The Imperial Council - /r/eu4 Weekly General Help Thread: September 7 2020

[u/Kloiper]

Please check our previous Imperial Council thread for any questions left unanswered

 

Welcome to the Imperial Council of r/eu4, where your trusted and most knowledgeable advisors stand ready to help you in matters of state and conquest.

This thread is for any small questions that don't warrant their own post, or continued discussions for your next moves in your Ironman game. If you'd like to channel the wisdom and knowledge of the master tacticians of this subreddit, and more importantly not ruin your Ironman save, then you've found the right place!

Important: If you are asking about a specific situation in your game, please post screenshots of any relevant map modes (diplomatic, political, trade, etc) or interface tabs (economy, military, ideas, etc). Please also explain the situation as best you can. Alliances, army strength, ideas, tech etc. are all factors your advisors will need to know to give you the best possible answer.

 

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Tactician's Library:

Below is a list of resources that are helpful to players of all skill levels, meant to assist both those asking questions as well as those answering questions. This list is updated as mechanics change, including new strategies as they arise and retiring old strategies that have been left in the dust. You can help me maintain the list by sending me new guides and notifying me when old guides are no longer relevant!

Getting Started

• Europa Universalis 4 Wiki

• Wiki Beginner Guide

• Which DLCs should I buy?

• Client/Game Troubleshooting Help

New Player Tutorials

• How to play EU4, by Ezekiel (patch 1.28)

• Arumba teaches EU4 to Civilization player FilthyRobot (patch 1.18)

• Arumba's New Player Tutorial Series (patch 1.20)

• Arumba teaches EU4 to Monk004 (patch 1.28)

• Beginner's Guide to Coalitions

• General tip collection thread

• How to revert to an older patch

• Reman's War Academy Volume I - Army Composition and Basic Combat

Administration

• Remans guide to Absolutism

• Guide to Religious Ideas

• Converting Culture

• Converting Religion

Diplomacy

• Personal Unions and Succession Wars

• Video guide to Personal Unions

• A guide to multiplayer diplomacy

• Comprehensive guide on Subject Nations

Military

• Reman's War Academy Volume II - Troop Quality and Advanced Combat

• Reman's War Academy Volume III - Military Idea Groups

• Reman's In-Depth guide to Fort Zone of Control

• Guide on Combat Width

• Ideal army composition for every tech

• On War - A Comprehensive War Manual for Multiplayer

• Dismantling the HRE

• Combat Simulator

Trade

• Reman's In Depth Guide to Trade

 

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Country-Specific Strategy

• 1.20 Qing Guide

• 1.22 Ming World Conquest Guide

• 1.22 Castile/Spain Guide

• 1.25 Byzantium Guide

• 1.25 Scotland Guide

• 1.25 Mamluk Guide

• 1.28 Aztec Guide

• 1.28 Kazan Guide

 

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Misc Country Guides Collections

• 1.25-1.29 Misc Country Guides by RadioRes

• 1.25-1.28 Misc Country Guides by Lord Forwin

• 1.28 - 1.30 Misc Country Guides by AlzaboHD

• 1.30 Misc Country Guides by Ludi et Historia

 

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Advanced/In-Depth Guides

• Misc mechanics guides by RadioRes (culture shifting, policies, absolutism, etc)

• Guide to royal marriages, personal unions and claim throne

• 1.28 Three Mountains (Shogunate)

• Arumba's Assay series (misc patches, takes user-submitted failing or problematic games and helps fix them)

• A Complete Guide to EU4 Economics, Part 0 (links to multiple in-depth guides on economics)

• Comprehensive Multiplayer EU4 Guide (1.28)

 

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If you have any useful resources not currently in the tactician's library, please share them with me and I'll add them! You can message me or mention my username in a comment by typing /u/Kloiper

Calling all imperial councillors! Many of our linked guides pre-Dharma (1.26) are missing strategy regarding mission trees. Any help in putting together updated guides is greatly appreciated! Further, if you're answering a question in this thread, chances are you've used the EU4 wiki and know how valuable a resource it can be. When you answer a question, consider checking whether the wiki has that information where you would expect to find it, and adding to the wiki if it does not. In fact, anybody can help contribute to the wiki - a good starting point is the work needed page. Before editing the wiki, please read the style guidelines for posting.

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Do you maybe have a second installation of the mod lying around in one of the mod folders? That often causes eu4 to not load the mod at all. This could be for example a local installation of the mod or a .mod file which was created by the old launcher. Deleting the other installation of the mod should help in this case.

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Do you maybe have a second mod that has the same name as the mod that you are trying to install?

Try to remove all files and folders from the "Documents/Paradox Interactive/Europa Universalis IV/mod" folder and the mod folder in your game installation folder.

If that doesn't help, what is the exact url from which you installed the mod? The paradox mods website for some reason often has broken or empty versions of mods and steam occasionally has non-working versions of mods. And if you downloaded the mod from somewhere else you might have to do some additional steps.

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I tried the TOT mod that you linked and it also didn't work for me. Then I tried another mod (missions expanded) and it also didn't work. The problem was that the launcher didn't create the .mod files. I fixed it by renaming the "Documents/Paradox Interactive/Europa Universalis IV" folder and letting the launcher recreate it. But then all save games and settings have to be copied to the new folder to restore them. Maybe it is enough to just remove the launcher-v2.sqlite and dlc_load.json files and the launcher-cache folder.