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EU4 - Development Diary - 28th January 2016

Hello everyone, today we’ll start talking about 1.16 and what it will contain. The development team is busy working on 1.15.1 at the same time, which we hope is out ASAP.

One of the fun part of working on the Europa Universalis series over the last decade has been the constant evolvement of the map. Today we’re proud to announce some of the map changes for 1.16, with a quick look of Europe.

Ireland in Crusader Kings II is known as tutorial island, as an entire game in itself. In EU so far, ireland have not been properly represented, and more been shown as poor as it became after a long time of english rule. Now Ireland is richer in 1444, and not just a quick conquest for England within 5 years. Ireland also have 9 provinces, where it had five before, and several new interesting nations to play.


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We’ve also tweaked the map to better borders and provinces in Hungary, and I hope you’ll enjoy this setup.
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We also made a complete overhaul of how cultures work to remove the ties to language, and tie them more together to similar cultures, to create more historically plausible countries and relations.

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Now, for some community fun, try to find as many changes on the map compared to 1.15 in this screenshot and list below!

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Next week I’m back talking about a new concept that is getting in the game for 1.15, which can be seen in the topbar on these screenshoys.
 
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Still no Bosnian culture??? What the hell Paradox? There are two Scottish ones, Slovaks (which didn't have a nation state until the 20th century), split the Russians... Why?!?!?!?!
 
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Re: Ryazanian. This basically a culture that more or less coincides with people that speak southern Russian dialects.
Just as in other parts of the world the biggest (according to geography) dialect has given name to the entire culture. It's also the dialect that most ended up with in the conquered lands to the south and east which makes it more relevant than Smolenskian dialect in this era.

Buddy how about the Bosnian culture I have been lobbying for years? Half of these new cultures have less of a reason to be in game than Bosnians yet you keep delaying that...
 
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I think culture group assimilation would be a neat thing.
Britian rules over all the Irish for however many years.
Irish adopt British ways.
Irish culture joins British culture group.
 
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I think culture group assimilation would be a neat thing.
Britian rules over all the Irish for however many years.
Irish adopt British ways.
Irish culture joins British culture group.
Because of course, the Irish were an entirely enthusiastic and untroublesome constituent of the British population, well-respected by the British state and with no particular desire to seek independence from British rule.

... in another universe.
 
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You realize Hungarians and Romanians not only hate each other but are completely different right? It would be more accurate to make a Central European group consisting of Austrians, Hungarians, Czechs and Croatians as these people were under the same country for hundreds of years and developed their core Catholic and Central European culture together. Romanians are Eastern Orthodox, this makes zero sense.
Well it is true.but I assume they grouped them for gameplay reasons. Transylvanian culture was made just to stop the never ending discussion about who were majoritary" romanians,hungarians,saxons or szekelys.
So they needed to make somehow transylvanian be in the same group as hungarian and romanian.
Maybe sometimes they will make a permanent accepted culture and add transylvanian for Hungary ,Wallachia and Moldavia and then they can group them historically accurate.But that could require alot of work
 
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One thing I really would like to see back in the next patch is the ability to use special letters like ü,ö,ä etc.For obvious reasons the special scandinavian letters æ.ø.å are in the game :) But it looks a bit lame writing for example Burgerbewaffnung instead on Bürgerbewaffnung.I do of course know that it is just a matter of writing your changes into countries,but it is so much easier to write the changes wanted (with the approbiate letters) in the game itself.not least with the constant patching which is nice btw.
 
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One thing I really would like to see back in the next patch is the ability to use special letters like ü,ö,ä etc.For obvious reasons the special scandinavian letters æ.ø.å are in the game :) But it looks a bit lame writing for example Burgerbewaffnung instead on Bürgerbewaffnung.I do of course know that it is just a matter of writing your changes into countries,but it is so much easier to write the changes wanted (with the approbiate letters) in the game itself.not least with the constant patching which is nice btw.
The worst thing is that such characters were actually typable pre-1.12. Since that the ability to type them was inexplicably gone.
 
The worst thing is that such characters were actually typable pre-1.12. Since that the ability to type them was inexplicably gone.
I can type accented characters in EU4 just fine.

(Obligatory disclaimer: I'm running the game on Linux, not Windows.)
 
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One thing I really would like to see back in the next patch is the ability to use special letters like ü,ö,ä etc.For obvious reasons the special scandinavian letters æ.ø.å are in the game :) But it looks a bit lame writing for example Burgerbewaffnung instead on Bürgerbewaffnung.I do of course know that it is just a matter of writing your changes into countries,but it is so much easier to write the changes wanted (with the approbiate letters) in the game itself.not least with the constant patching which is nice btw.

I thought ö and ä are special Scandinavian letters...
 
Because of course, the Irish were an entirely enthusiastic and untroublesome constituent of the British population, well-respected by the British state and with no particular desire to seek independence from British rule.

... in another universe.

Actually, Ireland was a thoroughly integrated part of Great Britain for centuries, sectarian nationalist rebellions only started in the Victorian Era. The United Irishmen (who where the main rebel group prior to being crushed in the 1798 rebellion) were more about creating an Irish state modeled after the revolutionary republics in France and America, with Nationalism being a means to that end. The rebellions before that were over Irish nobles wanting the same privileges as their English and Scottish counterparts.
 
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I don't like that Welsh is under then British culture group they should stay with the Celtic group

If the Breton's are included in French Culture, there's no reason Welsh shouldn't be in the British group. Besides, really the "Celtic" group shouldn't have existed. You could reasonably put Irish and Highland Scots in one group. And the Welsh and Breton in another group. Irish and Welsh, not so much.
 
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yes and no ø.æ.å are mostly danish,norwegian,and south swedish the umlaut thing is as you would know mostly finnish,north-middle swedish etc.
I'm sorry but ø and æ is not used in southern Sweden. In Finland and Sweden we only use Å, Ä and Ö and the occasional ü for a few, few words.
 
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I know it's not big thing but since you get in with recreation of borders I have some complains. Hope you will consider it :D

Slavonia
Historical Croatian 'Kingdom of Slavonia' was consisted of today two parts, Slavonia and Srijem(Syrmia) and was situated between rivers of Sava, Drava and Danube.
So you should cut of part of Bacs.
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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Slavonia01.png



Bacs
It's land between two rivers of Danube and Tisa(Tisza), without Srijem(Syrmia).
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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...che_Landesaufnahme_Original_Map_1782-1785.jpg



Torontal and Temes
As you can see on picture below Temes(Temesvar) was historical province and it was huge. Western part of that province is called Banat and it's situaded east of river Tisa(Tisza). So it's better that in game province of Torontal should called Banat.

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Eyalet_of_temesvar1699.png

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vojvodina#/media/File:Vojvodina_municipalities_map.png



Somogy
I think it's simply wrong name. It's should be called Baranya(Baranja), a historical province of Hungary.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...che_Landesaufnahme_Original_Map_1782-1785.jpg

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/BARANYA.png


Thats all from me. Looking forward for your answer :D
P.S. Slovaks are Western Slavs :p
 
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