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Hey Sidrath - how fast did you pull off 1st in all 3 ranks? Just wondering if that is the max. possible score, or there is room to sneak in a few extra points?
Any chance you'll be splitting out the trade income into an old-version/new-version? With the changes to mechanics that number is impossible to beat, and it'd be fun to have something to shoot for on that front.
Edit: And is there any chance that highest tariff income be added?
Hi xSalient! It's not quite the theoretical cap, but it's close. I'd done a rough approximation of the score curve and I think the max is somewhere around 27700, but that tally is misleading as you're guaranteed to bleed some points due to initial circumstances. The score above involved #1 Adm and #1 Mili within about 5 years (and high rankings for the whole duration), and #1 Diplo within 20 years (overcoming the 'Strong Allies' diplomatic bonus of small rivals takes, for me, the longest to achieve). I am quite sure the score is beatable and might revisit it myself, though at this juncture it's largely down to luck in the opening decade and avoiding the occasional dips from pole position to second rank in the first century.
Incidentally as Zwireq points out, Ironman vs Non-Ironman is a whole different ballgame... I'd have no objection to a separate score record being kept for Ironman playthroughs. My 26318 Ironman playthrough felt way more intense than the recent non-Iron ones, even if it wouldn't strictly be the record. Being at 16220 in Feb 1750, Kingepyon could just run down the clock on his Ryukyu WC to achieve somewhere around 27530 by endgame, which back-translates into a #1/#1/#1 Ironman Ryukyu within 10 years or so, starting from nothing. How one achieves such a meteoric rise is still well beyond me!
Incidentally as Zwireq points out, Ironman vs Non-Ironman is a whole different ballgame... I'd have no objection to a separate score record being kept for Ironman playthroughs. My 26318 Ironman playthrough felt way more intense than the recent non-Iron ones, even if it wouldn't strictly be the record. Being at 16220 in Feb 1750, Kingepyon could just run down the clock on his Ryukyu WC to achieve somewhere around 27530 by endgame, which back-translates into a #1/#1/#1 Ironman Ryukyu within 10 years or so, starting from nothing. How one achieves such a meteoric rise is still well beyond me!
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There are quite a few reasons that submission is fishy, and you're pointing out yet another one.
Even if one were to actually accomplish the absurd assertion of conquering Ming within 40 years, that still wouldn't be good enough for #1/#1/#1.
Personally, I think you should make Ironman required, there'll be people who just can't resist cheating for this.
Don't they already?
Edit: granted, Ironman can be cheated in too, but would requires quite a bit more dedication.
I thought his Ironman proof shot looked odd. I was under the impression that Ironman modes required cloud saves (and when you're viewing cloud saves already, the button is "local", not "cloud") and required syncing with the cloud, where his just had the Ironman fist and no cloud sync icon.
Sorry, but people need to submit their own records. Otherwise this might be put it.
Maybe it would have been better for it to be ironman only, but since hald the records in here are from normal games, I don't think that it can be changed now. Plus, anyone who is desperate enough to cheat on the normal games to get a record will likely also cheat on Ironman to get a record as well, so there isn't really much difference.
Actually they post you quoted was from the opening days of the thread, when the rules were still being decided upon. A little bit after I posted that, people complained about Ironman, and so I changed it back to all games are fine.
Good job with your scores, first of all!
Anyways, if what you say is true (I am certainly not an expert at this game by any means, you people know more than me), then that does call the validity of the record into question again. For now, I'll send him a message I suppose.
Edit: I did update records, by the way. check to make sure I updated yours correctly!
Bunch of records from my latest world domination England/HRE game:
1) Beat my old tax record: 599,36 => 651,49
2) The same screenshot shows me beating highest production income as well
3) Largest land Forces
4) Highest land force limits
1) Beat my old tax record: 599,36 => 651,49
2) The same screenshot shows me beating highest production income as well
3) Largest land Forces
4) Highest land force limits
There doesn't seem to be a record for highest Mercantilism, so I'm just going to post this here and hope for the best. I don't actually know if this is as absurdly high as I think it is, but I'm certainly proud of myself:
There doesn't seem to be a record for highest Mercantilism, so I'm just going to post this here and hope for the best. I don't actually know if this is as absurdly high as I think it is, but I'm certainly proud of myself:
100% is the cap.
Really? I haven't read anything about a cap on the EU4 wiki... that's unfortunate.
I think so. If you still have one of those 10% Mercanitilism missions, try it and see if you go over.
Those missions are why my Mercantilism is so high to begin with. I got some random events that were supposed to increase it by 1, but they didn't seem to do anything, though... I suppose it makes sense to not be able to go over 100%.
You can do the missions multiple times with some setup. Merc is capped at 200% bonus to provinces (IE 100% mercantilism). That's probably why there isn't an entry, same thing with minimum tech cost.
Almost 12 000 points as Commonwealth. Satisfied. Especially since I have nice borders, exact country I wanted to create (I hate world conquests) and well this was my first Polish game in EU4 and first game after few months 
Crimea was my best ally until very end of game
Crimea was my best ally until very end of game
Almost 12 000 points as Commonwealth. Satisfied. Especially since I have nice borders, exact country I wanted to create (I hate world conquests) and well this was my first Polish game in EU4 and first game after few months
Crimea was my best ally until very end of game
I think you posted in the wrong thread, since your score is far from a record.