Also golconda India cant get faceting either, as it already has a production buff on the province.

And Venice also gets some flavour events specific to Murano glass making, which would be a bit more odd if the trade good changed to gems.

Also, in the video he missed one more requirement, you need renaissance embraced on the country level and fully present in the province, in single player this is less relevant but in multiplayer absolutely essential for beating other players to it.

​@@ominousflames14well it must be a province in Europe.

@@Alaryk111 That is incorrect. I have spawned faceting in gem provinces outside Europe plenty of times. Harder to do? For sure, as you need to spawn the institution as well prior to spawning faceting.

Definitely agree, was going to say that starting as a weak nation next to a massive one, scorching earth lets you wipe army after army as the AI sends small stacks onto your scorched mountain fort that you wipe with ease.

I've got over 4.5k hours in the game, (almost all of that single player) and I've never scorched the earth. I don't think it's as useful as you make it out to be.

@@TocsTheWanderer 4.5k hours doesn't mean ur good at the game.

@@TocsTheWanderer You should really start doing it, it really is that useful

@@gamgamesplayer4506 True, but I am.

I just turn them off when I saw the age tick down notification that usually start 80 months before it ends

I completely forgot about this because I rarely played past age of discovery, doing that the second i get back on. Thanks man

I once had turned it off at age of absolutism

Not only Ottomans, any Muslim nation can do this

this also applies to when you get an even that gives you legalism- before clicking it, check if you're already at 100, if yes then debase currency, reduce corruption with the button and only then click the event

​@@IndependentObserver but ideally this should only be used as a last resort because losing legalism's bonuses just to get a loan's worth of money isnt worth it most of the time

@@hhhhhh-vi6sq Clicking the button costs 50 piety points, if you're already about to get +25 legalism from an event you only lose 5% tax 5% manpower and 2.5% tech cost... It's not like you're taking techs every other year so there's no need to bother with calculating that but let's entertain the notion that not clicking that button could theoretically actually be better (XD). At 1000 dev your loan size is 530 (assuming we're between tech 10 and tech 13, after that it becomes 540) and your tax income about 30-40, unless you're playing some ultimate tax meta theocratic muslim or you're in a high base tax area like lowlands and so you spam churches everywhere- which you aren't, we're talking muslims so you're in a desert with a median of 7 base tax income per 3 provinces. That 500 ducats will be much more than about 3% of your tax income for... until you get a next event. Yes you lose 5% tax modifier but you're not sitting at 100% so losing 5% modifier won't equal to losing 5% of tax *income,* considering standard tax modifiers like stability, the remaining 75% of legalism, Iqta government and bonus from clergy on average you'd already have about 155% tax income (10 from +2 stab, 20 from legalism, 5 from Iqta, and 20 from Clergy) and go down to 150% tax income, which equals to about -3% tax income, and as you can see those aren't some special hard to get bonuses, you get all of that by just playing efficiently as a muslim, I'm not even counting +15% from Iqta big button, so that 155% vs 150% is very much realistic. That 3% lost is about slightly over A DUCAT per month, and that's assuming you're earning 40 from tax per month at 155% global tax bonus and going down to 150%... you'd need, over 33 YEARS of not increasing legalism for that trade to become EVEN. Your manpower on the other hand shouldn't be sitting at max anyway so losing 5% of your max manpower only hurts you by slightly decreasing your manpower regen by like 20 a month, and again- you're not losing that permanently, just until another positive legalism event rolls.

@@IndependentObserver jesus christ just the first paragraph was enough

Oh yes, of course. You can do it as many nations, but the ones I mentioned are just the easiest. I also like getting it as Bahmanis in Golconda, very useful.

Why would I want to form Mughals as a non-Timurid Ibadi nation when I can go chad Red Flag Indian Ocean Trade Empire and dunk on my Sunni, Shia, Fetishist, Hindu, (Zoroastrian on occasion, yes it's happened), and Coptic neighbors with my mountains of gold and Mercs? If you can't tell, Oman is my favorite Middle Eastern country to play. So many styles, so much seratonin.

Why does it matter if anyone is collecting? Your trade value still goes towards sending value downstream, regardless of however many other nations are collecting.

@@BlurbFish because then the amount collected vs. the amount pushed towards other nodes depends on trade power. With Merchant you'll have way more trade power in the node, so you can steer more money out of the node and into yours.

​@@BlurbFishputting a merchant & a giant fleet (+20) of trade ships in Lubeck will allow you to push the trade OUT from those trying to collect in the node... it's not a technically wrong tip but it's very basic and not really applicable to anyone who is actually collecting in the English Channel. You should have a merchant in Lubeck & you should have a massive trade fleet there to steer all the money out of the node even while not controlling any of it.

@@Aldinth I think you're seriously overestimating what a merchant does. Assuming no other modifiers, you're looking at +2 trade power from merchant and +5% global trade power from trade policy. How much extra share of the trade value does that come around to in a node where you have 250 power out of 500? Try opening a random save and just testing this, it only takes a few months of ingame time.

@@nationalsocialism3504 When each ship possibly adds more trade power than the merchant, do you think it is the fleet of +20 ships or the single merchant that is doing the heavy lifting? Note that the video's advice has nothing to do with trade fleets, it is only about merchants.

Oh man, that's evil. But brilliant!

You can also do that if you're planning on releasing conquered territory as a vassal or transferring it to a vassal. So, say you're playing Dai Viet and you conquer those inland Cham states. One of them has Copper (or Iron, can't remember which), which is the only one you'll have in your territory, so you can give the privilege to the Nobles and then release it to give it the other inland Chams or whatever and you get your free mercantilism (you're not going to get much money since its autonomy is so high though).

Yo that first one goes hard; that's also a great way to get Atwix Legacy if you want to have a buncha vassals in a pu

The death of a loved one can really take a toll on you. Take your time to be sad. Also accept that EU4 might not be the game for you at the moment. Maybe one time it will be again, or not. Who knows? Stay strong friend

sorry to hear this man, hope you're doing ok

Not exactly comparable, but my dog drowned during a dungeon in WOW. I couldn't touch the game for 2 years, until a new expansion. Strength brother! In time EU5 will come out and I hope that at least will feel different enough to try it.

@@FragLord in my eyes dogs are best friends too, I’m sorry for your loss. EU5 looks fantastic though.

Much appreciated!

That's cause you should... after you put a massive trade fleet in Lubeck then it will push all that trade to you

11K hours and I didn't know either.

I just double-checked the Wiki and it says that it needs both. It could be wrong tho

@@theeu4guy You need it to be both embraced in your country and at 100% presence in the province. This is what the wiki says, and it matches my experience with triggering the event.

Playing as lübeck with Europa Expanded mod, if you hold your merchant on i think Lübeck trade node and collect from there, the money is supposed to go english channel is just cancelled because of your trade power. And whenever you got 1-2 trade provinces from english channel, just collect from there and transfer trade, its just like a flush

You're not kidding. I have 11k hours in and I'm still learning new things.

Nothing more fun then a trip through the countryside.

You're right, that's what I try to do, but then I forget that I still have cav in my army :/

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It will move even without a merchant, especially if it’s a one-way node. However, you can get more out with a merchant. Just try to experiment and see what works best for you.

@@theeu4guy That's what I usually do, I shuffle the merchants around and see if my trade income goes up or down. Never thought about leaving a trade node in my chain empty though. So let me get it straight - trade always flows forward by default and a merchant or trade capital can stop it, not the other way around. And all a merchant does is directing the flow in one direction, rather than dispersing it among all exits? (apart from adding some trade power)

War taxes being free during the renaissance I believe

Age of Discovery gives free war taxes

there will be one more update or so. but no more dlc's

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@@theeu4guy thnk yuo

Yep, I don’t think it matters if you complete the requirements before or after embracing renaissance. If you already have such province, it will automatically get gems when you embrace renaissance (if no one else got it, that is)

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The Ural region is a part of the Eastern Europe sub-continent in game so it doesn't qualify for the bonus from the event.