For the first couple of centuries of EU5, the most efficient way to get newly conquered land into your empire and producing value for you is via the use of subjects. You can release unintegrated land as subjects and, after 10 years, annex them, getting cores on all of their land. Done right, you should … Read more
EU5’s economy is very complex and has a lot of moving parts. A single building investment might need to take into account Proximity, Control, the price of goods, Market Access, Estate profits, and Food. This article is intended not as a comprehensive guide to the economy, nor to tell you what to build when, but … Read more
Estates are those annoying groups of pops that always seem to think they know better than you how your nation should be run (so your average EU5 player). In addition to demanding privileges, requiring bribes for Parliaments and providing your army some target practice in the form of rebels, Estates in EU5 also have their … Read more
In EU5, values are what define your nation, it’s people and society. Is yours a humanistic, tolerant society, or a spiritualistic slave to the Papacy? Is your peasantry free to live and work where they will, or do they know their place? Centralized, conciliatory and plutocratic or decentralized, belligerent and aristocratic? Values in EU5 are … Read more