Europa universalis 2 save games

The Sfx. This folder contains several different game files, some of them in subfolders. They define the following objects:. They defines the following objects:.

This directory stores files used for displaying and generating ingame map. They can be used in hacking your map. It contains music mp3 files used ingame.

Assuming the example from above of the main EU2 directory and that we have a mod called "Horror Vacul", the main folder structure could look like this:. As of version 1.

All files that belongs to a certain mod, e g "Horror Vacul", usually with one eventual exception are contained in the mods own folder, "Horror Vacul", as in the example above. The exception is when You want to be able to select the mod from a normal start of EU2. In this case You must have the topmost scenario file from the mod in the main Scenario folder.

You get money in two flavors: monthy and yearly. Yearly income consists of census taxes, and trade tariffs. Monthy income comes from trade, taxes, interest from loans, or production from factories. Trading is an important aspect of the game, as you can gain large amounts of cash sending merchants to the centers of trade in the world. You can balance your budget, allocating your income to several different areas such as research.

You can improve your standing in several different areas, such as land and sea technology, trade, infrastructure, and stability.

You can invest in promoting public officials or constructing factories. Stability is another important aspect of your country, and is a good indication how you behaved your population is. If you have low stability, you better be prepared to put down rebel uprisings and general discontent. Declaring war lowers your stability, since the people are reluctant to wage war on other countries. Speaking of waging war, diplomacy with other countries and your relationship with the world can improve your position in life.

You can use diplomats to improve by giving gifts or decrease by threats your relationship with other countries. You can enter in trade agreements, royal marriages, military alliances, military access agreements, and even vassalize other counties. There are two main ways of annexing other countries: diplomatic by taking over a vassal, which is very, very hard or military by force.

You might have a Cassus Belli with another country, which is a permanent clearance to declare war without any additional loss of stability. During peace negotiations, you can only fully annex another nation when you control their only province, which means that it takes several different wars to eliminate another country, which may not be historically accurate, but discourages taking over the world I guess.

You can also demand ducats the currency of the time in return of peace. Religion is another important aspect of EU2, and this might be one of the only games that models this significant attribute of the time.

Or maybe just sitting there until you hit EU4 so you can leave Europe and conquer the world? Originally posted by Uther Doul :. Rome was Terri-Bad in my opinion, and to many things changed between Pax Romana and the rise of feudal Europe, at least with Ck2-Eu4-Vikky-HoI is that the changes between Feudal Kingdoms, to the Age of Exploration to Pax Britannica and onwards to the 2nd World War are well documented and scoietal changes are much easyier to model.

Originally posted by RoboticManiac :. Hoystein View Profile View Posts. Roman culture and Hellenic religion are there for ruler history. Check out the Emporors of the Byzantine Empire.

Before editing save files, it is highly recommended that you create a copy of the files in question. Simple mistakes made while editing can make a save file unplayable. Editing ironman saves directly would require advanced knowledge of the binary format which is used by them, but tools exists which can be used to turn ironman saves into non-ironman saves which then can be edited like this article describes.

Save files will be compressed ZIP format unless you uncheck the box when saving. Autosaves and quick saves are not compressed. The encoding of the save file is Windows Any element in the game can be edited very easily.