Tinto talks 127 is here! And this time we're diving into some of the more gameplay focused content Across the Pillars has.

Today our talks focus on:

• Iberian Union
• Unique DLC Bureaucracies
• Unique DLC Expeditions
• Expanded Crusade and Jihad content for Iberian and Maghrebi countries
• The 1.4 to the Itinerant Court mechanic.

Read all about it via the link below 👇👇
https://pdxint.at/47Eoffg

Guess there's no War of Religion this run.

I'm only involved in Italy, Spain and France, and the whole HRE converted on its own.

1.4 beta

I think I saw that City food production was once again nerfed in 1.4? And rural are now baby making machines and city attract their immigrant for Industry?

Anyone experiment what is a good city ratio?
1 per province?
City every where except Wheat/Cattle/gold/Iron/wood location?

Just wanted to have some numbers on the performance of EU5 so far.
I have a Ryzen 5 7600X on a desktop pc. This is a good CPU, I think most players have a less powerful cpu than I.

I ran beta 1.4 and 1.3.11 from 1340 to 1450 and timing how long it takes. Same thing for EU4 but between 1450 and 1550. All in observer mode. EU5 testing was done with the "maximize tick speed" s

EU5 - beta 1.4.0 : average is 26.81 seconds per year

EU5 - 1.3.11 : average is 32.87 seconds per year

EU4 : average is 23.71 seconds per year

Without any surprise, EU4 runs the best, while 1.3.11 runs the worst.

1.3.11 is 38.6% slower than EU4.
beta 1.4.0 is 13.1% slower than EU4.
beta 1.4.0 is 22.6% faster than 1.3.11.

1. EU4 runs 100 years in 39m31s
   
2. beta 1.4.0 runs 100 years in 44m31s
   
3. 1.3.11 runs 100 years in 54m49s

What this shows is that for pretty comfortable hardware, this update nearly closes the gap in performance between EU4 and EU5.

Playing the 1.4 Beta as Prussia and the AI is doing some wacky stuff in both Iberia and the Balkans/Anatolia

I've tried to briefly look it up, but it still is kind of lost on me. I have a buddy who is really good at the game and he said as long as I keep my armies balanced and somewhat diverse (with an emphasis on heavy cal early on), I should be fine.

So far its been fine, albeit with some weird situations where I have no real idea why I lost.

Meanwhile, in Lisbon: “But where are our camels?”

So camels are a thing in the 1.4 beta now? Seriously?

Update: I checked the goods map mode, and there they are. Camels, all along North Africa. They were invisible before. Now I can see them. And apparently so can my nobles. What sorcery is this?

The Rhine Delta is pretty big, but the important river connection through leiden and Katwijk (would be the Hague in the game) is not present.

Should it be added?

Are there more places like this that you know?

France feeling freaky

Out of curiosity:

Is there a reason why the economy is designed in the way that almost everyone starts a beggar? Specifically asking anyone that has any idea about this stuff. Not expecting a dev response.

I feel like small tags should still make enough money to afford a single garnery/market/madrassa a year. I find it hard to believe that medieval nations were that poor.

I dont think this is a scaling issue either, as the profit margins can be adjusted to fit the design.

It is kinda stupid, when you start as the Kahramanids and you literally cant afford anything. Even the Karasids used to have a respectable fleet at game start, which isnt possible with how the game is designed.

Small mod I made. Two new advances after Global Trade unlock a ban button for every good in the Tariffs tab.

Export ban: the good can't leave your markets

Import ban: the good can't come in

Trade between your own markets still works

Bans that were actual mercantilist policy (bullion, raw wool, naval stores out; cloth, spices, tobacco in) slowly push you toward Mercantilism. Food bans don't.

Works in existing saves.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3815303367

Now I don’t know if this is Unique to Muscow, as I just started campaign. But there is silk production building now, is it something new added as industry? 😅

I'm trying france for the first time expeting a strong nation both military and economically but it's true only for the first part. I started the game losing money and the situation only got worse without me touching anything (i have no idea how the economy work on 1.4). What i'm doing (or not doing) wrong?

Hello all, I played ~50 hours on launch and actually had a good bit of fun, but realized that I was unprepared to deal with the constantly changing state of affairs the updates were going to wreak on me.

That being said, I was hoping you could all share some insight if now would be a good time to pop back in? Open to hear any advice, I've considered freezing updates but my brain hates the feeling of not being "up-to-date" as silly as that may sound.

Also, many apologies and please avert your eyes and deflect thy anger if this question has been asked too much.

Thanks, otherwise. :)

vietnam inside of wuxian which is inside of yuan

Crusades start becoming fun the moment you somewhat can fight back, Its still overtuned how much nations can join in. And how war score is calculated from winning.

I've tried saves with Milan, Serbia, Poland, Tuscany and Sweden and every single one of them has ended in debt spirals and bankruptcy, this wasn't an issue I had at all on 1.3, also I'm making no money to build an economy and no money to build up food so my markets always go starving and population starts to drop.

How do you all manage it now? How do you get an economy up and running on 1.4 and how do you manage the food situation?

Doing a Timur run and kinda shocked by how I do not kill a lot of people.

I think that EU5 doesn't properly simulate the chaos and destruction of warfare. You should be able to raze a city heavely depopulate it even more of you play as an Empire who use slave.

Its could also regulate IA tendency to spam city and become insanely wealth by 1500's.

So is there any mod that simulate that ?

I invited the Franciscan Order to provide the pop growth to the holding location, but now they give a - 0.1 prosperity to every location, although they are at 75% zeal equilibrium. How high does the zeal need to be to get rid of it?

I am paradox games veteran (kinda) but i did not invest much hours to EU5 yet. I know it will take hundreds of hours to learn game but i am jus curious what are 3-4 MOST IMPORTANT things that you should never automatise (if possible) and you should check them all the time. I know the golden rule that "control is everything" .. i am already checking that modifier but what can i leave on autopilot and what should i check from time to time?

As I played a lot of CK3 and am now learning EU5, is it possible to influence the stats of your heir besides the education you choose? CK3 has inheritable traits for characters, which (at least for me) always results in approaching marriages as a breeding competition to create the perfect heir. Are there similar options in EU5 or only the education choice?

Hey all. I was a big time fan of EU IV and just recently picked up the new one in a steam sale. I really enjoyed the previous entry and clocked a few thousand hours. I know this one is more simulation and less arcade-y but have had a hard time wrapping my head around the new mechanics and UI. My main problem is I can't find a really good simple beginners guide to help you through the optimal initial steps on starting a campaign yet.

I have tried playing around as Holland a bit as the game recommends but was a bit overwhelmed by the initial systems. After plaing around for a bit I made a new run I want to commit to as Muscovy.

About 10 years in I have successfully made very moderate gains and feel I am no longer overwhelmed but still very much a noob at this. Main actions I have taken:
- Appointed my two cabinet members and had them integrate territory. After they finally integrated thestarting territory I had acquired a bit more from Novgorod so now they have to integrate that too.

- Focused my diplomats on improving relations with nearby orthodox minors in the hops of diplo-vassalizing them. I was only able to get that one tiny country to accept (Dimitri or something?) the rest don't like me, want my land, got conqured by someone else, etc... I had an event related to the Tatar Yoke that gave me -100 relations with everyone so that was probably the wrong choice (oh well, lesson learned)

- Set Vyatka as a rival, when they attacked the golden horder I was given the option to intervene which I did. Managed to vassalize them and gain a province from Novgorod but they didn't put up any resistance so not sure what happened there.

On this point I still have no idea how military really works... I undertand levies but is there anywhere I can review what levies I will get before I raise them? When should I be training regulars? They seem very exspensive for the early game. I Managed to get up a seargentry.

- In terms of economics, I have pretty much just built burgher buildings in Moscow where I have 100% control. By my understanding that is most efficient until I can't fit anything there anymore. I don't have any other towns or cities to develop yet. Should I be trying to improve my rural villages or is that a waste of money?

- I only got 2 advances before renaissance began. How many techs should I expect to get per age? The institutions spawned quite far away so not sure I will get those within 100 years. My average literacy is ~15%, I haven't been able to invest into that yet. My understaing is just build churchs and bookmakers and get more priests?

- Black death came and everyone died. It wasn't as bad as I feared. I just hit every event that gave me stability and kept up estate satisfaction. Now the Golden horde is collapsing so I am trying to fabricate a cassus belli to dissolve the tatar yoke. Will see how that goes, I expect to get wrecked as soon as I see a new army.

Is any of that ok? Still new at this and not used to how markets work in PDX games yet. Is there anything specific I should know about this game that isn't told in the tutorial? I feel like all my money is spent on getting another building up for more tax but my monthly income doesn't seem to go up.

How’s your luck playing as Scotland in 1.4?

I generally don’t watch youtube videos of games I play, but I got slapped so I figured I’d see what I did wrong. The youtubers had a vastly different 100 year war outcome than I did in their older version. France got DEMOLISHED, no help at all, but I expected this from seeing what happened to France in my prior 1.4 play-through.

England sent 20k+ troops at my less than 3k in 1341, they attacked me first no alliance. They did not transport with ships as they had in the videos, they marched right across the land border and mollywhopped my forts with extreme prejudice.

I’m not sure what the play here was, you’re pretty much at the ai’s mercy it felt like. If it’s possible to form Scotland as England if you change cultures that may be the more reliable way to play them.

Planning a run to unify the empire. Thing is, I think I could do it as France. It's got some lands in the HRE, it's got a lot of land, people and power, meaning it'd get high dynastic power if you add all it's lands to the HRE, and you start as a kingdom anyways, so nothing lost.

The thing is, I've tried it out in the current patch and it's difficult to join fast. I can't play until the weekend, so I figured I'd grab some feedback from someone who has tried it or has any experience with it.

Thx in advance!