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EU4 - Development Diary - 11th of September 2018

Good morning and welcome to the first Post-Dharma dev diary. Dharma was released last week and by most measures was an extremely successful release for us. That said, we have a tradition of post release support for our games and expansions, that's what I'm here to talk about today.

Firstly, While Dharma had very few critical bugs on release, there are still issues out there that merit a hotfix. For us, a hotfix is a swift patch on a released product, aimed to fix two particular types of issues: Ones which disrupt the game/its features in a big way, typically crashes, freezes or features breaking in peculiar ways, or small yet high-impact issues which are quick to fix and test on our end.

We are building a hotfix as we speak, and a preliminary list of fixes we are going to be patching are as follows:

  • Fix crash when supporting heir with negative chance
  • Fixed a peace treaty crash for players continuing their 1.25 saves
  • Fixed Trade Company Investments being lost on tag switch
  • Fixed Trade company Crash
  • Fixed Crash when stopping Area Rebel suppression
  • Revolutionary governments now lose their number of reforms as if they switched via reform
  • Mewar achievement script issue fixed (should be visible if you've formed another nation)
  • Fixes theocracies and hordes not getting aristocratic ideas
  • Fixed rulers swapping religions back and fourth in certain cases
  • Fixed Achievements not being available for released nations
  • Stopped tight-fisted AI chartering provinces for 0 ducats
  • Adopt Islamic government no longe ravailable to Indian Sultanates
More fixes may be added to this list as we continue to monitor bug reports that are coming in. Our plan is to release this hotfix as a beta at some point this week, and fold that beta into the main game after a few days, assuming no other serious issues pop up.

There are certainly other issues which I'm certain people are keen to see addressed. For those, we are beginning work on the main post-release Update, 1.27. Let's talk about that now.

Post release updates come after a big expansion, are free and targeted at a region, much like the 1.24 Japan update. We add some flavour to the target region. It also allows us to round up on a lot of the bugs which come in, both for the recently released expansion and some of the older backlog of issues. They sometimes go hand in hand with other things, and that will be the case, as with 1.27, EU4 will also be joining the ranks of our other games in becoming fully GDPR compliant. More details on this will be released closer to the time, but the result for most users will just wind up being a policy to read before playing the game.

Religious conversion in territories has been a hot topic since its changes were announced for and subsequently released in 1.26. The response on it on all platforms (and I've read almost all of them) has lead to some interesting conversations about that whats and whys of religious conversion and some cool ideas on what do do about it. I'm not quite naive enough to overlook how they were overall negatively received, and we want to address these grievances. In the short term, we're going to look at bringing Religious and Humanist more in line with each other as viable choices for your nation for 1.27. We have longer term ideas for conversions, but we'll talk more about that down the line after 1.27.

So yes, Hotfix this week, 1.27 coming soon. Religious conversions responses not falling on deaf ears. Now how about the target for 1.27? Well, over the past year we've put a lot of work into the "Rest of the World" With focus on Japan, The Far East, The Near East and now India.

I'd say it's high time we put the Europa

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Back in Europa Universalis
 
It can't be... glorious Polska!!

Edit: I guess this is as good a time as any to show my idea for a province reform in Poland based on historical borders with a few gameplay compromises here and there lol

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Historical borders? Where's Lubusz land then? Although the province of Sternberg already roughly covers what used to be Lubusz land before Germans conquered it in the XIII century so I guess it's fine.
 
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Paradox logic: call "Mostly Negative" an extremely successful release.
Also keep in mind that many of the truly problematic changes are tied to the accompanying PATCH, NOT the DLC itself. I've personally refunded Dharma simply because I dislike 1.26 so much, but would gladly consider buying it back if some tweaks were made to 1.26 that made the changes a bit less invasive on players' choices and made the game feel more like a pain in the arse than fun; this is subjective of course, but I think many players feel the same.

Question of my own though for @DDRJake

Will the curious situation regarding starting Estate allocation be looked at a little bit? In the few campaigns I tried out, one of the truly annoying things was that many of the lands that Estates had a hold of made little to no sense whatsoever for them to have possession of. Burghers owning random trashy land with no trade value, Nobility owning provinces with 1 Manpower, etc. Most campaigns, you're forced to revoke all the lands and re-assign them to appropriate Estates, and the result is a rather unfortunate hamper on your campaign from day 1. Of course, Estates had questionable land before 1.26, but the penalty is so much more unforgiving. I feel that giving the player this choice of lands they can have right from the get-go would be best, but that's just me.

Also, thank you for your clarification regarding Paradox's stance on the changes. Hopefully Paradox and the community can work together to find alternatives and renegotiation for some of the changes made in 1.26.
 
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Yeah, Poland. Because the Balkans, Italy, Spain, North Africa are completely developed and unlike Poland, don't need an update.
Dude, Poland is surrounded by refreshed countries, Ottoman ? checked. Bohemia? Checked. Denmark? Checked. Hungary? Checked. Have I to tell about Russia ? Only Teutonic isn't on the list but it's falling country in 1444.
And unlike Spain Poland has terrible missions and got 0 minor(or any) changes after res publica (well there was nerf to lithuanian development but i don't count it ), while Spain is still top tier if we say about number of events, i'm sure it'll get something really big, like full "CATHOLIC DLC" or "COLONIAL DLC" or own immersion pack, not free patch, and italy will be renewed together with HRE.
 
Dude, Poland is surrounded by refreshed countries, Ottoman ? checked. Bohemia? Checked. Denmark? Checked. Hungary? Checked. Have I to tell about Russia ? Only Teutonic isn't on the list but it's falling country in 1444.
And unlike Spain Poland has terrible missions and got 0 minor(or any) changes after res publica (well there was nerf to lithuanian development but i don't count it ), while Spain is still top tier if we say about number of events, i'm sure it'll get something really big, like full "CATHOLIC DLC" or "COLONIAL DLC" or own immersion pack, not free patch, and italy will be renewed together with HRE.
I fully agree with you, but the Ottoman Balkans are not as beautiful as Ottoman Anatolia.:p

So, yeah, the Balkans, HRE and Iberia are all viable candidates for the upcoming DLC-patches. Poland deserves this attention, though.
 
I don't know if this has been addressed before, but is anything about the now playable Cossack nation ideas going to change? Because getting random ideas and not being able to get the event for new ones when forming a nation is kind of deterrend
 
Can you guys please make Sikh and Zoroastrian interesting . i was hoping cradle of civilization would enhance Zoroastrian. And this dlc i has hoping for Sikh. I mean its just so weak compared to hindu and Islamic religions. their not even anything interesting to it, i mean they have one unique reform but that's not much.
 
Nice to see Poland getting a rework. Those provinces always felt so weird compared to the much smaller German provinces.
 
Very happy to hear that corruption and religion changes are being looked at.
That being said I went back to 1.25.1 and I'll be staying there for now.
 
In the short term, we're going to look at bringing Religious and Humanist more in line with each other as viable choices for your nation for 1.27. We have longer term ideas for conversions, but we'll talk more about that down the line after 1.27.

Pleasantly surprised! Missionaries as a whole is a sort of relic from older eu-games I guess.