Tips

[Paladino]

hey everybody i lieke EU but i annoy a lot cuz my country is always in bankerupt and i dunno how to manage it succesfully so a few tips would helpe me cuz i'm tired of always have to use cheats for victory.

 

[unmerged(11600)]

"Bankrupt" as in losing stability and all your investments, or "bankrupt" as in not having any cash on hand? The first kind actually takes some doing; I've only succeeded in going bankrupt once. The latter isn't a problem, just take a loan or two.

One thing I try to do is to never have five loans at any one time. This way, when loans come due if I don't have the cash to cover them, I take a loan to pay a loan. Pay attention to when your loans will come due, and adjust the budget sliders to build up enough cash to pay it off (you get two months from when it initially comes due).

-Pat

 

[Paladino]

thanks but that don't answear to my question i was wondering what could i do for having a well developed economy should i do cities for income or trade posts things like that some few tips to help me start to play the game well

 

[Nikolai II]

Don't build an army bigger than you can afford the upkeep for. That should keep you out of the bankrupcy. Then, while learning the game you should pick a large nation (like France) and play conservatively. Don't mint any money on the treasury screen, just use the 1st of January annual taxes to build your armies and upgrade your cities with. (And sending the occasional colonist when that time is due.)

Apart from that, just keep playing and you will learn. Soon you should be back asking why everyone keeps declaring war upon you as soon as you start fighting someone, and we can tell you about BadBoy Wars

 

[Paladino]

thanks man but as you must know i'm just that guy who gets tired of playing and starts to use cheats to win the game lo0l btw.

when i was reading the forums topics i usually see that we can modify some files to use any nation and i wanna know the full process to make that is some of you can tell me

 

[unmerged(11600)]

when i was reading the forums topics i usually see that we can modify some files to use any nation and i wanna know the full process to make that is some of you can tell me

Short answer: read those threads. We've had two separate ones this past month.

-Pat

 

[Nikolai II]

This thread should be a good place to start looking: http://www.europa-universalis.com/forum/showthread.php?t=268830

If that doesn't help you - ask for more explanations there. But as long as you make a backup first, you can experiment on your own - it is quite simple really.

 

[Paladino]

well i'm not in my pc but well i have to start playing and then i must save right? then i go to the save folder and i edit the file????

 

[Nikolai II]

No, that would be the difficult way - the easy way is to change it in the scenario file, because there are less things to change there.

 

[Paladino]

ohhh ok thanks now i get it

 

[unmerged(61489)]

Yay! Good to know.

Hmm... the Firefox spell checker doesn't think 'yay' is a word. I would also like to note that it insists that 'Firefox' be spelled with a capital.

 

[Paladino]

This is so awesome, my english sucked so badly 6 years ago oh man, I had to dig this up. Lol 'lieke', 'helpe' it's win all over it.

 

[Nikolai II]

Well, since you are back - did you ever manage to avoid bankrupcy?

(And what countries did you play?)