Which EU4 Nation Is THE BEST For TRADE?

Which EU4 Nation Is THE BEST For TRADE? or, what's the highest value you can get in your home trade node in EU4 in one hour? That's what we asked Absolute Habibi and Quarbit in the second duel of the first week in EU4 Para Bellum. Habibi went with The Ottomans and Quarbit chose France. Which one is better? Let's find out!
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Quarbit: / @quarbit
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:42 Introducing Habibi
02:17 Introducing Quarbit
03:26 Challenge (Have The Highest Value In Your Home Trade Node)
24:18 Results
#eu4 #eu4parabellum

[@snakeoil7089]

14:24 Laith jumpscare

[@sasi5841]

Well of course ottomans are an un-orthodox pick. They are sunni after all.
*_Ba dum tiss_*

[@AcornFrog]

Does anyone else think this format would be better if the players had two or even three hours? EU4 campaigns take dozens and dozens of hours. Sometimes I wonder how much of a reflection of the players’ skill this actually is, just having an hour. I feel like giving more time would allow for more variety in strategy, and therefore more opportunity for novel and interesting plays.

[@AcornFrog]

Six hour livestreams are very common. Lots of gaming tournaments run the entire day, so six hours is not outside the norm for livestreamed events. If total runtime is a concern, then they could find a format with fewer players, or one where multiple groups are playing at once, or an event with teams, etc. There’s lots of possibilities, and I think they should experiment beyond just one hour.

[@aqvamarek5316]

They are aöready 1470 in 1hour, if you add +1 hour, you add +30 ingame years. So we are 1500/1530/1560, than this nations are all snowballing even harder.

[@Thorum0]

I prefer these abbreviations anyway, would be even better in 15-20 min probably. The 1 hour playtime timer seems perfect for stategy-building

[@Mattis06]

They probably don’t have enough time for it if the event sponsored they could experiment about the idea of longer challenges.

[@TheSocialStreamers]

3 three hour duels just isn't feasible to be honest. The last livestream was around 4 hours, triple that, trim some fat and you still have 10+ hours of a streamed tournament with live commentary and constant switching of POVs. We also intentionally give 30 minutes heads-up about the challenges as we don't want them to be a complete shock, but we also don't want extensive, year-on-year theory crafting.
In addition to that, longer challenges just aren't as entertaining in my opinion - there's a compromise between competition and entertainment at play. We're not testing skill to the highest degree of accuracy, we're trying to put on a show that entertains as many people as possible. If we think about people who play EU4 more casually, for example, or someone who has never played, this format works much better.
Thanks for then feedback though!

[@Oiyss]

02:30 fallen comrade"S"
while That just one sliding picture

[@derekskelton4187]

Would really enjoy something like this for CK3, Imperator, and Vic3

[@villus9384]

Great game

[@oKnuTo]

wouldnt it be better to play ottomans and move you main trade note to venice in an idea situation you have maxe cotnroll over all notes leading into venice but you dont care about venice itself. that way you dont fight the italien merchants and instead ally them.

[@theminingsage]

Litcherly my two favorite eu4 nerds

[@user-zg4bk6rv1q]

My first thought was going for Ottomans since they have a lot of mana to dev diplo and have easy access many nodes to steer trade to them

[@Klijavards]

Really hard to understand what is being played for and what is the format. Would be nice if there would be some graphic in the introduction to tell the viewer whats going on (smth like football or hockey cup tournament graphics).

[@azpont7275]

Best trade nations are the ones who can do WCs super fast, so probably the Oirat or Ottomans. One can raze, the other doesn't need to core.

[@roullemaskin]

if it was in x ammount of in game years i think you would be right, but becouse its 1 hour irl oirat is not a great pick imo

[@seanstamler1035]

“69% war score against the Mamaluks. Very nice”. 😂😂😂

[@olivermahon5618]

I kind of wish rhat it was just one challenge for each pair but make it a little longer

[@marcel582]

Can someone please explain that beef between Habibi and Quarbit to me? Can't find anything but I'm interested

[@abhinavnair7471]

Quarbit took Negroponte, Crete, and Naxos in the war with Venice.

[@mokrysama]

why no ming?

[@jevonjames3241]

Less than a hair thats like 5% difference...

[@Al-Basha_]

Absolute Ganker