EUIV - Quick Questions / Quick Answers

[Schmoekoeksklok]

Do greyed out cores affect coring cost through local nobility?

Yes, Local Nobility (and similar modifiers) only stops working when the cores cease to exist, not when the country they belong to ceases to exist.

Currently playing as Germany and I'm the Emperor of the HRE. What would happen if I annexed all members of the HRE, leaving only myself? Is it even possible or might the game prevent you from annexing the last member?

You keep the emperor bonuses. That used to be the generally recommended course of action, though I'm not sure if it's quite worth the diplopoints now

Shouldn't released vassals share the overlord religion?
As Najd I annexed Haasa and immediately released them, and they are Shia. Any reasons?

If their new capital is of a different religion within the same group, it gets released with that religion instead. They only automatically take on your religion if their new capital has your religion or one in a different group.

 

[jedikiller1]

Hi I'm back again and playing as Ottomans (again failed first attempt cause DOW'ed Aq Qoyunlu and they brought Mamluks and most of the hordes including Timmies). So my question is should I ally with Crimea or Timmies to help me protect against Venice + its allies? I do plan on uniting Islam for the first time.

 

[Loveeulongtime]

Hi I'm back again and playing as Ottomans (again failed first attempt cause DOW'ed Aq Qoyunlu and they brought Mamluks and most of the hordes including Timmies). So my question is should I ally with Crimea or Timmies to help me protect against Venice + its allies? I do plan on uniting Islam for the first time.

Honestly Ottomans don't need any ally to survive , but if you want one do it only after you take over all of your cored provinces since allying from the get go only going to get you pulled into wars and slow you down. After that then pick an ally that suits your situation (for me it's usually which rivals I intend to take on next then ally their rivals

 

[Panzerschiffe]

What's the easiest way to become an HRE elector?

 

[Incompetent]

What's the easiest way to become an HRE elector?

Play MP, let your friend become Emperor and let her/him make you an elector.

Beyond that, I don't know. It's up to the Emperor to create electors, and he can't make himself (or any vassals, junior partners etc) an elector. AI Emperors prefer to make really small countries electors so that it's easier for them to control the vote.

 

[ssuperflash1]

As Ottomans if I'm looking into expanding in India, should I attack the Hindus or Sunnis? The problem with attacking Hindus is most have alliances, plus it'll take a while to convert them to Islam. But If I attack Sunni, then I have to deal with extra AE near me.

 

[Path]

Playing Venice in 1.7, I decided to get rid of my two starting vassal OPMs by having the Byzantines "win" a war against me--basically, I beat them up, vassalized their ally Serbia, and then offered to end the war by letting Naxos and Corfu go as well as breaking my alliance with Ferrara (got that one for a quest, and this was a way out of it without taking a relation hit with Ferrara). This peace would cost the Byzantines 100 dip points (50 per vassal that I released), and yet I'm the one paying the cost--I lost 100 dip points. Now, it's been a while since I played the game, but is this WAD? Am I supposed to pay the same amount that the "winner" (the Byzantines) is paying? The tooltip certainly makes no mention of this, nor does the peace agreement notification (it only mentions what the settlement would cost the Byzantines).

 

[Incompetent]

As Ottomans if I'm looking into expanding in India, should I attack the Hindus or Sunnis? The problem with attacking Hindus is most have alliances, plus it'll take a while to convert them to Islam. But If I attack Sunni, then I have to deal with extra AE near me.

You're the Ottomans. By the time you reach India, you can probably take on the entire subcontinent at once if need be. Also, Ottoman Tolerance + Humanism will let you eat as many heathen provinces as you like without problems. (You'll also be able to pick up several accepted cultures if you expand sensibly - not so much in India, as it's culturally fragmented, but having Persian and/or Tatar accepted is certainly viable.)

In terms of who you declare war on when, it's worth thinking about piety - with an impious ruler, it's better to attack true faith countries, and with a pious ruler it's better to attack everyone else. Mixing the two during the same reign will make it harder to get the full benefit from your piety slider.

 

[ssuperflash1]

You're the Ottomans. By the time you reach India, you can probably take on the entire subcontinent at once if need be. Also, Ottoman Tolerance + Humanism will let you eat as many heathen provinces as you like without problems. (You'll also be able to pick up several accepted cultures if you expand sensibly - not so much in India, as it's culturally fragmented, but having Persian and/or Tatar accepted is certainly viable.)

In terms of who you declare war on when, it's worth thinking about piety - with an impious ruler, it's better to attack true faith countries, and with a pious ruler it's better to attack everyone else. Mixing the two during the same reign will make it harder to get the full benefit from your piety slider.

There's a lot of cascading alliances that might stop my expansion, though. My base in in Ceylon, and I only have 10 units there. How many would I even need to fight mutiple countries?

 

[kralex]

Is there any way to tell the AI which provinces you want in a peace deal, or more importantly which occupied provinces you don't want, if "Leader may negotiate for us" is selected? The AI is pretty aggressive in taking provinces, and I found myself on the wrong end of a large and angry coalition too often that way. Also, I might want some backwater province for strategic reasons, or might not have enough Adm to core everything the AI would choose, etc. This is all the more confounding if my vassals are eager to help by occupying provinces which I really couldn't use if I got them.

 

[Mirtmania]

one quick question for Cultural Ties in Humanistic ideas group, what does it mean? "-50% Accepted culture threshold" Does it mean i get other cultures accepted more quickly? So normally you need other cultures hold 20% of the tax income to get accepted, so now it would only be 10% ?

 

[kralex]

one quick question for Cultural Ties in Humanistic ideas group, what does it mean? "-50% Accepted culture threshold" Does it mean i get other cultures accepted more quickly? So normally you need other cultures hold 20% of the tax income to get accepted, so now it would only be 10% ?

Yes, that's correct. Also, if an accepted culture drops below 10% of the total base tax, it becomes non-accepted again; if you have Humanist Ideas, it has to drop below 5% to become non-accepted.

 

[Mirtmania]

Yes, that's correct. Also, if an accepted culture drops below 10% of the total base tax, it becomes non-accepted again; if you have Humanist Ideas, it has to drop below 5% to become non-accepted.

Okay, thx for the quick answer..this is a nice idea group to take for my planned multi-cultural empire )

 

[Incompetent]

one quick question for Cultural Ties in Humanistic ideas group, what does it mean? "-50% Accepted culture threshold" Does it mean i get other cultures accepted more quickly? So normally you need other cultures hold 20% of the tax income to get accepted, so now it would only be 10% ?

Yes, and you can stack even more of a discount with policies and NIs. So for instance with Poland/Ottomans + Humanism, your culture thresholds will be 7% to gain a new accepted culture and 3.5% to keep it. As for policies, if you are close to the threshold you can enact a policy to push you over, then cancel it again 10 years later, and you'll still keep the newly-accepted culture as long as you stay above the 'keep' threshold.

It's glorious stuff if you want to build a multicultural empire (something that both Poland and the Ottomans naturally tend towards).

 

[DicRoNero]

How do you reliably turn a generic Monarchy into Republic nowadays? That's assuming you can't simply adopt the plutocratic administration. I don't mind any possible way being gamey, it just should get the job done.

 

[Hecastomp]

Question: Im playing as Serbia, i own my original lands, wallachia, bosnia, ragusa and croatia. I also have Naples and Tuscany as my vassals, and its the year 1508. I went diplomacy as 1st idea, and just got the ideas instead of teching up on diplomacy. Now because my diplo tech rank is still 3, i got the popup saying i can westernize. Is it worth it to westernize as eastern tech group countries like serbia/poland/russia? From what i read, the recent patches made each tech group have its own units, so that would mean even westernizing, i would still have eastern tech group units correct? So besides the tech boosts, is there any other advantage in westernizing? Thanks in advance!

 

[Schmoekoeksklok]

Question: Im playing as Serbia, i own my original lands, wallachia, bosnia, ragusa and croatia. I also have Naples and Tuscany as my vassals, and its the year 1508. I went diplomacy as 1st idea, and just got the ideas instead of teching up on diplomacy. Now because my diplo tech rank is still 3, i got the popup saying i can westernize. Is it worth it to westernize as eastern tech group countries like serbia/poland/russia? From what i read, the recent patches made each tech group have its own units, so that would mean even westernizing, i would still have eastern tech group units correct? So besides the tech boosts, is there any other advantage in westernizing? Thanks in advance!

You're right, you do keep the eastern units, so it's only for the tech-costs. I can't tell you if it's worth it, you'll definitely save monarch points in the long run if you do westernize now, but that does mean you won't really have any monarch points to spend right now.

 

[brifbates]

You're right, you do keep the eastern units, so it's only for the tech-costs. I can't tell you if it's worth it, you'll definitely save monarch points in the long run if you do westernize now, but that does mean you won't really have any monarch points to spend right now.

It isn't just tech costs. There are some modifiers, decisions, and mechanics that require western tech such as forming trade companies.

 

[wolfing]

Playing Res Republic, formed the Netherlands and turned to Dutch Republic. Now countries keep asking for Royal Marriages. Should I ignore them? (I only see marginal benefits to them as a Republic, i.e. the relation bonus, but the drawback is bigger IMHO, not being able to easily free those diplo relations. Am I missing something?

 

[IIWW]

Is there some "funny" event chain for hindu nations? I quite often get event where I can choose between "severly negative option" vs "+2 prestige".