Europa Universalis IV - Development Diary 23rd of May 2023 - 1.35.3 known issues and the road to 1.35.4

[namewhichisnottakenyet]

Agreed. I have two playthroughs in the mid-to-late 1500s that I haven't touched in a while because I became emperor after winning the league war and need HRE points!

 

[drifterj]

Frances new revolution ideas are still not available even after becoming the revolution target and going through the storm the bastille event

 

[Mindel]

Concerning Chinese events, there's a very simple test you can use to gauge their balance:

Can AI Ming survive, at least some of the time?

If AI Ming is consistently dying in the first century of every single observation campaign, then this is a clear sign that mandate events are just strangling any semblence of balance with pure spite.



Another needed reality check is to ask the question:

Is it actually desirable to be Emperor of China and to pass reforms?

Would you even want it if it was offered to you (along with the land) for free?

If not, then again, this shows that the mandate setup is just horribly out of whack. When any sensible player would rather be a peasant than deal with being emperor, then you are not modeling China correctly.


I feel that the dev team didn't ask themselves these questions at all when designing the current events.

 

[Wureen]

This is not true. I've done a Brandenburg campaign completing it in time and the disaster did not happen. I also just tested killing the starter ruler and getting the PUs, clicking the challenge mission, then the next day integrating Franconia with console commands in 1444, and now by 1450 nothing happened again.

I'm about to test what happens when you get the Ansbach PU and NOT click the mission immediately, because I'm assuming the timer starts when your ruler died, regardless if you clicked the challenge or not, and that's probably why you are not being successful: counting 5 years from clicking the challenge rather than ruler's death.

You are right. The timer starts as soon as Albrecht Achilles becomes ruler. The flag triggering the disaster in franconia event is set in the succession event.

 

[tk6]

After you fix the bugs, please try to improve the game performance (it has deteriorated after the last DLC)

Thank you

 

[Gabarius]

I understand that bugfix and polishing is no easy task. It requires time, and I wish to thank the team for their continuous efforts to improve this amazing game and communication with the community. However, knowing that I'll at least have to wait another week to FINALLY get access to a stable version of 1.35 is soul-crushing. Especially for someone who has followed most of the dev diaries and pre-ordered the game without hesitation. Should I have known I couldn't play any proper HRE, Castile or China campaign, I will not buy it. I will think about whether I will support the next dlc if the hotfix comes in such efficiency.

Paradox knows that they have a stable fanbase who will buy whatever they put out, no matter how expensive it is, how little it offers, how little it's tested for bugs pre-launch, and how slow it takes them to fix the inevitable slew of gamebreaking issues that are obvious almost immediately upon starting a new game.

 

[Meatcrepe]

Hiya! Could there be some QoL adjustments for the France mission to get the throne of Naples? Didn't get an event for the PU in my game and started resurrecting the Papal lands from being eaten by Naples. Pope then ate the rest of Naples while I was feeding it the north of Italy. Now I can't get to the mission to get the pope as a vassal because I cannot resolve the Naples mission on the other side of the tree. I think adjusting it to check for the condition where the pope controls all of the south of Italy while being allied and 190+ opinion (+ trust maybe?) could trigger the mission so we can continue in our Franco-Italian expansion?

Also is it me or is that first mission to get to the other side of the Alps kinda complicated to achieve? In that you don't get any claims to get there, but it's also a region that France never held historically, and even Nice became part of France fairly late. Overall with the other missions constantly shifting your focus away from non-claimed lands, I feel like this mission could use an event or something to make it easier to go wage war on the other side of the mountains (think of the AE!).

EDIT: forgot to add one more! Jerusalem (created through mission tree after spending 8500 ducats renovating the great project) does not convert muslim provinces anymore! I converted the necessary ones for the mission, the great project is level 3 (maximum missionary strength) and I give at least 6 ducats per month in subsidies to Jerusalem but they just. will. not. convert. So that's an other mission that I just wont finish I guess.

 

[Rossarness]

I feel the same way and would like to request a hotfix for this bug, even if it addresses nothing else.

I understand, but we are already in the progress of preparing a larger patch,

Concerning Chinese events, there's a very simple test you can use to gauge their balance:

Can AI Ming survive, at least some of the time?

If AI Ming is consistently dying in the first century of every single observation campaign, then this is a clear sign that mandate events are just strangling any semblence of balance with pure spite.



Another needed reality check is to ask the question:

Is it actually desirable to be Emperor of China and to pass reforms?

Would you even want it if it was offered to you (along with the land) for free?

If not, then again, this shows that the mandate setup is just horribly out of whack. When any sensible player would rather be a peasant than deal with being emperor, then you are not modeling China correctly.


I feel that the dev team didn't ask themselves these questions at all when designing the current events.

There will be a large number of fixes done to EoC and China-related content

Hi.
Is the bug related to not begin able to sort by dip point in peace deal on your radar?

Not to my knowledge, will ask the team to check if we can make it to this patch

Can you make AI Ottomans actually turn the Mamluks into an eyalet instead of just taking their land directly like they used to?

It's not that difficult, I have almost no experience with coding and managed to fix it.

country_event = {
    id = flavor_tur.240
    title = flavor_tur.240.t
    desc = flavor_tur.240.desc
    picture = COUNTRY_COLLAPSE_eventPicture
    fire_only_once = yes
    major = yes
    is_triggered_only = yes
    trigger = {
        has_dlc = "Domination"
        tag = TUR
        exists = MAM
        FROM = {
            is_capital = yes
            owner = {
                tag = MAM
            }
        }
        is_in_war = {
            casus_belli = cb_ottoman_invasion
            attacker_leader = TUR
            defender_leader = MAM
        }
    }

    option = {
        name = flavor_tur.240.a
        custom_tooltip = flavor_tur.240.a.tt
        set_country_flag = tur_decided_to_go_eyalet
        add_war_exhaustion = -2
        add_prestige = 20
        MAM = {
            country_event = {
                id = flavor_tur.241
            }
        }
        ai_chance = {
            factor = 1
        }
    }

    option = {
        name = flavor_tur.240.b
        custom_tooltip = flavor_tur.240.b.tt
        add_war_exhaustion = -2
        add_prestige = 20
        MAM = {
            country_event = {
                id = flavor_tur.241
            }
        }
        add_country_modifier = {
            name = tur_egyptian_annexation
            duration = 7300
        }
        ai_chance = {
            factor = 0
        }
    }
}

I literally just swapped aroung the 0 and 1 factors in the ai_chance sections

I will ask our Content Designers, not sure what is their intent here.

 

[Mindel]

By the way, could you please implement a better way to sell ships? Having to do it manually is a huge pain, and the system hasn't been updated since Art of War.

 

[Matiz]

Can you please fix mercenary discipline?
Here's the writeup of the issue. https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...rcenary-discipline-bug.1501050/#post-28943948
In short mercenary discipline gives much smaller strength boost to mercs than actual discipline, possibly because it doesn't give land tactics.
I applaud trying to make mercenaries work but because of this bug mercs are still barely viable.

 

[Mindel]

Has there been any update to that heir claim strength issue which causes the Burgundian inheritance to trigger almost 100% of the time?

 

[IndigoRage]

Has there been any update to that heir claim strength issue which causes the Burgundian inheritance to trigger almost 100% of the time?

Or perhaps the way the Dutch Revolt always fires extremely early, often from Burgundy?

 

[FleetingRain]

You forgot an issue, Rossarness:

5. The Andes doesn't exist as wastelands

 

[holyvigil]

It would be cool if SEA had a good tag to form. Even if it was all of the region. Them having Siam was like India's Mughals or China's Yuan.

 

[tigier]

emmm，it looks like a good thing。

 

[夏北泽Channel810]

And how about the problem that recruiting special units like marine and cossack is unavailable when absolutism under 0?

 

[Rossarness]

By the way, could you please implement a better way to sell ships? Having to do it manually is a huge pain, and the system hasn't been updated since Art of War.

That is a good suggestion for QoL improvement, thank you I hope we will do it in closer future, tho certainly not with the next patch

Can you please fix mercenary discipline?
Here's the writeup of the issue. https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...rcenary-discipline-bug.1501050/#post-28943948
In short mercenary discipline gives much smaller strength boost to mercs than actual discipline, possibly because it doesn't give land tactics.
I applaud trying to make mercenaries work but because of this bug mercs are still barely viable.

I will check if this issue is tracked internally by us.

And how about the problem that recruiting special units like marine and cossack is unavailable when absolutism under 0?

That one is on our radar, don't wanna promise but the high chance it will be in

 

[X112ww1X]

Frances new revolution ideas are still not available even after becoming the revolution target and going through the storm the bastille event

I have this problem as well

 

[RMS Oceanic]

Can you make AI Ottomans actually turn the Mamluks into an eyalet instead of just taking their land directly like they used to?

It's not that difficult, I have almost no experience with coding and managed to fix it.

country_event = {
    id = flavor_tur.240
    title = flavor_tur.240.t
    desc = flavor_tur.240.desc
    picture = COUNTRY_COLLAPSE_eventPicture
    fire_only_once = yes
    major = yes
    is_triggered_only = yes
    trigger = {
        has_dlc = "Domination"
        tag = TUR
        exists = MAM
        FROM = {
            is_capital = yes
            owner = {
                tag = MAM
            }
        }
        is_in_war = {
            casus_belli = cb_ottoman_invasion
            attacker_leader = TUR
            defender_leader = MAM
        }
    }

    option = {
        name = flavor_tur.240.a
        custom_tooltip = flavor_tur.240.a.tt
        set_country_flag = tur_decided_to_go_eyalet
        add_war_exhaustion = -2
        add_prestige = 20
        MAM = {
            country_event = {
                id = flavor_tur.241
            }
        }
        ai_chance = {
            factor = 1
        }
    }

    option = {
        name = flavor_tur.240.b
        custom_tooltip = flavor_tur.240.b.tt
        add_war_exhaustion = -2
        add_prestige = 20
        MAM = {
            country_event = {
                id = flavor_tur.241
            }
        }
        add_country_modifier = {
            name = tur_egyptian_annexation
            duration = 7300
        }
        ai_chance = {
            factor = 0
        }
    }
}

I literally just swapped aroung the 0 and 1 factors in the ai_chance sections

I kind of assumed that was a deliberate thing because the AI getting a large country for free might be an annoyance for the player.

 

[CaptainVory]

There also seems to be other issues with the hre. For example, the event that gives you 5 imp authority just does not happen anymore, and the teutons keeps no cbing the emperor for some reason.