Europa Universalis 4 has a scoring system for ranking countries based on military, diplomatic, and administrative ratings during games. Many EU 4 players consider topping the historic score rankings the primary victory objective for their games. Setting new high historic scores in Europa Universalis 4 is something all players can aim for in their games.
You can only amass historic score points in EU 4 when your nation is in the top ten rankings for one of the three diplomatic, admin, and military rating categories. Therefore, you must focus on enhancing your nation’s diplomatic, administrative, and military ratings to climb into the top 10 rankings for each category. Then your country will amass historic score points based on position.
The game allocates 0.08-0.83 historic points a month to nations ranked in the top 10 positions. If your country tops the diplomatic, military, and admin rankings for a year, it will amass 30 points during that period. Your nation will receive three points if it ranks 10th for each category during a year.
The Score Comparison table in EU 4
So, you need to increase your nation’s ratings to get a better historic score. There are many ways you can increase a nation’s diplomatic, admin, and military ratings in EU 4. These are some of the best ways you can increase your nation’s ratings to get a better historic score in Europa Universalis 4.
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Expand Your Army
The size of your army is one of the most important factors in your military rating. Your nation receives a +0.066 military rating point for each unit in its army. Thus, expanding the size of your army is one of the best ways to increase your military rating. Of course, you can also crush more enemies with a bigger army, which always helps in Europa Universalis 4.
An army unit in EU 4
The number of ships in your navy affects your nation’s diplomatic rating. EU 4 allocates variable rating points for heavy, trade, galley, and trade ships in your nation’s navy. So, expanding your navy with more ships will increase its diplomatic rating. That’s probably the easiest way to raise your nation’s diplomatic ranking.
Raise Your Nation’s Tech Level
EU 4 allocates 0.2 rating points for every diplomatic, military, and administrative technology level your nation has reached. Researching new technologies will increase your nation’s ratings for all categories. The more advanced your country is, the better.
The Technology tab
Increase Your Nation’s Monthly Income Revenue
Your nation’s monthly income is among the most important factors for its administrative rating. Every one ducat of monthly revenue increases your nation’s admin rating by +0.0585. Thus, increasing your nation’s monthly revenue will boost its budget and increase its admin rating to get it up that category ranking. Build temples, cathedrals, and marketplaces that boost taxation and trade in your provinces to increase monthly revenue.
A bigger budget will also help you in the military and diplomatic rankings. You can recruit more ships and soldiers when your budget is in better shape. So, increasing your nation’s income can help to improve its historic score in Europa Universalis 4 in other ways.
Economic building selection for a province
Complete Idea Groups
There are various diplomatic, military, and administrative idea groups you can invest resources to research. You can boost your ratings in all categories by researching ideas and completing idea groups for them. Each idea researched adds +0.1 to its rating category, and every completed set boosts a rating by +0.25.
Increase Your Nation’s Stability
Each positive stability point adds +1 to your nation’s admin rating. A negative stability point deducts -1 from the administrative rating. Thus, increasing your nation’s stability with monarch power is a good way to raise its ranking in the admin category, amounting to more historic score points. Maximum stability will boost a country’s admin rating by +3.00.
The Stability and Expansion tab
Build a Colonial Empire
You can build an empire in Europa Universalis by establishing subject nations in colonial regions. Colonizing five cored provinces in a colonial region will form a subject nation. Forming subject nations will boost your nation’s diplomatic rating by +0.02 per subject province. This will amount to +1 diplomatic rating point for every five subject nation provinces. If you can build a big empire with many subject provinces, your nation will more likely reach the top 10 diplomatic rankings.
Colonial nations in North America
Keep Morale Up
The morale of your army and navy affects your military and diplomatic ratings. Raising the morale of your army and navy will also increase your military and diplomatic ratings. Each morale point increases your military and diplomatic ratings by 0.5.
You can keep morale up by increasing army and fleet maintenance on the Economy tab. This will also increase budgetary costs, but your nation’s diplomatic and military ratings will benefit from higher morale.
The Economy tab
However, increasing army and maintenance isn’t the only way to raise morale. Researching and unlocking military and diplomatic tech also improves the morale of your army and navy. Plus, there are national and government bonuses that increase morale.
Increasing a nation’s diplomatic, administrative, and military ratings in the ways covered above will enable you to clock up a higher historic score in Europa Universalis 4. Of course, much depends on whether you can increase your nation’s ratings enough to reach the top 10 in the rankings for the different categories. You can see how you’re getting on in the scoring stakes by clicking Country > Score > Comparison on Europa Universalis 4’s ledger index.
