EU4 - Dev Diary - January 7th 2016

[ahhheygao]

Glad to hear about all of these much-needed changes to the Estates and diplomatic feedback.

I hope improvements to forts' ZoC will be the next DD topic.

 

[Praetorian44]

Loyalty modifiers no longer directly impact loyalty but rather decay speed, it wouldn't work to have such modifiers along with a decay system.

Understandable. Can loyalty modifiers still be triggered by certain conditions that are defined in the estate's file?

 

[I'm gaming]

It doesn't work like that - high piety for Ulema will decay high loyalty slower and recover low loyalty faster (I'm also quite sure prestige decay doesn't work like that anymore either).

Certain idea groups will influence decay as well, such as aristocratic for nobility.

Will loyalty have only decay modifier(like yearly prestige decay -1) or have both decay modifier and gain modifier(like yearly prestige gain +1)?

 

[Raczynski]

I actually liked how the estates worked so far but these all seems to be sensible changes.

However, on the topic of elective monarchy two annoyances remain.

First, election candidates are past retirement age too often because they've been on the "waiting list" too long. IMO the monarch should be created on election with randomly generated age between 20 and 50.
Second, trying to have "local candidate" elected is made doubly difficult and seems unfair because all the legitimacy (well, now prestige) you invest is lost when that candidate dies... but the same doesn't apply to foreign monarchies, their candidates "inherit" invested support...

 

[zsImmortal]

Looks promising. What is the Enforce Union CB on Poland all about? Any details on the circumstances or is it simply random?

 

[Wizzington]

Looks promising. What is the Enforce Union CB on Poland all about? Any details on the circumstances or is it simply random?

It's an event, so simply random.

 

[atwix]

Assuming you're lucky enough to get a claim, yes. And assuming you can even get heir on throne, which is no trivial matter without an alliance and decent dip rep.

It's an event, so simply random.

care to elaborate what and how this 'luck' to get a claim will be coded in the game?

What exactly will trigger this event?

 

[balmung60]

care to elaborate what and how this 'luck' to get a claim will be coded in the game?

What exactly will trigger this event?

Sharing a dynasty and probably a long MTTH.

 

[atwix]

then its basically like the other event that gives free Union with neighbour/same dynasty member, only this event only gives force PU cb, 'forcing' you to do force PU war?

 

[Kliwarrior]

At the moment there is a nice view of your nation, showing the percentage of influence each province gives to a given Estate . What is missing is how much percentage an Estate would get if he should have a new province assigned (you have to click and see what happen) . To have this value shown could be a very valuable plus for the forecoming patch.
Moreover, Estates want to control a certain percentage of land/development at minimum (let say 15% in most cases) , so in the same view would be nice to have also this value shown.

 

[Kliwarrior]

I hope improvements to forts' ZoC will be the next DD topic.

Lot of people here share this hope..

 

[RodyMetal]

In addition to these changes, there are also a number of minor tweaks, such as adjusting the province effects of Estates to work with the new autonomy exception and making it so that developing Estate provinces increases their loyalty.

This sounds really great

 

[Cymsdale]

I hope with this equilibrium mechanic we will still get emergent mini-disasters like high-influence low-loyalty estates. I liked that it sometimes created tough choices, and I hope it doesn't make it too easy to maintain docile estates.

 

[Spiritraiser]

Need to check that Cossack event happening even though the countries aren't neighbours! I had it a few times happening with custom Eastern nation in America before I even got to Eastern Europe!

 

[Golladan]

@Wiz

Will the AI know not to tank their prestige to keep their heir, so they don't end up losing their LIT union?

If the AI cannot pick a rival because of high trust, will it be treated as though they have no possible rivals, or will they get the power projection malus for not enough rivals?

 

[Ameron]

Do Merchant Republics get Estates with the new patch?

 

[Hakuromatsu]

It's a shame foreign estates staying on conquest didn't pan out, since that was potentially another layer of depth to map painting. But it obviously didn't work out, so this solution is the next best thing.

 

[TheAtreides84]

In the future, will there be any connection between Government types and estates influence? It would be incredible, as right now, you may switch from Constitutional Monarchy to Absolutism, and other government types without any problem and the oppsite. Government types feel very idle and boring. Also, Such act should destabilize the state and a estates requirement or another to each government type is needed (some mechanism also to late game to reflection of revolution is necessary).

Whatever will be, I must say the current changes are great, I love it!

I think that now, with some of the attention shifted to internal politics, a change to governments should be in the cards.

 

[MisterCooper]

Will you also remove estates upon subject integration?

 

[Wizzington]

Will you also remove estates upon subject integration?

Any action that changes ownership.