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EU5: Guide to Maximize Your Values and Gain Significant Advantages
This EU5 tutorial explains how to manipulate the values (sliders) at the start of the campaign to gain significant advantages. It focuses on understanding how the values work, identifying the most important ones (Communalism and Innovation), and how to maximize them early on to influence other values and obtain substantial bonuses.
1. 🎮 Introduction to values in EU5 and their strategic importance
- ✅ Values (sliders) are crucial for early success in EU5.
- ✅ Contrary to initial belief, values are not passively adjusted based on the player's actions.
- ✅ They can be managed and manipulated to gain significant advantages over the AI or other players.
00:00 - 00:11
1. 🎮 Introduction to values in EU5 and their strategic importance
- ✅ Values (sliders) are crucial for early success in EU5.
- ✅ Contrary to initial belief, values are not passively adjusted based on the player's actions.
- ✅ They can be managed and manipulated to gain significant advantages over the AI or other players.
00:12 - 01:25
2. 🎯 Tutorial objectives: Understanding and maximizing values
- ✅ The tutorial will cover three key areas:
- ✅ **How values work:** Understanding how to influence them and why it's beneficial.
- ✅ **Identifying the most important values:** Discovering the key value that allows maximizing the others.
- ✅ **Strategies for maximizing the key value:** Learning how to reach 100% in the most important value at the start of the campaign.
01:26 - 02:52
3. ⚙️ Basic mechanics of values and how to influence them
- ✅ The numerical value indicates how much the slider can be influenced in that direction.
- ✅ Values are manipulated through state privileges and laws.
- ✅ The goal is to manage laws and privileges to maximize influence in a specific direction.
- ✅ Although the maximum can be exceeded with parliaments and events, the main focus is on achieving high values passively.
02:53 - 03:18
4. 🏆 Benefits of maximizing values: Bonuses and penalties
- ✅ Each value at 100% grants three bonuses and one penalty (with the exception of Aristocracy).
- ✅ Maximizing a value is more beneficial than having it halfway.
03:19 - 03:39
5. 🔍 Identifying the factors that influence each value
- ✅ By highlighting the center of a slider, you can see the factors that drive it in both directions.
- ✅ This allows identifying which laws and privileges favor or hinder progress towards the desired value.
03:40 - 04:24
6. 👑 The key value: Identifying the most important slider to maximize the others
- ✅ There is a value that facilitates the maximization of laws and privileges, allowing reaching 100% in other values.
- ✅ The next segment of the tutorial focuses on identifying this key value and discussing the importance of each slider.
04:25 - 05:50
7. ⚖️ Analysis of values: Centralization vs. Decentralization, Traditionalism vs. Innovation
- ✅ **Centralization vs. Decentralization:** Both are viable options, without a critical need to maximize either.
- ✅ **Traditionalism vs. Innovation:** Innovation is crucial. Traditionalism at 100% is detrimental due to the high cost of adopting institutions (+200%). Innovation reduces this cost (-50%) and offers important bonuses such as maximum literacy and cultural influence.
05:51 - 06:30
8. 📚 Importance of literacy and cultural influence
- ✅ Cultural influence accelerates the integration of vassals and the acquisition of territories.
- ✅ Literacy accelerates the spread of technology and improves the skills of the population (e.g., clerics convert faster).
- ✅ Therefore, it is important to maximize innovation to obtain these benefits.
06:31 - 07:53
9. 🙏 Spiritualism vs. Humanism and Aristocracy vs. Plutocracy
- ✅ **Spiritualism vs. Humanism:** Both are viable, but Spiritualism is preferable due to the additional clerics in cities, which increase stability.
- ✅ **Aristocracy vs. Plutocracy:** Aristocracy is superior. Although Plutocracy offers commercial efficiency, Aristocracy generates legitimacy (reducing the cost of the court) and military discipline.
07:54 - 08:25
10. 🧑🤝🧑 Serfdom vs. Free Subjects and their economic impact
- ✅ Free Subjects is a noob trap.
- ✅ Serfdom generates significantly more money than Free Subjects, making the choice clear.
08:26 - 09:43
11. ⚔️ Belligerent vs. Consolatory, Offensive vs. Defensive and Traditional Economy vs. Capital
- ✅ **Belligerent vs. Consolatory:** Quality is preferable to quantity in the army.
- ✅ **Offensive vs. Defensive:** Defensive is generally better.
- ✅ **Traditional Economy vs. Capital:** Traditional Economy is better at the beginning, as it increases population capacity and food production, boosting population growth. Capital economy generates more money and urban productivity.
09:44 - 11:28
12. 🤝 Communalism vs. Individualism: The key value revealed
- ✅ Individualism reduces the satisfaction of the estates.
- ✅ **Communalism is the key value.** It reduces the cost of revoking privileges by 50%, increases the satisfaction of the estates, and, although it penalizes migration speed, this effect is smaller than it seems.
- ✅ The reduction in the cost of revoking privileges allows minmaxing the privileges without spending too much stability, facilitating the maximization of other values.
11:29 - 12:03
13. 📜 Academic treaties and the importance of Communalism
- ✅ In the second era, academic treaties further reduce the cost of revoking privileges (-5%).
- ✅ Combined with Communalism at 100%, this allows revoking privileges easily.
12:04 - 12:53
14. 🚀 Strategy to maximize Communalism at the start of the game
- ✅ Use the employment system to boost Communalism.
- ✅ Employment equality grants +10 to Communalism, although it costs stability.
12:54 - 13:22
15. 🔑 Revoking privileges to boost Communalism
- ✅ Revoke privileges (e.g., rights of the bourgeoisie) using the cost reduction from Communalism.
- ✅ This allows significantly increasing the value of Communalism.
13:23 - 13:46
16. 👨💼 Influence of the cabinet and the monthly boost to Communalism
- ✅ Use a cabinet member with good diplomacy to influence Communalism.
- ✅ This provides a constant monthly boost to Communalism.
13:47 - 15:10
17. 💀 The Black Death: An opportunity to maximize Communalism
- ✅ During the Black Death, segregating the infected grants +15% disease resistance and +0.2 boost to Communalism.
- ✅ Combined with other strategies, this allows easily reaching 100% Communalism.
- ✅ Events during the Black Death can further boost Communalism.
15:11 - 15:38
18. 💡 Maximizing Innovation after Communalism
- ✅ After maximizing Communalism, the next objective is Innovation.
- ✅ Innovation provides very cheap institution adoption costs and high literacy.
15:39 - 16:20
19. 🏛️ Strategies to boost Innovation
- ✅ Use privileges (e.g., urban development subsidies) and parliaments (e.g., court of culture, uncensored) to boost Innovation.
- ✅ Influence with the cabinet to obtain a constant boost.
16:21 - 16:46
20. 💰 Abusing temporary privileges for Innovation
- ✅ Temporarily add privileges like "control over monetary policy" to get a boost to Innovation.
- ✅ Then, revoke the privilege using the cost reduction from Communalism.
16:47 - 17:22
21. 🌊 Wave of Innovation: Key event to reach 100%
- ✅ The "Wave of Innovation" event is triggered with high Innovation.
- ✅ It grants an additional boost to Innovation, monthly research progress, and growth of institutions.
- ✅ Combined with the previous strategies, it allows reaching 100% Innovation.
17:23 - 18:00
22. 🎯 Continuous minmaxing and the pursuit of national perfection
- ✅ After Communalism and Innovation, continue minmaxing to maximize other values.
- ✅ The goal is to manipulate the nation to achieve perfection.
18:01 - 18:37
23. ⏳ Postponing values and unlocking future laws
- ✅ Postpone maximizing some values until unlocking future laws or government reforms.
- ✅ This provides more options and avoids "meming" the nation unnecessarily.
- ✅ Some values are impossible to maximize without advanced laws.
18:38 - 19:15
24. 🗺️ Adapting the strategy to your nation and objectives
- ✅ After Communalism and Innovation, adapt the strategy to the nation and objectives.
- ✅ Consider centralization/decentralization, serfdom/free subjects, etc.
- ✅ Remember the principles learned in the video to make informed decisions.