EU4 - Development Diary - 31st March 2016

[Aethis]

Now all we need is dynamic province names for the Roman culture!

 

[grommile]

Much like the HRE-tag and Arabia if they are ever formed they're formed by player thus making them nothing more than player-only tags, such tag adds nothing to the game.

While the current version makes it impractically hard for the AI to pass Renovatio, it has happened in past versions.

 

[DDRJake]

Updated with some information that was lost in my morning stupor and will be answering questions from the thread shortly too.

 

[klingonadmiral]

And I though Conclave would be the worst pile of bovine excrement Paradox would produce this year.

The Roman Empire in the early modern age? In a time were >>NATIONALISM<< became more and more the driving force of European politics? That only further promotes mindless blobbing?

I mean, I can understand that Paradox put all the competent Devs on the HoI4 and Stellaris teams during the high-intensity months before launch, but good lord then stop patching EU4 to death.

 

[wolfing]

Like the Roman Empire thing, but seriously you should be required to own North Africa for that.

 

[DominusNovus]

Christian huh?....do Copts count? Could I reform Rome as Ethiopia?....or post Krishitan Japan?


Would be cool if I could, but I think being in Europe should be another requirement. It would be ridiculous for a non-European power claiming the glory of Rome just because some ambitious player as the Ming decided to Christian up, conquer Europe, and make the Sino-Roman superpower.

No reason it shouldn't count. And you just inspired me to try an Ethiopian Rome run. Should be fun.

Lets see...
- Dominate Aden trade,
- Rush Mamelukes
- Keep pushing against N. africans, maintain max relations with Christian powers in order to hold off Ottomans until you can on your own.
- Convert to Catholicism (gameplay and roleplay, it makes the most sense, your empire will be European in character soln enough) and aim for a union with at least one major power.
- At this point, you really should be powerful enough to do what you want.

Oh, and keep the Solomonids in power the whole time. I don't think you can really imagine a more legitimate Empire for Christiana than a Roman Empire with a dynasty traced back to Solomon.

 

[fredrikslicer]

Ah so when will you be adding Yuan to the game?

 

[gronak]

I like the ideas for Rome and for the Irish. I think my first playthrough will now be an Irish minor rather than Scotland!

 

[badmad]

Choson One and Sailor Mon are my favourite names for sure

 

[puddingkip]

Did Karaman get a new colour or am I imagining things?

 

[D3m0]

It would be nice if the timeline feature would get the option to skip to a specific date post release.
So you don't have to go through 200 years or more if you just want to check out what happened during the last 20.

 

[gronak]

Did Karaman get a new colour or am I imagining things?

Nice spotting!

It is lighter in colour now.

 

[DominusNovus]

Going hand-in-hand with one of these achievements, we have added one of the longest requested formable nations: The Roman Empire. It is no easy task to perform, requiring Christianity or Paganism and ownership of the regions of Italy, France, Iberia, Balkans, Anatolia, Mashriq as well as certain key provinces, but doing so will allow you to recreate the thousand year empire and grant you the new unique culture of Roman.

Is adopting Roman culture mandatory? Personally, I find it quite reasonable that any empire that large would claim 'hey, we're Rome,' (the plausibility of getting that large in the first place, of course, is low, but thats up to the player) but I don't find it reasonable that said empire would then turn around and say 'oh, by the way, we're all going back to speaking Latin, wearing togas, and attending gladiator games.'

And as a representative for the Irish, let's bring in Desmond.

Traditions:
        garrison_size = 0.25
        global_manpower_modifier = 0.25

Ambition:
        defensiveness = 0.15

    free = yes
    dms_the_land_of_castles
        build_cost = -0.1

    dms_cadet_lines
        stability_cost_modifier = -0.1

    dms_gaelic_bastion
        land_morale = 0.1 

    dms_the_munster_ambition
        province_warscore_cost = -0.1
        core_creation = -0.1

    dms_fierce_independence
        diplomatic_upkeep = 1

    dms_promote_the_clture_of_service
        war_exhaustion = -0.02
        prestige_from_land = 0.25

    dms_inner_perfection
        adm_tech_cost_modifier = -0.1

Whats 'free = yes' mean?

 

[Ienkoron]

TAKE MY MONEHHHHHH

 

[.Me]

Can I restore Rome as the pope? And become the true Pontifex Maximus?

 

[CrabHelmet]

This was rather underwhelming. More "blob as X nation" achievements and perhaps the most anachronistic formation decision of any Paradox title barring V2's Babylon (and that was a joke...).

 

[Me_]

Any other formables/changes to formables?

 

[Mr. Habba]

Are there any other requirments for forming Rome, besides having the right provinces? The tooltip for the decision suspiciously sounds as if the HRE and ERE are locked out of this decision, though I doubt that this will be the case. And what about the Papal State? Can the pope declare himself to be the new Caesar? That would be amazing, especially with the boni the Papal State can already get through events/decisions. Would make an interesting achievement too. "Reddite meum quam meum" (if my Latin isn't borked... again)

 

[MagnusDux]

I wish we were given Latin Empire to restore too

"Latin Empire" is a name modern historians give to the catholic Roman Empire established in the 4rth crusade after the catholics conquered Constantinople (aka 2nd Rome). It wouldn't make much sense to add a tag if we already have the Roman Empire.

 

[Bobemor]

So you can't form the Roman Empire as a pious Sunni? :'(