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EU4 - Development Diary - 7th of April 2020

Hey everyone! Today we’ll be talking about two changes, part of the patch coming along with the Emperor expansion. You’ve probably already spotted them both if you had a keen eye on one of our streams.

First feature is part of the Governing Capacity rework and some small rework of Government Reform Progress. We’ve changed so that changing a government reform no longer causes you to gain 10 corruption, instead it costs Government Reform progress to switch on a level you’ve already picked.

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Now to the new feature that will be interacting both with Governing Capacity and the Reform Progress. The original intent with Reform Progress was that the larger your empire was, the slower you would be reforming your government and progressing through the reforms. Hence why it is affected by the autonomy of your empire as while expanding heavily your autonomy on average will be higher.

So in that spirit as well we are introducing a choice for the player to instead of reforming their government, they can expand the capabilities of their administration in order to integrate more of their conquered territories as core states. This action increases in cost every time it’s used.

This gives the player besides having to pick what land should be states, trade companies or territory, also a choice on if to advance and modernize their government or if to focus on making sure you have full control over the territory that you possess.

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Next thing is a new institution we’ve added that is to go together with several of our late game additions we’ve been doing in this patch. We felt that you could just skip by without any technological disparity in the world for the last 80 years So we added a last institution to represent the Industrial revolution. This revolution started sometime after the 1750, as coal, steam engines saw their use increase and industries grew throughout Europe.

The requirements spawning are very much focused on the wealth from nations that have industrialized. It will spawn in any province that has 30 development, a Furnace built, the owner of the province are the leading producers of either iron, cloth or coal. If it is before 1760 it also requires that the province is in the highest trade node in the world. If the player lacks Rule Britannia, then coal and furnace requirements are replaced to focus on simply iron and cloth manufacturies.

This will give a spurt of technological advancement at the end of the game giving those who have modernized their economy an advantage.



So that’s it for this development diary, short but sweet. Next one will be written by @neondt and will be about the content regarding Imperial Diet’s such as Incidents and will be fairly more substantial.
 
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btw i didnt saw anything about it but will be Austria be finally able to form Germany aswell? i really would like to try out an austrian led Germany

The fact they can't is silly considering they wanted to and led the German Confederation before Prussia stepped in.

Hey, could you do something with the colour of Germany? I mean it looks very unpleasant. Anything more black/gray would be better in my opinion.

God their colour is disgusting, it's just vomit on the map. Grey would work best, I know their colours are black but I'm not a fan of black as a country map in EU IV, doesn't look the best for most countries.
 
The fact they can't is silly considering they wanted to and led the German Confederation before Prussia stepped in.
In EU4's context, the natural way for Austria to "form Germany" is to pass Renovatio Imperii.

I think the thing to do would be "Austria can form Germany, but only if the Empire has been dismantled."
 
In EU4's context, the natural way for Austria to "form Germany" is to pass Renovatio Imperii.

I think the thing to do would be "Austria can form Germany, but only if the Empire has been dismantled."
Yes.
 
In EU4's context, the natural way for Austria to "form Germany" is to pass Renovatio Imperii.

I think the thing to do would be "Austria can form Germany, but only if the Empire has been dismantled."
I don't understand why France being emperor of the HRE while Austria has most of Germany would forbid Austria to form Grrmany
 
@PedroLuiz i think the feeling is that Austrian claims to lead the Germans were focused around the HRE. For them, The HRE is Germany, whoever is sitting on the throne, so a French HRE is more of a FrancoGerman PU.
That's because they had the imperial crown, if France had established itself as the emperor (or even prussia) I'm pretty sure the archduke would be more than willing to unify and separate Germany from the HRE
 
@PedroLuiz That quickly runs into questions of legitimacy. Also that suggests a serious issue with Austria’s chances of actually forming Germany anyway. It requires a fairly special set of circumstances for Austria to be able to form Germany and have France leading a strong HRE.
 
i think ideas of revolution should be institution too
As long as the "one every 50 years" model is kept, there's nowhere to put another institution. (There's no point having an institution that kicks in in 1800.)
 
As long as the "one every 50 years" model is kept, there's nowhere to put another institution. (There's no point having an institution that kicks in in 1800.)
well age of discovery exists only for 60 years instead of 100 .. revolution is a big part of lategame even if it lasts 20 years instead of 50
 
well age of discovery exists only for 60 years instead of 100 .. revolution is a big part of lategame even if it lasts 20 years instead of 50
ages and institutions are distinct things

20 years isn't long enough for an institution to really have much impact.