EU4 - Development Diary - 21st of April 2020

[John the John]

Who'd want to go revolutionary if it means getting an ugly flag like that.

That's what the royalists during the french revolution said too.

 

[klingonadmiral]

Probably because thats also the Hungarian tricolour, which originates earlier and has been and is used much more than the British one.

Currently in the game:

• Austria, Hamburg, Denmark and Poland use the same tricolor
• Aztec/Matlatzinca/Teotitlan, Italy/Sicily and Persia use the some tricolor
• Milan and Lithuania use the same tricolor

So I really do not see your point

 

[grommile]

Currently in the game:

• Austria, Hamburg, Denmark and Poland use the same tricolor
• Aztec/Matlatzinca/Teotitlan, Italy/Sicily and Persia use the some tricolor
• Milan and Lithuania use the same tricolor

So I really do not see your point

"Awkward situation already exists" is not a justification for "make the awkwardness worse".

(See also, why all requests for England to use the St. George's Cross flag are ignored.)

 

[Vaximillian]

Yep, a filler diary again alright. The expansion is still very far away from completion, as it shows.

This has now been the 53rd dev diary on Emperor alone, it's been going on since 18th December 2018, pleaaaase pleaaaase just give us a release date T-T I can't take it much longer. Q.Q

Every time someone asks for the release date, it gets pushed back two weeks.

 

[Ursul]

@Groogy Since we are on the topic of flags, did you increase the number of symbols and color for the customised flags? Or at least made it possible for modders to add new pattern files? It's kind of annoying that we are stuck with such a limited number of possibilities without even the possibility to change it via mod.

 

[Republic of Mercury]

Yep, a filler diary again alright. The expansion is still very far away from completion, as it shows.


Every time someone asks for the release date, it gets pushed back two weeks.

Yeah, but if we push it back far enough it overflows and comes out on the first of January, 1970.

 

[klingonadmiral]

"Awkward situation already exists" is not a justification for "make the awkwardness worse".

To be fair, in the current version of the game there can't be more than one Revolutionary Republic at the same time, so flag dupes are less of a problem. I will admit that.

Still, the UKs current tricolor (red-blue-white) is unique and looks better than the monstrosity in the DD. Purple more than any other color is considered the badge of nobility in Europe, so no republican worth his salt would propose to put it on the flag.

 

[Caligula Caesar]

I see quite a few people have wondered about the British revolutionary flag. So we went through a lot of revolutionary flags and changed them for this update, in the case of the British one it looked very much like the French revolutionary flag (and the Russian flag) in a way that seemed very un-fitting for the UK. So we Content Designers sought a better one, and landed on the Suffragette flag. Admittedly it is not quite the right time period, but it is fitting both for the ideals it embodies and for it being different to other nearby countries that are likely to become revolutionary.

 

[Gaming Master Anthony]

Ok, what's the synthetic culture, and where is it in the culturetab for the nation designer

 

[Straigthtsilver]

Bless, with all the mods that allowed you to select your sprite graphics now out of date, this is exactly what I needed to get back into EUIV!

 

[Refumee]

Groogy, I guess we need also Bear Unit Models for Jan Mayen then it would be bearfect.

 

[Tempscire]

Elite Revolutionary Guard Training

• +2.5% Revolutionary Guard Discipline
• +100% Revolutionary Guard Maintenance
• -10% Special Units Force Limit

Professional Revolutionary Guard Training

• -25% Revolutionary Guard Regiment Drill Loss
• +50% Revolutionary Guard Maintenance

Mass Revolutionary Guard Training

• +50% Revolutionary Guard Regiment Drill Loss
• +10% Special Units Force Limit

Vanguard Revolutionary Guard Training

• -10% Shock Damage Received
• -10% Fire Damage Received
• +50% Revolutionary Guard Maintenance

Are Drill Loss bonuses capped in 1.30 or can you stack -100% drill loss and always stay at 100 drill?

It would be nice if something similar would be available for all regiments extending the State Firearm Regiments/ Standardized Uniforms decisions, giving the option to invest some ducats in your army quality.

I also concur that the first one looks somewhat weak.

 

[Vollwertkost]

I see quite a few people have wondered about the British revolutionary flag. So we went through a lot of revolutionary flags and changed them for this update, in the case of the British one it looked very much like the French revolutionary flag (and the Russian flag) in a way that seemed very un-fitting for the UK. So we Content Designers sought a better one, and landed on the Suffragette flag. Admittedly it is not quite the right time period, but it is fitting both for the ideals it embodies and for it being different to other nearby countries that are likely to become revolutionary.

Pretty cool idea actually, thanks for the context!

 

[korawit13]

@Groogy, how about the Austrian, the HRE members? Did they get the unique military units? If not, I fear that Revolutionary France will storm roll the whole HRE. In the game, HRE is really fracture.

 

[IndigoRage]

They're not bad, as long as they're one of the predefined ones. The random ones can get really disgusting color combinations.

Sometimes they're amazing though like blue/white/yellow for Poland (Duchy of Warsaw soldiers in the Napoleonic Army used this as their main uniform colors)

 

[antonkaiser16]

is a idea and mission change for the nations byzantium, trebizond and theodoro possible for the future?

 

[Monalba]

Purple more than any other color is considered the badge of nobility in Europe, so no republican worth his salt would propose to put it on the flag.

Well, it was in the past, but by the time the revolutions were firing up in the XIX century... not so much.
Spain's republican flag was red, yellow and purple.

 

[EquilinT]

Groogy, I guess we need also Bear Unit Models for Jan Mayen then it would be bearfect.

I second this! The change that really matters!

 

[IndigoRage]

I see quite a few people have wondered about the British revolutionary flag. So we went through a lot of revolutionary flags and changed them for this update, in the case of the British one it looked very much like the French revolutionary flag (and the Russian flag) in a way that seemed very un-fitting for the UK. So we Content Designers sought a better one, and landed on the Suffragette flag. Admittedly it is not quite the right time period, but it is fitting both for the ideals it embodies and for it being different to other nearby countries that are likely to become revolutionary.

I actually like this one, since it actually goes together well and has a nice presentation at all. Not like the ones with BROWN etc in them that we often to get. I'm just wondering why no country is able to get a horizontal tricolor? Is this a design limitation? Also will it ever be possible for a country to keep their tricolor or get a new one when they form a new nation?

 

[IndigoRage]

so no republican worth his salt would propose to put it on the flag.

If only there was some country we literally go out of the way to call Republican "X" when mentioning that had purple on their tricolor.