EUIV - Quick Questions / Quick Answers

[atwix]

So how do things usually play out when the HRE is officially Catholic but there are only like 6 Catholic OPMs in it? Do other members start converting to Catholicism?

usually only the theocracies remain as OPM, and if somehow a reformation center manages to convert those too, the empire disbands itself. If ONE elector remains, he will vote for himself or an outside monarchy like France (in case the elector himself isn't viable government form for being HRE emperor).

 

[tppytel]

I was seeing some weirdness with adding rivals too, though it cleared up eventually. Like the other poster, I was well past the expiration date on an old rival and could click through their shield on my diplo screen, but the new rival (just the Ottomans in my case) was grayed out. Eventually I surpassed an existing rival (the Mamluks) and was able to add the new one. Seemed strange to me, but I didn't carefully record any saves.

Anyway, my question... what determines the assignment of occupation by allies? I'm playing Castile/Spain and got called into a war against England by my ally Austria, who brought in a number of other European minors as well. England still has provinces on the Continent, several of which I don't have easy access to, and I was surprised to see that the minors occupied several provinces that were immediately assigned to occupation by me. I would've expected they go to Austria, since he started the war. Any idea how occupations are determined?

 

[MerlinaWizzard]

I am a bit worried, so here's a question.

I(Holland) am Allies with Austria, who is not only the current HRE emperor, and has a 5/4/6 ruler, but is also leader in a PU with Hungary and is therefore an absolute beast.
One of my rivals is Provence, whose only ally is... Austria. Sigh
Now, Austria just went to war with France, because Florence (Austria's ally) desired Siena (France's ally). They have just peaced out France, (after decimating them!)
and are now on their way to Siena. My guess is it will fall quickly

Here's the deal. I want to rack in some Power Projection Points, by clobbering Provence around Needless to say, in the declaration of war screen, Austria won't join me.
In fact, they are at -2000 , just to make a point I guess. However, they won't join Provence either, all be it with only 1 (ONE) point in deficit, being +30 for Defensive war, and their being at -31 (war exhaustion, sort of liking me, and involved in another war the main reasons).

So if I read this correctly, I can attack Provence, and Austria will ignore us both. And then Provence will break their alliance with Austria for breaking trust, and I won't, since I won't call on Austria anyway... Or will I? Will there be negative repercussions in my relation to Austria for attacking their ally?

I'm playing ironman, so I can't really experiment here... So does anyone have experience with something like this?

Second question: as Holland, I want to focus on trade, on colonizing and on expanding in Europe. For now. It's now 1504, and the Protestant revolution just started.... in Aachen, right next to Köln (that I have just cored). Now I have a fervent protestant province in my country, and more will probably follow. Well, that's what one can expect of course in Europe, but my question is different:

I'm inclining towards becoming Reformed, rather than Protestant. If only because it seems to be more in line with dutch history. I seem to have all the DLC present to make full use of both their belief systems, with the aspects and the fervor and all that. But which one would be better for me?

Thank you in advance!

 

[londoner247]

I'm Denmark. Britain just unrivaled me. I'd like to unrival them, but all the replacements are grayed out with no tooltip. We've been rivals for well over 100 years, but I need them as an ally right now because France just rivaled me. I also have well over 100 DIP saved, so that's not restricting me.

Any tips? I've never experienced this.

I was seeing some weirdness with adding rivals too, though it cleared up eventually. Like the other poster, I was well past the expiration date on an old rival and could click through their shield on my diplo screen, but the new rival (just the Ottomans in my case) was grayed out. Eventually I surpassed an existing rival (the Mamluks) and was able to add the new one. Seemed strange to me, but I didn't carefully record any saves.

Anyway, my question... what determines the assignment of occupation by allies? I'm playing Castile/Spain and got called into a war against England by my ally Austria, who brought in a number of other European minors as well. England still has provinces on the Continent, several of which I don't have easy access to, and I was surprised to see that the minors occupied several provinces that were immediately assigned to occupation by me. I would've expected they go to Austria, since he started the war. Any idea how occupations are determined?

There is a reported bug on changing rivals. See this thread on the bug forum for more details.

On occupations, generally occupations will be transferred to the war leader if they have marked the provinces as being of vital or strategic interest. If they are not interested in the province then the occupations will be transferred to allies in the war who have marked the provinces as being of vital interest.

 

[londoner247]

I am a bit worried, so here's a question.

I(Holland) am Allies with Austria, who is not only the current HRE emperor, and has a 5/4/6 ruler, but is also leader in a PU with Hungary and is therefore an absolute beast.
One of my rivals is Provence, whose only ally is... Austria. Sigh
Now, Austria just went to war with France, because Florence (Austria's ally) desired Siena (France's ally). They have just peaced out France, (after decimating them!)
and are now on their way to Siena. My guess is it will fall quickly

Here's the deal. I want to rack in some Power Projection Points, by clobbering Provence around Needless to say, in the declaration of war screen, Austria won't join me.
In fact, they are at -2000 , just to make a point I guess. However, they won't join Provence either, all be it with only 1 (ONE) point in deficit, being +30 for Defensive war, and their being at -31 (war exhaustion, sort of liking me, and involved in another war the main reasons).

So if I read this correctly, I can attack Provence, and Austria will ignore us both. And then Provence will break their alliance with Austria for breaking trust, and I won't, since I won't call on Austria anyway... Or will I? Will there be negative repercussions in my relation to Austria for attacking their ally?

I'm playing ironman, so I can't really experiment here... So does anyone have experience with something like this?

Second question: as Holland, I want to focus on trade, on colonizing and on expanding in Europe. For now. It's now 1504, and the Protestant revolution just started.... in Aachen, right next to Köln (that I have just cored). Now I have a fervent protestant province in my country, and more will probably follow. Well, that's what one can expect of course in Europe, but my question is different:

I'm inclining towards becoming Reformed, rather than Protestant. If only because it seems to be more in line with dutch history. I seem to have all the DLC present to make full use of both their belief systems, with the aspects and the fervor and all that. But which one would be better for me?

Thank you in advance!

On your first point, there will be no consequences for you if you declare on Provence without calling in Austria. As long as Austria will decline Provence's call to arms that alliance will break and you'll be fine.

On religion, that's a very situational question. If you end up with quite a few provinces that are Protestant with the religous zeal modifier then switching to Reformed may be quite tricky because you will not be able to get decent religious unity. That said, if you've taken Humanist ideas you might be able to handle it. Generally, if you are looking at a trade based empire, I would say that Reformed is better but not if it is going to cause chaos for you during the reformation.

 

[Emre Yigit]

What is the meaning of the symbol that looks like an eye with a backslash through it that appears next to armies (the opposite side to where the attrition skull appears)?

 

[tppytel]

There is a reported bug on changing rivals. See this thread on the bug forum for more details.

Ah, that explains it. Thanks.

On occupations, generally occupations will be transferred to the war leader if they have marked the provinces as being of vital or strategic interest. If they are not interested in the province then the occupations will be transferred to allies in the war who have marked the provinces as being of vital interest.

The only DLC I'm playing with right now is Art of War, so I don't have that functionality, right? I think that's a Cossacks thing? I did notice that Austria was assigned the occupation of Calais, which was its mission and wargoal, so that makes sense. I'm just not sure why the others came to me.

A related question from the same situation... when I'm fighting in an ally's war, is there any way to influence the leader's peace offer or do I just have to make a separate peace to get what I want? In the current war with England, I would really like to break England's guarantee on Provence to simplify the diplomatic situation.

 

[Chocolatnave]

What is the best culture group? As in best (or among the best) for:
Expansion
Trade
Development

 

[brifbates]

What is the best culture group? As in best (or among the best) for:
Expansion
Trade
Development

Expansion: French (France) or Ottomans (I forget what the culture is called for them)
Trade: Iberian or Dutch with a shout out for Malysian
Development: German for one of the free cities or look around for a nation with a -dev cost idea. I don't remember there being many though

 

[Vetgirig]

A related question from the same situation... when I'm fighting in an ally's war, is there any way to influence the leader's peace offer or do I just have to make a separate peace to get what I want? In the current war with England, I would really like to break England's guarantee on Provence to simplify the diplomatic situation.

If you dont have the cossacks you can still get provinces. It requires 1. you have claims on them and 2. you have that province occupied. 3. You have war participations so war leader feels obliged to give you a province.

But dont expect more then 1 province.

The safe way to get what you want is to do a separate peace.

 

[Bitslinger]

Is there any way to de-ironman a save on purpose?

 

[ellotyler]

All the links in the modding page on the wiki (http://www.eu4wiki.com/Modding) leads to page that says "Paradox Interactive Forums - Error
You do not have permission to view this page or perform this action." when I try to visit them. Send help. I just want to get into modding.

 

[grommile]

All the links in the modding page on the wiki (http://www.eu4wiki.com/Modding) leads to page that says "Paradox Interactive Forums - Error
You do not have permission to view this page or perform this action." when I try to visit them. Send help. I just want to get into modding.

See this link:
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?pages/Please_Register_EU4/

 

[tppytel]

If you dont have the cossacks you can still get provinces. It requires 1. you have claims on them and 2. you have that province occupied. 3. You have war participations so war leader feels obliged to give you a province.

But dont expect more then 1 province.

The safe way to get what you want is to do a separate peace.

Makes sense. Thanks Vetgirig.

 

[Heindrich]

1. Is it worth upgrading gold mines in Colonial Nations? I seem to get 40 ducats per mine from all my colonial nations per treasure fleet. I can't tell if that's a coincidence.
2. Is it worth building buildings in Colonial Nations or should I just leave it to AI? Do I benefit from buildings like Regimental Camps?
3. As a European colonizer, I should make Areas with gold provinces state cores to make the most of goldmines right? (I've been told to make Trade Companies where I can, but goldmines seem to be worth making states for).

 

[grandadmiralbob]

1. Is it worth upgrading gold mines in Colonial Nations? I seem to get 40 ducats per mine from all my colonial nations per treasure fleet. I can't tell if that's a coincidence.
2. Is it worth building buildings in Colonial Nations or should I just leave it to AI? Do I benefit from buildings like Regimental Camps?
3. As a European colonizer, I should make Areas with gold provinces state cores to make the most of goldmines right? (I've been told to make Trade Companies where I can, but goldmines seem to be worth making states for).

1. if you have spare points, why not? But i'm kinda iffy on this one as i don't have much experience with CN's, i'm more of a ''touchy feely'' conqu..... errrr liberator.
2. YES
3. YES, gold mines are crazy good, hopefully the AI is decent at using them. i just started a Holland game, and Nederlander Antilles is doing quite well with what i have provided them.

 

[tppytel]

Is it worth building buildings in Colonial Nations or should I just leave it to AI? Do I benefit from buildings like Regimental Camps?

Wait... you can build buildings in CN's? After the colonies have become a CN, I mean? (Obviously they can while they're still your cores.) Does this require a particular DLC? I'm playing only with Art of War and it seemed like this wasn't possible.

 

[Heindrich]

Wait... you can build buildings in CN's? After the colonies have become a CN, I mean? (Obviously they can while they're still your cores.) Does this require a particular DLC? I'm playing only with Art of War and it seemed like this wasn't possible.

Yes I can build buldings in my Colonial Nations. I am not sure if it's DLC though.

 

[brifbates]

If you dont have the cossacks you can still get provinces. It requires 1. you have claims on them and 2. you have that province occupied. 3. You have war participations so war leader feels obliged to give you a province.

But dont expect more then 1 province.

The safe way to get what you want is to do a separate peace.

However, making a separate peace has its downsides. You can encourage your ally to give you stuff in a war by limiting the stuff they can take for themselves. Grab all the occupations you can, particularly stuff they have claims on/desire for so they don't have much to burn the war score on and they'll generally give you stuff you have claims on (unless they want the stuff in question as well.

Yes I can build buldings in my Colonial Nations. I am not sure if it's DLC though.

Yes it's a DLc feature but I can't remember which one exactly (one of the more recent ones but not the condottieri one because I don't have that one)

 

[LeKaiser]

Yes I can build buldings in my Colonial Nations. I am not sure if it's DLC though.

Rights of Man feature.