Privateers & BB

[DesertFoxx]

A couple of things regarding privateers:

In a mp game a couple weeks back pirates kept popping up all over the place, and in places I'd never seen them before (off the coast of england?) - and regardless of whether I had ships there (and in adjacent sea zones) or not. Is there any way to tell who is placing privateers in my waters? I don't think there is, and I was keeping an eye on BB to see if there was any change there, there wasn't.
Bringing me to my next question - do privateers still add BB 10% of the time?

 

[Duke of Wellington]

Theres no way to tell who putting out the privateers besides carefully watching BB.

Thats correct about the 1 BB 10% of the time.

 

[unmerged(53580)]

wouldn't that harm relations?
Off course, it's not unusual to have -200 relations with every other nation in multiplayer, but that could be a factor as well.

 

[Duke of Wellington]

wouldn't that harm relations?
Off course, it's not unusual to have -200 relations with every other nation in multiplayer, but that could be a factor as well.

But there aren't relations between players in MP.

 

[KaiserChicken]

I had the idea that adding privateers would give all nations with territorial waters in that region a CB against the guy who put them there.

 

[unmerged(45766)]

I had the idea that adding privateers would give all nations with territorial waters in that region a CB against the guy who put them there.

I don't remember seeing that.

 

[unmerged(18425)]

But there aren't relations between players in MP.

Of course there are.

 

[unmerged(18425)]

I had the idea that adding privateers would give all nations with territorial waters in that region a CB against the guy who put them there.

That's one of the more common myths in EU2. I have never seen it myself, but heard from various players it should happen this way.

 

[unmerged(36826)]

That temp CB has certainly occured in game I've played, possibly not all the time but usually.

 

[jonti-h]

Pirates and CB

That's one of the more common myths in EU2. I have never seen it myself, but heard from various players it should happen this way.

I have used pirates to hinder enemy navies (when I am in real trouble) and also to wind up my enemies! It can disrupt a war a bit!

It does (often) give them a CB on me - almost 9 times out of 10. I have 1.09, and use the Age of Imperialism mod a fair bit and it is the same in both.

 

[Duke of Wellington]

Of course there are.

Aren't there no numerical values though?

 

[KaiserChicken]

I'm also fairly sure that they grant CBs. I sometimes commission some groups of privateers, and it is not too uncommon to find countries which, for no apparent reason, have temp CB's on my country.

 

[unmerged(53580)]

Aren't there no numerical values though?

Everything is as it is in any other game, except that more than one nation is human, there's normally also houserules for player behaviour.

 

[Duke of Wellington]

Everything is as it is in any other game, except that more than one nation is human, there's normally also houserules for player behaviour.

I thought I'd seen somewhere that there were no values between players. Thats what comes of relying on the manual

 

[unmerged(53580)]

Thats what comes of relying on the manual

You do that?
You must be a newbie

 

[Duke of Wellington]

You do that?
You must be a newbie

Of course not anymore. But I did read it at one time and having not played MP ...

 

[unmerged(18425)]

I have used pirates to hinder enemy navies (when I am in real trouble) and also to wind up my enemies! It can disrupt a war a bit!

Yep, it's also (very often) forbidden to use pirates this way in multiplayer.

It does (often) give them a CB on me - almost 9 times out of 10. I have 1.09, and use the Age of Imperialism mod a fair bit and it is the same in both.

I shall check this out. Nice first post by the way, correcting one of the holy grails of EU2 knowledge!*

* No, that wasn't serious

 

[unmerged(36826)]

Of course not anymore. But I did read it at one time and having not played MP ...

There are numerical values but they have no effect whatsoever...except to tell you who has been funding who with state gifts