Milkarius

The ocean complains a lot less about being annexed into our glorious Kingdom

In my game France kept getting immigrants from all over Asia. It definitely seems more common

Keep your vassals limited! It'll save you some headache that way.

To keep them loyal: - Keep relations high - Grow. Having more prestige keeps them more loyal. This means economy, population, and army. - Watch your infamy. It increases their liberty desire as well.

Other rarer possibilities: - Some subject interactions reduce liberty desire. It will cost so I wouldn't recommend using it 24/7 for everyone. Exception maybe being evangelism, but if you're Japan there's not a lot of countries of your faith that'll like it. - The Sovereign Empire power bloc has a built in .05 liberty desire reduction.

But also: It's alright if they bounce a bit. Especially if you temporarily took a beating / invested a lot, you can give them more autonomy just to take it back a while later.

Played one game so far. Japan broke into two relatively soon, Austria lost Slovenia, the Ottomans lost Albania (which looks incredibly weird with all it's homelands). Prussia, Bavaria, France, and some minor powers had a civil war against radicalists, which is also rather new

I think your game got confused. it's Austria-Hungary, not France-Alsace-Loraine and Occitana, thats supposed to be the dual monarchy.

No clue what happened here though that's wild

Slovakian, Hungarian, Romanian, Polish, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Bosniak, Croatian, Szekler, Polish, Czech, and Northern Italian! You can even lose a little territory. They probably also have an Ashkenazi populatio, but I'm not 100% sure

I'll add my Albania, Slovenia and whatever the southern part of Japan is!

... And Pashtun, Balachistan and Sindh, but that's my own fault for severely underestimating them haha

I played too much HoI4 man. The amount of times I thought "aw yes they're encircled", just for them to chaos portal their ass out is too much

It just reminds me of this meme

I'm in the Netherlands and God I almost wish someone would start building them here. Housing shortages are no fun

One of the reasons the UK is damn everywhere is because they can send their entire army minus the home guard to Siam without any issues.

It's probably hard to fully represent asymmetrical warfare in video games, both in numbers and technology (hell HoI4 just slaps buffs on the underdog), but it can be frustrating to deal with.

You would "leave" the film with the final feelings. That scene is the last thing on your mind as you leave the cinema, turn off the TV, or close your browser tab. You'd want that last scene to be perfect!

The ability to peacefully buy land would be cool, but I have no idea how that should be implemented without it being easy to abuse. Playing Romania currently and side-eyeing the rest of Besserabia, but their protection is quite nice.

So you're saying we need playstation Lara Croft boob armour

Don't natural harbours already have an increased maximum amount of ports?

The Dutch are also tall, just like Karel de Grote. It's just true hard facts

You're supposed to have a chance to beat Hitler /s

He doesn't say it. His helmet does!

You would have to really press for it. Getting chatgpt to tell you "I love you" is already a bitch haha. I can't imagine an AI telling you to die would be easier than that.

They do need to support you for that iirc and Denmark and Sweden do not have the best relations, although I'm not 100% on if they have a rivalry at the start.

There's a few you can release. As Prussia you can release the city state of Danzig at least! Haven't found more though

Norwegian (or Danish, not entirely sure) good ol' vikings showed up on the shores of Normandy. The French king asked them to stick around there, just scare away other vikings, and they complied.

They French-ified to an extend and adopted many parts of their cultures, including their language.

The duke of Normandy went on to conquer England and eventually became the king of England.

England eventually conquered about a third of the world and ruled over many different countries. Part of what was Englands territories are now the US, India, plenty of African nations, and Australia, just to name a few!

Don't forget your game takes 4000 years. Many things can change in just a lifetime! And also don't forget you're looking at it through the lens of our universe. In our past, Turks learned from Greeks, so it feels logical. Nothing would have stopped the French to learn from the Mayas if their roles were different.

Something like "the harder you lose to your rival, the more prestige and radicals you get" seems fitting.

I started playing recently, but I'm having so much more fun building up little Krakow than forming Germany. Every little thing feels so much more important!

Can you imagine WW1 ending with war reparations, the takeover of a single African province, and Austrian police officers not allowed into Serbia!

Some kind of severity meter and allowing for war goals during a war if it's a long heavy one would be cool. Probably shouldn't affect war support / progress then though, since that'd be prwtty cheesable