EU4 - Development Diary - 28th of August 2018

[$ilent_$trider]

Thanks for all the informations!

I still have one question unanswered though. Will I be able to establish a parliament in any country? Prussia for example could not get one before Dharma.

From the manual, for Monarchies:
5. DELIBERATIVE ASSEMBLY
• Parlimentarism Reform (enables parliament, -1 to unrest)
• Royal Decree Reform (+5 to maximum absolutism)
• Aristocratic Court Reform (Army Tradition decays 0.5 more slowly)
• General Estates Reform (+10% production efficiency)
• States General Reform (-10% Stability Cost, enables Statist vs
Monarchists mechanics)

So, I would say that yes, Prussia can have a parliament later on.

Edit: I'm curious about Statist vs Monarchist mechanics is going to be. Did I miss a Dev Diary about this?

 

[Kheiran]

Sounds great!

 

[WillMill1962]

So where is the replacement content for cossack owners? because when you look at the Cossack expansion on the PDX store page , The very first paid feature is Estates. Making it free is a good idea , but the content should be replaced or at least give partial refunds.

 

[$ilent_$trider]

So where is the replacement content for cossack owners? because when you look at the Cossack expansion on the PDX store page , The very first paid feature is Estates. Making it free is a good idea , but the content should be replaced or at least give partial refunds.

It's an exclusive government for cossacks now (it says so in this dev diary). Maybe they will change the website once the DLC goes live.

 

[Kheiran]

And you only get the Cossacks Estate (which gets a few new things) when you have the DLC.

 

[get_agrippa]

How exactly do government reforms work for country tag with unique reforms when you don't start as said country, such as forming Qing as Manchu or Japan as a Daimyo? Are the unique reforms automatically set on when forming the new tag or do you still have to pay progress points to reform into these unique governments in the normal way?

 

[BrokenSky]

Edit: I'm curious about Statist vs Monarchist mechanics is going to be. Did I miss a Dev Diary about this?

Going from the name, I think it's probably something like the dutch republic's "Statist vs Orangist" mechanics?

EDIT: kinda unsure how that'd work for a monarchy though?

 

[Wagonlitz]

I'll need to check the game at home but yeah, Siberia would probably be a bunch of territories until 1710 (maybe as IRL? dunno).

IRL it was convertion before 1710 though. Possibly not all of it, but a good chunk at least.

 

[TheRealRemus]

will dharma or the free update not break ironman saves? i'm on vacations and i have an ongoing poland run

You can Set back your game Version as soon as the HRE patch is out and continue playing your current game without the new features.

 

[makaramus]

So where is the replacement content for cossack owners? because when you look at the Cossack expansion on the PDX store page , The very first paid feature is Estates. Making it free is a good idea , but the content should be replaced or at least give partial refunds.

as someone who had it... WHY THE HELL YOU CARE? O_O
I mean are you gonna rage if you bought iphone 4 before and apple decide to hand iphone4s for free?

 

[Wagonlitz]

as someone who had it... WHY THE HELL YOU CARE? O_O
I mean are you gonna rage if you bought iphone 4 before and apple decide to hand iphone4s for free?

Yeah I don't really understand it either. It has been out for years and us owners have got good use out of it.

 

[Dakka]

Uniting India will run you far enough over your state+territory cap that you get corruption for doing it.

But now I have another thought - will Russia suffer for colonizing Siberia and conquering Horde lands?

I don’t think you guys understand how the corruption for territories are going to work... you have to have more territories than states.
So for example, you start with a base of 10 states, that means you would have to have 21 areas with half of them stated before you start getting any corruption from it. So as your state limit grows, so too will how much you need to blob before it starts affecting you. So in Russia’s case, their age ability allows them to hold 40 more areas before the extra one makes a difference.
It’s not a good system, but it’s not anywhere near as bad as people are dramatizing it to.

WHY THE HELL YOU CARE? O_O

Because paying for something and then finding out you didn’t have to pay for it sucks... similar to the people complaining about their $2.80 discount that they missed from pre-ordering (@Wagonlitz).
That said, I don’t mind features like this or development becoming free so long as they are then used, tied, and implemented better in the game.

 

[$ilent_$trider]

Because paying for something and then finding out you didn’t have to pay for it sucks... similar to the people complaining about their $2.80 discount that they missed from pre-ordering (@Wagonlitz).
That said, I don’t mind features like this or development becoming free so long as they are then used, tied, and implemented better in the game.

Nope, it's like paying for something, years later that something is given for free, but you still get something else different than the ones who are getting for free now.
I still don't understand all the whine whenever Paradox (or for that matter, any game company) announces that "feature X is now free".

 

[Dakka]

Nope, it's like paying for something, years later that something is given for free, but you still get something else different than the ones who are getting for free now.

But the question was posed by someone who didn’t know about the free content (albeit from lack of reading the very thing he was commenting on). He was then asked why he cared when from his perspective he didn’t know if he was getting anything in return. It’s a fair question all things considered.
And as I said before, I Support it being free and I like the Cossacks government. I plan on returning to Zaporozhie for this reason

 

[BrokenSky]

Because paying for something and then finding out you didn’t have to pay for it sucks... similar to the people complaining about their $2.80 discount that they missed from pre-ordering (@Wagonlitz).
That said, I don’t mind features like this or development becoming free so long as they are then used, tied, and implemented better in the game.

Yeah maybe they should update the page now so people don't buy it today and find out the feature is free in a weeks time?

 

[HeyIAmInfinity]

I don’t think you guys understand how the corruption for territories are going to work... you have to have more territories than states.
So for example, you start with a base of 10 states, that means you would have to have 21 areas with half of them stated before you start getting any corruption from it. So as your state limit grows, so too will how much you need to blob before it starts affecting you. So in Russia’s case, their age ability allows them to hold 40 more areas before the extra one makes a difference.
It’s not a good system, but it’s not anywhere near as bad as people are dramatizing it to.

Because paying for something and then finding out you didn’t have to pay for it sucks... similar to the people complaining about their $2.80 discount that they missed from pre-ordering (@Wagonlitz).
That said, I don’t mind features like this or development becoming free so long as they are then used, tied, and implemented better in the game.

I encourage you to do do simple math of summing the state limit with the number of areas in the game to see where the issue lies.

Around 60 state endgame allows you 120 areas without being russia or some other tag that gets OP with dharma released ( mughals...)

120 Areas too little for a game where conquest is the only real mechanic and most achievement rely on it.

 

[shinyespeon]

I don’t think you guys understand how the corruption for territories are going to work... you have to have more territories than states.
So for example, you start with a base of 10 states, that means you would have to have 21 areas with half of them stated before you start getting any corruption from it. So as your state limit grows, so too will how much you need to blob before it starts affecting you. So in Russia’s case, their age ability allows them to hold 40 more areas before the extra one makes a difference.
It’s not a good system, but it’s not anywhere near as bad as people are dramatizing it to.

Because paying for something and then finding out you didn’t have to pay for it sucks... similar to the people complaining about their $2.80 discount that they missed from pre-ordering (@Wagonlitz).
That said, I don’t mind features like this or development becoming free so long as they are then used, tied, and implemented better in the game.

your effective state + territory count is still softcapped at 2x state limit.

The Siberian territories are so unbelievably bad that you are shooting yourself in the foot by doing intuitive Russian things. Every Siberian corruption-free territory you touch could instead be amazing area like malopolska, or Thrace.

Territories due to reforms will actually constitute a significant fraction of economy in next patch.

PS 60 states is nothing, even compete you played midmajor starts like byz will blow past that 4x 200 years into the game this patch

Glad we can play speed 5 / manufactory building simulator for 200 years before doing actually interesting things next patch!!

 

[Vilcoyote]

@DDRJake

Is it intended to have the same bonus for these policies for "the spy discovery act" and "the royal commission act"?
they both give :

yearly corruption = -0.1
global spy defence = 0.2

 

[Rabid]

Aw, they nerfed the reelection cost reduction policy, I think it was in the first DD at 25%. 10% is probably too little imo.

 

[balmung60]

Man, every time you post that I get saltier with Trade Companies.

Heh, and I keep posting it because I get saltier and saltier every time I see people focusing on the missionary thing and ignoring how massively imbalanced the corruption change is in favor of Europe, especially after years of reducing the European bias that's been baked into the game not just since release, but since prior entries in the series, but then all of a sudden this bombshell of a reversion to nearly v1.1 levels of European bias.