Also what would be even better would be if we could choose a particular policy with each different colonial region, coexistence, repression etc.
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EU4 - Dev Diary - October 15th 2015
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would you consider having an option to start the game with the Americas in the "High American" setup? it would be a cool thing to do and not that hard.
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That might do it, yes.
Currently, the settlement and conquest of the New World is a bit tenuous. You've got to imagine most of the epic stuff, instead of seeing it.
Think of Cortés, Lewis and Clark, John Smith, Pizarro, Caboto, Cartier and the rest, even Captain Cook and Gaspar de Portolà. Their expeditions are always full of wonder and adventure, adversity and all kinds of problems. Meanwhile, in EUIV it's always just "go here" and forget about it. Keep an eye on them in case they loose too much men, but there's no flavourful events telling you what happened, why they failed, what went wrong, how did they succeed... There are some, but it's mostly bland.
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I hope new diplomatic options will also include offering to join your ally's war when not called upon yet. CK2 already had this and I am sort of puzzled at why this option isn't also available in EU4.
It is there (sort of) under "enforce peace". You threaten the aggressor, and if they refuse, you join the war on your ally's side
^ this. I get annoyed when I never get called into an aggressor war by my ally.
It would also be nice to somehow model a balance of power system to enable ultimium for not only core provinces but also to deter aggressive expansion. Coalition seem to be pretty difficult to form for some reason, so it's kind of useless now except most extreme cases of aggressive expansions. AI seem to be pretty smart about not incurring so much and waiting for it to cool down and then expand again, thereby expanding slowly and tipping balance of power in their favor. Surely, other AI actors should note this gradual threat. That being said, I feel requirement for coalition is too restrictive now.
I cant remember where, but in an earlier dev diary Wiz did mention that for the current patch, AE is bugged to be too low in accumulation (You're supposed to get much more AE than you actually get right now. Eg- It says you should get 30 AE, but end up getting 10 (I just made up those numbers)). However raising the coalition AE requirement has made it even worse for coalitions to form
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Are you sure you don't just mean whatever it was they fixed in 1.13.1?
That's good news, but I hope for the sake of my inner grammar Nazi that you guys spell 'coexistence' correctly in the game. Otherwise, I might go nuts and invade Poland or something.
Looks great so far. Just one small thing though. Could it be made to where we can name the wars that we declare?
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“A Dev Diary is never late, nor is it early, it arrives precisely when it means to.”
He sure isSo, does Gandalf the Dev Diary mean to come out today?
Given the lack of a "tm", can we take this to mean soon in the common use of the word, instead of the game developer use of the word?
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