EUIV - Quick Questions / Quick Answers

[Redhammer627]

After you click the province look for its name in the menu, just click there and you can change the name.

I wasn't talking about the province, I was talking about the City. The name of the city is the smaller name right below the province name. I have no problems changing my province names, however when I try to click on the name of the city there is no opportunity to type like there is when I click on the name of the province.

Can anyone help? Or, can anyone confirm that you cannot change city names? Either way, can anyone confirm something???

 

[Glen_Runciter]

We (I) really need a flame thread, cause I just cant goddamn understand how in hell does the Otomans decimate my 12+ armies in one battle with a small numerical advantage, when I have way higher morale.
Or if it's the other way around, I have a significant advantage in numbers, but a slighlty lower morale, the result is the same: every single one of my soldiers are dead.
Okay, I'm a bit behind in military technology, but this is f*cking ridiculous. sometimes I can't beat raggedy-ass peasant revolters with an advantage, but my big armies can be decimated in a single battle.
for a while the problem was my morale, I concentranted on all the different aspects of raising it to the level of the turks, but still doesn't have a single chance against them.
true, they are a lucky nation, but come on

 

[brifbates]

I have a mission "fortify delaware", it's a lone colony, only just come fullsize, so actually not a colony I guess, but the mission reward is 0 manpower. Is that meant to be? Or is there some doings afoot?

The gain is a % of the current manpower for that mission. Since it is an overseas colony the manpower is probably so low the % rounds to 0.

what influences diplomatic relations? (in diplomatic power tooltip)
there is a limit of 4 and if you go above you get a hit in DP.

and how do you increase the limit?
cheers

Some ideas give a "Diplomatic Relations + x" modifier. There's one in the expansion tree and I know at least a couple nations have it in their national ideas. There may well be more in other trees or in technologies.

Is there a difference between integrating a union member vs. inheriting them? For example, would I still get cores on their provinces?

Assuming the same mechanics as EU 3, inheriting gives you cores on provinces in your culture group or if both nations involved are HRE members and the province in question is an HRE province (might require original owner to have a core, I don't play in HRE much). Otherwise the only benefit to inheriting vs integrating was not taking the infamy hit. Since infamy was replaced with some other modifiers to diplomacy there may or may not be an effect. I haven't had any PUs yet to do any testing.

To the Scotland /Burgundy guy: the longer you hold provinces during a war the lower their peace cost becomes. This affects the cost of vassalization or annexation as well so you might be able to beat Burgundy up enough to get the vassalization depending on how much over 100% the war score cost starts at. Make sure you occupy all of Scotland's territory to maximize the effect.

 

[Glen_Runciter]

Only one I can help with, at least if you use Win 7 et al. For me it is Documents\My Documents\Paradox Interactive\Europa Universalis IV\Screenshots

The directory is only created when you take one. If you have another OS it should be in the same set of folders as your saved games.

thanks, problem was I was smashing print screen for some reason, of course it didn't do anything (except a slight stutter in the game) lulz. I was tired.

 

[semaphore]

We (I) really need a flame thread, cause I just cant goddamn understand how in hell does the Otomans decimate my 12+ armies in one battle with a small numerical advantage, when I have way higher morale.
Or if it's the other way around, I have a significant advantage in numbers, but a slighlty lower morale, the result is the same: every single one of my soldiers are dead.
Okay, I'm a bit behind in military technology, but this is f*cking ridiculous. sometimes I can't beat raggedy-ass peasant revolters with an advantage, but my big armies can be decimated in a single battle.
for a while the problem was my morale, I concentranted on all the different aspects of raising it to the level of the turks, but still doesn't have a single chance against them.
true, they are a lucky nation, but come on

Maybe a good start would have been trying to understand why your armies are so damn weak then? Instead of just complaining?

In all likelihood, you are 1) very behind on tech, 2) has no/terrible generals, and 3) doesn't actually have higher morale.

EDIT: 4) and/or attacked in bad terrain, or 5) has horrible army composition.

 

[brifbates]

We (I) really need a flame thread, cause I just cant goddamn understand how in hell does the Otomans decimate my 12+ armies in one battle with a small numerical advantage, when I have way higher morale.
Or if it's the other way around, I have a significant advantage in numbers, but a slighlty lower morale, the result is the same: every single one of my soldiers are dead.
Okay, I'm a bit behind in military technology, but this is f*cking ridiculous. sometimes I can't beat raggedy-ass peasant revolters with an advantage, but my big armies can be decimated in a single battle.
for a while the problem was my morale, I concentranted on all the different aspects of raising it to the level of the turks, but still doesn't have a single chance against them.
true, they are a lucky nation, but come on

Depending on who you are playing and how early in the game it is, the Ottoman units are, man for man, vastly superior to the units other nations have at similar tech levels. Terrain and such also are pretty significant effects earlier in the game.

 

[sterrius]

1. Is there any benefit to moving trade forward if you have a colony in the trade zone? My experiments so far seem to indicate that if you have the option to collect trade you should always do so, though I feel as a modeled system it would make more sense if there were income gains from sending goods far overseas, and from sending goods to major population centers rather than minor colonies.

2. If you are trying to move trade from India to Europe, do you have to have merchants in every trade node along the way. Before I switched to collecting trade everywhere instead of pushing it forward, all my pushed forward trade seemed to get lost in Yemen or the Ivory coast somewhere.

in the EU4 FAQ section of this forum someone posted a very good tutorial about the trade system.

in short, you need to use the ships to counter balance countrys that control trade zones along the way. Making sure you control everytrade zone until it reaches the zone where your capital belongs.

if the colony don´t send resources to your capital (lets say you are Scotland and have a south of brazil province) you need to collect on the spot and use the ships to make sure everything stays in the tradezone.

 

[Glen_Runciter]

Maybe a good start would have been trying to understand why your armies are so damn weak then? Instead of just complaining?

In all likelihood, you are 1) very behind on tech, 2) has no/terrible generals, and 3) doesn't actually have higher morale.

yes, I am an idiot, the concept of generals have completely escaped me until you have enlightened me, thank you.

"Maybe a good start would have been trying to understand why your armies are so damn weak then?"
that was my question. I'm not that far behind on tech that it would justify a complete annihilation of a quite large army

 

[Glen_Runciter]

Depending on who you are playing and how early in the game it is, the Ottoman units are, man for man, vastly superior to the units other nations have at similar tech levels. Terrain and such also are pretty significant effects earlier in the game.

well, I have been defending most of the time when I've lost all these battles, always chose defensive terrain, so it's not that.
okay, the Ottomans were serious mofos, but still, they seem to be overpowered. or something.
[flame off]

 

[semaphore]

yes, I am an idiot, the concept of generals have completely escaped me until you have enlightened me, thank you.

You're welcome.

"Maybe a good start would have been trying to understand why your armies are so damn weak then?"
that was my question. I'm not that far behind on tech that it would justify a complete annihilation of a quite large army

You didn't provide any information for us to answer you. And I gave you a bunch of possible reasons. How do you know you're not that far behind anuyway?

And my edits above: 4) and/or attacked in bad terrain, or 5) has horrible army composition., plus one more 6) your national ideas sucked for fighting

Try answering the 5 possibilities and we'll see what else might be the problem.

 

[Redhammer627]

We (I) really need a flame thread, cause I just cant goddamn understand how in hell does the Otomans decimate my 12+ armies in one battle with a small numerical advantage, when I have way higher morale.
Or if it's the other way around, I have a significant advantage in numbers, but a slighlty lower morale, the result is the same: every single one of my soldiers are dead.
Okay, I'm a bit behind in military technology, but this is f*cking ridiculous. sometimes I can't beat raggedy-ass peasant revolters with an advantage, but my big armies can be decimated in a single battle.
for a while the problem was my morale, I concentranted on all the different aspects of raising it to the level of the turks, but still doesn't have a single chance against them.
true, they are a lucky nation, but come on

This is because, early in the game, Ottoman units are far superior to Eastern European units and even Western European ones. Also, check the terrain, leaders, and other modifiers. Your best bet at beating the Ottomans is to get enough allies to soak up the initial beating so you can come in afterwards and finish off the weakened stacks. This of course depends on who you are playing as and where/when you are fighting the Ottomans.

 

[laijka]

So a quick question.

What is the downside of going above your Force Limits? I know there must be some but I can't seem to find it written anywhere. Most likely I'm missing the obvious.

Also, how to increase the Force Limits? Or is it only through ideas and events?

 

[Sandmann]

Question: My legitimacy is terribly low (22) due to a low legitimacy heir. Improving legitimacy seems terribly slow now, some single % a year. Is there any way except RM and prestige to improve it?

 

[xseno]

I have a similar problem as the Scotland /Burgundy guy. When I started the subjugation war the warscore to vassalize Scotland was 55% but as soon as Burgundy entered the war and took the lead the required score jumped to 110%. So from the numbers it seams that I lost the 50% discount from CB. Is still normal or a bug?

 

[Lessing]

Question: My legitimacy is terribly low (22) due to a low legitimacy heir. Improving legitimacy seems terribly slow now, some single % a year. Is there any way except RM and prestige to improve it?

More royal marriages. Maybe there's an advisor for it.

 

[Illanair]

Where is the option to join the HRE hidden at? My capital is in HRE territory and I'm small enough to join them. :wacko:

 

[DirtyRoberto]

How can I raise my trade efficiency?

 

[unmerged(486652)]

Question:

At what point does a winning AI usually agree to a peace offer?
I'm losing horribly but no matter what (including, of course, the war goal) I offer them the positive modifiers never exceed the negative ones. HELP!

 

[Seelensturm]

Do I have to break royal marriages always manually? In EU3 they ended with the death of the ruler who proposed it. In my current ituation both rulers died since the marriage was created half a century ago and it is still ongoing.

 

[El Greco]

How can I raise my trade efficiency?

Invest in diplo tech, hire advisors, choose ideas.