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Hello everyone and welcome to another development diary about Europa Universalis. This time we have a feature for Common Sens, that is so large that it is spread over two weeks of development diaries. It is how we interact with your subject states.

In the subjects overview screen, there is now an additional button where you can open up an interaction menu with all your subjects.

Today we’ll talk about the tools you have regarding vassals, marches and lesser union partners.

Placate Local Rulers
This can be done on both vassals and marches, and lets you pay prestige (if you have positive prestige), to reduce the liberty desire of that subject by 10%.

Embargo Rivals
This is a toggle you can put on any subject. If it is on they will embargo all your rivals as quickly as their diplomats can travel. However, this increases their liberty desire by 5% while active.

Place Relative on Throne
This can only be done on vassals, and only when they have a regency. You can replace the regency with a ruler from your own dynasty.

Enforce Religion
This can only be done on vassals, unions and marches. This is possible if the subject is in your religious group, have less than 50% of Liberty Desire, and you have positive relations. Of course, this increases Liberty Desire by 50%, so its something you have to evaluate when it is desirable to do.

Scutage
This is a toggle that can be set to on or off on a vassal. When it is on, they will not be called into wars, unless declared war upon. However, they will provide 50% more of its income to you.

Subsidize Armies
This is a toggle in marches, where if on, you will send up to 10% of your manpower to them each month, to fill up their manpower pool.

Fortify March
This allows you to build or upgrade a fort in a march, where you as overlord fronts the build costs.

Enforce Culture
This is the option if you got some diplomatic power to burn. You can swap the primary culture of a lesser union partner to your culture for a power cost, but this is only doable if they are below 50% liberty desire and it will increase it by 50% as well.

Siphon Income
Unions usually do not provide money to their overlord, but history is full of rulers who took from one part of their realm to provide for another. This action lets you take 50% of a lesser union partners yearly income if you have positive relations. It will increase liberty desire by 10% but also reduce relations rather dramatically.

Support Loyalists
Unions don’t have any local ruler that needs to be placated, so instead you have a toggle where you spend 10% of their monthly income each month, while reducing liberty desire by 20% as long as its active.

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Next week we’ll talk about protectorates, trade companies and colonial nations, and their unique actions.
 
so, judging from the screenshot, the toggles for PUs are, from left to right:
Embargo Rivals
Enforce Religion
Enforce Culture
Siphon Income
Support Loyalists

for vassals, however, i can decipher:
Placate Local Rulers
Embargo Rivals
a sword and flag icon - a slightly counter-intuitive choice for Place Relative on Throne perhaps?
Enforce Religion
Scutage
however no buttons for turning vassals into marches, releasing etc. perhaps adding buttons for these actions would prove convenient for players? (although it would take from the esthetic choice of having five buttons per subject type.)

also, yay, it seems colonial nations, protectorates and trade companies will also be able to embargo rivals!
 
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Nobody at works gets why i'm so happy right now

Same sorta thing happened to me
I was grinning in English class when I looked at my phone and I almost got caught by the teacher but praise Johan that I didnt
THANKS PARADOX
 
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for vassals, however, i can decipher:
Placate Local Rulers
Embargo Rivals
a sword and flag icon - a slightly counter-intuitive choice for Place Relative on Throne perhaps?
Enforce Religion
Scutage

Given that the flag is the Liberty desire icon, I'd guess Sword & Flag is Placate Local Rulers, and Heart & Crown is Place Relative on Throne.
 
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Hainaut appears like it should be incorporated into Burgundy proper in 1444 or a union directly under Holland or something. According to Wikipedia:

After the death of Duke William II of Bavaria-Straubing in 1417, Hainaut was inherited by his daughter Jacqueline (Jacoba), who in 1432 had to cede the county together with Holland to Duke Philip the Good from the House of Valois-Burgundy. The last independent countess died early on 8 October 1436 (presumably of tuberculosis) in Teylingen Castle, near The Hague (where she is buried), her estates were incorporated into the Burgundian Netherlands.
 
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I wonder if there will be a place relative on throne for rotw since we can't get PUs?
Relations boost still works but don't think inherit does(possible vassals are or will be an exception) so yeah it will be pretty limited.
You should still make the Subjects overview screen taller, now even less subjects will fit and require more scrolling.
That is a subscreen so the current one will be the same as always. And no they should make it so that it scales not that it is taller, not everyone has a big screen.
 
Hainaut appears like it should be incorporated into Burgundy proper in 1444 or a union directly under Holland or something. According to Wikipedia:

After the death of Duke William II of Bavaria-Straubing in 1417, Hainaut was inherited by his daughter Jacqueline (Jacoba), who in 1432 had to cede the county together with Holland to Duke Philip the Good from the House of Valois-Burgundy. The last independent countess died early on 8 October 1436 (presumably of tuberculosis) in Teylingen Castle, near The Hague (where she is buried), her estates were incorporated into the Burgundian Netherlands.
It depends: Either directly controled by Burgundy (current setup), or part of Holland's territories while Holland is a PU under Burgundy (which it is at the moment).
 
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Question regarding "Place relative on Throne". Say I have France as vassal as England and I put a Lancaster on throne while they have a regency for a Vallois heir. Will they keep the Vallois heir (similarly to the "Marie de Medici" event in Women in History) until that heir dies or become king again, or will they also get a Lancaster heir.

Also I've just realized another use for this button is that since it removes the regency, it can be used to give better stats (if the regency has bad stats, or you want to delay the rule of a terrible heir) and better legitimacy to your vassal. However I'm not seeing any drawback to it, which is weird. The advantages are small, but why would I ever want to not push this button if I can push it?
 
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Marches will be more useful because they are uncapped in development.

The +50% liberty desire isn't that big a deal as long as you pair those buttons with liberty desire reductions, such as throwing some Prestige at the problem, especially if their LD was low to begin with (probably the only circumstance you'd use this).

I think the AI will get more practical use out of Subsidize Armies than the player will. A player is generally superior at managing militaries, but AIs are effectively equivalent with each other.

Actually, playing a March yourself might be pretty fun. You'll be your AI overlord's wrecking ball. Having them sometimes be able to subsidize your manpower is pretty sweet. Plus, they can't integrate you and you can grow unfettered.

...whoa. That's sounding better the more I think about it.
How exactly can you grow unfettered? AI decides if you get to actually receive any lands.
 
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Any chance we could pick idea groups for vassal/marches (of course only once they have a free slot)? Now THAT would be amazing.

It would basically allow you to customize your vassals in the best way to support your empire, while also making integrating them a much more strategic decision, because the vassal you'll get to replace this one may already have picked ideas which may not help you much at all.

Examples are giving vassals next to different religious groups and giving them religions ideas.

Giving vassals next to uncolonized lands, Expansion ideas

Focusing Marches on military

Basically I think it would make me keep vassals around a lot longer.
 
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So if I kindly 'ask' my vassal to change their religion, will it possibly change the way they select their ideas ? At the very least, if they are scripted to take religious ideas, will they take them earlier to facilitate conversion ?
 
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So if I kindly 'ask' my vassal to change their religion, will it possibly change the way they select their ideas ? At the very least, if they are scripted to take religious ideas, will they take them earlier to facilitate conversion ?
I'm gonna assume that nope.
 
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