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Would be interesting to see if this actually helps (I doubt it). Pestilence is one of the biggest reason why I don't want to play in the Americas right now. Paradox really needs to change it
I'll let you know if it does, hospitals really helped my population not collapse in Portugal during the plague so i figured id give it a shot
Castile just showed up neighbouring my colony in Texas but i'm gonna lie down for a bit u_u
trip report but it at least shows up as a "disease presence" vs "disease resistance" indicator
this fucking game keeps not screenshotting the actual thing that's on my screen and instead screenshotting shit that was there like minutes prior, what the fuck, I keep having to fight this shit to post
cool so I had to savescum because the Great Everyone Fucking Dies happened right before castile landed their armies, so Everyone Died at literally the worst fucking time
but woops castile NO CB'd me, so it's "show superiority" and for some fucked to death, please fucking shoot someone at Paradox reason, as the defender I don't get a ticking warscore, so I'm stuck sitting at 6% warscore and castile won't land their fucking armies until the fucking disease attacks. what the fuck is this shit
You gotta alt tab twice. The game will screenshot the last image you tabbed away from.
:| that's dumb i hate it
real trip report: I kept savescumming because I'm trying to fucking get 10 warscore so I can make castile give me fleet basing rights but there's no way for me to get warscore while they refuse to send troops, and after the great pestilence it's like cool I have 4k levies now
Anyway, this is the population graph
75% dead, which I think is an improvement? I think the first time I did this it was 5.3 million pops down to 1 million? idk
jfc hospitals did basically nothing. Playing in the americas looks miserable right now
I mean I think the first time I had an absolute and total collapse of industry and this time I'm kinda recovering? It's just like 40 years later and my population has only increased by 300k so that kinda sucks. But hey, I just colonized my way to Tin! It's 1559 and time to make some naval supplies, yee haw!
at least castile hasn't tried to kick over my sandcastle after the first time, I was mad I couldn't get fleet basing rights but I ended up getting all the institutions anyway (and wrecking my stability embracing them all). White Man Proximity has allowed me to learn to dig out iron! wow!
P.s. yeah if anyone wants to do the math the first playthrough when I posted "what the fuck is this shit" I had like 5.3 million people down to 1.03 million, this time I had 4.03 million people down to the same 1.03 million. So, I think they definitely did something, it's just... I'm still so absolutely wrecked I'm at the mercy of Castile's AI. I think they see me having most of Mesoamerica as subjects and they're like "hmmm nah" even though they didn't hestitate when we had near peer manpower
P.p.s. the pestilence shit mostly just sucks because I hate the "knock you down and rebuild" in general, I don't like it from the black death either, but also with this it happens after the Europeans have recovered, so, you're kinda fucked