I read whole thread.
But it was worth it and I'm looking forward to seeing more updates.
Thanks for reading.
Paradox just need a more thorough QC department. A longer demo period with time set aside to deal with these crushing bugs would be ideal, but hey, they're the devs and I'm just the grubby player. Of course, where there are game-killing bugs, there are always game-breaking exploits. Most of the ideas have either come from poking at new mechanics and trying things they wouldn't have thought of, or looking at mechanics directly ripped from EU3 and checking to see if old tricks work, or if they can be used to my advantage with.
I'm glad you enjoy it though. I'll be satisfied if all these bugs can be crushed and when Ryukyu is over, I can enjoy a relatively bug-free semi peaceful trading game.
So thanks again to you, zaikantos. Here's the result of much experimentation.
There is something I just do not like about reloading to avoid everyday bad events. It's hardly the most broken bug there is, but I'm firmly against it.
Although...what about good events?
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Disclaimer: I have absolutely no idea how this bug triggers or how to get rid of it. The "integrating Ryukyu" event went away but the patriot/nationalist sentiment events still pop up, as does the revolt event. I've tried several ways to get this trick to be reproducible, saving, reloading, re-saving, force crashing upon good events popping up, letting months tick over, not letting them, trying to time it to save on the final day of an event or not.
In the end, the game stuck me with this. It's not exactly infinite stability, but it'll be useful.
So what does this mean? It's not a complete game changer, but at least my final 100 years are clear as crystal. I am going to integrate all of my vassals as quickly as possible. with eased relations, I can even get England and Ottomans much faster than anticipated. As soon as these loyal fools are all brought into the fold, I'll simply rip through the entire world, balls to the walls ignoring AE.
Ahh, but that won't work! Every vassal integrated gives a -30 malus with all other vassals, even with eased tensions it'll never work fast enough.
I looked around all of the code to see all the opinion modifiers.
Code:
opinion_annex_vassal = {
opinion = -30
years = 20
yearly_decay = 1What a jackpot. No matter how low you get that annex_vassal malus, it goes away after 20 years! I give it maybe 50 years before all these vassals are mine, leaving me with a fairly tight but feasible 50 years to rip through the rest of the world. So let's get to work!
A grand total of one of those provinces defected to Khazak, Better than nothing
I take a moment to spend some DIP before I hit the limit.
I had taken 3 provinces from Lithuania and gifted them to Ukraine moment before annexation. Lovely cores. I absolutely hate that the optimal way to play by miles is such a roundabout way of gaming the system.
Preparing for the 50-year steamroll, I get myself acquainted with the Berbers. It feels so good to be able wreck someone else's troops. I really adore the fairly deep combat mechanics. It takes a bit of investigation to understand how it all works, but all the information is right there, and there is no justification for calling the game a cheat.
A few decades to prepare for total war. My OE is nice and low and my religious unity is rising to make up for my plummeting republican tradition.
Hopefully, there will be no hitches in my plan and the next update will be the beginning of a literal world war.
