Agreed.

Care to include the netherlands in this alliance? (Hey more ships=good [and I have a gunners mate admiral])

HAR HAR HAR!

Meh it's all I really have to invest in for defense (well I need a decent army but I digress)

I have no interest in attacking anyone, infact I probably wont take any of America's provinces, unless he just starts going relentless at me.

Next highest would be Spain, with 11 Two deckers and 10 frigates.

 

 

 

@ Dusty - The fourth province I sent a team to is the one on the coast of California. 250 Cuirassiers and 50k in trinkets & supplies are sent along, as before.

Now, now, I'm sure we can sort all this naval muscle flexing with a nice little land battle, eh? :P

 

Also, good to see Portugal & Great Britain united once more! haha

 

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Spain:

Colonization successful.

 

Annnnd of course

Russia requests that her trading ships sailing in the Atlantic are not taxed or attacked more than any other nation.

 

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Does anyone know what that lime green nation is? Also, could I get a rough idea of its military? (And terrain, if that would be okay. Steppes, coniferous forests, etc)

:???:

Let's all invade China for the heck of it! :D

Nice way of trying to get rid of one of the nations you're scared of ;)

Russia requests that her trading ships sailing in the Atlantic are not taxed or attacked more than any other nation.

 

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Does anyone know what that lime green nation is? Also, could I get a rough idea of its military? (And terrain, if that would be okay. Steppes, coniferous forests, etc)

 

I have no control over that, 'tis random.

 

That country is Kazakh. It's got a military of around 11,000 or so and is allied with the Ottomans. Terrain you can look up if you want, I think it's mostly steppes though.

 

 

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Also, if you guys want to stay up to date with the world's technological progress, you have to invest 1m in that field per budget. Any more than that will get it done slightly faster.

I have 1m in Ships for the record.

No worries

 

PORTUGAL

 

ARMIES

 

Terco de Lisbon

 

7,000 Line infantry

1,000 skirmishers

2,000 fusiliers

1,000 lancers

500 Hussars

1,000 dragoons

30 cannon

 

 

NAVIES

 

16 Two Deckers

4 Frigates

 

 

TECHNOLOGY

 

Naval technology - 1m

Dang, I lowered it all to 500K, meh, I'll up it back up soon. I just really wanted to colonise those places.

Since I get slower technological advancement, how much do I have to invest to stay on par with the world?

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:

 

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:

Also,

 

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 ;)

 

Since I get slower technological advancement, how much do I have to invest to stay on par with the world?

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.

Can we save money from Budget reset to the next?

I don't think there's any harm to that, since we're not using deployable armies anymore (where you only pay for deployment, not the actual training etc.)

Can we save money from Budget reset to the next?

I don't think there's any harm to that, since we're not using deployable armies anymore (where you only pay for deployment, not the actual training etc.)

Leftover money carries over to next budget, yeah.

Hey, you're doing Random Events just like Galactic Empires! Cool idea, even if it was an unintentional similarity.

This game should have 1 day = 1 year and a 3 day budget reset. I mean, after 2 days, everyone is out of money and there's nothing to do.

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.

 

 

 

Hey, you're doing Random Events just like Galactic Empires! Cool idea, even if it was an unintentional similarity.

Interesting. I should check that game out :P

 

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News: Italy colonizes Madagascar

I like the 2 day=1 year bit, it kinda adds more strategy for war, and it keeps us in the correct time period, though I wouldn't mind more frequent budget resets.

Stick with the 1 day = 2 years, but move the reset to every 2 years.

Stick with the 1 day = 2 years, but move the reset to every 2 years.

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

I quite like the reset every 10 days. It prevents people from burning through their money, then burning through some more money...and so on and so forth until, like Dusty says, there are silly huge armies.

 

 

Added to that I still have a pretty healthy budget, so I am fine.

Could Dusty list the fields of research? I'm saving my monies (roughly 9 million left) until the very end before the reset, so I don't get caught with no money at any time. :P