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Europa Universalis IV Developer diary 15 - Et tu Brute?

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turnad said:
Actually, I think Americans can seek re-election after they step down after their 2 terms and wait a bit. I may be wrong though.
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22nd Amendment (1951)

Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

Section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.
 
St. Leo said:
22nd Amendment (1951)

Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

Section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.
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Yeah, FDR fucked that up.
 
Just a friendly reminder not to turn this Dev Diary into a thread about the American Constitution. Thank you.
 
EDIT: nevermind... someone got to it first. and we are now being silenced by the monarchist big wigs... ;) JOKE
 
Svip said:
Are flags tied to tags, or is there a 'dynamic' system of Victoria's, where if a flag is defined for a tag and a government type, it will use that, but otherwise simply use the same flag for all government types?

The fact that you had to split up France and Revolutionary France in EU3 always bothered me.
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It would be nice if a tag could be associated to different names and flags, but from the screenshot that isn't going to be so.
 
DoomBunny said:
Italy is actually a giant Zeppelin airship built by the Papal-Communist Alliance Front in 895BC. It was initially unworkable until Jesus fixed it by turning some of the mechanisms upside down and rebooting the flight computer. Unfortunately, the secret was lost and the Zeppelin was forgotten. The control room was in Milan, and was rediscovered on 10/11/1444, although noone knew how to operate it. With enough Monarch points and the right territories, the player can harness the power of the behemoth and use it to dominate the world. Italy must be formed first of course, as the other states wouldn't like you moving their territory without them giving the ok.
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Where is the crash and burn part in this story? ;)
 
Yes in the end Ambronsian Republic and Milan are always Milan (sort of) so at least the flag and maybe name change should be possible... if in your others games it should be done why not in EU4?

The same much more for France and Revolutionary France and for Napoleonic Republic / Kingdom of Italy (that with the Eagle used in EU3), Savoy's Kingdom of Italy (Tricolore with the Savoy's Royal House Emblem), Fas*ist Italy (again with Eagle but with Laurum), Italian Republic (tricolore only) or Rehien Confederation, German Empire, Wiemar Republic and The Third Reich, Russia / URSS and so on...
 
I hope they remove Austria's mission to conquer Milan. It's easy to beat Austria, but it's annoying to have to fight them every 5 years unless they are forced to release Tirol and Styria.
 
Johan said:
Bonus Detail: Republican Tradition
In the Heir to the Throne expansion to Europa Universalis III, we added the concept of legitimacy for monarchies. The idea was to find a way to model the transitional period between new monarchs or new dynasties and make the royal marriage system a little more important. This created some interesting mechanics, and we felt we needed something to serve the same purpose for Republics.

So, in Europa Universalis IV we have now added the concept of Republican Tradition. This is a value between 0 and 100%, and a newly formed republic starts with just 1% tradition – people like what they know, historically republics were seen as a little bit unstable, and it takes time before the ideas of civic freedom and voting for leaders take hold. A low republican tradition increases stability cost, and a high tradition reduces revolt risk. If you get a low republican tradition, you are more likely to have rebels supportive of restoring the monarchy, and if you ever go below 1% tradition you convert to a despotic monarchy rather quickly.

Your Republican Tradition goes up by +1% each year, and there are events that can give you a hard choice between tradition losses or other negative consequences. There are some advantages to playing a Republic – you get to choose your leaders in elections, after all. But you should never be really comfortable.

In light of adding this new mechanic, elections for Republics have changed slightly. You will lose 10% Republican Tradition if you re-elect the same leader, to represent the fear of a republic losing that regular change of office that guarantees the legitimacy of the government, and if you re-elect someone at while you have low tradition (currently we’ve set this at less than 20%), your Republican period comes to an end and you give birth to a despotic monarchy.
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First, Milan's NIs are clearly overpowered! (seems to be the theme)

Second, the concept of Republican Tradition is absolutely brilliant. Seriously, kudos.

This addresses how players will be able to convert back into a Monarchy from a Republic (so that leaves how to convert to a Republic from a Monarchy, and I'd venture that 'collapse/surrender' to rebels would not be the intended design). This also encourages the player to keep electing a new ruler, versus getting a high-stat one and then keeping it till it dies and then hoping to elect another high-stat one to keep. So while it will be possible for the player to re-elect, there is a significant opportunity cost in doing so ('lose' 10 years).

Possible resultant strategy is Republican Tradition is 80+ and keep re-electing high-stat ruler till it drops to the 50s, and then go with a a stream of newly elected rulers until 80+ again till another high-stat ruler emerge.
 
Also, judging from the (start) date in the screenshot ... Milan does not 'start' in an ongoing war with Venice? I recall when attempting this new start date in EU3, Milan would be in war with Venice.
 
Atlanteax said:
Also, judging from the (start) date in the screenshot ... Milan does not 'start' in an ongoing war with Venice? I recall when attempting this new start date in EU3, Milan would be in war with Venice.
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No they still start at war. See the war alert under the top bar and the war shield at the bottom with Venice's coat of arms.
 
dorukdorucu said:
Event frames look good, maybe a bit simple but good. Also, we get event pictures!
1 question though, how many provinces did you add?(compared to EU3)
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Not that many, maybe 70-80 overall.
 
Some time ago we've seen the Commonwealth as a republic. This makes me wonder: how will the government of the Commonwealth be represented? A new prince every 8 years, like in EU3?
 
I love the Republican tradition feature !
 
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