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Hi everyone, and welcome to another Europa Universalis IV development diary. Today we’ll take a look at five new features which will be in the new Rights of Man expansion.

First of all.. Disinherit!
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Now when you have these no good heirs, like a certain prince of Castille, you now have an option to deal with them. At any time, if your prestige is positive, you can chose to disinherit your current heir, for a mere cost of 50 prestige. Now we like to think of it as the heir becoming a happy farmer somewhere, but the people in the iron-mask industry need employment after all. The drawback of disinheriting, besides losing 50 prestige, is the fact that you will be without an heir after it..


The second feature is the Prussian Monarchy, a rather cool special government.
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Whenever you form Prussia, you will change into a Prussian Monarchy, a government that was describes as an army with a state, not as a state with an army. So what does the Prussian Monarchy give you. Well, first of all, all Prussian Rulers will have a minimum of 3 in MIL. This alone gives you more military monarch power to spend on policies, ideas & technology on average. The government form in itself reduces unrest by 2 and war exhaustion by 0.02 each month, with autonomy reduction based on the rank.

The coolest part of this government form is the fact that it is a militarised society. This has a rating of 0-100%, where army tradition and legitimacy increases it, while each province you own decrease it. You can also at any time spend 50 military power to gain 10 militarization.

At 100 % militarized society, you gain +10% discipline, 33% cheaper army maintenance and 33% quicker manpower recovery.

Prussia with Rights of Man will be a taller state, that can punch far above its weight, and require a bit of a different playing strategie.


Our third feature is Strengthen Government.
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This is basically an ability to have greater control of your government. For a mere 100 military power, you can at any time boost your legitimacy, devotion, horde unity or republican tradition. Republican Tradition is increased by 3%, while all the other is increased by 10.


The fourth feature of today is Abandon Personal Union.
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This is a new diplomatic action, which is available for the senior in a personal union. Sometimes a union is not worth keeping, as the risks of a dangerous war may be too high, or you know they will win an independence war anyway. The overlord will lose some prestige, and depending on the subjects liberty desire, they will not even dislike you for giving them freedom.


And the fifth and final feature is Debase Currency.
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This is a possibility to quickly get some money, without any interest to pay back, or other immediate drawbacks.. Except … for some minor corruption..

Basically, you get a free loan amount of money for just 2 corruption.


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And as a free feature, as a apart of the 1.18-Prussia patch, we’re adding over 20 new DHE just for Prussia & Brandenburg, putting them on par with other tier 1 nations..

Next week, Jake will talk about the changes to Revolutionary Republics.
 
A few simple questions:

What's the point of the button at the bottom right corner of your coat of arms?

What is the new button on the top left corner, under the coat of arms?

Presumably, that's the Great Power overview. During the developer multi-player game this week, an alert with the same symbol appeared, and it was about Spain losing its status as a Great Power.
 
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Hmm, interesting changes to strengthen government. Definitely makes weak/average monarchs easier to deal with when it comes to heirs.
I wonder how this will affect Ming though, it could make Celestial Empires MUCH more stable
 
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Thanks for today's Development Diary!

Will "Abandon Personal Union" give the liberated subject your dynasty?
I was thinking about Charles V of Habsburg dividing his empire between his brother Ferdinand and his son Philip.
 
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I am still trying to figure out situations where this could be used - seems a bit weird to me since we already have the normal loan mechanic.

And shouldn't debasing your currency affect inflation as well?

I suspect that it will be quite profitable to debase if you are running 0 corruption and have strong stability and ahead of time in adm & dip tech.

It would be nice I we had a corruption reducing advisor actually - a 'lawyer'??
 
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But you don't need to pay back the money when you debase the currency, it is free money. Or am I wrong?
You have to pay money to reduce corruption, but you can do it at the pace you choose. Although there is no inflation from debasing, corruption slightly rises mana costs of everything until it's reduced completely.
 
I can't wait for more development diaries. Everything here looks good.
 
I have to say that debasing currency not generating inflation is a strange logic, when we actually have inflation as a concept in the game.

Inflation is the direct, immediate and mechanical impact of debasing currency. One can argue that it also generates some corruption, but that is more indirect and not so obvious.
 
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So the Debase currency gives you a loan amount? Will it remain at 2% cost if I choose the 36 month loan? because that would be a ton of money for very little cost in a healthy nation with proper trade income and the natural corruption reduction.
 
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just to put it in perspective, if i understand correctly, you get 179g and have to pay ~28.8*24=691g (full income, per month, to reduce 1% per year), assuming no other corruption reducing factors. advantage over loans being if you're ahead in tech and positive stability (??).

don't know what to say about that.
 
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This is fantastic. Paradox, always ruining my productivity.
 
You have to pay money to reduce corruption, but you can do it at the pace you choose. Although there is no inflation from debasing, corruption slightly rises mana costs of everything until it's reduced completely.

Yeah, that's true, and the power cost is a drawback or course. But there are also bonuses that can reduce the corruption for you, so you don't have to pay it down if you really want to keep the money.
 
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Prussian monarchy seems too powerful..

So will we be able to borrow 6 months(previously 12 months) of national income with one loan before we get national bank event? Will money from debasing currency be fixed at 6 months of national income?
 
You pay via corruption.
Yes, but there are plenty of ways to decrease Corruption without paying money, being ahead of tech, espionage ideas, events.

Also, how much discipline can Prussia have right now? Around 147.5? Without events of course.
100% Base
105% Advisor
110% Absolute Monarchy
120% Ambitions + Protestant perk (7.5+2.5)
130% Offensive + Full Quality
135% Weapon Quality Standard policy
145% Prussian Monarchy maxed

I don't remember events, but there are some with +5% and +10% discipline. Imagine 155% Prussian army with Innovative, Economic, Quality, Offensive, Defensive.
 
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