EU4 - Development Diary - 21st of August 2018

[Marcus @ Linux]

Will there be a bundle of the Content Pack and the Expansion? I would love to Pre-Order but fear missing out on a discount for buying both in one swoop.

 

[cristofolmc]

Nice. I love all the puns. I was just wondering, where does the name and idea for The Ostenders achievement come from?

I was wondering this as well. Was there ever an austrian east india trading company Im not aware of?

 

[Orkonkel]

• Sweet Home Qaraqorum: As the Mughals assimilate Mongolian culture

does that mean converting to it , or removing it from the map?

When the Mughals own all provinces belonging to a culture, they can assimilate it and it counts as an accepted culture (without using up accepted culture slots).

 

[Darth.]

These puns! They make me sikh!

 

[Darth.]

You could vassalize the Teutons, hope that they turn protestant and form Prussia. Vassal feed them big and fat and then declare on them. Gamey, but less RNG perhaps.

Will never happen for the simplest reason that a subject nation cannot form Prussia.

 

[Aramenian]

will there be more unit models next week?
for example for:delhi,punjab,sind,Vijayanagar,
Taungu ?

 

[Runite Drill]

@StarNaN which was your favourite achievement to test?

 

[Lord Lambert]

The Pheasant Strut - As Ghorka form Nepal and defeat Prussia with at least 100 000 prussian casualties in a war (both have to be primary targets of war)

So does Prussia form more frequently now, then? I imagine this will be quite the difficult achievement to get if not.

 

[afb]

Why do you add achievements to nations that already had achievements and that did not get any new features in in the patch/DLC? Denmark and Austria are very strange choices here... So many tags in Europe without a single achievement and you choose two that already have some?

I love that they do this. It gives me a chance to revisit old countries and play them a new way

 

[Zayne Carrick]

Finally, some Mughals achievements!

 

[Gratak]

Will never happen for the simplest reason that a subject nation cannot form Prussia.

That's actually not true. Prussia is probably the only formable that can be formed by a subject. It was historically formed by the Teutons while being a Polish vassal. Nevertheless, that achievement is extremely stupid! Play a tiny nation and hope for the <10% chance of getting a prussia....

 

[Zorzogoth]

Why do you add achievements to nations that already had achievements and that did not get any new features in in the patch/DLC? Denmark and Austria are very strange choices here... So many tags in Europe without a single achievement and you choose two that already have some?

Trade company investments are a feature of the DLC and both achievements are Trade Company related. That said, woot ! I'm really looking forward to forming the Ostend Company. I once had to go over a pile of English-Austrian diplomacy archive pieces for a paper on the Ostend C°. Revenge on the English who basically killed this interesting venture in the Austrian Netherlands with their diplomatic pressure.

 

[HottestRod]

So does Prussia form more frequently now, then? I imagine this will be quite the difficult achievement to get if not.

Prussia won't form more often in Dharma than usual. Then again, you can always take a few actions to nudge the formation in the right direction!

 

[Twoflower]

I was wondering this as well. Was there ever an austrian east india trading company Im not aware of?

Indeed there was, and it was based in the town of Ostend in the Austrian Netherlands
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostend_Company
EDIT: And just to be exact, this was only the first one, founded in 1722 and abandoned (due to pressure from the evil British) in 1732. There was a second attempt based in Trieste and Antwerp in the 1770s, and another smallish venture operating in Ostened in the 1780s.

 

[Nyrael]

• Sweet Home Qaraqorum: As the Mughals assimilate Mongolian culture

does that mean converting to it , or removing it from the map?

Mughals have a unique feature where they can assimilate a culture into administration. You probably have to use that on the Mongolian culture.

 

[frolix42]

Achievements. An excuse to deploy in-jokes and creative, game-related punnery.

PDS Recruiter: "So prospective intern, never-mind coding. How good are you at puns?"

 

[Piotrzeci]

The Pheasant Strut seems weird. First it starts with playing as Ghorka and not any other Mini-Nepal. A player isn't given a choice. Then you need to declare war on Prussia and even make them suffer a certain amount of casualties. I don't think it will be any fun to do it, considering it's "Form Nepal as Ghorka, conquer land to Prussia, most likely form it for them (basically force them to form it) conquering what is needed and eventually fight a war with them and make sure they suffer at least 100 000 casualties probably sending them money and going out of their country to give them time to recruit again". I much rather have an achievement, that gives me a goal and not forces me to do something entirely unreasonable.

It kinda seems like the isolationist achievement for Shinto; something that just isn't fun to do. Achievements shouldn't be something you play to cross-out, but to give a challenge or a goal.

 

[Gratak]

Trade company investments are a feature of the DLC and both achievements are Trade Company related. That said, woot ! I'm really looking forward to forming the Ostend Company. I once had to go over a pile of English-Austrian diplomacy archive pieces for a paper on the Ostend C°. Revenge on the English who basically killed this interesting venture in the Austrian Netherlands with their diplomatic pressure.

I said nothing about the trade company part... Just the fact that you have to be Denmark/Austria

Prussia won't form more often in Dharma than usual. Then again, you can always take a few actions to nudge the formation in the right direction!

Pretty hard considering how far away you are. If the reformation fails in that area, there is nothing you can do about that.

 

[DarkBlue]

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Foul Mouthed: Border at least 10 nations and scornfully insult all of them.

Best ever achievement. Ever.

 

[Gratak]

Prussia won't form more often in Dharma than usual. Then again, you can always take a few actions to nudge the formation in the right direction!

Maybe you could simply include Brandenburg (and Teutonic order) in the possible enemies. That would make it more likely there is actually a chance of reaching it...