I've made an AI monster empire...

[Myrten]

I was playing as Abbasids and it was pretty boring in 1200s, I've conquered a lot of land and there were constant rebellions...


So I've decided to switch to another country, thought about Poland or Germany but ended up deciding on England and it turns out it was a good idea since...

Abbasid numbers were too big even for very strong English retinues...


AI didn't care for pretty borders - it just wanted more land and ended up like this...



It looks even more impressive after conversion to EU IV.


Now I'm on a quest to create British Empire richer and more powerful than this monster

Edit:

World in 1836


List of all updates (including teasers and lonely screenshots) compiled by loup99:

EU4- Abbasids expanding to China
EU4- Abbasid soldiers
EU4- Colonies and further expansion
EU4- Brithish navy
EU4- War against the Abbasids
EU4- More warfare against the Abbasids
EU4- The situation as of 1664
EU4- Two more wars with Al-MegaBlob
EU4- More maps
EU4- Status of the game
EU4- Attempt on invasion of Britain
EU4- More failed invasions and wars
EU4- The Abbasid land forces
EU4- Small raid on Abbasid positions
EU4- Extended Eu4 business and final EU4

Vicky 2- First conversion attempt
Vicky 2- World after the conversion
Vicky 2- First confrontation with the Abbasids
Vicky 2- The Times of the 20 september 1845
Vicky 2- Hint in the Times
Vicky 2- Revolts and liberation of Normandy
Vicky 2- Lan Xang
Vicky 2- More wars
Crusader Kings 2- the pope Sergius IV
Vicky 2- More warfarte against the Abbasids
Vicky 2- Ming Teaser
Vicky 2- Abbasids crisises
Vicky 2- The beginng of end of the caliphate
Vicky 2- Fall of the Abbasids, part 1 - Liberal Delusion
Vicky 2- Fall of the Abbasids, part 2 - The Last Jihad
Vicky 2- Fall of the Abbasids, part 3 - The Last Stand
Vicky 2- Lan Xang population
Vicky 2- Rebel Teaser
Vicky 2- the Majilist menace
Vicky 2- Teasor of First great War
Vicky 2- The Great Powers
Vicky 2- The First Great War
Vicky 2- Immigration Teaser
Vicky 2- Majilist disaster part 1 - Might of a Dragon
Vicky 2- Majilist disaster part 2 - Fall of the Majilises and Reign of Chaos
Vicky 2-The Great Arab Wasteland
Quiet before the Storm


Saves before\after conversions between CK2, EUIV and V2
http://www.share-online.biz/dl/IN8REOCN8U

Final save of Victoria 2
http://speedy.sh/7MnCk/AbbasidUniversalis.7z

Few notes to devs:
Abbasids have generic national ideas after conversion
Diplomacy with such big empire in CK2 is extremely laggy

 

[Trunting]

We really need better anti-blobbing mechanics, sorry to say so...

 

[ahhheygao]

We really need better anti-blobbing mechanics, sorry to say so...

I've found that distance opinion_modifier penalty is a very good place to start; I gave -15/-30/-60/-90 based on distance. But no matter what mechanics are put in place, wily human players will usually find a way to defeat or overcome it...

 

[EvilCatInTheHat]

lol'd. Goodluck sir.

 

[LFA]

+1 for anti blobbing mechanics, but I'm not sure about an opinion penalty for distance, it should at least be reduced for a vassal of the same culture. I have no better idea though.

 

[MarshalN]

Distance modifier makes a lot of sense. In those days when a courier would take weeks to go from A to B the idea that you can issue instant command (and be obeyed) is pretty much fantasy. You wouldn't even hear about a guy rebelling until he's killed your loyalist in the area.

 

[Myrten]

You would ruin all the fun ,

Now they are expanding into China



This could be epic mega-campaign, if only there would be a way to export save from Victoria 2 to Darkest Hour then perhaps nukes would destroy this monster

 

[LFA]

Oh god. Aren't you afraid it's going to come for you eventually ?

 

[Myrten]

Oh god. Aren't you afraid it's going to come for you eventually ?

Come on they only have 1.57 million soldiers.... What's to be afraid of?

 

[hagagaga]

That's impressive.

 

[zyphial]

Nukes? No need. Just time your [st]great holy war[/st] crusade well, and bring your righteous fury. After all...

"Whatever happens, we have got
the maxim gun, and they have not."

But, really, where are your mega colonies? I still see available coastline.

(Also, I would mod that megablob to be the hre tag in the converter. VERY interesting Europe, rather than a static monster blob).

 

[Red John]

Sweet Baby Jesus...

 

[Myrten]

Nukes? No need. Just time your [st]great holy war[/st] crusade well, and bring your righteous fury. After all...

"Whatever happens, we have got
the maxim gun, and they have not."

But, really, where are your mega colonies? I still see available coastline.

(Also, I would mod that megablob to be the hre tag in the converter. VERY interesting Europe, rather than a static monster blob).

Problem is that well... they are in western techgroup too...

There are more colonies now, but I don't have to hurry with coastlines as Abbassids don't have exploration ideas and there is no-one else in Europe...



Right now I try to get their trade from Gulf of Aden, but it's kinda hard since they got hundreds of trade ships... My income is around 450 and theirs is 1700...

My plan is to rush to wargalleons, build 100-200 of them and sink their navy since I got all naval ideas already.

Interesting idea with HRE, here's my final save if anyone wants to try. Abbasids crown authority also has to be lowered since it's absolute.

http://speedy.sh/DzHWQ/Britannia1444-05-05.zip

 

[dumuh]

I can see how this is gonna go down. You're gonna conquer all of the Americas and get booted off the British Isles. Cold War Renaissance will ensue.

 

[Verodimus]

I've found that distance opinion_modifier penalty is a very good place to start; I gave -15/-30/-60/-90 based on distance. But no matter what mechanics are put in place, wily human players will usually find a way to defeat or overcome it...

No.
There used to be a revolt chance based on distance, at game release, but the mechanic worked poorly. Example: I am king of England. The duke of Cornwall is my vassal. A relative of the duke of Cornwall becomes duke of Ascalon after a crusade, and my vassal inherits it. Now he is the duke of Cornwall and Duke of Ascalon. So, how exactly is the opinion malus to be determined?? If his capital is in Cornwall, it would be 0, and if his capital is in Ascalon, it wil be -90. See the problem?

The solution is to increase revolt risk for distant, unconnected counties. And a vassal limit, so you are forced to delegate power to 10-20 vassals instead of hundred.

 

[ahhheygao]

No.

Yes.

There used to be a revolt chance based on distance, at game release, but the mechanic worked poorly.

Are you assuming that I came up with the same exact logic and script coding as PDS did? I didn't slap a flat revolt chance on distant holdings from my capital... I simply made it harder to please those distant vassals, so they're more likely to conspire in factions for independence and all sorts of shenanigans.

Example: I am king of England. The duke of Cornwall is my vassal. A relative of the duke of Cornwall becomes duke of Ascalon after a crusade, and my vassal inherits it. Now he is the duke of Cornwall and Duke of Ascalon. So, how exactly is the opinion malus to be determined?? If his capital is in Cornwall, it would be 0, and if his capital is in Ascalon, it wil be -90. See the problem?

Nope, I see no problem--he can't have both as primary titles, he can't designate both as his capital, and he can't reign in both courts at once. If his capital is in Cornwall, he won't dislike me, but his vassals in Ascalon will dislike him. If he's in Ascalon, then he will dislike me, while his vassals back in Cornwall will hate him in return. Sounds fine to me. If his demesne limit is high enough for him to hold ALL counties in Ascalon AND Cornwall while his capital is in Cornwall... great, no one needs to dislike any other!

The solution is to increase revolt risk for distant, unconnected counties.

So only punish oversea colonies/strongholds instead of continent-spanning empires? Quick, someone tell the Mongols about this great news.

And a vassal limit, so you are forced to delegate power to 10-20 vassals instead of hundred.

Now THAT is an arbitrarily imposed limit.

 

[Mythtern5]

How can I make the abbasids the HRE? Total scrub here.
Also this looks amazingly fun, might fire up eu4 for the first time in months.

 

[Kljunas]

@ahhheygao How do you implement a distance-based opinion modifier? I had thought about doing that in my personal mod but I have no idea how to.

 

[Cuthuthulu]

 

[Divilly]

Interesting idea with HRE, here's my final save if anyone wants to try.

Is it CK2?