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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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Sounds good! Anyone who recognises the man on the picture? That is most likely an obvious hint for the name of the next expansion.
Well, at least to me, the guy gives off a Spanish vibe. Not sure why, especially considering the colonizers aren't the focus this time around.
 
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Who is the guy in the picture?

(I like a new face every expansion :))
 
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JUNE? Ain't nobody got time for that.
 
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I'm pretty sure the new loading screen is of Charles V/I

EDIT: Wasn't quite quick enough -- However, from what I can see, there are no new provinces in the region except for Loon, which we saw earlier...
 
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I think the most exciting thing about this dev diary is that you can now truly partition a country between the victorious nations. A province for you, a few for me, a few for you...and poof, the loser is no more.

Been waiting for this for a while.

Having to leave a bunch of OPMs in my wake because it was either 100% of the territory for me or no complete annexation was really annoying.
 
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So peace screens finally show correct bird mana costs now? A little overview whats wrong currently...

1. If you annex procinces for your vassals, peace screen shows they will pay the mana, but you will.
2. If you take own cores in seperate peace deals with non co-belligerents, screen shows you will pay mana, but you won't.
3. If you take claims in seperate peace deals with co-belligerents, screen shows you will pay mana, but you won't.
4. Full annexation costs are almost always wrong because they show costs without any claims.
5. And propably more.

All fixed now? :)
 
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Hah! I like this, it's such a relatively small set of changes but they all seem work logically and serve to fix a good number of gaps in the diplomatic system. Goodbye arbitrary capital rules, you will not be missed.
 
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What about a transfer vassalage peace option? It would be a bit cheaper than just taking the provinces but the catch is that you have to take the whole vassal and you have to wait 10 years before you can have the province all to yourself.
Also how will handing over provinces to allies & vassals work if you haven't captured them? Will it just be you have to siege them and change their occupation otherwise they default to you?
 
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I'm assuming that this means partitioning will now be allowed? I hate how I have to take all the province for myself when I fully annex instead of being able to give a few provinces to some vassals
 
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Well, this looks great. Peace deals are going to be a lot more interesting now...and being able to give provinces back the next time my war-leader ally gives me some I don't want in a peace will be great!

With all the focus on war and peace in this expansion, a good name for it might be War and Peace. ;)
 
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Excellent changes. I also spot what appears to be the fort icon in the map!

A shame there appears to be no new provinces in France/Southern England, I guess I will have to hope a future expansion adds more provinces in France/England/Lithuania and fixes the borders that still need improvements.

As for the new loading screen: Are those mountains the Alps, by chance? Is it referencing the Italian wars?
 
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This is going to be exploited:
, and you also do not need to occupy territory to demand it in peace,
It's going to be used to get provinces you normally can't reach, often as a way to get a foothold on an island.
Example: France doesn't have to deal with allying Scotland, and can instead just demand a province in Great Britain and start the next war with a doomstack present there...

It's good that capitals can be taken now. Hopefully it'll be possible to make claims there as well.
 
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