EU3 - ready for play yet?

[HisMajestyBOB]

So, is Divine Wind worth it?

Most mods, like MEIOU, Magna Mundi, and SRI don't support DW yet, so if you play with mods, no. I haven't tried vanilla DW yet.

[Solmyr]

Is there a Euro friendly time that is a week day?

Most Euro-evenings should work for me. In other words, roughly the same times we played on Sundays.

[Berkut]

Yeah, there was a reason we had a US-centric evening game and a EU friendly weekend game.

[jimmy olsen]

HttT 4.1 patch kills the game for me. Crashes immediately after the intro videos play.

[Razgovory]

HttT 4.1 patch kills the game for me. Crashes immediately after the intro videos play.

Did you have it installed before on your machine?

[jimmy olsen]

No. However I followed the advice from Paradox and it works now.

[Razgovory]

No. However I followed the advice from Paradox and it works now.

It can be a pain in the ass to install, especially if you've had EU3 installed on there before.  Using the CrapCleaner program can really help.

[Barrister]

So I started playing around with DW last night since the March 29 beta patcha has been out for awhile, and of course I played as Byzantium.  Tried a 1403 start to take advantage of the Ottoman civil war.

Why the hell did they give the Ottomans 3 warships?  It makes it pretty damn impossible to outbuild their navy and simply shut down the straight if they do that.

[HisMajestyBOB]

So I started playing around with DW last night since the March 29 beta patcha has been out for awhile, and of course I played as Byzantium.  Tried a 1403 start to take advantage of the Ottoman civil war.

Why the hell did they give the Ottomans 3 warships?  It makes it pretty damn impossible to outbuild their navy and simply shut down the straight if they do that.

Army and navy sizes are created based on various factors, I believe, and aren't preset in the game files. So a country of the Ottoman's size, tech levels, sliders, etc. get that many warships.

Also, the Byzantines were screwed by that point. Give it up and join the dark side. 

[dps]

So I started playing around with DW last night since the March 29 beta patcha has been out for awhile, and of course I played as Byzantium.  Tried a 1403 start to take advantage of the Ottoman civil war.

Why the hell did they give the Ottomans 3 warships?  It makes it pretty damn impossible to outbuild their navy and simply shut down the straight if they do that.

Army and navy sizes are created based on various factors, I believe, and aren't preset in the game files.

That's my understanding as well, if you pick a random date to start.  IIRC, the pre-set dates are supposed to have more accurate force levels, but some of the research is iffy at best.

[Razgovory]

So I started playing around with DW last night since the March 29 beta patcha has been out for awhile, and of course I played as Byzantium.  Tried a 1403 start to take advantage of the Ottoman civil war.

Why the hell did they give the Ottomans 3 warships?  It makes it pretty damn impossible to outbuild their navy and simply shut down the straight if they do that.

Army and navy sizes are created based on various factors, I believe, and aren't preset in the game files. So a country of the Ottoman's size, tech levels, sliders, etc. get that many warships.

Also, the Byzantines were screwed by that point. Give it up and join the dark side. 

I think they pick up a few provinces for a short period of time before that.  Even the AI Byzantium does well sometimes, which kind of takes some of the fun out of it.  Now the country that game can't run properly is France.  Which either implodes or is eaten by Burgundy.   It's not uncommon to see Guyenne to become a major power.

[Agelastus]

Reading this thread makes me so glad that I chose not to buy "Divine Wind".

[Barrister]

So I started playing around with DW last night since the March 29 beta patcha has been out for awhile, and of course I played as Byzantium.  Tried a 1403 start to take advantage of the Ottoman civil war.

Why the hell did they give the Ottomans 3 warships?  It makes it pretty damn impossible to outbuild their navy and simply shut down the straight if they do that.

Army and navy sizes are created based on various factors, I believe, and aren't preset in the game files. So a country of the Ottoman's size, tech levels, sliders, etc. get that many warships.

Also, the Byzantines were screwed by that point. Give it up and join the dark side. 

I think they pick up a few provinces for a short period of time before that.  Even the AI Byzantium does well sometimes, which kind of takes some of the fun out of it.  Now the country that game can't run properly is France.  Which either implodes or is eaten by Burgundy.   It's not uncommon to see Guyenne to become a major power.

Aye - the 1403 start gives you an extra province or two, AND an Otto civil war.

[Barrister]

There's a new May 10 beta patch.

[JonasSalk]

There's a new May 10 beta patch.

Wut it do?