I know, you need to revoke the priviliges of the estates to make your crown power higher. But the problem is. If I revoke their privilges they are gonna end up fucking mad and I will get 0 taxes. So I try to keep a delicate balance of keeping beneficial priviliges to tax them. Yet it reduces my crown power.

How do I solve this dillema? Because the laws you pass often hurts estate satisfaction like Favor the Ruler, Education of the People, those two are my favs.

You can all look forward to it: EU5 Globe

There's no way a nation with a sixth of my population can exert this much control over it's nation.

I get that the new DLC would end poorly if Castille always won, but, then again, that doesn't mean Morocco is as powerful as HRE emperor France, who's halfway towards winning the Italian wars and is currently using not only the all four of the local governors his current research levels allow, but an aditional Italian administration centre and a naval governor.

And I know it's a matter of them having three local governors, the new muslim bureaucracy and, as a consequence, insane concentration of control within what lands they have. Even then, this is insane levels of tax base for the 1481 for a nation that has not moved from it's initial borders.

My country sucks why am I getting haters who are too far to even get near me

Can someone explain to me why cities don't lose buildings and development after being occupied for a long time? It's completely ahistorical. Cities often had to be rebuilt after wartime destruction, and some never recovered from it. I understand reducing prosperity, but there should be actual physical destruction in locations. This isn't just an issue with EU5, but also CK3 and Victoria 3.

How come I cannt add a local governor here?

R5: Opinion calculation is either broken or obscure - tried to get an alliance with Norway, and I'm blocked due to "our opinion of them" being negative. But it looks like it should be positive (..?!)

As it says in the title, I'm confused about the actual impact of Burghers Trading on my country's/location's income. I know that Burghers will import and export extra goods based on Pop Needs, but on patch 1.4.1. there doesn't even seem to be any way to see what they're actually trading.

It used to be that Burgher Trades show somewhere in the Market Panel next to regular trades. Right now the only information available is the total Burghers Trade Capacity with a breakdown of capacity at each location - though hovering at the corresponding capacity X doesn't actually explain why is it exactly "X" at that location. One can only speculate it's related to Burgher pop count and Marketplace building levels.

It's extra confusing because the Wealth tooltip also says Burghers Trades can contribute to Wealth at the location, but it doesn't actually say how much it contributes to each location's wealth.

With that in mind it could actually be the play to expand Marketplaces if you're staring as a country with very powerful Noble Estate and low Peasant Enfranchisment (expanding RGOs will just transfer ~90% of the income to Nobles, whom you can barely tax).

Anyone here knows something more about this topic?

I come from CK3, but I've logged 60+ hours into EU5 by playing on and off over the last year or so. I tried picking the game back up this weekend, playing as Ottomans, because they're supposed to be the easiest nation to pick up and play.

I've got the hang of estates & the fundamental country management tabs. I clear the early game okay, go to war with Byzantium & get Constantinople, Karamanids, most of western Anatolia is under my reign. I hand off a lot of land to vassals because it's expensive to sit on land that I have no control over.

After the bubonic plague sweeps through, I feel like all of the early-game buffs are completely gone. My manpower has significantly decreased. The 15+ easy ducats per month has turned red. The expenses keep piling up even though I try to delete unprofitable buildings. The majority of my time is spent mitigating debt, low stability, and low legitimacy. I finally turn it around, gear up, take the Eretnids, and now I have a coalition that completely steamrolls me, I sue for peace and end up with every problem being 10x worse than before.

I'm tired of feeling like I've spent an entire day and lots of effort working on a project that was doomed from the start. What am I missing? Do I need to sit down and watch those hours of tutorials on YouTube & take notes in order to actually play this game?

If you dont start as Naples or the HRE Emperor. Ive played Venice twice and both times the Situation just fizzled out. I can pull Ghibellines into my faction through warfare because the Emperor is going to steal my lunch, and the AI seems to just switch between factions with no goal in mind. Even when the Ghibellines were most powerful, with Naples, Sicily, Florence, Milan and Bohemia, they still didnt seem to be generating enough monthly progress to actually win the situation. Is it just broken?

I’m visiting Germany so when I have down time in between activities it’s fun to play as a German state and try to form Germany.

I’m not trying to rush forming Germany. I mostly just don’t want a struggle session. I prefer these kinds of things being very straightforward for paradox games I haven’t sunk thousands of hours into. The sooner I I can be stable with a strong central government, a sizable army, and a profitable capital the better.

I’m playing on the beta.

Danke.

Im trying to go for the latin empire as achaea, but naples will just not fuck off and because you cant peace out within 12 months you cant get any land, any advice because the region seems just entirely unplayable.

I have a Florence play through, big chunk of northern Italy, massive colonial empire spanning half the world, great economy.

But I’m bored, any small county in Italy the whole world joins against me 1M plus troops, and even if I declare war against Naples more or less the same thing.

I’m genuinely don’t know what to do next to add a bit of spice to my game, conquer the mayas? And Mesoamérica? Reach the indies and bring back all the pepper? Try to slug out Italy?

1.4 Beta, manually called in the Emporer (bohemia) as wondered why he wasn't defending. He honoured and brought the entire HRE in with him. Is this broken or how it's supposed to work now?

Hi everyone! I’ve never played grand strategy games like EU5 or anything similar before. I only have a few hundred hours in Hearts of Iron IV.

Could you recommend a country for a complete beginner? I’m looking for a nation that would let me take my time and learn the mechanics, including things like trade, without being under too much pressure.

I tried starting as Kyiv, but things went completely wrong, and now I’m just sad :(

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

I’m playing as Norway. Every time I win a war, my income is roughly cut in half due to maintenance costs from the new territory. Even though I got their control over 50% with governors and proximity, literally all of it, and I’m still at a huge net loss from where I started and soft-capped on vassals.

Does anyone know what control level the break even point is to get past building maintenance? The “it increases demand and thus makes profit” building thing that’s going around just seems to not be true, at least around this age and conditions.

I'm choosing to see the funny side of this, but it's also very annoying haha!
Perhaps the 10th child will be a son.

R5: title

Version is 1.4.1, other institutions did not have any problems but I think this is a bug.

Rebels of the world has united over the need of potatoes, millions will die, but maybe, just maybe the government will provide potatoes