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EU4 - Development Diary - 2nd of October 2018

Good day all and welcome to today's Dev Diary for EU4. Yesterday we released the free 1.27 Poland Update, packed with free content, map changes, bugfixes and such. Today we're going to be talking about the release as well as our plans going forward.

Firstly, with the Poland Update, we have updated EU4 to be GDPR compatible. You may have noticed a Privacy Policy when you tried to launch the game for the first time after the update. As part of this, we also had to remove the old versions from Steam due to them not being GDPR compliant but fret not if you want to keep enjoying the golden oldies. This link contains everything you need to know to get your old version back.

Now the Poland Update has our players making wealth common and impaling left & right. We'll be keeping our eyes on any issues that are coming in from players. We already have a plan to release a prompt fix for any serious issued popping up including but not limited to:

  • Centenarian Venetian Doges.
  • Lithuanian infeasibility in forming PLC
  • Some users not being able to start the game due to missing dependencies
As well as any other serious issues which we see occurring for users in 1.27 Poland

But beyond Poland, what lies in store for EU4? Well, as I mentioned just after Dharma, we're now looking to put the Europa back into Europa Universalis. With extensive love poured into India, The Far East and the Near East, it's high time we brought some attention back to Mother Europe. Poland was a good start, but we'll be rolling up our sleeves and getting to work on an Immersion Pack for our next release. Where will we be focusing? Well, the Pet Shop Boys would be pleased, because we're going to Go West!


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Next week @neondt will do what he does best with the upcoming map changes in 1.28.
 
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As a Peruvian i want this patch to focus 90% on the European adventures of the Iberian countries, 9% on the Asian adventures and 1% on the Latin American ones. America needs its own expansion to flesh out the different sub continents. Within that 1% i would like the Viceroyalties and their evolution through time to be fixed, it should be a decision to split the Viceroyalites to create new ones, the trade routes changed, and i don't care about the development of local "american" cultures, everyone was American Spanish right up until independence, national cultures developed in the 200 years after, and in some countries, like mine, only consolidated in the last 30 years.
 
can we get a reworked trade system that will allow for non historical trade powers? ( example: making ALL trade flow to india and not to europe )

Not likely in EU4 because the way it is its tied into too many things that you would need to overhaul basically half of the game just to make it work. Maybe in EU5.
 
I just hope they remove the border gore with Labourd.

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I can live with Labourd, mainly since it add practical challenge vs. AI France and perhaps GB; but Canaries, Maderia, and Azores are darn annoying for re-reconquista and the generic mission (for age objective) to unify culture group. I am guessing they are in the Iberia region more due to the old distant overseas mechanic. The Canaries and Maderia are I believe geographically and geologically more in Africa... Azores is special.

Perhaps just an addition to all Iberian mission trees, somewhere far down the mission tree... complete unification of the culture giving claims on these islands, so if you miss them earlier, you can still get them without going through Morocco, no CBing, or waiting till imperialism (e.g. current game Aargon killed Castile just before I could, removing chance to get Canaries, which was my plan for then fabricating on Maderia, then Azores [as Granada/Andalusia]).
 
The cultures in EU4 are not based solely on the language, look at Germany, the pile of cultures that it has and they all speak German. The Valencian culture could be added perfectly with the intention of giving something more flavor.

What I would find interesting is that Spanish culture be added.
Something like the change of English culture to the American if the USA becomes independent.
Especially when one begins to integrate the Iberian kingdoms into a single kingdom (Spain), representing the intention of creating a common culture and identity, and turning into the original nation of that culture (because Castile is the original nation of Castilian culture), something like the Cosmopolitan culture of France.

And change the flag of Spain to that of the "cross of Burgundy" but the one that historically spans Spain (the thick cross), not the one that has burgundy (the thin cross).
 
I hope in the next expansion we would have the opportunity to pick flags and nation names, like making a PU of Norway and Denmark to "Denmark-Norway" or "Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth", imagine alt histories where Scotland is forming GBR and flag is inverted, or Russia having the Naval ensign (St.Andrew) as their national flag. It would even make sense to make decisions to change GBR to UK naming in the later game, or when forming a tag you would be able to pick the name out of a list. A new Chinese Empire that has new Dynasty would have its own name and flag too and so on. That would be part of an fantastic expansion that'll also cover up historical opportunities in Europe especially and also around the world.
 
If I Iberia finally get's some attention, will that mean that the gold mine there finally get's removed ?

Since in the real world, there is no gold mine in Iberia

Gold mines "just" in Portugal... and Viana do Castelo (in the northern Portugal) was ALWAYS known as a city of "gold artisians" and is (and always was) near to gold mines!
 

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I hope they boost Afonso V stats since he was way better monarch than reflected in game. (And worst as general, his son was the military genius...)

Also expecting lot of development improvement for Portugal, simply ridiculous as it is right now comparing with sweden denmark ireland or scotland
 
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I was hoping for an HRE dlc mostly focusing on Brandenburg, Prussia, Bavaria, and Austria but with overall improvements, but I like Iberia too as it's provinces seem quite big. @DDRJake something that bugs me is if you want to try and get modern Spanish borders than the Pyrenees mountains wasteland isn't colored in as Spanish which causes it to look incorrect and since I am a bit of a perfectionist those kinds of things bug me but that is more minor compared to Labourd being in the Iberia region as I know the culture there is a Spanish one but Spain never really owned it for very long so maybe add it to the France region?
 
Please remove events about Holland Indepence. They rise hundred times again and again. How many people live there in 1600s? Total Rebel Army 1 million. I think population is lower than rebels.
 
Finally!!! after so long. I hope they dont add more cultures in Spain, its fine as it is. Maybe add Galician, but thats it, cause all the cultures in Hispania (The romans called the territory Hispania, you will not disrespect their legacy by calling it Iberia.) in Eu4 exist to this day. Theres no need to add more. But they should fix the mission tree and fix the provinces and development of the region. And fix COLONISATION!!!
Maybe throw italy in this DLC/Patch/Immersion pack (whatever it would be), as a Latin patch. But whatever you do please dont add too much stuff into the americas. I prefer the americas to have their own patch where cultural groups can colonise a region which phase into the primary culture over time, melting pot mechanics, emmigration mechanics, perhaps even secularism, and national ideas for the colonial nations. And also adding colonial nations own culture, such peruvian, brazilian culture etc. Perhaps there should be different names for whatever culture dominates the region. idk i havent put enough thought into that but either way, keep the focus in Europe and colonisation mechanics. Perhaps give bonuses to Portugal and even more to Spain so they can have a head start to colonise their historical colonies without being 200 years into the game and still havent colonised peru yet. Give spain more events and the ability to choose whether to expel the jews and arabs or not (Melting pot mechanic hinted here). Maybe give us an event for Castilian Andalusian culture to appear, and no, this andalusian culture isnt a melting pot with arabs, it is the result of the castilians and the aragonese colonisers that settled in andalucia after the expulsion of arabs and jews which was the result of the birth of spanish nationalism hence the expulsions of moriscos (chrisitan arabs/berbers/moors), over time the climate and folk music along with the gyspies arriving and settling in southern spain, led to a melting pot between castilian, aragonese and roma gypsies that converted to catholicism hence the creation of flamenco etc. Just providing some background as most people mix this up with arabic andalusian which completely different to that of the andalusian we have now. Hopefully we get an update worthy as a successor to the polish update which i absolutely loved. Many of us have been waiting for this for so long, theres alot to fix and alot of people have addressed what needs to be fixed. I just hope it isnt like a patch that nerfs the Hispania region into oblivion.

Also...please fix the religious mechanic, how we gonna convert the philliphines if we have to state them yet expand into europe??? Atleast make it that completing religious ideas you can convert without creating cored states or ask the pope with papal influence permission to convert certain regions without coring stating them.
 
Will there be a Charles V event? It would require Spain and Austria to do everything right so it shouldn't be so common but it would work to give France a mid game opponent. The player can opt to keep the entity as one and have sluggish growth and cultural problems or separate Spain and Austria later.