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I think toast's got 99 farming, as has everyone that was previously like 30-40 levels behind me lmao. weeeeee

Hells yea

Retech, any player talking in absolutes about what will happen is merely posturing. What was your decision for this random event again? All successful. Problem though... You have a separate treasury of 10m. You can steal the royal treasury if you'd like though :P (In case anyone is curious, Doom is not playing as France any longer, but as Revolutionary France) ---- Also, Austria-Hungary has colonized 5 colonies in Australia. There was a bit of confusion at first when the ship captain received his orders to colonize Africa, but thankfully the orders were accompanied by a map so he went off to Australia.

France chooses Option D: Do nothing. Weee Rebvolution. I can't be arsed to fix the typo. ------------------- Austro-Hungarian Invasion of Croatia Winter, 1779 November 18th, 1779. An Austro-Hungarian army numbering 23,000 strong crossed the border into Croatia, intent on smashing aside the Croatian army and adding its lands to the Habsburg kingdom. What met them was a Croatian army of 8,000 strong, composed of mostly skirmishers. The Austro-Hungarians blazed into Croatia led by General Zweig, who had been handpicked for the task due to his offensive style. The Croatians however, refused to meet the Austrian army on the field, and instead retreated closer towards the coast, where they were preparing their defensive position in the Dinaric Alps. The Croatians sped ahead of the pursuing Austrians, as they lacked the slow moving artillery that General Zweig had with his army, and so reached the Alps far ahead of the Austrians, and set to work extending the defensive works. The Austrians reached the Croatian line, which had now been bolstered by 2,000 hastily raised militia units, on November 31st and General Zweig began his cannonade. For a week it continued, pummeling the Croatian positions before Zweig ordered his troops forward. In this terrain his cavalry was next to useless, but he was relying on the bulk of his forces – his line infantry, to take the brunt of the Croatian fire so that his Guard troops and Grenadiers could get in to clear the entrenched defenders. The Austrian line moved forward, and the Croatians remained silent. They waited until the Austrians were close enough, then unleashed a crushing volley, before they devolved into a chaotic mass that fired without order, as fast as they could reload. The Austrians suffered heavily under this fire, advancing in short bursts, the clean order of the line dissolved. But Zweig was watching, and had figured out where the Croatian militia units were positioned by the slower rate of fire, and that’s where he committed his elite. 2,000 Imperial Guard and 1,000 Grenadiers rushed forward, and the grenadiers tossed their crude grenades into the militia troops before the Imperial Guard rushed forward with bayonets fixed. The Croatian militia could not stand against such professional troops, and fled before the Guard’s bayonets even reached them. There was a hole in the Croatian line, and the Austrian troops poured in. While Fusiliers pushed in the Croatian flanks, the mass of line infantry, grenadiers, and imperial guards expanded the gap outwards, until the entire Croatian line seemed to ripple before panic took it and they fled like the militia did. Zweig threw forward his lancers to pursue, but most of the Croatians fled deeper into the mountains, where the cavalry could not catch them. Result: Tactical victory: Austria-Hungary Strategic Victory: Austria-Hungary Casualties: Croatia: Entire army (10,000) Austria-Hungary: 6,000 Line infantry dispersed over the different regiments (these will be replenished by the next budget through recruitment – no cost) Croatia offers Austria-Hungary the following peace terms: They will pay Austria-Hungary 5,000,000 ducats this budget, and 5,000,000 the next They will cede Dalmatia to Austria-Hungary (the westernmost province) [You do not need to accept this, and can propose your own terms, whatever they may be]

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If everyone wants to send me a PM with your country name as the title that includes what you're researching and how much you're putting in each reset it would be easier for me to keep track of without accidentally missing something. --- Austria-Hungary has mobilized its army. Spies report that the army's location means that it is either preparing for an invasion of Italy, Croatia, or the Ottoman Empire. ---

I am back aye, 375k to go :P And yeah, I've been gone a while. I pretty much stopped playing in 2007 I believe. 'Tis good to see you got 99 though, congrats :D

Pretty much every country has some sort of plan in place in case they need to attack any other country. BREAKING NEWS: Sources reveal that the US Army Command had planned and trained for the possibility of a Russian attack on American soil during the height of the cold war. This is C. Obvious, channel 011011000110111101101100 news.

3,000 infantry, 10 cannon, and an unknown number of cavalry (at least twice the number of infantry)

470k to go

Khiva. Fair enough.

Btw Mather, Denmark is not taken, and it controls Norway as well...

mather, you're not getting all of Africa.

Coins/Food/Melee Equipment Magic equipment Range equipment Herblore Farming Mining/Fletching/WC/Crafting Summoning Random crap

Naval research as well. And then anything else you want that could give you a benefit in the game (Icu for example is researching winter equipment, which would reduce the attrition his armies take in cold environments). There are no real major 'must have' technologies though. I think the only one that gives you a major boost is the steam engine and railroads. It just means that you won't get that technology until you research it. No, the PM states that it's determined by the cash invested per budget reset. Announcement - Prussia:

Pshaw, you don't have your Model 10 Time Machine yet, Rocco? Jeez, you're so old school. (Yes August 2nd, my apologies)

July 2nd -- --

Question is in the title.

The fields are pretty much whatever you want to research. Like, instead of researching farming you can research agriculture as that gives you the whole umbrella of everything under it. The more broad the field you're putting money into is generally the better, but if you get down to specifics (like researching a new type of musket, for example) then it may go faster. Who knows (it's all random). Well, if you get attacked you still need to pay deployment costs for troops. Those were the size of the respective armies, which included all the supply officers, scouts, provots, and everything else. The amount of fighting troops was a lot less. This is true. ---- Summer, 1778

Except then it turns into every other hegemony where in two weeks we're having 300k vs 400k sized battles.

Why do people insist on having avatars that give epileptic seizures?

When I used to farm on Dusty, for herb/allotments I used to go: Camelot teleport for the patch near there, bank, then ectophial to the patch near port platypus (whatever its actual name is), then take the fairy ring to right outside the legends guild, bank there, go to the ardouge patch, then bank either in ardouge or back at the legends guild, then over to trollheim, then finish up with the falador patch (you can use the explorer's ring 3 for that one).

Once the 2nd of July comes around I think I may change it to 1 day = 1 year and a 5 year budget reset. This means you'll get attrition in some places all year around instead of just in the winter though. Interesting. I should check that game out :P --- News: Italy colonizes Madagascar

Leftover money carries over to next budget, yeah.

And a word on Random Events: I figured I could just let people learn this on their own, but I realized that it might end up getting some people annoyed that they missed out on certain things, so I'll explaing a bit here. Some random events actually have a progression that they take on after the choices you make in the initial one, and sometimes the easy way out is not always the best decision to make. Take, for example, this first random event: Trol decided to take Option A, which would attempt the eliminate the corruption. Now, since a +1% tariff increase is 100K, it would take 20 resets to make back the money, but since you're taking efforts to curb the corruption, it actually sets you up for some good random events (free colonization, monetary rewards, gifts of soldiers, etc). If he would have taken Option B, or C, the event progression and corruption would have gotten worse, and costed more to curb (eg. minus 4,000,000 denars for a +1% tariff increase), and if nothing was done about it it would have progressed to the point where the colonists got fed up and there started to be independence movements, but since he picked option A in the first one and attempted to stop the corruption, then Spain gets a respite from the colonial independence revolts for a time period. Another example: Picking Option A would have led to a series of events that would've culminated with Ireland declaring independence and fighting their own revolutionary war against Great Britain. Option B, though it seemed to be the most costly of the option at first, would have led to more events where Irish people wanted more concessions, until eventually it comes to a random event where they say, 'Y'know what...maybe Great Britain isn't so bad after all', and then Icu would've been able to hire a unique Irish skirmisher unit that was just as effective as the normal one, albiet a bit cheaper. Option C however, was the easy way out, that just simply ended the chain of events. Keep in mind though, that sometimes there isn't a progression, and random events are actually just a one time thing. I won't say which ones are and which ones aren't ;) 1.5m You can get rid of the technology malus, but it'll take a long while and several serious reforms. Ottomans get it as well.