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.

You can all look forward to it: EU5 Globe

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?

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

R5: For some reason when ever I reload a save, Iberia is just broken. This time however, Iberia is still broken but Japan appears.

I have some questions about slave goods

1. How many X slaves = 1 slave good? (Prediction 100 slave pop = 2 slave good, because of slave market)
2. If I mod and create a building that only inputs wheat and outputs slave goods, will that magically create slave pops?
3. How do slave goods, culture, and religion change if they can transform back to pop? Will the system keep checking their last status? Or depending on the location, pop culture / Religion?
4. How slave turn back into peasants? Is it based on are they following state religion / Culture? Or also affected by the slave conversion law?

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?

Ostrog now gives you 60 proximity, but you can only build it in the Urals or Siberia.

I think it's a great change that makes Siberian expansion viable: no need to waste precious governors on it.

What do I do now? I keep getting "propose ruler" requests from other countries, but I want someone of my culture and religion. How do I get an heir/ruler that's Sunni and Turkish? (This happened RIGHT after I started this war btw lol)

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.

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.

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!

every defensive war i am getting 100 notification about them wanting to lend me a unit, I hope they will also add an option to disable this notification

Because this has played out so well in history, right?

So playing as Georgia I eventually got a Greek revolt where a bunch of my Greek territories revolted and automatically became the vassal of another Greek nation Cyprus. The revolt was quickly crushed, however when I click annex revolter, I don’t get any of my rebelling lands back, they remain independent and a vassal of Cyprus, and I would be forced to gain huge amount of aggressive expansion to reannex my rebelling provinces which is completely unfair, I just arbitrarily lose my lands and have no way of getting them back again without cheats.

I had this happened before in a France campaign where a bunch of my Castilian land revolted and became a part of Castile again who automatically declares war on me, and after crushing them the land isn’t reannexed I’m forced to either arbitrarily lose that land or just retake all that land and aggressive expansion again for no reason.

From my mamluke campaign in the latest 1.4.1 beta.

Japan unified and ate all of Korea, big ming that doing well financially (unfortunately they never get out of their disaster as they never have high celestial authority nor do they ever complete the cabinet action), big Orissa allied with me while I'm trying to eat India for fun, big Timurid monarchy doing very well financially and militarily.

Broad Strokes:

1. Start as Tenochtitlan and become Independent
2. Subjugate one of Pueblo Nations
3. Subjugate Cahokia (with own regular+levy+food carts and you should be Duchy at this point), then delete the market
4. Conquer Haudenosaunee market province then delete the market
5. if you see Quebec/NewBrunswick/Acadia, Gardar (greenland) market should be within range

1. Option A: From Haudenosaunee subjugate Sops to Mannahatta province -> colonize those provinces -> change culture -> build some missionaries in locations with greenland market (dont need to finish) -> bring 2 jaguar + 4 foodcarts to attack the SOP and take one location

1. Option B: Subjugate SOPs and colonize your way up to Quebec

1. Building Mason in location with greenland market should reveal the market center but you should be kingdom at this point to range greenland

2. Attack Greenland without CB. offer concession war reps, money, Optionally if you want diseases give atleast 3 provinces bordering your lands and 3 subjects

1. (Ignore if didnt gave land/subjects) With Deus Vult, Religious CB attack greenland's overlord again despite the truce, target province should be one that you gave, occupy wargoal and enemy subjects we just gave away. Seperate peace other allies with war reps+money and optional catholic conversion, From war leader get transfer of greenland and a yarldom

1. Post War improve everyone's opinion now that they are within diplo range thanks to transfered subjects and get+offer fleeting rights

Methods Used:

1. War CB: Denied Military Access + Unique Subjugate Native peace option of Tenochtitlan. This is our bread and butter throughout the game, mainly needed for upgrading country ranks to Duchy and later Kingdom for Prestige.
2. Upgrading to Kingdom:

50 Prestige: Tenochtitlan will have some prestige events ranging from 20 to 30, when it fires, that is time to upgrade, get 2 wars with one or more alliances and humiliate them seperately

Population Requirement: We need 1 mil accepted/primary culture, Textcoco and Tenochtitlan Province should have 65%+, subjugate Guamare people in Pechitane Province and accept them, that should give 35%+ pops needed.

1. Getting Maps:

Main Source are SOPs, I got mine via war with SOPs, but focus on maps necessary to your goals and do use extra diplomats to spy on SOPs to steal maps, Tenochtitlan has modifiers to facilitate spy construction and you should have a century to explore and colonize all before colonizers arrive.

Some Headsup:

1. do not bother building spy networks on old world since without trans-oceanic tile, Player cannot steal maps or get them via peace treaties.
2. I did not reform Nahua due to surrendering to civil war for advances bs, that would have reset my progress anyway so I didnt bother, instead I had a land bordering cahokia which i used for religious war converting to ceremonial to reset doom- than back to Nahua by accepting rebel zealots, thus i converted to catholic, you could chose to do otherwise.
3. You could totally save scum, especially when colonizing, save scum until you are colonizing exactly the location you wanted to further your progress.

Final Thoughts:

I had played very inefficiently and got into unnecessary goals such as losing to civil war to reset original capital to east coast for extra advances, so if you plan properly you should be able to do this earlier than me.

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?

Playing as Naples and struggling to get the economy going early game. Or is it just the way it is now? Thanks

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.