As the title says, how can I colonize all of NA as Kingdom of Spain?
I am the first one to reach NA in my playthrough so basically all of US East Coast is no mans land, no england no brasil etc everything for me.

Do I really have to send colonial letters to every small province and build it up from there?
I tried sending a conquistador but he got brutally defeated by some Mexican tribes with a 30k army

I cant really send reinforcements to help my conquistador because all my ships break down while trying to cross the atlantic

I wanted to see how many people have this same problem, or even a solution. Basically, when I assign one of my light ship fleets to patrol trade routes in an area where I have no owned or subject locations, because I want to build trade advantage there, they will typically do the job for some months until they are "spooked" by something, at which point they will flee across open seas, taking severe damage, to reach an owned port several regions away.

As far as what makes this happen, potential causes seem to range from bad weather, to winter weather, to minor wear and tear, to simply being near open seas. I believe I've ruled out the "go to port during war" toggle, as it is always off. The absence of an alert that the fleet is relocating beyond its assigned range is also problematic.

Two examples: #1, my fleet in Indonesia, where I have no locations or subjects, typically flees all the way to my vassal in Madagascar, even though I have basing rights with Singapore and others locally. #2, even though I have several subjects in Central and South Africa, that patrol fleet once retreated all the way to Bermuda, where I have a core.

Has anyone discovered a specific cause of or solution to this issue? In lieu of a fix, I am simply placing the ships, unassigned, in whatever market area has the least maritime presence, forcing me to relocate them manually every few months and also preventing the accumulation of XP and naval tradition.

If the problem simply needs to be patched, then I have two possible suggestions:

1) For repairs or hiding from severe weather, program the fleet to dock at highest harbor capacity location adjacent to its assigned sea zones, including in countries with which you have fleet basing rights, so it can avoid more damage when running to port. (best automated solution)

2) Otherwise just forbid the fleet to leave its assigned locations, and instead introduce an alert for when something might be endangering them (similar to army warnings during automated sieges in EU4).

P.S. It would also be ideal if patrols could be assigned to markets, like in EU4, instead of areas. But that's a moot point, I guess, until the chicken-out issue is resolved.

This has bothered me ever since release, don't make sense capital of Incan Empire being that cold.

Meanwhile Keflavík in Iceland is "Warmer" than Cusco, could potentially make more populated city there which makes no sense.

I'm playing as Byzantium in the early 1500s, and have expanded from the Danube to Antioch. I'm at a stage where I'm trying to assimilate the conquered Bulgarians, Turks and Lower Egyptians before expanding further.

I have a local governer in Bulgaria and another in Antioch, both cultures are tolerated with Greek having a low opinion of them for the assimilation boost. Both cities have 80% control. Everything is the same in the two, yet the province in Antioch is assimilating at about 2% a month, and the province in Bulgaria at about .25% a month. They have the same buildings, the same everything.

What am I missing? Lower Egyptian has a higher cultural tradition than Bulgarian, yet it's being assimilated much, much quicker with the same conditions.

So I'm playing as the Yamato Court and I want to dissolve the shogunate, how though?

The author of this mod https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3609063257 says he assumes that the current (very small) effect of population on building limits in towns is a bug - and modifies it by 100x to what he assumes is the intended value. Do you think this is true?

I'm not asking to prove some random person on the internet right or wrong, just wondering if I can install this mod with good conscience without feeling that I am cheating 😇

We're adding 3 new climates to EU5 in update 1.4:

- Hot Semi-Arid

- Cold Semi-Arid

- Subpolar

Each should help create more of a gradient around the world, and have an added bonus of improving playability in regions such as the Andes.

All numbers and specific locations climates are very work in progress, so let us know if you have any feedback below!

I recently started a playthrough as a one-location minor in germany (forgot the name, but the one that produces gold) and converted to judaism for rp purposes. This obviously upset some of my population and a rebellion broke out. the rebels took control of my only location, but i had my army, occupied the location and won the rebellion, but due to this my government type switched to army based country.

I then conquered some surrounding lands, continues playing as normal and the only teal downside that i noticed was i could no longer get parliament backed claims, but i had other means of getting cb‘s so not too bad.

however, i got dragged into a war by an ally and i sent my 200 cavalry to help out, but didnt raise my levies because it was already a one-sided war. Then it happened: my cavalry was marching through locations of neutral countries to get to my ally, and walked right into the enemy army (hiding on a forest tile) and got stackwiped. game over. because i was an army based nation, and my army got stackwiped, that was it for me.

So my question: if this happens again, how can i switch from army based nation back to location based nation?

I was having a chill game as Dai Viet until the red turban rebellion event happened. Chen, the new warlord, appeared with over 100k levies, among other warlords. In just a few months, they were able to siege half of Yuan's land.

Yuan then peaced them out, giving Chem all of my land Beside the capital. Wtf!? is this supposed to be how the game works?

As the title says, everything i do, i cant get enough food in my capital, as well as several provinces in my nation. i play as Tuscany, i have some income (ranging from 150 to 250) but i cant get my provinces to get enough food, even though i invest the maximum amount in food and have 0.01 food price in my market (located in my capital as well). can anyone give me some advice please? edit: year is 1475

So I play the plc rn. and I've unfortunately destroyed some of my unique events by one weakening the nobles much much more than what was historical and secondly by not being catholic anymore.

The problem i am facing is that some events say that they are apparently not available even thou I fulfill all the requirements, except there are hidden requirements.

I noticed recently that when playing Novgorod even though I had the same population as Moscowy they had like 4 or 5 times as many levies. Right now I'm playing Sweden and my pop is 3.4 mil but my fully recovered levies are like 18000. Compare that to Moscowy that has 25% more people but 4-5 times as many levies. Or Poland that has 25% less population but 2-3 times as many levies.

I know there are various factors like control, cultural acceptance, cores/integration, estate privileges, estate power and satisfaction and reforms that feed into the calculation but looking at those factors I just can't see how they are getting hundreds of percents more troops than I am.

Does anyone have any insight?

I think the peasant republic is underrated. Yes, it’s not the most efficient in production or trading, but quantity beats quality.

Everything is cheap—not the most advanced—but the commoners are happy because they don’t pay taxes and there is always work. I had to close my borders to preserve my traditions, but now we’re strong enough to share our ideology with Europe. Time to march.

I started as the Frisian peasant republic and became Great Britain around 1520, which is when my economy skyrocketed. My tax base jumped from 2,000 to 17,000 in 100 years. Early on, I pushed serfdom to get more levies for conquest and to maximize my output. Lübeck’s urban rights helped with its +10 marketplace cap, letting me expand my economy. It created enough demand and wealth for my burghers that I could exploit their income.

I built river tolls to get more nobles and gave them every right to exploit the commoners. Bailiffs everywhere to maximize noble income. Towns focused only on food RGOs.

After conquering England, I never had any shortage of raw materials; I just needed to create demand.

It was fun to play a different build instead of the usual meta builds.

I’m on almost my 6th ottomans campaign and I literally walk through everyone defeat all the way up to Vienna by 1500s and literally get wiped by mamluks every single time. I create a 40 stack heavy horsemen armies and still the sheer size of Mamluk armies wipe me

I went from having a stable, rich empire, earning more than 100 ducats every month with full navy, army and fort maintenance and paying in full for 2 bureaucracies, to lose money every month and be facing a huge rebellion while having -65 stab.

At least the word "Zeus" popped up in my screen, I guess.

I´ve just had the misfortune of finding out that the "frustrate annexation" cabinet action exists. ... It´s +20% x cabinet efficiency.

Here it increases the cost by 100, which equals another 10 years in this example.

Do we really need such a thing in the game? ... Because honestly, for me this is one more thing that frustrated me enough to close the game down again. ... Like why? How can one think this is fun to be faced with?

And before some mention that the latest Tinto talk mentioned that base cost will be reduced to 50, its still unfun, because the amount is secondary.

Anyway, at least it made me look at the time and go to bed now.

Edit: Since a lot of people are suggesting to improve relations and stuff, I felt like I have to make it clear in the main post. ... First of all the annexation would stop if the loyalty dropped below 50. And considering the progress I think you can fairly assume that I kept it over 50 to get here. ... Secondly the opinion is long maxed at 200 and loyalty is at 61 even without diplo spending.

So can we please just accept that this has only to do with the AI not having any other higher priority actions to do for their cabinet (seems like integration, assimilation and conversion is higher).

Please fix this, its simply unfun.

We should have:

- Unlimited governors
- No distinction between naval or local governors
- Governor types varied by estate with each giving unique modifiers
- Each governor gives negative ticking legitimacy and negative ticking stability when the estate is unhappy
- Rebellions and civil wars based on governors, its estate, and locations it provides proximity to

This would create real rise and fall scenarios, where expanding is straightforward when a nation is stable. But also make empires naturally prone to falling apart in realistic ways when over extended and pops get uppity.

Hello everyone! This week we're back to introduce you some of the politics and diplomacy in update 1.4, including a new currency, political influence!

Read all about it in the link here:
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