Quick questions / Quick answers -- EU3

[truth is life]

Question about Plutocracy and merchant chance.

In my current venice game i have become fully plutocratic, when i look at the slider bonuses it says i have a greater "Merchant chance" but when i look at the break down of my chances when competeing, this value does not seem to appear. Is this only a placement chance? Or am i looking in the wrong place?

It is only a placement chance (which can still come in handy--just not as much as compete chance). Compete chance is always specifically referred to by that name, merchant chance is always the placement chance.

@Mattabesta: Move your capital to the Azores or Madeira (they're on the European continent, so you can do this). Then move to the Americas when you regain stability and cash (they have no bordering provinces).

[OrangeYoshi]

how do you move your capital from Iberia to the Americas as Portugal without permanently loosing the Iberian provinces or changing the save?

Move it to The Azores or the Canaries first.

Edit: Emu'd by not seeing there was a new page.

@ truth is life: You sure?

[groobz]

Triggered Modifiers (Mandate of Heaven)

1. What does "has no factions" mean? I'm using Castille btw.

[Avisian]

This is China only. You can never have it because you have no factions

[Jayavarman]

I am a step away from having the option to unite the HRE as Byzantine Emperor. Why should I do it? I will be sad to lose the purple.

[Arakhor]

Well, you unify all the minors into one state (yours) and end any illegal Imperial land infamy. Otherwise, there isn't really much reason to do it, except for completion.

[Renfrost84]

I did it once as the Byzantines. Mainly, it gives you more property to take on other overgrown nations. If you have France/Burgundy, Spain, GB, and Sweden under control, then it probably doesn't matter.

[Jayavarman]

Do I get additional cores and state cultures for uniting HRE?

[OrangeYoshi]

Do I get additional cores and state cultures for uniting HRE?

HRE is a union culture tag, so state cultures are irrlevant. I think you do get cores on all the provinces in the HRE when you unite them.

[Sunfighter]

are save game files supposed to be 600MB big? its 1550 in my game right now, and each autosave and my regular save is 650mb each....

[Jayavarman]

are save game files supposed to be 600MB big? its 1550 in my game right now, and each autosave and my regular save is 650mb each....

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/...1#post11902987

[Sunfighter]

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/...1#post11902987

I dont have access to the tech forums, been on probation for years, can you give the jist of whats needed to fix it?

[Valynor]

Do I get additional cores and state cultures for uniting HRE?

When I united HRE i I got some (many) additional cores, but not in all the empire, one or two countries even stay independent.
I really did not understand what's happened, maybe something related to the way the wars following the last two decisions ended.
Anyway once HRE is reunited, it has little importance, since you can do whatever you want, pretty much.

[brifbates]

I dont have access to the tech forums, been on probation for years, can you give the jist of whats needed to fix it?

Basically: don't reload saves, quit to desktop and restart when you need to reload. The problem has to do with how achieves currently get saved (don't ask me for details though). Not sure you can fix the currently huge files but a new game with all reloading being done after exiting the game will avoid a repeat.

[Marconius]

I dont have access to the tech forums, been on probation for years, can you give the jist of whats needed to fix it?

Essentially it's a known issue that should be fixed in the next patch. From what I understand, you can avoid it by not logging in to Paradox Online.

[MuthaF]

Essentially it's a known issue that should be fixed in the next patch. From what I understand, you can avoid it by not logging in to Paradox Online.

no, thats not enough as was explained in seversl threads already..

[Jayavarman]

I dont have access to the tech forums, been on probation for years, can you give the jist of whats needed to fix it?

Delete all the "nr" lines at the end of your save file. Delete everything inside your achievements.txt file

[dirked]

Still on my first game, finally discovered the new world (as Portugal). I am starting to read up on Colonisation posts, but wanted to know if there was a rule of thumb as to how much/little of the new world i should grab? My eyes, i think, are bigger then my eventual budget. I am the first European power there and have just started grabbing everything.

Will this eventually come back to bite me? Or should i just keep going hog wild and send colonists to every new territory i discover? Should i just stick to Caribbean islands and/or coastal provinces? I wanted to play this first game as colony power but don't want run my country in the ground either!

[Sunfighter]

Delete all the "nr" lines at the end of your save file. Delete everything inside your achievements.txt file

Thanks!! Took a bit, but my save files are back down to 20mb instead of peaking at 880mb each haha. nothing more fun they deleting 10 trillion lines of NR= blah blah blah.

[mudcrabmerchant]

When it says that the Shiite and Shinto religions add +.50 to morale, does that mean they just get half a point of morale, or an extra half of their base morale?