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DDRJake

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Hello everybody. When rounding off last week's Dev Diary, I was planning on bringing up a certain mechanic which has everyone who has touched it dazzled and not wanting to ever be without it. Something about Diplos and building with macros, I forget. Those who have been poking around the store page and done some leg work have been speculating over it.

In view of that and how I do love to read speculation, I will let you stew over what it could be for a couple weeks and instead take this week's Dev Diary talk about the first of our religion overhauls: Confucianism

It's high time Confucian got the spotlight. It's been a troubled child of religions in EU4, existing almost exclusively in China and Korea without its own mechanics. For owners of Mandate of Heaven though, that changes with the introduction of Confucian Harmony.

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Confucian nations will have a value for the Harmony in their nation. As it grows, so too does their tolerance of the True Faith. By default, it grows by one every year, faster if they keep stability high and complete Humanism Ideas. Low Harmony will reduce tolerance of the True Faith as well as causing higher costs in development and hurting Meritocracy.

So keeping your nation's Harmony high will ensure good times for your nation, but there is a choice to be made. Converting provinces in your realm will cause Harmony to fall, scaling on the development of the province you convert, so at least in the short term, wiping out heathens may cause rough times for your nation.

For Confucian Nations though, they have the unique ability to Harmonize with other religions and religious groups. While Tengri nations have the ability to instantly Synchronize with one other faith, Confucian nations can gradually adopt and mesh with many religious. For Heretics, they can choose to gradually Harmonize with that religion, treating it as the True Faith. For Heathens, this process applies to that religious group.

Harmonizing with a religion is a process taken in the religious tab. A religion or group to Harmonize with is selected and the process of adapting with their beliefs will begin. This process will cost 3 Harmony per year, so more stable empires will have an easier time adopting new faiths, and will tick up a progress bar from 0 to 100 by 3 per year. Harmonizing is a long process punctuated with events, but the end result will be a religion or religious group that is treated as True-Faith for your nation for the rest of the game (Assuming you yourself remain Confucian)

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Each Harmonized religion also gives a nation-wide bonus for 25 years

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My totally Legit Korea in the above screenshot will now enjoy +2 tolerance of the True Faith for 25 years. Some of the other religious bonuses include:

Muslim: +10% Trade efficiency
Shinto: +10% Infantry Combat Ability
Jewish : +33% institution Spread

We'll leave the others for you to explore, and next week we'll discuss another religious mechanic added in Mandate of Heaven
 
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You teeeeaaassssseeee!

Yes

Next one is Shinto?

Who's to say?

Sweet. A religion where "convert ALL the things!" isn't the be all and end all is very welcome.
Hmm.. it seems like this is forcing me to tolerate other people's believes... But I really like to paint maps, and who can resist that beautiful shade of white to be all over the map?
Still though, some confucian love, I like it.

Indeed, Confucian nations have the choice between the old fire and sword method and their new Harmonization. You may, for example, look to remove the pagans from your land but harmonize with Theravadan to make expansion into South East Asia all that smoother.

What is this Yin Yang button next to the Harmony bar?

That is the button to toggle between converting provinces and Harmonizing with religions.

I believe there will be an achievement to harmonize all religions in the next patch.

Achievements for new mechanics, genius! "As Korea, Harmonize Zorastrian by 1450".

The post states that we harmonize with religious groups- all Muslims get Harmonized simultaneously, as I assume is also the case for Pagans.

Indeed, you harmonize by religious groups, so Christian, Pagan, Muslim, Dharmic.... The exception is for the Easten Religious group, which Confucian is part of, those are harmonized individually (Theravadan, Shinto, Mayahana, Vajrayana)

How much is this "Harmonization" mechanic compatible with One Faith Achievement?

One Faith means One. Syncretics and Harmonizers need not apply.

So we can harmonise with multiple religions at the same time? This could make Confucian my favourite religion!

You can be harmonized with multiple religions and groups at once. You undertake the Harmonization one at a time, mind, but over the course of the game it may even be possible to catch them all.
 
Cheers for the DD DDRJake :D

I smile when I read this. Someday I hope to acquire a title like "Deplorable Dictator" so you can say "cheers for the DD DD DDRJake"

@DDRJake

Quick question: After forming Qing as one of the Manchu tribes, will the Tengri be harmonized automatically since the true faith now is the Confucianism?

Thx a lot

As Trin said, yes, forming Qing will make the Pagan group Harmonized for you, so not to ravage your nation with religious disunity.

Can I translate that DD into Polish?

We encourage it!
 
Then I wonder why Wiz had large scale tengri revolts after forming Qing in the dev MP.

Because MP is played with the in-development build. ;)
Bugs are abound and not all features are even in for many sessions.

Kilwa had the joy of playing two sessions with a permanently bugged disaster modifier of -25% manpower for instance.