EU4 - Development Diary - 7th April 2016

[fabbyrob]

Hi Everyone!
- Updated corruption tooltip to show what actually effects it.

Just FYI, effect is almost always a noun in English while affect is usually a verb, so here you want "affects it". Just a little pet peeve from reading way too many poorly written science papers.

 

[Dakka]

Does Nambu not have the samurai graphics then?

It has Western graphics.

 

[Basterbane]

I'm gonna miss the Regicide event. that was fun times.

Quick! Find where in files its located and make a backup copy
If you have the event code you can add it as mod right? You won't be able to run Ironman with it but still can kill Kings!

 

[Notthemama]

Any change that the historical neutral tag -100 to aliances between Portugal and Aragon is going to get fixed in this patch?

Hi Everyone!

Third one in. It's okay to read the whole post next time before asking; don't be afraid.

Misc Complaints Adressed
- When mothballing a fleet, sailors no longer needed are now returned to the country's sailor pool (up to max sailors).
- Removed Regicide Event
- Removed historical neutrality between Portugal and Aragon
- Fixed Threaten War could be used during Regency.
- Central African Event 15 will no longer spam the player by triggering every other month or so.

 

[Notthemama]

Out of curiosity, how do you measure popularity records?

Otherwise known as sales.

 

[Notthemama]

Will Portugal and Aragon return to being historical friends or are they going to become just like any other two nations?

They are going to be historical friends with benefits.

 

[Freudia]

They are going to be historical friends with benefits.

Please no. Iberian Cancerbox was dumb as hell.

 

[Kwami]

I think to "sailors" as an abstraction: people who live near the sea, know it and thus can man ships. However a coastline can sustain only a fixed amount of people with these knowledges/skills. If ships are mothballed and their sailors can't find a proper way of sustaining themselves by the sea (due to lack of sea-related work/jobs), then they move to different occupations and lose their skills.

It is an abstraction, as I said, but it makes sense to me.

Maybe, but it kind of breaks the feature entirely. It's not hard to have a navy such that you go into negative sailors before it's repaired when you unmothball it.

 

[JohnMK]

Maybe, but it kind of breaks the feature entirely. It's not hard to have a navy such that you go into negative sailors before it's repaired when you unmothball it.

It interacts with the new mechanic in a way that complicates things and I don't really think Paradox intended this, pretty sure we're already seeing evidence that they're backtracking on it. Sure, it can be argued, and Reckall has done so, that this might be desirable behavior. But I don't think it is and Paradox is already moving our way.

 

[Axe99]

Cheers for the DD Johan, and good luck to you and the team for the post-launch bug-squashing . I've almost finished the campaign I was playing and look forward to tearing into Mare Nostrum later today (I clearly need to plan my gaming better so I'm playing stuff I can finish quickly around the launch of new DLC, lol), but it sounds tops .

 

[FleetingRain]

Wait. Is it now 20 cores in states, or 20 state cores? Please tell me it's the latter.

 

[guachi]

Several things that take no thought. Got it.

While the person you quoted didn't mention it, you could also take the time to, say, re-position your trade fleet to maximize your income. And I'm positive you are, right now, incapable of doing the math to figure out where to put your ships (or merchants) and how many ships to put there.

You might not find it interesting, but it certainly requires thought and more money from day one definitely has a snowball effect on the game.

 

[funguide]

What happened to the strait crossing at Calais?

 

[Jordedude1234]

You added States that you have to pay maintenance for. You added corruption that you either have put money into to counteract or take it and receive penalties. Also, if I expand into a new territory, even with a claim. it starts at 75% autonomy. These are all nerfs to every country in the game. Of course you could say the states mechanic isn't a nerf as you can have overseas land with 0% autonomy. However, you still have to pay for the states at home. Then thrown in with corruption. It's a penalty to income. These are all penalties, and you haven't buffed the countries' income at all (excluding France). I think there needs to be a little something to counteract it. Not just a development increase, as the states maintenance scales with development. I'm talking about a flat bonus to income, or something along those lines.

 

[Notthemama]

What happened to the strait crossing at Calais?

Rumors.

 

[frolix42]

That is a massive balance change. Like quite possibly the biggest balance shifter that has ever occurred in a post-DLC patch release.

I think the tall players crowd will be extremely happy with this one.

And the Kilwa player(s). Low development + gold-mines + trade boosts income. Inflation hurts more, but corruption was significant.

 

[Robotx2300]

- Removed historical neutrality between Portugal and Aragon

What was the relationship between Portugal and Aragon before? And also why did people want this removed? Is it not historical?

 

[frolix42]

What was the relationship between Portugal and Aragon before? And also why did people want this removed? Is it not historical?

It's not really historical and the 2nd best way to beat Castile as Portugal is to ally Aragon.

 

[FleetingRain]

What was the Regicide event?

 

[IHateThisCo]

Aaaaaawwww.....

I thought that was one of the good things that was added. Sad to see it go away. I guess next time I get a 12 year regency I can go make a snack and watch a show again.