Asking for provinces without claims in a peace deal because AE is low only to realize that land has +75% coring costs because of the ideas of some long dead minor.
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Dumb mistakes you always make
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I take way to many loans trying to win unwinable wars instead of just peading out early and saving the money. This results in me sitting on speed 5 for the next decades or so slowly paying of my debt and doing nothing else due to fear of even more debt.
Edit: Also always forget that you can raise very helpful war taxes for just a little sword mana
Edit: Also always forget that you can raise very helpful war taxes for just a little sword mana
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The few times that happens you can in most cases ctrl+alt+delete steam then eu4 and get back to the save at the 1 day of month.
When enemy asks for peace and his message irritatingly slides across the entire notification banner group on the top. Instead of right clicking to deny his request I accidentally right click on one of those banners, and they go away forever until re-enabled from menu.
Worse, most of the time I don't know what I deleted, so that means I have to reset the entire message notification system just to get them back again.
There should be an option so that new notifications and diplomatic messages don't fly around.
Worse, most of the time I don't know what I deleted, so that means I have to reset the entire message notification system just to get them back again.
There should be an option so that new notifications and diplomatic messages don't fly around.
I always finish a war and think "okay, I'll just core these provinces and then I'm done playing." But I'm never done...
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You can set the Outliner (or whatever that thingy on the right side of the screen that shows your armies, navies and other stuff is called) to show disabled alerts. You can then quite easily re-enable the ones you accidentally clicked away.
War taxes are great. Most western powers usually float in MP after some time, anyway.
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taking that one province with your staunch ally's claim on it and getting a negative modifier that destroys hundreds of years of friendship over 4 base tax
I keep forgetting about rebels and their harsh treatments, and only find out that they are increasing in size when they have already grown to 60-70% worth of unrest and are just about to start full scale uprisings with doomstacks.
Yep, I learned this thing only a few days ago.
Yep, I learned this thing only a few days ago.
Using harsh treatment has same effect regardless if they are at 70 or 30%.
In the end what matters isn´t percentage itself but the total unrest. If you have a province with 1% unrest, having 70% is irrelevant.
In the end what matters isn´t percentage itself but the total unrest. If you have a province with 1% unrest, having 70% is irrelevant.
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Yep, it basically chips away 30% unrest at the cost of sword mana no matter what the number already is. Using that at 30% would make it 0%, and using it at 70% would make it 40% (so one would have to spend more).
Clicking to improve relations and then realising later that I've insulted them instead... Fortunately the insult effect burns off quickly
I pretty much always end up forgetting the game isn't EU2 at some point and die to AE or OE... much less frequent than back when I started in December though. 
Well, "dying" is exaggerating perhaps (except in the office MP games...)
Well, "dying" is exaggerating perhaps (except in the office MP games...)
I pretty much always end up forgetting the game isn't EU2 at some point and die to AE or OE... much less frequent than back when I started in December though.
You could roflstomp the world in EU2? Not even infamy was there to stop you?
Just asking, since I started with EU3 as my first Paradox game.
You could roflstomp the world in EU2? Not even infamy was there to stop you?
Just asking, since I started with EU3 as my first Paradox game.
There was "bad boy" which to be fair is like AE, except it was a far more simple system with less details to pay attention to. The new system is a lot more fun since AE is local rather than global, but can sometimes surprise me if I forget to look at the interface. Old system was completely opaque but more simple to understand if you read about it on the forums. In EU2 BB gains weren't even shown in interface, though.
OE didn't exist at all.
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^This
I just gamed untill 18:00(6pm). Now i'm awake again and it's black night. Pretty weird starting your day at 23:20(11pm).
There was "bad boy" which to be fair is like AE, except it was a far more simple system with less details to pay attention to. The new system is a lot more fun since AE is local rather than global, but can sometimes surprise me if I forget to look at the interface. Old system was completely opaque but more simple to understand if you read about it on the forums. In EU2 it BB gains weren't even shown in interface, though.
OE didn't exist at all.
Ah, thanks. That means an opaque infamy/badboy system was there, but you could have an empire expanding from Brittany to Shandong and it will rule as efficiently as a three-province minor.
EU3's badboy/infamy system is inferior to EU4's AE. All you had is a hard limit and going 0.01 over that means the entire world procedurally declares war on you even if it is suicidal. Only the recurring rebels when over infamy limit put a check on it. Now in EU4 we have a much, much better system.