Since many have the same questions - here is a list of the most common questions I see repeated on problems with 1.15.
1. Blockings straits don't work.
If a nation controls both sides of a strait it can always cross. To block, your side (or a neutral part) need to control at least one side of the strait.
2. AI nations go bankrupt or are hevy in debt.
The merc pool are too large so enemy nations can spam mercs to try and win the war - often way over force limit - and will then bankrupt themselves or take ages to pay back loans so they can join wars.
3. Whats with the suicide 1 stacks ?
AI nations have not learned that being at least 2 provinces from an enemy army that can insta-kill your stack is a good idea. So yes they suicide to send reinforcement. If the AI is smarter it would have grouped and sent larger forces move towards the army it is reinforcing. Now a player can just kill those 1 stack armies to gain easy warscore and bancrupt the AI nation.
3. How do I play as nation XYZ ?
Check the wiki for instructions: http://www.eu4wiki.com/Countries
It's a community wiki so you are encouraged to improve it if you find something missing.
4. Why do I not get achivement XYZ ?
Click the trophy in the upper right corner and take up the achivement brower. It usually shows whats missing to get it and if you can get the achivement at all. Several achivements can't be done if playing in the wrong starting date, as a custom nation or as a formed nation.
5. How do I fix liberty desire ?
Enemies can support liberty desire if its abow 50% so keep it lower to stop that. Liberty desire is dependent on relations, relative strength and diplo rep. So improving relations to max, conquering provinces and increasing diplo rep (take ideas like diplomacy and influence, do missions and hire advisor) helps to lower liberty desire. Another option is to go to war with nations that support liberty. Sadly you do not get a CB against a nation supporting liberty desire.
6. How do I get iberian wedding to fire ?
Have a female and a male on the thrones of Castile and Aragon. Then its just a matter of luck. http://www.eu4wiki.com/Spanish_events#The_Iberian_Wedding
7. How do I get burguny inheritance to fire ?
Get lucky. It no sure thing and more often will not fire. Wiki: http://www.eu4wiki.com/Burgundian_events#Duke_of_Burgundy_Dies
8 AI go on suicide wars ?
AI always say yes to succession wars - even if they are suicide. Would probably be better if you only get a CB when this happens instead of an event.
AI misscalculates which nations that an AI can call in into the war and thus go on suicide wars. Often this happens if the emperor gets called in or not. Misscalculations may have somthing to do with the fact that emperor always can call allies if called in as the emperor.
9. How do I do achivement XYZ
Check the wiki: http://www.eu4wiki.com/Achievements
Even if some say they may not be up to date - most are more or less correct anyway since not much has changed for old achivements. If you see any errors - it's a wiki so you can update it.
10 Weird alliances - why is ottoman allied with france etc ?
The changes in allianses for 1.14 made nations with common rivals more likely to ally - even if they are of different religions. A France - ottoman allians is historical correct and was seen as a scandal when it happened, but was active for about 250 years.
11. ZoC of forts is broken. Look at this weird path for my army.
Yes, it works badly and armies can go some very weird paths. However Paradox has no intentions of changing it for now.
13. AI revocing march status and then making march again.
Yep, the AI is fickle and will change their mind very often. AI bug.
14. Game crashed when going back to menu ?
Since custom nations is a hack the game needs to reset its internal state when going back to the menu. The best way to do it is to restart the game. Custom nations also has some serious bugs if you make them and then remove them and then start to play a another nation without restarting the game.
15. Strange claims and cores ingame ?
If you change start date several times and mess around with custom nations the internal state of the game changes and the game needs a restart to get correct internal state again. To prevent it - restart game and don't change starting date alot before beginning to play. See answer to #14 too.
16. AI will change march to vassal and back again.
AI is fickle and will often change its mind. The border conditions for this change can make it so that it will change it too often. A fix could be that the game has a timer so you can only change this every 5th year.
1. Blockings straits don't work.
If a nation controls both sides of a strait it can always cross. To block, your side (or a neutral part) need to control at least one side of the strait.
2. AI nations go bankrupt or are hevy in debt.
The merc pool are too large so enemy nations can spam mercs to try and win the war - often way over force limit - and will then bankrupt themselves or take ages to pay back loans so they can join wars.
3. Whats with the suicide 1 stacks ?
AI nations have not learned that being at least 2 provinces from an enemy army that can insta-kill your stack is a good idea. So yes they suicide to send reinforcement. If the AI is smarter it would have grouped and sent larger forces move towards the army it is reinforcing. Now a player can just kill those 1 stack armies to gain easy warscore and bancrupt the AI nation.
3. How do I play as nation XYZ ?
Check the wiki for instructions: http://www.eu4wiki.com/Countries
It's a community wiki so you are encouraged to improve it if you find something missing.
4. Why do I not get achivement XYZ ?
Click the trophy in the upper right corner and take up the achivement brower. It usually shows whats missing to get it and if you can get the achivement at all. Several achivements can't be done if playing in the wrong starting date, as a custom nation or as a formed nation.
5. How do I fix liberty desire ?
Enemies can support liberty desire if its abow 50% so keep it lower to stop that. Liberty desire is dependent on relations, relative strength and diplo rep. So improving relations to max, conquering provinces and increasing diplo rep (take ideas like diplomacy and influence, do missions and hire advisor) helps to lower liberty desire. Another option is to go to war with nations that support liberty. Sadly you do not get a CB against a nation supporting liberty desire.
6. How do I get iberian wedding to fire ?
Have a female and a male on the thrones of Castile and Aragon. Then its just a matter of luck. http://www.eu4wiki.com/Spanish_events#The_Iberian_Wedding
7. How do I get burguny inheritance to fire ?
Get lucky. It no sure thing and more often will not fire. Wiki: http://www.eu4wiki.com/Burgundian_events#Duke_of_Burgundy_Dies
8 AI go on suicide wars ?
AI always say yes to succession wars - even if they are suicide. Would probably be better if you only get a CB when this happens instead of an event.
AI misscalculates which nations that an AI can call in into the war and thus go on suicide wars. Often this happens if the emperor gets called in or not. Misscalculations may have somthing to do with the fact that emperor always can call allies if called in as the emperor.
9. How do I do achivement XYZ
Check the wiki: http://www.eu4wiki.com/Achievements
Even if some say they may not be up to date - most are more or less correct anyway since not much has changed for old achivements. If you see any errors - it's a wiki so you can update it.
10 Weird alliances - why is ottoman allied with france etc ?
The changes in allianses for 1.14 made nations with common rivals more likely to ally - even if they are of different religions. A France - ottoman allians is historical correct and was seen as a scandal when it happened, but was active for about 250 years.
11. ZoC of forts is broken. Look at this weird path for my army.
Yes, it works badly and armies can go some very weird paths. However Paradox has no intentions of changing it for now.
13. AI revocing march status and then making march again.
Yep, the AI is fickle and will change their mind very often. AI bug.
14. Game crashed when going back to menu ?
Since custom nations is a hack the game needs to reset its internal state when going back to the menu. The best way to do it is to restart the game. Custom nations also has some serious bugs if you make them and then remove them and then start to play a another nation without restarting the game.
15. Strange claims and cores ingame ?
If you change start date several times and mess around with custom nations the internal state of the game changes and the game needs a restart to get correct internal state again. To prevent it - restart game and don't change starting date alot before beginning to play. See answer to #14 too.
16. AI will change march to vassal and back again.
AI is fickle and will often change its mind. The border conditions for this change can make it so that it will change it too often. A fix could be that the game has a timer so you can only change this every 5th year.
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