cheaty thingy

[unmerged(10802)]

Just a little semi-cheaty thingy I use and can't remember reading it anywhere. I discovered this not long after I started playing.

When exploring you see the borders of terra incognita and if you go to the economy screen you can see if these undiscovered areas belong to any one or not. The colour of the COT will show up on colonized places while uncolonized will remain white meaning you can concentrate on exploring the new places/making contact whatever you want.

 

[unmerged(8303)]

wow, this ruins the game for me!

seriously, it represents the trading network of your nation and your shipment going ashore and contacting the locals and finding who is trading what, where, etc etc etc

rolleyes:?)

 

[unmerged(10191)]

belive so jaron...

 

[unmerged(10802)]

Ah well thought it was a little buggy thingy since political doesn't work but trading does.
Dunno why I posted it. Just bored trying to do damn homework.

 

[unmerged(8303)]

You make good points friend

Maybe it was just overlooked?

Any rate it is useful to find out when those bastard portuguese got our province already!

 

[unmerged(2778)]

Originally posted by Josquius
Just a little semi-cheaty thingy I use and can't remember reading it anywhere. I discovered this not long after I started playing.

When exploring you see the borders of terra incognita and if you go to the economy screen you can see if these undiscovered areas belong to any one or not. The colour of the COT will show up on colonized places while uncolonized will remain white meaning you can concentrate on exploring the new places/making contact whatever you want.

I use this semi-cheat thingy sometimes. Don't think it's a cheat really. It can be explained with rumors spreading through fellow europeans, merchants, local inhabitants and so on. Maybe it should be seen as a very minor exploit.

 

[unmerged(9146)]

Originally posted by Josquius
Ah well thought it was a little buggy thingy since political doesn't work but trading does.

Actually at my computer it works both in political and trade mode. And in normal mode you can still see a border so unless it's your own border you know somebody's out there. ANd it's EU2 with 1.05, no other modifications. Is it just me?

 

[Nikolai II]

Works with political as well..

Also, if someone owns the province you can explore it at all times, just ignore the popup that tells you about how you can't

 

[Castellon]

This is an issue with the TI shroud. It would be very hard to get it perfect as it would have to over lap each province and if it did then what would happen if you discovered that province. To fix this you would need a seperate space between each province/sea zone to act as a border shroud, this would add to the complexity and difficulty of the map big time. So the best thing is to just take the advice above and consider that you know that info from scouts and rumours ...