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EU4 - Development Diary - 23rd of May 2017

Good day all and welcome to another Development diary for our upcoming Immersion Pack Third Rome.

As covered in our previous diary we're spicing up the Russian region with cool new mechanics and flavour. Today we're going to be covering a couple of new options available to the Tsardom.

A Tsardom government form is gained automatically when forming Russia and brings one up to Empire rank. You are granted some hefty bonuses to available States and Absolutism but you also gain access to claim entire Areas.

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For 50% more Spynetwork cost, the Tsar may lay claim to an entire area, rather than settle for claiming individual provinces.

As part of the revamped Russian Ideas set granted for forming Russia, Siberian Frontiers may now be established too. Any uncolonized province bordering a city of yours which is connected by land to your capital is suitable for the establishment of such a Frontier at a cost of 20 DIP.

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Upon establishing a Siberian Frontier, the province becomes colonized and begins to grow without need of a colonist. Growth is between 5 and 15 settlers per month and the colony will not cost any colonial maintenance. If captured by a hostile power, the colony will lose its status at a Siberian Frontier and revert to being a regular colony.

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Due to these additions in Third Rome, the Russian Nation will have a lot more flexibility with how it wants to tackle the wastes of the East, as they are not obliged to acquire colonists nor are they confined to claiming the nomads province by province. It has also been heartwarming to watch Russia in hands-off observation games as they stride Eastwards. As a little spoiler, there will be an Achievement for reaching the East coast in a time limit when Third Rome goes live.

So we've talked a fair bit about Russia in these dev diaries. Makes a lot of sense since they are the star of the show in Third Rome, but next week we are going to talk about something available for them and their brothers-in-faith. We'll see you then!
 
How about native policies? Do you get to select one if you start your first "frontier"?
 
Interesting. Siberian Frontier seems like a good, nice addition which fixes the colonizing problem Russia always had.

Will Claim Area be a feature accessible to all nations? It's ... an extremely strong thing for one nation alone, and it'd be sorely needed and welcome as a general game feature.

With a further, well, un-nerf of the Conquest CB, it would go a long way to make Deus Vult less of a must-have for actually expanding.
 
I can't complain, but can we get a Spain expansion, or one focusing entirely on trade and the navy?
 
Still disappointed Novgorod will be forced to go monarchy if they form Russia rather than stay a republic. Why can't an alternative to Tsardoms be added if the forming nation is a republic?
 
Please change the flag

and Novgorod should have more stages too, Novgorod - Grand Novgorod - Russian Republic
 
Only 5-15 per month? Do other modifiers apply to speed it up or is Russia just going to be stuck with horribly slow colonies all game?
It's quite fast actually, average 120/year. (in other words, 100 months/8years and 4 months for a province) Without both exploration/expansion or some NI it takes quite some time to reach that level.

Edit: year, not month lol
 
Approx. how many years would it take to make that a fully fledged province?

well 60 to 180 per year, let's say it is totally random. Average grow will be 120 settlers per year.

This gives 8.3 years for a colony on average, with a best case scenario of 5.5 years and a worse case scenario of 16.7 years. Which is pretty good actually.

Maybe an idea, to make the tooltip say it in number of settlers per year, maybe a bit more consistent with the rest of the settlers growth. for the rest looking good!
 
So the best way to colonize North America is by moving capital there after forming Russia.

I'm intrigued by those new huge buttons with art. It's such a departure from the small symbols we have everywhere else.
 
well 60 to 180 per year, let's say it is totally random. Average grow will be 120 settlers per year.

This gives 8.3 years for a colony on average, with a best case scenario of 5.5 years and a worse case scenario of 16.7 years. Which is pretty good actually.

Maybe an idea, to make the tooltip say it in number of settlers per year, maybe a bit more consistent with the rest of the settlers growth. for the rest looking good!
Interesting, thanks.
 
Still disappointed Novgorod will be forced to go monarchy if they form Russia rather than stay a republic. Why can't an alternative to Tsardoms be added if the forming nation is a republic?

I really want to re-iterate this concern. You guys made a lot of us happy when you stopped railroading so many country formations into turning the country into a monarchy. Please don't take a step back.
 
I really want to re-iterate this concern. You guys made a lot of us happy when you stopped railroading so many country formations into turning the country into a monarchy. Please don't take a step back.

Good luck seeing a republic settle a continent and become a great power!