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Hello all, and welcome to another development diary for Europa Universalis. Today we’ll focus on the further improvements to interacting with Subjects that the Rights of Man Expansion will give you.

First of all, we are adding three more military focuses for subjects to the two we added in Art of War.

Passive - This will make the subject stay with armies in their own territory, and defend there. This can be helpful if you want them to preserve their troops, and not interfere with your plans, or get caught.

Defensive - This is the focus you put on stronger vassals, that you want to protect the allied territory, so that you can focus on the offensive. This can be very helpful at dealing with rebels inside the realm, or to stop those pesky invaders sending stacks behind your main armies.

Siege - These subjects will use their armies to siege down hostile fortresses and not seek any battles.

With six different ways for subjects to behave in war’s, a decentralised realm with a solid amount of subjects can be a devastating power.
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Secondly, as you can see in the screenshot, we added a new interface to the expansion, so you can quickly see the details on your subjects, how their economy is doing, and the other relevant stats. This helps us to see if we can build more fortifications in their territory, or if we need to subsidize their armies to kickstart their economy.


Finally, if you have money or power to spare, you can now spend them in building up your subjects. If you increase development in a subject you reduce the liberty desire. As you can see, the macro-builder now shows a little bit better information when it comes to making good decisions when developing.

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Next week we’ll talk about four new minor features for Rights of Man.
 
Looks good. Any hope of getting the estates added to that development tab as well? So I don't spend 100 admin on improving the base tax in a province the nobles control?
 
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Can we also get the option of taking on our subject's loans and to be able to reduce their inflation, in exchange for liberty desire? Either through events (might be more balanced) or through the interface. Since they are our dependencies, it would make sense that we can subsidize their national debt. If they couldn't pay, then the bankers would logically move on to petitioning the overlord, instead of accepting bankruptcy.

yes.

pay debt of subject to reduce LD is a new feature in Rights of Man.
 
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Yay! More subject interaction! Shaping up to be the best DLC since AoW!

On the note of development, will the "Is A Subject" penalty still affect development costs on subjects if the overlord is performing the development? Because if so, I don't know if I will ever use that ability.

No, it uses YOUR modifiers.
 
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So, an Art of War owner will have these new 3 military focuses with their subjects even if he/she doesn't own RoM? A Rights of Man -but not AoW- owner will get also the ones you had with Aow?

AoW owners is the only ones that have Supportive & Agressive.
RoM owners is the only ones that have Siege, Passive & Defensive.

Those that own both get all 5.

Everyone has the 'none' focus, which is default.
 
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Great additions
For the subject information, can you also add subject total development? (I wouldn't want to raise their development to realise that it goes over 100 and they get rebellious!)
 
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Please, please consider adding a 'mothball army' option, the same way we have one for fleets. Call it 'send to reserve' or something, and include it in this patch if at all possible.

There's even an empty spot on the Army UI where it could easily go. I hope this is something that wouldn't be very difficult to implement.

Not for 1.18
 
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Will the Fort System get another rework?
Currently its more then confusing and i often have the impression the AI is ignoring it 90% of the time anyway.
Also that the best Playstyle is to have no/very few forts and that the AI has to cheat on fortmaintance AND does not know how to and where to build/upgrade forts properly is not ideal either.

It wont change, but it will be more easily understood with the new fortmapmode.
 
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Will direct control of subject armies ever be considered? I remember one previous PDX game had a request control of subject/puppet armies diplomatic option. Couldn't this option be in EUIV as well, and like have it cost something, maybe increasing subjects liberty desire, because you're taking away their autonomy, or sth like that.

no, thats not planned.
 
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Will direct control of subject armies ever be considered? I remember one previous PDX game had a request control of subject/puppet armies diplomatic option. Couldn't this option be in EUIV as well, and like have it cost something, maybe increasing subjects liberty desire, because you're taking away their autonomy, or sth like that.
 
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Looks good! Hopefully the AI will also consistently listen to you if you give them the order. Right now sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't.
 
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That development in subject seems somehow OP :O

Also question!

@Johan will the "Stop Westernization" feauture from Common Sense be removed entirely or replaced with some other minor feature?

Its removed. But if you have Common Sense, you can boost development in a province, which gives great control over your institution spread.
 
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@Johan - Maybe add the estate icon in same manner the country icon is for subject, to notify if province is held by estate on the development macro builder?
 
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Can we also get the option of taking on our subject's loans and to be able to reduce their inflation, in exchange for liberty desire? Either through events (might be more balanced) or through the interface. Since they are our dependencies, it would make sense that we can subsidize their national debt. If they couldn't pay, then the bankers would logically move on to petitioning the overlord, instead of accepting bankruptcy.
 
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