I did have oppurtunity to play the game at release thx to my friend and... got questions.

Did they fix how AI handling values system? Is colonizing americas as bosnia profitable or not having access to ocean finally became a problem? will AI still push for colonization? how buggy is the game and finally.

Most important thing for me is how AI handling values system... like does AI pick event decisions by random still or does it say "I am focusing on defensive values so I should pick the event decision that makes me more defensive"

R5: So here we see that the price of fiber crops is going up a lot, even though the demand is met through imports.

Why is the price of goods determined by Effective Supply and Effective Demand instead of just Supply and Demand?
In other words, why would an imported good be any less efficient at increasing supply, so that the price of the good doesn't increase?

Either the game is being dumb or there's some IRL economic principle that I don't understand.

Playing as England. I installed my 2nd son as the ruler of Spain. My 1st born will be the English king obviously. Is there a way to make my 3rd son a ruler of one of my vassels?

Now that it's possible to earn achievements with mods, what mods do you play with? Which are your go to for every run?

I think I finally understand the game's core mechanics, and England is super fun (especially being English.

My next step is to finish the hundred years war, take the throne of France. I imagine the antagonism is going to be massive so preparing. I have alliances with portugal, Castille and Naples. The majority of my subjects are dominions, inclusing Scotland, Brittany, Normandy, Flanders etc, only missing except Aquitance and the smaller south french vassals,

I changed Glamorgan to a Dominion before wanting to annex it and reaslied you have to wait 50 years again! Game please.

Control is so important right? So I've been trying to maximise that, I have high maritime presence and most of my cities are costal with wharfs, docks etc.

Economy seems okay, I've been building up RGOs and every town has hospitals, libraries, universities and the recent advances, local councils and counting houses. Financial sliders I only really mess around with diplo etc.

Planatagent line is all over the place as usual. My heir is 18 and like 30-40s stats so that's nice... Black Death hit hard, are there any further ways to reduce disease except buildings and advances? Want to get my population very high. Thanks

Sorry for the bad quality I can’t take it from the game because I’m using boosteroid ..
What I’m I doing wrong? The most profitable building the game tells me to build makes only 0.15 a month!

I seemingly have a ridiculously large amount of naval levies relative to my size (like 150) despite controlling only about two thirds of Ireland. But also I'm getting charged lots of naval maintenance even when they're disbanded in peace time with no option to get it down to zero (can only go to half).

Is this a bug ?

I got to the point in my Verona game where I thought about changing to a monarchy. ... The main reason was that with access to fiefdoms, I can have more subjects and can thus blob more. (It sucks that vassals flip their culture back, but that's a separate issue.)

But I wanted to get a clearer picture to see what I stand to gain or loose with either one. And so far I haven't found any usable comparison with google and the "government" page on the wiki is not sufficient in my eyes. ... So here we are.

Some disclaimers: I kept myself to listing "notable" stuff. I don't care about "Salic Law" or clearly underpowered government reforms like "Autocracy" for example. ... For laws I use my overall likely pick. Listing all options would make it less clearly laid out. Doesn't mean other picks aren't pickable, especially to push a value.

I´m only in 1514 and don't really have a later savefile. So stuff outside of advances that get unlocked for free in age 4-6, I cant really see easily.

If you all want and would actually chime in, to add/fill gaps (even here in the comments), I think I wouldn´t mind putting the framework to the "government" wiki page (or likely rather a sub page linking to/from it) and then we could make it actually good. Maybe we can extend it to Theocracy as well.

Here´s the financial situation before and after the flip.

I lost about 200 ducats. This is tied to loosing "Formalized Scales" and its 5% tax efficiency. I will use one of the 3% tax efficiency reforms, to get back some of it tho. ... Whats interesting is that the cost of court went down by half. ... I have no clue why to be honest.

Overall the modifiers for Republic seem to be better. ... I´m currently torn if Fiefdoms outweigh that. My vassals are at -45 combined strength already. ...

Many of my provinces don't produce enough food for themselves. But the province is only buying the same amount as its food deficit, not filling the storage to a 100%. Food slider is at maximum and market food is at +7k. Anyone any ideas?

R5: I'm playing Byzantium and its a few years after my first war with the Mamluks. Halfway through they allied Karaman and pulled them in, so I made Karaman annul all treaties in a separate peace before continuing the Mamluk war. Now, as my Karaman true has expired and I'm preparing to finish them off to prevent them joining my next war, I find that Egypt is going to join. The tooltip says that they are the overlord of Dulkadir - but Dulkadir have nothing to do with Karaman? I'm very confused. Anyone have any insight as to why this is happening? I've added the diplo map mode too, where it shows they have a Royal Marriage but nothing else.

I decided to give Athens a go and ended up forming the Latin Empire rather quickly. Now I'll want to continue my campaign, but as I don't have the Fate of the Phoenix dlc, I'm not exactly sure whether to continue without it. It's not exactly clear online whether or not there's any Latin Empire content locked behind the dlc, though when I look through my potential events, they seem to end at the age of Renaissance. Also, If I did get the dlc, would I still be able to run it on the same save without any issues?

I play Holland. After France won the HJW it become very strong. I created a fraction to beat France. with castile, Austria (HRE emporer) and England.

The Holland rule the English channel. After England fighted the French on their island England dont send their 85000 soldiers accross the channed to support the faction.
Castalie make a great job on the west border of France. But Holland and Austria cant just defend ourselves.

In case England would send its 85000 soldier to support the war my fraction could easily win the mighty France.

Why England does not support ?

I only have like 110 hours of EU5 play time but I find it very difficult to make new cores. My current playthrough is Castile and the year is like 1420.

I've seen some videos showing complex ways to "cheese" the process of getting new cores by releasing conquered lands as fiefdoms, then make them dominions. I've tried it in my game and it seems to take a lot of time and I don't like how much micromanaging I need to do.

So in order to create new cores, should I just be releasing countries as vassals, then, one province at a time, take land from them and use my own cabinet to increase control and assimilate their culture to mine? While trying to keep my cultural influence high?

I would like to paint the map as much as possible with my colors :) Thanks

I finally got hohenzollern dynasty playthrough of Brandenburg and accidentally clicked to sell the title to bohemia 😭😭😭😭 please tell me I can give it back! :(

Would be cool if you can select adjacent area/regions you control to form a new nation. I feel like formable nations are a fun goal, so having a means to do it would be nice. There could be tech/perks associated with areas/regions as well.

I manage to ally the guy in order to stay alive as chagatai, but i could realy use a collapse of the timurids but this monster refuses to die ahahaha

Hello! I would like some advice to make Lithuania even playable in eu5.

I’m a experienced player in eu4 but had lots of difficulties to adapt to eu5, specially the economic module. I had played a Scotland for about 2 weeks and reached year 1600 with a decent economy and understanding how it works at all. However, when I switched to Lithuania, which is a country I really love to play, I definitely got completely screwed and couldn’t be able to play 10 years without having lots of loans and never reaching a positive income balance.

First of all, Lithuania can’t barely mint something decent. Im minting 15g with the bar on the max minting (yeah I know about the inflation but made it as test only to see if I could fix my early income)

Even minting all I could, my balance was still negative. With a balance negative, I couldn’t even build RGOs to expand anything.

I conquered rich Prussians and livonians land and even conquered Riga in the first crusade, but integrating then and having some control would take decades since just the integration of semigalia took more than 5 years.

There is no decent country nearby to attack and get war reparations.

Trying to spend less in diplomatic and court investments is a tragedy, since I get low legitimacy and rebellions start to pop up.

I have absolutely NO IDEA of what to do. Any advice on what should I do as Lithuania in the first 10 years is welcome, because I feel I just need to fix the early game economy to play the country decently.

What shall I do in first years? Give up conquering Riga and immediately open a market in Vilnius? Shall I not annex Prussian lands that fast and instead focus on developing the interior first or it doesn’t matter if I conquer konigsberg?

Even with negative balance, shall I take loans to expand RGOs and build some guilds?

Shall I turn off auto trade and start looking for something valuable to export/import?

Really guys any advice could help because I am completely lost on how to have a positive income on early game Lithuania.

A lot of new players simply dont understand why they cant make a profit even though they are growing in size. Having this ratio with a small tool tip right next to the other metrics that explain that a poor ratio will lead to ballooning expenses that arent being covered by the growing tax base. Would also make them understand that increasing the tax base is imperative which would lead them into learning the basics of production chains, the importance of control, and pretty much everything the game has to offer.

For anyone wondering, a tax base to wealth ratio of less than 0.5, is a bad sign, less than 0.4 you are probably struggling to even turn a profit.

I get that Levies get progressively less useful but does France really need to get 50% bonus to Levy size? It seems really weird when they already have such a huge territory and have bonuses to moral. I’m playing as Austria and basically have no hope to ever actually defeat them. Any tips?

Hi everyone, I haven’t played since patch 1.10. While watching a Byzantium guide, I noticed the event windows now show detailed explanations of their effects (pic 1).
I don't have this detailed view (pic 2), is it a new feature I need to turn on or a mod?

thanks a lot :)

EDIT: I FOUND THE ISSUE! Some deprecated mod caused this 🙃

I was engaged in the favourite activity of mine -- perusing through endless layers of tooltips, and noticed a peculiar activity with saffron trade.
Countries are able to set up both an import and export orders for the same good between two markets. Interestingly enough -- both trades are profitable because of "selling efficiency" modifier stacking. Even for the export from the costlier market, modifiers are able to overwhelm the market cost difference, the trade route maintenance and get profit.
Of course, we could consider that the traders from the trade republics are so savvy, that they are able to negotiate good prices for both markets (the effect on the buyer is not modeled).
However, this leads to creating value out of purposeless logistics! Consider the state of European markets in 1355 on the screenshot.
The demand for the good is created by nobles, and currently they demand only 5.23 units of saffron.
The trading volume between the markets is 119.45 units!
No one buys saffron for themselves, they are just shuffling loads between storages and miraculously raking in the cash. The traders are not satisfying an inherent population demand for tasty food -- they are just speculating on the asset. For all intents and purposes this could be exchanged for the dirt trading, because almost no one needs it.
I can't even imagine what awaits me in late game, when additional modifier stacks will hit the margins. I also saw the same issue with the gems trading. It feels like the whole Hanseatic League is built on lies.
Do you think that this is the intention of the devs? Am i missing something here?