3.1 Teaser #4 - 3rd of September 2008

[Johan]

For previous teasers..
#1 - http://www.europa-universalis.com/forum/showthread.php?t=370757
#2 - http://www.europa-universalis.com/forum/showthread.php?t=371894
#3 - http://www.europa-universalis.com/forum/showthread.php?t=372491



- Fixed a bug in the combat algoritms that would cause smaller units with proper morale to get wiped out by bigger no morale units.

- Garrison AI: Changed the base calculation for area needs to be more dependent on forces in neighboring areas. Should greatly help countries with overseas possessions near belligerents.

- Strategic AI: Will prioritize building ships if it has less then 3/4 of the desired amount.

- The inflation tooltip in the treasury slider is now color-coded.

- The inaugeration date for foreign monarchs is now shown in a tooltip.

- Each base-tax value increases production income base by 5% in a non overseas province.

- The bonus for Absolute Monarchy is now 5% discipline instead of lowered war exhaustion.

- Going above naval force limits increases costs of ships.

 

[GAGA Extrem]

There go the thousands of ships iN MP games

...at least I hope so

 

[Johan]

Most interesting to me is
"- Each base-tax value increases production income base by 5% in a non overseas province."

I wonder, why was it rebalanced in this particular way. With this change, it seems that local provinces become much better, and colonies lose some attractiveness, because only local provinces are to get more production income- often 30-50% more. So is this done to make countries with high tax provinces stronger, or, maybe, to make investment into production tech worth it? (as currently prod tech is not that important for non-colonian countries)

This is to strengthen the value of european provinces, where basically a rich province like Napoli is worse than an average indian one for a colonising power. This causes the tilt in favor of colonial powers to be insane in the long run.

It's sad to see that one of very few measures to keep War Exhaustion down is being removed. Why?

Because that government combined with 2 other abilities makes it impossible to get RR at all from war exhaustion.

 

[Johan]

So, if I am just below the limit, pause the game, and then queue up 100 ships, will they be at increased cost or the normal?

it checks ships under construction as well.