All of these items have an on/off switch option.

The Steam Workshop will likely be updated the day after tomorrow.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3817487775

1. Post two weeks before a major patch release asking "I bought the game at launch but I stopped playing. Is it worth playing now?/Is EU5 good now?"
2. Ask for every meta guide and YouTube tutorial for the current patch because everything you've seen is obsolete.
3. Play for three days at launch.
4. If you followed a YouTube guide step by step but things didn't work out like they did in the video and you got whooped, write a post claiming that the new patch is unbalanced and broken.
5. If things did work out, play for 80 years, conquer a few countries or achieve a few milestones, then get bored because your country—played according to the meta, with everything figured out for you—is broken in this patch. Don't forget to rave about it in your next post!
6. Uninstal the game.
7. Two weeks before the next major patch release, go back to step 1.

Why is this QOL feature not in the game yet?

This one's repeatable, too. How bizarre. I would love to know what's happening in the code here.
Ujjayinja here is co-member of a defensive union with me, which may play some part, maybe?

EDIT: the country I'm getting put into a union with was at one point my fiefdom? That I created for integration reasons? Somehow they've ended up as an independent state that's been co-ruled by me for several years?? They absolutely despise me?????

I’m playing Russia. I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure Siberia was one of the most important regions of Russia from its fur and metals. However I find myself just struggling to get pops and control over there, as opposed to just throwing all my people on Western Europe, where control and climate is easier

Is it possible to make Siberia as profitable as it was historically? Am I doing something wrong? And lastly am I simply overrating the value of Siberia

As the title says, where did I go wrong? I'm a pretty casual player but I definitely feel as though I'm pretty far behind, with a low tax base and not as much land as I should have. Georgia is my tributary and Egypt is my ally. I also feel like my control is very low but I've built roads and bridges and governors whenever/wherever I can, so I'm not sure what I can do to improve that, but any help is appreciated!

Currently playing as Hawaii, united the islands before Age 3 (when naval levies disappear) using a combination of diplo and direct annexation, discovered the Atzapozalco market to import medicaments, colonized Kiribati using Fund Noble Colonization parliament issue to get enough colonial range, and then finally got fleet basing rights with Samoa. The question is where do I go from here to get to Europe? Sure you can always just brute force colonize your way west to but has someone mapped out an efficient route to do so?

I play on my laptop, which was pretty good when I got it six years ago but struggled whenever I got to the mid game. Version 1.4 runs like a breeze, so speed 5 actually feels fast. I’m having an absolute blast playing it.

r5:

Before we drop Rio Salado though, you can catch up on the new features in this Quick Highlight video: https://pdxint.at/riosaladohighlight

Has anyone ever seen population drop like that? It has dropped for around 60K pops from 1340 to 1380. And no, on the demography tab does not address it...
And its also only on this province, my capital, all other of my provinces seem to be unaffected...

Pretty much question from title, any advice how to get more income? Been struggling to get above 50g when army and keeps are on low maintenance. Been spamming a lot of rgo's and markets ( as long as i have enough people to employ) and building with highest income, but doesnt seem to be enough for bigger army. So any useful advice?

In 1337 Cilli starts as a 2 rural location county inside of the HRE with 63 thousand inhabitants, 6 unique advances and 0 formables, usually disappearing in the first 50 years of a campaign. So I did what all of us would have done and turned it into a global powerhouse, playing tall and wide for hundreds of years and defeating much more powerful nations such as Austria, Hungary and the Ottomans, ushering in an age of South Slavic unity, prosperity and cultural sophistication. Most importantly, I got to witness what Cilli's Empire-level title is, and now I am able to share this gift with all of you.

there's a weird play pattern with tariffs now where you don't actually want to build too much market attraction. you build just enough to keep your own locations in your market, but you often really don't want to pull in other towns and cities from the AI.

basically, pop demand has always been at a premium. with tariffs now you can discourage foreign manufactured goods from entering your markets and keep that demand for your own industries. but once you attract an AI city into your market, their production is inside that protection too. now they're competing with your buildings and driving down your prices, except you don't get their tax base or control what they build.

yes they bring some demand as well but it's always tiny in comparison to the bloat they produce. competing over rural locations for raw materials makes much more sense. otherwise, market protection seems to do most of what you actually want.

the reason i'd call this somewhat unintended is that market attraction is clearly treated as something valuable. there are advances and unique reforms that give it to you as an upside, and part of their value is supposed to come from that bonus. but now that "bonus modifier" can actively undermine the economy you're trying to build.

i'm not saying every market attraction bonus is useless, there are defiantly situations where it's very useful for example when you own a market centre in a colony and want to attract as many trade good RGOs as possible, but in general it feels like 1.4 changed its value quite a lot without rebalancing all the advances and reforms that give it to you as a bonus.

Rant aside, I want to just say a big thank you to the devs because I've been having a blast with tariffs and trade orders this patch after they fixed the trade range bug. the only thing that's missing is the ability to copy paste trade orders XD I probably should have put this at the top, but I was thinking market attraction...

As england i've decided to sell off my vassals to castille and bohemia at start to not get distracted and play tall and france got HRE-ified. Not a single englishman crossed the channel.

Like, why PDX? What was the idea behind it? I could understand if I got crown power from fiefdoms and stuff - but I don't.

I get 0 crown power bonuses from my subjects. I am already penalized in loyalty debuff if subjects are too strong. So why would my local power I get from every single pop be penalized by subject eco base?

"Oh sorry m'lord, I would be 100% loyal to you, but I heard you also managed to subjugate 10 other powerful kingdoms that all pay you taxes and die for us in wars, so fuck you for that"

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tl;dr - I lose 30% of crown power because my crown is too powerful. Thank you.

as in, you no longer have to make the decision right as the colonial nation forms?

I havent been able to find the button, but i swear I read this somewhere.

My emperor got the trait "cruel". The empress is 40+ y.o. and gave me two daughters. I'm about to change the dynasty because I can't murder her and remarry. Come on, this is Byzantium after all. Murdering a relative wasn't an event, but another Tuesday.
Well, at least you can castrate your "idiot" heir in the beginning of the game when he comes of age, for which you don`t even need to be "cruel" (you kick him out of the inheritance line this way). At least something, although "cruel" trait is kinda useless.

There are still "set cabinet member cost" and "change cabinet member cost" modifiers. With the new mana, isn't the former modifier completely useless? There is no cost to setting the cabinet member, so therefore useless. Am I misinterpreting it? Because the cost now comes from changing. Do they stack somehow?

Hi everyone.

I'm currently playing as France in 1.4.4 Rio Salado.

I'm trying to send slave pops from West Africa to my colonies in America to work in the RGO and plantations. I made a big order to buy slaves good in Niani and to sell them in the Florida's market. The trade works fine, but there isn't any pops moving.

In the Niani market tab, it shows a number of available slaves of 400K, but only 1 or 2 guy move each month from Niani to Florida, like if there wasn't any available slave pop, but the data show 400K.

Anyone faced the same issue? My RGOs desperately need slave so I can sell this sweet cocoa in Europe.

I saw in several runs that that the Crusaders are coming for me as Ottomans. To be honest they just shipped the whole troops on my mainland, and since 10 years I'm killing the troops, but I can't do a white peace, so it's pretty much very annoying.