EU4 Development Diary - 18th February 2016

[perhje]

Somewhat comparable to greenland in size as I remember.

Greenland is four times bigger

 

[generalolaf]

Somewhat comparable to greenland in size as I remember.

No, Greenland is much bigger. Wiki says a shade under four times the size.

 

[Dr_Bonkers]

Man i am loving these changes to Africa; more life being given to it. I sunk so much time into EUIV (over 2000 hours) and probably even more so when this expansion comes out. I'm glad that a lot more is being done in Africa but i am curious, do you guys also have future plans to make major changes to Oceania; specifically Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea? At the moment the region just feels incomplete and empty, it would be awesome if there were new and interesting features you could add to that continent like nations native to that place like the Aboriginals, more land to accommodate them, unique national ideas for an Independent Australia, etc. Those changes alone would make me more inclined to visit that continent.

Anyway i love these new changes overall, keep up the excellent work Paradox.

 

[Dakka]

Looks good. May actually be fun to play an African nation now. Here's hoping for some sprite packs for them, The current sprites are very... dull, and not very fun to see on so many nations.

Here's hoping that the majors get sprites, and not more countries that are doomed to die or don't exist, like some of the Cossacks pack

 

[Atlantians]

Madagascar is nearly three times the size of Great Britain - not just England, but also Scotland and Wales.

2.42 times the size.

Google maps apparently uses an inaccurate and somewhat offensive projection.

 

[Atlantians]

When they said, last week, that this week's post would be about Africa, I had high hopes. The polities of western Africa play like European states. Western Africa is just an extension of Europe. I was hoping they'd give it some unique game play.

Instead, it turns out their change is to take the names of quasi-known tribes of undocumented central Africa and make them play like modern European states in an area that functions just like modern Europe.

What would the difference in West Africa be, do you think?

 

[SnowHawkKiller]

Great changes Paradox! Good to see nothing as controversial as coalitions in the last CK2 patch, but there's still more dev diaries so we shall see

 

[ZomgK3tchup]

I want to know why three people "Disagreed" with this post. It's a shame they took away our ability to see who up or down voted.

It was me. I will meet you on the high hill at dawn so we can conclude this like gentlemen.

But no seriously, if you click on your name next to Inbox and Alerts and then click Ratings Received, you can see who rated your posts.

 

[Sir Aidence]

Aww. New religion but no unique mechanics? A shame.

 

[Evie HJ]

When they said, last week, that this week's post would be about Africa, I had high hopes. The polities of western Africa play like European states. Western Africa is just an extension of Europe. I was hoping they'd give it some unique game play.

Instead, it turns out their change is to take the names of quasi-known tribes of undocumented central Africa and make them play like modern European states in an area that functions just like modern Europe.

Without getting into the issue of separate mechanisms for Africa to represent their (quite real) differences from European states, your characterization of the central African states in question range from borderline at best to utterly farcical.

 

[Snake_Squeezins]

The changes for this next patch/DLC continue to look excellent and thoughtful, this is looking to be a winner.

 

[Mujado]

2.42 times the size.

Google maps apparently uses an inaccurate and somewhat offensive projection.

Not at all offensive, they have to use Mercator as it works best for google directions. And that is the primary usage of their maps.

 

[Cybele]

I read "Great Lakes Area," looked at the map, and became confused. "That doesn't look at all like North America... oh wait..."

*facepalm*

 

[Metallord]

2.42 times the size.

Google maps apparently uses an inaccurate and somewhat offensive projection.

Well a lot off Maps have wrong dimensions the closer to the polar circle

 

[Phoenix666]

Tons of new obscure countries to play as? That's my fetish.

 

[highsis]

Magagascar used to be a 3 provinces island in EU3. Signs of time, I guess...

 

[highsis]

Can we get Europeans to be more aggressive in Asia? West and far east has almost no interactions throughout the game. I am not asking France to conquer Ming(by the way Qing almost always fail to take over China) but I want more European presence in south east asia and east asia late 1700s. I know EU4 takes place before the Opium War but these regions feel like as though they are in separate maps with the lack of interaction.

There was a bareboned plan by Spanish to conquer Ming in 1600s by using Phillipines as the base of operation. EU4 should be about alternate history and I hope there are more European-asian interactions in the game with European penetration into east Asia.

 

[generalolaf]

Magagascar used to be a 3 provinces island in EU3. Signs of time, I guess...

It's a three-province island in the current patch. I'm delighted with the changes.

 

[DoctorMcGann]

Really excited to see what seems to be the Maravi empire, I wrote an essay about the history of Malawi and can't wait to essentially play as them.

 

[Garothian]

Petition to add an achievement, "Glutton for Punishment - Convert every province in the world to Fetishist."