Diplomacy shield borders for all countries are now gold after applying 1.09

[unmerged(73456)]

Hi! A bit of a let down that my first post is a problem with the game, but that can't be helped

I've just patched to 1.09, and the first thing I noticed when I re-loaded my save game was that all the borders round the shields on the diplomacy screen were gold for every nation. Everyone's name is in gold text in the view alliances window, but not in the relations Does this mean they're all majors and I can't vassalise anyone? Or is it just a graphics bug?

It does the same thing for freshly started games.


Screenie:

 

[wryun]

As far as I know, there's never been any restriction on vassalising majors in EU2 (but it's been a while since I've played any 'minors' version); now all countries are treated as majors for the purposes of events, and you can vassalise anyone you want.

 

[unmerged(73456)]

Hmm, possibly not vassalisation, there was something restrictive about majors though. What other differences between minors/majors are/were there for events?

I've also realised I was under the wrong impression that when a monarch of a nation died and you had a RM with them, you annexed them. Thinking about it, that would make it a bit easy to overrun countries.

Also, thanks for the quick reply!

 

[AndrewT]

Hmm, possibly not vassalisation, there was something restrictive about majors though. What other differences between minors/majors are/were there for events?

None. I think you are thinking of EU 1.

 

[wryun]

Hmm, possibly not vassalisation, there was something restrictive about majors though. What other differences between minors/majors are/were there for events?

I believe minors used not to receive random events, and may have had a curtailed AI. I think this changed around 1.06 (guess); earlier, I remember the AGC used to make every country a 'major' to get around this issue. Otherwise, I don't think there's anything much: as Andrew indicated, it's mostly a carry over from EU1 where there were rules about not annexing majors.

 

[jdrou]

I believe minors used not to receive random events, and may have had a curtailed AI. I think this changed around 1.06 (guess); earlier, I remember the AGC used to make every country a 'major' to get around this issue. Otherwise, I don't think there's anything much: as Andrew indicated, it's mostly a carry over from EU1 where there were rules about not annexing majors.

I think you may be thinking of EU1 (and the IGC rather than AGC) as well. I think the only difference between 'major' and 'minor' in EU2 is that majors show up on the country-selection screen (and in the ledger graphs) and minors don't.

 

[wryun]

I think you may be thinking of EU1 (and the IGC rather than AGC) as well. I think the only difference between 'major' and 'minor' in EU2 is that majors show up on the country-selection screen (and in the ledger graphs) and minors don't.

Definitely not thinking of EU1 since I didn't have it until a couple of months ago; I was part of the EU2 intake