EU3 Hall of Fame

I have a France with 24BB.

Here you can see their BB....


Here you can see the matching treasury to make sure the BB belongs to France.


Is there any more info you need to put this as the record? I am playing the Netherlands here.

If this goes on the record sheet, I think this puts me even with unddu.

You still updating this Comagoosie?

comagoosie said:

Oh gosh so sorry, I have a had a crazy memorial day weekend, if you know what you mean. Thank you for reminding me, I will update this right after dinner

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Hope it was fun. Just good to know you haven't left all of us.

I didn't read whole thread. Does it matter on wich difficulty you've done your records?

comagoosie said:

Ok, got it updated for you

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Hehe, thanks. I like having my name on something that says "Hall of Fame".

Edit: I just realised something. I'm in the "Hall of Fame" for a video game. A long way to Cooperstown isn't it?

comagoosie said:

Ok, got it updated for you

Hm...I wouldn't think so, but what record are we talking about? If you are going for the world conquer and you did it on very easy compared to the current holder who did it on hard...I may have to think it over.

So what record do you think you have?

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WC on easy, but I have to find my save, even if I find it I might not be able to show you because I maxed my income in it for fun so I played it another 200 years :rofl:
Honestly I think my record isn't qualified because it's a whole lot a different story to start with burgundy on easy than with mantua on very hard. So I will not bother to show off

Hi, I believe I have the biggest income.

IN 3.2b, on hard with all options on normal.

It was a well planned game where I went POR -> SPA -> NED -> ENG -> SCA

and took all the economic national decisions including stuff like "hire privateers." !? I've never tried that before. I mean, you need one of the useless navy ideas: superior_seamanship, naval_fighting_instruction or sea_hawks, and you need a reasonable monarch and a privateers as advisor :wacko:

It was my first WC so I did a few mistakes, but the high income could cover up for it. I just wished I'd taken Rome much earlier and had nourished someone in position to hold Thrace with a CoT for the bospherous trade modifier.


In the end I had (among others for conversion and stability)
Afonsine ordinances (10% prod)
liquor act (3% tax)
legacy of the navigator (5% trade)
church taxes (8% tax)
dissolution of the monastories (6% tax)
gold fleet (5% tariff)
india trade co (5% trade)
dutch india (5% trade)
importation act (6% trade)
hire privateers (10% tariff, 5% trade)
British merchant navy (5% tariff)
convoy system (10% tariff)
Joint stock companies (2% trade)
Vorneredskab (10% tax)
agricultural cultivations (4% production 4% trade)

I also had the Sound Toll, 25% trade


I had national trade policy, viceroys, bureaucracy and smithian economics for another (10% trade, 25% tariffs, 20% production and 5% tax and was running constitutional republic for another 20% production. And by the way. I am at war against my trusted vassal Pommerania, and running wartaxes.

Do you happen to know or have a pic of your PE and TE? I'm interested in how high it is.

For some reason I forgot to take a screenshot of the budget sliders... but the modifiers are up there on the ledger. TE 156% and PE 186%. I will get back to you next time I fire up the game

Selmuth said:

For some reason I forgot to take a screenshot of the budget sliders... but the modifiers are up there on the ledger. TE 156% and PE 186%. I will get back to you next time I fire up the game

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Wow. Those are massive efficiency numbers.

I was also full centralization, plutocracy, free trade, naval, narrow minded and serfdom. Defensive was 2 and I never got quality below the magic -3 for the fur prices, but ended hovering around 0

budget window


I just had my autosave, so I don't know why the trade efficiency is slightly lower here. Perhaps I had a good event in the previous screen shot. Here is a snapshot of the best non-CoT provinces of some selected goods. I am especially satisfied with the grain prices. 32.5 d/unit makes grain worth more than iron. That is excellent, considering that grain makes up about a fifth of the provinces. Also notice how ridiculously low the wool prices are. Wool and fish are worthless in this game.

Oh, and I've minted alot to build manufactories all over the globe. 56 weapon, naval, refinery and universities. And 65 textile manufactories (of which I build none)

And another one.
I guess I really didn't pay any attention to badboy, but since I only started WC after getting tech level 30, I guess I must have made a good burst, even though I grabbed cabinet as soon as possible.

This one must be easy to beat.

Wow. Those pics are crazy. I never thought anyone would beat unddu's income or BB, and now you come along.

Those production values for the provinces are astronomical.

I am also a liiitle bit proud of the result I'm a bit exhausted too, so unless someone beats my income in a comparable game, I think I will put EU3 on the shelf for a while.

Selmuth said:

I am also a liiitle bit proud of the result I'm a bit exhausted too, so unless someone beats my income in a comparable game, I think I will put EU3 on the shelf for a while.

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I doubt anyone will ever break your income record. We though unddu's was unbreakable, and you beat it by 10k. I don't think anyone else will have the patience to go through all of the hoops you did to get all of the best economic decision.