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EU4 - Development Diary - 23rd of May 2017

Good day all and welcome to another Development diary for our upcoming Immersion Pack Third Rome.

As covered in our previous diary we're spicing up the Russian region with cool new mechanics and flavour. Today we're going to be covering a couple of new options available to the Tsardom.

A Tsardom government form is gained automatically when forming Russia and brings one up to Empire rank. You are granted some hefty bonuses to available States and Absolutism but you also gain access to claim entire Areas.

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For 50% more Spynetwork cost, the Tsar may lay claim to an entire area, rather than settle for claiming individual provinces.

As part of the revamped Russian Ideas set granted for forming Russia, Siberian Frontiers may now be established too. Any uncolonized province bordering a city of yours which is connected by land to your capital is suitable for the establishment of such a Frontier at a cost of 20 DIP.

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Upon establishing a Siberian Frontier, the province becomes colonized and begins to grow without need of a colonist. Growth is between 5 and 15 settlers per month and the colony will not cost any colonial maintenance. If captured by a hostile power, the colony will lose its status at a Siberian Frontier and revert to being a regular colony.

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Due to these additions in Third Rome, the Russian Nation will have a lot more flexibility with how it wants to tackle the wastes of the East, as they are not obliged to acquire colonists nor are they confined to claiming the nomads province by province. It has also been heartwarming to watch Russia in hands-off observation games as they stride Eastwards. As a little spoiler, there will be an Achievement for reaching the East coast in a time limit when Third Rome goes live.

So we've talked a fair bit about Russia in these dev diaries. Makes a lot of sense since they are the star of the show in Third Rome, but next week we are going to talk about something available for them and their brothers-in-faith. We'll see you then!
 
Pacific coast by 1500? Doable, but not if you also need adm 10 to form Russia. Hmm maybe it is just any state starting in Russian culture group? Or maybe we get to 1550 or 1600, which takes away a lot of the challenge sadly
 
I don't like the big round icon for making it in a Siberian Frontier.

Too Big, Too much cartoon. It doesn't fit with the look and feel of EU4
 
Do the special Siberian Frontier colonies get the settler bonuses from dip. tech. and ideas? If you have more than one Siberian Frontier Colony are they all free?
I talked to some developers during PDXCON about this. Seeing they thought that 5-15 is fast enough i'd say its a safe bet they do not get bonuses from dip tech. And it were possible to have multiple colonies going at the same time, but each colony will require the same initial dip investment..
That said, i don´t work at pdx, so my info might be either outdated or misinterpreted.
 
So we've talked a fair bit about Russia in these dev diaries. Makes a lot of sense since they are the star of the show in Third Rome, but next week we are going to talk about something available for them and their brothers-in-faith. We'll see you then!
- im afraid you are a little slow with your DD's, youtubers already spoiled all new Third Rome futures.
 
Good luck seeing a republic settle a continent and become a great power!

That's what we had the American Dream for.

Before it was completely abandoned and then had content we paid for axed.
 
How is Siberia meant to become useful to Russia? For now it's a garbage because:
  • 1. State limit is not stretchable and 9-15 development territories are not the best candidates to add to states.
  • 2. Even with increased states limit there are much more profitable and much juicier states to the west.
  • 3. For now Siberian colonies serve as a bridge to access rich Chinese and Manchurian lands with occasional gold spawn.
How will you convince players to add Siberian colonized provinces to states?

The only reasonable way I see is to make the states larger with approximately 18-25 development per state.
 
How about native policies? Do you get to select one if you start your first "frontier"?

Siberian Frontiers are independent from regular colonies and do not require/enable Native Policies.

How big is the absolutism increase?

+0.1 yearly for Tsardom.

Do the special Siberian Frontier colonies get the settler bonuses from dip. tech. and ideas? If you have more than one Siberian Frontier Colony are they all free?

They are not affected by tech and are all completely free of colonial maintenance costs

Is Russia restricted to a single Siberian frontier at a time?

No.

- im afraid you are a little slow with your DD's, youtubers already spoiled all new Third Rome futures.

We showed the whole lot at PDXCon. That won't stop us doing our Dev Diaries though.
 
I don't like the big round icon for making it in a Siberian Frontier.

Too Big, Too much cartoon. It doesn't fit with the look and feel of EU4
Reminds me of Civ V settlers.
 
Still disappointed Novgorod will be forced to go monarchy if they form Russia rather than stay a republic. Why can't an alternative to Tsardoms be added if the forming nation is a republic?
Novgorod wasn't really a republic. Their entire political system was based on the Rurikid nobility.
 
The Netherlands were not a monarchy until Napoleon, and were definitely a great power in the era

They weren't a pure Republic either though, and were never too large. Until Napoleonic era (and generally the Spring of Nations), it was quite hard to keep a large Republic working.
Not that Novgorod was an actual republic either, even by this time's standards...

What exactly happened to the American Dream DLC?

It came with several things, including two unique government types. Both got axed when PDS decided that unique govs that did not have unique mechanics had to go.