EU4 - Development Diary - 21st of August 2018

[PhoenixG]

They won't. They stopped the support of it long time ago. Since not many players use it and the time needed to fix it isn't worth it.

 

[Frozenkaiser]

Thanks for giving me a reason to play Austria, the superior Central European nation.

 

[Dakka]

Thanks for giving me a reason to play Austria, the superior Central European nation.

A.E.I.O.U.

 

[KingOfPrussia-]

@DDRJake Also, this is unrelated to the dev diary but could you please get someone to fix the music times description on the EU3 music video?

 

[Unikram]

All the god damned puns in this dev diary...
they're so bad they're almost good.

 

[Hazamattaz]

My goal is to reach 30% achievements earned by the end of the year. I'm currently sitting on 23%.

If I reach 25% I'll be pretty pleased with my efforts.

 

[Nonk51]

Very good units and puns.

 

[VoidMaster]

"Starting as a Timurid subject, form the Mughals and conquer india by 1550"

Huhhh what do you mean with conquering India? Not even IRL Mughals did that before getting britished.

Britished? If you mean they were ended by the British, then they really got Marathaed and lesser extent Sikhed and other breakaways, well over by the time British took over.

 

[FleetingRain]

Britished? If you mean they were ended by the British, then they really got Marathaed and lesser extent Sikhed and other breakaways, well over by the time British took over.

Yeah but the British put the final nail in the coffin, didn't they?

 

[Tom D.]

The Ostenders: As Austria have a fully built up Indian Company in West Bengal Area

I like that the devs added in an achievement with a reference to something that isn't well known, it makes people learn something new in a fun way.

 

[Blackwhitecavias]

I prefer playing later start dates like 1492 , 1579 and 1756 since it allows me to experience Historical mid and late game. As someone who frequently plays these starts its a real pity that these starts dates are completely broken . For example in 1492 Castile starts with a Truce with Granada. The 1618 start date has hasn't made use of the league mechanic despite it being introduced . The fact that religions in game are eternally rebellious traitors means that 1756 Great Britain is doomed to get taken over by Religious and Separatists rebels within a few years in an era when its supposed to be conquering the world. I really hope Paradox puts some effort into these bookmarks. They're unplayable right now.

They have officially stopped supporting them due to the difficulty of having to balance for multiple start dates, so I doubt anything will happen to them (I don't even think the UK is Anglican if you have RB and play the later start dates)

 

[grandadmiralbob]

10k hours without conquering (or obtaining in any other way) a province, is that even possible?

I don't play ironman.

 

[petertju]

Bringing the total achievements list up to a staggering 285, there are achievements across the world and for a wide variety of play styles. We focus on keeping them interesting without bringing in more quazi World Conquests or "conquer Germany as x" achievements. In this batch, I'm excited about the Kale achievement, as well as having a great excuse to get my Imperialist boots on as Denmark.

Do you also think about reducing the amount of very simple achievements that are used to promote new mechanics, like Populists in Government? They seem to me like not adding a lot to the game aswell?

 

[Atalvyr]

Well, there needs to be achievements for more casual players as well. Dipping their toes in a new expansion by going for an easy achievement that requires interacting with a new feature is a good way to steer them towards the new content.

I also greatly appreciate that there are multiple new achievements that require regional dominance rather than world dominance. I simply don't have the patience to go through all the hoops requried for a WC attempt, when I want to experiment with non-meta idea groups and try out non-optimal army compositions.

Some play for the challenge of the perfect playthrough as a tiny OPM going for world domination by 1650, so its good there are some WC / semi WC achievements in there for them as well.

 

[Yevardian]

They won't. They stopped the support of it long time ago. Since not many players use it and the time needed to fix it isn't worth it.

You would think that such a fix could easily be outsourced to fans for free.

 

[Blackwhitecavias]

You would think that such a fix could easily be outsourced to fans for free.

The problem wasn't that the dates needed to be updated, but that mechanics had to be balanced for all the start dates.

 

[tobias757w]

That’s actually how it happened historically
In fact, Brandenburg gets an event specifically related to that.

no, someone formed prussia by taking berlin, i know that brandenburg got a pu on the teutons/prussia in real life, but (in my game) there was some other country that formed prussia and then got absorbed by brandenburg with my help