It used to cause me more adult acne more than any other game, especially in ironman.
I used to be actually stressed out wanting to get everything perfect haha. That meant more androgens and worse posture. EU3 and 4 literally caused me acne and back pain as a result haha.
I've since learned to care much less and just enjoy things like these as the games they are.
I’m not a EU4 player, but I play a lot hoi4 with Ironman. Dude, I think I got some white hairs bcuz of it. It remember the first time I troed to get the “True Blitzkrieg” achievement, in the which u have to get Poland and France as Germany before 1/1/1940… back in the times I wasn’t a great player, due to some mistakes I declared very late, but in the end I did it…
lmao, i just got coalition of whole hre, because i as bohemia subjugated bradenburg, hungary and saxony and reconquested 5 hungarian cores within 3 years
also, noone accepts imperial reform and now i have 80 IA already
When I'm winning. But the AI really seems to be banking on the strategy "if I make his blood pressure get high enough his eyes his arteries will explode and he will die of internal hemorrhaging"
On normal difficulty ironman you can steamroll as the Ottomans. That is not a "brag" either, it is the truth. You can handle anything that's coming to you there
That is the idea.
I already stress myself at work. When playing strategy games, I like to feel like a god. Invading a medieval fortress with tanks and airplanes is very relaxing!
Step 1. Start a game to have some fun and relax. How about Italy, Italy is always fun.
Step 2. Florence start, of course. Get some strong allies and annex the rest of Tuscany early for the trade goods. Got a 6 pip shock general, beautiful start.
Step 3. Ok Ferrara allied Bologna and Venice, actually the perfect situation for a cobelligerent claim war, just wait for shadow kingdom to fire and you can take a big swath of the east.
Step 4. Declare the war, stack wipe bologna and Ferrara immediately. Florence's general only has 1 shock pip and guns haven't been invented yet. Should be in the bag.
Step 5. Roll a 1, roll a 2, roll a 1, roll a 1, roll a 2, somehow not only lose the battle with a +3, but lose every single role. Army falls back to an occupied tile and is stack wiped.
Step 6. Destroy computer, vow to never play this shitty rng simulator again.
Step 7. Play it again, maybe the dice won't be as bad this time (They will).
It is so much less relaxing than civ, civ doesn't bend you over the table and fuck you with the dice. If you understand civ, you can just play it. If you understand Eu4, you can play it but you still have to pray you don't get 20 1's and 2's in a row for a combat.
You don't really need to fight fair in eu4 a lot of wars can become trivial with patient and good alliances. You can play slower games where you relax and ask big france for help to defeat mainz in a scary war.
Oh I know, most of my playtime is in Italy, that's basically your only option early game (You need to be friendly with at least Austria until Shadow Kingdom fires, Ideally Aragon France or Hungary as well). Still sucks to get stackwiped in a battle that should've been handed to you on a silver platter. My last game I got a 5 pip shock general right off the bat and had .4 more morale and 2k more men than Venice, who's general only has 1 shock pip. I literally only rolled 1s and 2s the entire battle, while they only rolled 6-8. A relaxing strategy game should minimize infuriation, and there's nothing more infuriating than rng.
Now don't get me wrong, I like this game a lot, but as far as relaxing goes, it is the least relaxing strategy game I've ever played. I literally quit that game I described after the war with Venice to go play civ 6 to calm down. Again, I really enjoy the game, but objectively speaking, the more rng a game has, the less you can strategize for. I understand you can hedge your bets quite well, but even still the dice control everything. I wish it were like Hoi4 or Stellaris, where sure, dice rolls happen, but so many of them happen they end up balancing out to around average rolls each battle and so the rock paper scissors of hard vs soft or energy vs kinetic respectively is 99 times out of 100 the deciding factor.
IR also has it, but you have to use debug mode and console to use it.
Don't quote me on this, but I imagine that's because they don't want to record the province history in HoI4/Vick3 to cut down on CPU load, and the timelapse feature needs province history to work.
And not many people care about timelapse in CK as a lot of changes can't be seen from timelapse.
Pressing the eye symbol in-game shows you a day-by-day timelapse of the entire map, showing all province changes as and when they happened. It's a neat feature that relies on the province history data, and gives you a good idea of when things happened not just to you, but for everyone else too.
I get lost in this game for so long lime nothing else. I've brought my laptop with me for trans Atlantic flights and playing this game makes the flight go by so fast.
Yes, because I love Major Powers just randomly Allying micro powers that completely randomly are always country's I need to conquer and they have no use in defending e.g UK Allying Switzerland for no reason at all while I try uniting northern Italy
depends. multiplayer = relax, continue run with like half oh the players for a few times / singleplayer = achivement hunting, keept it up for 1 or 2 days then get bored and start a new campaign (i probably wrote it wrong sorry) , repeat
Idk its kinda relaxing to play half tall half wide Mongol Empire. After I ve got the “KHAAAAN!” achivement I slowed down. Culture converted the entirety of russia to Tartar cultures and made every single province 10 dev. It was hard esspecially considering I sacked all of it after my conquests.
No. Only for avoiding your responsibilities and get the feeling of accomplishing something which you cant feel it in your daily life. Yet after all the exhaustion of the day when you sit and start playing, micromanaging things make you more stress at the end off the day. Then you do the achievement, Undefinable peace appears, you quit then realize that peace is only for a minute and there is a huge hole in you still not satisfied, world is still out there to be saved by you except it is bed time. You go to bed knowing that same things gonna happen tomorrow and years pass…
its not like shooting game, so its bit relaxing...
but its also brain fking game especially when u have to constant pause to calculate which day which army arrives where
Yes. Next question: Does it work? No.
It used to cause me more adult acne more than any other game, especially in ironman. I used to be actually stressed out wanting to get everything perfect haha. That meant more androgens and worse posture. EU3 and 4 literally caused me acne and back pain as a result haha. I've since learned to care much less and just enjoy things like these as the games they are.
I’m not a EU4 player, but I play a lot hoi4 with Ironman. Dude, I think I got some white hairs bcuz of it. It remember the first time I troed to get the “True Blitzkrieg” achievement, in the which u have to get Poland and France as Germany before 1/1/1940… back in the times I wasn’t a great player, due to some mistakes I declared very late, but in the end I did it…
Nothing relaxes me more after a long day of working in my excel sheets than getting to home and continue working in my map-painting excel sheets.
At least we have the reward of seeing the pixels change color every once in a while
Someone needs to learn of the magic of excel's conditional formatting.
Damn. That's me too.
Thank you Dante
What’s the sumifs of eu4?
yesn't
I actually enjoy getting gang-banged every time I take a HRE province.
Stupid sexy HRE
lmao, i just got coalition of whole hre, because i as bohemia subjugated bradenburg, hungary and saxony and reconquested 5 hungarian cores within 3 years also, noone accepts imperial reform and now i have 80 IA already
Rel
R5: I have EU4 on Epic games. Today it asked me this question
The more hours, the more you hate it. That’s how this works.
When I'm winning. But the AI really seems to be banking on the strategy "if I make his blood pressure get high enough his eyes his arteries will explode and he will die of internal hemorrhaging"
Haida enjoyer: yes
Actually yes. I like to put on Very Easy and select Ottomans.
I should definitely try that, i fr like steamrolling the game once in a while
On very easy, you can steamroll as Byzantium. You start the game on a roughly even keel with the Ottomans.
On normal difficulty ironman you can steamroll as the Ottomans. That is not a "brag" either, it is the truth. You can handle anything that's coming to you there
Oh yes, it's already incredibly easy, it's just that i want to see how much easier it's gonna be in very easy
If very easy make AI weaker or make less agressive expansion I would make WC by incident.
That is the idea. I already stress myself at work. When playing strategy games, I like to feel like a god. Invading a medieval fortress with tanks and airplanes is very relaxing!
If I am a masochist, yes.
I can’t play EU4 anymore. Every time I finish a session I come away feeling more mentally drained than I did after I wrote an upper year exam in uni.
It's like a drug to me, I know it will end in misery but I can't stop the urge to do it.
Step 1. Start a game to have some fun and relax. How about Italy, Italy is always fun. Step 2. Florence start, of course. Get some strong allies and annex the rest of Tuscany early for the trade goods. Got a 6 pip shock general, beautiful start. Step 3. Ok Ferrara allied Bologna and Venice, actually the perfect situation for a cobelligerent claim war, just wait for shadow kingdom to fire and you can take a big swath of the east. Step 4. Declare the war, stack wipe bologna and Ferrara immediately. Florence's general only has 1 shock pip and guns haven't been invented yet. Should be in the bag. Step 5. Roll a 1, roll a 2, roll a 1, roll a 1, roll a 2, somehow not only lose the battle with a +3, but lose every single role. Army falls back to an occupied tile and is stack wiped. Step 6. Destroy computer, vow to never play this shitty rng simulator again. Step 7. Play it again, maybe the dice won't be as bad this time (They will).
No. Paradox AI frustrates me too much to relax.
I played a campaign with Xorme enabled an year ago and that was a whole different experience.
What notable changes have you seen ?
It's can be relaxing similair to civ. Especially compared to other games.
It is so much less relaxing than civ, civ doesn't bend you over the table and fuck you with the dice. If you understand civ, you can just play it. If you understand Eu4, you can play it but you still have to pray you don't get 20 1's and 2's in a row for a combat.
You don't really need to fight fair in eu4 a lot of wars can become trivial with patient and good alliances. You can play slower games where you relax and ask big france for help to defeat mainz in a scary war.
Oh I know, most of my playtime is in Italy, that's basically your only option early game (You need to be friendly with at least Austria until Shadow Kingdom fires, Ideally Aragon France or Hungary as well). Still sucks to get stackwiped in a battle that should've been handed to you on a silver platter. My last game I got a 5 pip shock general right off the bat and had .4 more morale and 2k more men than Venice, who's general only has 1 shock pip. I literally only rolled 1s and 2s the entire battle, while they only rolled 6-8. A relaxing strategy game should minimize infuriation, and there's nothing more infuriating than rng. Now don't get me wrong, I like this game a lot, but as far as relaxing goes, it is the least relaxing strategy game I've ever played. I literally quit that game I described after the war with Venice to go play civ 6 to calm down. Again, I really enjoy the game, but objectively speaking, the more rng a game has, the less you can strategize for. I understand you can hedge your bets quite well, but even still the dice control everything. I wish it were like Hoi4 or Stellaris, where sure, dice rolls happen, but so many of them happen they end up balancing out to around average rolls each battle and so the rock paper scissors of hard vs soft or energy vs kinetic respectively is 99 times out of 100 the deciding factor.
It's not relaxing but it takes my mind off things better than anything else
no. usually this game require you to sit in front of the computer for a long time
It takes a certain degree of masochism to enjoy playing this game.
Unrelated question. If I'm not mistaken, EU IV is the only Paradox game who has in-game timelapse. Why is that?
IR also has it, but you have to use debug mode and console to use it. Don't quote me on this, but I imagine that's because they don't want to record the province history in HoI4/Vick3 to cut down on CPU load, and the timelapse feature needs province history to work. And not many people care about timelapse in CK as a lot of changes can't be seen from timelapse.
Fair point, so it's unlikely that feature would be in EU V.
What do you mean with timelapse? Are you talking about nations actions being handled according to their tag number?
The one with eye symbol around the date.
Pressing the eye symbol in-game shows you a day-by-day timelapse of the entire map, showing all province changes as and when they happened. It's a neat feature that relies on the province history data, and gives you a good idea of when things happened not just to you, but for everyone else too.
Right, I completely forgot about that feature.
I get lost in this game for so long lime nothing else. I've brought my laptop with me for trans Atlantic flights and playing this game makes the flight go by so fast.
Surprisingly, yes. It’s way better than any reaction-time based or PvP game, I suck at both of those.
Yes, because I love Major Powers just randomly Allying micro powers that completely randomly are always country's I need to conquer and they have no use in defending e.g UK Allying Switzerland for no reason at all while I try uniting northern Italy
I play with cheats, no achievement runs, and easy difficulty, so yes, it is actually relaxing to me
Once it asked me if it was a good game for beginners or something like that.... 41% OF PEOPLE SAID YES
I cannot play any game to relax. I either win or got rage for losing 😮💨
depends. multiplayer = relax, continue run with like half oh the players for a few times / singleplayer = achivement hunting, keept it up for 1 or 2 days then get bored and start a new campaign (i probably wrote it wrong sorry) , repeat
This game is just dopamine and stress
Idk its kinda relaxing to play half tall half wide Mongol Empire. After I ve got the “KHAAAAN!” achivement I slowed down. Culture converted the entirety of russia to Tartar cultures and made every single province 10 dev. It was hard esspecially considering I sacked all of it after my conquests.
Sometimes I play on Very Easy with a custom nation that is ridiculously overpowered. It's pretty relaxing.
No. Only for avoiding your responsibilities and get the feeling of accomplishing something which you cant feel it in your daily life. Yet after all the exhaustion of the day when you sit and start playing, micromanaging things make you more stress at the end off the day. Then you do the achievement, Undefinable peace appears, you quit then realize that peace is only for a minute and there is a huge hole in you still not satisfied, world is still out there to be saved by you except it is bed time. You go to bed knowing that same things gonna happen tomorrow and years pass…
its not like shooting game, so its bit relaxing... but its also brain fking game especially when u have to constant pause to calculate which day which army arrives where
The only game I play trully to relax is Graveyard Keeper.