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BeigeVolvo
Norway17 Posts
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Warcloud
United States97 Posts
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Ramong
Denmark1706 Posts
On July 29 2011 03:08 beef42 wrote: My problem lies with pirates. Twice a year or so they pop up all around my colonies, and I have to mop them all up. This is really annoying, when I like to superspeed my way through peacetime. But these pirates force me to stop up all the time. Can I fix this somehow? Yes you can! I had the same problem with pirates, and it can be fixed in 2 ways I have found. 1. Have a small navy in docked around your colonies, you don't need a navy in each colony, just spread them out so there is a navy close to all colonies. 2. You can patrol with your navy, look for a button under the ship list in your selected navy saying "Start Patrol". This will eventually cause attrition so after 10 year you have to dock them for a month or 2. I personally went with number 1. I had the Azores (small island west of Portugal), Jamaica and most of the northern North America + some Asian countries. Station 2 ships in Azores, 2 docks in the north America, Jamaica and some docks in Asia and the pirate problem was for the most part fixed for me. | ||
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beef42
Denmark1037 Posts
In any case, thanks for the advice. | ||
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Skilledblob
Germany3392 Posts
On July 29 2011 03:27 beef42 wrote: Uh, so to reiterate, it's okay if I just have ships docked in the harbors? They don't actually have to sail around all the time? In any case, thanks for the advice. yes just let some ships, even one might be enough, stay in a harbor and it will keep pirates from spawning in a fairly big area around it | ||
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Euronyme
Sweden3804 Posts
Either way, the game is soon about to end (1750 now. It ends about 1820 right?) and I'm thinking of taking over HRE. What are the odds of the AI saying no to your reforms? I'm at the one where you dissolve all casus bellis within the empire, and I'm not sure I wanna do it as that means I can't kill off my vasalls =/ Does anyone wanna know if there are conditions, such as high infamy (currently around 20 after taking a chunk of orleans) when doing the reforms? | ||
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Ramong
Denmark1706 Posts
Infamy does indeed influence diplomatic decisions and I would think that include HRE too | ||
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Monsen
Germany2548 Posts
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e4e5nf3
Canada599 Posts
I'm perplexed as to what happened. I thought maybe my fleet engaged an enemy fleet and lost, but I don't recall seeing a "you lost this battle" message, plus I had the largest fleet in the game, twice that of the next country, and on average the ships were in pretty good health... they would have beaten any other fleet that came against them. I was shocked. Reloading wasn't an option so I continued to play. Rebuilding my entire fleet really set me back; it took me almost a decade to becoming a naval power again and I lost a lot of continental provinces during that time because I couldn't ferry enough troops to defend them. I also lost a decades worth of building provincial improvements. Oh well, maybe it's good that I was set back a bit. I was starting to get a little cocky, being able to just dominate everyone with my naval and land armies, haha. | ||
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Krehlmar
Sweden1149 Posts
Not counting 1 province countries. | ||
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Skilledblob
Germany3392 Posts
On July 29 2011 21:12 e4e5nf3 wrote: Wow, as Britain I suddenly lost my entire fleet (40 carracks, 25 cogs) while fighting around Italy. I'm not sure what happened. I heard about sea attrition and am always careful to send my fleet back to a safe harbor to repair when I see it start to wear down. As soon as I got the message that I lost one of my ships due to attrition I started heading back to an ally port. But it never made it back.... it just... vanished! At the time I had the speed cranked at full for just a few seconds and was focused on land battles. I'm perplexed as to what happened. I thought maybe my fleet engaged an enemy fleet and lost, but I don't recall seeing a "you lost this battle" message, plus I had the largest fleet in the game, twice that of the next country, and on average the ships were in pretty good health... they would have beaten any other fleet that came against them. I was shocked. Reloading wasn't an option so I continued to play. Rebuilding my entire fleet really set me back; it took me almost a decade to becoming a naval power again and I lost a lot of continental provinces during that time because I couldn't ferry enough troops to defend them. I also lost a decades worth of building provincial improvements. Oh well, maybe it's good that I was set back a bit. I was starting to get a little cocky, being able to just dominate everyone with my naval and land armies, haha. when you get the message that one of your ships sunk due to attrition it is actually too late for the rest of your fleet to make it back when you dont have a harbor in really close proximity Ships start sinking when your whole fleet is around 5-10% HP so if you send them back from Italy to England they had no chance. In these moments you have to find someone nearby who lets your armies enter his country, then you can park your ships in his harbor and they get repaired Scotland is annoying with the beta patch when you are at war they spawn 11000 soldiers in the highlands every year and you own army is starving everywhere ............. | ||
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Ramong
Denmark1706 Posts
I just completed a playthrough as England in the new beta patch, what I did was to start over untill I got the attack Scotland mission, sold my provinces on the mainland to france and burgendy. Send a soldier to the island that scotland have, waited for their army to go there and used my navy to keep them trapped there! Then take most of scotland, and wait a few years for the rest | ||
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Xedat
Germany358 Posts
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Ramong
Denmark1706 Posts
On July 30 2011 01:48 Xedat wrote: Can someone give me a link to the beta patch? I have been searching a lot and cannot seem to find it. Thanks! Only think you can find it on Paradox Entertainment forum, being beta and all. I at least haven't found it any other places | ||
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Skilledblob
Germany3392 Posts
On July 30 2011 01:48 Xedat wrote: Can someone give me a link to the beta patch? I have been searching a lot and cannot seem to find it. Thanks! what you can do is look in your steam folder for EU3 and there should be a launcher exe start it and you will get into the launcher menu there you can search for new updates and the game will download the new beta patch | ||
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vyyye
Sweden3917 Posts
On July 30 2011 02:04 Skilledblob wrote: what you can do is look in your steam folder for EU3 and there should be a launcher exe start it and you will get into the launcher menu there you can search for new updates and the game will download the new beta patch I don't think the launcher updates beta patches, only the retail ones. Nor do I think there has been a beta patch after 5.1 release, it should be in the Tech Support forum on Paradoxplaza. | ||
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Skilledblob
Germany3392 Posts
On July 30 2011 02:51 vyyye wrote: I don't think the launcher updates beta patches, only the retail ones. Nor do I think there has been a beta patch after 5.1 release, it should be in the Tech Support forum on Paradoxplaza. that's what i did so i am fairly sure i patched from 5.0 to 5.1 by doing what I wrote | ||
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Warcloud
United States97 Posts
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Euronyme
Sweden3804 Posts
For some reason it says I have 1% morale, even though I have 4 stars in the ledger. And it only shows in combat, so there's no way of knowing :/ Ah well. Just finished the game and I got a little sad.. It's too bad you can't continue in some kind of free game mode where you get a chance to conquere the entire world. I started out small and under a union so I never got the chance. Atleast they could've made some sweet ending graphic of the expansion of your empire or something along those lines.. ah well. Awesome fucking game regardless ^__^ | ||
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vyyye
Sweden3917 Posts
On July 30 2011 03:11 Skilledblob wrote: that's what i did so i am fairly sure i patched from 5.0 to 5.1 by doing what I wrote 5.1 is not a beta patch. | ||
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