Holy mother of awesome. Just what I've wanted! AI finally smarter than a rock!
Or, than a lump of metal XD
Europa Universalis IV: Developer diary 43 - Artificially Improved
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Or, than a lump of metal XD
Cascading aliances were never real problem, unless you were not prepared for them.
So...if I'm reading this properly...you can never have more vassals than your total number of diplomats? Or do you just need a diplomat to set up the initial vassalage? (The French Empire of the early 19th century had TONS of vassals.)
They were seriously immersion breaking for some of us though. I just hope that the AI dont autocall all their allies when there is zero net help to be gotten. A landlocked Muscovy being called to help Castille conquer Fez sort of play.
France starts off with a ton of vassals in 1444, so yes, A vassal stays a vassal. But there is a diplomatic limit to how much alliances/Royal marriages/Vassals...all the semi permanent diplomatic relations with other countries. If you go over the limit (displayed in the adviser tab by hovering over the diplomatic points) you loose 1 diplomatic power per month per treaty over the limit. Same as if you have more military leaders than your limit (most starts with 1) you pay military points every month.
Sounds like that could be a major asset in early England play. France is stuck with a bunch of weakass 1 prov vassals while England can get actual useful allies to balance out the stronger french start.
Diplomats and Diplomatic Upkeep are different things. The first is mainly used for short stuff (in time) like arranging RMs, alliances, peace treaties, etc. And upkeep is 'used' when you have RMs, alliances, vassals, etc.
I'm very glad to see this dev diary. It addresses all the issue and concerns I had previously when Wiz was posting about improved AI. I do kinda wish that there where a few more settings in the list for how aggressive the AI is, but this is fine. Just one last question, will there be tooltips on the menus that explain exactly what each setting is and does to help new players out?
I would like to know more about lucky nations, what are the advantages given to them? If I remember correctly, in EU3 the lucky nations were given fixed bonuses right? Like less inflation, more manpower etc...
Wouldn't it be better if they were actually given just luck? You know, increased chance of getting good monarchs, skilled leaders, positive random events, decreased chance of negative random events and stuff like that... Instead of a fixed modifier.
And here's an idea for a future patch: give the player the option to choose which 8 nations to be lucky, would be a nice little feature.
Wouldn't it be better if they were actually given just luck? You know, increased chance of getting good monarchs, skilled leaders, positive random events, decreased chance of negative random events and stuff like that... Instead of a fixed modifier.
And here's an idea for a future patch: give the player the option to choose which 8 nations to be lucky, would be a nice little feature.
I really hope that the algorithms for AI concession acceptance are good, or even better if they're modable. If it's set so the AI always turns down offers of provinces which neighbour none of its own, are not colonies, and aren't of the AI's culture or cores, that would help so much keeping borders prettier. And more importantly (to me) prevent the all too common occurrence of continental European powers getting random coastal provinces in England or Scandinavia. It would save me a lot of hassle trying to 'fix' borders, if the game itself could be made so gaining overseas/distant provinces that aren't colonies requires exceptional circumstances (like inheritances, invasions, basically stuff that doesn't grab single coastal provinces just cuss the AI algorithm tells it said province is worth a lot of gold and stuff).
Sounds great. The coalition system sounds especially nice as it should at least slow player's expansion. I wonder if the coalitions will stay intact even if you don't wage wars for long periods of time but are still powerful enough to conquer most countries? I usually stopped playing EU3 games (or switched to different country) when I had a large empire which none of AI countries could realistically challenge.
Loving the changes, especially the AI province priority. Hopefully this'll also stop French Kosovo and Castillian Smyrna.
Yeah, if you let AE go down coalitions formed against you will break up eventually (the time it takes depends on how much AE you got in the first place).
Hunter Killer armies look amazing, as well as the attachment of smaller armies to larger.
Yep.
All variables involved are moddable (though modders can't add new ones, but you can tweak stuff like how likely the AI is to prefer border provinces, how much it will factor in overextension, how far away it will take provinces etc). Attitudes are also fully moddable, as well as a lot of diplomatic and economic variables.