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[Zrk2]

ALWAYS form the Empire.

[Lumbajak]

But then I won't be red!

And we all know da red wuns go fasta.

[Tyler6498]

But then I won't be red!

And we all know da red wuns go fasta.

Get to the decision that vassalizes all the countries in the empire and don't unite them! Just keep them as weak slaves!

[Zrk2]

But then I won't be red!

And we all know da red wuns go fasta.

Get to the decision that vassalizes all the countries in the empire and don't unite them! Just keep them as weak slaves!

And then let them fight all your wars for you!

[Catastrophic lolcats]

It's the better method if you care about your tech (although European provinces will give you the least tech penalty).

[Descan]

Psh, best start is The Knights at the zenith of the Ottomans' power. It's a damn fun 4 years. 

I once formed Greece as The Knights, in Death and Taxes.

It was a fun ride. I started with two provinces, and in the end, annexed the Mamluks.

[Azkanan]

I once formed Greece as The Knights, in Death and Taxes.

[Rex_Nex]

The Knights in D&T are badass. If you can beat the Ottomans in one war, you've got the game in the bag. Beating them in a war requires getting Byzantium to declare war on them with you. After that, you have great forcelimits and the best government type until LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE in the game.

I formed Greece in D&T also. Next I'm going to form the Kingdom of Jerusalem with Knights.

[Azkanan]

This is my current save game, the Chobanids (five years ago, or so. I have Hawaii, Maldives, Ceylon and most of central Indonesia now (Not Brunei)). I was aiming heavily for 150 years or so to form Persia, but it turns out at the end of waiting all that damned time for cores to come through in the Persian Regions, that I needed to be Muslim... Heading for the Mughal Empire now, should come through when the cores do, in 30 more years or so.



I'm currently powering up Hawaii as my USA-west-coast stronghold.

Edit;
...Dat awkward moment when you see Alaska and Eastern Siberia haven't been colonized yet. BRB!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

And here's my old British Empire I just found in the screenshots folder.

[Supercharazad]

Spoiler your pictures, please.

[dogstile]

Why exactly? Genuinely curious here, considering the pictures aren't even that big.

[Rex_Nex]

They take up my entire screen. What do you mean they aren't even big? What are you running, 1920x1080?

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Ya, they're not that big, if it doesn't distort the page then I dont think it should be censored spoilered. Plus doesn't it just make the particular post have a scroll-bar instead of actually distorting the whole page? Bandwidth problems are understandable but this IS a purty basic pic.

[dogstile]

If it was bandwidth spoilers wouldn't help, they still get loaded. I was just curious. I'm not running a super massive screen (1280x1024 or something similar) but I just get a scroll bar at the bottom of the post. It doesn't mess anything up.

[Rex_Nex]

I don't like having to scroll paste a set of images that inflate the page to twice the size, is all. There's no reason not to spoiler it anyway; it's just polite to those of us who don't want to have to scroll past the same image every time we visit the page.

ANYWAY, I'm having technical issues. Does anyone know the file that dictates the shadows in the sea? I'm on an older computer that was once running D&T 4.6, but now I've updated to the latest 7.1 and the sea is still shaded as if the continents were in the same position as they were in the old 4.6 version. I'm assuming this is because I've edited the file that dictates what the sea looks like; does anyone know what that file is?

Edit: Found it. It's colormap_water.dds. I also know the issue; the game is stretching D&T's (already huge) colormap file even wider, getting everything screwed up. But... why... anywho, unchecking "use advanced water" just removes the colormap influence altogether. Looks like shit, but that fixes the problem.