Welcome back to our weekly series of development diaries about Europa Universalis. This time we’ll talk about four new features that will be part of the next expansion.

Free Cities of the Holy Roman Empire
Now the Emperor can designate up to seven free cities in the empire. A free city is a one province minor with a minimum of 10 development.

Free cities provide Imperial Authority to the emperor, as well as manpower and income. A Free City also have some rather nice bonuses to their development.

If a Free City gains another province or leave the HRE. they lose the free city status. And a Free City is always a type of Republic, so countries that aren't a Republic will become one upon accepting Free City status.

A Free City is always protected by the Emperor if attacked, so be careful when expanding in the HRE. A Free City can never be the subject of another nation.

Of course, as the ruler of a OPM, you can always refuse the offer of becoming a free city, and the emperor can spend some Imperial Authority to revoke a cities rights.

Remove Electorate
The next expansion lets you get even more control over your electors. If your religion is now official in the Empire, you can now spend IA to remove the Electorate status of your disloyal Electors.

Pause Westernisation
Sometimes while you are westernising, you end up where you need to use your power for something else, like boosting stability, but currently you can’t. Now we have added the option to pause westernisation. You’ll still get the unrest from westernising, but there will be no events spawning while westernisation is paused. Most importantly though is the fact that your power is accumulating again instead of contributing to the westernisation process.

Retire Advisor
Have you ever sat there with a lot of money, but cursing the options you for advisors. In the next expansion, you can now spend the amount of money it would cost to hire an advisor, and permanently retire him. Within a month, if there is available space in your pool of advisors, you will get a random new one in the same category. Maybe you get the +discipline one you wanted..


Next week we’ll focus on Luther and Buddha.

 

[WeissRaben]

Considering France's vassals were a benefit early on to it due to fielding more troops than it could were removed(well some of them) and now Burgundy gets that benefit it looks to be the opposite. Especially since as they are PUs LD isn't a concern.

France was not a 3PM, though.

 

[Arinsar]

Unlike vassals, PUs don't add to forcelimit, however. So Burgundy won't get a large army, they're stuck with a small forcelimit.
Unless this will be changed in the patch. Which I don't think will happen.

He mean that vassal/PU can field more units from territory than player who directly own it.

 

[Homusubi]

The troops are way less organised though.

I agree that the idea of a Burgundy nerf, and especially the idea of buffing France by adding more new provinces, worries me. I like the current situation, where Occitain/Aquitaine/Gascon states sometimes conquer a significant proportion of Occitania. That region was never 'destined' to be French. History could have gone the other way and made that region integrated with Catalunya/Aragon.

 

[SchwarzerKaiser]

He mean that vassal/PU can field more units from territory than player who directly own it.

So you have several small stack armies which are individually too weak to defeat France and can be picked off one at a time quickly before they can join up? Doesn't sound much better to me.

 

[BarskiPatzow]

I still have faith in Paradox after they fixed Memel.

Memel became just another province. It used to be so much more :'( it is almost as if they split Macedonia into 2 provinces...

 

[Homusubi]

Memel became just another province. It used to be so much more :'( it is almost as if they split Macedonia into 2 provinces...

The equivalent in Asia I suppose is pre-1.8 Wusuli. I miss Wusuli, you could get 1/3 of Manchuria for about five warscore... and it was also rectangular...

 

[LordDamien]

Retire Advisor
Have you ever sat there with a lot of money, but cursing the options you for advisors. In the next expansion, you can now spend the amount of money it would cost to hire an advisor, and permanently retire him. Within a month, if there is available space in your pool of advisors, you will get a random new one in the same category. Maybe you get the +discipline one you wanted

Sweet finally we can retire those Advisers you do not need anymore.

 

[Vaju]

Can you add more than 7 imperial free cities? Historically in 1521 there were 85.

 

[Incompetent]

Can you add more than 7 imperial free cities? Historically in 1521 there were 85.

Sure, and a lot of them were very minor settlements, not worthy of a province in EU4 terms. Ditto the dozens of imperial abbeys and hundreds of feudal holdings. The numbers in EU4 are scaled down for the sake of player sanity and the limitations of the engine.

 

[enumag]

Can you add the pausing option to vassal annexation as well?

 

[Golladan]

Can you add more than 7 imperial free cities? Historically in 1521 there were 85.

Not unless they rework the way it will work.

 

[Vaju]

Big imperial cities, I think, can be added. For example: Dortmund, Kempten, Lindau, Lubeck, Ravensburg, Regensburg(sic!), Worms(sic!), Basel, Strasbourg, Duisburg, St. Gallen. Also can be added some ecclesiastical and secular princes.
Ecclesiastical: Besanson. Bamberg, Speyer, Konstanz, Hildesheim, Chur, Osnabruck, Passau, Freising, Geneva, Cambrai, Metz, Schlesvig
Secular: Leuchtenberg, Henneberg, Montfort, Furstenberg, Hanau, Nassau, Lichtenstein.

 

[Vaju]

Yet, we must have possibility to disintegrate Spain, England, Austria and Poland.
I propose to add following countries:
In Iberia region: Asturias, Cordova, Valencia, Andorra, Baleares
On the British Isles: Kingdom of the Isles, Isle of Man, Wessex, Sussex, Essex, East Anglia, Kent, Mercia and Mide
In Austria, Hungary and Bohemia: Luzatia, Moravia, Slovakia, Upper Austria, Nieder Austria, Karnten, Trient, Styria, Slovenia, Dalmatia
In Poland: Kuyawia, Sandomierz, Greater Poland, Lesser Poland,
In Lithuania: Turov-Pinsk, Pereyaslavl, Samogitia, Yatvongia
In France: Poiters, Franche-comte, Main, Anjou

 

[Me_]

Can you add more than 7 imperial free cities? Historically in 1521 there were 85.

You can mod it.

 

[Chief of Staff]

Yet, we must have possibility to disintegrate Spain, England, Austria and Poland.
I propose to add following countries:
In Iberia region: Asturias, Cordova, Valencia, Andorra, Baleares
On the British Isles: Kingdom of Isles, Isle of Man, Wessex, Sussex, Essex, East Anglia, Kent, Mercia and Mide
In Austria, Hungary and Bohemia: Luzatia, Moravia, Slovakia, Upper Austria, Nieder Austria, Karnten, Trient, Styria, Slovenia, Dalmatia
In Poland: Kuyawia, Sandomierz, Greater Poland, Lesser Poland,
In Lithuania: Turov-Pinsk, Pereyaslavl, Samogitia, Yatvongia
In France: Poiters, Franche-comte, Main, Anjou

What is Kingdom of Isles?

 

[jrgen3]

What is Kingdom of Isles?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Isles

 

[Chief of Staff]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Isles

Ohh thanks. I searched on Wikipedia without "the" in the name and it never came up.

 

[Vaju]

What is Kingdom of Isles

Sorry, Kingdom of the Isles, of course.

 

[Vaju]

You can mod it.

I can and even made it in russian version of EU3 but better the developers will make it themselves

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[jrgen3]

Those provinces are too small. Impossible to click if you have a unit in them.