EU4 - Development Diary - 7th April 2016

[Kwami]

What.

That sounds awesome as an actual mechanic and not a random event. Why is that not part of the espionage overhaul?

It was. If you had 100 spy network in another nation, then you could get the event. But, there are enough regency council generators. Let's not add more.

 

[generalolaf]

This DD says a lot about Paradox interest in product quality.

I would love to see DLC/patch not needing hotfix the day after.

A lot of games wouldn't get one. It's not great (and I'm gutted about my Luck of the Irish run) but you're expecting a lot; there are always bugs.

 

[myrsl0ken]

Will the Luck of the Irish be achievable for us who started new games in 1.16? I would hate to not get it in my current Ireland run. :/

 

[Artess]

- Merchant Republics are now limited by provinces in states, not total amount of provinces.

I wonder what is the exact limit now, is it still 20? and I still think that it would be more reasonable to instead cut the number of states for a MR, but anyway thanks for this change - this seems to make more sense now, at least to me.

 

[I'm gaming]

- Root Out Corruption is now based on your development, not your income.

Its non-raw development, so should mostly just be from states.

Then will late game great Empires be much more free from corruption compared to early game small states? I miss base corruption for Empire-rank, though I don't even experience it.

 

[I'm gaming]

Will you make it so that razed provinces don't have +10 revolt risk? Hordes are now utter chaos. I feel it's incredibly cheap to nerf an advertised feature of the Cossacks DLC months after its release, where people like me paid full prices for such a feature to now be, well, death sentence.

Though increased revolt risk was original plan..

 

[Moondrinker]

Someone identified a bug to do with army tradition, that you'll 0 army tradition from either winning or losing a battle. Several people has gotten the same results.

 

[bbqftw]

Johan's mission to turn this game into 'sit around on speed 5 simulator' continues.

and again this is nothing to do with difficulty, this is to do with the fact that they've added yet another stick to discourage you from actually playing the game. Well it's worked because a new DLC has just come out, I should be excited and buy it on release day as I have with every major DLC previously but instead I'm going to go play something else.

To be fair, the change to corruption cost is in the right direction right now.

Is there any chance that Corruption off Religious Unity could be scaled somewhat as well? ... for an example Pate starts out with 0% Religious unity so they start with +.5 Corruption until they manage to convert their capital

well you can convert to Sunni then re-convert to Ibadi later utilizing our favorite friend Ibadi Zealots unless the achievement file changed.

 

[Benghi Bon]

Though increased revolt risk was original plan..

And it was gone. For months. Reason being it didn't play well. And now it's here, and razing conquered land gives you about a total amount of between 25-30 unrest, which means a guaranteed big revolt.

 

[ChildeR]

- Updated Luck of the Irish achievement to account for 4 new Irish tags

You should probably update the decision to form Ireland as well. I don't think it is quite as intended currently.

 

[AJ123]

I sincerely thank you for changing how corruption is calculated. Being able to build a large trade income is vital to ROTW. We can now use that income to combat corruption. It means we won't have armies that dwarf any other power as quickly as before. But, that will make the mid and late game more interesting.

The new formula synergizes with ROTW (does make it more challenging, but doesn't force you into one play style).

Honestly, thank you. This seems like a good balance. Looking forward to experimenting with it.

 

[winddy]

"Root Out Corruption is now based on your development, not your income."
What if some people did not own Common Sense? (I do own it though)

 

[kenup]

- Removed Regicide Event

Damn it! Next they are gonna ask you to remove ruler deaths all around.

 

[raikaria]

I wonder what is the exact limit now, is it still 20? and I still think that it would be more reasonable to instead cut the number of states for a MR, but anyway thanks for this change - this seems to make more sense now, at least to me.

Dosen't mention a change of numbers.

But it just means you can have 20 stated provinces in your home node; and colonize freely now [Just don't state it; but you'd lose a lot putting them into Trade Companies anyway so stating colonies is pointless]

Also GG Regicide. You lasted so long.

 

[thErgonomic]

Could we please offer our enemies allies lands to my allies as an incentive for war?
Seriously this is frustrating.

 

[Siggerad]

Eu4 team is fast

 

[Freudia]

Actually you DO play as the king. These are still mostly absolute monarchies in this era. The difference is the focus of the game. You aren't focused on your dynasty, like in CK2, you are focused on running a nation. Until you get to Constitutional Monarchy the power structure of these nations are still highly centralized in hands of a single ruler.

If I was playing as the king, I wouldn't have only one child to serve as my heir and just stop making children after that so that way my nation falls into the hands of another nation's ruler or dynasty when my heir dies.

 

[bbqftw]

Please don't encourage the devs to add autosave on monarch death. I would be really annoyed having to only play theocracies and republics.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Please don't encourage the devs to add autosave on monarch death. I would be really annoyed having to only play theocracies and republics.

Maybe instead "chance of heir" and player choices should mean something. The most typical game crash scenario for me is actually random event heir-kills, with no heir to replace them. That's by far the most common "here, don't play for the next 13 years because reasons" scenario.

200% chance of heir...even 300% chance of heir means virtually nothing before these events.

If they add autosave on monarch death and remove the backup saves I'll find another way to bypass it or just stop playing ironman. I'd rather not give up on a functional mechanic entirely though.

 

[Benghi Bon]

Aww, I'm going to miss being kept at near Max prestige mostly through that +20 prestige event. Anyways, does anybody know of all the low corruption events? I've just gotten the prestige and global trade power ones myself and was wondering if it gave more bonuses.

I've gotten one that increases my inflation. It's the generic one, so it might be pure RNG, but with the frequency I doubt it. I think the corruption caused it. So now I have like 22% inflation. Dear god the Irish were not meant for this.