Europa Universalis V confirmed

[PRC]

and Tunis seems to be the bad boy of the Med.

I'm still learning a lot of the game's systems and I've been playing a new playthrough as Castile... their relatively easy start has been great to learn and play around in.

Quoted this because Tunis has also been a beast in my current game!  I was kicking Morocco & Granada off the peninsula and it has been Tunis that has successfully come to their rescue.  They were able to land a large contingent of levies in Northern Spain, enslave my people, and forced me to sue for peace, the bastards!

[crazy canuck]

Yeah, your navy is stronger so you need to keep Tunis away from your lands. And don't get involved in a land war in N. Africa. You will lose population/levies to the Tunisian meat grinder.

[Josephus]

Also are galleys not the Med "meta" now? For my first naval battle with Tunis I had a mostly galley fleet only to get destroyed by a Tunis fleet made up of heavy ships

[Syt]

The beta has added EU4's border friction to "spice things up" internationally ... I guess Portugal will get eaten even more often by Spain Castille now?

[Tamas]

My biggest gripe with the decentralisation changes isn't what the majority's (omg I have learned what to click to win now I have to re-learn it - GAME IS BROKEN), but that a lot of laws give nice bonuses AND a decentralisation push. Clearly earlier in the design there was a clear "centralisation = good, decent = bad" direction. Johan's latest change removes that. If I decide to "play wide" and just accept decentralisation and use it to keeps lots of strong vassals eternally happy, why shouldn't I take all those nice laws-based bonuses as well?

[Tamas]

I am guetting frequent crashes with the beta.

[Valmy]

I am guetting frequent crashes with the beta.

I got my first crash to desktop after the patch 

Hopefully it will not continue.

[Syt]

I fired the game up yesterday but then got distracted and when I got back it was time to go to bed, but I still decided to just look at the Ottoman start. And was immediately annoyed by the "Child can get better education" alert and having like a dozen kids in there. Together with marriage this could be automated, I guess.

[Solmyr]

Luckily there are already mods to automate child education as well as courtiers' marriage.

[Tamas]

Today's beta update has finally fixed the zombie-like levy respawn, and predictably, on the Paradox forum the "omg stop levy rush, game is broken" crowd has been replaced with the "omg make levies respawn faster, game is broken" crowd without missing a beat.  Like, literally, the update has been out for what, an hour, and the thread is dominated by that.