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I'm having real trouble understanding Trade. What does "upstream" and "downstream" mean? I've scoured the internet and maybe I'm just a fool, but I have no clue what this means.

Think it as a river. Water flows from up towards down. Upstream are the previous nodes, downstream are the next ones.
 
When should an eastern tech country with Trøndelag as its westernmost core be able to colonize North America?
 
It just occurred to me... what does the converter do with games running Sunset Invasion w.r.t. the American continent?
 
I'm wondering what the bright highlights are around some units or forms of government on the tech screen? For example, on military I sometimes, but not always, seem to have a highlighted infantry or cavalry icon, but not the cannon.
 
Playing Denmark iron man and have fabricated a claim on Lubeck, part of HRE. Don't dare to attack as this happened previous game:

Last game I attacked Lubeck and the HRE emperor, Austria, joined the war on Lubeck's side against me.
Fair enough, he's the emperor and all.
After 11 years of war I was winning and had conquered Lubeck.
However, I was unable to annex Lubeck as there was -1000 (!!!) penalty unless I conquered Austria capital as well.
That pretty much makes the HRE invincible.
Working as intended ? Will Austria always intervene or just sometimes ?

Bonus question : Austra and Poland are allied. Is there a way to dissolve their alliance somehow ? Can't take on Poland if the HRE will join in the fun.
 
Why or how do i loose diplomatic power from diplomatic relations, and how can i fix it?


If you go to the ledger you can see your relations. EVERYTHING costs a relationship, military access, guarantees, royal marriages, etc... Royal Marriage and Alliance with the same country count as a total of one relationship though.
 
1) where is the default screenshot folder?

2) I've got a message, something about because of my marriage with Brandenburg, I've got an heir with a strong claim in their country. what does that mean? are there more than one heirs in any given time, and if "my one" inherits the throne, are we gonna form a PU, or wut?

3) if I convert to protestantism, do I lose all my royal marriages? that wouldn't be so bad, cause I didn't realize there is a limit now, so I have more than I should have, but that means I'm gonna lose the chance for the inheritance mentioned in #2, right?
 
I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature I haven't understood yet, so I'll ask here before I submit a report (Vanilla game with a norse empire imported from CKII via the official importer). I'm current having a few colonies that can't seem to decide if they're colonies. Observe Manjeteen here:
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Notice how I says the produced type is "unknown", how I cannot move my capital there, cannot send a missionary to it, and note that whenever I move troops into it, natives attack me. This has been the case since the game started. Contrast with Gold Coast, which I've colonised ingame and now behaves like an entirely normal province.
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These "fake" colonies have tooltips claiming I can send a colonist there to grow and convert them, but there's no button to do so.
 
At the end of my (Austria) war against Venice, I had an army actually in Venice at the end of the war, which apparently is now "in exile" and on it's way to somewhere friendlier (meaning I can't issue them any orders). Any idea how long this is supposed to take? They've been stuck in Venice for well over a year now which, given that my border is at most a couple of weeks march away, seems utterly ludicrous.


EDIT: Nevermind, apparently I can now move them. They're still in exile, but suddenly I'm allowed to order them about :wacko:
 
Playing as Portugal, colonized most of South America, and have the chance to probably conquer all of it soon enough - would it be worth it to move my capital to that continent?
 
I'm wondering what the bright highlights are around some units or forms of government on the tech screen? For example, on military I sometimes, but not always, seem to have a highlighted infantry or cavalry icon, but not the cannon.

It means that when you upgrade that tech next you will get a new version of that unit!
 
Playing as Portugal, colonized most of South America, and have the chance to probably conquer all of it soon enough - would it be worth it to move my capital to that continent?

Possibly, not sure if your sum of base taxes would be greater than from the Iberian peninsula. Might have to crunch some numbers and see. Also it would probably depend on your diplomacy tech and ideas, if they give good tariff $'s.
 
It means that when you upgrade that tech next you will get a new version of that unit!
Nice - thanks for that.
A follow-up question. Once I have the upgrade and select the new unit as my default - is there a way to upgrade existing troops or only newly raised troops will be of the new type
 
At the end of my (Austria) war against Venice, I had an army actually in Venice at the end of the war, which apparently is now "in exile" and on it's way to somewhere friendlier (meaning I can't issue them any orders). Any idea how long this is supposed to take? They've been stuck in Venice for well over a year now which, given that my border is at most a couple of weeks march away, seems utterly ludicrous.


EDIT: Nevermind, apparently I can now move them. They're still in exile, but suddenly I'm allowed to order them about :wacko:

Armies with low morale can't move. If there's a little lock icon it means they can't move. That stumped me for a while, too.