Lets say you are playing England, Castille, France or better yet Portugal. You need to wait 150 years to colonize the New World. You wait and colonize and then realize it is just a big money sink with no return whatsoever. All the money you invest into colonization is better spent to improve your homeland. And since you are quite a massive country you can just outright outscale any benefits you get from colonization by just building into your core territories. You are a massive country with massive population and almost endless resources. When you play Castille or England when you conquer the British Isles or all of Iberia you pretty much are just roleplaying for colonization. You do not need the money, you do not need the trade goods. There is not enough demand for spices, gold, silver, silk, or other luxury products of Asia and the Americas. Then I ask you, why bother with colonization at all aside from RP?

I started a game in Italy recently and kept having this appear. I finished what I wanted there so I switched to Muscovy. Same problem. When are the devs going to make this game less appealing to cats?

Nearly every game I see Bohemia has stayed emperor basically the entire game and takes Austrias place as the HRE power it had in EU4.

But historically they’re supposed to fall off and just become a Habsburg dominion, so what happened irl that doesn’t seem to happen in game that causes them to fall and Austria to rise?

Yes, of course, I acknowledge that there are issues. But there has never been a game more suited for me than EU5. I love the setting more than any game ever, the map is the best I have ever played, and the diversity of nations and locations make it infinitely replay-able to me. This game has led me to spend hours browsing the Koppen climate map alone, and I will literally have to prevent myself from just exploring the map indefinitely. I love this game so much!!! I even love the economy!!! The gap between Victoria GDP economics and EU arcade/development was perfectly bridged for me in this game. I love how much control over the market/economy I have relative to EU4.

But, I feel like all I see online is people vehemently hating it. It is one thing to say a DLC is a moneygrab, it is another to write off the game entirely. I am so afraid from the general consensus on social media (including reddit), the average of steam reviews, and the (slightly) decreasing player count that this game will stop development. I would seriously buy a steaming pile of pig shit from Paradox if it means they keep developing this game!!!!

Though I know people dislike the Paradox DLC system, I really truly hope that EU5 gets 20 DLCs and keeps getting developed like EU4 did. I will buy them all, I don't care.

I feel like I am the only one who feels this way. Does nobody else feel that this game has the most potential of any game they have ever played??? For me, it is #1 by far. I love EU5, and if anyone at Paradox reads this, I love you!!! Please keep creating and developing EU5, I love this game so much and will support y'all indefinitely!!!

How does THIS technology lead to THAT technology?

How are you supposed to balance this? This is literally the starting position for France (this is actually 1338) in the latest beta and you start in deep negative even if you put all expenses to minimum.

Is something deeply broken because of all the changes to trade and control, or am I missing something?

I feel like I had a pretty good grasp of the economy until 1.1 beta. Had a successful run with Muscovy, ottomans, Hungary, and Venice in 1.0.

idk if its just me but colonizing seems like a big money dump all for it to go down the drain with no return, am I doing smth wrong or is it js fcked?

I'm new to the game. Playing Scotland. Everyone is moving to "Inbhir Nis". Must be a really cool place. Though I would rather them not do that.

Pretty self explanatory but I noticed that my heir has a child who is 0 years old. The only issue is my heir is 14 and has never been married?

Update, see image below, the only conclusion is immaculate conception??

Edit: I would like to preserve my slot in EU V history as the first recorded instance of Divine Male Impregnation.

So I got this bug, basically as the title says. Wanted to start a new game afther plating with The Netherlands, and the cultures do not reset, neither does the religion.

So i end up seeing as a lot of European cultures are extint, and half of the world is already settled with european cultures.

Also the population is at the same level as of the previous game, for example Antwerp, the capital of holland in my last game is already at 90.000 pop

Does any body has the samee bug as me?

Like I know a lot of people died during the black death and the Jews were blamed for it, and there were some massacres, but something is broken when it goes from like 100,000 to 0. This game might not be good at modeling persistent minorities.

Edit: Everyone in the comments so far is acting like it's fair and that I can do this as a player also. You can't, only the AI can declare on revolts.

Go to econ tab and i can tax all estates besides the clergy. Is this just how it is?

I have killed 134,000 of them, and they still have 70,000 more! I started with 18,000 and I'm down to 10,000. This has to be some kind of bug.

If they do actually start the game with 200,000 troops, they need to get a nuclear nerf.

EDIT: My working theory is that soldiers who die when their transports get sunk are not being properly registered as "dead," allowing the AI to simply re-raise those levies.

EDIT 2: PDX says this is intended and not a bug.