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[Dutchling]

EU IV multiplayer on release? Oh please. We all know how Paradox games suck without a month of releasing patches and fixes.

Since Crusader Kings II that's supposedly not true anymore.

[Descan]

Even since Victoria 2, I heard it was fairly stable on release.

Don't know about Sengoku.

We'll see if they can keep it up.

[a1s]

Since Crusader Kings II that's supposedly not true anymore.

It was playable, but it was still, essentially, beta- just look through the stuff fixed/added in the first 2 patches.

[Tarran]

I hope people are still up for an eu4 multiplayer game on release? I believe its q3, not sure though

Nope, not really. I would prefer a little bit of single player to get myself used to the new concepts so I'm comfortable and perhaps even wait for a few patches.

[emilekm]

hi, how to defend iberian pennisula as a castille? france will beat me. I am not ready for war, only 24k army, no ships (colonization accidents) 15k in maroco (reinforcements in europe are hiring 54days, but they have low morale). I was defending in mountains, althought that 45k french vassals' army beat me. I can obviously reload older save, but I want to get some experience ;-) i have alliance with portugal and waiting for core in barcelona to form spain

[Twiggie]

Don't piss off france, basically. That or hit them hard when they're at war with other people, BOH/ENG/BUR, for example. Generally france has more important things to worry about than castille.

Losing your ships is a really big screwup, as I'm sure you know. If you can't send the fleet directly to a port, then just send one ship. If you can't beat them defending in mountains, you're probably pretty screwed. You could try to attrition them down or wait for them to split up and hit them once they do, killing them piecemeal.

[Descan]

Unfortunately the Iberian mountains are right on the border with France, or else you could scorch the border provinces and defend from the mountains, after they've spent some time walking through or (even better) sieging the scorched provinces and having the attrition whittle them down.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

I dont usually get into this sort of situation, but I was in it in a multiplayer game once, how do you get out of debt? especially if you've been loaned money?

[Twiggie]

First, make sure you're at 3 stab. It can be worth taking additional loans to increase stab, going from -3 to 3 is a massive difference in income.
then cut spending. Stay out of wars, and reduce army maintenance. Cut missionary and colonist maintenance. Consider selling non-core provinces. Fire advisors that aren't increasing income.

If that didn't work, reduce the size of your army and finally consider selling core provinces (obviously only poorer ones)

[Karlito]

Print more money. You'll probably have to accept a few points of inflation to pay off big loans.

[Catastrophic lolcats]

Unfortunately the Iberian mountains are right on the border with France, or else you could scorch the border provinces and defend from the mountains, after they've spent some time walking through or (even better) sieging the scorched provinces and having the attrition whittle them down.

There's also a couple of map mods that add the Pyrenees as impassable terrain making chokes for the Spanish to fight off French invaders. Really fixes up some of the balance wonkiness with AI Castile always getting their arses handed to them by France. The CKII map does the same.

[emilekm]

I have been defeated twice :-(, like a noob i load older save and now spain empire and france are the best friends ;-). btw. which lands in america should I colonise? I have Tortuga and Cuba, some zapotec's lands and africa gold mines near mali but maintenance is 12 monthly (income only 11 wtf?). how to decrease colony maintenance?

[Descan]

Your colonies need to get to 1000 people in order to become self sufficient, and stop costing you colonial maintenance. That's about 10 colonists per province, though in practice it's a few short of that because colonies grow on their own (more-so if your national focus is adjacent to or on them)

If you have a good fleet, the Carribean islands are good. If you don't, the mainland like Mexico and Latin America. I don't quite know how tariffs vs taxes work in terms of which is better, but I know that provinces connected to your capital by land give you tax money, while overseas provinces only give you tariffs.

[Virex]

You can decrease how much money you pump into colonies on the economic screen, where you also take out loans and set minting levels. There are two sliders on the bottom left to control colony and missionary pay. Do note that your colonies will grow slower if you pump less money into them, so they will not become fully-fledged provinces as quickly.

[Zrk2]

[Minor Necro]

So I've installed MEIOU and I'm playing Holland. I was wondering if anyone knew of any good ways to get out of the PU quickly? I can't just declare war on them because they border Bohemia so the war is unwinnable.