EUIV - Development Diary - 14th of January 2020

[Alfray Stryke]

How to make the entire playerbase hate a tag:

Step 1: add hostile core creation in its national ideas.

Hostile Core Creation cost is a modifier that shouldn’t exist.

 

[Groogy]

Good thing then that @neondt purged that modifier from wherever he could find it then

 

[Alfray Stryke]

What's the problem with it? It dissuades foreign countries from attempting to take provinces.

Because it doesn't do much, but is just annoying.

Does the AI really look at the core costs when conquering things?

Yup, one of the main things it does it make the AI reevaluate conquering land.

 

[Meka66]

@Meka66 Groogy said to @ you for this:

When the knights form Jerusalem, they lose monastic order reform and get Crusader State. But by doing this they will also lose the t5 reforms that are exclusive to monastic orders like lord of the sea. Is it possible to change it so forming jerusalem as the knights lets you keep these reforms? it feels like theocratic jerusalem is intended to still be a monastic order, so it shouldnt lose it logically, and from a playing prospective it would feel terrible to lose out the unique gov mechanics just by forming the intended target formation of your country

That's a fair point. A special exception could be made for Jerusalem.

 

[Groogy]

So my suggestion is: rampart gives -1 attacker penalty (replaces +1 fort level). So you want to build this where you already have a fort.

I like it, I'll take it into consideration. Would be super powerful though so would probably remove the +15% Defensiveness as well.

 

[Alfray Stryke]

Curious that 'barbaric despoilers' are locked to hordes. I would like it if it were available to all tribes, especially If I decide to set up a tribal Norse pagan custom nation that can raid by sea.

But raiding by sea doesn't generate monarch points, which is what razing does?

 

[Alfray Stryke]

The point is I want to both raid by sea AND land troops to loot and pillage.

So you want Barbaric Despoilers to enable razing if you aren't a horde?

 

[Alfray Stryke]

Can't you form a horde that has raiding in their ideas?

Yeah, play as a one of the Berber tribes and reform into a Steppe Horde.