EUIV - Quick Questions / Quick Answers

[PhoenixG]

Maybe I ment it the other way round:
would it count as a state, if I have a trade company and the autonomy of the provinces ticks to zero.
or more easy said:
can a merchant republic without problems have a trade company and reap the benefits of it?

Trade company land aren't states, they are territories. So they won't count

 

[Thornado86]

So I am about to start on an Austria game, and I want to form the Bohemia and Hungary PUs. The Bohemian one is pretty straight forward, however about the Hungarian one, I've heard two different things about it
1: do not ally or RM them... just wait until an event between 1455 and 1457, giving you 25% chance of inheriting their throne or 75% chance of a claim throne.
2: do not ally but DO RM them, because you are going to force a PU on them (like you did with Bohemia) ...

So which is it? Does the first way still exist, or is it gone?

 

[atwix]

Hmmm ... thanks. I was kinda hoping it would be different with the Holy War CB because I have Holy War claims. In saying that, I realize it would make it a tad bit overpowered.

Thanks again.

it used to work exactly that, way.. you could do seperate peace deals for 0 dip on any nation if maun cb on wartarget was holy war.

then paradox nerfed the cb by placing it last in the idea group, and made all seperate peace deals have no bonuses from main cb on wartarget.

Back in the real old days, you could do seperate peace deals to spread government type, ask any provinces for 0 dip if main cb was superiority..

It can be beneficial also, this nerf. For example, if you declare humiliate rival war, I think you can still ask provinces from a co-belligerent. Haven't tried that in ages though, so can anyone confirm/deny that last remark?

 

[Vulkandrache]

I think you can still ask provinces from a co-belligerent. Haven't tried that in ages though, so can anyone confirm/deny that last remark?

That stopped working even in 1.25 already.

 

[atwix]

That stopped working even in 1.25 already.

figured as much

 

[PhoenixG]

So I am about to start on an Austria game, and I want to form the Bohemia and Hungary PUs. The Bohemian one is pretty straight forward, however about the Hungarian one, I've heard two different things about it
1: do not ally or RM them... just wait until an event between 1455 and 1457, giving you 25% chance of inheriting their throne or 75% chance of a claim throne.
2: do not ally but DO RM them, because you are going to force a PU on them (like you did with Bohemia) ...

So which is it? Does the first way still exist, or is it gone?

Both option is still valid. First one relies on a Hungarian event, while the second option is your normal way to do it.

 

[Thornado86]

Both option is still valid. First one relies on a Hungarian event, while the second option is your normal way to do it.

I noticed, I got the PU by event. However, I find it strange that people are able to prevent the shadow kingdom without incurring coalitions. I'm currently at war with venice and by taking 3 of the provinces, I will have a huge coalition on me, even with my ruler's -10% AE bonus. I even have claims on all of those provinces. And I'm supposed to start waging war on the Pope too, and grab those provinces as well. That's crazy... Not sure what to do about that.

 

[mechanical_Critter]

I even have claims on all of those provinces.

claims no longer give any AE reduction.

Not sure what to do about that.

You don't need to own directly the land (even vassal ownership is superfluous), so you can feed venezia and Papal lands to italian allies, that gives you a grand total of 0 AE. Rome is usually more troublesome to deal with, because it is oftentime returned so you might need to do something special or save it for last.

 

[grommile]

You don't need to own directly the land (even vassal ownership is superfluous), so you can feed venezia and Papal lands to italian allies, that gives you a grand total of 0 AE. Rome is usually more troublesome to deal with, because it is oftentime returned so you might need to do something special or save it for last.

Saving Rome for last is so trivially obvious a solution it's barely worth mentioning other possibilities. (It is, after all, the most distant of the provinces you need to care about.)

 

[grommile]

I can't find the option to turn off the idiotic antifeature of coloured wastelands in an in-progress Ironman game (it's not in main-menu options and it's not in in-game options).

Am I really stuck with this lying-user-interface activated-by-default horsecrap for the rest of the campaign?

 

[Vulkandrache]

Am I really stuck with this lying-user-interface activated-by-default horsecrap for the rest of the campaign?

This aswell as things like dynamic province names and enclave naming can only be changed beforehand.

If there is a way to modifiy a savegame directly id like to know aswell.

 

[grommile]

This aswell as things like dynamic province names and enclave naming can only be changed beforehand.

Eh, I can live with those.

Those don't make the user interface lie to me.

 

[Vulkandrache]

Those don't make the user interface lie to me.

How does colored wasteland make the interface lie?

 

[grommile]

How does colored wasteland make the interface lie?

You can't right-click on it to go to the country's diplomacy screen.

 

[Thornado86]

I'm trying to make a personal mod, but I'm merely tinkering with the things I'm able to understand, and now I'm stuck on something... Would anyone care to tell me how to mod a national decision that will integrate a certain country if you have them in a PU and reach adm tech 15 for example?

 

[chrnno]

I'm trying to make a personal mod, but I'm merely tinkering with the things I'm able to understand, and now I'm stuck on something... Would anyone care to tell me how to mod a national decision that will integrate a certain country if you have them in a PU and reach adm tech 15 for example?

What I always do when I hit issues with any kind of code is look up something similar and blatantly rip-off learn from it. So check forming Spain as Castile/Aragon and Commonwealth as Poland/Lithuania for how to go about it.

 

[Thornado86]

check forming Spain as Castile/Aragon and Commonwealth as Poland/Lithuania for how to go about it.

I've been trying to look at them, but those codes are long and they confuses me a lot, I don't understand it. That's basically why I asked in here.

 

[grommile]

I've been trying to look at them, but those codes are long and they confuses me a lot, I don't understand it. That's basically why I asked in here.

For a country whose tag is TAG, the "allow" and "potential" clauses would probably look like this:

potential = {
   senior_union_with = TAG
}
allow = {
   senior_union_with = TAG
   adm_tech = 15
}

and the "effect" clause would look like this:

effect = {
   inherit = TAG
}

All the other effects stuff in the events of this type exists to limit the player's ability to abuse the decision to get huge quantities of cores for free.

ETA: In future, you should ask modding questions in the modding forum.

 

[Thornado86]

ETA: In future, you should ask modding questions in the modding forum.

Yes I guess that is the thing to do.
Thanks a lot for this!

 

[Lee Saxon]

So I've watched PU YouTube video and I'm still confused. I (Burgundy) am at peace, Savoy is at peace, Savoy has lower prestige than me, I'm the only Royal Marriage they have. This has been the case from 1498-1500 (so through two "phases" [if that's real]), yet I'm still getting "Nobe from House du Bourgogne succeeds to the throne" instead of PU. What else have I not checked?