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Xarxos
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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 28 พ.ค. 2020
I do speedruns (both real time and in-game time) for Paradox grand strategy games such as Europa Universalis 4, Victoria 2, and March of the Eagles.
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What Would the Historical Countries of EU4 Cost as Custom Nations?
Have you ever wondered what the historical countries of Europa Universalis 4 would cost if you remade them as custom nations in the nation designer? No? Well I'm about to tell you anyway.
Ho boy did this take a while! I really had no intention of making this my longest video by far going into this, but it just kept growing. Hopefully the final results are accurate; I kept discovering minor mistakes and oversights even as late as right before uploading this video to youtube, so who knows really!
Here are various links:
Spreadsheets with the complete data: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TUmp_XB83vkqoOj5QFkkD_PXf7CA4e9peuX-Xu53c1g/edit?gid=924990568#gid=924990568
Imgur album containing the maps and top/bottom lists shown in the video (plus a bit more): imgur.com/a/WWQZBfd
Comagoosie's blog post explaining how province terrain is determined: pdx.tools/blog/calculating-eu4-province-terrain
My Discord channel: discord.gg/gSA2cQ6EeJ
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
5:42 Government
9:08 Technology Group
10:55 Provinces
19:35 Provinces - Results
24:44 Court (Ruler, Heir, Consort)
34:36 Court - Results
45:07 National Ideas
1:07:34 National Ideas - Results
1:17:26 Total Score
1:22:34 Outro
Ho boy did this take a while! I really had no intention of making this my longest video by far going into this, but it just kept growing. Hopefully the final results are accurate; I kept discovering minor mistakes and oversights even as late as right before uploading this video to youtube, so who knows really!
Here are various links:
Spreadsheets with the complete data: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TUmp_XB83vkqoOj5QFkkD_PXf7CA4e9peuX-Xu53c1g/edit?gid=924990568#gid=924990568
Imgur album containing the maps and top/bottom lists shown in the video (plus a bit more): imgur.com/a/WWQZBfd
Comagoosie's blog post explaining how province terrain is determined: pdx.tools/blog/calculating-eu4-province-terrain
My Discord channel: discord.gg/gSA2cQ6EeJ
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
5:42 Government
9:08 Technology Group
10:55 Provinces
19:35 Provinces - Results
24:44 Court (Ruler, Heir, Consort)
34:36 Court - Results
45:07 National Ideas
1:07:34 National Ideas - Results
1:17:26 Total Score
1:22:34 Outro
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I trues forming this and managed to do it around December 1846, is that average?
I think that's around average for a non-speedrun, yeah!
I know I'm late, but "You have become the very thing you swore to destroy."
Well, better late than never!
Love ur videos
i kind of wish you had made a separate list where you handled the "legitimacy plus" ideas by just assigning the nation the idea that corresponded to that nations government type at game start/when the nation spawns. Like yes, Bohemia can access all of these potential bonuses, and that's great, but most of the time, Bohemia is going to remain a monarchy, so for the vast majority of runs, it will be as if they only had the bonus to legitimacy. I understand that the main thrust of the video wouldn't exactly be served that way, but i think it would have been interesting to include, since this was obviously done due to the limits of the game's code. Just a thought though, excellent video for sure.
You're not alone in that sentiment, and I actually thought about making a separate ranking with that precise idea. I ended up not going for it though to keep the video from getting even more complex, but I can definitely see why people would be interested in it. If I hadn't lost the code for the project I might have made something like that after the fact, but as it stands now it would be a bit too much work unfortunately.
1:17:45 Paradox developers HATE this guy... Deep secret they DON'T want you to know... Poor Sweden is invalid.
This is pleasing to my eyes, thanks for the effort and time it took you for this.
I'm glad you liked it! :)
i did the same as Italy cuz i didnt want to go as everyone else as grecce or germay, i didnt conquered 4 provinces at the end (i could but i fucked up) like You if i want to end it i can, i need to use a save from the past but last is 1926 and i dont want to spend 2-3h playing the same shit, in my head i did it but in reality i need 2-3h to do it freak it :D Edit: 50-60h cut from my life to do it
You mean a world conquest? Well awesome job for almost completing it! :) I did imagine that Italy would be a good choice for world conquest, I almost went with them myself actually before changing to Germany. But yes, it sure takes a lot of time to do and it doesn't feel great to trip on the finish line like that!
Imagine being born in the Free City of Krakow. Only to grow up and become apart of the reestablished Polish-Lithuanian Army.
And then imagine being born in Korea, and also grow up to become part of the reestablished Polish-Lithuanian army for some reason!
bruh you look almost like a certain guy i knew in high school appearance wise
Oh really? You didn't go to high school in northern Sweden then I presume? :P
@@xarxos5274 No, i'm from south america, but my friend had a similar hairstyle and glasses
@@wiel5908 I see, cool!
Can you do the same in VIC3? You can't kite them anymore so I wonder how can you get those high pop asian lands, cause they are perfect for countries with small pop like Colombia.
I have no idea. I'm not nearly as experienced with Vic3, especially the later patches which I haven't kept up with very much yet.
This might be my favorite video on TH-cam
Woah, that's high praise, thank you very much! I've enjoyed several of your videos as well, cool to be recognized by a big name like yourself! :D
You’re insane for this
Yes!
@@xarxos5274 I have close to 10k hours and you make me look like a noob
@@Peanutbutterfella I appreciate the compliment, though there are still parts of this game where I'm closer to a noob as well!
Tell me more about Ærs and formulas for Ærs
What do you refer to when you say "Ærs"? Heirs? Or something else?
awesome work! thanks for the video
Thank you very much! :)
1:12:00 Just put it into the formula as -50% fire damage recieved then multiply the cost by -1 because it's negative
Yeah that's basically what I did there at the end. In retrospect I probably should have done something like that to begin with, since there actually is a precedent for modifiers with inverted values in the nation designer already, and in those cases they do invert the cost as well.
“We’re finally ready to talk about top and bottom rulers” I didn’t know that was a trait
Henry VI looking very submissive and breedable right now (which is ironic since he has the Infertile trait).
Xarxos making one of the most intricate and well thought out videos about a concept almost completely irrelevant to the game itself (it is the most entertaining thing I've seen all week).
Why spend a bunch of time and effort on something that actually matters, when you can spend it on an incredibly niche curiosity instead? :D
irrelevant as it is, if you ever wanted to create a small/medium sized but strong custom nation, the issue of maximum cost must have hit you, and probably got you wondering if nations like the Ottomans would fit this cost limit so I'm sure a lot of eu4 players would be interested, as well as to find out how did Paradox come up with this cost limit seemingly so low (if the algorithm would bless this video and show it to them)
@@emanuelneagu14 Oh yeah, would be really cool if someone from Paradox saw this video and wanted to comment about how they designed the nation designer, and what they think about my methodology here!
@@xarxos5274 you know I initially wanted to say that if the algorithm would bless the video, the people wondering about these limitations would be interested, but it would be even more interesting if someone from Paradox explained why they did things they way they did, funny positive mistake in expression isn't it :D
@@emanuelneagu14 Oh, I see, haha well both sentiments are intereresting I think! :D
I mean, kind of expected I guess? An OPM with good ideas can easily get a hundred new provinces, a big empire with terrible ideas is stuck with them (unless they switch to a different tag ofc).
nah if your economy can support a 50k army at start no one stands in your way no matter the ideas (except maybe hordes in plain terrain) and also you can probably support some good advisors to compensate for the bad ruler, and crush your rivals and get that 50 PP giving +1 bonus for each mana type
I am playing paradox games because of numbers go brrr (and history ofc)... So this video is just everything i need. Thank you very much, still in it, and i like it so much!
Gotta love those numbers! I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
man missed yo fr
Aw, thanks! :)
I was hoping Israel would have come up somewhere in this .. haha.
Hm, I suppose their national ideas should be somewhere in the spreadsheets at least, I haven't really thought about it.
isnotreal I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So, a number of people have taken issue with the way I dealt with the Legitimacy-modifiers for countries such as Bosnia. I don't think everyone has the exact same reasons to disagree with it, but I just wanted to clarify a few things, just in case that happens to address your concerns: 1) I realize I didn't do a very good job explaining how the Legitimacy-modifiers work in the video: It's easy to think that the Legitimacy-modifier such as the one in Bosnia's national ideas is a single modifier whose value changes depending on your current government form. But in reality it's actually five different modifiers, like, literally, if you look in the game files where Bosnia's national ideas are defined you can clearly see that they have five different modifiers listed for Yearly Legitimacy, Republican Tradition, Devotion, Horde Unity and Meritocracy. Each of these modifiers has its own specific effect which isn't tied to the others, and each of them also have a corresponding custom idea in the nation designer which has the exact same effect. So, I want to make it clear that the fact that I'm counting the costs of all of these five modifiers is not just some arbitrary decision on my part; there actually are five different modifiers and five different custom ideas that correspond to each of them, and if you want the custom ideas to work the exact same way as the original national ideas, then you need to add all five of them, which of course means you need to pay the cost for all five of them. If you don't add all five, then your custom nation will *literally* not have the same ideas as the original nation. 2) The nation designer cost of a country is not the same thing as how powerful they are. The nation designer has never been particularly good at representing the actual power of a country, especially when it comes to national ideas. The purpose of this project is *not* to rank countries based on how powerful they are, its *only* purpose is to rank them based on the cost they would have as custom nations. So if you take issue with the fact that relatively weak countries like Bosnia can end up with a higher score than much stronger countries like Ming, just remember that it doesn't necessarily contradict the purpose of this project. If you want to do a ranking based on actual power levels, then that would be something entirely different and there would be no reason to involve the nation designer in that case. If you still disagree with me despite this, then I don't think we're going to be able to come to an understanding no matter what. It's likely we're just talking past each other and might even refer to different things. We'll just have to agree to disagree. Now, regardless of whether you agree with me or not, there have been some people who have requested an alternative ranking where you only count one Legitimacy-modifier instead of all five. I can understand why one might find that interesting, and if I can find the time and energy I might try to produce such a list for those who are interested in it. But I will continue to stand by my assertion that such a list would be significantly less accurate than the one I made originally, in regards to how closely it matches the actual nation designer. Anyway, thanks for all the kind comments about the video, whether you agree with me or not, I appreciate it! :)
You made the correct call, everyone who disagrees is just seething at the fair and balanced nature of the Custom Nation Designer™️.
I agree with your call as well, this way of counting is clearly more accurate for the stated purpose of the video. The silly results are a fault of how paradox coded the game, not your methodology.
Custom nations should let you edit the missions
That would be cool!
For Bosnia's 2nd, you should've taken the average and not the total of the five in my humble opinion.
See my pinned comment for further clarification on why I counted all five.
Can you please share national ideas list without inbalance factor?
Without the imbalanced categories multiplier? Well, you can look in the spreadsheets at the sheet named "Idea Modifiers", which lists each indiviudal modifier and includes both their "total cost" but also their "base cost", their "slot bonus cost" and their "category imbalance bonus cost". If you know your way around excel you could probably use that to get the cost of each idea set while exclusing the category imbalance multiplier. That's the closest thing I have to what you're asking about (if I understand you correctly).
@@xarxos5274 yeah. Thanks a lot. Great video.
@@arekzawistowski2609 Thank you!
Great idea!!
Thank you! :)
16:20 You mean, most difficult, unless you look into the file that directly says which provinces have what terrain?
If it is anything like CK than not all provinces have that defined, and the best way to do it would be through terrain.bmp
Are you referring to the terrain_overrides in the terrain.txt file? Those only cover a minority of all provinces. Most provinces don't have any explicitly defined terrain, which is why you have to use the complicated method. Or do what I did and use the simplified terrain map mode in-game.
Very interesting video and the arbitrary decisions all feel logical, all except the decision for the legitimacy-like ideas. It's especially weird to see that despite the very good arguments and alternatives proposed by people in the comments, you still argue that your decision was right.
The thing is, the way I treat legitimacy-like modifiers is actually far less arbitrary than many of the other decisions. It's important to understand that, while they appear to be just a single modifier whose effects change depending on your government type, in actuality they are *literally* five different modifiers. You can see this clearly by looking at for example Bosnia's national ideas in the game files: All five of those modifiers are explicitly included, and each of them work entirely independent from the others; they don't affect each other in any way, and you don't have to group them up like that either, you could just as well just have one of them on their own. What's more, each of these five modifiers have a corresponding custom idea that work exactly identical to each individual modifier. There's nothing fundamentally different to these modifiers compared to any other modifiers in the game, so I treat them exactly the same as I treat every other modifier. If I hadn't counted their costs individually, and instead only counted one of them or taken the average or something, then *that* would mean I'm arbitrarily treating these modifiers differently from every other modifier in the game.
yo 1+1+1+1+1=5 it's the most logical thing no matter how imbalanced it is, the custom nation feature is far from perfect that's the issue
Ranking the starting tags in 1444 by difficulty according to the amount of points required to recreate them is a really funny concept to me? It makes me think of someone looking exclusively at point costs and saying things like "Yeah, Castile is Very Easy difficulty, Scotland is too." "You wanna form Russia? Play as Novgorod, they're objectively easier to play than Muscovy. Look how much cheaper they are!" "Bro, Jolof is literally broken OP, why does PDX allow achievements as this country???"
Haha yeah, the names of those categories can be a bit misleading, since the nation designer itself isn't very good at measuring the strength of a country :)
The legitimacy thing causes too much imbalance. I understand that applying these rules is the most consistent, but it doesn't give the most accurate results. I believe you should use the multiplier applicable to the considered government choice
I mean, there's no objectively correct answer as to what is the most accurate results, since the nation designer has its limitations. But I don't really understand why you don't think these are accurate results, if you acknowledge that I've applied the rules consistently? The nation designer cost isn't a very good measure of how powerful a country or national ideas actually is, but the point of this project wasn't to rank the most powerful nations. You could try to create a pure power ranking if you want, but it would be something completely different from what I've done, and there's no reason to base that on the nation designer.
It's unfair to count double ideas as separate, since they are considered one for balance purposes. So, for example, the legitimacy idea should be a tier 10 idea instead of 5 tier 2 separate ones
You mean if there are more than 1 modifier in a single idea, then we should always just count one of them for that idea? That could be a way to do it, but then you would have a very large number of modifiers that would simply get ignored.
@@xarxos5274 No, I mean that when there are ideas with multiple modifiers it should contribute to it's tier. For example Hanoverian shutzenfest idea should be a tier two idea instead of being two tier one ideas costing 0 both. Then the value should be divided between modifiers (two in case of Hanover) and multiplied according to the modifiers category (1 and 1 in case of Hanover)
@@easytiger6570 Oh, I see! Yeah that's not a bad idea actually, you could certainly have done it like that. There's no objectively right or wrong answer here, but I can see the merit in your approach as well.
I would like to see the results but excluding the point inflation from legitimacy ideas
Many others have expressed this too. Maybe I can do something like that later, we'll see.
I hate the fact you can not add two modifiers in one idea, Paradox should’ve adressed that a loooong time ago
Yeah they really ought to have updated the nation designer to be more dynamic, it's a bit needlessly limited right now.
I’ve wondered this too lol
Shame that the legitimacy modifier kinda screwed with the results. It would have been nice to see a ranking if they counted as one modifier depending on what government the nation starts with
It's a shame it has such a big impact on the result, I can agree with that, but that's just how the nation designer works. A ranking where they only count as one modifier could perhaps be interesting as well, but it would be something entirely different from this.
I simply don't agree with the use of all legitimacy modifiers. I would've taken just one. you should know those modifiers exist so if you're a theocracy you don't have a useless +1 legitimacy. you can see the problem of over representation of this quirk in your data.
The thing is, the way I dealt with them actually isn't some special case or anything: I treated them exactly the same as every other modifier. It's important to note that while it might seem like this is just a single modifier which changes its value depending on government type, it actually is literally five different ones, who all have their own separate effect. There's nothing which inherently ties them together; although in the base game they're always grouped together, you could easily split them up and just have them on their own, they don't affect each other whatsoever. There's fundamentally nothing different about counting all five of them separately than it is to count any other idea modifiers separately.
@@xarxos5274 sure but it should've gotten an exception because it is the only one that changes. countries like athens and jolof shouldn't have been boosted to top 10 because they dared have an in practice (though republics can use it effectively) mid modifier it looks like their ideas are a lot better than they actually are. of course athens is one of the +4 tolerance of heretics countries. though silly I do agree with the result in that regard.
@@notcraig255 You have to remember that custom nation cost doesn't necessarily have anything to do with how good a country or national idea is. You can have two sets of ideas who both have mediocre modifiers that are about equally good, but if one of those idea sets happen to have mostly Administrative ideas while the other has an even distribution of ideas from different categories, then the first one might end up several times more expensive the second one. That doesn't make any sense either if we want the score to match how powerful they actually are, but that's just how the nation designer works. This project aimed to calculate what cost each country would have in the nation designer; it was never intended to rank nations based on their actual power level. If that *had* been the intention, there would be no reason to involve the nation designer at all, because it's not a good measure for that. And again, I just want to repeat that Yearly Legitimacy, Republican Tradition, Devotion, etc, are five separate modifiers with separate effects that don't actually have anything to do with each other, and each of them have one corresponding custom idea that works exactly the same as the original modifier. There's just no getting around the fact that if you have a nation whose ideas includes all of these five modifiers, then to recreate it in the nation designer you have to use all five corresponding custom ideas, which each have a separate cost. That's no different from any other modifier.
Great video, thank you! I'm sure so much work went into this.
Thank you! And yes, quite a lot of work indeed, much more than I thought it would take when I started with it! :D
@@xarxos5274 Me anytime I begin a coding project: I think I can get this done within 1-2 weeks Me 3 months later: Will someone end my suffering?
@@doudline2662 Way too accurate :'D
Can you make a list while not accounting for the legitimacy idea problem? I feel the results of that would be much more interesting!
I understand that it might be interesting to see that. It would take a bit of work though, maybe I could do it sometime, but we'll see!
@@xarxos5274 Do you still have the files you used for this video? If so you could just upload a google drive link on a community post
@@Mag_ladroth I do have the spreadsheets with all the data, and I've already linked to it in the video description. It would still take some work to exclude the extra legitimacy modifiers though, since that would affect the imbalanced categories multiplier and so you would have to recalculate the costs of all the other ideas too.
@@xarxos5274 Thanks! But it's not a big problem for me, I love doing pointlessly long calculations in excel
@@Mag_ladroth Haha well be my guest if you want. I don't think I included the idea "levels" in the spreadsheets though, so you would have to calculate those yourself to begin with.
I think we've all had more coherent test runs with the console, than the coding of EU4 itself
1:15:54 hanover, a nation whos ideas are often taken over that of prussias due to how good they are in multiplayer, being all the way down at the bottom 10 is crazy to me.
Oh, they're considered that strong? Well, looking at them, I can understand why they're ranked so low: They got several useful modifiers but none of them have very high values, so they'd be pretty cheap. They're also not dominated by any one category, so they get no multiplier from imbalanced categories. I think this just goes to show that the designer cost isn't necessarily a good indicator for how strong a nation or national is.
Perfectly balanced
Very good vid. Keep up the interesting work!
Thank you very much! :D
i really wanted to see the scores without the national idea cost multiplier to see the actual fair score
Well, unfortunately, the nation designer isn't very good at giving a fair score. I agree it would have been better if it had worked differently, so the scores better reflected the actual power level of the countries, but that's not how it works right now.
i would like to see a version of this with an fix for the government-specific modifiers being massively overinflated in cost, even though that's arbitrary and not accurate to the nation designer. Perhaps only counting the modifier that actually applies for that nation's starting government? I think a list that (somewhat) better represents the actual power levels of the 1444 countries would be interesting, instead of Bosnia being the second most expensive/powerful nation because they get meritocracy and horde unity that they will likely never use
I understand that, and I actually considered adding an alternative ranking for that initially, but decided against it because I fear it would only make things more confusing. Maybe I can add something like that later; it wouldn't reflect the actual nation designer, but it might be interesting nonetheless.
15:21 insert “paradox making sweden OP” joke
They would never! /s
1:05:54 The fact that you decided to add the value of every single legitimacy modifier into the calculation AND let them affect the unblanaced ideas multiplier at the end completely throws the entire ranking out of whack. Even you recognized that Bosnia being ahead of Ming because of this was nonsensical, and yet you decided to go ahead with it which I struggle to understand why. You could have just set the composite legtimacy modifier's value to the same as the normal legitimacy value (which you did for the culture advisor modifier), you could have set it to an average of the 5, you could have set it to the highest value of the 5 (60 from the republican tradition), but this completely biases the calculations towards only nations that have the composite legitimacy idea. Your reasoning that the only way to implement this in the custom nation builder is to add all five modifiers makes no sense since we were already leaving the physical limitations of the actual EU4 custom builder behind when we were discussing ideas with more than 7 slots and ideas with levels that aren't in the custom builder.
It's only nonsensical if we expect the custom nation score to be a good measure of how powerful a country actually is. But it definitely isn't, and not just in the case of the legitimacy modifiers: There are plenty of other cases where the designer gives much larger or much smaller costs than what seems reasonable. That's just how it works. I don't understand why you think it doesn't make sense to add all five modifiers. If you're able, take a look at Bosnia's ideas in the game files. You'll find that they literally include five different modifiers for Yearly Legitimacy, Republican Tradition, Devotion, etc. So the decision to include all five of them in a custom nation isn't an arbitrary choice at all: It literally matches how the national ideas of the normal nations are defined. Choosing to ignore some of them makes no more sense than choosing to ignore any of the other modifiers in the ideas: If we were to remove Bosnia's Tolerance of Heretics, then the result is that Bosnia no longer gets a bonus to Tolerance of Heretics. I think we can both agree that this would be wrong. If we were to remove Bosnia's Yearly Republican Tradition, then the result is that Bosnia no longer gets a bonus to Yearly Republican Tradition, even if they become a republic. Why is this not wrong?
Great video, very informative and everything well explained!
Thank you very much, I'm glad you think the explanations were good! :)
Ok now try and make the custom nation with the highest cost possible. Then you can ask us to try and beat you! Have to have a maximum province count though.
The highest cost possible assuming there's no point limit? I'm pretty sure that could in theory become infinite, since you can always make national idea modifiers larger and larger. You'd have to put some kind of restriction on how large the modifiers can get in that case I think!
@@xarxos5274 Ok you can choose an existing national idea/tradition/ambition from a nation in the game or you can use the maximum from custom nation builder. How about that?
@@Prophlol I suppose that could work. I don't know what the maximum cost would be though even then, probably quite massive, since in theory you could give the nation every single province in the world, which would already be quite a lot!
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It's just science you know!
I think this is how one would evaluate the tricky national ideas that don't have any specified values: - the "country allows X" ideas are all worth 0. Both for the reason you gave in the video, and because special units are pretty irrelevant anyway unless you have missions/privilieges etc to really boost up the special forces limit. - complex modifiers like "effect of absolutism" and "overextension impact" can be broken down into a combination of other similar modifiers. For example, +5% admin eff can be roughly compared to 5% CCR + 5% province warscore cost. Overextension impact is tricky, but it's effect is similar to a scaling national unrest modifier. At 100% OE you get +5 national unrest, so 20% overextension impact reduction is like -1 unrest. These modifiers both scale so they're impossible to value precisely but that would be a way to approximate it.
'Effect of administrative efficiency' could be calculated based on how much admin eff the average player-controlled nation can achieve. The most 'generic' admin eff you can get without missions or DLC monuments and stuff is 30% from tech and 30% from absolutism so 60% should be the benchmark.
@@ydp868 Those are some good ideas actually. It can get rather complex to try to assemble such modifiers as combination of other modifiers, but you might be able to find a pretty good approximation if you really try. At least you could find something closer to an accurate result than simply ignoring them.