EUIV - Quick Questions / Quick Answers

[DS_McWerp]

If I Renovatio Imperii as france will I get the BBB achievment if its before 1500?

Also, if I Ewiger Landfriede, but haven't added my capital to the HRE, can i still attack HRE members?

 

[darksx]

What religion is the best for One Faith achievement?

 

[Threshold]

If I Renovatio Imperii as france will I get the BBB achievment if its before 1500?

No. You must be France in order to get the achievement, so you must achieve it before hitting that button. You cannot get it afterwards (without forming one of the few nations that HLR is not blocked from forming, and then re-forming France after).

Also, if I Ewiger Landfriede, but haven't added my capital to the HRE, can i still attack HRE members?

Yes.

What religion is the best for One Faith achievement?

Christian or Muslim are generally recommended, both for their larger numbers of possible missionaries, and their higher missionary chance (mostly from religion-specific decisions). Catholic is probably the singular easiest way to do it, but any of those options should do nicely.

 

[petertju]

What religion is the best for One Faith achievement?

A recommendable one is becoming catholic as ottomans, this will make a lot of the colonizers work for you, you can also leave a big part of europe for what it is. possible problems with this are:

1. protestant colonizers: mostly england, norway and the netherlands. they thus needed to be stopped.
2. trade companies, colonizers in Africa and indonesia won't convert trade companies provinces, be careful, this ruined one of my runs because i forgot a little island in the pacific which was controlled by spain...
3. hre princes, they are just a pain in the ass, but if there is a strong emperor and you win the league war this should also be doable.

 

[lymond]

So I'm tryin' out the Cherokee deal again after not playing NAs in quite some time (note: i'm on 1.17.1). I used the rival mission to nab Creek and after forever finally got a rival mission on Choctaw to nab their stuff, meanwhile vassaling Chicasaw, Caddo and Pawnee via the previous wars. So I have that area locked down and have started some slooooooow colonization.

All ponts going to reforms.

So question is, how do you otherwise attack natives. I can't rival any now, ofc, and the opms migrate next to me or my vassals frequently. Any recommendations, or just sit back and focus on slow colonization until I can reform/westernize. I'd prefer not doing no-cbs, if possible, but appears to be the only way until I can reform.

(oh..and anyone ever build those native buildings. if i recall they disappear, so the only ones viable to me are the ones to increase tax so you can afford colonization)

 

[atwix]

So question is, how do you otherwise attack natives. I can't rival any now, ofc, and the opms migrate next to me or my vassals frequently. Any recommendations, or just sit back and focus on slow colonization until I can reform/westernize. I'd prefer not doing no-cbs, if possible, but appears to be the only way until I can reform.

no cb best cb. natives can stab up easily.

oh..and anyone ever build those native buildings.

no

 

[SinoSooner]

Do courthouses lower the overall cost of states, or do they only lower the costs of the states that they are located in?

 

[Threshold]

Do courthouses lower the overall cost of states, or do they only lower the costs of the states that they are located in?

The second one.

 

[Stefanos_P]

Would you consider taking Exploration as 3rd Idea on a Prussia that got the Low Countries in the Burgundian Inheritance instead of a Mil Idea? First 2 I took Influence and then Economics.

 

[Bouchart]

Exploration isn't a bad idea, assuming you've moved your Main Trading Port the Channel. I'd head for the trade company areas first so your armies can steamroll Africa.

The main problem with taking Exploration third is that the other majors in the area may have already taken it first or second and snagged the easily reachable land.

You might do better taking a military idea, conquering and force-vassalizing part of England if they have already taken Exploration.

 

[Urdman]

I'm a little puzzled concerning how the multiple merchant bonus works, in a couple of respects.

Firstly: as far as I can tell, a country can only have one merchant in a node steering trade, so does the multiple merchant bonus apply to separate countries with merchants in a node? Do those merchants need to be steering trade along the same stream in order to stack?

Secondly: I'm assuming that the multiple merchant bonus refers to multiple merchants in the same node, rather than a string of merchants linked along a stream running through multiple nodes--is that correct?

 

[brifbates]

I'm a little puzzled concerning how the multiple merchant bonus works, in a couple of respects.

Firstly: as far as I can tell, a country can only have one merchant in a node steering trade, so does the multiple merchant bonus apply to separate countries with merchants in a node? Do those merchants need to be steering trade along the same stream in order to stack?

Secondly: I'm assuming that the multiple merchant bonus refers to multiple merchants in the same node, rather than a string of merchants linked along a stream running through multiple nodes--is that correct?

There are two bonuses associated with merchants placed to steer trade:

1) Each separate merchant to a limit of 5 placed in the same node and steering the same direction (for example: Provence and Genoa steering from and Champagne to Genoa) contributes to a multiplicative bonus applied to the trade value that follows that path.

2) For every merchant a single nation has placed to steer trade in any node a +10% multiplier is applied to the nation's trade power in its main trading port unless the nation is collecting with a merchant NOT placed in its main node

So to answer your first question, yes, only merchants steering the same direction contribute to the stacking trade value multiplier. Additionally, the added bonus decreases as the number of merchants increases (it's something like 10, 7, 5, 2, 1% for a maximum of 25% but those numbers may not be exact)

For the second bonus listed there is no maximum other than the number of merchants you can acquire (or trade nodes it's possible to steer in).

 

[Manic Eskimo]

So playing as Austria, I have not got the Hungarian PU after multiple restarts. I am playing with historical lucky nations. My goal is to do a WC or at least to learn more about what works and what doesn't. The AI Austria, it feels like nine times out of ten gets the PU over Hungary. I've tried allying them with the royal marriage and I've tried not allying them but the event chain still never fires. What is going on?

 

[grommile]

For HAB to get the personal union over HUN by event, Ladislaus (the Hungarian heir) must die before the end of 1456 and must not get instantly replaced when he does. Then, Hungary must choose the "accept PU" option (25% chance) instead of the "install Hunyádi Mátyás" option (75% chance; this gives all Habsburg-ruled countries a restore union CB against Hungary and removes their historic friendship with Austria) in event flavor_hun.2, you must not have lost the Habsburg dynasty, and you must not currently be in a regency yourself. Furthermore, if you've transmitted the Habsburg dynasty to anyone else, the randomized selection of beneficiary might pick them instead of you.

 

[Manic Eskimo]

For HAB to get the personal union over HUN by event, Ladislaus (the Hungarian heir) must die before the end of 1456 and must not get instantly replaced when he does. Then, Hungary must choose the "accept PU" option (25% chance) instead of the "install Hunyádi Mátyás" option (75% chance; this gives all Habsburg-ruled countries a restore union CB against Hungary and removes their historic friendship with Austria) in event flavor_hun.2, you must not have lost the Habsburg dynasty, and you must not currently be in a regency yourself. Furthermore, if you've transmitted the Habsburg dynasty to anyone else, the randomized selection of beneficiary might pick them instead of you.

I didn't realise the chances were so slim. I also thought that the AI always took certain decisions, unless they're a lucky nation, but not in this case? It honestly feels like when Austria is AI controlled you can set your watch by it.

 

[grommile]

Small sample size; you are the unlucky statistical outlier.

 

[Zuru84]

So I am playing as a Poland and i have few questions regarding Elective Monarchy:
1.What are those yellow and green numbers next to heirs (and percentage values)?

2.Can I support any of those candidates which are on the list?
3.Is there any way to add new candidaty (my choise)?

 

[Malieux]

Not sure if I was posted before:
I revoked privilegia as France but unfortunately I need to join HRE myself to lower my new vassal's lib desire. This will derank my government from empire to duchy.
Now what's going to happen if I restore Roman Empire (not Holy Roman Empire) which gives you empire rank back? I know that decisions are the only way to get kingdom rank as non-elector in HRE but can you even get empire inside Empire? Or will it kick me out?

 

[Bouchart]

Forming the Roman Empire removes all of your provinces from the HRE and gives you empire rank. This has no bearing on whether you remain emperor or not.

However since you are the emperor you can always add those provinces back if you want.

 

[Malieux]

@up
That's exactly what I hoped. Thanks