EU4 - Development Diary - 2nd of October 2018

[Lehnaru]

Please not Iberia yet, Bulgaria and Greece are even uglier now

 

[Mingmung]

Please not Iberia yet, Bulgaria and Greece are even uglier now

All in due time.

 

[Isco]

In terms of provinces Iberia was in need the most in Europe, together with Greece and Bulgaria. Given there are anti blob mechanics now, balancing the ottomans is not an obstacle to add some provinces in the area.

About Iberia I hope for a granadian "purple phoenix", a rework on colonization and making conquistadors useful.

 

[cristofolmc]

After seeing the amount of flavour and good quality features on Dharma and Poland patch, we're in for a dissapointment. Because despite the good ideas on the suggestion forums, we know that devs don't give an ass rat about it. A few new missions, maybe a new tag, new provinces, ONE event, ideas bufff, an inquisition or "idalgo" estate, and a couple of buttons to get a boost on colonization and religion.

10 euros.

 

[Nyrael]

We don't need Iberia patch. Iberia is already loaded with many provinces!
What we need more now is a Balkan update. The map is a mess there.

I'm a Croat and I'd like to see an overhaul in the Balkans, but...
Iberia desperately needs an overhaul. Right now, it looks like something better fit for a museum.

 

[klingonadmiral]

Ugh, Iberia.

Time to drop EU4 for a year or two it seems.

 

[TheDungen]

Ugh, Iberia.

Time to drop EU4 for a year or two it seems.

I understand the feeling I dropped it for 6 months after RB.

 

[Nyrael]

I would ask for my saves back. Who releases two save breaking patches in less than two months?

As I remember, this update does not break saves from the last version.

 

[Steel_atlas]

I'm a Croat and I'd like to see an overhaul in the Balkans, but...
Iberia desperately needs an overhaul. Right now, it looks like something better fit for a museum.

In the eu4 timeframe Spain and Portugal were imo the two most impactful countries in the world.

I hope for improvements to colonization and improvements to event based mechanics, Spain is far to reliant on rnjesus to become a great power especially for the nation that is supposed to keep the ottomans and France in check

 

[NaiveCarto]

As a Chinese, I hope me or anyone else could give PDS a good suggestion to overhaul China and in this year....

It looks like....
Bohemia and Moravia, and might HRE should get more love from EU4.....

 

[ezepaez85]

Universal monarchy is a concept, not an actual government. Unless you are referring to something else than Charles V dream of a European-spanning Catholic Empire?

In contemporary sources, it was standard to refer to the polity ruled from Madrid as the Universal Monarchy ('monarquía universal'). On the one hand, of course, this term had an ideological connotation, legitimising Spanish Habsburg rule around the globe. It did not refer, however, to Charles' particular dream, since it was in use long after his death, when the monarchs in Madrid had no special claim to the HRE throne.

On the other hand (the one I'm interested in), the needs to govern such a vast territory resulted in a very peculiar system of government:, namely the 'polysynodal system', or 'system of many councils':

- It was usual for the monarch to delegate day-to-day affairs to powerful 'validos', effectively prime ministers;

- The Castille heartland was governed directly by the monarch/valido via de Council of Castille;

- Each of the other territories (Crown of Aragon, Portugal, Italy, the Netherlands and the New World and Asian Colonies) had their own viceroy plus a Council of their own in Madrid.

It is kind of a very integrated personal union. If UM is the polysynodal system, it may give Spain the unique mechanic of 'viceroyalty': old world vassals that function similar to colonies. So you can opt not to integrate them as cores, expand very rapidly, in exchange for less gold and manpower and having to deal with their liberty desires (which is exactly what happened). Aesthetically, they would appear in the map in a colour similar to the motherland, just as colonies do.

 

[Slayen]

Paradox teases/anounces the region of focus for next DLC/Patch.

Roughly half the forum - "Yay, X is finally getting love."

Roughly the other half - "BOO, region Y should be the one getting love."

And thus the cycle continues.......


For the record I'm fine with Iberia getting some attention. I'd suspect that, outside the peninsula itself, Morocco, France, Sardinia, Naples, Sicily, and maybe the Lowlands are likely areas to get some attention.

 

[DominusNovus]

@DDRJake

There are some good suggestions in here, I really hope you mine us for them. I’d like to add two, myself:

- Allow us more flexibility with the Iberian Wedding and/or union with Portugal. It would be interesting to play a game where Castille and Portugal united instead of Castille and Aragon. In addition, ways for Portugal to form Spain diplomatically would be nice (maybe even a different flag? Nah, thats a bridge too far, isn’t it?).
- Flavor regarding the School of Salamanca, particularly for players that take Humanist. There’s a good online course regarding it that is running at the moment (link is on wikipedia).

 

[FreyrDS]

Does Iberia really need an overhaul? Seems one of the more fleshed out regions in the game imo

 

[TheDungen]

As I remember, this update does not break saves from the last version.

It did for me, big time, I got an error messege when trying to load it.

In the eu4 timeframe Spain and Portugal were imo the two most impactful countries in the world.

I hope for improvements to colonization and improvements to event based mechanics, Spain is far to reliant on rnjesus to become a great power especially for the nation that is supposed to keep the ottomans and France in check

Spain was, Portugal was for the time it existed but it is unlikely it could have kept on being as impactful seeing how much of it's population it colonial effort was eating up. In game, where Portugal does not fall under a PU under Spain it keeps on like it's 1444 for ever. It's essentially the antibrittain. Portugal never declines and Britain never has to work for getting it's success three centuries early.

Paradox teases/anounces the region of focus for next DLC/Patch.

Roughly half the forum - "Yay, X is finally getting love."

Roughly the other half - "BOO, region Y should be the one getting love."

And thus the cycle continues.......


For the record I'm fine with Iberia getting some attention. I'd suspect that, outside the peninsula itself, Morocco, France, Sardinia, Naples, Sicily, and maybe the Lowlands are likely areas to get some attention.

Quarters there is also a quarter whining about last patch and a quarter actually producing ideas.

 

[klingonadmiral]

As a Chinese, I hope me or anyone else could give PDS a good suggestion to overhaul China and in this year....
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It looks like....
Bohemia and Moravia, and might HRE should get more love from EU4.....

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Seriously, there is currently no region in Eurasia that is as flat-out wrong as is Indonesia, followed (with some distance) by SEA (you know your province setup is bad when it was inspired by the current political boundaries in the region).

 

[TheDungen]

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Seriously, there is currently no region in Eurasia that is as flat-out wrong as is Indonesia, followed (with some distance) by SEA (you know your province setup is bad when it was inspired by the current political boundaries in the region).

Not to mention they still use the same tech group and units as china and japan.

 

[Atalvyr]

They could potentially tie in some improvements to Italy/North Africa as well, like what they did with the low countries in RB. It would make sense as these regions typically see constant Iberian meddling.

 

[RaccoonCity]

I think this is the happiest day of my life. I'm gonna sell my house and buy 50.000 copies of this DLC.

 

[Slayen]

Quarters there is also a quarter whining about last patch and a quarter actually producing ideas.

I find those groups tend to not be seperate, but more mixed in with the other two groups. Those that only bitch or make suggestions probably are more 10-to-15% combined.

This is of course a conclusion derived from very rigorous analysis.


Or me just pulling number out of thin air/mine arse. One of the two.

More on topic, strange as it may be, the thing I'm most looking forward to are the new units. Granada and Navarre are both lacking, IIRC.

I know, we barely even really look at them, but I don't care. I've been know to play/not-play a nation just because of their unit models. And i'm well aware I'm in a very, VERY, small minority when it comes to such behavior.