EU4 - Leviathan - Development Diary 3rd of March 2021
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Is there any reason why you wouldn't want to eventually do this to every province given the resources (like building tax collectors in EU2)?
Didn't you dramatically rebalance estates and mercenaries in the last expansion?!
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These changes are relatively minor compared to institutions in 1.18 or development in 1.12 though,so there is less risk to broke the ai or create bugs for a game as old as EU4 is.
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I feel entirely confident that EU5, if and when it exists, will feature arbitrary-feeling abstract resources that you expend to take certain classes of action.
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Thank you so much for the work you've done!
Development concentration is an interesting mechanic, but Centralise State and stacking manufactories are useless. Because:
1. Government Reform Progress is too valuable to spend on Centralise State and stacking manufactories.
2. government capacity is important only in the first hundred years of the game, the penalties are more than covered by the income from the conquered territories (penalties for exceeding must be increased at least twice).
Instead, for Playing-Tall, you could create a state infrastructure parameter from 0 to 3. With a cost of 20 Government Reform Progress increases and 10,000 / 25,000 / 50,000 gold per level.
At each level, giving 0 / -25% / - 50% / - 75% government capacity in the state, 0 / + 20% / + 40% / + 60% development efficiency in the state, and 0/0 / + 1 / + 2 additional manufactories of any type in the state, 0 / + 50% / + 100% / + 150% movement speed of the army in the state. You can also introduce a new modifier "infrastructure" that affects everything produced in the state (manpower, taxes, trade power, goods, etc.) and is applied after all other modifiers (such as goods producer, etc.), at 0 / + 30% / + 60% / + 100% for each level of state infrastructure.
Development concentration is an interesting mechanic, but Centralise State and stacking manufactories are useless. Because:
1. Government Reform Progress is too valuable to spend on Centralise State and stacking manufactories.
2. government capacity is important only in the first hundred years of the game, the penalties are more than covered by the income from the conquered territories (penalties for exceeding must be increased at least twice).
Instead, for Playing-Tall, you could create a state infrastructure parameter from 0 to 3. With a cost of 20 Government Reform Progress increases and 10,000 / 25,000 / 50,000 gold per level.
At each level, giving 0 / -25% / - 50% / - 75% government capacity in the state, 0 / + 20% / + 40% / + 60% development efficiency in the state, and 0/0 / + 1 / + 2 additional manufactories of any type in the state, 0 / + 50% / + 100% / + 150% movement speed of the army in the state. You can also introduce a new modifier "infrastructure" that affects everything produced in the state (manpower, taxes, trade power, goods, etc.) and is applied after all other modifiers (such as goods producer, etc.), at 0 / + 30% / + 60% / + 100% for each level of state infrastructure.
That's sounds like a great idea for a "EU4 - the Director's cut" version.
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I truly believe that EU series will never again be what the original creators referred to as "the game we wanted to play". Except in some form of an underground edition circling among the precious few who appreciate the true art within it.
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STOP! COOKIE TIME