Peasants have put down their pitchforks and torches around the globe thanks to the power of magic.

Be advised that it may take an extra turn or two for the system to recalculate the masses' anti-government position, so some barricade building may continue for a short while. Magic fairies are not omnipotent. Thank you for your understanding and we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause to your empire building.

Oh...OH....

I'd been wondering why it was so cloudy in London, I'd put it down to the British weather but it looks like it was the smoke from the burning cities of Eastern Europe.

Meanwhile, Task Force seems to be suffering from a reverse Sherman:

http://i.imgur.com/Q3EyFa8.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/REsawHr.jpg

Just noticed something.

In my main trade area (Austria), I saw I can sell tobacco, sugar, coffe and tropical fruit.
Does that mean I can sell from my capital what I import ??

You can sell anything that you have supply of. So, if you decided to buy up every single banana in the world, then Austria would become the world's supreme banana republic. Wait a minute... My apologies, that should be world's supreme banana monarchy! :D

But yeah, you can sell anything and everything you have. Any production buildings you have in other countries or in your colonies transport goods to the home country, where you can then sell it onwards.

So that's why I can't buy nothing in India, I have to buy it via London.

You know how they say in our country and looking at the news the entire EU: ''better a banana monarchy than Italy'' :O:

Peace in Europe ? Your Higness, the two most volatile states in Europe are both played by Slovenes. I hope you have more realistic dreams for our future.
~King Maximillian II of Bavaria in a private conversation with Friedrich Willhelm IV of Prussia

:har::har::har:

Man, oh man, you always manage to crack me up. But in all seriousness, Italy is far from being a volatile state. We are calm, hard-working and providing every European with all the opium and gold wheat and wine that they need.

The UK with its huge coal reserves, however, now there is one sneaky fellow :hmmm:

It's not Italy that's volatile. It's the trench of gasoline called the Austrian-Italian border :O:
And two Slovenes on either side, one needing to drop the match because he wants those sweet rich N. Italian lands and one is an unpredictable maniac playing a royal unpredictable maniac and this area is a tinderbox and I will burn it to the ground before I let one pasta muncher get anywhere near Milano. And I don't care if I drag the world into an early grave even before nukes.

Meanwhile in Schloss Facebook near Bavaria, HunterICX and Betonov are having a conference

http://i.imgur.com/CtXo7fh.jpg

Get it, because the Hochenzollers and Habsburgs use eagles as their crest

The eagles can plot all they want, they are not getting any tasty Italian fish anytime soon.

However, and in all seriousness, if things continue as they have, there will only be one eagle left. From my own experiments, the high contentment levels should result in improved conditions 2 or 3 turns after being activated. Unfortunately, all the strikes/riots/revolts that were previously present are still there, so our magic trick seems to have failed. If the situation does not improve in the next several turns, we may be forced to seek more radical solutions or talk to the devs and see if there are any hidden commands available.

I have also noticed that Russia is somehow in control of Bosnia! How this happened or why Austria has not been given a casus belli is beyond me. This is something that we can fix via a script or wait out to see if a crisis will develop over time.

I don't think Russia actually owns Bosina yet. They've been winning their war with the Ottomans for quite a while now, so it's probably just occupied.

Adorable, the Italians see themselves worthy of some plot :haha:

I had completely forgotten that the Russo-Ottoman war was going on. There is so little information provided to non participants, that it sometimes feels that countries with human players are the only ones doing something.

You just wait! Once Garibaldi finally decides to move his lazy ass from Palermo, you'll see what we are capable of!

The Italians do deserve a plot.
A huge 5m plot. Without gaps and an armed Slovak at every 3m of that plot.

(respenus might be the only one to get it)

Doberdob?

Ne.
Plot, pač ograja :O:

:yeah:

I read all text in English with proper English pronunciation, so it never occurred to me to consider Slovenian. The problem with you plan, however, is that there are not enough Slovaks to protect the fence. Try the Hungarians, it's a win-win either way.

I need Hungarians to protect the east.

Something needs to be done with the ''high taxes lower satisfaction'' when they're at a horrible rate of 0% :/\\!!

I love this game but I am completely at a loss how population is considered a pool of entitled spoiled brats crying about non-existing taxes and lack of fine wine with peasants diners and not the historically overworked and malnutritioned peasants that weathered anything the crown threw at them from fear of being forced back to fields and factories at bayonett point.

And WHY can't I force them to the fields and factories at bayonett point, I'm the blessed Emperor of Austria, one of the aristocratic blowhards that went to bed in the belief that the millions under rule were nothing but drones born and raised in service to the crown, killing a few hundred to make a point would make the same emotional response with these people like I have when I smack a fly !!!!!!!!

Give me armed rebellions but these ''we want shrimp fried rice with Cardonayy Buro 1845 or we won't work'' strikes are utterly ridiculous even for our modern spoiled population.

:/\\!!

rant over

My dear Betonov, you should be proud of your peasants, as they have acquired enlightened knowledge from 100 years in the future and the socialist utopia that awaits them :rotfl2:

But in all seriousness, it is a game bug and low contentment should have been resolved with an armed rebellion. Fortunately, I bring two pieces of good news. First one is that the official patch will be released shortly, which should fix some of the game's general problems. The second is that I asked at the official forums and found that we should have used another command for getting rid of strikes/riots/revolts. If things do not show any sign of improvement in a couple of turns, we will be forced to use it. If that won't work, I can always supply everyone with tons of gold and jewellery for your poor, poor peasants.