DDD on thursday? :-P

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Just a regular dev diary on Thursday.

 

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Is it gonna be about 1.15?

Nope. There may or may not be Irishmen involved though.

 

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Aren't Dhimmi the Christian provinces of a Muslim state? If so then I wonder if them not asking for land now means that the Ottos again will start aggressively converting the Balkans.

The AI doesn't convert land they have 1+ tolerance to in most cases.

 

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So Muslim Balkans in 1500 won't make a return?

It's unlikely.

 

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Honestly, I'm against gold mine depletion being up to RNKanye, even at higher levels. I get that it's there to keep you from making super profitable mines that will make you ungodly amounts of cash, but it essentially makes gold mines into a dip point sink.

I think that instead of cutting the money you make, it should cut the production development so that it doesn't become prohibitively expensive to get the mine up to working form again.

It... does. Depletion halves the production in the province.

 

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Is the chance same for Natives? It would be sad to get depletion before westernizing and never see the benefit of having gold.

Primitives can't deplete.

 

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Gold mines do deplete in reality though; and your primary mine depleting was a very serious thing historically. I might be misremembering, but didn't the Tirol mines at least partially deplete in the 1600s and causing the Austrians problems?

Yeah, but so do copper and iron mines and we don't have a depletion mechanic for those. Investing in gold production has a massive reward compared to other trade goods, so depletion is there to be a risk to counterbalance that reward.

Realism, meaningful argument, you know the drill.

 

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Sure, I'm just saying the mechanic wasn't introduced for any reasons of realism.