pardox games

[Sudo_Nym]

Yeah, I've played a lot of CK2, but I play it as more of an RPG than a Grand Strategy; I like concerning myself in the affairs of a medieval family and the like more than trying to conquer the world.

Recently been trying to get into EUIV, but there's a lot of stuff to figure out. Playing as Portugal, trying to trade and colonize, and I have no idea how to optimize trade income and the like. Got a colonist on Cape Verde, though, which should get me to the Carribean and Brazil, I hope.

[Sudo_Nym]

I know you automatically collect at your home port, yet it seems that you get more merchant power from collecting in your home port; i.e. I get more money by collecting than I get by steering. Besides Safi isn't really worth much. I figure that once colonizing happens, and the Carribean and Gold Coast start forwarding to Seville, it'll become more useful to steer trade. Also, Spain is taking half the money from Seville anyway, so I don't know what's going on.

[Sudo_Nym]

I always have trouble with a country like Austria, at least in CKII. I like playing as a smaller nation and growing, not starting from a position of strength. I'd be playing as a one-province nation like I do in CKII, except that I've been told that's a bad idea for starting in EUIV.

[Sudo_Nym]

If nothing else, I really appreciate the level of detail they put into researching the various places, names, and histories of the countries.

I'm really tempted to try and take up a nation in the HRE, just to see what I can make of it, difficulty be damned. I do think it'll be hard to colonize anything as Prussia, though.

[Sudo_Nym]

Is that better or worse than blobbing?

[Sudo_Nym]

I've kinda been looking at a game as Burgundy. I figured that got national ideas that gave them bonuses to mercenaries that they'd be able to stand up to the French if they got some good allies. Looks like that'll be an easier task now.

[Sudo_Nym]

I thought the admin point for coring scaled with the number of cores you already have.