[EU4] Planned Bankruptcy Guide (Bankruptcy as a way to Prosperity) | EU4 ABC

epic manuever,

i'm actually at -600€ in my bank account and to cope i'm watching this video

Tip:
1. If you select the state general gov reform and declare bankruptcy right before/ during the election, you can instantly recover your legitimacy to 95.
2. If you have boosted your absolutism near the cap, your absolutism will drop significantly.
So during 3rd age, you should either not go bankrupt/ bankrupt before absolutism gets high/ bankrupt and activate the revolution as the purpose.
3. In the preparation stage, you can maintain a small size of the army so that you can borrow more loans to build your economy, and just build an army and navy right before bankruptcy.
4. You can debate currency for any miscalculation or emergent situation. (e.g. your income dropped for a few months)

If the ai is strong, the cases of necessary planned bankruptcy increases.
In my scotish game. English has 50k troops. Without mercs, you can't make a tie. I killed them early on, so i could do France later

Cool!
Putin has probably watched your tutorial and is now testing if it works

I have 48% inflation 4000g debt 10 corruption 72 income and i am making money if i lover army maintenance with maxed rooting out corruption in 1515, should i plan bankruptcy or just continue playing normally. I also have trade goods expanded so i could get like -1000 diplo points and maybe get new goods in mountain areas

I did this like 3 times back to back in a Korea campaign and got huge but the 40% inflation i got to really made things hard.

This is so cringe they should raise bankrupt debuff to like 50 years

Watching this in 2021 hits a little different

I had fear of bankruptcy because I didn't uped stability so I would declare and rebels kill me, now I always use to get institutions faster

what would i do without you Zlewikk. You just single handly saved my iron man game as Great Brittain haha xD

Is it work on 1.31.3?

If this was real Greece would have been a superpower

I usually try to time planned bankruptcy with very old ruler or during regency for soon to turn 15 heir because the change of ruler will get legitimacy back to 100 instantly (with strong claim) which also help with rebels and with regaining prestige.

More details are needed. The number of loan must be optimised, the player must be able to stand for (time to build + 5 years) and avoid forced Bankruptcy du to interest and loan limit.

"Development removes devastation at 5% per point (with adjustment according to local autonomy)."
I can't find any information anywhere on how autonomy is relevant to this. As usual, the wikis are extremely lacklustre or ambiguous on anything but the basics. Does anyone know?

Anyways, you can exploit before developing to help reduce the the long-term economic/administrative consequences of a bankruptcy.

I've never really done that myself, though, and I've never induced a bankruptcy either, because I don't see the point. I could see the point if you know you're going to go into a harsh economic period. But I've just never done that, because of other micro-management... same goes for war etc.

I can understand/see the nescessity of this in multiplayer. Not in single player, though, I consider it absolutely pointless and useless there. Just play properly and you won't need any induced bankruptcy to fill all your building slots or wreck AI.

Of course, the exception would be small nations, with like 5-10 provinces (any less wouldn't make any sense in regards to bankruptcy), however, who on earth have 5-10 provinces only by the time of manufactories. Regardless of nation.

So from a new player, how TF do you avoid loans???!!!! I just always automatically take them out

Aw man... I tried going bankrupt to boost my economy without watching this video. I spent almost all my money on building every thing that would make me a profit and immediately after everything was built i went bankrupt. God dammit. Need to retry.

Every time i try to Even start a game i get SPAMMED with Loan messages. Its so fucking annoying. The developers of this game havent thought about new players at all. Shit game.

i went bankrupt after war with UK and all the colonies and also the netherlands and their colonies and i had a few allies but far away that was Hungary and they did aid but i lost all my manpower and all my money i have Denmark Slesvig Holstein Sweden Norway and few parts of Estonia it was going just fine before they atacked.... i just cant counter cause their navy is way stronger and so is their econemy to the east i have Muscowy looking at me and i do not like that.....

So basically do a 5 year plan

Thank you for the video Tommy Wiseau

nie chcę być nie miły ale błagam dodaj jak możesz polskie napisy bo jest mi ciebie tak ciężko zrozumieć przez sposób twojej wymowy, że aż głowa boli

planning to go bankrupt is like planning to pull an allnighter for school

I tried it and failed because all adm, dip and mil powers decreased to -100 thats why I couldnt avoid the rebels. I lost all regions in Balkans (I was playing as Ottoman).

Didn’t work, I was still loosing money

Exploit

United states in nutshell tutorial

"Bankruptcy is a good thing"
French Monarchs in the Middle Ages: Heavy breathing

Nobody during COVID:
US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell: Lets apply that to our states

This video was made by soviet economists during the 80s

I did this in my Ethiopia campaign to beat the Ottomans and stay alive and eventually win big concessions. Went nuts with mercs, way over my forcelimit, etc.. Rare strat, but a useful one to be sure.

Thanks for guide comrade!! ❤❤

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I really thanks for this guide.

I do a morocco campaign and try a planned bankruptcy in very hard mode. Because in very hard mode, you can't ally Aragon, Ottomans and France early on, I had to rush through Iberia. I make many mercenary infantry to fight due to low manpower as morocco . Before bankrupt, I develop all in coastal province, so that I can steal and hold more warships.

After war with Portugal, Castile and Aragon, I keep 15 warships, naval force limit like 25. I ally Zlemcen and Tunis for defense to make sure no one want to fight me during bankruptcy. And yes, right after bankruptcy, pleasant war is very easy to occur, However, it is not a problem, because I already have -3 stability, -100 prestige and 0 legitimacy.

Finally, I accept pleasant offer to end pleasant war quickly. Right after 5 years recover, I see AI Portugal and Castile always try to avoid bankrupt, so they struggle but still bankrupt. I attack them separably and it was very successful.

I think it is a example of necessity planned bankruptcy.

Bankruptcy? More like planned economic development!

Adapted from chapter 11 of Donald Trump's "The Art Of The Deal"

Worst idea ever :')

Good video

You should advise to the Polish goverment (we will all die)

i dont really know how to thank u zlewikk
all i can is leaving comment and like but its not enough :(

Mmm... Це not bad video

Florry is that you? One more loan btw.

your guide is very helpful for my eu4 life.thx!

As a new Player this is very helpful.

So basically play the way Greece plays today.

Nah bankruptcy is just too much of a hassle

What about building world ports?

Hey could you please do a guide for the no trail of tears achievement?