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(Diplomatic map of HRE)
In this dev diary, I'm going to demostrate the core mechanism of this expansion.
As the HRE decentralized, it's a bit hard for players to find out what's the border of the empire. Thankfully there's still a map mode to display prince states of HRE.
If you are playing as the emperor, you might often use it to check who holding de jure parts of HRE, but not a de facto prince of the empire.
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HRE interface:
Time to meet the
HRE interface! It is the main UI of this expansion, it helps player knowing the status of the HRE.
As the elected Emperor,
King of the Romans are used as title name of uncrowned emperor. The rulers who were crowned as Roman emperors could use official title like
Kaiser or
Tsar.
At the right hand, a set of icons shows how many Imperial reforms enacted. Below are the Princes and Free imperial city of the HRE.
And the bar at bottom indicated the
Mana Imperial Authority, from empty(0) to full(100).
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Imperial Reforms:
With enough Imperial Authority, the emperor could bring up some decrees in the
Imperial Diet. The more higher the Imperial Authority, the likely possible to dominate the diet agenda.
And the cost of issuing an act is progressive and could cost you thousands of golds and prestige in late game, if one of them are not affordable for the emperor, the act option will not show up.
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Princely Elective:
Much similar to vanilla HRE succession. The princely elective is exclusive for the HRE emperor, but requires candidates to be landed (being a ruler) now.
To nominate a landless son as your heir of the empire, you might need to grant him a title first, or try to pass an Imperial reform decree - Proclaim Erbkaisertum, which enforced primogeniture for HRE.
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Revoke The Privilegia:
The ultimate reform. It's famous and familiar to EU4 players as it is the BFG gun to players.
In this expansion, I decide not to make it so boring(and silly). Instead it works as Renovatio Imperii, which re-united all princes under one and true emperor.
But be aware, not all princes are fond of this decree, and they might be rebellious or even declaring independence while you revoking their privilegia.
It also gives the emperor some buff modifiers. After privilegia revoked, the HRE interface will be disabled and so the HRE mechanics, permanently.
(The graphic resources from EU4 will not include when releasing, you have to own a copy of EU4 and manually copy them from EU4 gfx folder to mod folder to display.)
(Or it will use placeholder graphics instead.)
I'm considering providing French/German/Spanish language support if someone would like to help me doing so. Please PM me if you're willing.
Though the beta release might not be so soon.
