EU4 - Development Diary - 25th of October 2016

[Rider_of_Doom]

Dithmarschen lives! When Denmark is the Roman Empire, Dithmarschen is a certain gallic village.

 

[iskallinn]

Nice! Hopefully this will help keeping the balance of power in Scandinavia better. Especially good change with Norway. Also, is the "Lille Belt" open from Fyn -> Ostjylland and Fyn -> Midtjylland?

 

[NorthernXY]

With a +50% bonus to naval limit, they should have a HUGE navy once they annex Norway.

How will my precious Netherlands compete?

 

[Paul31264]

I really like the new political mapmode.

Any plans to add more wastelands in other parts of the map?

 

[Silverflash]

Love the look of the political map!

 

[Me_]

i wonder if this is the (in)famous peasant republic in Holstein. What would its government be?

 

[Johan]

i wonder if this is the (in)famous peasant republic in Holstein. What would its government be?

Peasant Republic iirc. @Trin Tragula would know more..

 

[Hipster_on_Ice]

Will Denmark's national ideas be changed at all?

 

[Me_]

Peasant Republic iirc. @Trin Tragula would know more..

That's quite intriguing. Peasant estate or a new option for peasant rebels to secede?

 

[Tom D.]

Norway also got an improvement, getting their map revised to include a fair amount of new provinces, and a wasteland in the center of the mountain range, to make the country more easily defended against the vile swedes.

Know thyself, know thy enemy . Map changes are always nice as is the political map mode.

 

[Promanco]

Peasant Republic iirc. @Trin Tragula would know more..

Do want this so much, best form of Government purely based on the name

 

[Sandmann]

Love the map changes! Cheers!

 

[gasior]

finally some scandinavian love !

 

[Philadelphus]

While the new political mapmode is…interesting, I find the juxtaposition of realistic-looking terrain with large blocks of solid saturated color a bit jarring. It's weird because I like it in the Norway screenshot (that looks cool), but not the North America one, so…I'm conflicted.

I'll reserve final judgement for after actually playing with it, but could I ask—if it's not too much work—that there be an option to leave the political mapmode the way it is now? Thanks.

Also, province changes are always cool.

 

[Adrian Gaming]

Excellent name for the patch. Super excited for 1.19 now.

 

[Paul31264]

While the new political mapmode is…interesting, I find the juxtaposition of realistic-looking terrain with large blocks of solid saturated color a bit jarring.

I think it fits very well because it looks like you're actually painting a world map now.

 

[Sousuke123]

Next week trade goods? Finally my prayer has been answered. Really hope for more trade goods and especially manufactured ones.

 

[Topias]

I'm a little bit concerned about the new political map mode. It might make telling where a wasteland begins and uncolonized provinces end a bit difficult at a glance. Not that I haven't largely memorized the wastelands already, but still. Maybe it's more obvious in-game than what the screenshots are suggesting.

 

[Philadelphus]

I think it fits very well because it looks like you're actually painting a world map now.

Indeed, but I like my paintings stylistically consistent. This is like having the Mona Lisa with a few cartoon smiley faces scattered about—the two visual styles clash. I love the terrain map, I think it's really beautifully done, and I like the (current) political map too, I just...don't particularly like them together. I dunno. Maybe it looks better in actual play. I do like how it looks in the Norway picture, like I said. I'm willing to give it a try, I'd just like to know if there will be an option to disable it in case I don't like it.