Is Habibi the Tiny Nation Trade Master?!

[@fruitpenguin6285]

Absolutely love seeing more organized EU4 content between so many fun creators, thank you Speed 5 for starting up this series

[@speed5official]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@Hypericus2]

I'd love to see two players being given the same starting nation, so we can really compare their styles/performance.

[@speed5official]

Maybe for the grand finals?

[@vesai1]

@@speed5officialLet them choose between the Same two?

[@ShallowContrarian]

​@@speed5official A way to have them play the same nation is still having the choice between 9 countries, but have the players ban countries until only one is left

[@fvux5393]

Man I love playing as Riga, but the start is incredibly slow since you need strong allies with curried favors in order to do anything. I know, he got the double points on it, but even then this one felt quite inbalanced

[@notlucas6859]

once u click that mission that gives you like 300 yearly tax income you've won

[@aluminiumknight4038]

No, you have an op mission tree you don't need curried favors

[@davidclore7142]

Big respect to Cogs for even trying. If i drew Riga against Lubeck I dont think I would bother unpausing. I also appreciate you making changes to rebalance things as you go. I hope we see some more balanced matchups like scotland vs ajam.

[@IamCogs]

Thanks friend!

[@Zidan-w2q]

Habibi might actually dethrone Florry if he keeps getting perfect nations for his challenges

[@thenamesianna]

After a long day, it is great to see yet another Masters episode.

[@bahadrsaylik7267]

otto in the previous one, lübeck in this one. Habibi sided with rng god :D

[@mk__cyanheron1154]

The Nation selection is becoming quite unfair. Maybe some kind of bidding system where the player who won the bid gets the nation pick from the two on the board and the losing player gets the advantage/handicap proportional to the bid ?

[@speed5official]

We have some added rules regarding the nation picks for tonight's episode!

[@RandomAutist]

why would it be unfair? they are hiddenn and they pick a number, in what sense or what kind of argument could you make to paint it as "unfair"

[@jaakkovuori9616]

​@@RandomAutistIt's not unfair in the sense that it favours one player disproportionately, but it's unfair in the sense that it is so impactful that the game is no longer a fair representation of the players' skills. If we'd take this to the extreme, just flipping a coin to see who wins would be very fair, but it'd be very unfair to call someone the best just because they won the flip.

[@RandomAutist]

@@jaakkovuori9616 What? they pick a random nation, its completely random, being fair or unfair has no say in this, i think what you meant to say is more aligned with "is it possible to complete X task with X country ive picken"

[@another_blacktomcat]

@@RandomAutist thats besides the point. the added randomness lessens the skill impact, so to say. when you have 2 players with equal skill, the random pick may decide who will win. which is pretty toxic for any sort of competition.

[@brightlights365]

Unlike a lot of other commenters I actually like the random nations, but maybe it'd be a good idea to give players a chance to reroll their nation if they get super unlucky like here with Riga - double points aside, it would be nearly impossible to beat lubeck in this scenario

[@fretorian8180]

Habibi almost got 6, at 5 minutes mark he had North sea, Novgorod, Baltic, Lubekc, Saxony and Rein

[@IamCogs]

I did a few test runs with both nations after the challenge, Lubeck starts off super strong early literally getting 1 node in dec 1444 if you protect trade in Lubeck, completely possible to be the leader in 4 nodes within 10 minutes. Riga needs some more time to scale but if things go right they can get 4-5 by the end of the run.

[@polat4749]

Man am i the only one who couldnt find habibis first challenge? Where is those videos? New season released only 3 videos and habibi wasnt in any of them

[@speed5official]

Hey! You can find Habibi's first duel in the first episode of Masters here on YT! The episode is called "EU4 Masters is back!" Thanks for watching!

[@jacob2389]

I like the random nation. I think the time period is too short to make up for a huge difference in start though. Two hours might be better. This season could be a good chance to confirm that though. Look back at the data from the first couple matches and see if people are winning based on better starting position. Then if we see a large disparity in win rates, you can institute additonal rules. I eould be in favor of a draft of some sort based on performance in the previous round. No mods though. This should stay vanilla EU4.

[@nijobi]

It's kind of a shame that you can win a game by luck in drawing a better country, there is no way Habibi could lose. The starting situation i too big a factor in a game of just one hour.

[@FlatDerrick]

Habibis Harem says YES to in game interviews. Just more for Habibi and less for worthless opponents pls

[@eomersonoftheoden3809]

maybe make a mod for the person with the hardest nation with some decision for extra powers, man power, money ? one time use for a boost or something

[@phileon2323]

Habibi the goat🇱🇧

[@tarunyadav3567]

random nation is garbage idea.

[@speed5official]

it is fun! :) It gives the players the opportunity to show off how they deal with a complex problem and just solve it! We do have some added rules for tonight's episode regarding the nation picks!

[@yannicklarafunez4768]

It is fun, but at the same time I think there shouldn't be a nation in it that has an overwhelming advantage. Lubeck in an OPM trade focused quest feels extremely unfair, Ottomans in a blobbing quest. It is nice to have stronger and weaker nations, but leaving out the heavy hitters. @@speed5official

[@another_blacktomcat]

@@speed5official i sort of agree that the random nation thing is not working very well. it may work if the nation is random but both player receive the same random nation.

[@thenamesianna]

​@@speed5officialI always love the element of chance in gameshows

[@another_blacktomcat]

@@thenamesianna gameshows are not skill tournaments though.......eu4 has already tons of inbuild randomness. adding it on top is making it worse imo.

[@another_blacktomcat]

First again^^ 56 views, 11 minutes ago^^

[@Dunsie]

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[@another_blacktomcat]

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