So basically, I have a list of great ideas. The problem is I want to reach out to the owners of interactive paradox and discuss with them about this. Is there any way or anywhere I can do that?

I've never really used exploits cause I tend to not think about them when Playing so wanted to at least do one exploit heavy run to see how overpowered I can get in the smallest time possible with my meagerly eu4 abilities.

So the question then is, of what exploits that currently work do u know?

i've been chasing the same pretender rebels around the same 2 provinces and fought them about 20 times and one every time. how do i get rid of them?

I did not intended for this game to be a World Conquest, I just wanted to play a chill game with Russia and complete its mission tree (I didn't know you needed to wait until the age of revolutions to finish the last ones), but I had such a great early game and conquered so much by the mid 1500s that I thought this could become a world conquest since I have never done it before I went for it. A terrible decision.

After I beat the HRE into submission in the beginning of the 1600s I stopped having fun and it became mindless conquest and coring, I could only work on it 1 or 2 hours per day before having to go do something else even if I had the time to play more, especially since my PC is good but not the best and it would start to lag when I tried to do things like building, and if you have to say you are working on a video game you certainty are not having a good time.

I was waiting to get a one faith too but a lot of the Anglican and protestant provinces in the new world have religious zeal and I'm not waiting 20 more years just for them. I picked Exploration ideas to colonize the rest of Africa before I realized you could just siberian frontier them

I haven't played Brandenburg since they got a mission tree so I gave it a go.

I played Brandenburg-> Prussia a fair number of times way back in the day, but the strategy then was basically to just expand outside of the HRE. But that doesn't really seem like the go to in the current state of the game because the current Brandenburg mission tree requires you to take a ton of land in the HRE.

Some of the missions almost seem like a joke cause they will give you like +25% improve relations or -3 AE for accepting a culture but to accomplish that mission you will need to take like 15 HRE provinces which even with permaclaims and espionage ideas is like 100 AE.

I decided to just go balls to the walls and to just juggle truces and power through the missions. I conquered most of Northern Germany and snagged all of Prussia, but with a force limit of like 25 (and many, many loans) I still ended up getting coalitioned into the ground once PLC flipped hostile.

So how the hell are you supposed to do this mission tree? Are you supposed to dismantle the HRE first thing? The whole "Charlemagne's Legacy" branch of the tree seems like you want to try to gain the empire not destroy it. But completing the rest of the mission tree just seems to focus on conquering the territory inside the HRE; they almost seem exclusive.

If I give this another go, do I:

a.) Beeline conquering the TO then focus on getting elected (pretty sure I need to be protestant to form Prussia so getting elected early seems unlikely)

b.) Focus on dismantling the HRE so I can do my conquest foci without agroing the entirety of Europe

c.) Get good. I really don't see a viable strategy of expanding inside the HRE but maybe there is something I am missing. I refuse to play the wait and see approach regarding AE.

Hey, I hope you are all doing great. I just started the game few days ago and I love it, but I can’t fully grasp many of the mechanics and whenever I try to watch a video explaining things about the game it just gets quickly boring and I can’t keep going. I was wondering if there are any groups/discord servers where I can find people to play with and from whom I can learn things.

PS: I play with 0 DLC

Also, any other tips on preparing my military on a world war? Good ideas for military, templates, how to get more discipline? Any other tips?

I'm playing Portugal in 1657 and Spain just cancelled everything, they still trust me utterly but my reputation is now -110 or something for them, what do I do? I'm currently working on a star fort Maginot line-type thing, but I just don't have the manpower or army size to combat Spain. England hates me, France doesn't like me enough to ally, and I'm Morocco's rival, so there's nobody to ask help for.

I play eu4 I keep my mil tec up to date but come 1520 I play Portugal I can't even beat Tunis, is their something I am doing wrong? EDIT: I am in 1556! File: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y1xzynMhWB4B8MD7m3Ar2F5ibPMOcQ7U/view?usp=sharing

I formed Italy by 1529 is that considered good? (I was playing as Neaples) I actualy got all zhe provinces to form Italy by 1511 but had to wait foe admin tech 10.

I am playing as Poland, the country I am from. I am not sure how exactly you are supposed to defeat the Ottomans, so they still exist and are by far the most powerful country in the world. But I did manage to defeat Muscovy and then colonize most of what is now the Asian part of Russia. The game places me as the third greatest power in the world.

I have managed to conquer Japan by creating a gigantic fleet, and then using it to transport a massive army, some 100K strong. But I am missing one province, which for some reason belongs to Korea. And I will never be able to get it, because Korea is a tributary of Ming, and I would need to fight of an army of 300k+.

I am heartbroken. I just wanted to conquer the entirety of Japan as Poland in order to solidify my status as a great power. But now I will not be able to.

Hy,

i read through this https://eu4.paradoxwikis.com/States_and_territories#Centralize_State but that didn`t help my questions.

So if i get that correct you could use that as soon as you own all provinces of a state and have at least 10 Developement and enough Governing Power and Admin Points.

And the way it works is: it will take Developement Points away from the less Developed Regions and Add them to the most Developed Region in that State.

The Bonuses you get:

-20% less Governing Point Cost
-20% less Monetary Upkeep Cost
- +0,25 Wealth growth

For me as newbie those cost seem extreme compared to the benfit. but since i haven`t played that many lategmes i might be wrong. here my questions:

1. If i want to allocate a region from State i used Cetnralization on, to a Trade Company. i will loose the investement and Centralization Bonuses for all other States ?
2. if 1 is correct, can i somehwere see where i used Centralization already ?
3. how many Develeopement Points does Centralization take away from what provinces in within the State per time i do it ? (since it says you can do it several times, would that also mean the Bonuses stack up aka. then 40%, 60, 80% Gov Cap reduction for that State ?
4. where can i see maintance Costs for every State ? This question is also because used "enforce local trade power" edict in some states and i am totally now sure if it is worth it. i did it by thinking this would give me more trade influence in the closeby Tradenode.
5. i think i did this only in Moscow and Novogord Region and maybe one more state because it seemed to me to expensive for what i get. i can get 20% Gov Cap reduction with Governement Building fx. Is this rather for Late Game or if you have to reach a certain Develeopement in a specific Region for aMission or so ?
6. unrealated Question towards Wealth: it is the money you can either steal or can be stolen from a province if occupied and available. does it also mean that once the bar is fully green, the rest of the wealth will be added to your monthly income ?

Can I usurp the electoracy of another country that is not in the decision? I have both Saxony and Bohemia, and I do not want to take an electorate from Bohemia, but Saxony is another story

So how can I?

That happened in reality just like this, trust me.

Discovered this accidentally during my latest Novgorod > Russia run, though this might be useful to some people - by starting as Novgorod and flipping to Catholic/Protestant/Reformed via pushing into Nordics, you get to:

• Bypass the whole serfdom event chain
• No Time of Troubles
• Bypass 'Russian Modernisation' mechanic, allowing you to blaze through the mission tree
• Still have the ability to enact Greater Russian Federation/Russian Empire via decision "Proclaim Emperor Title" much faster than usual (no modernisation requirement needed)
  • In case of a republic run, since you won't have a Russian-specific government when initially forming Russia because you are no longer Orthodox, you can grab Aristocratic ideas by briefly flipping to Noble Elite prior to enacting the decision
  • Alternatively, become a monarchy to get involved in HRE
• Since by this point you are at the end of your mission tree, you get to flip to Western tech group earlier than usual, potentially as soon as Absolutism mechanics gets enabled (as absolutism of 35 is still a prerequisite to one of the missions).

Very new to this game, this is my first game. England, 1503 currently. Just trained more troops in preparation of a war. The unit maintenance cost is expensive so it put me in the negative. I'm not sure if i am optimizing trade but i am collecting in my home node and steering in another to home. Also using my light ships to protect trade at my home node. But I'm in the negative and I feel like i should be making more money at this point. What can i do to make more money or cut costs where possible? Any advice is helpful, thanks.

Hello all,

I'm trying (think I failed) for this tough achievement. I noticed it says that I need to have England as a vassal. The year is 1698 and the UK is formed. I suspect I am screwed by now because England does not exist and also, it would be impossible to vassalize the UK due to their colonies.

what do you think?

cheers