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Hello everyone, and welcome to this weeks development diary for EU4.

This week I want to talk about the loadingscreens of EU4. Our goal is to add to the pool of loadingscreens every time we do a major update, so that you have a large variety of cool pictures to view while the harddrive is booting up the game.

Each picture represents one country in the game, and we do not plan to have more than 1 loading screen for each nation. There is also one of the most iconic leaders of that nation on the picture, as well as a location which represents that nation.

And when making expansions, it is very much important that the country picked fits the theme for it.

Original Game
We shipped with 5 different loading screens, representing about half of the major powers of the era.
Sweden - Gustavus II Adolphus & Stockholm Archipelago
Spain - Isabella & Carribean Islands
England - Elizabeth I & Cliffs of Dover
France - Louis XIV France & French Farmlands
Ottomans - Suleiman the Magnificent & Haga Sophia

Conquest of Paradise
Iroqouis - Hiawatha & Niagara Falls

Wealth of Nations
Venice - Andrea Gritti & City of Venice

Res Publica
Netherlands - Maurice of Nassau & Windmills at Canals

Art of War
Russia - Catherine the Great & Siberia

El Dorado
Aztecs - Montezuma & Tenochtitlan

Common Sense
Austrai - Charles V & The Alps

And for our new 1.13 patch, we are adding a loading screen for Poland, with Jan Sobieski and the Jasna Gora Monastery!

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We still aim to have pictures for Portugal, Denmark & Prussia of the europeans majors, but it needs to fit thematically for the expansions. Not that I can think of any important Danish ruler through history.. pokes @Groogy :)
 
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Lostintheclouds said:
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Well there was no reluctance for Austria to join partition since they're the one who started it. In 1770 Spisz was taken alongside with Podhale(basically Nowy Sącz province in EU4) and it retain these provinces till it became formally part of Austria after accepting first partition by Sejm alongside with new land grab that they happily accepted. If it comes to Ottos, PLC in1676 ended war with Ottos and retook all of provinces except Podole(more or less EU4 province). After bleeding in next pointless war between Austria and them PLC got back only this provinces while Austria seized half of Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia and part of Serbia and Transylvania became let's say independent but actually Austrian subject so it was hardly fair deal. So it was only a matter of time when border tension will cause Austria to attack weakened PLC to take Spisz.
 
well as a romanian im pretty sure vlad the impaler with his castle is what will be chosen for my country lol
although this does raise a question ,will you guys have rulers for each "country" in eu4 or for each nation
e.g: will romania only get one or will there be 2-3 for wallachia,moldavia and maybe transylvania ?
also will colonial nations get their own screen too ? or maybe the strongest/significant ones like brazil,south africa,australia etc..
also what about the japanese daimyos?
 
Because we are on the topic of load screens. There is a typo in one of the hints. . .

"You cannot only fabricate claims on blah blah blah" should be "You can not only fabricate claims on blah blah blah"

Bugs me every time.
 
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Well, as we can't have a second French figure, could you add one for some weak frenchspeaking state? Savoy or Burgundy perhaps?
 
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Johan said:
Not that I can think of any important Danish ruler through history.. pokes @Groogy :)
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Dont you think that King Frederik 3 of Denmark, who lost Skåne, Bohuslän, Blekinge and Haland to Sweden in The Treaty of Roskilde 1658 is important ;)


Personaly I would go for King Christian 7 of Denmark who fought against both the mighty english fleet (Battle of Copenhagen 1801) and Napoleon (The BBB) 1803-1815 how cool is that!?
 
Johan said:
And for our new 1.13 patch, we are adding a loading screen for Poland, with Jan Sobieski and the Jasna Gora Monastery!
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Not quite sure if intended, but for those who are more familiar with polish history Sobieski and Jasna Gora together seem ironic. Jasna Gora, apart from being religious center of Poland is mostly famous from a highly mitologicalized in Poland siege (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jasna_Góra) during Swedish Deluge. And at this Deluge Sobieski temporarely joined Swedish armies against Poland (not an uncommon thing that time, but still)
So you are showing a king and simultaneously showing a symbol of the only war where he "betrayed" his country :)
 
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Johan said:
blasphemy!

loadinscreens are cool!
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We now need Matt Smith in his Doctor costume to make a video of that to really convince people.

ppigor said:
Loading screens are not the most important elements of the game.
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They are, however, the second most important element.

OzzyK said:
We can mothball forts, navies, when can we mothball armies?
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How do you mothball an army? Isn't that basically disbanding?
 
Sousuke123 said:
Well there was no reluctance for Austria to join partition since they're the one who started it. In 1770 Spisz was taken alongside with Podhale(basically Nowy Sącz province in EU4) and it retain these provinces till it became formally part of Austria after accepting first partition by Sejm alongside with new land grab that they happily accepted. If it comes to Ottos, PLC in1676 ended war with Ottos and retook all of provinces except Podole(more or less EU4 province). After bleeding in next pointless war between Austria and them PLC got back only this provinces while Austria seized half of Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia and part of Serbia and Transylvania became let's say independent but actually Austrian subject so it was hardly fair deal. So it was only a matter of time when border tension will cause Austria to attack weakened PLC to take Spisz.
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I think (emphasis in think) that is incorrect (again please correct me if I'm wrong), PLC was having some internal troubles due to her attempts at internal reform at the time and Russia intervened with troops on the side of the anti-refomers as she saw this against her interests. The Ottomans worried that this would strengthen Russia's hands far too much and hopin for a chance to reclaim some territory while the Russian's were distracted declared war were losing quite badly. Everyone was now worried that Russia would gain too much both with a Polish puppet and now Ottoman terriories, Austria gave the Ottoman's loans and was going to intervene militarily on their behalf. France would now have 2 allies (Austria & the Ottomans at war with Russia) and expected she too may need to get involved but she was recovering from her intervention in the War of American Independence and so she made a proposal. Russia would not take anything from the Ottomans, but rather from Poland for the balance of power (as you pointed out previously) Prussia would get parts of Poland mainly what would become Royal Prussia and in return give up Silesia to Austria. Prussia rejected that and modified it that Austria, Russia & her get some land from Poland with Austria getting the most since she had experienced that most loss of territory in recent years, and lobbied Catherine for support, she agreed. Politically yes the leading force in Austria at the time was very much against it but there were supporters for it. Only after it became evident it was going to happen anyway did Austria agree to the partition. By reluctant I was referring to political reluctance to the deal. When the deal was done, I concede to you that Austria was quite land grabby. From what I can find only Szepes county (Wikipedia) was occupied in 1769 prior to the official partition, again Austria should've paid back to Poland (preferably the reformers so they could have more funds in dealing with the Russians & the conservative allied parties) and taken it and been done. Underhanded yes but again its not actually territory of poland, it's collateral; it would've been returned it's just a matter of how and when. From what I can find (Wikipedia) Poland contributed btw 15-20,000 troops to the Battle of Vienna around the same 17,000 troops that Austria put forth to assist the PLC during the deluge. Austria had claim/rights to Hungary and Croatia in their capacity as Kings of Hungary and Croatia (most likely the parts of Bosnia and Serbia gotten back were parts of Hungary and Croatia prior to the Ottoman invasion) Poland only got Podole because that's what she occupied along with parts of Moldovia I think, she probably had rights to Moldovian territories too and should have pressed for it (probably did) the fact she didn't get them more in the treaty of Karlowitz is unfair but I don't think we can say that's Austria's fault (I hope i'm not jumping to conclusions here but it sounds like that's what your implying, sorry if I am) PLC probably should've gotten some compensation in Moldovia but as well but diplomatically it didn't turn out that way; it doesn't seem that PLC was that interested in gaining more and from what I can find on the terms of the treaty she was more interested in peace and no more Tartar raids (terms stipulated an indefinite peace between the PLC and Ottomans with no more tartar raids I think) the PLC went for and got what she could control. But in the interest of discussion could you suggest what she may have asked for if you were a diplomat at the table? Thanks for an interesting discussion so far.
 
I hope that Kangxi emperor is added, maybe a picture of a Manchu banner over the great wall in the background.

Shivaji Bhonsle would work for an indian expansion. Have him with a blade, armor on in front of a jungle with a Mughal fortress on a hill in the background
 
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