Development Diary - 17th of December

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In order to determine if you are within diplomatic range of another country, your maximum diplomatic range will be compared to the distance between your capital and theirs.
If diplo range is based primarily on capital location, is it possible for two countries to share a border but be outside of diplo range?

We only touched briefly on export in the previous diary on trade, and what we did mention has changed. There are no longer any general Trade Access treaties. Rather than making you sign one deal to get access to all the Trade Goods of a country you will now be able to ask any country within diplomatic range to be allowed to import something they have a surplus of.
If I win a war, can I force the loser to export/give me some trade good, even if they don't have a surplus?
 

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Trade seems to go on a per province basis, but you can import to the capital. Is it possible to import to specific cities within a province or is the capital the only case in which this happens? (Do provinces have a designated capital?) Or is it so that you can never focus on a boosting a specific city and will only ever boost an entire province (through trade)?
 

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Trade seems to go on a per province basis, but you can import to the capital. Is it possible to import to specific cities within a province or is the capital the only case in which this happens? (Do provinces have a designated capital?) Or is it so that you can never focus on a boosting a specific city and will only ever boost an entire province (through trade)?

Importing to Capital means importing to your Capital Province. Trade is between Provinces and local benefits go to all cities in the province.
 

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I am still not happy with pops promoted by mana(sounds like hell of a micro but we will see) but trade system looks amazing. We need something like that in EUIV ASAP.

I wonder if tall gameplay will be fun in I:R
 

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Hello. It would be great if any dev could confirm this.
Can you export an item that you have imported? If say, I'm Crete and I'm importing elephants from Carthage, can Rome ask me to export elephants to them? (Giving for granted here that Rome and Carthage hate each other).

If that's the case, we could end up with tradenodes similar to EU4 but way more dynamic and fluid. So, for example, just like in EU you don't want to kill a merchant republic completely, in IR you might want to keep Crete alive in order to have access to stuff you otherwise would not have access to.
 

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Dubonnia: Large Tribal Kingdom in modern Western England. The Dubonni economy and society is based on agriculture and like many other societies in the British isles and elsewhere guarded their people with hill forts. Dubonnia starts independent and unaligned.

Just found the first nation that I will play as! Gloucestershire represent!
 

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According to the wiki, the bonus associated with leather and base metals is regiment recruitment speed. In EU IV, recruitment speed was essentially worthless.

May I suggest changing it to some other kind of bonus, like recruitment cost? I would imagine that having plenty of leather and metal would reduce the costs of producing equipment for soldiers.
 

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Hello and welcome to this weeks developer diary!
Diplomatic Range

The Mediterranean world was in some ways very interconnected, but travel time, reputation and maintaining diplomats for long distance diplomacy for a small country would not have been easy.

In order to conduct most Diplomatic Interactions except for declaring war, military access, and suing for peace, will be limited by your Diplomatic Range.

In order to determine if you are within diplomatic range of another country, your maximum diplomatic range will be compared to the distance between your capital and theirs.

The Maximum Range is modified primarily by how high your Rank is, but it is also modified by inventions. An overlord and a subject will always be considered to be within Diplomatic Range of each other.

Powerful and advanced countries will thus be able to perform far reaching diplomacy, while smaller states will be more limited to their immediate area.

How will the Diplomatic Range be determined if the whole tribe migrates? So you don't have a capital anymore. A Youtuber called Steinwallen did this moving with the Saxons to Rome. I guess this is kind of a cheesy strategy but it's possible.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cheese strategy