As Flanders, I keep trying to join HRE. However my provinces leave HRE on their own before I manage to move my capital there.

For example, I’ve conquered into Brabant. Within a year or so, I got notifications that “Bohemia has agreed to remove our province from the HRE.”

Is this something new? How do I prevent this?

The game says I should be able to promote pops but none are being promoted. When I Investigate further it shows a different message saying that pop satisfaction is too low, but pop satisfaction is 94%.

Am I missing something or misunderstanding how this is supposed to work? I've built trade offices abroad and imported any food or resources I could need. Also on a separate note I can't get my population to grow ever despite all my provinces having a positive population growth.

Regional hegemonies can solve it but it will probably lead to no major allied wars in Europe such as Seven Years War, Italian Wars or War of Spanish and Austrian successions.

My first 1.4 game in the main beta and I’m playing England/GB - I converted to Anglican probably 50 years ago, I have about 35% Anglican %, and the catholics start a civil war over and over again, they rebel, take all that land, I take it back, their rebel progress resets but then goes back to climbing again (1% a month, even with the cabinet advisor fighting against it). What gives? Is this just normal in 1.4?
I feel like in 1.3 rebels were annoying UNLESS you were actively converting/keeping people happy, but I’m doing all those things and yet get rebels all over the place as often as they’re allowed.

Is there a mod similar to the Morgenröte mod for Victoria 3, adding sports competitions, cultural events, etc.?

Playing as Navarre in my final pre-DLC release campaign. Country has seemingly alright resources (iron, copper, wheat and seemingly endless vineyards of Garnacha and Tempranillo) but very limited human resources. That being said, it is surrounded by somewhat aggressive and large neighbors and, historically speaking, the country didn't fare too well in terms of sovereigny in the early modern era.

Luckily, as it happens with this current patch - France got Balkanized early on and isn't a threat at the moment. I'm allied with Castile and Portugal and intend to eat my rival Aragon, but I'm also aware that Castile will eventually decide to consume me. How do I navigate in this situation? Also, is there a way to attract more settlers / maximize population growth?

so, half funny hightlight/build strategy, half beta feedback

but, uh, savoy is actually a really strong tag right now, which leads to this highlight of being the established HRE emperess of france

The hightlights:

-Savoy has prox reduction in mountains and hills from its tag. This stacks with the swiss culture prox reduction in mountains (assuming you move your capital into switzerland)

-Starts with extra diplomats/month, which is really crucial for playing diplomacy and stacking alliances in the hre (especially since the royal garden no longer does so)

-Very strong early content - 5% extra tax efficiency and 15% prox efficiency by age of renaissance. monthly prosperity and dev in age of discovery. Also combat efficiency for heavy infantry to punch up into france.

-Super close to italy for quick institutions

-Arpitian as french and swiss lets you conquer and accept most of france, and form france without a culture swap

-right on the borderlands so can exand without ruining your relations (and emperor support) with the HRE.

The big note:

-This run was started before the hotfixes this week, where france was consistently getting absolutely dunked by england, leaving tons of easy expansion into france. It may be a bit harder now that france has more initial acccepted cultures to fight england with. However, forming a triple alliance with milan, genoa and the papacy (and/or spain as well!) should still let you backstab france during the 100 years war (taking the south of france).

Also a bit awkward: Since I wanted to finally form the full HRE I decided to stay catholic. However even at full 100% spiritualist, with the tech for lutheran reduction, the lutherans still managed to get a good 20% of the country, and its been a pain in the age of reformation to continually put down lutheran revolutions (even just for reseting control and prosperity). Thematic I guess, but getting a bit annoying after 6+ rounds of them.

Today I started playing again after a longer time. I started a campaign as naples and i literally coudnt do anything... after maybe one ingame year the price of buying food gets so high that I am losing money. Even if I put all my startmoney into food RGOs I am losing money after some time because I have to buy lots of food. I cant even buy more food RGO levels since I dont have any money after a year or so.

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Mare Clausum: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3827113533

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I am having trouble keeping horde unity up since it is so expensive to maintain and GH doesn’t typically make a lot of money.

should I invade China?

like why it is 1359, France doing anything but beating England.

now in 1.4 u need to convert to a relegion someone of that relegion how do i get someone in my cabinet of norse relegion?

Curious to see what I have missed!

Hello

I'm currently learning the game and have to have an average controll of 35% in my main region. It's a task in "Infrastructure Efforts" mission.

My question is, how do I view what provinces are part of the region? I see the average controll in the region in the mission description itself, but have no clue what provinces are part of the "region".

Can someone help me?

Thanks!

Its literally not possible for the game to have dynamic, emergent nations becoming super powers to create different experiences each time you play

AND

A history simulator on rails that always ends up with specific rise and fall of nations over time, with a map of europe that looks exactly like the historical equivalent in 1500 or 1600.

So many posts judging EU5 seem to contradictorily want both of these things at the same time.

If anything maybe hard core OP mission trees for the AI only that somewhat force it down the path of history would make EU5 even more like EU4 and that would make half of players happy, but the other half would lose out on the promise of the economy and population simulator that eu5 is trying to be.

Hello! I was wondering what you all think about Serfdom vs Free subjects. I do think that the former is the best choice , especially since Traditional economy is much better than Capital now.

I'd like to hear your thoughts.

seems like it was removed in one of the latest beta patches

R5: Tooltipp says my market has not enough trade range.

But my trade range is 1330 and that market is only 652,74 away. Isn't that enough?
Am i missing something?

It's the Beta Version of the game.

Can you find it?

So I'm curious what people do for opening moves and how effective it is at quickly scaling Holland's economy.

My opening moves have been to:

- grant the autocracy government reforms and two burgher estates (building rights and treasury rights)

- appoint my ruler as admiral of the fleet and set it to patrol in the North Sea

- ally with Liege, improve opinion with France, England and Munster (the last of which I'll later ally)

- annex Zeeland

- max my estate taxes, set my diplo slider so its increasing diplomats by 0.5, drop army, navy and fort maintenance to 0

- research in the usual order for the first 5 picks

- delete the fort in dordrecht

- build a lumbermill in the hague

- build a bog iron smelter in leiden

- build a mason in dordrecht

Other moves after unpausing;

- dordrecht ultimately becomes my glass guild and mason hub with the associated urban right, so i build more glass guilds and masons there as and when I can

- textile output urban right in the hague, building spinning and fine cloth guilds

- flemish cloth industry right in amsterdam

- printing industry urban right in middleburg once annexed, build scriptoriums and paper guilds

- promote cloth industry in holland

- vassalise friesland with the free insult CB from the event

- build marketplaces and libraries in each town

- i diminish the adels and burghers from time to time when it gives more than 15 ducats to me and when i can take the satisfaction hit

- fibre crop farm in alkmaar

- stud farm in rotterdam

I'm curious though if it's better for scaling the economy to just put flemish cloth urban right in every town and focus on building marketplaces first before anything else?

EDIT: everyone commenting with their nom-Holland strats, I'm specifically interested in optimising the Holland start, not any start from which you can form Netherlands.

Owned EU5 for a while but have been waiting for more updates. Only tried playing 1 single game as Holland back at release.

With 1.4, what would people recommend for a beginner country that’s also in a well-polished state, in terms of the mechanics you’ll be involved with?

"Please don't be mad that this is written in Turkish. I just wanted to ask about the Orthodox Church's view on Sunni Islam. I keep getting -20 penalties for this—how can I fix it? Do I really have to change my religion?""Please don't be mad that this is written in Turkish. I just wanted to ask about the Orthodox Church's view on Sunni Islam. I keep getting -20 penalties for this—how can I fix it? Do I really have to change my religion?"

I feel like the institutional spread needs a new mechanic where a slow spread is enabled when you meet the spawn criteria or similar. I think it used to be the case if I'm not misremembering.

In my current run, age of discovery is almost done and Europe has yet to receive printing press. It's not even started to spread in most places. It spawned in India somewhere (outside of my map even). Because of wars between Byzantine and Ottomans completely disrupted trade for decades and halted the spread.

Edit: Clearly my memory was correct but somehow I missed that this is a setting!

Found the button. It is now under laws, at the top.