Welcome back to our weekly series of development diaries about Europa Universalis. This time we’ll talk about four new features that will be part of the next expansion.

Free Cities of the Holy Roman Empire
Now the Emperor can designate up to seven free cities in the empire. A free city is a one province minor with a minimum of 10 development.

Free cities provide Imperial Authority to the emperor, as well as manpower and income. A Free City also have some rather nice bonuses to their development.

If a Free City gains another province or leave the HRE. they lose the free city status. And a Free City is always a type of Republic, so countries that aren't a Republic will become one upon accepting Free City status.

A Free City is always protected by the Emperor if attacked, so be careful when expanding in the HRE. A Free City can never be the subject of another nation.

Of course, as the ruler of a OPM, you can always refuse the offer of becoming a free city, and the emperor can spend some Imperial Authority to revoke a cities rights.

Remove Electorate
The next expansion lets you get even more control over your electors. If your religion is now official in the Empire, you can now spend IA to remove the Electorate status of your disloyal Electors.

Pause Westernisation
Sometimes while you are westernising, you end up where you need to use your power for something else, like boosting stability, but currently you can’t. Now we have added the option to pause westernisation. You’ll still get the unrest from westernising, but there will be no events spawning while westernisation is paused. Most importantly though is the fact that your power is accumulating again instead of contributing to the westernisation process.

Retire Advisor
Have you ever sat there with a lot of money, but cursing the options you for advisors. In the next expansion, you can now spend the amount of money it would cost to hire an advisor, and permanently retire him. Within a month, if there is available space in your pool of advisors, you will get a random new one in the same category. Maybe you get the +discipline one you wanted..


Next week we’ll focus on Luther and Buddha.

 

[WeissRaben]

They're PU minors now, not vassals (excluding Nevers, which is a vassal). Also, Holland owning Breda was changed again, it's now owned by Brabant, as you can see in the OP screenshot in this thread.

As it was pointed out, though, most of those lands should be neither PU nor vassals, as they had been conquered or bought by Burgundy directly. I can't remember the exact conclusion, but - IIRC - Burgundy should start with everything but Flanders and Nevers.

 

[SchwarzerKaiser]

As it was pointed out, though, most of those lands should be neither PU nor vassals, as they had been conquered or bought by Burgundy directly. I can't remember the exact conclusion, but - IIRC - Burgundy should start with everything but Flanders and Nevers.

It's not like I disagree, but I'd just wait for Paradox's explanation for that change, maybe it had some gameplay reasons. We just know too little about the motives to come to definite conclusions on what would be the best way to represent that area in the current state of the game, all we know is that it did change.

 

[bisthebis]

In every shown screenshot of Burgundy, it loses many DIP due to massive upkeep

 

[zerosius]

It's not like I disagree, but I'd just wait for Paradox's explanation for that change, maybe it had some gameplay reasons. We just know too little about the motives to come to definite conclusions on what would be the best way to represent that area in the current state of the game, all we know is that it did change.

I am also interested in how this would work at all...
With the changes to liberty desire the vassals/PU´s would most certanly be strong enough to rebel against their burgundian overlord?!

 

[SchwarzerKaiser]

I am also interested in how this would work at all...
With the changes to liberty desire the vassals/PU´s would most certanly be strong enough to rebel against their burgundian overlord?!

Liberty desire is not the problem because PUs don't add up to the relative power of all vassals modifier. If all of them were just vassals, it would be quite different.

 

[zerosius]

Liberty desire is not the problem because PUs don't add up to the relative power of all vassals modifier. If all of them were just vassals, it would be quite different.

Oh i didn´t know that!
Thank you for the clarfification

 

[blackchoas]

For people who argue about the Ahistorical nature of burgundy having PUs over all these parts instead of just owning them I would counter that the way Burgundy isn't a member of the HRE is kind of ahistorical in a way too, because while the duchy of Burgundy is part of France making the Duke of Burgundy a french subject he also is duke of Holland and Brabant and thus is a prince of the HRE and a subject of the emperor

neither of these facts show up in the game at all and if anything this change makes it so if France declares on him for the Low Countries, he should pull in the HRE as well since France will have to declare on one of the vassals which are members of the HRE

 

[Golladan]

I see now, I didn't notice it in the screenshot. Ahistorical though. Look at any HRE map and you'll see why. Regensburg (I assume that's the province in Bavaria with no name) should be independent and a Free Imperial City, and the rest should be split into Bavaria-Munich and Bavaria-Landshut (the latter including Ingolstadt).

I agree that Bavaria is not represented historically, but Paradox often does this in order to preserve their "balance" among the big 8 nations.

 

[Montem]

Imperial city make HRE Emperor even stronger...wont occupy dip relation

After DD4 & DD5, I think Government Rank should influence dip relation

Here is my suggest:
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...vernment-rank-can-modify-dip-relation.852939/

Love this idea. Saw the suggestions and really support it. I'd like to see Government Ranks have a little more impact than we've been told so far.

 

[Demetrios]

As it was pointed out, though, most of those lands should be neither PU nor vassals, as they had been conquered or bought by Burgundy directly. I can't remember the exact conclusion, but - IIRC - Burgundy should start with everything but Flanders and Nevers.

Historically, Nevers is correct as a vassal. Flanders (with Artois and Franche-Comte) and Brabant (with Limburg) could, reasonably, be PUs. Luxembourg, Namur, and Picardy should definitely be conquered territory and thus directly owned by Burgundy. Hainaut-Holland (as one unit) is in a gray area - conquered although Burgundy did have a fairly good claim (although they should have waited until the countess they kicked out actually died!).

I've spelled out the situation fully in other posts in other DD and map threads, but that's the gist of it.

 

[TheDungen]

And that's very unplausible. Those Swedish ships would get sunk by Danish forts instantly. Besides, Denmark had one of the largest fleets in Europe until the very end of the game, something which is very untrue for Sweden.

Again not talking about history, I'm talking about what happenes most of the time IN GAME!

 

[TheDungen]

There is a comic about Jesus and Buddha sharing an apartment trying to adjust to modern life

Gief links gief gief

 

[kerannymi]

Gief links gief gief

This one?

 

[TheDungen]

Indeed. Until England stole our fleet we had one of the largest navies in Europe; it was the second largest when the Brits stole it as far as I remember. And the reason they stole it was that they were afraid of it; afraid in the sense that they feared that if we joined Napoleon our fleet combined with the French one would sink the Royal Navy.
And every time Sweden engaged the Danish navy it had its navy sunk.

I worked 5 years in the swedish national maritime museum and the last statement simply isnt true. Yes denmark ha generally come out better in the naval portion of the wars than sweden but there are plenty of swedish victories too. The thing is about the time sweden actually get a real navy of their own their main enemy has already switched from denmark to russia. After the naval reforms of Gustav III I doubt that denmark could have taken on sweden navy wise. af Chapman was basically buildin gships of the line on an assembly line.

 

[TheDungen]

This one?

Oh manga... I'm not a big fan.

 

[WeissRaben]

Historically, Nevers is correct as a vassal. Flanders (with Artois and Franche-Comte) and Brabant (with Limburg) could, reasonably, be PUs. Luxembourg, Namur, and Picardy should definitely be conquered territory and thus directly owned by Burgundy. Hainaut-Holland (as one unit) is in a gray area - conquered although Burgundy did have a fairly good claim (although they should have waited until the countess they kicked out actually died!).

I've spelled out the situation fully in other posts in other DD and map threads, but that's the gist of it.

Whoops. Sorry. I meant "Burgundy should own directly everything, excluding Nevers and Flanders". I reread it now, and it really is quite ambiguous. My apologies.

It's not like I disagree, but I'd just wait for Paradox's explanation for that change, maybe it had some gameplay reasons. We just know too little about the motives to come to definite conclusions on what would be the best way to represent that area in the current state of the game, all we know is that it did change.

Honestly, I think the reason is "Oh no! Burgundy sometimes beats France! History is in danger! To the Nerf Bat!".

 

[Sir Aidence]

Ooo... New religion mechanics? YES! I see there is a new icon in the HRE page for electors; a most welcomed change. Also, can't wait to play as a Free Imperial City.

 

[SchwarzerKaiser]

Honestly, I think the reason is "Oh no! Burgundy sometimes beats France! History is in danger! To the Nerf Bat!".

I still have faith in Paradox after they fixed Memel.

 

[chrnno]

Honestly, I think the reason is "Oh no! Burgundy sometimes beats France! History is in danger! To the Nerf Bat!".

Considering France's vassals were a benefit early on to it due to fielding more troops than it could were removed(well some of them) and now Burgundy gets that benefit it looks to be the opposite. Especially since as they are PUs LD isn't a concern.

 

[SchwarzerKaiser]

Considering France's vassals were a benefit early on to it due to fielding more troops than it could were removed(well some of them) and now Burgundy gets that benefit it looks to be the opposite. Especially since as they are PUs LD isn't a concern.

Unlike vassals, PUs don't add to forcelimit, however. So Burgundy won't get a large army, they're stuck with a small forcelimit.
Unless this will be changed in the patch. Which I don't think will happen.