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EU4 - Development Diary - 24th of January 2017

Hello everyone, and welcome to yet another Europa Universalis IV development diary. Today we’ll take a deep look into the Age of Revolutions.

This Age starts 10 years after the Enlightenment have been established, which is usually in the first decade of the 18th century.

Rules
Absolutism mechanics are enabled.
French Revolution, Revolution and Liberalism Disasters, can only happen in this Age.

Objectives
  1. Have Parliaments
  2. Be an Empire Rank Nation, Emperor of HRE or Emperor of China
  3. Have a 250 development subject.
  4. 125% discipline
  5. 50 development capital
  6. Own and control 2 institution origins
  7. Have a general with 15+ pips.
Abilities
  • +3 Artillery Bonus vs Fort
  • Force March does not cost MIL
  • 20% more ships can fight in combat.
  • Remove distance check for coring.
  • Artillery does 20% more damage from backrow.
  • -25 liberty desire to subjects on same continent
  • Liberty_desire_from_subject_development -33%
  • Prussia: 20% less fire-damage taken
  • Great Britain: 25% cheaper naval maintenance
  • Russia: +20 States
  • Austria: +5 diplomatic reputation
To clarify:
Artillery Bonus usually goes up to a maximum of +5 when sieging, this can be increased by this ability to +8 in this age.

Backrow artillery does 50% damage normally, this allows them to do 60% damage.

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Next week, we’ll look into why the Manchu are so awesome..
 
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Cheers for the DD Johan :). Some interesting bonuses and I like those objectives as well, some in-game incentive to do more historical-ish things. That +3 artillery bonus is _brutal_ - will make a substantial difference between those nations that do and don't have it (well, I'm guessing). Austria's +5 diplo reputation should make them well-liked as well :).
 
To clarify, for these objectives, once you have achieved it, you have unlocked it for good? Or do you have to keep the objective active? (Eg- 15 pip general: If he dies, is the objective still fulfilled? (Also, do rulers count if they are generals?))
 
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Johan said:
  • Russia: +20 States
Next week, we’ll look into why the Manchu are so awesome..
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Who came with this modifier and how was it justified? I hoped something that was tied to Suvorov and military victories during that time period, but, again, Russia gets some bullsh*t. At least not 100% manpower #ThanksParadox.
 
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Homusubi said:
What if you don't have Common Sense? There are ZERO fifty development provinces in vanilla. There aren't even forty development provinces
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you must buy Common Sense! Waiting for the next dependencies on Estate influence and rented Condotierri. *sarcasm*

Mortheim said:
Who came with this modifier and how was it justified? I hoped something that was tied to Suvorov and military victories during that time period, but, again, Russia gets some bullsh*t. At least not 100% manpower #ThanksParadox.
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Like your hashtag.

#ThanksParadox
 
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I think I spotted a small typo in the age description : I suppose it should be written Ancien Regime, and not Ancient Regime. Because we're speaking french here, right ?

(Actually, if you wish to keep it as close as possible to the correct french grammar, it should even be Ancien Régime, but...)
 
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Austria +5 dip rep seems... not that great. Events, your ideas and HRE reforms + the very standard diplo/influence means Austria is likely already above 10 dip rep. I wish Austria had something other than even more dip rep. And Russia and Britain are both... meh. I'd rather get the generic ones I think
 
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Mortheim said:
Who came with this modifier and how was it justified? I hoped something that was tied to Suvorov and military victories during that time period, but, again, Russia gets some bullsh*t. At least not 100% manpower #ThanksParadox.
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You should be happy they even got that since France didn't get jack shit on Napoleonic era lol.
 
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The bonus for Austria is redundant with the current HRE and overall too late. Austria should get a bonus for the military aspect. (First Partition of Poland, Invading the Napoleon Empire). Would be a better choice in a historical context.

Edit: Same applies to Russia... and France, which isn't even a bonus nation.
 
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imvdm said:
Wait, No French Age Buff?
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From government's aspect, France got overthrown by mobs of peasant, and before that they lost in 7 years' war, so it might not be the best idea to give them an age buff.
However, i think they should receive massive buff after they changed to Rev. France.

Also i have a question, will absolutism somehow affect liberty disasters? like make them progress faster or become prerequisties?
 
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Kapi96 said:
Wait, have we now got dynamic start/end dates for the ages? Please tell me it's true for all of them and not just this one?
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We have, it is.
 
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Those bonuses are very powerful considering that most of them are rewards for having blobbed in the first place.
 
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DogEggz said:
From government's aspect, France got overthrown by mobs of peasant, so it might not be the best idea to give them an age buff.
However, i think they should receive massive buff after they changed to Rev. France.

Also i have a question, will absolutism somehow affect liberty disasters? like make them progress faster or become prerequisties?
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If you ask me some of these bonuses are joke... Poland got like +1 legitimacy...
 
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  • Russia: +20 States
More useless bonus it is impossible to imagine. Compared to this, even Polish +1 legitimacy looks better.
What about creation of the Russian imperial army? Which could compete with any of the european great powers in this age. May infantry combat ability bonus?
 
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al.gb said:
  • Russia: +20 States
More useless bonus it is impossible to imagine. Compared to this, even Polish +1 legitimacy looks better.
What about creation of the Russian imperial army? Which could compete with any of the european great powers in this age. May infantry combat ability bonus?
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How is +1 legitimacy better than this lol... +1 is a joke dude...
 
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