Age of Absolutism just started, its 1610. Max abs is 100. Ideas : Admin, Diplo, Humanist, Influence.

I googled it but AI cannot help bc of game versions etc. My country is too stable for instant raise of abs, no rebels at all. Only thing I can do is get RM with random country (lower my legitimacy) and then use 90 mil points for 2 absolutism points when click on strengthen government.

I dont have rebels to harsh treatment or areas to state and lower autonomy bc i have trade companies all over Persia, India, China, etc. no areas to state without trade centers in order to lower autonomy. And many of areas are taken long time ago and even if i state them autonomy is not high.

Can someone please give some ideas?

Is there any mod out there that makes the game equal for all tags? I can't find any in workshop myself.

After many restarts, I managed to get a seemingly successful campaign with Byzantium. Main goal is the basileus and restore the Pentarchy achievements, and potentially mare nostrum but I doubt to be able to make it at this point.

I have two main problems:
1) I did not revoke the Union of Churches modifier as I wanted to kill the Ottomans quickly with my catholic allies. This gives me recurrently massive armies of rebels (two 30k simultaneously even). Them winning (or me accepting the request because I was busy managing a war somewhere else) granted clergy huge majority of land and now the disaster “Dominance by the Clergy” is being triggered (together with Civil War, to spice things up)
2) every single war I go to I end up with massive casualties, a minimum surviving army (oftentimes below 10k) and no manpower, which compounded to the issue of rebels spawning constantly is making the game hard to enjoy.

Apart from this, I am fairly rich (I get a lot of money from collecting trade in Venice) and have strong allies (Poland/Lithuania and Austria Hungary). I struggle to seduce France and England into hating on Spain (my rival, together with Mamluks and Milan). If I manage to fix the army/rebel problem, I wanted to conquest Italy and the Levant.
I have vassals Georgia, Bulgaria and the little red thing in western Anatolia.

Do you think it can be fixed?

People were asked to draw the world by memory, the results were combined.

I'm in the middle of my WC attempt (I usually drop all runs around 1550-1600).

I have stacked -22,5% construction cost and on top of my previous manufactories debt, I took even more loans.

In five years I will have an economic spike, but right now I am undergoing 220 monthly interest LMAO.

My biggest mistake was wasting too much time on siberian sh1th0les instead of rushing India and China (it's 1570s and I am just beginning to consolidate them).

Do you think the economy can git gud without bankruptcy or is it needed?

Are there any ways I can keep expanding without going over my GC? Or is there a way to increase my GC? I don't have any States, so I can't take those GC-related privileges. And I don't want to use Reform Progress either.

By my simple calculations, I still have around 100 years before I can become a horde. Does anyone who's used to playing as the Emperor of China know if taking the Mandate from Ming would give me any benefits in this regard? Is there any reform or degree that increases my GC?

I know I will get nearly -1000 dislikes with this comment. I remember a time when only experienced players would comment a toppic. This does not hapen anymore...

Noobs please don't give any advice. Freshmen neither. Experienced:check your level

Edit: I am not whinnig. I express reality. Experts will not comment anything

I've recently been playing a lot outside of Europe, and was curious to hear what your guys' favourite nation outside of Europe is.

R5: As the title states, Philippine Tiger achievement in 1666. Thought I'd take a lot longer considering the lack of claims and the fact that breaking into India isn't always easy because of the alliance networks but all in all had very little problems on that final end. Biggest bottlenecks were early game claims, beating a very big Ayutthaya who had expanded a fair bit south, even taking a big chunk of Malaya while allied to me and Cambodia. Using allies as a tool and then ditching them when they became the next target worked very well, as did using vassals in the early game to keep the expansion speed up (had Tidore, Paggaruyung, Bali (well fed) and a few others along the way.

Opened with exploration and expansion with the aim of keeping the Europeans out. Would have succeeded too if Tidore hadn't gone colonizing Micronesia instead of New Guinea but in the end, Spain and Portugal only nabbed one or two provinces each so they never bothered me. Followed up with Offensive, Quality and Humanist and once colonizing was done I dropped first Exploration for Diplomatic and then Expansion for Administrative. Speaking of admin, it was the only mana I really struggled with early game, probably because of the lack of claims. Having to dev three institutions also didn't help. I'd hoped that getting a colonial nation in Australia would help me get colonialism the easy way but apparently, it doesn't count as New World. Lesson learned!

All in all,

Unfortunately I inherited burgundy right right before this so I'm way over force-limit, but my hope is to consolidate troops to prevent losing too much manpower in the initial phase. I already took burgher loans, so only 4% interest loans left. I'm thinking of taking as many as I need, then letting muscovy and austria pay them off.

Do you guys have any tips, I really don't want to mess this run up

Edit: THE FUCKING DUTCH REVOLT HAPPENED. Now I'm at war with the french, english and ottomans

EDIT 2

I WON THE WAR, HELL YES. Best of all, austria integrated hungry so now I got a massive austria

Released myself from Aragon and got the support from Castile and France to beat them up. Took the baleric islands in the peace and then used them to cripple Aragon and help me take Sicily in further wars.

From there I mostly played tall until I became more powerful, eventually I took land from Tunis and my expansion just spread from there taking more of north Africa from Portugal who lost their alliance with Spain now and even took a nifty overseas empire. Took the Caribbeans and Louisiana alongside the Jolof and South Africa. Used the imperialism CB to take the kongo. Ended up being quite the world power.

Also spain got a personal union with france so that intresting, the Protestants also won the league war even though I tried to help the Catholics because the commonwealth supported them even though they are catholic themselves.

Overall a very fun campaign, lots of expansion routes with Sardinia, would recommend any of the islands in the western Mediterranean as a campaign

Economy Reimagined is a very comprehensive mod that changes various aspects of economy in game.

I played in English channel one of the richest regions of the game yet I could barely stay afloat because state maintenance was simply too high.

Can anyone who played with this mod give some advice?

I am working on a true one tag but I can't get the capital switch to work. I was following this video and simply put it won't allow me to move my capital. In total I own the Falkland Islands, Bermuda, Galapagos, Piwra, and Piscataway (i.e. Washington DC). Nothing else. I have even tried to destate my entire nation and it still doesn't work.

What do?

edit: apparently the Falklands Islands had 34 development and it blocked the move. I returned the Falklands and was able to move the capital.

I'm Aragon in 1509. I just changed primary culture and inherited Burgundy. Other than Milan, Venice, Genoa, and the Pope, I rule Italy with subjects. I'm halfway to ruling Occitan. I rule the Barbary coast from Algiers to Tunis.

I have Bohemia, Castile, Naples, Byz, and Portugal as subjects.

My question is do I change to SP soon, or focus on getting Aragon missions? Namely Occupy Alexandria, Rule Italy, and Golden Century. It sounds like it will take 50+ years to complete the missions unless I let the Otto's grow while I take down the Mamluks.

Currently waiting out a large coalition from taking Bohemia from France.

I'm trying to figure out how the hell this modifier is calculated, and what things are most important for keeping vassal "relative army power" in check. I like to play as a tall(ish) core with many big subjects, and this is one of the scaling modifiers that can be a limiting factor in how powerful of subjects you can play with. The wiki was "last verified for version 1.25" and only cites "relative army size", but experiments in the current game version are revealing that many other factors are now at play.

Here are some things I've noticed, using the console and various idea groups:

• standing army size matters, and so does force limit (quite a bit)
• maximum manpower matters, but current manpower does not
• army quality does matter, including morale, discipline, and combat ability
• army tradition and army professionalism matter -- presumably only indirectly because they give buffs to other stats
  • army tradition gives a huge +25% morale, while army professionalism gives a modest +10% land fire/shock damage
• assigned generals and +general pips from offensive ideas do not matter

and now the weird shit...

• combat ability only matters if you have standing units of that type
• your unit selection matters, presumably based on unit pips
  • for example, the overlord switching from condotta infantry to landsknecht infantry (both mil tech 9 units) can cause a tiny change in relative army power
• how your units are distributed matters
  • having a single 15/5/0 stack is better than a 15/0/0 stack and a 0/5/0 stack
  • what
  • this seems to be caused by exceeding the cavalry to infantry ratio and therefore inflicting the "insufficient support" penalty on that stack (various combinations of only infantry+artillery do not cause fluctuations)

Standing army seems to be the biggest factor (unsurprisingly), followed by force limit, army quality, and max manpower. The game does seem to be somehow assessing the strength of your boots-on-the-ground stacks, taking quality buffs into account.

In my test case with a 300-dev overlord and 300-dev vassal with near-identical armies, the relative army power was typically between 64-69% ≈ 48-52% LD (LD is exactly 75% of RAP). Weirdly, the LD reduction itself seems to be the more accurate stat in terms of actual relative strength.

If anyone else wants to do some testing and maybe even figure out the formula, or if someone has already done it and I'm unwittingly wasting my time, please let me know! I only tested at tech levels 6 and 10, by applying one modifier at a time, so I'd be very curious to know if things shake out differently at higher tech levels or by stacking modifiers -- e.g. is a gigachad prussia with quality ideas and powerful mil policies, but a a modest force limit taken as seriously as they should be?

I suspect that this same calculation may also be used for other "relative army power" checks, such as when offering an alliance, so it would be a neat thing to figure out and add to the wiki.

tl;dr: standing army > force limit > army quality > max manpower

tl;dr: quantity > offensive > defensive ≈ quality > aristocratic (for reducing vassal "relative army power")

Hello

I have some possibly silly questions on the Zoroastrian missions.

1. Enlightened Rule: Does this mean I need 100 absolutism OR +12 for mana OR all Gov reforms?
2. Cultured Court: How do i get a Persian ruler? Rebels?
3. Map pic for anyone interested