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Hello all.

Sadly we can't yet talk about the big feature of Common Sense, Subject Interaction.. As we are completely redoing the interface for it, so it has to wait until next week.

Instead, we'll talk about a major change to the Holy Roman Empire, and give you the new achievements for 1.12.

Imperial Authority and Reforms

Imperial Authority has had a significant rework in 1.12. The old system tended to advance or retreat authority in big lurches and was very open to exploits. It also did not take into account how well the Empire was doing overall, and there was little benefit for the Emperor to maintain a large number of member states.

This has been changed in 1.12, as many of the events that gave Imperial Authority have been replaced with ticking values. The monthly change to Imperial Authority is now displayed in the interface, and will depend on factors such as:
- Whether there is peace in the Empire
- Total number of member states
- The amount of HRE territory held by outside powers
- The amount of HRE territory held by heretics & heathens
- The number of electors and free cities

An Emperor who is doing a good job will see their Imperial Authority naturally grow without having to resort to methods such as annexing states when authority is at 0 only to release them again later, while an Emperor that allows outside powers and heretics to dominate the Empire will find themselves unable to pass reforms entirely.

As part of this change, we've also revised the old 'Imperial Integrity' modifier for having more than 25 princes. We felt this modifier was both too strong and too arbitrary, so it has been removed. Instead, the HRE reforms were buffed to provide more of an incentive for members to vote for reform.

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Achievements

Baltic Crusader - As Teutonic Order or Livonian Order conquer all of the Russia Region and make it Catholic.
Neither Holy, Nor German - Get 7 free cities in the HRE that are not of German Culture, as Emperor
Colonial Management - Have 3 colonial governors directly appointed by you at the same time.
Voting Streak - Get through 11 Issues in a row in Parliament
An Industrial Revolution - As GBR, all in english region, with 25 development.

City of Cities - Create a City with 60 development.
One Family to Rule them All - Have your dynasty on 8 thrones at the same time.
This is My Faith - Become Protestant and get maximum amount of traits.
Bleed them dry - Have 10 different War Reparations being paid to you at the same time.
Subsidize my Love - Subsidize 3 different allies at least 50% of their monthly income without running a deficit.

Take that Habsburgs! - As Hungary, Conquer all of Austria.
The White Elephant - As Ayutthaya conquers all provinces in Indochina region
The Buddhists strike back - As Ceylon conquer all of India and convert it to Theravada.
Better than Napoleon - As France, conquer Vienna, Berlin & Moscow.
Big Blue Blob - As France, hold 100 european core provinces before 1500.

A Full House - Have 3 Vassals & 2 Marches at the Same time.
Black Jack - Maintain 21 different overseas Subjects with more than 5 provinces each, without anyone having more than 50% Liberty Desire - Trade Companies does not count.
A Decent Reserve - Gain at least 1M Manpower.
The Six Nations - Form a federation of at least 6 nations as the Iroqious.
The Bohemians - Conquer and core Dublin as Bohemia.

Komenoi Empire - Make Trebizond into an Empire.
Lucky Lucca - As Lucca, own Lucknow!
A Fine Goosestep - Form Prussia and get 125% Discipline.
Meissner Porcelain - As Saxony own all chinaware provinces.
All Your Trade are Belong to Us! - Have highest tradepower in Genoa, Venice, & English Channel, while gaining 300 income per month.
 
The forts look nice.

I just thought on something while looking at Venice (don't know if it's been asked).
What if you have a fort in a place like a province at sea like in Venice that has a land connection to another province. If said for province is being blockaded from the sea does the forts ZoC still extends to the other province?
 
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EU4 is starting to look like a whole new game now compared to when it was released. Almost every aspect of it has been overhauled - trade, diplomacy, HRE, warfare, colonization, province development, religion, natives, map, etc. Very few areas are still left - missions, technology, combat, etc. Hoping for more such great changes in the following expansions.

Let us just hope they'll also back-port soon some of the engine changes they made for HoI4 :) [their map looks good!]
 
Love the changes and achievements.
No "I wish I was Sweden" for Norway holding all the Scandinavian region + the Baltic Coast ?

I imagine that "create a city with 60 developments" refers to a brand new colonized province being upgraded to 60 dev (hence "create").
For the fort, there are some visuals to retake from MotE I imagine.
 
Question: are there still ways outside the monthly gain to gain IA? Like aiding an imperial subject in war or adding provinces to the Empire? And if not, have there been other benefits added to these actions to incentivise player to still do these things?

The monthly gain for example says nothing about the amount of provinces in the Empire, so what is my incentive to add new provinces to it? On that note, can I still lose IA if I don't aid an imperial subject and it falls to the enemy?
 
Th dev diary is a bit stale. It doesn't satiate my hype at all.
 
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Komenoi Empire - Make Trebizond into an Empire.

I know 'Empire' here refers to the government form but it's funny considering the Trebizond Empire was in reality really rather small :)
 
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What's the reasoning behind free cities giving imperial authority? Is it just a reason for utilizing the new mechanics or is there a historical reason I'm not aware of? I was under the impression that they weren't able to play much of a role in Imperial affairs.
 
Big Blue Blob? Well thank you paradox for instead of fixing france you chose to make fun of the issue.
 
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I like the changes in the HRE. Hopefully this means Austria (Or whoever is emperor) doesn't blob inside the HRE.

"An Industrial Revolution - As GBR, all in english region, with 25 development."- So this means that we need to achieve 25 development in ONE province in the English Region, or that ALL of the provinces in the English Region need to be at 25 development level?
 
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I like the changes in the HRE. Hopefully this means Austria (Or whoever is emperor) doesn't blob inside the HRE.

"An Industrial Revolution - As GBR, all in english region, with 25 development."- So this means that we need to achieve 25 development in ONE province in the English Region, or that ALL of the provinces in the English Region need to be at 25 development level?
Obviously all of them - just one would be too easy.

What's the reasoning behind free cities giving imperial authority? Is it just a reason for utilizing the new mechanics or is there a historical reason I'm not aware of? I was under the impression that they weren't able to play much of a role in Imperial affairs.
Well, in making cities that previously paid taxes and owed fealty to the local prince (feudal, theocracy, whatever) free cities meant that they no longer had to pay that tax and the ruler lost all of his ability to intervene and influence matters in the city, beyond conquering it by force.
 
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Big Blue Blob? Well thank you paradox for instead of fixing france you chose to make fun of the issue.

Why would France need to be fixed? It's working as intended. It's the power house of the era. What they actually need to 'fix' is to remove -AE from lucky nations and France won't be eating up Europe for breakfast without being punished.
 
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