Europa Universalis V confirmed

[Josephus]

I do believe there will be DLC for EUV.

oh, there'll be lots.

EUIV I believe had it where in addition to the bookmarks, you could play on any single date that you wanted and the map, supposedly, updated with the date you chose.

Obviously that's waaay too much work. But I'm convinced there will be a demand for a 15th century bookmark. Especially since this game is so slow most people are going to quit by the time 1600 arrives.

[Valmy]

Pretty sure I do remember a dev report where they looked at the data and said basically nobody chooses any dates but the earliest ones.

I haven't played a lot of CK3, but I *never* did the 867 date. Mostly 1066 and one game in 1178.

Yeah I certainly was not one to only play the starting dates in Paradox games.

Though the HoI series is totally different. The game is already pretty short and now you want to remove a quarter of it?

[Tamas]

Some bloke's thoughts who played to 1836. My biggest worry is the discrepancy between non-scaling costs (the economy) and scaling costs (events)

https://www.reddit.com/r/EU5/s/fqekQQBE89

[Tamas]

Having reached the 1600s I still feel the most obvious shortcoming is AI countries being either unable or unwilling to push back.

I am able to manage my several decently strong vassals and I am able to maintain the contentment of all estates (except for short periods of dissatisfaction) despite having culled Noble and clergy power to the degree that the Crown has 51%.

The thing is though, since I don't really know what I am doing economically, achieving all this seems to be keeping my budget balanced on a tight rope. It feels like if there was a sustained strain, like conflict with at least a peer, then things could start unravelling. I guess you can say that's what happened to historic Hungary. On paper it was big and rich but was too mismanaged to rise to the challenge posed by the Ottomans.

But there is no challenger in my game. To some degree that's understandable (Bohemia could kick my ass but it's make sense they don't want to bother) but it feels like the AI is too risk averse.