EU4 Dev Diaries on hold until January 7th

[Wizzington]

Hello everyone! With the holidays creeping up, the EU4 team busy working on patch 1.15, and yours truly spending some time pitching in on Hearts of Iron 4, it unfortunately doesn't leave much time for coming up with and writing development diaries. As such, EU4 dev diaries will be on hold for the rest of the year, and will resume as normal Thursday January 7th, 2016.

 

[Destinyfaker]

a sneak peak of ideas for 1.15 ?

 

[zukodark]

Hello everyone! With the holidays creeping up, the EU4 team busy working on patch 1.15, and yours truly spending some time pitching in on Hearts of Iron 4, it unfortunately doesn't leave much time for coming up with and writing development diaries. As such, EU4 dev diaries will be on hold for the rest of the year, and will resume as normal Thursday January 7th, 2016.

I was scared after the last one that you were going to continue right after the last update. That would just be bad, as I want you to work on features before presenting them. Just remember not to start too early, so you will have to make developer diary on stuff people don't care too much about.

Edit: Hmm, seems like people disagree, but no clear comment on why. Thus I will go in a bit more depth. I am a big fan of paradox, and I love their diaries, but I don't think they should be forced to release each week without a break even after an expansion. Fixing on AI and such is very important, and I don't think that would yield to that fun of a dev diary alone, especially if it takes weeks. We have already seen how many people were angry (not me,) when they "broke their promises" about "Call for Diet." Starting dev diaries too early will just make us wait for stuff we know about longer, and without a break after the last expansion.

 

[Lord_P]

It's okay, sometimes it's best to say nothing at all. *cough* CK2 *cough*

 

[Gwayne]

Ok let the withdrawal syndrome start...

 

[AndreasPhokas]

im hoping that the national ideas across the board get a touchup. some of the weaker sets buffed and see some of the first nations that got them get an update since new ideas etc have been added into the game.

oh yeah Confucian really really really really needs mecanics.

 

[Oahkoah]

Remember to buff Byzantium for HoI 4!

 

[Sian]

I was scared after the last one that you were going to continue right after the last update. That would just be bad, as I want you to work on features before presenting them. Just remember not to start too early, so you will have to make developer diary on stuff people don't care too much about.

depends on how clear the presentation is ... if it was 'merely' a discussion on where they intend to move onwards or historical "how was this feature created" or a brainstorm on whats the problem with some of the older systems (I gather from the hotfixes that the Monarch generation is at least from EU3 if not older), and considerations on how to change it and what of these changes that might/might not be seen by the regular player.

I would love a DevDiary on a discussion about how some of the features came to be, that have been around for the length of EU4 and longer back.

 

[SchwarzerKaiser]

Heresy!
-Württemberg gains +0.00001 Unrest.

 

[Golladan]

a sneak peak of ideas for 1.15 ?

1.15 is a bugfix patch.

 

[Koalabear]

When do we get 1.15? I was hoping before holidays because after a 6 months break from eu4, im going to forget my life and spend some quality time with me, my computer and eu4

 

[Axe99]

Good luck with any HoI4 crunching going on and for patch 1.15, cheers for the heads-up on the pause in DDs .

 

[loup99]

Good work, I understand why you make this pause!

Good luck with any HoI4 crunching going on

The teams are separated.

 

[Falc]

The teams are separated.

Except that Wiz literally said in the OP that he was "spending some time pitching in on Hearts of Iron 4"

 

[Wizzington]

To be clear, it's only me personally, I'm helping out with the AI. The rest of the EU4 team is fixing bugs on EU4.

 

[3ishop]

Fair enough, happy holidays to all of you and your families!

 

[mwyeoh]

To be clear, it's only me personally, I'm helping out with the AI. The rest of the EU4 team is fixing bugs on EU4.

Is the HOI4 AI being written from scratch this time? Or is it again based off an old AI code?

 

[ChildeR]

1.15 is a bugfix patch.

So was 1.13, yet there were a bunch of changes that were not strictly bug fixes. Including new NI sets.

 

[Wizzington]

Is the HOI4 AI being written from scratch this time? Or is it again based off an old AI code?

Written from scratch using a whole new architecture that I created specifically for the newer projects (HOI4, Stellaris).

 

[GoguRomania]

ETA on patch 1.15?
Maybe you could work a bit on the colonial AI as the 1.14 version is by far, the dumbest.