EUIV - Quick Questions / Quick Answers

[Dominion]

I currently am playing as Prussia with Muscovy in a PU under me. Will Muscovy continue to embiggen itself eastward and/or become Russia with me as overlord? Is there anyway I can encourage it to do so? I know they have a colonist from their NIs, so they definitely can do it. It'd be great if one of the colonial powers didn't decide to eat all of the east side of Eurasia just cause Muscovy is stuck under me.

Subsidies. A nations' will to colonize depends on their balance.

Though it's not guaranteed.

 

[Sfan]

No, they will colonize even when heavily in debt. My subject Russia in my current game is colonizing, but runs into debt at the rate of 1k every 10 years or so. Because it's an AI subject, and because I troll them by building level 8 forts so that I can buy their debt and make them happy.

 

[Yxklyx]

Can muslim ever get queen regents? Which govt is needed?

 

[Sfan]

Yes, but Iqta can't get queen consorts. Ottoman government can, and a reformed Iqta that became a regular monarchy can as well. Tribal Muslims can as well. It's just Iqta.

 

[Sfan]

Am I getting really tired by microing this, or should the Ottomans doomstack really be unable to move from where they are to Terek? It is clearly in my ZoC and yet they move through it like butter.
Not like it matters, I won the battle, but I don't get it.

 

[Wisehan]

My Total Treasury is:10
My total income is:15.45
My total expense is:11.87
BALANCE is : +3.58
Inflation is : %0

For example (accourding to giving values(up));

At "01 June 1444 " my total is "10" but next month ( 01 July 1444) my total treasury is "11". Only 1 ducat grows. But my balance is +3.58? I think It must be at least 13 not 11.

Why??

PS: I have Common Sense and Art of War DLCs

 

[Bouchart]

Does part of that income include Spoils of War?

 

[Wisehan]

Does part of that income include Spoils of War?

No, there is no spoils of war.

 

[Sfan]

If you do the math, you have more than 12.68 expenses. And 16.62 income, not 16.64. There are clearly bugs in your screen, this might be something related to the harbor fees bug. Post this to bug report screen.

Do you have any idea where you diplomatic expenses come from?

 

[brifbates]

No, there is no spoils of war.

Keep in mind that the number displayed on the main screen is always rounded so an actual increase of 1.99 can appear to only be an increase of 1.

If you look closely and do the math you'll notice that the diplomatic expenses aren't being properly subtracted on the budget screen.

There's also a little bit of rounding error going on but the biggest contributor to the variance you're seeing is the dip expenses.

So, to specifically explain what you saw...

You started with 9.5, your actual increase was 1.98, resulting in a final number of 11.48, which rounded down to 11 on the display...

 

[Jisgsaw]

My Total Treasury is:10
My total income is:15.45
My total expense is:11.87
BALANCE is : +3.58
Inflation is : %0

For example (accourding to giving values(up));

At "01 June 1444 " my total is "10" but next month ( 01 July 1444) my total treasury is "11". Only 1 ducat grows. But my balance is +3.58? I think It must be at least 13 not 11.

Why??

PS: I have Common Sense and Art of War DLCs

One expense (Diplomatic expenses IIRC) is not taken into account when displaying your balance, it's a known UI bug.

Edit: yep, it's the diplomatic expenses:
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...cats-month-disappearing.974390/#post-21956235

 

[HerrderGezeiten]

Is it possible to get Avignon etc. from Papa with out Excommunication ? (Me Aragon)
No Reli shift, no friendly Papa -> only with relations as high as possible
~150?

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Declared War -25
At War -50
Wants your Provinces -15
,...

I should still have + Relation
Still excommunication ?

 

[Camtheman]

I heard as Florence you can get ridiculously low interest to the point you can get 20k ducats in the early 1500s by loaning out and stuff? Is this true?

 

[Sfan]

You cannot get below 0.25% from the code to avoid these cheesy strats, and even with Florentine ideas, economic and forgive usury, I don't see how you can go below 1 without turning Hindu, which is far from easy and would block you from getting "forgive usury" ever again. Maybe special events, but they are unreliable.
You will need to pay these loans, at a rate of +50 gold each time if you sit at 0.25, or at the more reasonable rate of +200 ducats each time with 1% interest. If you think taking 20k worth of loan might make you win 200 ducats in the next 5 years, and actually more because of inflation, go for it. This might be an interesting strat. Now you have the exact numbers. But this requires you to always have forgive usury on, or to get Hinduism, else the cost is doubled to repay.

Now imagine you use some of this gold to go over FL, you need to win back the money you spent this way, so you can't spend the likes of several thousands.

Overall the interest rates are pretty low but this is not that different from any normal loan heavy strat, there is a mere 1-2% difference from having more standard interest. By going this cheesy road, you can take 200 of loans to attack a neighbour, and you just save 4 ducats or so as compared to someone who doesn't have these bonuses. This doesn't really make a difference imo.

 

[ecrurudesby]

and even with Florentine ideas, economic and forgive usury, I don't see how you can go below 1 without turning Hindu, which is far from easy and would block you from getting "forgive usury" ever again. Maybe special events, but they are unreliable.

National idea + Administrative + Economic + Innovative/Trade policy = permanent -4% interest

Also possible with the Netherlands for example, who don't have the national idea but do have a permanent event modifier.

But as you said, 0.25% is the minimum interest any country must pay.

 

[seriousgigi]

when i threat someone i see releative strengh of coalition modifier as negative in the tooltip but the country which i threat is not in coalition against me. is that a bug or wad?

 

[Jisgsaw]

So, as I got a but lucky outside the HRE and got a PU over Commonwealth + a Hasburg in Spain (currently waiting for them to not have a heir to claim throne), I decided to try a WC for the first time:

However, as this is my first WC AND my first HRE game, couple questions:
- I should trucebreak to expand faster, right? I should also be able to ignore most coalition too, right?
- How do I go about to get some HRE vassal into Africa (i.e. how do I know trhey have enough coring range to give them a province in a war)? (esp. NorthAfrica with their crazy coring costs)
- How big can I make my HRE vassals?

 

[Sfan]

You should not trucebreak at all from your position. Trucebreak is only useful if there is less than 20 years in the game and a country is above 100% warscore. The cost in admin to stab up is too high for trucebreaking to be worth it unless this is a trucebreak or don't WC situation.
Getting HRE vassals in Africa is not important. You don't want a OneTag I guess, so you can basically feed all of the increased coring cost land to a regular vassal around 1780, and never integrate him.
What exaclty do you refer to as HRE vassals actually?

What are your idea groups, and could we see GP ranking to see how well you are faring? This seems like a good run, but not an absolutely insane one, so if you don't have the experience of a WC, you might be short on time.

when i threat someone i see releative strengh of coalition modifier as negative in the tooltip but the country which i threat is not in coalition against me. is that a bug or wad?

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It has always been like this and I always considered it WAD, but I have no idea if this is really WAD.

 

[Jisgsaw]

You should not trucebreak at all from your position. Trucebreak is only useful if there is less than 20 years in the game and a country is above 100% warscore. The cost in admin to stab up is too high for trucebreaking to be worth it unless this is a trucebreak or don't WC situation.
Getting HRE vassals in Africa is not important. You don't want a OneTag I guess, so you can basically feed all of the increased coring cost land to a regular vassal around 1780, and never integrate him.
What exaclty do you refer to as HRE vassals actually?

What are your idea groups, and could we see GP ranking to see how well you are faring? This seems like a good run, but not an absolutely insane one, so if you don't have the experience of a WC, you might be short on time.

Well, the run would have been a lot better if I didn't loose the emperorship to a 18yo (who lived to 73) weak saxon because one elector took too long to switch his vote back to me, despite preferring me; I'd have revoked at around 1540 then.

I revoked the privilegia, that's what I meant with HRE vassals.
As for GP:

I'll hopefully get a PU over Spain; Ottomans will be dealt with as soon as my truce runs out, that'd leave me with Ming. The others shouldn't pose too much of a problem.

I went diplomatic-religious-influence-quantity. I actually forgot to ask what to take next. Administrative?

 

[Heratik]

Unify Islam.

Have taken all provinces listed, converted all in nation to Sunni, have the MP's.

There is no achievement and no desicion to take.

Am playing ironman.

Did I miss anything obvious?