Europa Universalis IV announced

[crazy canuck]

Is it actually possible to beat Portugal to Cape Verde? Can't they colonize it right away?

No, they have to get range to get to it too.

[Zanza]

You can beat Portugal to Cape Verde as Castille. If you get the two first ideas of the Exploration idea as soon as you have enough diplomacy, you can send a colonizer to Cape Verde before 1460.

[Anatron]

"Aztec gets 'Religious Sacrifices' until 1 January, 1821,
giving the followig effects:
Stability Cost Modifier: -20%
Yearly Prestige: +3.00 "

I think Aztecs will be my favourite nation. 

[garbon]

So I'm playing my first ironman game. Is it the case that if you are last playing ironman that it creates locally a set of screwed up autosaves? I forgot to click on cloud and instead clicked on the local autosave that showed the shield of rebels. Auto-crash.

[JonasSalk]

I could only play Ironman for so long. The auto-saves on virtually every action that freezes the game for 1-3 seconds each time got too annoying for me to bother with it.  I almost never revert to a previous save during my games and I don't really care about achievements, so it's not that big of a deal.

[DGuller]

Ryuku WC completed. 

[Caliga]

It could happen.  Ever heard of: karate!

[ulmont]

Ryuku WC completed. 

The first one was a hack, I believe, when missions were not being counted as part of the checksum.

The second one (legit) is a glorious inventory of current exploits (exiled armies, exiled fleets, and some amazing mission exploits to get a massive cash influx in the beginning and then later to keep stability up) in EU4:
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?709144-The-Three-Mountains-A-Ryukyu-AAR/page34

[Anatron]

Ryuku WC completed. 

Impossible without cheat.

[ulmont]

Ryuku WC completed. 

Impossible without cheat.

Go read the AAR.  There are some interesting exploits but no editing or other cheats.

[garbon]

I had a game I tried converting over where I'd reformed Roman Empire. Not wanting to play that (/thinking it'd be boring), I chose one of the small kingdoms on the periphery. Within the first month, the Roman Empire became England.  I guess I need to check on what decisions are available and disable that.

[The Brain]

Ryuku WC completed. 

Call Ed.

[Josquius]

I just figured out the diplomacy system and its limits on relations with x number of countries.
That's dumb.

[garbon]

I just figured out the diplomacy system and its limits on relations with x number of countries.
That's dumb.

It is dumb that it took you that long. Now did you figure out how to increase those limits?

[Josquius]

I just figured out the diplomacy system and its limits on relations with x number of countries.
That's dumb.

It is dumb that it took you that long. Now did you figure out how to increase those limits?

I've only played twice. Never touched the game over the weekend.
Haven't figured out any decent ways to get more no. Seems to be just based on getting a lucky good monarch or ideas (which need dip points to aquire...pff)