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[Rex_Nex]

Yep. Alright, well, I'm throwing that game away. Another 50 years, Europe barely changes because everyone doesn't want to fight more then they can chew; and apparently all europeans can chew is south american natives.

[Dutchling]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Die by the sword it is then.

[Johnfalcon99977]

While fucking around with console commands in EU III, I discovered an actually quite cool way to create a "Semi-Random" save. Heres how I did it:

Step 1: Choose a random nation. Perferably an OPM or other nation without a whole lot of cores.

Step 2: Open the Console and use the "annex [TAG]" command to annex every country. (Well, you don't need ALL of them, you just a sizable chunck of the earth.)

Step 3: Bring your stability down to -3 and set infamy to something ridiculous. (Helps Revolt risk)

Step 4: Release one nation (Again, perferably an OPM) and switch to it via the "tag [TAG]" command. This is to make sure you don't get completely spammed by revolt messages.

Step 5: Sit back an Enjoy as everything revolts.

Step 6: When all the revolters have declared independence and occupied all of the Provinces that the nation you selected owned, switch to it and make peace treaties giving the revolters all the land they occupied. Don't forget to use the "tag" command here to make sure they accept and the "Infamy -" command to get rid of all the infamy the revolters will get! (Make sure you save the revolter occuping your capital for your annexation!)

Spoiler: Step 7: Enjoy! (click to show/hide)

Note: That Yellow in Scotland isn't actually Scotland. Thats Gaelic Highlands.

It should be noted that I did this with D&T, but it should theoretically work with any verison of EU III. It takes quite a lot of time and effort to pull off (It took 2 hours for me!), but it can end up pretty fun if you do it right.

[RedKing]

Sidenote about the Amazon deal...did that expire or something? I went in yesterday to see if I could still take advantage of it, and not only is ther nothing about a coupon, but EU3: Chronicles is listed as "Item is unavailable." 

[Lightning4]

I think getting it for free might've been unintended, so it got removed from the store for uh... I dunno, the sale appears to be over, so I'm not sure why it's not back yet.

The coupon should still exist though, it just doesn't actually say anything about it on the screen. No way of telling until you can actually purchase it again. The coupon(s) aren't supposed to expire until early July.

[Digital Hellhound]

Gah. I hate new world countries. The very moment I discover them (in like 1410. Isnt that a bit early?) the entire world goes to war with them... even though no one knows how to get to them. Its 1450 and I havent gone three years without being called into war against these phantom countries on the other side of the world.

I don't think anyone said this, so; this, as well as a random country discovering Japan early on, are bugs caused by an uncleared map cache. You need to go to your eu3 folder/map/cache/, and delete everything inside. The next time you start up the game, it'll recalculate everything. This takes longer than an usual startup, I think.

I don't think it'll fix your in-progress game, but future games shouldn't have these problems.

[dogstile]

So i've been messing around with my Irish save and i've found that i'm basically making no money if I even have a few troops. So I took over some parts of Algiers.

I'm not getting any income. Any reason why?

[Twiggie]

Because Ireland consists entirely of fish/grain provinces with low base tax. And Algiers has exactly the same problem.

[Rex_Nex]

Gah. I hate new world countries. The very moment I discover them (in like 1410. Isnt that a bit early?) the entire world goes to war with them... even though no one knows how to get to them. Its 1450 and I havent gone three years without being called into war against these phantom countries on the other side of the world.

I don't think anyone said this, so; this, as well as a random country discovering Japan early on, are bugs caused by an uncleared map cache. You need to go to your eu3 folder/map/cache/, and delete everything inside. The next time you start up the game, it'll recalculate everything. This takes longer than an usual startup, I think.

I don't think it'll fix your in-progress game, but future games shouldn't have these problems.

Thank you sir

By the way, I have a current Irish game going (United Ireland in ~2 years, currently about 150 years in. I have inherited Wales and am working on inheriting Portugal and Scotland). YOU NEED TO TRADE. PERIOD. If you don't have 5 merchants in every good CoT, you are doing it wrong.

As an example, without trading, my income would be:

Tax: 11 ducats
Production: 13 ducats
Trade: 0 ducats

I would have low tech levels, a small army, etc.

But because I opted to trade...:
Tax: 11 ducats
Production: 13 ducats
Trade: 132 ducats

Now I have a 30-man army for just holding the five Irish provinces and the two Wales provinces, full quality, full Free Trade, full Plutocracy, and as centralized as I can get. I have better tech then OPMs (I think I have the best tech level in the game, actually) and England can't grow because I allied Scotland, Portugal, and France.

You need to trade. Go max free trade ASAP.

[dogstile]

Trading is something I need to do.

But not getting money from any province I took from Algiers, I mean I actually get 0.0 and i'm sure I should be getting a tiny bit more than that.

[Virex]

If they're oversea provinces you only get tariffs. You can maximize those by having 1 heavy ship per oversea province in your fleet.

[dogstile]

Oh right, I had no clue about that. Onto Ireland, trade republic! It seems.

[Rex_Nex]

I hate when you join a war with an alliance casus belli, but your ally peaces out and joins the war on the other side a day later. Suddenly your effort to help Bohemia as a german OPM turned into a clusterfuck of an Austria-Bohemia-Hungary alliance against you.

[RedKing]

I hate when you join a war with an alliance casus belli, but your ally peaces out and joins the war on the other side a day later. Suddenly your effort to help Bohemia as a german OPM turned into a clusterfuck of an Austria-Bohemia-Hungary alliance against you.

Spoiler: King of Bohemia. (click to show/hide)

[Karlito]

You know, even if Bohemia hadn't declared war on you, that probably still would have been a bad move if the war ended and you as a OPM was still in a separate war with Austria-Hungary.