Sky is mostly gray here, and superhydrophobic surfaces don't get wet. Maybe PI can change, too?The sky is blue, water is wet, and the EU IV UI lies. Some things never change
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Taking land in separate peaces without paying bird mana for it, probably. One more case of the UI being wrong, although this one's clearly a bug.
Ah, I didn't know that. Sounds more like a bug than anything legitimate, but hard to avoid, I guess.
i think late game sieges are really fucked up. i always start at -70 or even -9x% and it takes like 1000 days until i can occupy a single fort it really sucks. so my focus is always defeating france sopain and portugal at the start of the game. Because it is nearly impossible in my opinion to get a wc if you have to siege them at 17xx
I have more, one is really well known and I have been using it for ages but the other one not so much but I don´t want to spoil the LP even more so please be patient that when the time comes I will explain it all.
Marco, Did you get in your world conquest the event for the janissaries, if you did, did you accept them or decline? im not sure in my run because the negative events wich can happen by it
I accepted them; AFAIK there is only one event that is terrible (Janissary Landholders) because it can screw your economy or give you tons of rebellions until your current ruler dies but fortunately this event can only fire once. If we run a (very) healthy economy and have at least 1 year income as cash reserve at all times the Janissary events won´t be a big deal.
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This kind of bug-using is a bit too exploity for me, but it does go a long way towards explaining how you can afford the diplo points without getting one of the good CBs. Using stuff like this (unless it's hard to avoid, like the full annex bug I learned above) somewhat demeans your achievements in my eyes, since the game mechanics are clearly not intended to work this way.
But if that's your cup of tea, did you know you can sell ships without actually giving them to the AI to make money out of nothing? DDRJake did this in one of his recent campaigns. If you send the AI an offer to sell a fleet while paused, then open the exchange ships view advancing the game one day to get their reply, you can move the ships you "sold" into the other fleet, keeping both the ships and the money. This can theoretically produce a crapton of ducats if you're willing to use it. I'm slightly tempted to see how well I'd do in a campaign with bug using (certainly worse than you) but don't really want to spend the time.
Oh, and also, someone posted a bug lately (forgot who) that allows you to turn your starting leader into an arbitrarily good (he made his a 99/99/99/99) general even in ironman by savegame editing and bug using, if you want to go there.
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If I played the game the way it was meant to be played it could be very, very boring for me and it would certainly not let me break any records. The points limitation in-game is/can be extremely gamey (...) so a big part of the fun for me is to be able to bypass the gamey rules (aka break the game)This kind of bug-using is a bit too exploity for me, but it does go a long way towards explaining how you can afford the diplo points without getting one of the good CBs. Using stuff like this (unless it's hard to avoid, like the full annex bug I learned above) somewhat demeans your achievements in my eyes, since the game mechanics are clearly not intended to work this way.
But if that's your cup of tea, did you know you can sell ships without actually giving them to the AI to make money out of nothing? DDRJake did this in one of his recent campaigns. If you send the AI an offer to sell a fleet while paused, then open the exchange ships view advancing the game one day to get their reply, you can move the ships you "sold" into the other fleet, keeping both the ships and the money. This can theoretically produce a crapton of ducats if you're willing to use it. I'm slightly tempted to see how well I'd do in a campaign with bug using (certainly worse than you) but don't really want to spend the time.
Oh, and also, someone posted a bug lately (forgot who) that allows you to turn your starting leader into an arbitrarily good (he made his a 99/99/99/99) general even in ironman by savegame editing and bug using, if you want to go there.
Yes I heard about those 2 tricks before; they are both amusing, the ship one is something that I would use while the other one not so much because it is very OP but above all it requires one save to be edited so (in short) it is not my cup of tea.
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Out of curiosity, what is this supposed to be a record of? Fastest 1.13 WC? Your fastest WC? Fastest Ottoman WC?
Yeah, I'm not trying to hate on you, or anything. People have different tolerance for what they consider borderline acceptable exploits and over the top (for example, some people consider exploiting vassal feeding by transfering occupation as an exploit, while I'm perfectly fine with it, and I guess you could even find people who consider things like luring the AI into a stackwipe situation to be unacceptable). As long as we are up-front about what we do - and what can be more up front than full video coverage - it's all in good fun until the devs decide to fix the bugs or bad design that allows it. It does make finish times harder to compare, obviously, but due to the high randomness in the game where rulers and such are concerned, these are pretty hard to compare anyways.
I understood you loud and clear but even if you were hating by comparison with the heat that I got by showing the world a WC as a micro power in HOI III or using an all artillery division to trash everyone in a way that most (everyone?) thought it was impossible in HOI III Black Ice you were incredibly polite. This is the way that I like to play strategy games: I am always thinking in ways to do take advantage of existing rules/mechanics to achieve better results.
All of them I guess but you left out "fastest one tag WC"; btw as I said before anyone with the skill and patience (to deal with tons of rebs) can easily beat this record by going ADM>DIP>REL instead of my idea selection.
While this is an impressive time for 1.13, a fast revoke Austria should blow this out of the water. Granted, they patched that out fairly quickly, but if we're talking about fastest times then I have a hard time imagining this'd stand up to those.