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[Wolock]

Nope. In my Ottoman game I played without Common Sense and by 1700 no development happened.

[Loud Whispers]

To be fair the AI is so bad that it really needs some "bonuses" like this to stay slightly competitive and even then it only lasts for so long before you can overpower or outsmart it.
Just take straits, they reworked the whole mechanic because it was so easy to exploit against the AI (and bad player in MP) that it made more sense to change it. And that isn't the first time they changed stuff to make the AI not suicide all the time.
And the worst part is that the difficulty does nothing to adress that, on hard the AI just gains bonuses and swarms you with every country from Britain to Japan as soon as you show the slightest weakness and even then you can often save yourself by just being smart about it.
God I really love that game, but the more I think about it the more I realise that I hate the AI and it's stupidity.

Is it not realistic that you get swarmed at the earliest sign of weakness? Ming, Mughals, Ottomans, Portuguese, French and so on, at the slightest weakness the sharks circled overhead and if they weren't beaten away they were torn apart

[Loud Whispers]

Poland: The tragic lifestory of a nation so interesting, other nations just can't bear themselves to leave it

[Orange Wizard]

I started a Lithuania game a while back, and it's getting rather hard. I ate Poland, Crimea, and took a few provinces from the Teutonic and Livonian Orders. But now I'm barely staving off getting partitioned by Muscovy, Hungary, and Ottomans.
To make matters worse my vassal Theodoro stopped loving me and declared independence (and won because I had no manpower after losing a civil war). My ally Sweden are losing wars to friggin' Norway, and my other ally Bohemia (emperor) keeps defending against Burgundy attacking other princes and getting their arse whipped.
Now I don't know what to do.

[Loud Whispers]

Buddy up to the Austrians, wait for the Austrians to annex the Hungarians / war the Ottomans, push east for polansraum?

[Kot]

Poland: The tragic lifestory of a nation so interesting, other nations just can't bear themselves to leave it

We can't bear ourselves to leave it too which is why we're clearly superior than all other nations in the world.

* Kot flaps his hussar wings angrily.

[LoSboccacc]

Poland: The tragic lifestory of a nation so interesting, other nations just can't bear themselves to leave it

We can't bear ourselves to leave it too which is why we're clearly superior than all other nations in the world.

* Kot flaps his hussar wings angrily.

can confirm Polish are madly stubborn

[Flying Dice]

I imagine they'd have to be, living between Russians and Germans. 

[Bouchart]

This what happens when France can't back up their guarantee on Scotland:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[WealthyRadish]

France seems to explode a lot. I think they've developed a Ming complex where they're too big and rich to think of allying anyone, which together with being hated by all the other powers means they flounder quickly. Paradox will probably respond by raising starting development even higher.

I've been doing more building modding stuff lately, and was wondering... how do you guys feel about the number of buildings per province restrictions after 1.12? Even with increasing development as a viable option (like with money instead of MP), it's still striking me as really artificial. But remembering the old system of spamming buildings everwhere also wasn't too great, so I'm not sure.

[Flying Dice]

I like it.

Especially with the new fort system--you don't need to spam them everywhere any more, so that's one free slot. Besides, past a certain point you can build basically everything you want anyways.

[Bouchart]

France does implode a lot.  They tend to get into fights with Aragon over Navarre a lot, and then some combination of England and Burgundy attacks them while they are weak.  Also they tend to be the target of coalitions a lot in the early game.

Seeing Tyrone eat Scotland and a few of those Norwegian islands is a bit silly though.

[WealthyRadish]

I've been running observer games up to 1600-1700 with development and tradegood changes, and funnily enough, France seems to be doing better with reduced development and income. They seem less aggressive, so they don't get dogpiled after starting that first war against England, Aragon, or Burgundy. Granted, with the changes pretty much everybody else in Europe has less development too, but it consistently got to normal French size, even without the Burgundian Inheritance firing (in one it got a PU over Spain and integrated them, that was horrible).

I sort of like France failing a lot, though, so long as it isn't Brittany that does them in. It irks me to see them take those two provinces from Provence every single game.

[Loud Whispers]

I have discovered the hidden joy of Smolensk

ARTILLERY GUIDED BY GOD

[Bouchart]

They even have artillery on their flag.  Along with a chicken.