Another bleeping newbie question

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As the tutorial keeps crashing (anyone else have that problem?) and the manual is extensive and yet curiously uninformative I have a few questions:

1) Is there a way to look up where a country is? I was at war for several years with The knights without knowing where the h**l they were. Zooming out and wander with the mouse is only so effective when you have a houndred ennsy weensy kingdoms

2) Is there a way to give away provinses for instance as token of appresiation to a loyal ally (or pawn off a troublesome province to a not-so-loyal one)

3) How do you join two armies? I can split them up no problem but I'll be damned if I can get them together.

4) Is there a way to call upon your allies to help you once you've rejected their help? Or call upon just some of them?

5) Is there a way to break a monopoly once it's been established, apart from invading the province and initiate a trade embargo

 

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6) And where's my snazzy avatar... I never got to choose an avatar... I want an avatar...

 

[viper37]

Originally posted by Nordic Wolf
As the tutorial keeps crashing (anyone else have that problem?) and the manual is extensive and yet curiously uninformative I have a few questions:

1) Is there a way to look up where a country is? I was at war for several years with The knights without knowing where the h**l they were. Zooming out and wander with the mouse is only so effective when you have a houndred ennsy weensy kingdoms

2) Is there a way to give away provinses for instance as token of appresiation to a loyal ally (or pawn off a troublesome province to a not-so-loyal one)

3) How do you join two armies? I can split them up no problem but I'll be damned if I can get them together.

4) Is there a way to call upon your allies to help you once you've rejected their help? Or call upon just some of them?

5) Is there a way to break a monopoly once it's been established, apart from invading the province and initiate a trade embargo

1) No. You'll need to use the political map
2) No
3) Use the reorganize button or select both armies and click "join"
4) No
5) Send merchants until you kick out enough merchants for them to lose the monopoly. A monopoly is consisted of 5 merchants (or 6, I can't remember). If the country drops below that, it loses the monopoly
6) You seem to have found that one

 

[AndrewT]

Originally posted by Nordic Wolf
As the tutorial keeps crashing (anyone else have that problem?) and the manual is extensive and yet curiously uninformative I have a few questions:

1) Is there a way to look up where a country is? I was at war for several years with The knights without knowing where the h**l they were. Zooming out and wander with the mouse is only so effective when you have a houndred ennsy weensy kingdoms

Did you apply the 1.09 patch? That should fix the tutorial. However even better is to ignore it and jump in the deep end.

1/ You can search for a Province by hitting the ? key, but not a country. You learn where they are pretty quickly, there aren't that many in EU 1. If it doubt, it is probably in Germany or around the Black and Caspian seas.

 

[Jos Theelen]

Originally posted by Nordic Wolf
2) Is there a way to give away provinses for instance as token of appresiation to a loyal ally (or pawn off a troublesome province to a not-so-loyal one)

Suppose you are the leader of the alliance in war, and one of your allies hase conquered a province from your enemy. When you offer peace to that enemy asking tribute, you see the list of provinces you and your allies have conquered. Then you can ask the enemy to give that province to your ally. It is a big boost for your relations with that ally.
Doing such in peacetime or when the ally hasn't conquered something is impossible.

 

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Re: Re: Another bleeping newbie question

Originally posted by AndrewT


Did you apply the 1.09 patch? That should fix the tutorial. However even better is to ignore it and jump in the deep end.

1/ You can search for a Province by hitting the ? key, but not a country. You learn where they are pretty quickly, there aren't that many in EU 1. If it doubt, it is probably in Germany or around the Black and Caspian seas.

Yes, yes, the tutorial is only good for learning how to move. Move on from that as quickly as possible!

As for the second part, I didn't know that you could do that! My gawd, if you only knew how many times I've wished for that & finding out that it's been there all along... Well! I'll have to try that when I get home tonight.

John J

 

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Re: Re: Another bleeping newbie question

Originally posted by viper37


5) Send merchants until you kick out enough merchants for them to lose the monopoly. A monopoly is consisted of 5 merchants (or 6, I can't remember). If the country drops below that, it loses the monopoly

Thanks for the answers (even though most of them weren't what I wanted to hear )

As for the monopoly one the manual states
"...a country with trade level 6 may accept that other countries trade at the center but do not send more merchants"

Does that mean that you can't send more merchants after you've reaced level 6? I thought the manual stated that you could send more merchants to kill off the competition to get more shares even after you reach level 6. (I can't find it in the manual anyymore so maybe I was dreaming)

And while I have your attention:

8) How do you find out where the borders for the different regions are? As in you get a mission stating "No England in western Europe" and such...

 

[BiB]

U can send till u reach 20 (if past trade level 3) Howeverif no one else is at the COT 6 will get u a share of 20. And so on ...

Read Huszics's FAQ

Turn Missions off

 

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Re: Re: Re: Another bleeping newbie question

Originally posted by Nordic Wolf

8) How do you find out where the borders for the different regions are? As in you get a mission stating "No England in western Europe" and such...

Apart from the obvious ones (British Isles, Caribbean) it's either trial and error, or trawling through province.csv in Wordpad, doing a search for the phrase "western Europe" and noting down every province that is listed in that region. Thankfully, someone already did this and posted the results in Huszics' FAQ (or was it the other one).