I'll have to try a trading republic one of these days. Another nicely written, clear update.
Hail the Blue Lion!
I've just bought EU III Chronicles and I'm really gratefull to you for starting this "AAR for Beginners - A Guide".
I hope you will be able to update it regularly.
Many, many thanks !
Regards, Amadeus
Who would have thought I'd be learning so many new things after all the games I've played...
I'm loving this ARR so far. I'm eager to take a new EUIII lesson, professor Gela.
I just wanted to say that I really like your initiative, and your AAR. Nicely written, and beginner guide AARs are always good to have!
I'll have to try a trading republic one of these days. Another nicely written, clear update.
As a beginner that has read and re-read the manual and started and stopped numerous games with little-to-no progress, this has been an extremely interesting and useful read.
Will be eagerly following!
Those really important CoTs like Lubeck get a lot of products traded there, so when you'll have 2 merchants in that CoT you will recieve some modifiers that depend on the good you're importing and have a very wide range of effects
Alternatively you can get these goods in multiple CoTs, so if you trade in 33% of the world supply(you can see that in the trade map if you tip over a province that produces a certain good) you get the modifier
One thing i have to say is that Lubeck will soon be eclipsed by the stupid minors that like to build their own CoTs, only the colonial CoTs(Andalucia, Lisboa and those like Mexico) will be worthy to monopolise
"However, red should be used if you only want the trade benefits" What do you mean by this?
This is great by the way, please continue!
This is great! I just started playing EU3, and had no idea about trade and the importance of sliders. I wish I could go back and change what I've already done in my first game as Austria, without restrating it though.
A very good summation of the advantages of a trade-based approach. What I'd like to know is how a small trader manages to survive against more conventional states given its low manpower.
Don't forget that Tax Assessors and implementing the Gold Standard are generic methods to get another 0.09 or 0.10 inflation reduction (can't remember which) and a few nations have extra decisions (like the Bank of Amsterdam for the netherlands) on top of that. The dutch can get almost 0.50 inflation reduction eventually.
http://www.paradoxian.org/eu3wiki/Debased_CurrencyBeware of the gold standard if you think inflation will rise. If your inflation goes over 10 (I think), an event (decline of the Gold Standard or something) triggers causing massive economic mayhem.
http://www.paradoxian.org/eu3wiki/Debased_Currency
But there's no reason to get over 10 inflation when you have nearly 0.5 inflation reduction every year.
Every random event has a (usually much-preferable) alternative to inflation (-1 stability, -2 stability, -200 ducats, less investment, -Trade Efficiency, etc), so there is really no excuse.Random events...
Every random event has a (usually much-preferable) alternative to inflation (-1 stability, -2 stability, -200 ducats, less investment, -Trade Efficiency, etc), so there is really no excuse.