EU4 - Development Diary - 27th of March 2018

[Ulmo]

I really hope for a HRE and religious leagues rework - especially a dynamic league war that countries can join şn during the fighting phase as it was in reality. Dynastic reworks would be great too.

 

[Mewski]

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Beyond this though, lies our road forward. We shall start working on our next update for Europa Universalis IV. While we are very happy with how our Immersion pack has done, the next planned release is slated to be an expansion and accompanying update of the magnitude of Rights of Man, Mandate of Heaven or Cradle of Civilization. Dev diaries going forward will be talking about some changes and additions in the next release which will be quite some time away. We'll start with talking about one of the bigger changes in 1.26 next week if all goes to plan, so see you then!

Please go more in depth on trade in the next update. Make it so we can make trade deals with other nations, focus trading in one particular resource, have benefits of exporting resources vs benefits of keeping them in your nation. Import other goods. I want to become the world's largest producer of coffee while importing iron to defend myself. It would add new depth that we haven't seen in a long time to the game during times of peace.

 

[Tavior]

Well yeah. Those are soldiers sieging the city, not the rulers.

The thing is those same soldiers are supposed to be friendly and helping you out. I might actively encourage them to loot the other side not my allies as a ruler.

I also had this dumb event happening on the FIRST siege flipping back to my control from my enemy barely a few month into the war itself. Those are allied solders doing it. Not me. I have no control over my allies' drill/professional level.

 

[Axe99]

Cheers for the DD DDRJake and the extra info Trin Tragula . Great to see good post-release support, and particularly heartening to see the devs clamping down on AI gaming piracy, those dodgy routines!

 

[ed57ve]

Hello any chance that you guys would fix the AI development too, in my actual game, every time i going against a war against mamluk, a new development 30 province appear after i take the last one

 

[limonenzitrone]

@Trin Tragula Any chance scriptable diplomatic actions can be fixed with this patch?

 

[Dracolithfiend]

I really hope the HRE finally gets it's first update. 40~ countries with genaric ideas and AI that cannot utilize the reforms system is just.... Silly.

 

[Zozio]

Hello.

Thanks for the work.

However could you increase naval, trade and colonisation powers for Brittany please? It would help in order to survive against France.

Or 3 traders and 3 diplomats from 1444 would be a plus for the gameplay considering how hard it is to keep independancy from France. Brittany should be on the same model as Portugal.

You added new breton units in this new DLC but no new update for Brittany's powers.....Why?
Brittany has historical links with the British isles....

This new dlc was a good opportunity to boost Brittany (even a bit). But nothing occured.....

 

[theJalden]

I really hope the HRE finally gets it's first update. 40~ countries with genaric ideas and AI that cannot utilize the reforms system is just.... Silly.

You're right, we need ~300 countries with generic ideas and an AI that can't reform the system, for historic accuracy

 

[cristofolmc]

*praying to myself* Please let it be Estates integrated and improved and internal mechanics, please, please.

 

[oim8]

You're right, we need ~300 countries with generic ideas and an AI that can't reform the system, for historic accuracy

this but unironically

 

[Martynios]

I’m all for a Spanish Empire patch!

- New provinces in Iberia and some in HRE.
- Improved and buffed Catholicism.
- Fixes for colonisation, including increased early colonisation speed, easier way of conquering natives (no fabricating claims, needing a large army, etc.), rebalanced technology levels of the ROTW (aka Poland should usually be ahead of Timbuktu).
- Some mechanics for the HRE, I’ve seen good ones in the suggestion forum.
- Reworked Burgundian Inheritance and Dutch Revolt.
- Better simulation of Habsburg dominions.
EDIT: and the Italian Wars actually happening of course!

 

[Ulmo]

Has anyone seen the Prussian mission tree? Is it ridiculous or what? Like there is only 4 or 5 missions... ı am greatly disappointed. Although I believe I should get in line with others in dissappointment.

 

[Alyoshenka]

For the big expansion, how about a pop system and religious minorities?

 

[Imanuglyfish]

The thing is those same soldiers are supposed to be friendly and helping you out. I might actively encourage them to loot the other side not my allies as a ruler.

I also had this dumb event happening on the FIRST siege flipping back to my control from my enemy barely a few month into the war itself. Those are allied solders doing it. Not me. I have no control over my allies' drill/professional level.

Naah, they are supposed to fight battles against your opponents. Outside battles they are mostly poor peasants that really just is forced to join this campaign out of legal or economic reasons and usually the loot in cities is their main payment. Armies back then wasn't that easy to keep disciplined and an easy solution for a lot of field commanders to keep their army together was simply to let them exploit the population of captured cities, friendly cities or not. Keeping the army intact and in fighting condition was usually more important during a war than caring for some silly subjects in your city.

 

[SaintPetersbourg]

rebalanced technology levels of the ROTW (aka Poland should usually be ahead of Timbuktu).

^^^^ this!!!

For the big expansion, how about a pop system and religious minorities?

^^ this is why I want EU V or Victoria III instead of more expansions.... sigh....

 

[Ixal]

The thing is those same soldiers are supposed to be friendly and helping you out. I might actively encourage them to loot the other side not my allies as a ruler.

I also had this dumb event happening on the FIRST siege flipping back to my control from my enemy barely a few month into the war itself. Those are allied solders doing it. Not me. I have no control over my allies' drill/professional level.

Yes they are supposed to be helping you. The same way the 4th crusade was supposed to help Byzantium...
As the army is unprofessional they still help themselves to some loot and the general is unable to stop them. After all they just spend a long time away from home besieging the city, so why shouldn't they get a reward for it?

 

[RaccoonCity]

I think a Habsburg DLC could be awesome: Iberia, Italy, Austria, Netherlands and the HRE.

About new mechanics... I don't know. Colonial Nations and colonization in general could get more complex. Catholicism could get some love. Or the HRE system.

ROFL

2017: Third Rome
2020: Fourth Rome, new Orthodox mechanics and moar Russia flavor!!!11111

Meanwhile, Africa is like 60% wasteland lmao

I actually like Africa having that 60% wasteland. And I wish there was more wasteland there (and less in America), only the coast should be colonizable... this is not Victoria 2 frame time.

I want to report something about the Lowlands Region which bugged me, and multiple Belgian friends:
1. Calais is walloon. This is horribly wrong. It has long been a Flemish-speaking region with citynames still surviving like Duinkerke, the region around it had long been called Frans-Vlaanderen (French-Flanders), and there should still be people talking West-Flemish there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Flemish#/media/File:FlemishinDunkirkdistrict.PNG
2. Brussels is given to Wallonia. This is very weird as all of the province nowadays, except for the rather recent development of the capital getting more and more french-speaking, is flemish-speaking. And Brabant was not exaclty a walloon country neither... And don't say that this had been done for balance reasons, as Flanders is now only a 3 province state (while the state with Upper Gelre is much larger), and wallonia is now a 5 province state.

What are you talking about? The Netherlands are Spanish and Catholic, and nothing else...

 

[FleetingRain]

I unironically hope we never get a HRE update. I don't need 1000 OPMs to clog up the Germany region.

 

[Ulmo]

I unironically hope we never get a HRE update. I don't need 1000 OPMs to clog up the Germany region.

A HRE update is not necessarily 300 members for the empire. We simply want(If ı understand correctly) better mechanics to unite HRE, an able ai that can form it, reworked catholic vs protestant struggle including the league war, better dynastic struggle that will also include a Habsburg dominance in dynastic warfare. And in my opinion a better great power struggle in the world. Right now it is too shallow.
Kind regards to the community