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Welcome to another development diary about Europa Universalis. Now we are very close to the announcement of the new expansion that we aim to release in June... If Frö smiles upon us....

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We have switched around what we will talk about in the development diaries for now, so today we’ll instead talk about Peace!

But first of all, lets talk about a feature that is something that some have requested..

Return Province!
Sometimes you have taken a province that is the core of a rival, or someone who do not want to buy the province, or even talk to you as you are so evil.. Not that we would ever be warmongering-alliance-breaking-world-conquerers..


Now you can just return the province to any state that has it as a core. You will lose some Agressive Expansion and prestige, but it will definitely reduce the chance of them attacking you in the short-term.


Peace Overhaul

This is obviously something that is in the accomanying patch.

First of all, we removed the treaty called annex.




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Well, instead we are now able to target every province an enemy own, so taking all provinces is an annexation.

You will also always be able to demand the capital in a peace treaty, and you also do not need to occupy territory to demand it in peace, however unoccupied territory is more expensive to claim.

Revoking cores will no longer cost diplomatic power.

Diplomatic Power Cost, War Score Costs and Prestige gain for each province now scale with the province’s development, instead of being fixed costs.

Overextension and Agressive Expansion also looks at development instead of base tax.

And finally, you’ll be able to demand gold even while “annexing”.

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Taking provinces without claims or occupation will probably net you massive AE.

If England lost Normandy, get Normandy back, then proceed to fabricate claims from there and go with the original plan? There's no reason not to have claims on atleast some French stuff if you're planning to go with klingonadmiral's idea.
 
Is now fabricating a claim on the enemy's capital possible?
 
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Been waiting to annex capitals from the get go since EU2!
 
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Curious that the price of Paris is only 50% higher then Orleanais or Champagne, I would expect only the base tax (development) to be 50% higher, and I would hope that the capital-cost-increase would be at least 50% that as well.
 
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I think we could be seeing a HRE/ PU mechanic in this do to the fact Charles is the loading screen.
 
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Well, instead we are now able to target every province an enemy own, so taking all provinces is an annexation.

Will it be possible to select "all provinces" with one button click? Because it would be
exhausting to click every province when you want to annex in lategame. Not a major issue though.
 
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You will also always be able to demand the capital in a peace treaty, and you also do not need to occupy territory to demand it in peace, however unoccupied territory is more expensive to claim.

What is the modifier for demanding unoccupied territory (if it is already set)?
 
you also do not need to occupy territory to demand it in peace, however unoccupied territory is more expensive to claim.
How does this interact with your own cores, which you could already claim without occupying? Are unoccupied cores cheaper than unoccupied non-cores?
 
Just add this guy to the loading screen already
 
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I realise it is probably to late for this now but I've always wondered why taking provinces in a rational regional way does not give a slight discount or some other benefit to make it more appealing than "cut enemy into 6 pieces separated by your land".* Or taking one colonial region rather than a province or two in each so you can start invading all of them on day 1 of your next war? The changes to peace deals reminded me so thought I would throw it out there.

Also, great news about release in June. Which June? :p

Ps. Loads of nice other changes although I was filled into thinking there would be details of what to do during peace, by the start.

*suggested things for discount would be provinces of same culture, region, multiple adjacent provinces owned or requested, etc. Reduction could be in war score or AE.
 
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It wouldn't be that easy, because unoccupied provinces will be more expensive

First war - take a province in Brazil so you have a foothold

Second war - start the war with a huge army parked in your Brazilian province

Result: Brazil is yours without ever having to take on the Portuguese navy.
 
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They're making this extra sweet to fill the HOI4 hole I'm sure. :)
 
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Will provinces you have a claim on still be DIP free? If it scales with base tax no matter what, it would be quite DIP intensive for let's say Muscovy to gobble up a fully claimed Novgorod.