EUIV - Quick Questions / Quick Answers

[jamesmason01]

Is there any way to promote a culture that is in your cultural union? I'm trying my first Ottoman game and going for, among other things, Arabian Coffee, but I can't figure out how to promote Syrian so that I can culture shift as it is already accepted as part of the Levantine cultural union granted by Empire rank.

 

[Aotrs Commander]

Is it actually possible get get scholar and free thinker? Or is scholar just a really, really, really small chance? I was reloading with my 6/6/6 character for ike, an hour, but scholar did not come up at all, but I think almost everything else did. Which makes me think there's something going on (or I am being STUPENDOUSLY unlucky).

(Still, I manage to make some headway in my squirtle breeding program in Pokémon X while during the loading times, so it wasn't like my time was completely pointless...!)

 

[grommile]

Is there any way to promote a culture that is in your cultural union? I'm trying my first Ottoman game and going for, among other things, Arabian Coffee, but I can't figure out how to promote Syrian so that I can culture shift as it is already accepted as part of the Levantine cultural union granted by Empire rank.

You need to make it your dominant culture - which is to say, you must have more total development in your Syrian provinces than you do in provinces of any other culture.

Is it actually possible get get scholar and free thinker?

Yes - but not if you have Careful, Zealot, or Tolerant, because those lock out Free Thinker.

 

[jamesmason01]

You need to make it your dominant culture - which is to say, you must have more total development in your Syrian provinces than you do in provinces of any other culture.

Hmm, so as I can't convert provinces to this culture, do I just need to revoke statehood of things with my primary culture until it drops to a lower percentage?

Thank you for your advice.

 

[Aotrs Commander]

Yes - but not if you have Careful, Zealot, or Tolerant, because those lock out Free Thinker.

What is the chance for scholar then? My leader had only got Free Thinker as her first personality trait, but after... Many reloads, scholar did not come up (after I'd seen most everything else more than once.)

 

[brifbates]

Hmm, so as I can't convert provinces to this culture, do I just need to revoke statehood of things with my primary culture until it drops to a lower percentage?

Thank you for your advice.

If you have all the DLC you can convert provinces that border Syrian provinces to Syrian (not sure about vanilla) you just have to go to the province to do so instead of using the macro builder. Click on the change culture button and all the options appear (primary culture, original province culture, any culture present in neighboring provinces including bordering the same sea zone).

 

[londoner247]

Hmm, so as I can't convert provinces to this culture, do I just need to revoke statehood of things with my primary culture until it drops to a lower percentage?

Thank you for your advice.

If you have all the DLC you can convert provinces that border Syrian provinces to Syrian (not sure about vanilla) you just have to go to the province to do so instead of using the macro builder. Click on the change culture button and all the options appear (primary culture, original province culture, any culture present in neighboring provinces including bordering the same sea zone).

Pretty sure you can do this from the macro builder too. It defaults to assuming you want to change things to your primary culture but if you click the culture name at the top of the window if will give you options of your other possible cultures and then re-filter the list accordingly.

 

[Aotrs Commander]

Does the seperation bonus from ideas only apply to conquests after the idea is attained? I got my -10 years of seperation idea form my custom nation just after a war of conquest (I'd held off getting it so I woud have enough to star coring), but the years of seperation do not appear to have gone down by ten.

 

[grommile]

Does the seperation bonus from ideas only apply to conquests after the idea is attained?

Yes.

 

[Aotrs Commander]

Yes.

Thanks. Well. Bollocks. 'Cos in hindsight, I could have taken the idea and still had point left to core, had I known. Whelp, can't be arsed to reload back, so lesson learned...!



Second question, then: do rebels generated by seperatist factions get all the benefits of all my national ideas (.e.g. discipline, infantry combat ability etc)?

(I know they magically get my tech, I discovered that to my horror in my last game when ther Aztec rebels appeared with cannons...)

'Cos if they do, rebel Space Marines is going to... Rather hurt.

 

[grommile]

They get... some of your bonuses. I can't remember exactly which ones.

 

[Lordkaiser]

Lets say Austria guarantees for Lorraine. Also Lorraine is allied with Burgundy and Austria is allied with me.
I want to conquer Lorraine and I want not to face Austria.

Does it work, when I declare war on Burgundy and call Austria in and make Lorraine a CO-Beligerent?

I should call Austria in before they get called in by Lorraine, right?


Edit: also second question: Can I form a formable nation (like Italy) and then later in the same game another formable nation (like Roman Empire) ?

 

[Threshold]

If you have all the DLC you can convert provinces that border Syrian provinces to Syrian (not sure about vanilla)

Specifically, requires Cossacks.

Does it work, when I declare war on Burgundy and call Austria in and make Lorraine a CO-Beligerent?

I should call Austria in before they get called in by Lorraine, right?

Yes. Calls to allies go out before calls to allies of allies, so Austria will receive your call before they receive Lorraine's.

Edit: also second question: Can I form a formable nation (like Italy) and then later in the same game another formable nation (like Roman Empire) ?

Yes. There are some restrictions; most notably, the formable Holy Roman Empire tag is prevented from forming most other nations, as is the Pope. Also note that in 1.20 and beyond, you cannot form the same nation twice, so you cannot go Italy->Rome-Italy, for instance.

 

[nephilim2k]

What type of nation is E00?

C00 is colonial
D00 is custom nation
K00 is client state

Are there any other types?

 

[grommile]

The Cossack estate can spawn a dynamic nation if it revolts.

 

[SinoSooner]

Upon passing the final celestial reform , does one still need to be concerned about mandate?

 

[Tom013]

Upon passing the final celestial reform , does one still need to be concerned about mandate?

You still get the passive bonuses, and likewise, going below 50 will still kill your production and your military.

 

[AngelRay]

Is it normal that raising war taxes cost 0 now? i'm playing ming

 

[londoner247]

Is it normal that raising war taxes cost 0 now? i'm playing ming

Sounds like you spent splendour on the age bonus that gives you free war taxes during the first age.

 

[AngelRay]

Okay that is that. I did not understand what that option did when I chose it.

Thanks for the answer.

NB: edit: new question:

how much mandate points can we collect max? (I mean the points from the Empire of China new button at the lower screen for Ming at the start).

Is it 100 or more?