Can I form other countries as independent colonial nations? i.e could a player controlled English USA form GB if they reconquored the British isles?
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How can one determine where trade is projected?
In current game I'm playing Knights, hold Egypt and am slowly colonizing East Indies, so I want trade to flow from Malacca to Bengal and then up to Alexandria. But when I sent trader to Malacca, he projected flow to Zanzibar. How can I project it back towards Bengal?
In current game I'm playing Knights, hold Egypt and am slowly colonizing East Indies, so I want trade to flow from Malacca to Bengal and then up to Alexandria. But when I sent trader to Malacca, he projected flow to Zanzibar. How can I project it back towards Bengal?
If I understand your question correctly... The AI automatically chooses what should make you the most money. It sometimes gets it wrong, but if u look on the Trade map mode, each trade node has fixed inputs and outputs, and if you place a merchant in a trade node, you can manually choose the output direction if you think the AI chose wrong.
In your case specifically... if you literally just control Egypt, it's pointless sending a Merchant to Malacca unless you actually control Zanzibar. Your merchant can only steer flow one step down the chain, so your colonization efforts in Malacca/Moluccas is either just making whoever owns Zanzibar richer, or whoever controls Bengal. If you control neither, there's no point investing in the Spice islands or sending a Merchant there.
I don't control Zanzibar nor have merchant here. I have three colonies here, but that's it.
How can I do this manual deciding?
Edit2: Had privateers in Zanzibar, moved them elsewhere and started collecting in Malacca. If I try to transfer, it still projects the flow towards Zanzibar and around Africa.
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You are not prohibited from forming a formable nation when you are a former colonial nation, because you are human (the AI is prevented in the same circumstances, though). You are, however, prevented from forming a second colonial nation formation (i.e. having formed USA you cannot form Canada, Chile, Colombia, etc, and vice versa, because a flag is set).
So yes, if you manage to reconquer the British Isles, and switch your primary culture to the British group (or Welsh), you can in fact form Great Britain (provided of course that it does not already exist elsewhere).
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It sounds like you have a pretty sketchy understanding of trade... I'd recommend reading/watching some basic guides.
Long story short though... you can only steer the flow of trade value downstream with Merchants. In order to profit from trade, you should conquer upstream. For example if you already control Eygpt, which is in the Alexandria Node, upstream of that would be Aleppo and Aden.
Miight be.
Downstream, that means in direction of arrowheads. Malacca node sends flow - arrowheads - to at least two nodes, Zanzibar and Bengal. Bengal to Ceylon, Ceylon to Aden and others, Aden to Zanzibar and Alexandria at least. I now have merchants transferring in Aden, Ceylon and I think Bengal towards Alexandria, wherein lies my main trade port. I would like to chain Malacca node in, but from there it sends to Zanzibar, which is downstream from Aden and Malacca both.
And that's my original question, how can I pick Bengal over Zanzibar? They're, as far as I understand, both downstream from Malacca. But if trade flows to Zanzibar, I lose it, as it circles Africa and goes to end nodes of Genoa and so. Which is why started collecting here (Malacca).
Click the arrow on the flow.
Can only be done with a merchant present.
Greyed out means you don't steer, red means you steer.
Send a merchant into Malacca and click the arrow on the flow leading to Bengal.
Can only be done with a merchant present.
Greyed out means you don't steer, red means you steer.
Send a merchant into Malacca and click the arrow on the flow leading to Bengal.
What's the actual condition for the achievement "Queen of Conquest"? I've taken land in a peace deal while ruled by a Queen Consort and not gotten the achievement. Do I need to be using the Conquest War Goal specifically? Does the war need to have been started under the consort?
Did you fully annex your enemy? I seem to recall that the achievement is bugged and that it only fires if the nation you take a province from still exists after the war is over.
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That must be it, yeah; the wars I happened to be conducting in regency ended in full annexation of the enemy. I'm sure I'll pick up the achievement sooner or later, just irritating when it's bugged.
My ally, Saxony, just offered me (Brandenburg) his entire army as Condotierri for free, in a war against Poland, who is not his rival...
Why? I mean I'm happy, but why?
Why? I mean I'm happy, but why?
Because they would accept a CtA but either didn't get called in or were prevented from joining due to certain modifiers that aren't being applied for condottieri arrangements.
Example: Can't send a CtA if the war has been going on for more than 30 months. AI nation would accept a CtA if it could be sent > AI offers Con for free.
Can happen with nations you aren't allied to as well.
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Doing a White Elephant run.
Is there anything I should focus idea-wise as Ayutthaya? Their NI set is kinda... underwhelming, and there's no obvious synergies. Only military bonuses are a meager +10% manpower bonus and a -25% mercenary maintenance.
Administrative is obvious, especially with Dai Viet having HCC + conquering all of Burma/Indochina to do, but anything else besides the 'standard' conquering things?
Is there anything I should focus idea-wise as Ayutthaya? Their NI set is kinda... underwhelming, and there's no obvious synergies. Only military bonuses are a meager +10% manpower bonus and a -25% mercenary maintenance.
Administrative is obvious, especially with Dai Viet having HCC + conquering all of Burma/Indochina to do, but anything else besides the 'standard' conquering things?
What ideas/event do I need to become a republic, starting as an iqta?
I'm thinking of doing a Nagaur run but I want to be a republic in the end.
I'm thinking of doing a Nagaur run but I want to be a republic in the end.
I'm trying to integrate a PU subject but the integration keeps pausing whenever I'm at war. It still says it takes dip points but none go towards it and my montly dip increase still includes the 4 or so that should be going to the integration, despite the dropdown thing listing them as a - still. Is this intended or a bug?
Edit: Awhile in to the war now and the progress seems to be increasing again. Still lost a couple months though which is pretty annoying. Has happened in previous wars too.
Edit: Awhile in to the war now and the progress seems to be increasing again. Still lost a couple months though which is pretty annoying. Has happened in previous wars too.
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First you need to get out of Iqta, which means either abandoning Islam or waiting until Admin 12 for the decision.
Then you have a choice between:
Aristocratic + Influence to become an Oligarchic Republic by decision
Trade + Economic to become a Merchant Republic by decision
Get Revolutionary rebels (e.g. from the Aspiration for Liberty disaster), let them enforce on you to form a Constitutional Republic
Move your capital to Europe and trigger the Revolution disaster (can't happen until 1750), forming a Revolutionary Republic
Scheming Bureaucracy event to become a Bureaucratic Despotism (needs Admin 20, rare event so not a reliable option)
Form England or Great Britain, trigger the Civil War disaster, go with the Parliamentarian options to eventually get a Constitutional Republic
There may be a few more, but I think they get increasingly hare-brained after this point. If you just want to play a regular old Republic, I'd take Aristocratic + Influence.
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