So EU5 BANKS Can UNIFY ITALY by BUYING IT

I think buying provinces will be hard when italy is filled with OPMs or high dev provinces such as Milan, Venice, Rome etc. OPMs wont sell their last provinces as well.
Sitting real life 30 min on speed 5 to generate enough money to buy a small province and doing that for the 100+ others is a fools errand probably

The thing I hate about the Rival system penalizing you for not having enough Rivals is that often, at least in EU4 right now, your valid Rivals are often countries you already have as Allies. Often times in the game I have no valid Rivals left to choose that aren't already my Allies, and even with 100 Trust that isn't enough of a sanity-check to have the game not penalize me for not betraying my Allies. Not world conquesting every time, man, sometimes I just want a little buddy country (that isn't a vassal).

that title is crazy!

it just gets better and better, pls let me be retired by release 🙏

the ae penalty for having no rivals makes sense - if youre too powerful to have rivals picking on weaker neighbours looks bad

I think being a bank is going to be my favorite play through.

This game gonna be shkaridibu complex

Genova banking system in XVI century had more disposable cash than the sum of GDP of Spain, England and France combined.

I can't wait to play "us".

i dont think "general turncoats" means military generals, I understood it as meaning "turncoats, in general" as in the spread of turncoats across the country in the cabinet or estates etc.

During the first crusade, hungarian king Coloman granted acess-and food to crusaders passing toward south. But most company overdo the acquiring food thing, and started looting sooner or later, so Coloman forced to defeat them. Later king of Jerusalem, Godfrey of Bouillon lead the first crusader army, that crossed without mayor incidents. I wonder if the possible pillaging of crossing armies will be something in eu5 we should manage.

i really like that it seems that money will do a lot more in eu5

I think diplomats should be a natural number (1,2,3...) and it should be dependent on your population, technology and investment.
I think a nation should have tens to hundred of diplomats and have a main diplomat (the ruler or a cabinet member).

Kublai Khan was in contact with Pope Gregory X in 1271. I think this diplo distance stuff is going to need some exceptions.

General turncoats almost certainly means usual turncoats, not military commanders

How tf Aragon is able to send diplomats to Rostov but not to Cairo if it's exclusively based on distance from capital ?

The Dev Diaries information volume basically make EU5 the first game with a pre-tutorial. You need it so you know what you're doing during the tutorial.

Never played e4 but got into the genre with v3. Would e5 be recommended as a new player?

Finally we can get a historically plausible Medici unification of Italy!

i think not having possible rivals shouldn't exclude you from the ae malus, it is a good way of throwing another curveball onto big blobbing empires. imo if you have an empire with no rivals, it makes sense that other countries see your expansion as a greater threat to the established order than if a country which still isn't a hegemon in some way doing similar things.

edit: cool video though, i agree with the rest of what you said

The diplomatic range being based on capitals could mean some interesting situations.
eg Aragon taking land in North Africa early on could mean they end up with a border with Mamluks yet be out of diplomatic range.

Playing banks in Mp will have so much rp potential form starting as a small insituation captalzing on big players wars and form a small family bank becoming worldwide infuence having more money flow than france funding weaker players with cheap loans to make sure war will continue to give more loans to big players

Take my Florins!

Having military access should always cost money to the requesting party, like fleet basing right, unless they are allied in war.

you absolutely will be able to get an alliance as an OPM, just not with France :)

Love you Ludi!

This is the most Italian thing I have heard all day.

Guys we need to pressure the devs in the forums to greatly expand the diplomacy and spying in EU5. This is far too similar to EU4 and is far too basic. Spying and diplomacy needs to be much more comprehensive like Vic 2/3, Imperator Rome and CK3. Economy/trade also needs to be more detailed and expansive too like Vic 2/3 and Imperator Rome. I was excited about EU5 but this has really tempered it with how similar it is to EU4.

Can't wait to roleplay de Medici and JP Morgan and replace "army spending" with "territorial purchase fund"

I am so glad it’s like EU4 and not like VIC3.

I love the A.E. expansion debuff that occurs when you are too strong and don't have any possible rivals, it means that even if you are the strongest nation, the smaller nations might bunch up in a coalition after seeing a superpower gobble up an opm or something similar.

I dislike the UI.. so much more wasted space

I'd suggest that you get no penalty from too few rivals if you are too small to have proper rivals and a full penalty if you are too big for anyone to be your rival.

Buying territory is the meta in some TW. Wait for a neighbour to fall in debt due to having too many armies, buy some territory which will decrease their taxe base, they will become even more dependant on your next purchase to stay afloat.

They won't sell their last few provinces but at this point crushing them is trivial, especially if their once mighty armies have been weakened in other wars.

I like the changes with being over diplo cap, in eu4 its extremely easy to get really strong allies and it makes the game a cake walk so being over gov cap can keep you from getting an insane alliance set along with a crazy amount of subjects

"In 2077 they voted my city the worst place to live in America"

Great video as always!!

Interesting! Can we take a moment to appreciate how great these dev posts are, I've been loving them so far.

Get rich and buy countries? That's how I played for Ming in EU4... I often made charter companies in Europe for Ming. The game didn't even care that the provinces were neighbors

Israeli gameplay when

Foreshadowing a Ludi video title in the future: “How to form in Italy as Geno/Italy in 75-100 years”

eu3 game before eu5 launch? sounds like it could be a pretty good brush up on skills

having no rival option if you are too big would be a great balancing option

Then i can buy the world playing as a jew?

Actually I disagree with you Ludi :
If you have no possible rivals, then obviously you are too strong, therefore agressive expansion penalty makes sense - if there is nobody to rival you in the area, people would flock together to stop you.

Jewish banks?