An Advanced guide to Europa Universalis 4: Advisors

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[jipaalexandru]

There's no way admin points are less important than military and diplo, unless you are in a tightly packed multiplayer game, and let's face it, 99% of people only play singleplayer, or playing in italy or the lowlands, if you aren't blobbing you are just playing wrong. Admin is such a bottleneck, and the best possible start you can have is taking admin ideas and blobbing like hell using the governing capacity modifier to use the land to the fullest. How is diplo more important unless you are going colonial? Unless you are really late in the game and you have many modifiers to dev for dirt cheap, but even then you should be big enough by then so deving isn't gonna help much. With admin you can reduce inflation and boost stability too, what are you gonna do with dip besides tech, dev, and the few good idea groups, mercantilism? Saying dip is better than admin is legit trolling. Military is good but keeping up with tech isn't that hard, if you have one military idea group you will dunk on most AI countries, really you should only be focusing this if you are behind. Blobbing is the only truly meta way to play, only then can you get trade companies and get rich by trade. Admin power is totally the most important.

[RowntreeRobin]

I am very new at this game and I just need some clarification about the trade advisor and how it works. When the cursor is on the trade advisor it says: "...allocating the right number of merchants to where the most suitable trade routes exists." I had been watching youtube videos about trade. So, am I to understand with this trade advisor that I do not need to do any work myself in sorting out the trade? That I do not need to figure out what to do with the merchants whether to collect trade or where to send them because the trade advisor is handling all apsects?

[CharlieKellyEsq]

9:09 "Ironman is not for everybody"
True, bitches also play eu4

[ericsaxon]

8:18 You should give a Poland into Commonwealth game or a Russia game a shot, and see how valuable he really is.

When your junior PU member Lithuania is spending a bunch of time, and mp putting down religion based revolts, and then so are you after forming the PLC. A +2% to conversion SHINES for a frontier Catholic nation or a Russia game, trying to take over non-Orthodox neighbors.

It is very situational but when you are in that situation, oh my God is he a vital advisor.

And every conversion gives you a lump sum of Papal Influence which you can then turn into +15% national tax or +10% relations or prestige or +10% morale etc...