Stability drops a lot more frequent on certain systems than others?

[Bluebird]

As is common problem which dropped out many many players, the well known event the yearly: stability drop and often more than once a year. I dropped out of EU i am done, it is unplayable. I will finish a MP game and that's it bye bye, it is just frustration, annoyance of all the gameplay bugs and the stability drop is the most glaring one.

But i am still curious, is this not so random event simply a LOT more frequent on certain systems? because i would think Nobody would be playing this game anymore for what i am running into. (apart from all the other annoyances like extreme cheating AI)

[grotaclas]

If you use mods or otherwise modified the game files, you could make certain events much more likely. And some events have conditions to change their MTTH or trigger weight in certain situations. Maybe you are more often in such situations. You can look these up in the game files or on the wiki(thought it is not always uptodate).

Other than that, it is just random chance. But it is a normal effect of randomness (in combination with the many random things in eu4) that every player has some things which happen more often in their games than in the games of other players. This could be stability drop events in your case.

Your post makes it sound like there is a specific well known event which reduces stability very often. But the only such event which I can think of is comet sighted[eu4.paradoxwikis.com] which can only happen at most every second year, so it can't be the event which you are talking about unless your game is modded/modified to allow this event to happen more often or you are tag switching in specific time frames so that your new tag is eligible for the same bi-yearly pulse again.

Bluebird eredeti hozzászólása:

(apart from all the other annoyances like extreme cheating AI)

Do you have any proof of the extreme cheating AI which you are talking about? The AI in eu4 has only few cheats and they are relatively minor. Even in the areas in which they do something which can be considered cheating, they are inferior to experienced players.

[Medicles]

Dont know what you are talking about, all stability events are part of the bi-yearly pulse and that happens every two years. Are you playing with any mods?

[Marquoz]

Just let him go. He thinks that stability events (not all of which are negative) occur more than once a year instead of as a part of the bi-yearly pulse (and again, that pulse has way more than stability events in it). He also believes in an "extreme cheating AI" and has been complaining about it for a year now in multiple threads. His points are always refuted, and he's been given advice on how to get better, but he refuses to believe any advice is necessary. Bluebird blames cheats for his failures instead of realizing that he needs to improve his skill level. PEBKAC.

[Medicles]

Oh, so you are just bad at the game.

[Octopuses]

Do you know how easy the game would be without those events?

You can hire stability cost advisor, focus on admin technology, or use papal influence as catholic if those occasional stability hits really bother you.

Also getting from 0 to 1 stability is dirt cheap.

[Marquoz]

Bluebird eredeti hozzászólása:

You are awesome. And have a good day Marquoz.

Why thank you! I am and I will.

[Dante_Deepdarkness]

I'm 37-38 years into my new run (as Kongo) and I have had 2 stability increase events and the stability point dropped came from my ruler dying...
I mean, it happens, RNG can fu.ck you hard in that game every once in a while, and if you are running a bad moment when they happen, they hurt more so are easier to remember, but nothing out of the ordinary if you picture the whole run.

Other than that, grotaclas explained a few things and asked you a question, and he is always very polite and helpful, you should try to answer him. And take note of what he says if you don’t want to accept any other player explanations.

[Black_Rat]

How this works isnt a mystery. There is no hidden code that directly targets you with extra stability events. This is an very clear case of confirmation bias.

[Malecar]

There are a lot of random stab-loss events, but they're not going to break you by themselves, or at least shouldn't be able to, unless you're playing super fast and recklessly. If you really want to be at +2/+3 stab all the time, there's tools and methods for achieving that. So for example:

-keep your Overextension low. You'll get a ton of negative events like stab loss, autonomy in provinces, and rebels all over the place if you're ever over 100%.
-A lot of the privileges you'd want to hand out for things like lower advisor cost actually increase the ADM points it takes to up your stability. Keep an eye on your stab cost modifier
-some stuff that reduces your stab-cost modifier is the Artist advisor, having loyal clergy, and the Church Attendance Duty idea in the religious idea set

https://eu4.paradoxwikis.com/Stability

[Malvastor]

Totally Innocent Chatbot eredeti hozzászólása:

Malvastor eredeti hozzászólása:

How strange then that the good players here never report an impossible number of random stability drop events, and have no trouble keeping their stability high. Either you're getting frustrated with a couple events and misjudging their frequency and probability...

...or you're such an incredibly skilled player that Paradox has had to program the game to sabotage you (in a single clumsy and obvious manner) and create dozens of puppet Steam accounts with tens of thousands of falsified hours in the game to gaslight you into thinking there's no sabotage.

Or, perhaps, he's so completely unfamiliar with the game that he never cores any of the provinces he's conquered. Being constantly over 100% Overextension WOULD explain getting lost Stability and other negative events "every 4-6 months"...

That does bring to mind the horrific image of a game deep in the 1600s where the player has conquered a vast swathe of territory, never cored a single province, and pays a +1000% cost for a stab point every year...

...but he mentions a multiplayer campaign and I truly can't imagine playing in a game with other people who fail to notice or comment on that kind of insane gameplay.

[Spulls]

Malvastor eredeti hozzászólása:

Totally Innocent Chatbot eredeti hozzászólása:

Or, perhaps, he's so completely unfamiliar with the game that he never cores any of the provinces he's conquered. Being constantly over 100% Overextension WOULD explain getting lost Stability and other negative events "every 4-6 months"...

That does bring to mind the horrific image of a game deep in the 1600s where the player has conquered a vast swathe of territory, never cored a single province, and pays a +1000% cost for a stab point every year...

...but he mentions a multiplayer campaign and I truly can't imagine playing in a game with other people who fail to notice or comment on that kind of insane gameplay.

Funnily enough it's been done. XD
https://www.reddit.com/r/eu4/comments/yu21j6/i_conquered_the_world_without_ever_coring_or/

[Malvastor]

Spulls eredeti hozzászólása:

Malvastor eredeti hozzászólása:

That does bring to mind the horrific image of a game deep in the 1600s where the player has conquered a vast swathe of territory, never cored a single province, and pays a +1000% cost for a stab point every year...

...but he mentions a multiplayer campaign and I truly can't imagine playing in a game with other people who fail to notice or comment on that kind of insane gameplay.

Funnily enough it's been done. XD
https://www.reddit.com/r/eu4/comments/yu21j6/i_conquered_the_world_without_ever_coring_or/

I sincerely hope that guy gets the help he needs.

[grotaclas]

Spulls eredeti hozzászólása:

Funnily enough it's been done. XD
https://www.reddit.com/r/eu4/comments/yu21j6/i_conquered_the_world_without_ever_coring_or/

That's a very impressive run. But I assume that this person didn't spend much time with extreme overextension and was not surprised by the bad effects of the overextension.

[Narrowmind]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but how is it possible to have a world conquest and not spend much time with extreme overextention?

[MasterYi]

Ratlegion eredeti hozzászólása:

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but how is it possible to have a world conquest and not spend much time with extreme overextention?

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