EU4 - Development Diary - 24th of January 2017

[Vaximillian]

Backrow artillery does 50% damage normally, this allows them to do 60% damage.

Artillery is even more powerful now!

 

[netherlink]

Artillery Bonus usually goes up to a maximum of +5 when sieging, this can be increased by this ability to +8 in this age.

Whooot, a counter to late game forts finally! This seems to be a good option, no big change to siege mechanic, but definitely a speedup (if you can afford the artillery, though).

 

[joe9594]

Does this mean the revolution can happen in 1810 now?
Edit: I mean 1710.

 

[Zwirbaum]

Does this mean the revolution can happen in 1810 now?

It means usually Revolution can trigger between 1710-1821. (Assuming 1700 Enlightment spawn)

 

[MaXimillion]

Artillery Bonus usually goes up to a maximum of +5 when sieging, this can be increased by this ability to +8 in this age.

Does it only increase the cap, or does it also give you base +3 bonus with no cannons? If it's only the cap, maybe call it 'Maximum siege artillery bonus' instead?

 

[FireKahuna]

Does the Liberalism disaster refer to the 'Aspiration for Liberty' disaster, or is it something new related to abolitionism?

 

[CrimsonArchangel]

All these big military buffs are going to make Prussia even more powerful between the general bonus against forts and the Prussia-exclusive -20% fire damage taken. The 125% discipline and a 3-star general/admiral are basically freebies for them and it's not hard for them to become Emperor or get an institution province or two.

It matches the time period though, so there's good reason for it.

 

[Johan]

Does the Liberalism disaster refer to the 'Aspiration for Liberty' disaster, or is it something new related to abolitionism?

its the old one.

 

[iShurik]

Everything sounds really REALLY powerful here....

I was hoping for more info about the new vassal system though.

 

[Yeekim]

I like that the start date is dynamic rather than fixed.

 

[Frost1800]

+3 Artillery Bonus vs Fort

This one sounds great. Hopefully it will alleviate the pain of late game sieges.

 

[lolada]

Emperor of China xD

About artillery change, I suppose this means that we still need enough artillery to get those extra +3 siege - ie. we don't get free +3 siege from ability but have to bring even more artillery to activate bonus.. hiho to 60k artillery stacks now.. not sure if i like this, simple free +3 bonus would be much better. it will be still very hard to bring enough artillery to be able to siege 2+ forts at the same time.

Bonuses in this age are much better than in earlier ages - thats good. I'd like to see some of earlier age bonuses improved - ppl will never pick them.

 

[Me_]

Artillery does 20% more damage from backrow.

Backrow artillery does 50% damage normally, this allows them to do 60% damage.

Ugh, percentages of percentages are so confusing. It would be easier for it to say: Backrow artillery now does 60% damage.

 

[C.N.]

Next week, we’ll look into why the Manchu are so awesome..

Next week, we'll look into why Wiz will win another dev multiplayer clash...

 

[Jorlem]

Do colonial nations get any boosts during this Age? It looks like they'd only qualify for one objective, while the overlords get access to that -33% Liberty Desire.

 

[Gratak]

Really nice abilities. I would claim they make lategame a lot more fun. One question:
"Same continent vassal LD reduction": Do different continent vassals get any special LD reduction? Now that you removed protectorates (which had a lower LD if only for being in a different pool), a general LD reduction for different continent vassals might be necessary.

And btw: Prussia's gonna be invincible with that bonus.

 

[KrupPato]

+3 Artillery Bonus, +20 States for Russia, +5 dip rep for Austria... huge bonus

 

[johnleeyx]

Next week, we’ll look into why the Manchu are so awesome..

BANNERS

 

[Jorlem]

Ugh, percentages of percentages are so confusing. It would be easier for it to say: Backrow artillery now does 60% damage.

Agreed. I wish Paradox would differentiate between percentages and percentage points, instead of using the percentage symbol for both. It would prevent a lot of confusion, and make it far clearer if numbers combine multiplicitively or additively.