How Do I Learn this Game?

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Just put on a pot of coffee and sit down with it for a few hours, absorb everything. If you question something or something confuses you, dig into the tooltips. If you're still stumped, hit the "quick questions/answers" thread here, most people around here are happy to help. Check out youtube, there's a guy name arumba who does a really nice video series that explains all of the basics.

Add me as a friend on Steam, name's the same. I'll be glad to help you out.

 

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As at the bottom of the first page - save, reload, save, reload - although that can encourage a bad savescumming habit. o

This way you can undo your mistakes and reduce time lost to picking yourself up off the floor.

There is a lot to learn. Once you've mastered the basics, then you go on to master strategies, opportunities, exploits etc. I think I've spent two fairly solid years on EU3 and EU4 and I'm still learning.

If you can enjoy failure, you will love the game twice as much!

 

[Murmeldjuret]

The two things to keep in mind are internal trouble and external pressure. If you can keep revolt risk low (stability), and have strong allies any non-OPM would work.

Portugal is usually my bet for safest start, just sell Ceuta back to Marocco and ally castille. Keep Castille as an ally and colonize Africa and the New World.

 

[mic-dk]

OP; also remember there are no set ways to "win" this game. Sure, you can play to be ranked #1 when the time is up, you can play for a World Conquest and the achievements OR you can play to recreate a Netherlands with modern day borders or simply just survive as Ulm. All are equally valid goal, it is YOUR idea of fun that matters.

And it is actual fun ('haha I enjoyed that') I'm talking about, not "fun" in the Dwarf Fortress sense

 

[panionios]

You will never learn this game!

I consider myself experienced, and yet in every game I always discover something new

 

[Talkers1]

I am still learning, dont know the deep mechanics, but to learn basics - play, play, play, google, google, google...

I had no idea and for me, watching videos is just too long. I checked first few videos, getting the info how the beggining works and I get the basics. Now I am learning from playing and google searching

 

[luckycharms420]

Learn by doing. Don't be afraid to fail your first few times. Everybody does.

 

[Sequitor]

OP; also remember there are no set ways to "win" this game. Sure, you can play to be ranked #1 when the time is up, you can play for a World Conquest and the achievements OR you can play to recreate a Netherlands with modern day borders or simply just survive as Ulm. All are equally valid goal, it is YOUR idea of fun that matters.

And it is actual fun ('haha I enjoyed that') I'm talking about, not "fun" in the Dwarf Fortress sense

As someone who "learned" the game recently (after 100+ hours played I think I've gone from Newb to Novice) this is great advice. Unlike most other strategy games, this one is about the journey, not the destination.