good... lord. I thought my 342 hours was bad.

I believe they said average on steam was over 100. And this includes people who play it for five minutes. 342 ain't nuttin

Did they change burgundy inheritance event somehow? second play through in a row where castille got the whole thing for me.

Is it possible to get a clearer/larger font?

BetterUI 2.3 is the best I've found. I find it tolerable on a 2560x1600 30" screen but still too tiny for MacBook 15" retina.

New forts seem really cool.

If AI France refuses the burgundian provinces, and spain has a royal marriage with burgundy, i guess they can get everything? Never seen that before. Apparently HRE only gets it if Spain/Castille doesn't have a royal marriage w/ burgundy and/or refuses.

I have never seen it before either until the last two playthroughs and that's why I thought something changed.

How does this happen? Japan elected emperor with a bunch of other countries still eligible..

Got Common Sense and updated to 1.2. Now 1.11 saves refuses to load at all. <sigh>

I'm scared to get the update. I've got one of my best games so far, about 80 years from completion and I don't want it to get corrupted!

You can roll back updates in steam if you want to keep playing your current game.

This "tall empire" thing not really delivering. Diminishing returns hit so hard so fast it's still wayyyy easier to just pick up more provinces elsewhere.

That said, it helped my Utrect a lot in the 1400s and 1500s as I bided time waiting for opportunities to expand.

got the xpac but havent tried it yet, perhaps tonight

so i dont think i have any of the DLCs.
they are on steam sale, which of these are must haves?
el dorado -33%
art of war -50%
conquest of paradise -50%
wealth of nations -50%
res pulica -50%
american dream -50%

Wait until EU4 is a daily/flash/community deal, basically when it is listed on the front page. Some of those will drop to 75% off.

all of them but american dream
dont really need res public either i guess, think it just adds some stuff for idk poland and republics.

AoW is the only must-buy iirc, maybe el-dorado too?

Hey guys... I'm starting an MP game as Poland tonight. Thoughts on strategy?

Nearby players in Austria, Brandenburg, Sweden, OE and Muscowy. Noone else in the immediate vicinity.

My plan currently is to work with BB to secure the provs I need in TO to form the Commonwealth, and to vassalize what BB doesn't need for Prussia. I would then mostly wait it out to get to form union decision, and eventually at ADM 10 integrat into the COmmonwealth.

Ideas... I am hesitating between diplo and aristocracy to start. THoughts?

Long-term strategic issues usually facing Poland? I am thinking I want to grab some land from Hungary when it fails and to make sure to retain PU on Lithuania & do commonwealth.. should be pretty strong after.

Hi guys, new to the thread and EU. A few questions if someone can indulge me -

1) How good of a computer do I need to run this? My laptop had quite a bit of trouble running Civ 5 smoothly, and would sometimes overheat and crash.

2) Is there a good sale on this anywhere at the moment?

3) Is it fun in single player?

Thanks!

single player is fun until you get into MP. After, some people keep liking it but personally it feels stale (Even though I suck at MP). But yes.. you can easily spend 100-200+ hours in SP before getting bored.

It usually comes around during steam sales. Though this year they suck.

I'd either crush BB immediately or plan to backstab them ASAP. Letting them form prussia is really bad because even if you are 5x the size, their troops will dunk yours (eventually), and they have a very easy ally against you in Russia. Meanwhile you guys have 0 mutual enemies/threats after crushing TO, unless you decide to befriend them instead of Austria, in which case you gain a weak ally and a strong enemy. Really don't get the benefits of keeping them alive besides not generating MP badboy. There is no reason for them to be allied with you forever unless they are only taking HRE stuff, and eventually that will be all gone, and you are an easy target to backstab with your terrible geographic position.

tl;dr They basically give you an additional front in any war you fight, and even if you are friends early, as land starts running out, you probably aren't friends anymore.

Either way, I'd try to be friend Austria, they should be your #1 ally all game as unless you plan nonstop expansion into the HRE you should have little issues and similar enemies (BB, Ottomans). If you have no Bohemia player, try to negotiate with them a way to possibly partition Bohemia, maybe you get Silesia + parts of Bohemia or something? IIRC its same culture group as Polish, and has decent provinces.

Also iirc you can't be at war to get the union, and theres a chance of missing out on it if you go to war ASAP (responding to BB's call since you have regency), so maybe hold off on that until you form the union in 1447 or w/e it will happen.

Also also, after getting TO def go for livonian order asap before Sweden or Rus can get it. The provinces suck but it can be vassalized in 1 war and doing so denies it to Sweden/Rus.

Long-term strategic issues are the same for any central Euro; eventually you have nowhere else to expand, while Rus/Ottomans can free expand east and West Europe gets to expand outside Europe. The two outcomes of this, depending on how the game has gone and how good the players involved at each country, always break down into central europe cannibalizing eachother, either on their own or as parts of different blocs, or central europe allying with eachother against the periphery countries. Really the only way to not have this happen is if you are somehow able to crush Russia and basically take their place. I'd probably try to be friends w/ Ottomans vs Rus or vice versa and try to expand at one or the others expense.

1) Anything thats not 5+ years old should be fine, not a very graphically intense game, especially if you turn off stuff like advanced water etc. It will likely run slow though.

2) steam sale? http://store.steampowered.com/app/236850/

3) Yes

thanks man. What about joining HRE? Worthwhile? I haven't ever used that mechanic in any of my games (always played starting in it, or far).

You are too big, can't join, iirc the only way to join in SP is through gamey stuff like selling a bunch of provinces to Mazovia

Also in the new xpac they got rid of the imperial integrity bonus for being an HRE member so the benefits aren't as good until the emperor starts doing reforms. Main benefit is being able to dec other HRE members and not call in the emperor.

I've had tons of problems since the last patch. Even when I revert back to 1.10 to play my Burgundy Ironman game, it's hard to play. Supply Limits are like a third of what they were before. I can't move one of my armies at all because of low morale - even tho the bar is completely green.

In new games with 1.11, the tax bases all seem super tiny. Like none of Austria's provinces have over a 1 for tax base. Not sure if that's how it should be or it's a bug somehow, this is my first time playing them. Still seems really low.

EU4 DLC on sale on steam, 50%-75%, more than it was when sale started. common sense is not on sale.