For me it's the Diplo macrobuilder, when I got Mandate of Heaven it changed how I play (less clicking on nations to see if I can ally them).
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What is one feature you think should be free?
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Things that directly influence monarch points, like being able to set your national focus and promoting advisors.
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Anything that is an integral part of gameplay and that has been there for a long time. That means almost anything except random world/new world, nation builder and artwork.
With an option to turn off the most unrealistic things, like monuments in a few years.
With an option to turn off the most unrealistic things, like monuments in a few years.
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Also it would be cool if Paradox paid us money every time we played EU 4.
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I’m talking about integrating old expansions to the base game, instead of having a gazillion expansions. Its a suggestion which amounts to make (core) expansions early access packs.
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Retinues.
Oh wait, this isn't Crusader Kings 2.
To me, the biggest reason for a feature to be part of the base-game is so that future mechanics can interact with it. For example, development and estates.
By that logic, the first thing that comes to mind is ruler personalities and the consort mechanics. Except that, not only is this not Crusader Kings 2, it's not any of the other Crusader Kings games either.
So therefore... Trading companies, I guess.
Oh wait, this isn't Crusader Kings 2.
To me, the biggest reason for a feature to be part of the base-game is so that future mechanics can interact with it. For example, development and estates.
By that logic, the first thing that comes to mind is ruler personalities and the consort mechanics. Except that, not only is this not Crusader Kings 2, it's not any of the other Crusader Kings games either.
So therefore... Trading companies, I guess.
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So basically just screw all the players who bought and own those old packs and make them free to everyone? Doesn't seem fair to me. Yeah maybe 1 or 2 super old packs that are cheap already eg Res Publica and Wealth of Nations but not the full blown expansions that people bought.
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I can't imagine feeling screwed over because something I bought 5 years ago becomes free.
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More like the people who bought them recently. If PDX just out of the blue made them free it would screw over so many people.
Also, packs that are super old, for example Conquest of Paradise, have recently received new updates to them, fleshing them out more, and in turn made more people buy them. So that wouldn't be a super friendly move to make those free either. I think the current situation is fine, the subscription system works for new players so I don't really see a massive need to incorporate DLC into the base game. Maybe once, or maybe IF, EU5 releases, then they can, but looking at CK2 that seems unlikely.
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The idea is not to do it out of the blue, but to do it gradually. It could even give them some metric about how the experiment goes. Let’s say they announce that, in six months, any expansion released before 2019 will be free, will that stall the sales or will it be mostly the same?
Will the expectation that more recent releases will one day be free make people not buy them or will they still buy the “early access”?
As a proud owner of every EUIV expansions, including Golden Century, all the way to Emperor, I wouldn’t feel robbed at all if they became free after a reasonable warning.
Will the expectation that more recent releases will one day be free make people not buy them or will they still buy the “early access”?
As a proud owner of every EUIV expansions, including Golden Century, all the way to Emperor, I wouldn’t feel robbed at all if they became free after a reasonable warning.
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How much time to make the expansion free after buying it do you feel would be acceptable if they ever tried this way?
One year seems to be too little. Though if they were to announce today that in six months they would be free, it Wouk’s be one year and a half.
Personally, I don’t feel like I would be robbed, even though I bought those expansions on release date. Maybe it’s different for everyone. To me buying those expansions was more a way yo support the company than something else. There were times when I played far less EUIV between expansions.
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This has already been added to the base game a few years ago
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I think it would be fair, when they release EUV.
I could agree that they could make some features available for everyone, if they were to get overhauled or improved. Maybe replaced with something else, like they did with development and estates.
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The transfer occupation feature from Art of War was integrated into the base game as part of 1.28.1.
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Oh, cool. Good to know. I can just remember how awful it was not being able to occupy land that your ally wanted and simply transfer it over. Glad they addressed that.
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