New Estates META Changed EU4 COMPLETELY

The EU4 Estate Guide updated for the most recent patch of EU IV and meant for all those who wish to stop being virgin gamers and become chad eu4 gamers....just kidding, you're automatically a virgin gamer if you play this game, also wtf, you actually reading descriptions? what's wrong with you....

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[HoiPolloiNtertains]

Anyone else remember when we didn’t have estates? Anyone else remember when we manually added lands to the estates? Man EU4 has gone through some changes.

[DavidLodgeclassof]

A couple notes:
- you can actually lose crownland if your estate influence is high enough and you have enough crownland.
- the ticking disaster for 100 influence doesn't tick off their loyalty is high.
- if playing tall, you actually want 60 loyalty AND 60 influence. If not conquering, the high influence has no downsides (and you'll have lots of crownland from devving and seizing) and it makes the passive buffs bigger (manpower, dev cost, tax, etc).
- you can have slightly higher influence than loyalty if you are willing to use the diet to get extra loyalty. Basically, if you have 82 loyalty and 105 influence of clergy, you can call diet, do the estate mission, and now you have 100 loyalty, meaning you can take off one of the privileges (preferable one that gives more influence than loyalty).

Yes, I play with tons of loyalty and influence until nearing absolutism.

[nihadbabayev]

Yo lubi what happened to the naxos video? You promised for 1k like

[luckylluck]

The way the crownlands conquered lands are distributed to the estates and the crown is quite unclear in-game. In the wiki we find that the estates get assigned the development from the annexed provinces according to their influence. The crown here is said to have 60% "influence" (+ absolutism, but that is irrelevant early game).

Lets look at an example. Say we have 100 development, the estates currenly have 30/30/40 land share (crown has none, as you do early game) and the influence of the 3 estate is at 40%. Now say we annex 90 dev worth of provinces (probably incurring a massive coalition, but that is beside the point. This way the rounding is nice). The combined influence percentage-points are 40+40+40+60 = 180. This leads to every 2% influence being worth 1 development from the newly aquired provinces. So the estates + crown get assigned 20/20/20/30 development respectively. These get added to their current pools of development, which were 30/30/40/0 respectively since we had 100 dev. This leads to a development share of 50/50/60/30 development in land share, and consequently 26.3/26.3/31.6/15.8% land share for all estates + crown.

This system kinda resembles the way provinces needed to be assigned to estates, in an earlier version of EU4. But now it's less micro but also less clear.
The consequence of this system is that the share of land of the estates converges to the "share of influence".

In the video at 10:44, ludi had 142 dev at the start, and annexed 95 dev worth of provinces. Excerise for the reader: verify the decreases in land share for the estates shown in the peace deal. Or don't, I can't tell you what to do. :P

[WRoussell]

Thank you!!! I have been researching so much about how the estates work when it comes to acquiring & getting rid of privileges, the effects, and how acquiring land affects land ownership.

[speak_the_speech_TV]

Once again, rather than giving me what I want (a complete Dithmarschen guide), you give me what I need. Great video!

[mik]

I would not recommend going below 30% crownlands for Poland, as in the beginning of the game you can quickly get Bohemia and Hungary as junior partners, on top of Lithuania, and on top of having Mazovia and Moldavia as vassals which makes the liberty desire from development quite relevant.

[rowanmales]

I would have liked to see your thoughts on absolutism and how that influences your choice of privilages in the later game. As someone who likes high absolutism, I always go court and country, and get rid of my priviliges except the +1 mana ones. I like to try and keep some of the +100 gov cap depending on my situation, but I would have liked to see your own absolutism rationale.

[josephcola]

23:00

There are actually some VERY niche situations where control over monetary policy is a good thing to take. Namely, a scenario where you ABSOLUTELY CANNOT afford to go bankrupt and that's the only way you can save your economy.

To date, that has only happened to me once, when I did a Granada campaign and was in INCREDIBLY dire straits after my 1st war with Castille, with out of control inflation and interest, max loans, surrounded by nations who wanted me dead, and barely making income even WITH the LA Mancha gold mine at 12 production dev.

But like I said, that's a very specific scenario, and 99/100 times, you're absolutely right that it isn't worth taking.

[albionjogos]

Thank you Ludi, for this amazing states guide

[Yes..........]

I love how the first thing in this vid is about taking the free mana gen! I shared it with a friend of mine whose teeth I regularly had to pull for them to pick those privileges. Right away they commented on it. The greatest thing about this vid is that I don't have to explain how to use privileges it to others, just share.

Thanks Ludi!

[wolfman]

Another word about monopolies: I lean towards taking the ones where I have very few of the trade good, and whatever it is is also low value. i.e. Trade goods which are very low value to me. I don't care about the inital ducets I get at all. This way, losing that trade goods value is not effecting my economy. But I'm essentially farming mercantalism while keeping estate loyality in check, until I have need of the slot for other privileges.

[KevinCurry]

Top notch, Ludi! Your EU4 guides are the best! Thanks

[CatladyAyaki]

Very informative and helpful video!!
Thank you Ludi :D

[TheOvalOwl]

The face on the thumbnail had me cracking up 😄

[jarleisenfaust]

Thx Ludi for the guide and explanation! Now its way easier for me to handle the estates!

[iarwain]

really great video. Waiting for the other guide :)

[douglasboyle]

This was great, I definitely picked up a couple of things I didn't know and saw a few other things in the comments that were helpful too. Videos like this are helpful even to veteran but not expert players like me because it's so hard to know all the ins and outs. Please keep them coming mixed in with your other great content!

[efulmer]

11:50 Me running all the privileges and constantly being near 100 influence for all three major estates because the bonuses are nice:
looks over
looks away

[Titantrn]

I dunno, I love my monopolies. You're essentially paying 2 years of production, which in the shown examples would be mostly 5-10 ducats and 50 for the most expensive. For a nation the size of England, 5, 10 ducats for 1 mercantilism alone is daylight robbery, or am I missing something here? Not to speak of the main bonus. 10% loyalty is super nice and the same bonus some monuments and much more expensive things give. And you get cash upfront which as we know is more valuable than over time, I'm wondering if they're worth it for this alone lol (assuming free slots ofc).