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EU5: Complete Guide to Gaining Prestige Efficiently (Patch 1.1)
This guide details how prestige works in EU5, the most efficient ways to obtain it, what to avoid, and the best method to consistently accumulate large amounts, based on patch 1.1. It covers everything from the benefits of prestige to specific strategies and considerations regarding its decay.
1. 🏆 Importance and Benefits of Prestige in EU5: Diplomacy, Expansion, and More
- ✅ High prestige increases diplomatic reputation, facilitating alliances and the acceptance of diplomatic demands.
- ✅ Reduces antagonism from other nations, allowing for more aggressive expansion without fear of coalitions.
- ✅ At 100 prestige, you get bonuses like +4 diplomatic reputation and -0.25 change in antagonism.
- ⚠️ Commercial appeal and great power score are less significant bonuses.
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1. 🏆 Importance and Benefits of Prestige in EU5: Diplomacy, Expansion, and More
- ✅ High prestige increases diplomatic reputation, facilitating alliances and the acceptance of diplomatic demands.
- ✅ Reduces antagonism from other nations, allowing for more aggressive expansion without fear of coalitions.
- ✅ At 100 prestige, you get bonuses like +4 diplomatic reputation and -0.25 change in antagonism.
- ⚠️ Commercial appeal and great power score are less significant bonuses.
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2. ⚔️ Revisions to the Rivals System: How It Affects Your Prestige Gain
- ✅ In patch 1.1, the amount of prestige gained or lost from rivals has been modified.
- ✅ Strong and threatening rivals grant more prestige.
- ✅ You no longer lose prestige for lack of rivals; now, weak rivals can result in a slight loss of prestige.
- ✅ Previously, the lack of rivals resulted in a loss of -0.1 prestige per month for each missing rival.
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3. 🎨 Works of Art vs. Cultural Investment: Which is the Best Passive Source of Prestige?
- ✅ Works of art are the main passive source of monthly prestige.
- ✅ Capturing capitals of large nations increases the amount of artwork.
- ⚠️ Cultural investment, through the patronage of the arts, is an extremely costly and inefficient way to obtain prestige (+0.1 prestige per month at the highest level with a very high cost).
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4. 📜 Minor Sources of Prestige: Hegemonies, Orders, Rank, and More
- ✅ Hegemonies grant +0.01 prestige per month each, but increase court costs.
- ✅ Joining orders can provide monthly prestige (e.g., the Order of the Swan gives +0.05).
- ✅ The royal garden in the capital grants +0.02 prestige per month.
- ✅ Being in the top 10 of the strength rankings also provides monthly prestige (e.g., first place gives +0.1).
- ✅ The country's rank (empire, kingdom, etc.) grants additional monthly prestige.
- ✅ Nobility satisfaction above 50% can provide additional monthly prestige.
- ✅ Maintaining the army, navy, and fort maintenance at maximum avoids prestige loss.
- ✅ The Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire gains +0.1 prestige per month.
- ✅ Orthodox nations can use the Orthodox Cinnote every 10 years to gain +20 prestige.
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5. 💍 Strategic Royal Marriages: Maximizing Prestige Through Alliances
- ✅ Canonizing previous rulers grants prestige and legitimacy based on their abilities.
- ✅ Royal marriages with members of other nations grant prestige, especially if they marry heirs or rulers.
- ✅ Religions with polygamous marriages, such as Islam or Hinduism, can maximize prestige by marrying all male members of the crown multiple times.
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6. 🚜 The Best Strategy for Farming Prestige: Humiliation and Forced Conversion
- ✅ Humiliating enemies, especially in coalition wars against small nations, is the most effective way to farm prestige.
- ✅ You get a minimum of +5 prestige for humiliating each nation.
- ✅ In the Holy Roman Empire (HRE), humiliating members can generate large amounts of prestige.
- ✅ Forcing the conversion of nations with different religions grants +10 prestige, combined with humiliation, you get +15 prestige.
- ✅ In the age of absolutism, the Columbian exchanges can be an additional source of prestige.
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7. 📚 National Traditions and Technologies: Unique Prestige Bonuses by Nation
- ✅ Different nations, cultures, and religious groups offer traditions that provide additional monthly prestige.
- ✅ Examples:
- Orthodox nations: +0.1 prestige per month with Pen Turkey and Legacy of Saint Andrew.
- Byzantium: +0.1 prestige per month with Pilia.
- Castile/Spain: +0.1 prestige per month with Chronicus Realist.
- Catholic nations: +0.05 prestige per month with Denunciation of Heretics.
- Austria/Styria: +0.05 prestige per month with the House of Glory.
- Nations with capital in Asia: +0.1 prestige per month with the Legacy of the Great Empires.
- Dharma and Hinduism religions: +0.1 prestige per month.
- Muslim nations: +0.05 prestige per month with established sacred sites.
- Ottomans/Anatolia: +0.05 prestige per month with the Anatolia Bailey government reform.
- China (Middle Kingdom): bonuses for laws such as the free centigantia law and the KJU examination law.
- England: +0.01 prestige per month for each Dominion subject.
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8. 📉 Prestige Decay and Excommunication: Factors that Reduce Your Gain
- ✅ Prestige decay is based on the amount of prestige you have (prestige/100 = monthly decay).
- ✅ Being excommunicated as a Catholic nation results in a loss of -0.2 prestige per month until the current ruler dies.