r/EU5

I feel like every time i get back to eu5, i play for a bit, maybe 50 years. Then get frustrated about the issues that are not fixed and the additional issues that the update has brought and then just lose the will to play.Close the game and tell myself eh i'll continue the save next day, but never come back.

Then i tell myself i'll just wait for the next patch when stuff gets better. Rinse and repeat. Anyone else feel that way?

There are a lot of things you can do to improve your economy in this game. Sometimes when you think about crown power, trade power, tax, wealth, RGO, and buildings, tax efficiency ecc. It can be a bit confusing to decide what to do, also because strategies require time to be implemented. So in this post, I want to just focus on the spread between wealth and tax base

Indeed, if I have to think about the fastest way to improve your balance situation is just to reduce the spread between tax base and wealth. Wealth is the simple sum of the wealth produced by all your provinces; the tax base is what you are able to tax of that wealth. Wealth is also mainly responsible for your expenses going higher and higher. If the spread between your wealth and your tax base is high, you will have high expenses and a low income.

Here is an example of how reducing wealth can sometimes improve your income

At the start of the game, the wealth of England is 300% its tax base, and if we max out the expenses, our balance is horrible. This is because most of the provinces are below 30 control, and we get very few tax bases out of these provinces

Now the most effective way to improve the situation here would be to create vassals (decrease wealth, handing off provinces with low control) and build local governors (increase tax base without increasing wealth). But what if you cannot do these two things? Well, you can just delete/close all the buildings and downgrade RGOS in the provinces where you have less than 30-40 control

As you can see here, just deleting RGOS and building in my low control provinces has cut my negative balance by 40%. This is because I reduced the spread between wealth and tax base; now, wealth is only 200% of the tax base, making my situation way better.

Then, of course, you can do the usual stuff (improve crown power, try to improve proximity, etc.) But this is something you can do very quickly and also teaches you the importance of not RGO maxing blindly.

The tooltip for the Royal Marriage Rights privilege only says "+5% Cabinet Efficiency", when it also prevents a -10 legitimacy hit every time your ruler or their immediate family marries a noble. I wish I knew this the many times I was trying to put my nobles in their place by revoking all their dumb stuff. Mid to late game getting that 10 legitimacy back effectively costs hundreds of Dukats.

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I played hundreds of hours of this game over a decent amount of time, some patches improved things greatly, others made them worse.

The last patch i remember genuinely loving was when standing armies were super strong.

I genuinely want to see the game get better, but all the changes they have made havent lead to better, more fun and varied gameplay, it has led to the game feeling considerably flatter than it has for a long time.

The new systems are cool but in a lot of cases it makes for a less enjoyable experience overall for me, the tediousness takes its toll.

I love this game, but the direction its been taken has made me wanna do nothing but uninstall.

I need ideas for a new campaign

For those unaware, in 1.2 they made it so a capital on terrain reduces the proximity impact of that terrain by 20%. So, hills go from -25% to -20%, mountains from -50% to -40%, and flatland from -0% to -0%. Obviously, this is to make countries that play with a majority of non-flatland terrain less terrible.

However, you are ideally centralized around a whole area of flatlands, like France or Italy or similar, so you shouldn’t need the bonus. In addition, having a capital on hills or mountains or even a plateau hurts dev, and still hurts proximity a decent bit, as all your territory is -x% further. So is it worth it to try and find an otherwise-ideal capital with hills or something and use it to help spread through the rest of your country, or would it be more harmful than helpful?

Obviously it is for some all-hills terrain, but what about flatland to the east and hills to the west, with some isolated hill between? Would it be worth choosing the hill over some other (equally valuable otherwise) flatland capital, or would the reduction be helpful enough to generate more control/productivity in the long run?

I’m sure there’s cases, and I’d love to hear some if anyone’s found any.

Maybe add an event or unique modifier, or make it a farmlands? Honestly, I don't know what the requirement irl is for a location to be a farmland over a grassland. But right now it doesn't have a river, it's really just the same as Toledo but without the river.

I don't care its profitable I don't want to enslave my own people and ship them away to another county

Its hard to learn games nowadays because every update something big changes. if you dont have endless hours to bury in a game by the time you feel comfortable devs make massive changes to the core of the game. Its almost like endless tutorial instead of getting good after a couple of good campaigns.

Like I put in qoutes this isn't just an eu5 issue its every game nowadays it feels like a early access issue. But this game is in "full release". Btw i love this game but so many changes so many updates makes me not want to play.

I came back after a break and saw the new walls feature, and it appears like they either cannot be built at all or only in cities, and the give a -10% local crown authority modifier, so is it recommended to have walls or should they be demolished ?

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I started attacking Egypt a little late but what is this? I think if I am not breaking the truce it will actually take end of the game to take over Egypt as Ottomans. Which took two years for ottomans to take over Egypt in real time.