Europa Universalis V confirmed

[HVC]

Ive been burned too many times, I'll let you guys power through the bugs and balancing

[Norgy]

On a different note, my computer runs this more smoothly than Vic3. 

I have no idea what I am doing, and no plan. Leaving the Kingdom of Norway in my hands was a bad idea.

(Since Norway was one of the recommended starts, well, why not)

We're integrating a few Sapmis in the north and trying hard to bring more control to the silver-producing Kongsberg mines by using a cabinet slot and building some roads.

One would like to do a little minting. We are cash-strapped, you see. I invested all my starting cash in the mine, roads, wheat and livestock RGOs.

Supposedly I am pushed towards humiliating a rival to increase prestige. With... what army? Some peasant levies? I think we will be better off keeping those peasants tilling the land right now.

I have no fleet, and the nobility is pissed off with me for some reason or another. A rebellion is brewing, and I might just let it happen, as it might rid me of that useless king.

[Valmy]

Ive been burned too many times, I'll let you guys power through the bugs and balancing

This is the first Paradox game I have bought on release since 2012 so I am fresh and innocent again

And I really enjoyed CK2 on release. Granted I only had CK1 to compare it to at that point.

[crazy canuck]

Wow, 40 minutes in and I have not yet unpaused, just looking at all the info - love this 

[Syt]

Sleeping on it for a night, I feel that the game has tons of detail, I think the gameplay itself is fairly straightforward (in a mechanical sense) - you have your politics (council, parliament/assembly/diet, laws, reforms, privileges), your economy (infrastructure, buildings, trade, budget) and your diplomacy (the usual). It all ties together of course and there's a lot of differentiation (cultural content, country content etc.) but a lot of it feels for lack of a better word fairly intuitive at first glance? I guess I mean there's less abstraction than what EU4 was.

Much of learning will come down to what modifiers to go for when, what actions synergize best and (the most immediate one) building the muscle memory of which menu has which options/actions.

[Solmyr]

Started as the Ottomans (lol can I be). They start with 200 professional troops which seem to carry them through fighting the other beyliks. Antagonism can get pretty dangerous though - so far I had two coalition wars declared on me: first one against Byzantium, Bulgaria, and Genoa, second one Byzantium, Bulgaria, and Trebizond. I lost the first war as they managed to kill most of my troops, but made it with just a humiliation and releasing one vassal. I won the second coalition war, taking all Byzantine possessions in Anatolia.

Still getting used to control mechanics - a bunch of my locations have zero control. I created some vassals, but the Ottomans apparently need to own 100 locations in Anatolia directly before 1400 in order not to fail the Rise of the Turks situation, so presumably I need some way to increase control myself. Still trying to figure out how to do it.

Oh, and after play for many hours, I reached... the year 1363. It's SLOOOOOOOOW.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

It's a real time simulation then? 

[Tamas]

Yeah. No way this is even remotely balanced after the first 100 years or so, how could it be?

Still excited to learn it, though.

One nice aspect of the detail, that Victoria 3 has as well is that with a big country I just... don't have the urge to conquer? Like, Hungary. It's huge and fairly rich but at the start my capital has pretty much no buildings (a fact I only realised watching a youtube video), and my control radiates as if it was a dim little candle. So seems like plenty of opportunity to figure out development within the borders.

[Tamas]

One silliness I have noticed already though: Hungary has a union with Croatia and Naples, this is like an "international organisation" in game terms. Which ends up giving a -60 malus to marriage acceptance. In other words, my heir (and later king) has NOBODY of noble blood in diplo range (on that massive map) who is willing to marry him, the ruler of one of the biggest countries on the map. And marrying a commoner is a massive prestige hit

[crazy canuck]

Yeah. No way this is even remotely balanced after the first 100 years or so, how could it be?

Still excited to learn it, though.

One nice aspect of the detail, that Victoria 3 has as well is that with a big country I just... don't have the urge to conquer? Like, Hungary. It's huge and fairly rich but at the start my capital has pretty much no buildings (a fact I only realised watching a youtube video), and my control radiates as if it was a dim little candle. So seems like plenty of opportunity to figure out development within the borders.

Yeah, I really like the control mechanic. A solution to blobbing that provides the player with a fun alternative.

[Valmy]

It annoys me I cannot just get some local noble to marry. Why is it either marry some middle class slob or a royal marriage? If there is no Anne of Cleves, surely I can just marry Catherine Howard right?

I like how many things I can automate. So many systems to learn.