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Thanks to everyone who has been helping me, but I have another question. How exactly do victory points work? In my GC game with France, I do all these little 'missions' that are suppose to get me more points, but whenever I complete one successfully, my points remain at zero. Is this a bug? Or are victory points only for multilpayer games?

Thanx in advance...
 
before you start a scenario, make sure you "enable victory points" in the menu screen under options.

cheers
 
Actually it happened to same with me: the option
reads sometihng like "Starting victory point"and i
thought it was something else.

Yes u can enable them when u start the game, just select
the savegame u want and modify the options, but
the VP of the missions u did before are lost :(
 
Originally posted by Van Barel
Yes u can enable them when u start the game, just select
the savegame u want and modify the options, but
the VP of the missions u did before are lost :(
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Yeah that happened to me on my first GC as Spain. Didn't realize that the default setting was "No Victory Points" - weird huh? But you can set them on again. BTW, you get victory points for more than just the missions. You get victory points for a variety of things:

Combat: Provinces conquered and battles won (although not sure about battles vs natives and pirates)
Diplomacy: Successful RMs, alliances (I think only if you are leader), vassalizations, and annexations, including military annex (or does that fall under combat?)
Economy: size of your economy (which is dependent of population size), size of trading income, infrastructure and trade level. Also points for establishments, which I take to mean colonies/TPs and possibly structures like manufactories in your provinces.

If you are an expansive power (Spain), you can rack up enough VPs outside of the missions to win. However, if you are not an expansive power, then missions VPs are critical in keeping up with the powers that are.
 
To answer your question...

it crashes occasionally. I've played games that crashed more frequently, and some that never did. EU isn't too bad in respect to crashes. I just make it a point to save frequently, and especially before I do something risky (declaring war, etc)

But now I'm ticked because a saved game that I was working on is corrupted, and I can't reload it. Although I guess I could have been doing better, so I'll just start over anyway. :D
 
I got crashes on a regular basis at the very beginning. Then, at stopped all the programms which were running in the background, and since I never had a crash (with W95, and a quite old computer : PII 266, 96 RAM,etc...)

I still save on regular basis, though, just in case. On the overall, EU is certainly not the more unstable game I played.
 
I never have anything going on in the background when playing EU (a Windows Explorer might be running, but nothing active.)

Other than the country-list that got taken out of 1.08 because it didn't work ... I've never had a crash yet. I've been playing for the best part of a month (and I mean the best part - like 12 to 18 hours a day :D )
 
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