EU4 - Development Diary - 22nd of September 2016

[loup99]

Nice and unexpected that you are improving and adding to old DLCs! If financially viable, I think it would be interesting if you did more of this in the future.

 

[Dnote]

Do trade cities provide any benefits to local provinces not under their control? Like trade companies do?

Wouldn't mind seeing an option in the future to have a completely random world, not just the New World

 

[NoOneBCE]

Nice and unexpected that you are improving and adding to old DLCs! If financially viable, I think it would be interesting if you did more of this in the future.

They do this mostly when they break old features that people paid fore like halt westernization, though a few dlc's like american dream never got that treatment saddly.

 

[loup99]

They do this mostly when they break old features that people paid fore like halt westernization, though a few dlc's like american dream never got that treatment saddly.

Not for the RNW and Mare Nostrum though, which was what surprised me.

 

[Salje]

Looks good.
Will trading cities use the generic NI set?

I would guess that they get their own set of trade city National Ideas like client states do.

 

[Elzephor]

Tbh just hire elzephor as a fulltimer at paradox making RNW tiles for every new patch, hes great!

Aw thanks, unfortunately I'm currently a student buried in course work. But after that, who knows?

 

[Elzephor]

There are some tiles that are big enough to be a double-continent, like this familiar and fun territory.

You just had to show off the controversial one! For real though, what's this you say about a double continent? Can we define continents WITHIN tiles now?

 

[CassCD]

Looks good.
Will trading cities use the generic NI set?

Their sets are randomized. They showed it off in the middle of the last feature stream.

 

[synergetic]

Regarding the merchant republic created city states- can they still ally other powers?
If so, wouldn't that sort of defeat the purpose? They could just get called into an offensive war and dispatched that way.

 

[RPL]

I am a long time player and I absolutely love all the improvements that have been made to this game over the years. Considering this is dev diary about improving past DLCs, I feel it’s necessary to call attention to “Wealth of Nations” as several of its features seem to have fallen by the wayside….

First, there is a feature that gives merchant republics the ability to create a trade port giving +10 trade power for a single province in each trade node that seems to be getting replaced by ability to release a trading city…

Second, with the massive overhaul to tech with the institutions, how are institutions going to spread from trade company land? In my opinion, they should not spread institutions at all to neighboring territory as in the past it has been impossible to westernize off a trade company core.

That leads to third, all colonies formed in trade company land should automatically form as part of a trade company instead of needing to opt every province into the trade company. The current button should be swapped to opt the province out of the company instead of into one… As it stands, it’s inevitable that a player forgets and/or the AI does so poorly 90% of the time they state all of their overseas territory resulting in the spread of westernization. Am I nuts to be the only one that thinks this?

 

[Poh]

Tbh just hire elzephor as a fulltimer at paradox making RNW tiles for every new patch, hes great!

I very much doubt RNW deserves anyone at fulltime, considering its a minor part of the game. More tiles or ability of control the RNW however would be very nice.

Well it wouldn't be much of a surprise exploring the random new world if you already knew all the tiles.

I can see the point, but since its randomized anyway you dont really know 100% whats appearing.

You just had to show off the controversial one! For real though, what's this you say about a double continent? Can we define continents WITHIN tiles now?

I think he is referring to the size of the tile being basically the size of North + South America or larger.

 

[ywxiao]

I think trading city bonus is better changed to +10% goods produced or +1 merchant or like a development cost reduction. Trade efficiency is a little weak when the city is giving away their trade power. Also, if you create one in an HRE province, would that city be considered HRE? Would they be willing to accept becoming a Free City?

For the development option, can we change some of the modifiers to multiplicative? Like centre of trade give a -10% multiplicative cost reduction that's additive with development efficiency. Capital should get a further -5% multiplicative modifier if you are a Kingdom, and a -10% if you are an Empire.

Second, with the massive overhaul to tech with the institutions, how are institutions going to spread from trade company land? In my opinion, they should not spread institutions at all to neighboring territory as in the past it has been impossible to westernize off a trade company core.

That leads to third, all colonies formed in trade company land should automatically form as part of a trade company instead of needing to opt every province into the trade company. The current button should be swapped to opt the province out of the company instead of into one… As it stands, it’s inevitable that a player forgets and/or the AI does so poorly 90% of the time they state all of their overseas territory resulting in the spread of westernization. Am I nuts to be the only one that thinks this?

They did simulate trade companies spreading instituations in a way, Indian Tech group has lower penalty than Chinese.

 

[romothecus]

Bad traits will grant you points to spend elsewhere and yes, there is a "random" trait which can be chosen for free. Do you feel lucky?

Bad design; it just promotes start scumming. People will restart until they get the traits they want.

 

[Anaeri]

Bad design; it just promotes start scumming. People will restart until they get the traits they want.

I've been guilty of this before, but that doesn't mean it's bad design. At the end of the day it doesn't matter a whole lot and most achievements are disabled in custom nation. If people are going to cheat they're going to cheat in worse ways.

 

[luxfelix]

If Lubeck takes the province of Danzig/Gdansk, can they release the OPM of Danzig as a trade city instead of creating one from scratch?

(Ditto for Riga, et al...)

 

[SensitiveDannyBoi]

Ai improvements? Where have I heard that before? (hoi4, cough cough).

 

[Incompetent]

Do trade cities provide any benefits to local provinces not under their control? Like trade companies do?

Merchant Republics already boost goods produced in the same way Trade Companies do (except it's based on all the trade power of the Merchant Republic, not just provinces). Trade League members transfer some trade power to the leader, so the leader has more power, meaning bigger bonus to goods produced.

I think trading city bonus is better changed to +10% goods produced or +1 merchant or like a development cost reduction. Trade efficiency is a little weak when the city is giving away their trade power. Also, if you create one in an HRE province, would that city be considered HRE? Would they be willing to accept becoming a Free City?

Trade League membership already gives a ton of goods produced. As for merchants, we're talking about an OPM - how many do they need? I agree that +10% trade efficiency is an irrelevant bonus though. Most likely, their main source of income will be production.

 

[TheTomanator]

When a trading city is created, will the state religion be the religion of the province, or the religion of the nation that creates them?

 

[Zohtun]

Every dev diary I want time to speed up so this patch-and-DLC is released sooner...

 

[ywxiao]

Every dev diary I want time to speed up so this patch-and-DLC is released sooner...

Agreed, the current release date coincides with the free gears of war 4 release date which me and my friends are going to play. Sigh......