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.

 

[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.

 

[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).

 

[Wizzington]

Well it seems eu4 needs new ai too. AI right now goes 500-1000 ducats in debt each war because it recruits every mercenary available....

Rewriting the AI from scratch will not automatically create a brilliant AI just because it's new. If fact, it would result in a massively worsened AI until we could spend a year or more getting it back to where it was.

 

[Wizzington]

I don't want a brilliant AI. I want you to tell me that you don't like this AI behavior and plan on fixing it.

There's already a bunch of improvements to AI finances/loan taking done for 1.15, in fact.