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[Owl Raider]

Has anyone else noticed that Poland seems to languish in dire straits when they get released? My last few games they haven't really been able to build much of an army or factories..I suppose it could be low prestige or something..?

Well, considering that Poland didn't actually exist during the time period it makes sense that you'd struggle with it once you manually release it. In any case, how did you release it? If you released Poland from Prussia than you'd actually have very high literacy for 1836(just over 50%) however you have a pretty small and awkward looking chunk of land. If you released it from Russia than you'd suffer from the same low literacy(10%) as the rest of Russia pretty much, but you have more territory and it's more consolidated. If you use the console to release Poland from both Prussia and Russia than play as Poland your literacy should actually be decent(higher than GPs like Russia, Austria, the Ottomans and Spain), you should have a nice looking territory and as an added bonus removed both the Prussian and Russian cores from your lands making the rest of the game significantly easier as you won't need to deal with a super power wanting its cores back(whichever of Prussia/Russia you didn't release yourself from). You can even go further and release the rest of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth's territories before releasing Poland which makes it incredibly easy for you to form the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from Poland, which in turn gives you access to the sea(via Ukraine) and thus the ability to go after uncivs and participate in the scramble for Africa.

So it's hard to say why you're struggling with Poland since there are multiple ways of releasing it. Unless you do it the cheesy way(the last option mentioned above) than your main struggle is going to be conquering the rest of your land from the other super power and than holding on to the territory as that super power is probably going to declare constant wars on you trying to retake it(just as France usually does once Prussia takes Alsace-Lorraine from them to form Germany). The low literacy(if released from Russia) is also bad but workable in the same manner as playing with Austria, Russia, the Ottomans, Spain and most uncivs. It just means a slower start and not industrializing right from the get go(which isn't actually a bad thing) and having a military on the small side until you reclaim all your territory.

 

[austrianemporer]

Well, considering that Poland didn't actually exist during the time period it makes sense that you'd struggle with it once you manually release it. In any case, how did you release it? If you released Poland from Prussia than you'd actually have very high literacy for 1836(just over 50%) however you have a pretty small and awkward looking chunk of land. If you released it from Russia than you'd suffer from the same low literacy(10%) as the rest of Russia pretty much, but you have more territory and it's more consolidated. If you use the console to release Poland from both Prussia and Russia than play as Poland your literacy should actually be decent(higher than GPs like Russia, Austria, the Ottomans and Spain), you should have a nice looking territory and as an added bonus removed both the Prussian and Russian cores from your lands making the rest of the game significantly easier as you won't need to deal with a super power wanting its cores back(whichever of Prussia/Russia you didn't release yourself from). You can even go further and release the rest of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth's territories before releasing Poland which makes it incredibly easy for you to form the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from Poland, which in turn gives you access to the sea(via Ukraine) and thus the ability to go after uncivs and participate in the scramble for Africa.

So it's hard to say why you're struggling with Poland since there are multiple ways of releasing it. Unless you do it the cheesy way(the last option mentioned above) than your main struggle is going to be conquering the rest of your land from the other super power and than holding on to the territory as that super power is probably going to declare constant wars on you trying to retake it(just as France usually does once Prussia takes Alsace-Lorraine from them to form Germany). The low literacy(if released from Russia) is also bad but workable in the same manner as playing with Austria, Russia, the Ottomans, Spain and most uncivs. It just means a slower start and not industrializing right from the get go(which isn't actually a bad thing) and having a military on the small side until you reclaim all your territory.

Console?

If you switch provinceowner, the core is still there.

 

[metalbird]

how do you increase your budget, it takes a long time to build up the industry and the taxes arent enough to cover my debt and i dont want to neglect my expenditures. usually, i have to add money in the console

 

[austrianemporer]

how do you increase your budget, it takes a long time to build up the industry and the taxes arent enough to cover my debt and i dont want to neglect my expenditures. usually, i have to add money in the console

Uh, you get a better economy, stop funding everything to the max. Do you think governments back then could all pay for everything and still run a surplus?

 

[thexmassteam]

how do you increase your budget, it takes a long time to build up the industry and the taxes arent enough to cover my debt and i dont want to neglect my expenditures. usually, i have to add money in the console

Before unpause the game on the first day :
- all taxes sliders at 100%
- navy slider at 30% and land at 50% (80% if I am nervous about my neighbours )
- admin and education sliders at 100%

Unpause game for 2 days, then :
-increase tariff to get a decent income

When I reach 100% admin. efficiency I reduce admin spending and only increase it later to sustain economy during crisis.

 

[Shiggs]

Is there any way to deter GP's from sphere'ing you?

 

[austrianemporer]

Is there any way to deter GP's from sphere'ing you?

Grow weaker and decrease relations.

 

[Shiggs]

Grow weaker and decrease relations.

Well I ended up finding that decision to remove being in a sphere as long as I am a secondary power. Decreasing relations doesn't seem to do anything, they still keep pumping influence all the same. Being weak isn't an option. Best best is to try and make a big push by any means necessary. Some humiliation wars or maxing out military, maybe running a deficit to subsidize industry to keep all your points maxed out till you become gp.

 

[austrianemporer]

Well I ended up finding that decision to remove being in a sphere as long as I am a secondary power. Decreasing relations doesn't seem to do anything, they still keep pumping influence all the same. Being weak isn't an option. Best best is to try and make a big push by any means necessary. Some humiliation wars or maxing out military, maybe running a deficit to subsidize industry to keep all your points maxed out till you become gp.

When you decrease relations, they influence you far slower.

 

[Imnus]

About the 'Repay Debts' Casus Bellis how does it works, several nations have defaulted on me and the game tells me that I should the military to make them respect the debt but I'm not able to declare war or justify war so how exactly does it word, do you have to be a great or secondary power for this Casus Bellis?

 

[lollibast]

how come i attack an enemy that just fled and is low on org and for days i inflict zero kills but the enemy that hovers at 0,30% org according to the battle screen kills me by the hundreds for days?

 

[metalbird]

how come i attack an enemy that just fled and is low on org and for days i inflict zero kills but the enemy that hovers at 0,30% org according to the battle screen kills me by the hundreds for days?

it really is most likely a bug, nothing else. therre is no way to fix it in game with out modding the game files somhow

 

[austrianemporer]

how come i attack an enemy that just fled and is low on org and for days i inflict zero kills but the enemy that hovers at 0,30% org according to the battle screen kills me by the hundreds for days?

it really is most likely a bug, nothing else. therre is no way to fix it in game with out modding the game files somhow

Metalbird is somewhat correct but mostly incorrect.
The enemy inflicts casualties because you still have organization and aren't breaking, however, their army is shattering and every day, you make one or more brigades retreat/ shatter. If you shatter them fast enough, they stackwipe. If you don't they just run away one more province. THey will automatically retreat after 14 days.

 

[lollibast]

Metalbird is somewhat correct but mostly incorrect.
The enemy inflicts casualties because you still have organization and aren't breaking, however, their army is shattering and every day, you make one or more brigades retreat/ shatter. If you shatter them fast enough, they stackwipe. If you don't they just run away one more province. THey will automatically retreat after 14 days.

i had the impression that their front ranks were too disorganized to fight, however they were not attacked by my army while their rear still fired at me for days. silly mechanic, got me a bit frustrated i must admit

 

[austrianemporer]

i had the impression that their front ranks were too disorganized to fight, however they were not attacked by my army while their rear still fired at me for days. silly mechanic, got me a bit frustrated i must admit

Ah, probably back ranks firing.

 

[MazerRasha]

Any way to make Nanfaren and other major cultures accepted in China after westernization? I'm having 25% adm. efficiency in most states because of it.

 

[metalbird]

i had the impression that their front ranks were too disorganized to fight, however they were not attacked by my army while their rear still fired at me for days. silly mechanic, got me a bit frustrated i must admit[/QUOT
I was told that it was a bug so i was just telling him, i apologize for being incorrect

 

[lollibast]

@metalbird
well, i would call the behavior described a bug, so maybe you meant the same thing and were correct

 

[Arbok]

Are there any events that rename a province/place in the game? I need to use it as a baseline for a modding change.

 

[Black_Shade]

Is there a way to give a nation an uncolonized province via decision? I'm trying to give Ethiopia it's national cores, some of which start out as uncolonized, but I seem to be unable to do it.

edit: ahh, the secede_province command works, even if the province is empty, I thought it would require a previous owner to use that.