EU4 - Development Diary - 4th of August 2020

[Emoneh]

The missions look great once again, but those new privileges look a bit unbalanced because of their almost complete lack of negatives. e.g. surely granting special privileges to the elite of another religion would imply lowered absolutism? Likewise if the merchant guilds are made responsible for tropical cities & irrigation. I see that some are rewards for missions, but if the point is that it's a mission reward with no downside, why add the extra step of making it a privilege rather than just adding a country modifier?

 

[grommile]

surely granting special privileges to the elite of another religion would imply lowered absolutism

sometimes, granting certain privileges to certain elites is done as a deliberate way to knock out the underpinnings of other elites' privileges.

and, y'know. One of the engines of French absolutism was very precisely the issuing of privileges that came with the drawback that you had to spend huge amounts of time right where the king could see what you were up to.

 

[Flatcherius]

I really feel that the Advanced Irrigation techniques should just be a modifier, it has no interaction with the estate system at all and there is no situation where you wouldn’t take it. Putting it in the estate system just means that you can forget to use it while providing no upside. With the Brahmins at Court there could be situations where you would want to revoke it so making it a privilege makes sense, but then I would still like it to have at least a tiny amount of estate influence.

 

[AnssiA]

Why is Advanced Irrigation Techniques an estate privilege? Considering it doesn't interact in any way with estates and is purely a bonus, it seems kinda unnecessary for it to be privilege instead of country modifier. Also doesn't feel like it has much to do with merchants.

The other estate privileges are fitting.

 

[MaXimillion]

If advanced irrigation techniques has no effects on estates and is just a flat bonus when you meet the conditions, why implement it as an estate privilege rather than an event or triggered modifier? The estate privilege menu is a UX mess as it is, stuffing more bonuses in it will just make it worse.

 

[AngelRay]

Since the Papacy mission tree is void in current version (compare it to France! at least France has a good mission tree!) and seen that it was the center of the previous so called "emperor" mega patch which focused on Catholicism, I have no hope, and no hype. I would prefer the communication to be silent and just that you release those bits of little bug fixes you only seem to be able to do correctly, instead of promising things which never happen.

EU4 content is fun, but the level of bugs is rising every patch and it's boring.

 

[Pale Blue]

I have a few more questions to estates. Will Muslim nations in sea gain the brahmins estate or keep the dhimmi? Will sea Hindus get the vaishyas estate, which are the Hindu merchant caste? Can brahmins and vaishyas get the colonizing privileges that regular clergy/burghers have? In India that doesn't matter much, but sea has a lot of islands to colonize.
Because sea Hindus have the regular nobility estate and the brahmins estate you can grant both the supremacy over the crown privilege for 20% influence and loyalty to all estates. I don't think that's intended.
Any changes to the eastern inward perfection privilege? Most of the game it is just 2-3% Dev cost reduction, while you constantly suffer stab hits if going to war. For such a harsh penalty it should actually give a good benefit.

Any changes to Buddhism? It is such a boring religion, mainly because there is no choice involved. Christians have several boons to pick from regardless of their sub denomination, Hindu can pick god's, Muslim have the piety slider with several boons and buttons to spent piety. For Buddhism you always want to stay neutral.
Boons you can activate at a karma cost or the ability to pick the boons of either karma side would make the religion so much better.

 

[AirikrStrife]

It's great to hear the balance decisions doen in regards to cambodia and dai viet.

Are there any chances that the topics raised in this post will be considered? https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/southeast-asia-additional-considerations.1406015/ I'm particularly thinking the changes to the shan states and fixing the inaccuracies in northeastern india

 

[Leoreth]

Paradox forum members: Paradox is bad because all they do is add expansive new content that introduces new bugs instead of fixing known existing bugs

Also Paradox forum members: why aren't you planning on including this complex change that mostly satisfies my niche pet interests?

 

[Muelleri]

New update will include Mandate of Heaven improvement? It is better than before with manchu update, but it needs some more improvement.

 

[sylanna]

New update will include Mandate of Heaven improvement? It is better than before with manchu update, but it needs some more improvement.

No.

 

[Gladkiy Elisey]

Will Khmer get new ideas?

 

[correctamundo]

This will be grand. No doubt about it.

 

[Imperium84]

Will you make change to Dai Viet and Champa map that "Da Nang" belonged to Champa in 1444 and Dai Viet will get more provinces in their northern core region?

 

[Rukawa]

The Overseas Adventures mission has you invading Borneo and being rewarded with a permanent +1 Yearly Navy Tradition.

why Borneo and not Java ? since legend says that Jayavarman II, founder of the Khmer empire came from Java.

 

[BrotherJonathan]

Interesting approach: starting with a small nation that is already in decline and having to build back up.

 

[ECNeox]

Will there be a Lan Xang Dev diary?

 

[Katrex]

No idea changes for Khmer?

Their ideas are already the best in the region... what more do you want?

 

[ShoGuL]

Their ideas are already the best in the region... what more do you want?

-10% dev cost.. though honestly i'd prefer if that modifier was just removed from all idea sets, it's incredibly powerful for the mid-late game. I strongly dislike not having it.

 

[Dragonquack]

I’m impressed on the content being added in this, SEA has been a long neglected region, and it seems the dev team has finally decided to give the region the justice it deserves.

@neondt Around when will we find out if this update is a free patch, immersion pack, or expansion?