Europa Universalis V confirmed

[Solmyr]

One thing that bugs me is how to manage the size of the court. Obviously the bigger the court the more likely you can find great people to put in the cabinet or be in charge of military units.

On the other hand having to manage the personal lives of over 1,000 inbred nobles takes up way too much time.

I have no idea how to manage this going forward.

Manage their lives? I don't really bother with anybody who's not a direct descendant. Who cares why my cousin's nephew is up to?

Well because I want high stat people, so a lot of courtiers is good. Also I was worried too much inbreeding might have bad effects but...maybe that is just a CK thing.

Don't think there is any inbreeding, I was marrying cousins and nieces all the time as the Ottomans (because at some point there was nothing but Ottomans and their cousins available for royal marriages ), and there were never any ill effects that I could see.

[Valmy]

Unlike CK3 you can't play Finland in EU 5 

[crazy canuck]

It's made by a Swede

[Tamas]

I feel like Johan is tying himself into a completely unnecessary knot with this extremely convoluted levy vs regular combat system. Make them start equal, give regulars buffs through some stuff if you have to, but come on they are superior to levies just on account of not emptying your production buildings when at war.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/levy-vs-regulars-some-information-from-tinto.1876702/

[Tamas]

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/tinto-talks-89-19th-of-november-2025.1876786/

So tomorrow we will have radical re-rework of combat values and then next week the radical recalculation of the economic base which as I understand is a key metric informing several scaling systems.

Also next week's patch is going to be a major overhaul of vassal management,inckudingns rework of the centralisation-decentralisation axis.

Now apart from the ridiculously convoluted levy values the rest of the changes sound like good improvements, but I also feel frustrated I am in this very very familiar Paradox situation where I feel I want to play but I shouldn't because major changes are just a week away. And obviously next week's patch will break something brand new and then I will be waiting for the next fix etc.

[Josephus]

However, I think over a long enough period of time it is inevitable you will have a giant court.

I've heard on the P'dox forum, that a giant court can bloat things and really slow down your game.

[Josephus]

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/tinto-talks-89-19th-of-november-2025.1876786/

So tomorrow we will have radical re-rework of combat values and then next week the radical recalculation of the economic base which as I understand is a key metric informing several scaling systems.

Also next week's patch is going to be a major overhaul of vassal management,inckudingns rework of the centralisation-decentralisation axis.

Now apart from the ridiculously convoluted levy values the rest of the changes sound like good improvements, but I also feel frustrated I am in this very very familiar Paradox situation where I feel I want to play but I shouldn't because major changes are just a week away. And obviously next week's patch will break something brand new and then I will be waiting for the next fix etc.

Yes. And also, just as soon as you figure something out, they change it. And all the YouTube tutorials become obsolete.