The rudeness is you implied I was mentally handicapped because I couldn't understand how some of the concepts worked. And clearly you're not reading my posts because I specifically said I did read the manual, and do to the tutorial, and fyi, I did have tooltips on, none of those three things were particularly useful for a number of core game mechanics.
It´s not unhelpful either, it does a great way of showing the basics and explains the mechanics. I know, because I used it heavily for a long time, but it´s not handholding all the way, which is also kind of the joy about the game, learning and experimenting by trying... You should remember, that the manual and tool-tips are supposed to tell the basics stuff and mechanics and give you some examples of how to use it.
To that end it does quite well, to some extent at least. It´s up to you as a player to learn the specifics of each mechanics, since I for one don´t want to read a long list explaining it and
all it´s uses and exploits. I still, to this day use wiki or even ask in forum. Since I logged thousands of hours into EU4, does that mean the infos are crap? No that means that after hours of hours, your still learning. And to read it all, would be annoying...
Besides, if you
want that comprehensive manual explaing
ALL you should go for the wiki site
It does great explaining all, it´s exploits, uses, examples and is partly supported by PDX itself which might be the reason why they haven´t updated the manual either (but should perhaps direct players to it instead). The volume of that site is massive, so go ahead and read that it should be helpful, I´ll just find it boring to use time reading manual of stuff that are easily figured out, only for the things I cannot understand, but to each his own
I also think that the game has quite a few situations where the reason for "losing" isn't clear which leads to frustration for a new player. eg. losing battles even if you might have more troops because of not filling combat width with cannons/tech disparity etc . I don't know how I would fix it though.
Bit too much handholding really, if a tip came up every time saying "mate, just a few more cannons would do". But I do see you point really to some extent, what could be done about it is to give the information that are shown on the battle screen. So when you win or lose, you can click a button and see what the "stats" are and run them through. so you can see why their morale is much higher than yours.
This I would totally support, since it could have some uses even for the average players
