Please.
I beseech thee, oh great and powerful Wiz, to nerf that horrible pink blob back into the hell from whence it came. In particular, Lithuania needs to have its development slashed to ribbons. I have two reasons for this:
First of all, the power of the Poland-Lithuania Commonwealth in eu4 is completely ahistorical. Lithuania was able to conquer all of the land that it did due the power vacuum left by the retreating Golden Horde. After years of conquest and disease, the region which had once been the political and cultural center of Kievan Rus was a shadow of its former self. In fact, Muscovy and Novgorod emerged as the principal Russian states precisely because they had been spared the worst of the devestating Mongol invasion. Lithuania ruled over a sparsely populated land, and as such was always the junior power to the more densely populated and politically established Poland.
The game does not reflect this fact. In 1444, Lithuania has 354 development value. Poland starts with 183, and the total value of Poland, Mazovia, and the Tuetonic Order is 332, still less than Lithuania. The Ottomans start with 293, and even France has 341, still less than Lithuania. How does Lithuania, a country ruling over a region devestated by war, populated by people foreign in religion and culture to its ruling class, start the game with the most development out of all the countries in Europe?
The disproportionate power of the PLC has gameplay effects as well. As it is, Poland is the ally to have if you are playing as any country east of France, west of the Caucasus, and north of Sicily. Unless Poland loses its PU or manages to find itself in a war against all of Europe, the Commonwealth remains excessively powerful to the very end of the game, and even if those things happen Poland and Lithuania continue to control that entire region. Some might say that changing the game to fit historical details is railroading. Well as it is, Eastern Europe is railroaded. The PLC always expands. AI Russia never manages to grow eastward. Even the Ottomans cannot expand north of the Danube.
I'm sick of having two choices in Eastern European playthroughs: to either ally the PLC and easily paint the map for the duration of the game, or to spend every waking hour in mortal fear of that monstrosity. I'm sick of that part of the map looking exactly the same every playthrough. Even Ming and France are more likely to collapse than the Commonwealth.
So please, please do something about Poland-Lithuania in the upcoming patch, because that country remains one of the most ahistorical and stale aspects of Europa Universalis IV.
I beseech thee, oh great and powerful Wiz, to nerf that horrible pink blob back into the hell from whence it came. In particular, Lithuania needs to have its development slashed to ribbons. I have two reasons for this:
First of all, the power of the Poland-Lithuania Commonwealth in eu4 is completely ahistorical. Lithuania was able to conquer all of the land that it did due the power vacuum left by the retreating Golden Horde. After years of conquest and disease, the region which had once been the political and cultural center of Kievan Rus was a shadow of its former self. In fact, Muscovy and Novgorod emerged as the principal Russian states precisely because they had been spared the worst of the devestating Mongol invasion. Lithuania ruled over a sparsely populated land, and as such was always the junior power to the more densely populated and politically established Poland.
The game does not reflect this fact. In 1444, Lithuania has 354 development value. Poland starts with 183, and the total value of Poland, Mazovia, and the Tuetonic Order is 332, still less than Lithuania. The Ottomans start with 293, and even France has 341, still less than Lithuania. How does Lithuania, a country ruling over a region devestated by war, populated by people foreign in religion and culture to its ruling class, start the game with the most development out of all the countries in Europe?
The disproportionate power of the PLC has gameplay effects as well. As it is, Poland is the ally to have if you are playing as any country east of France, west of the Caucasus, and north of Sicily. Unless Poland loses its PU or manages to find itself in a war against all of Europe, the Commonwealth remains excessively powerful to the very end of the game, and even if those things happen Poland and Lithuania continue to control that entire region. Some might say that changing the game to fit historical details is railroading. Well as it is, Eastern Europe is railroaded. The PLC always expands. AI Russia never manages to grow eastward. Even the Ottomans cannot expand north of the Danube.
I'm sick of having two choices in Eastern European playthroughs: to either ally the PLC and easily paint the map for the duration of the game, or to spend every waking hour in mortal fear of that monstrosity. I'm sick of that part of the map looking exactly the same every playthrough. Even Ming and France are more likely to collapse than the Commonwealth.
So please, please do something about Poland-Lithuania in the upcoming patch, because that country remains one of the most ahistorical and stale aspects of Europa Universalis IV.
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