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This! I want yellow Great Britain if formed by Scotland.

Oh, and that nice blue colour Italy when forming them as Sardinia-Piedmont!
Yeah ! The good thing about the Japan system os that you can keep the nations color If you want or you can change It to the regular formable color ! So currently when playing Japan the player can choose to keep the bealtifull oda red or change to the regular Japan red, só in my opinion there id literally no downsides
 
To prevent updating/rolling back to 1.34 -> Right click EU4 in your Steam library -> go to properties -> go to the betas section -> pick 1.34 in the dropdown list and let your game update.


It asks an access code to run old version.
 
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I expected this, and had this stolen kubernetes meme ready :p
 
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Hello guys!

Please note that save games from 1.34 will NOT work well with 1.35, if at all.


If you wish to finish any ongoing 1.34 saves please lock your game to 1.34 immediately to prevent auto update to 1.35!

To prevent updating/rolling back to 1.34 -> Right click EU4 in your Steam library -> go to properties -> go to the betas section -> pick 1.34 in the dropdown list and let your game update.

When you wish to update you repeat the above steps, but you pick "none" in the dropdown list.

Apologies for the inconvenience caused, but it's unfortunately inevitable when certain updates are made to the game.

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It's like reading a Kaiserreich changelog. The update is the universal killer of save games.
 
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I hope we don't see a load of posts in the coming weeks of "my savegame broke, game bad" but no doubt we will. At least you're trying so thanks!
 
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Dear Paradox Team. You're doing great job improving that game. But tell me please what about the other platforms ? In my case it's Epic Games. When I bought EU4 I didn't knew that You will ruin my campaigns every time with news patch. Game wasn't cheap and you're still making money of it. I think that You should give me my money back so I could buy better version of EU4 on better platform on Steam. I'm waiting for your reply.
 
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It asks an access code to run old version.
You only need a code for versions older than 1.27. The other versions should be available in the dropdown even without entering a code. And there is no confirmation button or OK button. It is enough to select the version which you want in the drop down and close the dialog.
 
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From 2021:

We are not planning at changing the map more in EU4's lifecycle. I am tired of people's savegames being broken.

I feel that map changes are not the truly game-breaking thing that comes with DLCs. Sure they can render old savegames obsolete, but it's almost always the interfacing of new mechanics with existing ones that causes the major bugs and confuses the AI.

It's silly to let the existence of old saves stand in the way of meaningful improvement to the map. I suspect the majority of people in this forum feel the same way.
 
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Well, all the more reasons to change the map in the future, then. Savegames are not safe anyway.
This. Thank the lord that someone pointed out this hypocrisy. I'm not going to attack the developers, but Johan previously stated that the map was off-limits chiefly due to save game compatibility being the new gold standard. I think we all know it was performance in retrospect. Everyone invested in this game or worth their salt in hours is willing to suffer incompatibility across saves if that affords certain regions (i.e. South America & Caucasia) more flavor, relevance, and proportionate representation according to what almost every other region of the world has been given. Im going to give my obligatory laundry list of what I think should be on the table now. I think Australia's wasteland(s) should be opened up, and an Uluru monument could be added in the central province. Guniean tribes could be added if you opened up Papau New Guniea, its a megadiverse society to this day. Rapanui could be split into two provinces and given an opm polynesian tag, with the historical cultural ambitions to reach south america again. The amazons and the andes can/should have their wastelands reworked and more tags added. If the dev team takes on Tartary, they could rework hordes, add more tribal tags in places like Siberia, and add the last of the Nestorian christians and manicheans to a province or two in the far east and persia (indian st thomas christians too*?). Many of these places had significant minorities at caravanserais even after the persecutions of Tamerlane. Madagascar similarly desperately needs more dev and provinces. Nods to its indonesian/polynesian/austronesian heritage could be nodded to and its population was substantial during this time period--a formable tag and proper kingdom is in order. South Africa could be given more provinces and proper trade company tags with new British subjects from domination being repurposed for such. The gold rush in South Africa, Australia, and California could cumulatively be done so much more justice than as it currently stands. North America with all its neat mechanics lacks any formables that do have precedent, such as the Moundbuilders of the Missippian Civilization. Cahokia is a good nod to this, but NA could use some more dynamism. I've made another post adding routes for trade from Australia to South America and various other minor changes, but this is all the more reason for me to speculate that such changes are indeed possible.
 
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You only need a code for versions older than 1.27. The other versions should be available in the dropdown even without entering a code. And there is no confirmation button or OK button. It is enough to select the version which you want in the drop down and close the dialog.
why is there even a code? can these codes be found somewhere? this is the first time I am hearing of this.
 
The entire reason we were told the map would stay the same was for savegame compatibility. We had new goverment reforms and types previously that did not break savegame compatibility.

I appreciate the efforts you do as a team, I have been playing your games for over a decade, but if you're going to invalidate saves once again then we need a discussion about ongoing future map updates.

EU4 is the most played and most developed of your titles, there are still QoL improvements many people want for the map, so if you can't avoid what was stated as a mission goal by not making large map changes anymore there is no reason it should still be off the table.
 
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This. Thank the lord that someone pointed out this hypocrisy. I'm not going to attack the developers, but Johan previously stated that the map was off-limits chiefly due to save game compatibility being the new gold standard. I think we all know it was performance in retrospect. Everyone invested in this game or worth their salt in hours is willing to suffer incompatibility across saves if that affords certain regions (i.e. South America & Caucasia) more flavor, relevance, and proportionate representation according to what almost every other region of the world has been given. Im going to give my obligatory laundry list of what I think should be on the table now. I think Australia's wasteland(s) should be opened up, and an Uluru monument could be added in the central province. Guniean tribes could be added if you opened up Papau New Guniea, its a megadiverse society to this day. Rapanui could be split into two provinces and given an opm polynesian tag, with the historical cultural ambitions to reach south america again. The amazons and the andes can/should have their wastelands reworked and more tags added. If the dev team takes on Tartary, they could rework hordes, add more tribal tags in places like Siberia, and add the last of the Nestorian christians and manicheans to a province or two in the far east and persia (indian st thomas christians too*?). Many of these places had significant minorities at caravanserais even after the persecutions of Tamerlane. Madagascar similarly desperately needs more dev and provinces. Nods to its indonesian/polynesian/austronesian heritage could be nodded to and its population was substantial during this time period--a formable tag and proper kingdom is in order. South Africa could be given more provinces and proper trade company tags with new British subjects from domination being repurposed for such. The gold rush in South Africa, Australia, and California could cumulatively be done so much more justice than as it currently stands. North America with all its neat mechanics lacks any formables that do have precedent, such as the Moundbuilders of the Missippian Civilization. Cahokia is a good nod to this, but NA could use some more dynamism. I've made another post adding routes for trade from Australia to South America and various other minor changes, but this is all the more reason for me to speculate that such changes are indeed possible.
Spacing Dude.

Spacing.
 
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