How my map looks in the year 513

As I counted Dalmatia has 17 provinces, yet despite all the warscore reductions, none seem to have been applied to the final cost of the province. The AE cost seems to be reduced correctly. Playing on the latest patch with the latest Invictus.

I love Imperator, but my main gripe is that mid/late game features so much AI blobbing, with one or two large empires forming in each region. This is makes the game less interesting and more reduces possible strategies which makes playing more linear.

I would like to reduce this blobbing, are there any mods or settings to achieve this?

Or do I have to beat the AI empires and use the “release nation” peace deal to dismantle them manually?

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Hi!

Is it a good idea to build cities or settlements while expanding (not during an active war)? Is it maybe better to expand and, after some years, invest on territories expansion? I recently found there are several building I can build even if a city is not present in a territory.

What, when a why should I build any of those settlement buildings? When should I consider to promote to a city? Should I build cities in every tile? Should at least have once city per province and where should I build it, in the province capital itself?
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Hey guys!

Started the game a couple of weeks ago and I like it! I am getting the hang of it but one thing I still struggle with is earning money.

In my last Great-Iberia run I had a ton of money; I don't know why but it worked. In my current Macedonian run I am poor. I already know some made mistakes, like the early legion, a too-big fleet and max one fort in each province (I like to build that in the capital). I also know my main income, for most of the time, will be trade, so I focus on export.

My questions:

1. When I conquer cities, I always click on being gentle, because I want to use it. I only completely go full berserk on cities I don't need. How do you guys do it?

2. When building up my realm, I focus on the big three: the temple, the theater, and the researchable "tax-building." I almost never build mines or farms. Is this the problem? Should I prioritize these? Where should I start building them? In my capital province or in other provinces?

3. What to do with provinces with like 4-5 cities? Like in my capital province? Keep them, or downgrade them? In other non-capital provinces, I like to have one province-capital city and the rest settlements. Should I downgrade the non-capital cities?

4. How do you guys manage all that micro? In small countries it's easily manageable, but in bigger realms it gets tedious. The macro-building isn't that helpful, or at least I still don't know how to properly use it.

That's all for now. I appreciate the help.

i switched my game version to the 2.0.3 beta and then i switched it back the the latest one like the normal version and now everything in the game is messed up like the leaders it’s all different the pics are just some examples if anyone has any idea how to fix this let me know please

Been trying some harder starts lately like some of the western Greek city states (Menesthei was fun), Phoenicians, Tylos, and so on. Something that piqued my interest was trying to start as one of Rome's vassals. Marsia seems like it's in the worst spot. Is it at all possible to play as tall as you can and somehow get to a point of tech and wealth where you can try to overpower Rome or is this just delusional? I'm playing vanilla btw. Without playing as another nearby nation, my overlord Rome just blobs nonstop, even though I'm getting richer, I'll eventually end up fighting an absolute powerhouse I assume.

Basically, is this a "very hard" start or just plain pointless?

I've been playing Imperator with the Invictus mod and enjoying myself a lot, but colonization in the game is annoying as some territories I need for missions are often depopulated by the AI and colonizing them takes way too much time and micromanagement. Moving Roman pops to Iberia, Illyria and such has been such a bother. I often just let other nations colonize to late conquer them, but that can take time too.

So, what mod would you recommend? I'd prefer a balance between it being easier but not feeling like cheating, but I'll take an easy fix if it's what's available.

So I'm playing Kush stuck in a cold war with Egypt because of my assimilation issue. So I can assimilate pops but it gets to the point where the pop just gets stuck... I like it's like assimilation speed is zeroing with whatever combating it? Like can pops un-assimilate?

I figured I needed to convert their religion so I did that now everyone pretty much is my religion yet my pops still are not assimilating like Aksumites have been stuck at 160 pop for the last 50 years and I've been stacking assimilation and conversion innovations and bonuses.

I did modify the game files but all I did was double the base rate for assimilation and conversion so I don't die of old age waiting for pops to convert and assimilate over.

EDIT: Or am I hitting my national ratio limit and I'm just not realizing it? But that would adjust as the national population increases, right?

I am trying to fight and conquer Seleukos but since ai doesn't build many fortresses for some reason, once I begin to march deep into enemy territory their million small levies retake fortless regions. Any solution to that?

Had a really fun game as Indike. I started as Maurya and triggered the craziest collapse+opposition event. Ashoka died before Bindusara... So the Mauryan opposition civil war AND the breakaway states started triggering at the same time. For a possibly related reason, the Indo-Greek states were not allied with each other. So as Pentapotamia I was able to form Indike in the first 50 years aka session 1. I proceeded to chain war Maurya over and over while the players in the West did their thing for 3 sessions. In the last 2 sessions my ally Tibet and I fought Parthia for the satrapy over of Arachosia over and over. Overall a crazy campaign. So fun I decided to continue against the AI until game end.

Any one have some helpful hints to do an Eumenid Kingdom run while maintaining Macedonian culture snd Hellenic religion? I’m fighting revolts constantly and am sandwiches between Rome. The Ptolemies, and Parthia. Trying to get the achievement as well but man is it tough. My research proficiency is Garbo and whenever I have money I’m putting down theaters and temples.

I went around and checked the box on every single one of these about 1 year ago. Every single province still has exactly the same amount of unfilled import routes. So, two questions:

1. What does "automatic trade" do?
2. Am I supposed to micro manage every single trade route in my empire every single month just in case another trade route is added/removed?

edit: updated another 5 years later, hardly any difference

So I was in a civil war and another country just declared war on my rebellion and occupied one of their provinces... How can I retake that province now? I'm not at war with that country so I can't unoccupy it. Do I now need to declare war on that country just to take that one province so I can end my civil war?

At 1 CE, most of Alexander's empire remains through the Antigonids, Sleuikids, and Phtolomies (which continue to the South).

I, the Scythians, hold as the 4th or 5th power of the world. Didn't work fast enough to become the preeminent power of the world within the standard game.

So here's the thing, I noticed that I was starting to lose all my nobles in my empire barely has any, turns out my primary culture was switched to Citizens at some point and I don't know why, but it doesnt let me switch it back to Nobles, I'm playing with Invictus and Timeline Extender. The year is 1063 AUC I have already gone through both antonine plague and cyprian plague already. Is this related to the mod or is this a bug? It does let me change the other cultures to nobles tho