Please fix advisor pool.

[hitchens]

The advisor pool really needs work. As it is today its completely random, so if you are a tiny poor nation and got problems with inflation (inflation also needs work, it was so much better in EU3) and need an advisor to reduce it then hey.....all there is is a +3 that costs 20+ a month but your income is lets say 3 per month.

I've always hated how advisors work in EU4. Lets say you are a big blob. You are number one, numero uno! Everyone looks up to you, you are the center of gravity......yet you cant find a missionary.


Please fix advisor pool.

 

[AlphaSonic]

Sorry, but I can't believe being an OPM and don't receive any lvl 1 advisor. Every time I started a game with an OPM i've got at least 1 of those.

 

[hitchens]

Sorry, but I can't believe being an OPM and don't receive any lvl 1 advisor. Every time I started a game with an OPM i've got at least 1 of those.

Its not just being a OPM, as a blob you will also find yourself with only lv 1's. The advisor pool is crazy.
In my experience you will often not get the advisors you want.

 

[SerFishy]

I don't know whether if advisor generation is connected to the number of provinces or not, but if it is not, advisors should spawn for each province instead of the whole country. Also, even if this is the case, the size of the advisor pool still makes this not so viable so it should also be determined according to the size of the country instead of idea modifiers.

 

[Santoes]

Sorry I disagree. Those idea modifiers are a lot more valuable when the system isn't sugar coated. You want a better chance, then pay for it.

I think your problem is that you want a useful adviser that can help you right then. There abilities are not meant to be any use to you for the simple fact that getting the one you want is unreliable.

If on the other hand you only hire them for MP like you should, then that's a different issue.

Let's do some math on this.

There's 3 different values for advisers and 3 different branches. Say you're looking for one certain value on your budget. The odds are obviously 1/3. The odds of getting it in two categories is 1/9. The odds of getting it in 3 are 1/27. Stop.

Ok, I don't know if you notice, but you are usually getting the cheap adviser all up in the 3 branches a lot more than 1/27 times of a start up. Which means that the game is giving you the advantage and not being so random. Maybe it is weighing the 1's as common, 2's & 3's being less. I'm not sure on how it's picking what your pool is, but I know for certain I'm usually getting 2 low valued advisers to choose from, even after there deaths and more advisers show up.

So my question is how would you divide the chance up? Would you always give the poor countries nothing but the low ones? Also why doesn't anyone post suggestions in the suggestion forums?

 

[hitchens]

I don't know whether if advisor generation is connected to the number of provinces or not,

Its not.

Very often in late game theres often a surpluss of low end advisors who are useless but who would be very useful in early game.

 

[hitchens]

Sorry I disagree. Those idea modifiers are a lot more valuable when the system isn't sugar coated. You want a better chance, then pay for it.

In EU3 this was the case. In EU4 its not.

So my question is how would you divide the chance up? Would you always give the poor countries nothing but the low ones?

Bring back the system like it was in EU3.

Also why doesn't anyone post suggestions in the suggestion forums?

Main forum>>>sugggestion forum

 

[IIWW]

Main forum>>>sugggestion forum

Suggestion in main forum = spam. Or at least it effectively the same.

 

[hitchens]

Suggestion in main forum = spam. Or at least it effectively the same.

Then 40% of the posts in main = spam by your logic.

 

[IIWW]

Then 40% of the posts in main = spam by your logic.

If there is a special sub-forum dedicated to a kind of thread, then it's there for a reason. the reason is not puting it on main forum, whud organizing it. Yes, every suggestion, bug report, tech support issue on main forum is a spam.

 

[Nunn45]

I kinda miss the way EUIII did the advisor thing, being able to select any advisor with their quality based on a manageable tradition thing that got easier and easier to maintain the longer the game went was a good system.

edit: No point in complaining that the main section isnt for suggestions, everyone uses this area for that.