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    Development Diary - 31st of May 2006

    The long weekend is now over and we’re all back and working hard here at the office.

    The animation team have been busy adding frigate animations to the game, which is a vital part of the naval system. Ships are organised in capital ships like 3-deckers, galleons, caracks, in light ships like frigates and in galleys. The interface team have been working on such different systems as vassal creation, mercenary recruitment and Holy Roman Empire overview. The focus in gamelogics have been on developing the event-system, where the goal is to basically have every variable in the game accessible from the eventsystem. Fog of War, Terra Incognita and the flow for rivers have been added to the map this last week.



    In our modders details corner, I’ll show you a snippet from the domestic policies file.
    Code:
    # Do not change tags in here without changing every other reference to them.
    # If adding new policies, make sure they are uniquely named.
    
    #########################################################
    # Aristocracy <----> Plutocracy
    #########################################################
    aristocracy_plutocracy = {
    	cavalry_cost = 1.25
    	bigship_cost = -2.0
    	lightship_cost = -1.0
    	diplomats = -0.4
    	trade_efficiency = 0.01 
    	production_efficiency = -0.01
    		
    	left_specific = {
    			}
    	right_specific = {
    	}
    }
    This allows a modder to completely design how the domestic policies should be in his usermod. There are currently about 80 different factors that can be affected, and the game is completely flexible on the amount of policies you can have.




    This screen shows the overview of the Holy Roman Empire, where you can easily see who the members of the empire is, as well as the current emperor, and who the electors are. The electors also show who they will be voting for in the next imperial election, as well as your current relation with them. As you can see, the map of Portugal have been changed, and they now have defensive depth when fighting a war.

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    Finally!!!!
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    Excellent!

    That HRE window looks ubercool. Is it a purely informative screen or does it have any other influence in gameplay?
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    Wow - any number of policies?!

    And the HRE screen is sweet in how you've put the information together in such a clear way.

    I want this game. A lot.

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    The HRE now appears to be/mean something which is a nice improvement.
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    I saw reference to riverflow -- I hope that this means that there will be actual meaningfulness to river transport and even a role in rivers in CoT province allocation.
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    Looking better by the week. I wonder whow far teh empire can be expanded.

    EDIT: and whether we can promote electors...
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    Kickass screen


    and I absolutely LOVE the way we can now modify what each slider does!

    How come each of the Electors wouldn't just always vote for themselves?

    also, what do you mean by this:
    As you can see, the map of Portugal have been changed, and they now have defensive depth when fighting a war.
    i'm looking at that part of the map presented and I don't exactly notice what gives them a defensive depth?

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    Is it the number of electorates that determine how high the bonus for being emperor is?

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    Now that's what I call awesome.

    I'm really wondering how the HRE mechanism be handled. I guess that if one is playing an elector, he'll be greeted with a pop up saying: make your choice. Just makes me wonder, if someone would vassalize an elector, would he be able to influence him to choose according to the sovereign's will? :> That'd be cool
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neuro
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    Just makes me wonder, if someone would vassalize an elector, would he be able to influence him to choose according to the sovereign's will? :> That'd be cool
    That would be good touch.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheDarkside
    i'm looking at that part of the map presented and I don't exactly notice what gives them a defensive depth?
    One example. Lissabon is not directly on the spanish border anymore.

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    Oh and as a quick little bug report:

    6 crests covered by the bottom left portion of the popup have their tops stretched upwards.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Johan
    One example. Lissabon is not directly on the spanish border anymore.
    Ah, now I gotcha

    Is that little gold icon thing over Lisbon the indicator that it is the capitol?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Johan
    One example. Lissabon is not directly on the spanish border anymore.
    As in more provinces for Portugal I assume...

    Would have wanted a screen of the German 'mosaic' of states instead of the constant Iberia...

    Looks nice with the HRE though.
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    BtW, what is the Union Jack doing in that screenie
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    In that mysterious thing to the right we now see an indicator of the HRE and the Papacy.
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    Wow! The HRE setup looks great! PLaying the election politics is gonna be fun.
    And what to say of the new other bits of info?
    There's spying? Yay! Several different kinds of ships? The naval aspects really promises to be interesting. Great job!
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