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EU4 - Development Diary - 19th of January 2021

Hello and Welcome to another Europa Universalis IV development diary. 2020 was an interesting year to say the least, but now we are in 2021, and the Tinto team is now fully up to speed with working on the new expansion. Today we’ll focus on some new aspects related to Heirs, Regencies and Estates.

First of all, one change for heirs and their legitimacy is that it will start a fair bit lower on average, and slowly increase over time as the heir grows older. Having high prestige increases it faster. Please note that corruption in your court increases it, as there is nothing screaming legitimate future King as much as a few sacks of gold in your pocket.

Secondly, with this new expansion, we have removed the regency councils, and instead replaced them by Estate Regencies.

Instead, a Regent will be generated from your most powerful estate. This will further increase the power of that estate, which might also give you a specific benefit or not.

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Please note however that this does not replace consort regencies - consorts will still take priority over an estate-led regency

Thirdly, we are adding the option for extending a regency. Extending a regency reduces legitimacy by 10, and extends the current regency with another 5 years. Of course, the claim of the heir continues to increase. While a regency has some drawbacks, this can be very beneficial, if your heir is an imbecile, and your regency council is not entire incompetent.

Lest we forget, we have also changed so that you are no longer constantly losing legitimacy the longer you have a regency, but instead its an increase in stability cost.

We are also adding a fair bit more interesting events that occur when you are in a regency, all to add more interesting flavor to the experience, not to mention interesting situations.

As you may have noticed, this is one of the shorter development diaries, even if it gives you some new features, but next week, we’ll return to an interesting look at some more american nations and their content.
 
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We are also adding a fair bit more interesting events that occur when you are in a regency, all to add more interesting flavor to the experience, not to mention interesting situations.

Also, are these events universal or some of them are designed for specific nations (like Hungary with Hunyadi or Russia with Boris Godunov)?
 
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As you may have noticed, this is one of the shorter development diaries, even if it gives you some new features, but next week, we’ll return to an interesting look at some more american nations and their content.

Funnily enough, since I don't really care about NA Tribes all, this dev diary was definitely more interesting to me :)
 
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Looking at Austria has me salty Styria isn't emperor in 1444 again.

This is a neat change nontheless. Will these regents be unable to declare war as is the status quo currently?
 
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Please implement a basic dynastic element. I appreciate it's not CK2/3. But the entire period was filled with dynastic conflicts based on which children were married to whom.
 
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On a somewhat unrelated note: why aren't dev diaries sticky?
 
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Very cool changes to regencies! Cant wait to try them!

On other hand Johan, we cant expect any major feature reveal before the actual expansion reveal right?
 
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Are you still unable to declare war while in a regency council?
 
Did I understand this correctly? Corruption has now gained an upside? Finally, I knew corruption was the way to go!
Btw, interesting changes, I really like heirs/rulers/... getting a small update.

It already has, national unrest reduction and higher loyalty equilibrium with all estates.
 
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Will this somehow affect hordes?
Currently they just get a bad event and a random dude from another dynasty gets ruler, if the heir is too young.
It would be nice if the most powerful general becomes ruler instead or if they somehow can get a regency if prestige is high enough. I can’t imagine the dynasty of genghis khan or similar would just disappear considering many rulers tried to trace their descendency to him.
 
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@Johan Are there rare events where the Regent attempts to seize power and declare himself ruler?
I sure hope so. It’d also be great to have a regency-related disaster, maybe called Succession Crisis or something.
 
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And: Is the picture just for showing the new change, or is austria now starting with a 11 year regency council and 0 leg heir?

I just killed my ruler from console :)
 
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What about governments with factions?

I think the only monarchy with factions in vanilla is Celestial Empire if you don't own Mandate of Heaven, but this is relevant for mods as well.
 
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