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Originally posted by Gorion



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Just to clear some things up here. All they did in EUII was rename Euskadia to Cantabria. The provinces of Navarre, Galicia, and Asturias stayed the same. There never was a province called "Basque Country" in EUI and there isn't one in EUII, atleast to my understanding.


What's wrong with you?

Well... I can't find "Basque Country" on the EU maps either - is there something wrong with me?
 

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Basque Country is actual name, the real EU name should be Vizcaya, and is the one in EU was Euskdia.
 

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Originally posted by Txini
Basque Country is actual name, the real EU name should be Vizcaya, and is the one in EU was Euskdia.
I think that these words are pretty clear and that we should close the dicussion.
if only someone from Paradox would take note of this question and set it right in the map... :rolleyes:
 

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Originally posted by Havard

Reinsituting countries should reduce BB. As for the conversion I guess I won't get as many BB points as when annexing... I think there are VPs for force conversions.
maybe it is a silly question, but how on earth do you check your the bad boy ratings?
thanx for any answer
 

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Open your savegame file, find your country TAG (or find your capital, if you don't know tag), BB value should be near top of your country data.
 

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Am I the only one extremely disappointed by this AAR? Havard, playing Castille, has effectibley given himself an insurmountable advantage before the original EUI started, in that he has already made himself master of the meditteranean. Doing such things should take more time. Havard does not seem to have run into much of a challenge.....

It is now looking like fore EUII, if you want a challenge, you must either play a minor or set voluntary rules for yourself as a major that limits what you can do....
 

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Yeah, that is interesting... all the AARs seem to feature rather easy movement of sliders, and widespread conquering. I think I will bring this up in the EU2 GD.
 

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Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
Am I the only one extremely disappointed by this AAR? Havard, playing Castille, has effectibley given himself an insurmountable advantage before the original EUI started, in that he has already made himself master of the meditteranean. Doing such things should take more time. Havard does not seem to have run into much of a challenge.....

A few comments to that:
- In the beta version I started with there were _no_ leaders/events for Turkey. This is improved now, making them much harder to take out as I did.
- My "empire" was very fragile. As most of the provinces was both foreign culture and religion you can not have any stability losses - take a look at BiB's Poland in the MP thread...
- I did not manage to unite Spain. Aragon still have 5-6 provinces.


It is now looking like fore EUII, if you want a challenge, you must either play a minor or set voluntary rules for yourself as a major that limits what you can do....

As in EU1 there will be "easy" and "hard" nations to play. I would not say that any of the majors in EU were "hard" to play - some of them will be harder in EU2!
 

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Originally posted by Blade!
Yeah, that is interesting... all the AARs seem to feature rather easy movement of sliders, and widespread conquering. I think I will bring this up in the EU2 GD.

In addition to what I wrote above:

The sliders are not "easily" moved. One move per 10 years... The effect of the sliders are also changed since this patch to reduce the massive morale-boost I got from the "quality" option...
One of the reasons for the beta-testing is to test balance - and here the input from AAR-readers are important too. But one have to remember that bits (literally:D) and pieces are added to the final game for each day and patch into the beta.
 

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Originally posted by Havard


In addition to what I wrote above:

The sliders are not "easily" moved. One move per 10 years... The effect of the sliders are also changed since this patch to reduce the massive morale-boost I got from the "quality" option...
One of the reasons for the beta-testing is to test balance - and here the input from AAR-readers are important too. But one have to remember that bits (literally:D) and pieces are added to the final game for each day and patch into the beta.

Good reminders. I was really alarmed when I read about the quality of generic leaders people were getting after a few decades. Then I reminded myself that this is beta testing after all. Anyway, I am sure there will be an awesome community-provided IGC(+) that addresses play balance and accuracy shortly after release. :)

Christopher
 

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Originally posted by Havard


I think (am at work, haven't got the game at hand) it's Madrid.

should be Toledo until mids of XVI century
 

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I believe that 2 of the 3 nations (Portugal, Castille, Aaragon?) must have a royal marriage...and maybe even a vassalization... some event definately occurs at a certain time when RM is in existance AND Madrid is possesed (the event goes to the possesor).