Europa Universalis V confirmed

[Josephus]

I been playing as Naples...following the tutorial missions and doing my own stuff...like attacking Sicily.

Some interesting stuff, lots to keep track of. After I conquered a bunch of provinces in Sicily, I couldn't tell if they were cored or not. I can't seem to find the right mapmode, where I can tell like in EUIV which provinces I have claims on, are my cores, etc.

There's tons of stuff here, trying to find what I want can be hard for now.

[Tamas]

I been playing as Naples...following the tutorial missions and doing my own stuff...like attacking Sicily.

Some interesting stuff, lots to keep track of. After I conquered a bunch of provinces in Sicily, I couldn't tell if they were cored or not. I can't seem to find the right mapmode, where I can tell like in EUIV which provinces I have claims on, are my cores, etc.

There's tons of stuff here, trying to find what I want can be hard for now.

I think the official EU5 YouTube channel's population tutorial (Syt linked it earlier) has a short section where they cover that map mode.

[DGuller]

Played the Ottomans for a couple of months before crashing to desktop.  Not the most auspicious of starts. 

[The Brain]

Played the Ottomans for a couple of months before crashing to desktop.  Not the most auspicious of starts. 

Remember to eat and sleep.

[Tamas]

Sorry, not going to mess with gameplay mods in the next few weeks while they keep patching this.

Yeah it was a mistake.

[Tamas]

Weekly patches with first coming tomorrow while a separate team works on the longer term stuff. Nice.

[Josephus]

Lost about 1.3 million people in Naples due to the plague. 

So the latest thing I'm confused with is Institutions and Ages.

How do I advance ages? The Second age (Renaissance, I think) has started but I haven't reached it yet. Do I have to embrace the three Insitutions of the first age first? I have two, but the third one, Meritocracy, is nowhere near me and none of my provinces are close to embracing it.

Can I aid it's spread? How?

[crazy canuck]

Well, if anyone is doing well in this game, please tell me. 

I did very well reading through all the tabs last night.  Oh, you meant playing the game - nope made the mistake of building too many roads at the start and decided to abandon all hope and try again another time. 

Do roads have building maintenance cost?

I have restarted as Hungary, trying to improve things this time rather than sitting and scratching my head. Things are going noticeably worse than when I didn't touch anything. 

I just put too many resources into building them and so I didn't have enough resources to build other buildings and all the other things that gold is needed for in the early game.

On the next play through, I'm going to concentrate more on building up the economy of the areas that are in decent control and then work out from there.  No idea if that will work better but sounds good on paper.

[Legbiter]

The peasants are revolting!



 

[DGuller]

Here are some counts for my first day of owning EU5:

Crashes to desktop:  4
Total PC freezes: 1
Crashes while sending crash report after CtD: 1
Refunds requested: 1
Refunds approved: TBD

[Richard Hakluyt]

One CTD in 11 hours of play. I was looking at tooltips when the end of the month and an autosave happened.

I don't seem to understand how to build a strong economy, in fact it seems to get worse with me at the helm 

It might be that I'm in too much of a hurry, this is a big long game.

Conversely, wars seem to go well for me. This is a reversal of my EU4 experience where I invariably built up a strong economy but messed up the wars.

[Syt]

Here are some counts for my first day of owning EU5:

Crashes to desktop:  4
Total PC freezes: 1
Crashes while sending crash report after CtD: 1
Refunds requested: 1
Refunds approved: TBD

That sucks. What's yor specs? It runs pretty smooth for me except that one CTD on a tooltip.

[Syt]

Sorry, not going to mess with gameplay mods in the next few weeks while they keep patching this.

Yeah it was a mistake.

Partially it's also that I don't trust any AI patch coming out within a day (week? month?) of release considering the scope of the game - how balanced can it be. I wary of Victoria AI "patches" the same way - often they throw balance out the window or implement railroading that makes the game less interesting for me.

Any attempt at AI patching - at least IMHO, I may be way off base here - would be experimentation at best, and that's not a bad thing. Seeing what file/script changes which behavior or affects other scripts/areas. That's useful and necessary in the long run.

But for now I'm busy enough learning where all the levers and buttons are.

I started the Holland tutorial yesterday; only had an hour or so time. But I thought it was not too bad in explaining the interface, some basics, and heavily pointing players to tooltips and the hints system and that e.g. map modes can be activated from popups, windows, right-clicks etc., and not just from the map widget at the bottom. I approve. Also liked how it slowly added the UI bits, and had a moment when at the end it goes, "Oh, and there's alerts!" *drops a dozen or more notifications at the top*

Only thing had me stumped was it told me to mouse over the tax base of a province, and highlighted the big thingie in the provice window ... except it wanted me to mouse over the smaller button further up that gives the same tooltip. Otherwise quite liked the onboarding, though it probably helps if you already know many concepts.

[Norgy]

I don't seem to understand how to build a strong economy, in fact it seems to get worse with me at the helm 

We should start a club. Norway's running on loans. Somehow. Keynesian deficit spending is apparently not viable in the 14th century.

"Just you wait, nobles, in the 1920s I will be proven right!".