Building ROADS in EU5 is going to be EXPENSIVE but WORTH IT!

[@joshuasims5421]

I unironically cannot wait to build roads.

[@Lord_Lambert]

Same. Loved that in Imperator. I'm sure I will love it here too

[@parsatayebi]

@@Lord_Lambert the more i look at the game the more it looks like a fixed imperator

[@neversarium]

Get a shovel

[@wrjtung3456]

Salve

[@eduardomelo151]

@@Lord_Lambert Yes, seeing my sprawling capital have roads to all the other major cities always gave me a warm feeling

[@Threxer]

At 3:21 I assume that the benefit from being at peace would be not getting your house burnt down. Less of a bonus and more a lack of a malus kind of thing. I agree that the wording is somewhat ambiguous.

[@Shaman42069]

Roadbuilding was one of my favorite parts of M&T and I love how expensive they are. The expense moves them from just one of the constructions to something you have to tie in your gameplay, and it will probably feel very rewarding once you connect your whole country with roads

[@RealPeoplePerson]

I'd like to know how Prosperity is affected by the intensity at which your lower classes are exploited. Having perpetually starving peasants and loaded lords should probably be different from having plump peasants and scruffy lords. No idea what the history books says, though.

[@MrgalaxyGamer101]

They’ve said before the click and hold thing is an option. I’m pretty sure in response to your concern in a previous TT lol

[@derbonuspool1274]

People not knowing what Development means and only knowing it from Eu4 has been kinda funny. In PC it actually means what it means in real life aswell.

[@jacobsayler7828]

We love roads and civic infrastructure.

[@ConstantijnII]

I agree that click and hold is the worst possible way to make an action in games.

[@MegaVictor1129]

pretty sure he means the STATE should be peaceful not the nation.... if the wars are far away no one cares.....

[@JG-vh6oy]

Wouldn't it be the other way around? The state is the government, while the nation is the people. If the war is far away it's the state which is invested and the nation that doesn't care

[@EndoClaw]

@@JG-vh6oyplus if the war is far away the home land doesn’t get destroyed

[@DanCristinzio]

I feel like dev cap could be tied to the location attributes. Based on climate, topography, geography, etc. Giving unique caps to all locations

[@MattFerr100]

Doesn't matter where you build roads, they all lead to Rome😎

[@sutixela]

Constantinople*

[@Alex_Fahey]

What if the road is on an island? 🤔

[@blueskull6789]

@@Alex_Fahey You need to build a bridge to nowhere

[@MangoMan0_0]

Most of my imperator Rome gameplay is building roads. Then taking my land to build more roads.

[@benismann]

18:14 "it will cost a thousand ducats! That's kinda crazy" Flashbacks to M&T and like 2k ducats to build a road in 1 province

[@wrjtung3456]

What’s M&T?

[@jaksongraham9516]

@@wrjtung3456a eu4 mod. MEIOU and takes

[@benismann]

@@wrjtung3456 MEIOU and Taxes mod for EU4

[@spacecalifornian7924]

the border with Norway was a bit further north than you thought, the gray area between the green and the border is what the player can't afford yet

[@Lord_Lambert]

ahhhh that makes sense

[@vnixned2]

I hope there will be canals as well, the Netherlands was very heavilly connected by canals between locations. Canals, roads, and also railways should imho not be the same thing, they should be able to exist alongside eachother

[@sutixela]

Ironically, Project Caesar is definitely better at nation gardening than Victoria 3

[@Lord_Lambert]

Johan be like "Fine, I'll do it myself"

[@overseer7004]

I think domestic road infrastructure should exist at the same time as through transit infrastructure.

[@lowe_sa2976]

All I need is dynamic campaign. To campaign be finally dynamic they must implement AI into game core, a special strategic AI like the one at Pentagon but with humanish face so it would be possible to feel resistance of machine yielding before superior species i.e. us

[@jakobschoning7355]

I am pretty sure the scots would have one or two things to say about wars fought on british soil...

[@troll130andlikecapiisvids]

10:33 bro i think it should be kept cause u know how eu4 and project caesar has pp now we can have bbc

[@SireBab]

The devastation thing looks like inertia, so it'll take 20 months at worst to Trevor to your equilibrium.

[@ilianceroni]

Roads: the road to victory😂

[@FireDrage]

Man, what 'bout ma cheap Norwegian roads? Nah, it makes sense, but man that's most definitely gonna make it expensive to connect Norway by roads considering its geography.

[@LuckystrikeNQ]

Realistic indeed. We Norwegians didnt have roads, basically. We used the fjords and seas for travel.

[@Gurbuyten1146]

Nice video dude!

[@Lord_Lambert]

Thanks!

[@Old_Sealand]

Wow.

[@Lord_Lambert]

Wow.

[@EndoClaw]

Wow.

[@nathanaelsallhageriksson1719]

But like, "Build Buildings Cost" can be abreviated as "BBC". That should count for something.

[@Lord_Lambert]

I need 15CCs of weapons manufactories, STAT!

[@AdornByFire]

Diabolical

[@randomperson6988]

I hope roads have a maintenance cost

[@alexisdespland4939]

do road automativcally build bridges at rivers or do you get wealth creating ferries.

[@lowe_sa2976]

Why simply not tax the roads? Also this will lead to corruption and make it even funnier to deal with because you'd have to create special regiments to guard the roads but they will be easily corrupted too so you'll implement spies from other places but because you are never sure in anyone you start to murder everyone and end up in a dictatorship, whole country is in bloodbath, after that comes good sir knight to help you out but he's a traitor too but you know it because you always knew it because it was you who bribed him to betray you so you would use that situation and get an even tighter grip on pawahh, everyone is corrupt, they fear you and finally there's no corruption instead they now unmotivated so you can't return back in time and decide to cleanse the land by fire by creating monastic orders and tyranny can continue with every other state bordering you think that you have gone mad and must be terminated but lil did they know! You bribed their armies and now their allegiance to the republic restored into the first galactic empire! Hail the dark side......

[@Vengir]

Didn't they say near the start of the talk that maximum development is 100? Or do I not understand something?

[@Lord_Lambert]

Devastation and Prosperity do, but they didn't say if Development would

[@ResandOuies]

That can't be right, right? If 17% dev gives you -17% distance Cost to Cap, wouldn't 100% dev give you -100% cost. Making the whole control mechanic irrelevant

[@SireBab]

It does read like that. While I could understand some abstraction saying it's just self sufficient that's covered by other mechanics like those control buildings. I hope this is capped so it's like - 50% at 100.

[@Lord_Lambert]

Definitely hoping there is a cap on that. Good spot.

[@alexisdespland4939]

what about two foreign amaries fighting in you p lands should be somewghat damaging.

[@azirus]

Press&Hold hate club is accepting new members.

[@SasafrasYT]

"Building ROADS in EU5 is going to be EXPENSIVE but WORTH IT!" - - - Okay but where do we see how worth it they are? All I saw was a +25% movement speed (for the gravel road) and some mentioning about it effecting trade/travel of goods. Nowhere was anything really put into perspective or made clear about just how amazing or all caps WORTH IT building roads would be.

[@Lord_Lambert]

They reduce the proximity cost by 50%, and control is going to be one of the primary limits on expansion, so getting more control is absolutely worth it.

[@JokerDR71]

Is this high developement in China and India really justified?

[@Lord_Lambert]

afaik yes

[@lowe_sa2976]

Maybe yes but highly unlikely. Chinese heavily falsified the history of their past (just as europe but we at least admit that) so it's impossible to know for sure.

[@alexisdespland4939]

if you are just pooor but undamageged woulf you be in the middelof the slider.

[@MegaVictor1129]

i think china starting high is a bad thing if you stop to think about it, they already reached most of their potential while Europe has lots of room to grow (pretty sure johan says at the start that it goes from -100 to 100) and the Red Turban rebelion might hamper their progress a bit.

[@weabootrash5891]

Just like in reality China is so rich that the only place that they can go it down, and I can definitely see that as being an issue with the Chinese tags. Things can ONLY get worse, and when they do it'll almost certainly make the empire fall apart. The Yuan are likely already in the beginning stages of this, and I doubt that whoever succeeds them will be immune either

[@whoisjoe5610]

>they already reached most of their potential Try reading actual history for once

[@AdornByFire]

My face is in the way no please keep it off the entire time. Nobody needs to see your face.

[@Lord_Lambert]

If you don't like the way I make videos I'm sure there is someone else you can watch.

[@AdornByFire]

@@Lord_Lambert wouldn’t have it any other way. No one does it quite like you.

[@engrammi]

3:50 I'd imagine that there's a possibility of drafting having a malus, and the presence of a friendly army might still hurt prosperity as it usually did historically.