ok. I like the sense of discovery, but I understand.
We could forbid attacking player-nations for the first sessions, to let newcomers have the time to adjust and get experience with the game.
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Europa Universalis IV-ERA Multiplayer Sign Up - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
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We could forbid attacking player-nations for the first sessions, to let newcomers have the time to adjust and get experience with the game.
How are we handling the speed of this game? I'm happy with no pausing, but as I will be in the Sengoku Jidai for the first 50 years or so, I'd prefer if it stayed on 2 for most of the time (maybe 3 occasionally).
I'd say speed 2. I'm ok with no pausing since they are 1-2hrs sessions.
So PVP and speed rules.
- No declarations of war against human players before 1500 or the Age of Reformation, whichever comes first. If you declare war against an AI who is allied with a human player, you cannot co-belligerent them, and can take a maximum of 25% warscore from them.
- After 1500/Age of Reformation, you can declare war against human players. In such wars you can take 50% warscore from them, or 25% warscore against human players who are not co-belligerents.
- Once the Age of Absolutism spawns, PVP restrictions are lifted.
- No Truce Breaking, even in the Age of Absolutism.
- Player nations are open to attack once they miss three straight sessions, you can attack during that third session. If the AI attacks another player in his absence, they can demand up to 50% war score, but no more. If an AI playing for a human nation joins a war against a human player as a third party, up to 25% war score may be demanded from that country.
- Maximizing the ticking war score means that the losing side must automatically meet the demands of the winning side. Achieving an overall war score of 80% also means the losing side must automatically meet the demands of the winning side.
- Pausing only allowed when DoW happens to you. Then during the war it isn't acceptable. Players can pause once to make peace deals, but only for the allotted 25 seconds or so before others can unpause. PvP wars are not exempted.
- We will play on speed 2.
- If you consistently cause the game to drop below speed 2, you will be kicked for the duration of the session.
Either we post the game ID here or you add the host (me) to Steam and right click join game :)
I think I'll be done transfering the authenticator somewhere else bu then. It's just tonight. Usually it asks me to authenticate more on Windows, very seldom on Mac OS.
Edit: I missed that we don't play tonight.
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Does anyone want to play a couple of hours now? I just want to test my connection and stuff before the main event as I've never played multiplayer before.
GAME STARTS IN 4 HOURS
KiraFA37, CloudWolf, KingSnake, Geido, Javetus, Merkunt, Morfeo, John Dunbar, brokenswiftie, Jegriva, Radishhead and Lausebub
Make sure to add either myself or fanboi to your list of steam friends. Fanboi will be hosting tonight and will have the server details up later.
KiraFA37, CloudWolf, KingSnake, Geido, Javetus, Merkunt, Morfeo, John Dunbar, brokenswiftie, Jegriva, Radishhead and Lausebub
Make sure to add either myself or fanboi to your list of steam friends. Fanboi will be hosting tonight and will have the server details up later.
Oh fuck, I didn't pay attention to the thread while I was working at the festival, so I didn't know about it moving to Sundays. Unfortunately I'm gonna be at a film screening tonight, but I should be able to join next week granted Wallachia is still alive and kicking.
I'm very sorry, my girlfriend has injured herself and I need to pick her up from the station - which clashes with this sadly. The first session is critical for a daimyo so I might swap to a different country if I join the weds session.
Have fun folks! I was thinking about joining but can't do Sundays because I play soccer on Sunday nights. I played in I think all the multiplayer sessions we had at the old place... The one I formed Scandinavia (can't remember which nation I started at) was a super fun one.
Not sure, I can do it if you want. Testing it at the moment to see if it works.
Feel free to join the PC Gaming ERA Discord, we can chat in the paradox games channel and use the voice chat channels if needed.
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Oh damn, are sign ups still active for this? If not, I would love for this to become a regular thing around here.
You might still be able to join if you pick a country, check above the rules and the countries already picked.
sent it.
i haven't replaced the Discord authenticator on my phone, so I can't use it tonight.
You have bigger issues, as soon as you left AI Ethopia decided to break our alliance and rival me. We can fix our relationship but for now Venice is my new friend as we are going on an Ottoman adventure at the start of next session.
Yeah, I'm good with a temporary alliance. Once the Turks have been taken down a peg or two we can go our separate ways and your doomed tryst with Ethiopia can continue.
I don't even know how that's possible, that's some pro-gamer strats.
I don't even know how that's possible, that's some pro-gamer strats.
My idea was to start the game as Florence, get 10 loans, max up my army, and go all in to conquer Lucca. It usually work even if they have Provence or Savoy as an ally.
Too bad the new DLCs that I don't have implement the trade leagues mechanism. my 20k army got ANNIHILATED by a 50k stack.
I spent the next part of the sessions just rebuilding my economy (my stability got hit hard)-
Too bad the new DLCs that I don't have implement the trade leagues mechanism. my 20k army got ANNIHILATED by a 50k stack.
I spent the next part of the sessions just rebuilding my economy (my stability got hit hard)-
I was too afraid of the Trade League stack to accept your alliance. Forgive me.
I lost my trade league too, I guess I grew too big. I was scared as hell when it happened since the Ottos could have rolled over me. Thankfully they attacked Hungary instead.
Qara Qoyunlu Qhronicles Part 1 - 1444 to 1459
OFFICIAL THEME SONG
So I went with the Black Sheep. QQ start in quite an interesting position, surrounded as they are by the Ottoman, Timurids and Mamluks, a poor country riven by the Sunni/Shia split, and as a Shia nation finding allies is hard. So I was hoping for a bit of luck starting off, which I didn't get when my first humiliate target, Aq Qoyunlu, allied the Ottomans straight away. Grrh.
Thankfully Ajam got embroiled in a war with the Timurids shortly after I snagged a claim against one of their Shia provinces (need to get them all to help with religious unity), so I opportunistically jumped on the back of that and grabbed a province and a humilate. Gotta push up that power projection! Of course, both Aq Qoyunlu and Ajam fell out of the possible rivals shortly afterwards, leaving me with the Mamluks, the Ottoman and the Timurids as possible rivals. Which feels right, but are hardly the easiest of rivals to get one over.
At least the North is in a better shape, and a possible route of expansion. All Orthodox lands, so hell for my religious unity, but it just so happens that Georgia is a brilliant march with cores on their neighbours and fort defence/manpower traditions. So I vassalised them in a what turned out to be an easy, but long war, as they were also involved in wars with the Golden Horde and even Trebizond due to them getting a Personal Union over Imereti. But I fed them Samstkhe and Trebizond, and will feed them Imereti in the next war.
Also in the North, I smashed Shrivan and Ardabil, getting more previous Shia provinces as well as some high value trade provinces, vital for my shocking economy. There's some more possible expansion possible in the East, with Mazandaran looking vulnerable. Though, the provinces they conquered are Timmy cores, and being directly on the border with them might not be the best idea. Of course there's also talk about an opportunistic war against the Ottoman given that they're currently fighting Austria and Hungary. Hmm. Decisions decisions.
Provinces Gained: Shaki, Shamakhi, Shirvan, Ardabil, Mianeh, Zanjan
Vassals Gained: Georgia
Vassal Provinces Gained: Lomsia, Tao, Trebizond
So I went with the Black Sheep. QQ start in quite an interesting position, surrounded as they are by the Ottoman, Timurids and Mamluks, a poor country riven by the Sunni/Shia split, and as a Shia nation finding allies is hard. So I was hoping for a bit of luck starting off, which I didn't get when my first humiliate target, Aq Qoyunlu, allied the Ottomans straight away. Grrh.
Thankfully Ajam got embroiled in a war with the Timurids shortly after I snagged a claim against one of their Shia provinces (need to get them all to help with religious unity), so I opportunistically jumped on the back of that and grabbed a province and a humilate. Gotta push up that power projection! Of course, both Aq Qoyunlu and Ajam fell out of the possible rivals shortly afterwards, leaving me with the Mamluks, the Ottoman and the Timurids as possible rivals. Which feels right, but are hardly the easiest of rivals to get one over.
At least the North is in a better shape, and a possible route of expansion. All Orthodox lands, so hell for my religious unity, but it just so happens that Georgia is a brilliant march with cores on their neighbours and fort defence/manpower traditions. So I vassalised them in a what turned out to be an easy, but long war, as they were also involved in wars with the Golden Horde and even Trebizond due to them getting a Personal Union over Imereti. But I fed them Samstkhe and Trebizond, and will feed them Imereti in the next war.
Also in the North, I smashed Shrivan and Ardabil, getting more previous Shia provinces as well as some high value trade provinces, vital for my shocking economy. There's some more possible expansion possible in the East, with Mazandaran looking vulnerable. Though, the provinces they conquered are Timmy cores, and being directly on the border with them might not be the best idea. Of course there's also talk about an opportunistic war against the Ottoman given that they're currently fighting Austria and Hungary. Hmm. Decisions decisions.
Provinces Gained: Shaki, Shamakhi, Shirvan, Ardabil, Mianeh, Zanjan
Vassals Gained: Georgia
Vassal Provinces Gained: Lomsia, Tao, Trebizond
This was the poorest starts I ever had with Scotland. England blocked my way into Ireland by allying Ulster (now their vassal) and when I tried to go for Tyrone they got them too. The other country I have claims on is allied with Denmark. The only positive thing out of this session is that France crippled England a bit, as usual plus I managed to sponsor the rebels of Pale to free themselves from the English rule. But I really don't see a way out of this unless France grows a pair (of fleet).
fanboi - how's your fleet going?
fanboi - how's your fleet going?
The Ethiopian-Mamlukian alliance is off to a strong start. My friend in the Mamluks helped me snipe some of my neighbors quickly, fully annexing my largest and most threatening neighbor. Unfortunately, due to rebels, lost battles, and a generally shitty economy Ethiopia's status is tenunous. I had a great time though, thanks to all!
p.s. Looking forward to 1500 Kilwa ;)
p.s. Looking forward to 1500 Kilwa ;)
Very small... 20 ships while 10 are cogs and 2 are big ones and rest merchant ships... I also think they are allies to Castile(England).
Not really, I just dev pushed all my monarch points into grassland cloth province. I'm up-to-date on military tech, but no other techs. And breaking vassal status cost me 3 stab... Luckily my starting ruler was almost godlike. Should be able to right the ship in the next few years.
Uzzy you're doing quite well! We should team up against Timmy!
Oh my god. I leave for twenty fuckin minutes and everything goes to shit
I got of to an alright start. I took all but one province off of Champa, when my allie simultaneously declared war on then. But with their help, I later got Dai Viet as a vassal, but he won't be loyal for a long time.
I am barley making a ducet and my manpower is constantly at 0 but that should change next session.
All four of my allies would join me in a war against Ayutthaya and their land has high development and the right religion.
My problem right now is, that I still have to dev push a province and I don't have a good province for doing that and also not much in monarch points right now.
After that i am not so sure what to do. I usually never collanize or focus much on trade, but I think that is something I have to do later on. With Schottland struggling the new world shouldn't be as contested.
I am barley making a ducet and my manpower is constantly at 0 but that should change next session.
All four of my allies would join me in a war against Ayutthaya and their land has high development and the right religion.
My problem right now is, that I still have to dev push a province and I don't have a good province for doing that and also not much in monarch points right now.
After that i am not so sure what to do. I usually never collanize or focus much on trade, but I think that is something I have to do later on. With Schottland struggling the new world shouldn't be as contested.
Just checked and you have Phnom Phen at 16 dev, that's pretty ideal to devpush! Sink some money into a CoT upgrade and you'll be golden.
Looking forward to tonight guys! fanboi don't forget ;)
Oopsie daisy
I will be there tonight as well, trying to get those provinces back from those goshdarn Ottomans.
Thought about that, burger influence might become a problem then and if I take it away, getting the burger development cost reduction might be difficult.
I will get some more territory to sort out the burger stuff.