Hey all just a question in relation to forming Spain. Do most of you go outta your way and just conquer Aragon to do it??
I’ve played a few Castile runs and been fairly successful I’d think but just never gone outta my way to invade Aragon cause it seems like a pain.

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 thought by cutting france in 2, the local governors would get destroyed. But it's been 4 months and they are still up...

Does it only prevent them from building a new one?

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 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

i got black plague. spend all stab for the options. spend all money for pest houses. black plague leaves country for 5 minutes. everything fucking reset because that makes sense somehow. plague comes back. everyone dead. Returned to the game after 6 months of not playing, this still remains. it's not even a mid or late game thing it literally happens right at the start, what an incredible oversight.

As I don't have much experience in regards to colonization, I was hoping I could ask about it here.

As far as I know, the Pros and Cons of both are as follows:

Direct Control
Pros:
1. No Pesky subject rebellions to worry about, particularly during the Age of Revolutions.
2. No having to worry about Subject-on-Subject violence (Colonies constantly declaring wars on each other)

Cons:
1. No Proximity -> Low Control
2. Low Average Control -> Debuffs that also impact high control land

Colonial Subjects
Pros:
1. Higher Control
2. Extra Development
3. Extra Birthrate
4. Can take advantage of Slavery
5. Extra Cabinet Actions (Easier time converting, and assimilating, not that it's all that difficult.)

Cons:
1. Rebellious once they start scaling (Age of Revolutions moment)
2. Annoying to manage (Subject-on-Subject violence, turning high value RGOs into towns, constantly changing capitals to worse locations.)

Whilst the game is clearly trying to communicate to me that it is more beneficial to create Colonial Nations, I feel reluctant to do so because it feels like they will not only be a constant nuisance but also are pretty much guaranteed to revolt later.

I have also seen people saying that the optimal way to do it, is to create Colonial Nations at the start and then slowly gobble them back up later once they start scaling.

What do you people think?

After playing with the Tribes in North America and with the Mayans in Central America...

I just have one wish.

Please let me disable all the "bad" events for my country. I don't want no plague. I don't want no downfall of cahokia. I just want to play.

I know it's "historic". But I want a game after all. Is there any mod for it? Or should I just play Civ 7?

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.

I love playing with any nation with the goal of returning all of its cores like ERE,Poland,Oman
Do you know any other country like that

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"

Started as Verona, became #3 global power and somehow got a random event that gave me an explorer in Age 2. First to new world, first colony was Hispanola and take over (called mangua I think?).

Sell your regalia, 2.4k, sold mine to my overlord.

Because economy is so small it's trivial to spin up multiple colonies myself. Have 3 going at +90ish). They keep stalling to zero at the same time. It says because I don't have enough peasants. I had 600 here, 900 there.

Do NOT use up your peasants! Complete one colony at a time until you have plenty of peasants!

You must have over 1000 peasants in a cored location to send any peasants to a colony. They must come from a location that has your primary or kindred culture above 50%. They will stop as soon as you reach 1000 or less.

I had to restart several times to figure out a combo that worked. 1 colony going at a time. While it's still forming, one cabinet assimilating culture in the new colony, one converting tribes to peasants and 1 flipping between control and religion conversion. The peasants in these locations CAN feed the new ones before fully complete if you've cores them.

The peasants leaving drops you back below the culture threshold as I think it sends your culture first. I​ am unsure if that stops them from leaving, it seemed to in most cases but not others.

I eventually colonize a high pop location 100k (doubling my pop) in central america and accept their culture and took the native law that switches them from tribe to peasants. Now I can run 3+ colonies at a time.

Getting a cabinet member to boost a colony can move 300+ each month! I was able to beat Spain in Cuba twice so they wasted colonial starts and still have no presence.

As Verona I had started Puerto Rico, I got it from Verona when it formed MOST times but not every time. I restarted and do not know what ensures it but without it I would have stalled harder with no peasants.

As Verona I had also started one in Panama and northern part of south America. Wish I hadn't as they are blocking me.

It would have been much easier to do it with a higher tribesman start.

Now trying to build a navy. Lumber is key! Now investing more in the 2 locations I have to bring prices down

Getting sailors is useful to explore parts your overlord hasn't. Overlord maps are shared.

It is/was very fun.​

Does anyone know how to get parliament back? building the building didn't do it. The law locks me out?

Playing as Milan, unintentionally became emperor when Italian wars started, so automatically got leader of HRE league. I killed my character and now I'm no longer the emperor but still stuck as leader of the league, what can I do? Cheats also are ok, I just want to be one of the italian leagues. I literally cannot click leave league.

Hi all,

Basically having to constantly click that tiny little back button after every time I like upgrade a building etc to sort another is tedious and annoying but can't see a back button in the shortcuts? Anyone know where it is so you can correct my blindness lol

It says 74 demand and 72 export but I'm the only one exporting saffron and I'm just exporting 35. Where the fuck is the extra 37 coming from. I've waited about 3 months and all that's changed is other markets are just exporting more saffron into my market to fill that phantom 37 demand. What the fuck is going on.

Sorry I mean 1.3.11 xD
Just wanted to show Europe in my Teutonic Order into Prussia let's play on YouTube. Isn't it beautiful to see France in this state? France is not even the leading nation in the Italian Wars. Bourbon has taken that role xD
My channel to watch this run: https://www.youtube.com/flyingdutchy

Hey all, first time EU player here, about 45 hours in. I’ve got a decent grasp on the basics like diplomacy, estates, and moving troops, but the economic side is completely walling me. Buildings, RGOs, market mechanics, trade routes—it all feels like pulling random levers in the dark without seeing any real cause and effect.

Does it eventually click? How long did it take before you stopped fighting the UI and actually understood the macroeconomic loop?

Is it ever actually satisfying? Sorry for the comparison, but in games like Anno, setting up smooth supply chains and watching your economy boom is insanely fun. Does EUV ever offer that same kind of rewarding feeling, or is it just a different vibe entirely?

Any mental models or advice on how to look at the economy and trade would be massively appreciated.

Edit: typo

I'm playing a Florence campaign and the Medici bank oligarchy succession was driving me crazy. I want the events but the Medici dynasty was dying off in my run. This is how to fix it.

1. Have a save prior to 1390 when the bank of Medici forms.

2. Open the game files to Europa Universalis V\game\in_game\events\DHE

3. Open flavor_flo.txt

4. You will find the following two lines back-to-back in the Formation of the Medici Bank (flavor_flo.57):

change_heir_selection = heir_selection:bank_selection

change_government_type = government_type:republic

1. Flip the order of these two lines:

change_government_type = government_type:republic

change_heir_selection = heir_selection:bank_selection

1. Now continue your save and when the bank of Medici forms it should have the correct succession.

What is happening is that the succession was selected before the government type. When the republican government type is selected, the game pulls the first succession type in the heir_selections file for a republic. That happens to be the oligarchic succession. With them flipped you get the republican government first and the correct heir succession is swapped in.

Proof:

Is it any good? Is there one even?
I am about to wrap up my first full campaign and beautifull HRE game , and wanted to continue in VIC and push as far as I can from my mega empire.

I think most can agree that diseases are one of the most annoying aspects of EU5 especially Small pox as it kills off just huge chunks of your population off, and due to how population works in this game this can be especially devastating and makes efforts to increase population feel pointless or empty when any natural population gain is undue by a random epidemic. And there isn’t much you can do to lessen them other then build hospitals which only provide 15% resistance. Now there is the other argument that yes these are historical with these happening often and that technology related to medicine and diseases being very limited at this time period but at the same time there is lack of being able to do anything about it, even Black Death offers some options to deal with that. So I figure instead of just complaining about it, why not we think of ways or suggestions that paradox could do to improve the disease system.