HOI4 - Development Diary - 26th Of August 2016

[Adonnus]

I agree, and fully intend to improve this in the future.

I hope you'll also try to find a way to make it so the AI will land on either side of the port as well as on the port itself, otherwise I as a player can just keep a couple of garrisons there and never worry about losing it.

 

[Typical Wookie]

Theoretical states are always interesting, and who knows, I’ve heard a rumor that Texas really wants to secede from the Union...

As a life long Texan I naturally approve!
Be sure you have the correct name!
'The Republic of Texas'

 

[pithorr]

I saw you mention dtate changes in eastern Europe, here is my personal wishlist!

Include Vilnius as a properly shaped Lithuania core in Polish hands. Have the Polish Focus that invites Lithuania also transfer Vilnius to them if they accept.

I'd rather like to see the Great Lithuania as the common Lithuanian-Polish-Belarusian peaceful enterprise, quite unlike what happened IRL
It would have also solved the "Belarusian problem"...

 

[zillamaster55]

they are on our future list (which is pretty long). Fleshing out the game with more releasable nations is a long term goal. We plan to add more with big patches and expansions ongoing.

Hopefully we get some steppe love. We need more Horse L-- i mean uh....Horse...Communists

 

[potski]

Another thing that should be corrected: Portugal leader, Salazar, appears as a non-aligned. Historically, he wasn't aligned, but he was fascist. He made an agreement with Hitler, where he would sell Tungsten for Germany, in exchange of not getting invaded by Germany.

Actually, there was a 600 year Anglo-Portugal Alliance, and Salazar agreed with the UK government that he would remain neutral, which was a strategic decision to reduce the chance of Spain joining the Axis, and avoid any risk to Portugal's colonies, which it didn't have the means to adequately defend.

Salazar later made an agreement with the Allies to allow them to use the Azores as a military base. Fascist or not (and most opinion is that he wasn't), he made sure he didn't align with the Fascist faction, he hated German Nazism, and was one of the very few leaders in 1939 who believed that Germany would be defeated.

And he sold Tungsten to both Axis and Allied countries.

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[Katarian]

Will there be Catalonia?
Will there be states releasable from France?
Will Cornwall be a country?

They're on the list for the future, but they won't be in this patch.

Tag switching and formable countries is more complicated, so I can't give you a definitive answer on that now. It would be cool (particularly for modders), but it's a challenge that would be a significant chunk of work, and we have other priorities for this patch and immediately after.

I hope you aren't serious about Cornwall. England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland would be just about acceptable if you think the British isles needs to be able to be broken up, but Cornwall? May as well go the whole hog and add in every British county, Norfolk, Suffolk, Northumberland, Kent, etc... and then every corresponding equivalent in every country in the game and end up with tens of thousands of pointless releasable "countries".

 

[Tuskin38]

Theoretical states are always interesting, and who knows, I’ve heard a rumor that Texas really wants to secede from the Union...

Oh boy

 

[s_team337]

I hope you aren't serious about Cornwall. England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland would be just about acceptable if you think the British isles needs to be able to be broken up, but Cornwall? May as well go the whole hog and add in every British county, Norfolk, Suffolk, Northumberland, Kent, etc... and then every corresponding equivalent in every country in the game and end up with tens of thousands of pointless releasable "countries".

It's not much of a British Empire if they only own Cornwall.
Edit: Also, The Free American Empire with a Hawaiian Capital also isn't much of an American Empire Either, or a Russian Empire in one state in Siberia.

 

[Had a dad]

We have betas that sometimes help out beyond testing! Particular thanks to @DanubianCossak for a lot of the work on the new releasable nations!

he wants his cookies back, but sorry I already ate them...

 

[DanubianCossak]

he wants his cookies back, but sorry I already ate them...

Damn you. Damned you all to hell. You people.

Moderators.

You.

 

[safe-keeper]

So we can play as a kinder, gentler Nazi Germany and liberate countries as we cover them, instead of... well, doing what they did historically? Nice.

 

[that-guy-is-it]

All I want is to be able to liberate the African workers from their Imperialist Oppressors, and give them the glory of socialism. Is that too much to ask (long term, I mean? Libya is there all alone, are the rest of the African Nations planned?) Also, being able to annex puppets at the cost of World Tension would be nice too.

 

[s_team337]

Also, being able to annex puppets at the cost of World Tension would be nice too.

That would be great. I'd also like to make cores as well.

 

[Jokolytic]

So we can play as a kinder, gentler Nazi Germany and liberate countries as we cover them, instead of... well, doing what they did historically? Nice.

You should stop getting your historical info from Hollywood and Wikipedia.

 

[SensitiveDannyBoi]

I am going to call these micro diaries- vague, short, repetitive, and unsatisfying. Creating releasable countries, with the generic focus tree, is not a multi day accomplishment. Its like the "sailors" feature in Eu4 where it was already in the defines waiting to be activated. Its such a tiny amount of work to put in. Week after week after week these micro diaries are not getting any better.

 

[ascii]

I am going to call these micro diaries- vague, short, repetitive, and unsatisfying. Creating releasable countries, with the generic focus tree, is not a multi day accomplishment. Its like the "sailors" feature in Eu4 where it was already in the defines waiting to be activated. Its such a tiny amount of work to put in. Week after week after week these micro diaries are not getting any better.

Since you are so good, could you please make us a grand strategy WW2 game. I mean since its so easy and all.

 

[safe-keeper]

You should stop getting your historical info from Hollywood and Wikipedia.

I wish I could reply, but I would get infractions for talking about forbidden topics, so I'll just let this lie.

 

[SensitiveDannyBoi]

Since you are so good, could you please make us a grand strategy WW2 game. I mean since its so easy and all.

So if I go out to eat, and my food is stale, cold, and tastes bad, then I shouldn't say anything because only a professional cook can have an opinion?

 

[safe-keeper]

I am going to call these micro diaries- vague, short, repetitive, and unsatisfying. Creating releasable countries, with the generic focus tree, is not a multi day accomplishment. Its like the "sailors" feature in Eu4 where it was already in the defines waiting to be activated. Its such a tiny amount of work to put in. Week after week after week these micro diaries are not getting any better.

They're apparently playing catch-up and waiting for people to retun from vacation and whatnot. But yes, the DDs have been pretty short latelly. I didn't mind the latest one, but as I've said before, I would greatly appreciate a more detailed road map soon.

 

[ascii]

So if I go out to eat, and my food is stale, cold, and tastes bad, then I shouldn't say anything because only a professional cook can have an opinion?

you're the one that said it's just a tiny amount of work. I mean to know its only a tiny amount you must be an amazing programmer that can do so much better.