Thoughts about 1.34 Riga

[TorquemadaStark]

Hey all. As I live in Riga (and was the guy that convinced DDR Jake back in 2018 to give Riga it's ideas in that PDXcon) ofc my first playthrough was with my glorious GLORIOUS hometown. Here's a few things for any of you who want to try themselves:

1. The 5 province limit ONLY APPLIES TO EUROPE. You can go wild with colonialism. Yep, figured that out pretty late myself in my first run, gonna get my 5 max tradepower/wonders provinves in Europe, then Africa & Asia here I come. So, so much money awaits.

2. Related to this, the "propagate religion" Riga gets for turning protestant doesn't work on catholics. AT ALL. Pretty sure this wasn't intended, but it's a yet another hint that after we've become ultra-rich at home, you absolutely should go and colonize.

3. Don't bother taking center of trade provinces for yourself, just give them to your subjects and turn on trade steering. As you only get 5 provinces and have more gold than you know what to do with, aim for wonders. Seems to be the best option.

4. Pick and choose whichever province you like by "war against heretics" CB, which, upon turning protestant, actually DOES allow you to take provinces, surprisingly enough. (This absolutely was not intended I think.)

 

[Northernwwater]

Gotland looks fun too.

 

[TorquemadaStark]

Update: There's something very wrong with that propagate religion thing. It also doesn't work in colonial regions

 

[Republic of Mercury]

Update: There's something very wrong with that propagate religion thing. It also doesn't work in colonial regions

That's standard: Propogate religion has only ever worked in trade company regions.

 

[PraiseMeLikeIAmYours]

Update: There's something very wrong with that propagate religion thing. It also doesn't work in colonial regions

AFAIK Propagate religion on works for region with non-Abrahamic religion. It would also works if your current religion is the majority religion in your kingdom. So if you only have 3 Protestant province with 5 colonial animist province, you can’t propagate

 

[TorquemadaStark]

That's standard: Propogate religion has only ever worked in trade company regions.

I mean - it doesn't work in trade companies for Riga either.

 

[Ogele]

I am aware of the bug that Riga cannot propogate the religion in Catholic regions. This will be fixed for the next hotfix.

 

[TorquemadaStark]

I am aware of the bug that Riga cannot propogate the religion in Catholic regions. This will be fixed for the next hotfix.

Please, make it work in trade company regions as well! I'm doing colonial Riga and it's very fun!

 

[Ogele]

Please, make it work in trade company regions as well! I'm doing colonial Riga and it's very fun!

I can't promise that this will make into the hotfix tbh. Unlike the Riga bug, the inability of converting Trade Companies seems to be code related (though I might have overlooked something) and might be even intended.
However, I can agree that it would be an interesting synergy with Trade Companies if Propogating the Religion also converts these provinces.

 

[Triplebassist]

I believe that propagating religion in trade companies works for Muslims( though someone else should confirm that since I haven't done one of those games in a while) so I don't think Riga being unable to do so would be intended