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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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By the gods, please Paradox
make it so that there is an option to auto-pause when you are called to war.

Accidentally overlooking call to war has been a problem ever since I started with vanilla EU3.
Eight years later and it is still the same :-(

I agree that it could be annoying when all it got was a flag in the top left corner. But these days it's a pop up, or at least you have the option to set it as a such.
 
Also why did s many disagree on Oliver Cromwell, one of the things in the expansion is brittish gverment, another about protestantism. Both applies to him. Nothing thus far is about spain, though granted a fair few HRE things are in.
 
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The coats of arms in that warscore screen are Nevers, Brabant, Flanders, and Holland.

Yeah, from KrupPato's screeny we can see a few more minor PU partners... Hainaut, Luxembourg... Picardy? (possibly dropped now though....)

I see Johan playing as Holland in Multiplayer Thread
 
Also why did s many disagree on Oliver Cromwell, one of the things in the expansion is brittish gverment, another about protestantism. Both applies to him. Nothing thus far is about spain, though granted a fair few HRE things are in.
Currently, Paradox seem to keep one loading screen person per country. England/GB already have Elizabeth I.
Considering the background of Charles' pic, he'll "represent" Austria rather than Spain (who already have Isabella).
 
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Yeah, from KrupPato's screeny we can see a few more minor PU partners... Hainaut, Luxembourg... Picardy? (possibly dropped now though....)

I see Johan playing as Holland in Multiplayer Thread
yeah, Hainaut, Picardy and Luxembourg appeared alongside Holland, Flanders and Brabant as subjects in PU with Burgundy, although according to the newest screenshots they no longer exist in 1444.

(post edited because i'm hopelessly blind today, at least when it comes to recognizing Luxembourg as no longer extant.)
 
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I might have missed it, what is the justification for this arrangement, most of those should surely be owned outright by burgundy?
it bugs me too. i suppose these new countries might serve to model the Pragmatic Sanction of 1549 (when Charles V unified the Seventeen Provinces into a single entity to be inherited by a single Habsburg heir, as opposed to the mosaic of separate fiefdoms the Netherlands had been earlier). having these lands as subjects that have to be integrated rather than as owned territory could perhaps increase international competition over their overlordship... maybe it has something to do with the new mechanics of dealing with subjects, which was supposed to be described in today's diary?

i'm also curious about how the disappearance of France's vassals ties into it.
 
Also why did s many disagree on Oliver Cromwell, one of the things in the expansion is brittish gverment, another about protestantism. Both applies to him. Nothing thus far is about spain, though granted a fair few HRE things are in.

It wouldn't sell so well where I'm from :)
 
I might have missed it, what is the justification for this arrangement, most of those should surely be owned outright by burgundy?
Phillip the Bold, who was given the Duchy of Burgundy as an appanage from his father King John II of France.
He then married the widow Margaret of Dampierre, later succeding his father in law Count Louis II of Flanders in the counties of Flanders, Artois, Rethel, and Nevers, essentially ruling them in personal union. He also inherited the Free county of Burgundy, which essentially made him a vassal of the Holy Roman Emperor.

Phillips Son John the Fearless succeded him in 1404, and ceded the counties of Nevers and Rethel to his younger brothers, although as a duke he still held the vassalage over them, which justifies to put Nevers as a vassal of Burgundy.

John´s Son Phillip the Good later inherited the counties Hainaut, Zeeland, Holland and Frisia, Brabant and Limburg, and he purchased the Duchy of Luxembourg.

So it makes sense to put the Flanders, Brabant and Holland territories under a personal union, as they were not really unified to a single territory at the time, while luxembourg for example was simply purchased, and was directly added to the burgundian territories.
 
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On subject of Charles V, anyone notice this on the wikipedia page:
Though always at war, Charles was a lover of peace. "Not greedy of territory," wrote Marcantonio Contarini in 1536, "but most greedy of peace and quiet."
 
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Currently, Paradox seem to keep one loading screen person per country. England/GB already have Elizabeth I.
Considering the background of Charles' pic, he'll "represent" Austria rather than Spain (who already have Isabella).
Doesn't Austria already have Maria Theresa?
 
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I wonder how this impacts the Burgundy inheritance event chain. Inheriting six PUs is not going to fun for your diplomatic points..
i hope for an event to reflect the Pragmatic Sanction of Charles V, which in game terms could equal to annexation of PU subjects (for the price of stirring up their local patriotism, which IRL led in a few decades to the Eighty Years' War).
 
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