BB question

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When I place the pointer over my reputation in my diplomacy screen, alliances tab, I get two numbers [a.b/cd].

So the first one is a decimal number (boy am I smart ), which denotes what????
And what does the second one denote????

THX for any answers, except the ones calling me n00b.

 

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n00b.

EDIT: The BB value just means you're a very, very bad man indeed. When it gets too high, lots of people attack you and you generally get a bit pissed off. As far as I know, the decimal serves no actual purpose (correct me if I am wrong), and the number is fairly meaningless to me anyway. I never seem to lose

 

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When I place the pointer over my reputation in my diplomacy screen, alliances tab, I get two numbers [a.b/cd].

So the first one is a decimal number (boy am I smart ), which denotes what????
And what does the second one denote????

THX for any answers, except the ones calling me n00b.

a.b denotes your current badboy (BB), how aggressive you've been. CHeck the BB faq on how to get and egt rid of BB points.

cd denotes your BBmax. It depends on your monarch's diplomacy value and the gameyear. The closer your BB is to BBmax the more likelier the ai is to attack you. on very hard going over BBmax will trigger a BB war (fun!)

 

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Ummm...actually, the number is very important, unless you're planning a WC.

The first number is your current BB rating; the decimal is important too. Your BB goes up by:

1 for every DoW w/CB
4 for ever DoW w/o a CB
2 for every noncore province you seize in an offensive war
1 for every noncore you seize in a defensive war
3 for every different-religion (major differences) nation you force-annex
6 for every similar-religion (inter-Christian) you force-annex
1 for every province-worth of territory you diplo-annex
? for every province you seize as a result of a turbo-annex (I think this amount changed recently, and I don't know to what)
1 for dishonoring an alliance (?)

And sometimes an event will raise your BB too.

Your BB will gradually go down, dependant on your DIP rating (with any modifiers). Your DIP rating will also affect the second number, which represents your BB max. Once you pass this max, you are in danger of triggering BB wars, if you are playing on one of the higher difficulty levels. In case you don't know, this means that everyone and their mother will DoW you constantly until that number goes back down.

Another thing (and this is why the decimal is especially important), is that if your BB exceeds 50% of your maximum, your stability costs will skyrocket. So if you have a BB max that's an odd number, it's nice to know if you're above or below .5. Also, if your BB is at 50% of max or higher, the AI is more likely to attack you, but certainly not as likely as if you exceed 100%.

Finally, the greater your BB, the more other nations dislike you, and your relations will suffer for it.

P.S. n00b

EDIT: Silly me, I forgot the EUII Wiki. It explains everything:

http://dhost.info/arsud/mediawiki-1.4rc1/index.php/Badboy

Except for one thing.

According to the Wiki, you will suffer 2BB if you DoW w/o a CB a country you have good relations with, but 4BB if you DoW w/o a CB a country you don't have so good relations with. What's up with that?

You gain BB largely as a function of warfare: declaring wars, and taking provinces in peace deals, though there are some exceptions. Here is the short version:

BB Action
-- ------
1 Declaration of War (w/ casus belli)
2 DoW (w/o CB) relations +100 or more
4 DoW (w/o CB) relations less than +100
0 Gain a core province in any war
1 Gain a non-core province in a defensive war
2 Gain a non-core province in an offensive war
3 Force annex a country of different religion
6 Force annex a country of the same religion

 

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EDIT: Silly me, I forgot the EUII Wiki. It explains everything:

http://dhost.info/arsud/mediawiki-1.4rc1/index.php/Badboy

Except for one thing.

According to the Wiki, you will suffer 2BB if you DoW w/o a CB a country you have good relations with, but 4BB if you DoW w/o a CB a country you don't have so good relations with. What's up with that?

No it does not explain everything. In fact it is in error. This anomaly (bug) with only 2BB for a DOW if you have good relations only occurs if you have the same religion as the one you DOW. Not if you have a different religion.

This is correctly explained in the BB FAQ. It was Tonioz who found out about this bug some months ago.

Lesson: Always go the FAQ if you want to know the truth. Because that one is updated more carefully. Whenever we detect an error in them we report it to the someone resposible, but for this correction to enter the Wiki it takes someone to inform someone to edit the Wiki (or do it yourself) and that may not always happen.

This does not of course mean that the Wiki is bad, it is a very nice and well-written description of our game.

 

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Lesson: Always go the FAQ if you want to know the truth. Because that one is updated more carefully. Whenever we detect an error in them we report it to the someone resposible, but for this correction to enter the Wiki it takes someone to inform someone to edit the Wiki (or do it yourself) and that may not always happen.

This does not of course mean that the Wiki is bad, it is a very nice and well-written description of our game.

No Daniel the FAQ is not always more correct than the wiki, see for instance the adjusment to the cost of troops from the various dp sliders, the wiki has the better information than the FAQ.

Conclusion: Use both of them at the same time.

edit: I have mean to ask you for some time: Is it ok if I (or you can do it yourself) copy your attrtion FAQ to the Vickywiki?

 

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No it does not explain everything. In fact it is in error. This anomaly (bug) with only 2BB for a DOW if you have good relations only occurs if you have the same religion as the one you DOW. Not if you have a different religion.

This is correctly explained in the BB FAQ. It was Tonioz who found out about this bug some months ago.

Checking the BB FAQ of Kurtbrain, what your writing here is not explained there. (it is BTW unclear what other and same mean)

Declaration of War

Dow same cb:
1

Dow same nocb, relations +100 or more:
2

Dow same nocb, relations less than +100:
4

Dow other cb:
1

Dow other nocb, relations +100 or more:
2

Dow other nocb, relations less than +100:
4