Patch 1.9 - New Achievements

[Witto]

Those are fantastic!
Nice job, like always to be honest

 

[iShurik]

Disasters system.... But I can't wait a full week for the new infos Is it at least possible for you to tell us, how many mini dev diaries we have to expect?

 

[spinoza013]

Can we have a better zone of control and attrition system? And get rid of desert warfare in Roma ;p

 

[LordofWarN02]

Nagpur conquers all Germany is really impossible. 0_0

 

[Nils_A]

I wonder how many did get the joke abaout the Caucasian Iberians:}

 

[_megafone_]

Old saves will get the achievements? Like, if I have an old save with Ethiopia and own all needed provinces, or whatever, do I get the achievement?

 

[wairai]

Just recently played Malacca games and forming Malaya....time to restart again :/

 

[unmerged(652342)]

Raja of the Rajput Reich
Conquer all of Germany as Nagaur.

:rofl: At last German Reich will be truly arian!

 

[Erilaq]

Of course, get a good Theodoro campaign up and running and BOOM, new achievements. Guess I may as well head west in the hopes that it will give me the achievement. I can dream right?

 

[checro]

Croatia ironman and a weird achievement!!!

Others are pretty nice too

 

[DDRJake]

Old saves will get the achievements? Like, if I have an old save with Ethiopia and own all needed provinces, or whatever, do I get the achievement?

No. A game started before the achievement is patched into the game will not get it even if it fulfills the criteria.

 

[Ultrix Prime]

:rofl: At last German Reich will be truly arian!

They should give Nagaur its own ideas if it's going to have an achievement. Shared NIs just seem a bit saddening. Every country should have its own and different NIs with events. Small countries that do so are kind of "new and shiny" when I play them as compared to the ones that don't.

 

[Ultrix Prime]

But it makes perfect sense.

This will also make it close to impossible to form various alliances now such that many smaller countries may well become mostly unplayable.


Alliances take the game more so out of the realm of luck and into the realm of skill. Further limiting alliance opportunities reduces not simply the playability of many smaller nations but potentially increases the luck factor ahead of skill.

The large countries already have enough advantages in the first place. Advantaging them further ahead of smaller nations is a bit depressing.

If they're going to remove guaranteeing for smaller nations, making big nations yet again more important and more playable in the game, there really should be something to compensate.

 

[zodium]

i want to do this with a single vassal owning the entire coastline around me

A Merchant Republic, of course.

 

[Anastasius.H]

The Sun Never Sets on the Indian Empire
Form Hindustan and own Cape, London, Hongkong and Ottawa.

So Hong Kong will be added in 1.9? hmy:

 

[ParadogsGamer]

island of georgia south atlantic.

Yup, it's the Solomon Islands: Wiki

 

[VampireBoot]

This will also make it close to impossible to form various alliances now such that many smaller countries may well become mostly unplayable.


Alliances take the game more so out of the realm of luck and into the realm of skill. Further limiting alliance opportunities reduces not simply the playability of many smaller nations but potentially increases the luck factor ahead of skill.

The large countries already have enough advantages in the first place. Advantaging them further ahead of smaller nations is a bit depressing.

If they're going to remove guaranteeing for smaller nations, making big nations yet again more important and more playable in the game, there really should be something to compensate.

It's just +10 opinion; hardly a game-breaking loss. It's silly to demand that every game mechanic change be perfectly compensated based on the original game balance, especially when the mechanic change makes sense and has such a small effect on the game.

 

[_megafone_]

No. A game started before the achievement is patched into the game will not get it even if it fulfills the criteria.

Thanks!

Really wanted to start playing an Ethiopia run but I guess I'll do something else while I wait.

 

[brovahkiin]

 

[Ultrix Prime]

It's just +10 opinion; hardly a game-breaking loss. It's silly to demand that every game mechanic change be perfectly compensated based on the original game balance, especially when the mechanic change makes sense and has such a small effect on the game.

First of all, it is likely a game breaking loss for some small countries.

Secondly I do not demand every game mechanic be perfectly compensated. Thus your second statement was silly to the point of being absurd on the face of it.

Thirdly, if you think a 10 point swing in potential dipllo relations with another country is a minor difference then I doubt you have played the game very much and to the degree that you have played much at all, you likely do not play particularly challenging nations.

Absolutely nothing in your comment addressed the key point that making guaranteeing a matter of size further advantages the larger nations - the ones that some if not many of us find uninteresting - certainly after >2000 hours of eu4 I know I do.

So, if you're going to respond at least make a cogent comment that is relevant. Nothing that you wrote was.

And yes, making big nations even more advantaged over smaller is something they should compensate for because if the game becomes only about the big easy to play nations, it will very quickly become rather bland and unentertaining to play when you are tired of the easy nations and want to play the small and interesting ones and find that it's almost impossible to survive with many more of them due to more changes disadvantaging them.

The good news is that now that someone showed me how to use the ignore list, I shall apply it a second time.