Cool new beta patch!

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- Fixed a bug which allowed units to move with no attrition at all at the last tech-levels.
- AI will now handle religious tolerance depending on controlled provinces.
- AI should now be less likely to remove its trade embargo now.
- ADM and Stability have a slightly less effect on maintaining a merchant in a COT now.
- Mercantilism now makes a merchant more likely to stay in a center of trade.
- Free trade now makes a merchant better at competing out others.
- Centers of Trade will now stagnate and lose provinces, to eventually dissappear, if they do not get a steady competion through them.
- There should now be an indication at the peace proposals whether they are alliance wide peaces, or seperate peaces.

The CoT change that it can even dissappear brings in a whole new threath in MP games. A large alliance of nations can now decide to not put merchants into a hostile CoT and thereby it can start loosing provinces and eventually dissappear. Now a human player maybe think twice before embargoing a nation(maybe i got this wrong?). Anyway, good job Johan!

 

[Judge]

Great Johan, have a virtual beer in the tropical heat in Stockholm

 

[Stonewall]

Awesome. Great job Johan. Some much needed improvements, especially the alliance/separate peace thingy. Thanks. Your hard work is much appreciated.

 

[Jayavarman]

Let's hope this is the beginning of another period of Johan pumping out beta patches quickly! Just hope he doesn't forget about his girlfriend, Victoria...

 

[Arilou]

Oooooo... New patch...

Now I'll just have to get EU2 working over V-Net and Bob's my uncle.

 

[TheArchduke]

Yeah the new patch should breath some life in the CoT system.

 

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thats good

Do I need to reinstall the game to apply this patch?

 

[Jayavarman]

Originally posted by KBlitz
thats good

Do I need to reinstall the game to apply this patch?

Nope, I should think not. Just unzip files into your EUII folder.

Edit: Make sure 1.07 is applied though.

 

[Classique]

Will saved games from the previous patches work with the new one?

 

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Probably, at least I haven't encountered any problems before

 

[Araanor]

Wow! Great stuff!

 

[Faeelin]

I'm not sure I like this. Would anyone seriously argue that the Dutch didn't take control of most of the trade in the Indies, destroying competition? By the logic of the game, they would lose their COT.

 

[Smirfy]

The best horse in the stable keeps getting better

 

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Originally posted by Smirfy
The best horse in the stable keeps getting better

Indeed

 

[Stonewall]

I just played about 50 years of an EEP game and lo and behold, the Spanish, after annexing all of the natives in Central and South America, lost their CoT's in Cuzco and Xacatecas and all trade got diverted to Andalusia...very nice!!!!

 

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will the CoTs possibly come back? If spain doesn't share her maps with anybody will there never be CoTs in South or Central America?

 

[Varyar]

That CoT change sounds a bit strange, I wonder how it will actually affect the game...

 

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"- Centers of Trade will now stagnate and lose provinces, to eventually dissappear, if they do not get a steady competion through them."

Omg, does this mean no more secret Aussie CoT? Who will ever colonize that place now?

 

[Duuk]

Wait... if no one but the host country competes there, it closes?

Then I hope the CoT formula has been ratched up so that new CoTs open like mad.

 

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Originally posted by Faeelin
I'm not sure I like this. Would anyone seriously argue that the Dutch didn't take control of most of the trade in the Indies, destroying competition? By the logic of the game, they would lose their COT.

I agree. Strong monopolies used to be an important goal of the game. Is the objective now NOT to have a monopoly? There are many good things about the change that could be interesting, but I will reserve judgement until I see how it works.

Could cause many uninteded side effects.