After roughly 1 year of development i now have a early access version of earthroyale 3 on steam! it's still on early development and got a few updates and big features in development if interested you can get it here

if you're interested you can wishlist the game and after the 13th buy it here slight warning, english is my 2nd language and i got dyslexia and i'm just a really ramblying person when i write longer stuff, this is a really long text of me describing the sequel. I've worked hard most of this year now on the squeal to this game and it's nearing steam release now. while still in early development it is a lot more advanced, better looking and more fun already! my aim is to make it what i wanted out of this game but couldn't because i was in school and still very new to game development when i started development of earthroyale (1st game started development with me having 2 years of experience with this squeal starting development with me having around 4-5 years) it's the same chaotic observation game with random generation at the core of the game play but now having each pixel being interactive, 3 map size options (biggest is 8192x4096 pixels big and smallest is 2048x1025 pixels big) all map sizes have 4 map version of them Un map (Only un recognized borders and countries) De facto map (My attempt at adding all countries / organized groups in control of territory with somewhat up to date borders based on who has military control over what area, some areas are a bit out of date or has stuff missing due to me not being informed or because of near daily border changes) and then both of those 2 have a variant with some micro nations added to them with more micro nations most likely being added in the future. and on top of that there is 2 visual ways of displaying the map in game, globe mode (the way i prefair and the game is mostly developed in) and flat mode (normal flat map) this causes there to be at this point 4 map sizes, 4 map options, 2 map display options and therefore a total of 16 map options and while not done yet there is a city map with over 1300+ cities on it, a subdivision map with nearly all countries subdivisions on it but it's still being planned and also ethnicity / culture and sub continent map options but they are not in any form of development yet. all of those will be playable map options later on and most likely also have a similar turn on and off individual countries cities / subdivisions / whatever just like in EarthRoyale There is also plans to add other planets with most work on the moon already being done (just need to get done with colonizing code and plan out the events leading to the start of moon colonization beforehand) Right now there is support for fully custom map however decided to require you to use 3rd party painting apps to make them instead of making a in game paintmode again, tutorials are in the works for it but it is really simple. (unlike in earthroyale, you can make new landmasses and so on to make whatever you want) this all will hopefully lead to having truly infinite options of maps to play with! for events there is some big changes, first of all the game is now "semi turn based" there is turns but each turn is real time and real time stuff happens during the turns there is right now 3 types of events Turn based (main focus events, usually wars and only allow 1 at a time to help you not miss anything happening) right now there is 3 + 2 (or more) in development Divide/all vs 1 war (all countries bordering or nearby a specific country declare war on them and only ends if the attacked country is defeated or a peace treaty is signed) Referendum Failed / 1v1 war (A country holds a referendum to be annexed by a nearby country but votes no, a war between the 2 countries start and it only ends if it either other nearby country joins the war (converts it to a all vs 1 war) or if one of the 2 countries is fully defeated or if a peace treaty is signed) Referendum Success / annex (a country holds a referendum to be annexed by a nearby country and votes yes, they get fully annexed within just a few days of time) i'm also working on civil war based events (similar to the split and independence events in EarthRoyale) and while i'm hoping for them to be done before release there is a possibility it will be released a few days after) Real time events (secondary events that can happen at the same time as turn based events, event dependent events and other real time events but might not always be super important for you to focus on) right now there is 3 Flood (water starts spreading onto land from any shore pixel and covers a area with similar height on the height map with water, this water is mostly permanent and will create a new shoreline / creates obstacles for countries to get around when in wars) Drain Singular (A country starts draining lakes or oceans within a random radius and in similar height level to a selected shoreline pixel, this is permanent and expands the country / creates a new shoreline and makes invading other countries easier) Drain Shared (Same as Drain singular but each pixel is given to the closest country) Event Dependent events (Events that can only happen while a specific event is happening) right now there is 2 Naval invasion (a random pixel is selected on a country's shore line and it looks for the easiest place to invade, can only happen during wars and if at least 1 country on each side has a shoreline) Peace treaty (Happens if a war has been going on for too long or if there is a stalemate, attempts to clean up the border and remove most exclaves and encirclement created by the war and ends the conflict) on top of all this the end of each event isn't determined emedietly anymore and the visual changes of events isn't just a glorified loading screen and are instead actual invasions happening with constant changes that might change the outcomes a lot of hard work has gone into this and i got a lot of big plans already in the works and soon in the works so a really hope you're as excited as me for the future!

I've worked hard now for roughly a year and the sequel to this game is now starting to get ready for a steam release. you can now Wishlist it here it does not and won't have as many features as this game for a bit since it's more polished, have bigger more detailed maps, multiple in game map options and is using a more advanced system (no more provinces and instead each pixel is effected by the game) and have had a smaller development time so far but it will release in early access and be worked on after the release in December Can't wait to show more of the game and getting feedback on it! also small note to decrease confusion, earthroyale is actually a sequel to a old (kinda shitty) game not on steam called europeroyale which is why the sequel to earthroyale is numbered 3

There is good and sad and good news in this First of the 2 year anniversary map is live right now, sadly i did have to resort to uploading it using the steam workshop instead of inside of the game like i planned, you can subscribe to it/ download it right now here on the worse news, I've come to the realization that v15 can't happen at this point due to me dealing with stuff in my life that have made me have really low energy to working on this game taking a lot of energy like I've mentioned before, i did a short vote in the games discord server where i asked if it's ok for me to half cancel v15 and focus more on the sequel and also went into slightly more detail why i think it's needed and most people voted that it was ok this means that from this day forward ER is no longer in early access and i will see it as done, i might still work on patches and small updates but i won't be focusing on this game anymore. and lastly on better news the sequel to the game is progressing kind of fast as it's something that i really enjoy working on and gives me a lot of energy, there won't be a steam page for it in a long while but if you want info about it, suggest something and more you can always go to my twitter account or join the games discord server i hope you've enjoyed the game and look forwards that might comes next ^^ /Lizzy

As the core code of earthroyale is over 2 and a half years old (prob like 4 years if you include the game that earthroyale is technically a sequel to but also was built on top of) and the first playable version was done 2 years ago aaand the core was made when i still went to school and honestly really sucked at coding, the game has turned into hell to update and bug fix. therefore i have started work a bit ago on a sequel to ER that has no official release date but I'm aiming on late 2024 or early 2025 but I'm still working on a last update before I'll mostly leave Earth Royale alone. I've noticed all last year and this year that whenever i work on EarthRoyale it's constantly "oh i changed this one thing that made this entire 3 year old bit of code that's super badly made stop working but the entire game needs that code to work to be playable" over and over again and has made even the smallest updates and changes takes weeks or months to make and due to how the game is made to have custom maps i had to add a paintmode which makes each change need to be done 2 times and then also the way saves are made added basically a 3rd time i need to add each new feature and it's just not working to continue working with this game therefore I'm trying to make some last changes, new features and bug fixes currently and will release what I'm able to make as one last update, so if there's anything in the game you think should be included in this update please comment on this post, as i will be looking here and on the old post where i ask about basically the same thing back when i thought I'd be able to do a way bigger last update for any ideas you might have, though please no large scale complete game changing ideas. I'm also currently looking for feedback, requests and just any ideas anyone might have for the sequel to the game as it's in very early stages of development and i want to really get the core of it to be amazing I'm, also sharing way to much info of the sequel in twitter and discord so if you want to be spammed with images from the sequel you can look there. Right now v15 will include:

• Subdivisions added to antarctica
• Subdivisions for as many countries as i have time to add to
• Fixing Bharat's subdivisions
• Possibly 1 or 2 un decided events
• Possibly 1 new skin
• 2 year anniversary map (Possibly only as a map on the workshop due to time it would take to implement it into the actual game)

on 1/1/2023 V1 turned 2 years old with the game having been in development most likely for around 2 and a half year now. sadly that date was directly after i, the only developer of the game started feeling better after having been sick with 2 sicknesses in a row for around 7 weeks so i had no time to do anything before the anniversary. but i do want to make something for it and thought a temporary optional in game map where all countries, cities, provinces and more are replaced by player submitted ones would be a fun way to get back into working again and celebrate the game being way older than it feels like it is. When submitting you need to write a country name, rough description of where the country is/ how big and a capital name + location you can also send in a optional image of a map of the country, any cities (need location and name per city), world wonders (need location, name and a prestige value between 0 and10) or volcanoes (need location + name + size between 1 and 10) within the country' you can submit multiple of cities, volcanoes and world wonders by just writing multiples preferably on 1 or more rows each. you can also submit your discord name if you're in the discord server i can use it to contact you and ask for any info missing or extra stuff needed while I am puzzling together the map cultures, provinces and culture unions will be asked about later when the full country map is done. all submitted country's might not be added or gain all wanted provinces due to overlap but will try to add as many as possible. Submit here: https://forms.gle/cRhRsQDFU3Ti6sVy5 Discord server, make sure to get the earthroyale role after joining

Map Changes

• Renamed India to Bharat
• Split Palestine into 2 Countries in De facto

Bug Fixes

• Fixed saves not loading in

I found the issue with saves today (been really busy with irl stuff and working on new game so took time to find time to do it) It's that the antarctica treaty numbers in the save file includes decimals and then the game tries to convert it to a variable that can't handle decimals, causing a error and therefore stops the rest of the save being loaded in and the map from refreshing. to fix it, simply go to the folder users/(your pc user name)/appdata/locallow/dafaultcompany/earthroyale then choose what type of save to fix (Scenario,Paintmode or just saves) then choose the save, then go into the Antarcticatreaty text file and remove all decimal numbers (the game requires there to still be 4 numbers in there with a % dividing them, just no decimals). after next bug patch that part of the save file will support having decimals and therefore all old save files will work again, this is just a quick temp fix to make your saves work now

I've been slightly burnt out on EarthRoyale the past month or so and used this time to make a new game instead of staring at a wall trying to force myself to work on ER. it's a constant forward moving 3D "Platformer" where you compete for the top spot on a online leaderboard (as always idk really what genre to put my games under) and is a sequel to a sequel of some of my earliest games when i just started learning programming. The game will be releasing in early October, will be free to play but include in game purchases, and launch with a competition during the first week with maybe a price. will start working on the last 2 ER updates again once the new game is launched. you can Wishlist it already here

Changes

• F1 Now hides all UI

Bug Fixes

• Fixed "stop movement" from input box not canceling properly
• Fixed buttons in paintmode not stopping painting
• Capitals are no longer auto made during paintmode
• Fixed coast & island paintmode menu
• Fixed Capitals menu
• Fixed value menu in paintmode
• Fixed 3rd toolbar menues in paintmode
• Fixed paintmode brush sizes

• Removed special province types from the leaderboard

After V14.00.02 and V14.01.00 I will start work on V15 which is planned to be the last update before the full release and possibly due to future time restrictions the last big update for the game. basically income is starting to go down and treating the game as a full time job just no longer works out sadly I will try to get in as much suggested things and planned things as possible into this update as well as removing all "coming soon" texts that i just don't got time to add the planned thing for, but if there is any massive features I've said is planned they are most likely canceled due to this and I'm really sorry for that, there might still also be smaller updates or bug patches after V15 but nothing big and won't be common so if there is anything you really want added to the game or something I've said that will be added that you really want to be prioritized please join the discord or comment on this post. hope everyone is enjoying the game as much as all the positive feedback and nearly non existent negative feedback is telling me and thanks for making this my first somewhat popular game <3 been an amazing roughly 2 years (started development late summer 2021, first version was done January 1st 2022, first steam version July 2022) now working on it nearly constantly <3 even though I got way too overworked constantly xD

Bug Fixes

• Fixed spelling of UK in subdivision menu
• Fixed buttons for border settings being weird
• Fixed issues with buttons in skin menu (ND)
• Fixed AutoCamera
• Fixed Buttons working while writting in paintmode
• Removed Sweden take over world button (accidentally left in from testing)
• Removed divide country based on text chunks (accidentally left in from testing)

Removed

• Removed seasonal only text variants as it hasn't been used since christmas and only caused confusion

Text Changes

• Shrunk capital texts slightly
• Shrunk city text slightly
• Shrunk Nuclearsite text slightly

Map changes

• Added Antartica as Continent
• Added 2 Special settings for antartica in continent menu

Map Changes

• Changed native American province shapes
• Added Rosebud Indian reservation
• Added 15 new provinces for native Americans reservation
• Added 2 new provinces for USA
• Added las Vegas as city
• Phoenix now spans 2 provinces
• Added ocean texture
• Oceans now move
• Added Panama Canal as world Wonder
• Added Suez Canal as world wonder
• Added Plank map border
• Added Paper map border
• Added Shadowy map border
• Added Lava Province types
• Fire provinces now has clouds above them

event changes

• Added 20 Irl Volcanos
• Added Volcano Eruption Event
• Added Fortification Event
• Added AI Revolt Event
• Added Water Hurricane Type
• Added Fire Hurricane Type
• Added Lava Hurricane Type

UI Changes

• Removed Main menu background gameplay
• Changed colours of main menu background
• Added on off button for map border
• Added DLC Buying Button
• Added Discord Button

Internal

• All special province types strengths merged
• Country score is now saved within the country and not re calculated each scoreboard update
• Alliances scores are now calculated in the new score system
• Game now automatically make text regions for countries instead of using sub continents

Control Changes

• Q now rotates the camera to the right
• E now rotates the camera to the left
• R now tilts the camera up
• F now tilts the camera down
• Moved camera start position south
• Expanded camera area southwards
• Scrolling is now slowed down more zoomed in

Bug Fixes

• Fixed unions not splitting at end of game anymore
• Fixed union splits never happening
• Fixed unions being normally split
• SCountry value now also get randomly placed in random placement
• Fixed typo in screenshot folder name
• Fixed worldwar events having odds set to 0 in most modes

First of, if you want to watch everything new in the update before the release, there will be a showcase stream here on the 13th / 1 day before the update and DLC release V14 Brings a lot of visual changes to the game like oceans no longer being a big flat colour and instead having a texture that slowly moves, fire and the new province type lava having smoke over it, There is a new updated map for the native reservoirs within USA to be accurate to their actual shape and one new reservoir added (it had the super cute name "rosebud" so i had to add it). and like 3 small southern island has been moved to antarctica and is no longer in the base game (this should have nearly no effect on people who don't get the DLC and only makes sense as they are a part of the Antarctic continent) There is also a new world border as while working on the update I got annoyed at how the oceans are infinite, this world border will be togglable however incase you preferer the infinite ocean look. and i think the biggest most energy draining visual change, new text placement code. the game will now auto generate areas to place the text within instead of using 1 per country per sub continent, so now each country will have 1 text per area where all provinces border each other. There has been 4 new events added and 1 event that has gained 3 (5 with the DLC) new variants of it The first event added is "fortification" this event makes a country fortify a random notable site, this can be a city, world wonder or nuclear site. however the game will always pick the country's capital if it isn't already fortified and will favor cities. after a province is fortified it will stop the province from changing hands 1, no matter what way it changes owner, Annexation, split, union, natural disaster, everything but the fortified status is removed immediately after it has been used. the 2nd new event is "Volcanic Eruption" there has been 20 (23 if you own the DLC) Volcanoes added to the game map, each one with their own size/strength, if a country owns a volcano it will give a slight score boost, but if the eruption event happens the volcano will start spreading lava in multiple directions (depends on volcano size and location how many directions) creating a spider web ish pattern of lava, the lava then will each turn have a high chance of lighting 1 or more provinces around it on fire, but the lava will disappear after a while. the 3rd and 4th event are sorta connected the 3rd is "advanced robotics" this event will give a random country a prestige boost if their city is selected, that city will then get the status of having advanced robotics, any city in a country with a minimum of 1 city with advanced robotics will automatically gain the status a well. and the 4th event is "robot uprising" this event selects a random city with the advanced robotics status and creates a new randomly generated Robot or AI nation, it can however only happen to countries with more than one city and then the changed event is hurricane, if a hurricane goes over Fire, Flooded or lava province the hurricane will pick it up, changes it's colour and start spreading that province type, there is 2 more province types that this can happen to that will be mention in the DLC section of the post. and lastly there has been 4 new camera movement buttons added Q and E now rotates the camera and R and F now tilts the camera, though I do recommend not using it too much, just a fun quick thing I added the zoom speed has also been changed to be slower the more zoomed in you are and the area the camera can be in and start location of camera has changed slightly And then the big thing, AntarcticaRoyale, This DLC adds the entire continent of Antarctica to the game with multiple starting settings (claims, unclaimed, snow, glacier, research bases and off) and with that there's also 2 new province types, "Snow" which slowly turns into floods over time as it melts and "Glacier" which is un destructible (sorta) and creates snow around it over time, there is a lot of glaciers in antarctica at start but it can also be found in Alaska, Greenland and Siberia There is a new "status" for the entire game called "Antarctica treaty" It's a treaty that creates a few randomized negative score effects on any country claiming antarctica, 1 for having any land there, 1 for each new claim made, and 1 for any old claim pre signing there is 5 new events in the dlc (6 if you count a secrete one that has sadly been delayed to a few days after release) and 2 new variants to the hurricane event first of the hurricane event just like mentioned in the v14 section of the post, will now start spreading a few select province type if it goes over one, both glacier and snow can be "picked up" by the hurricanes. first 2 events added is kinda boring but has a huge impact on the game first one is "dissolve antarctica treaty", it completely removes all negative score impacts from the treaty making any country with big claims on antarctica over powered. the 2nd one is "new Antarctic treaty" this event creates a new treaty with new randomized penalties and can give a huge nerf to any Antarctic nations the 3rd new event is "snow storm" it creates a big chunk of snow on the map with a low chance of the center being turned into glaciers, it also creates a cloud over it that will fade away within 7 seconds, the event can also only happen in the north and south of the map the 4th event is "melting glacier" this is the only way to get rid of glaciers and it turns all glaciers and snow within a small area instantly into floods the 5th and last event is "research base" this allows a country to turn any unclaimed or snow province in antarctica into a new claim, and unlike the colony event, this doesn't need to be a coastal province and lastly there is a "6th" secrete event that was and is still planned that i sadly didn't have time to finish before the release date and will work on adding into the DLC in a update a few days after release, it's a short super rare "story" of multiple events also as mentioned in the V14 section the DLC adds 3 volcanoes on the continent hope you will enjoy all the new content to the game both if you get the DLC or not <3

The 4 winners of V14 event vote are!! 1. Pandemic | 47 Votes | most likely chain event causing countries to collapse and lose scores | most likely delayed to V14.1 due to the time it will take to make and having a ser release date for V14 2. Fortification | Votes 44 | Makes the province have "2 lives" any event taking over the province will instead just destroy the fortified status but keep it claimed by the effected country. capitals will be prioritized over all, with cities, world wonders and nuclear sites being prioritized over empty provinces 3. AI/Machine Revolt | Votes 41 | a random country has gone too far with their ai research and the robots revolt creating their own country, random cities within the country will be given to them 4. Volcano Eruption | Votes 37 | Multiple real life volcanos will be added into the game, each with their own strength, they will erupt forming lava in a circle around it, lava will slowly be turned into wasteland but at the same time spread fire to any province nearby

As V14 Development keep progressing it's once again time for a event vote, this time you get to choose 4 events out of 14 options and the top 4 will be added to V14 hopefully next month unless something happens to delay it. You can vote here Also next month at the exact same time as V14 comes out the new Antarctica DLC will release!! you can already Wishlist it here

I'm currently working on adding Antarctica as a new continent in a dlc that will also include events and more relating to Antarctica, it will come out later on along either v13.02 or V14 depending on how big the free update that will come with it is. As of now I got a lot planned and working on it but I do appreciate any suggestions that will make it as amazing as possible, if that's a new event, ideas on how to handle the UK, Argentina, Chile claim since i got no idea so far or whatever your mind comes up with! Right now the free update includes:

• new water texture
• New native reservoir (just loved the new rosebud so had to add it)
• and new borders for central USA, mainly to make the native reservoirs borders accurate as i made the original map before I decided to add them
• and biomes placed out on that map that will change of unclaimed looks and in future some events will be biome specific
• as always bug fixes

• Antarctica (duh)
• 4 Starting settings for Antarctica

Fixed Bugs

• Fixed Gay world order achievement
• Fixed minor typos

Skins & Achievements

• Added Pride skin Pack (unlocks when both lgbtq achievements are achieved)
• Added "The gay Revolt achievement" have a lgbtq related prefix in a split event
• Added "Gay world order" Have a country with lgbtq related prefix or gay and lesbian kingdom win the game during juli
• Winter Wonderland no longer requires it to be winter irl

Event Changes

• Changed Hurrican movement to be depending on Y Position

End of game Changes

• Union split at end now only happen if auto turns is on or you press enter
• When only 1 nations is left and it isn't a union all special provinces except lakes will be automatically claimed

Bug Fixes

• Lowered zoom scroll speed
• Scroll zooming speed no longer changes depending on frame rate
• Big split can no longer effect special province types
• Fixed borders pixel size being clamped down causing it to look awful
• Big split no longer causes continental name to not have space
• Fixed text not always disapearing
• Fixed weird special province type being nation bug
• Fixed autocamera sometimes only zooming in and not changing position

Other

• Changed inputs slightly
• Moved all files to new computer
• Changed naming system of files to support backwards support on all future updates

Map Changes

• Added Perth

Bug Fixes

• Fixed loading games not working due to the 10 new provinces
• Fixed hurricanes causing auto camera zoom go into negative
• Fixed micronations being set after random placement
• Fixed UN country locations being set after random placement
• Fixed Autonomous country locations being set after random placement
• Auto Camera is now faster
• Fixed Special province Country data loosing its exeptions as soon as it hits 0 provinces

Bug Fixes

• Fixed arrow buttons on the 3rd tool bar in paintmode
• Fixed cities being removed from country data correctly
• Fixed cities being removed from country data for no reason
• Cities created by capital finding script are now added correctly to country data
• Capitals are now only choosen after all sorting is done

Big Code Changes

• Rewrote capital choosing code
• Capitals in none city provinces now creates a new city instead of just pretending there is one

UI Changs

• Changed Antartica continent button to say coming soon
• Added a menu telling the player that the game didn't save due to wrong mapmode and that it's changing the mapmode

Typos

• Fixed spelling Menues -> Menus
• Fixed spelling Streangth -> Strength
• Fixed spelling of Comming soon -> coming soon
• Fixed spelling exhanged -> exchanged
• Fixed Spelling colapse -> collapse

Bug Fixes

• Fire no longer freezes
• Take Culture now takes alliances into consideration
• Take Subdivision now takes alliances into consideration
• Paintmode dates menu now updates text properly
• Paintmode worldwar menu now updates text properly
• Fixed cities not being destroyed by special provinces
• Fixed Wonders not being destroyed by special provinces
• Fixed nuclear sites not being destroyed by special provinces
• Fixed Capital location not moving
• Fixed saving not working
• Fixed uploading to steam workshop not working
• fixed countries loosing city keeping the text
• Fixed unclaimed nuking
• Can now open value menus
• Change in government now updates capital location
• micro nations that are unclaimed at start will have their scountry value replaced with first colonizing nation now

Bug Fixes

• Fixes all issues related to capitals caused in v13.00.01
• Fixed spelling of lanuch to launch

Bug Fixes

• Fixes Destroy Nuclear site
• Fixed Destroy City
• Fixed Destroy Wonder
• Fixed artificial odds displaying weird
• Fixed paintmode not doing anything
• If attempting to save in anything else than country map mode, the game will cancel saving and change mapmode instead
• Countries with nuclear fascilities is now counted correctly
• World wonders now save properly
• New events now save properly
• chain events now save properly
• worldwar events now save properly
• New countries are now coloured based on alliance
• Only 1 country joins former alliance from splits
• Special province types now regarded as such corectly
• inverted scroll zoom
• Fixed typo in mainmenu

Code Changes

• Remade core sorting code

Paintmode Changes

• Added Coast bool to paintmode
• Added Island bool to paintmode
• Added Capital bool to paintmode
• Added NuclearSite bool to paintmode
• Added Coast Map Mode to paintmode
• Added Island Map Mode to paintmode
• Added Capital Map Mode to paintmode
• Added NuclearSite Map Mode to paintmode
• Remade Paintmode UI to fit new theme
• Merged Controler and country values

Controls Changes

• Divide Scroll zoom speed and button zoom speed
• Changed button zoom speed
• Changed Scroll zoom speed
• WASD and Speed now changes depending on how zoomed in you are
• Testing out using same code for auto camera as for text positions *Auto camera now stays for 3 seconds if no other event happens

New Events! & Event Changes

• Making new artificial island now gives between 1 to 50 prestige depending on type of island and randomness
• Added 3 new Weighted list for choosing countries in some events
• Singular expand no longer randomly takes capitals
• Added Claimed world (last country standing will take over all special province types) (ND)
• Added Secrete Lgbtq+ stuff (and ig straight too)
• Added Take Culture Event
• Added Take Subdivision Event
• Added Border treaty event
• Added Big split event
• Made events involving unions expand the union member borders
• Added New Event Category: Artificial
• Added New Event Built World Wonder
• Added New Event Destroyed World Wonder
• Added New Event Destroyed Artificial Island
• Moved Artificial Island to Artificial Event Category
• Moved Build Nuclear Site to Artificial Event Category
• Added New Event Destroyed Nuclear Site
• Added New Event Artificial Lake (Turns a random province into flooded forever but adds permenent added points to the countries score)
• Added New Event Built New City

Map Changes

• Added easter island province to Chile
• Added 2 new provinces to the maldives closer to india
• Small changes to the borders *World Wonders will now be marked on the map
• Renamed some subdivision using invisible characters to allow dubblicates

All times in this message is in Swedish/Stockholm time zone Tomorrow at 22:00 I'll be showcasing most new features for V13 and playing 1 or more games in it! at around midnight or if the stream ends earlier the update will release so you can play it all yourself! [previewyoutube=XSkAP9t-I0Q;leftthumb]Watch the stream here[/previewyoutube] The biggest new features will be micro nations 10 new events a few small islands added new score system world wonders

Wave 2 of the V13 Event vote has now ended. top 5 / the ones going to the finally is [olist]

Wave 1 of the V13 Event vote has now ended. top 5 / the ones going to the finally is [olist]

Due to the time it has taken to develop what was considered V12.03, it will be changed to be considered V13. The aim of V13 will be *Updating paintmode (making it less confusing and updating UI Design) *Reworking the score to give greater value to notible sites (Cities, Nuclear sites, World Wonders, Artificial islands) *Changing/Updating the controls in the game (Splitting , and . zoom speed and scroll zoom speed to make scroll faster and more!) *If time and able to adding some sound to the game! As always with major updates there is a Event vote with Wave 1 out of 2 + finally is already live! This time instead of only giving you 2 votes i'm testing out letting everyone rank each proposed event giving each one a score between 0 and 9. Also the heavily hinted god mode / control over events is atm planned for V13.01 Instead of Earlier said V12.04 due to these changes.

Haven't worked on ER for roughly a week now and I'm going to start working on V12.03.00, which will include all features i originally planned for V12.02.00 but needed to delay due to needed more time to plan it out, hardest one of those is updating PaintMode to the new UI Design, since i want to make it easier to use while also adding more editable stuff for more advanced players. so if there's any part of PaintMode you find confusing, want added or changed, please write in the comments of this post. so far the changes that might happen is, [olist]

• Fixed saves no longer saving down island and coast data wrongly Causing you not to be able to load in new saves, to see how to fix V12.02.00 - V12.02.02 Saves please look at the previous post

after searching for way too long i found the issue with the save files and sadly it means that if you want any saves from V12.02 to function, you need to manually go to the save file location and either remove the 4 text files for "Islands, NuclearSites, Coast, Capitals" and edit the internal version back to "v120000 "From "v120200" or Empty the Coast and Island text file (not remove the entire file, just leave it a empty text file) this is due to me accidentally making them save down the reference to the list of all province IDs instead of the individual IDs that those values effected. I don't own a linux so i sadly don't know the path to the save files for linux users, if any smart linux person knows please write a comment describing the path and i will update this to include the path ^^ for windows you want to write %appdata% in the file path, then you wanna go back one folder to the folder called just appdata then enter the folder called local low, then default company, then EarthRoyale. in earthroyale you will see 1-3 folders depending on the save types you've used, "Scenarios" "PaintMode" and "Saves", you will find all your saves there! (My mac is in Swedish so i will directly translate the button names to english, so it might be slightly differently named also in the path you write into the go to file, user should be in your computers language and username should be replaced by your profile name on the mac itself!) for Mac you want to enter finder, click go on the top bar, click go to file/folder write "/user/UserName/Library/Application Support/" from there you want to go to default company, earthroyale. in earthroyale you will see 1-3 folders depending on the save types you've used, "Scenarios" "PaintMode" and "Saves", you will find all your saves there! Sorry for this issue and i hope it hasn't been to much of a issue ^^ only save files from V12.02.00 should be effected by this since the game only started saving down coast and islands in V12.02 in preparation of a feature that will be Added in V12.03.00 a bug patch fixing the saving will be sent out soon! and i will do my best to help anyone that ask for it in the comments of this post or in the official discord server!

• Fixed PaintMode Saves menu buttons
• Fixed Scenario Saves menu buttons
• Fixed saves menu buttons
• Fixed Saving Menus
• Fixed Unclaimed colonize event being rare
• Unclaimed Colonize odds will now be Multiplied with unclaimed coast count / 100
• Fixed learderboard buttons causing selecting nations not working
• Fixed game crashing from having all category odds at 0%
• Game Will now tell you in event text box if all categories or all events within a turned on category is at 0%
• No more independence from themself
• Renamed Hgeva to jgeva

*Fixed issues with achievements

• Moved Around Main Menu to fit with more newer UI
• Changed Background images for UI
• Changed UI font to use the same as map text
• UN starting positions Option
• Autonomous starting positions Option
• Renamed United Kingdoms to United kingdom
• Added Nuclear sites to saves
• Added Capitals to saves
• Added Coast to saves
• Added Islands to saves
• Added Best prefix to split event
• Added Worst prefix to split event
• Added Mediocre prefix to split event
• Updated MainMenu map to V12.02 Map
• Updated MainMenu map code to v12 Sorting Code
• Added text to MainMenu map
• MainMenu map now updates based on your toggles (Only when restarting game or re entering main menu)
• MainMenu map now shows in your current skins
• Removed EasterEggs menu
• Removed EasterEgg Buttons
• Removed Links Menu
• Text no longer moves and instead gets deleted and replaced each update
• Referendum Text no longer acts weird
• No more Bigboi during Referendums
• Quit button in pause no longer deletes all game data
• Fixed bug where winterwonderland achievement didn't work properly
• You now don't need to unlock winterwonderland on each computer to get the skins
• Added 3 artificial island competition winners islands
• Added 3 artificial island competition winners to credits
• Texts should now always update at end and start of world war
• Updated code turning off texts mid game
• Added 15 new Countries with SubDivisions

The 3 Winners of the Artificial island poll has been decided!!!!! 1st place and the winner of the 10 price is UnNamed by Lukas Eriksson
The 2nd place and winner of 5 is Kinda Sus by BlueEngland
And lastly the 3rd place and winner of 5 is West Canada by Clone Army

• Fixed bug where country didn't change it's alliance data to neutral after leaving
• Fixed bug where Referendum have attacking nations as victim
• Fixed bug where nuclear sites markers doesn't disapear when turned of
• Pause menu text toggles now update all texts and not only the one being toggled
• Fixed bug where the text updates in settings updated wrong button texts
• Countries can no longer change name to ""
• Fixed Unions happening but also trying to find a new event after
• Fixed culture unions not ignoring short names

You can now vote for what 3 islands should be added to the game and the creator be given a small price + credit in the game!! https://strawpoll.com/polls/DwyoqJ2lDgA

• Rewrote Division Check Alliance code completely
• Rewrote Annex Check Alliance code completely
• Rewrote Referendum Check Alliance code completely
• Fixed Referendum creating dublicate events happen sometimes
• Rewrote Union Check Alliance code completely
• Rewrote Culture Union Check Alliance code completely
• Rewrote Nuke Check Alliance code completely
• Rewrote Big Expand Check Alliance code completely
• Rewrote Singular Expand Check Alliance code completely
• Rewrote Shrink Check Alliance code completely
• Rewrote Take Coast Check Alliance code completely
• Rewrote Take Island Check Alliance code completely
• Rewrote Claimed Colony Check Alliance code completely
• Rewrote Alliance Expand Check Alliance code completely
• Rewrote Move Front Check Alliance code completely
• Rewrote Joining Ultimatum Check Alliance code completely
• Made map text name of unions with long names be in a "T.S.D" Format using UM values
• Union names will now be in size order
• WinterWonderland will be given as soon as 1 nation is left, and not at the next attempted round now
• Added Santa Claus Village to WinterWonderLand winner list
• Added More seasonal event texts
• Fixed bug where games says it's still calculating when game is over and autoplay is on
• Fixed random placement button
• Updated Text/label sizes
• Fixed flood colour in normal pack
• Texts now update when using shuffle colours
• Text properly updates after peace treaty
• Fixed Provinces without subdivisions and other values taking the closest one found
• Fixed Collapse unclaimed odds being too high
• Colapse no longer only give some values independence
• Lowered Revolt odds
• Raised Change in Government odds
• Revolts can no longer take over the entire country
• Union names updates at loss of a member
• Renamed Montreal to Ottawa & Montreal
• Crimea is no longer considered a island
• Area around Athens is no longer considered a island

• The game no longer use the alliance route for colouring all new countries
• Fixed not being able to click on countries after closing menues

• Cleaned up code
• Made Neutral into a alliance
• Updated Divide to function with neutral
• Updated Annex to function with neutral
• Updated Referendum to function with neutral
• Updated Union to function with neutral
• Updated Culture Union to function with neutral
• Updated Partition to function with neutral
• Updated Nuke to function with neutral
• Updated Big Expand to function with neutral
• Updated Singular Expand to function with neutral
• Updated Shrink to function with neutral
• Updated Take Island to function with neutral
• Updated Take Coast to function with neutral
• Updated Claimed Colonize to function with neutral
• Updated Join Alliance to function with neutral
• Updated Leave Alliance to function with neutral
• Updated Change Alliance to function with neutral
• Updated Alliance Expand to function with neutral
• Updated Joining Ultimatum to function with neutral
• Updated Peace Treaty to function with neutral
• Made Change in government not create duplicate countries
• Updated New Zealands Subdivisions
• Made Capitals properly Update their name
• Stoped countries from nuking allies
• Made capital and nuclear site text on artificial islands no longer be rotated
• Made tiny islands less common
• Made luxury islands more common
• Made the subcontinent of artificial islands be based on closest province instead of the province that "creates" it
• Added Skins Menu
• Added Skins Function
• Added WinterWonderLand Skins pack
• Added Dark Skins pack
• Added Normal Skins pack
• Made Country text min size larger
• Made capital text slightly smaller
• Made nuclearsite text smaller
• Added City Texts
• Added City Text Toggle in Pause menu
• Added City Text Toggle in MainMenu menu
• Added Achievement Winter Wonder Land
• Added Achievement Writing History
• Added Achievement Profesional Artist
• Renamed Achievements button to help (don't think a achievements menu is needed, and while i don't wanna make one, a help one is)
• Fixed location of bouvet Island
• Renamed nur sultan to astana
• SomeFreezing Renames for winter cheer
• Added Santa Claus Village as city in finland
• Added min controlled SubContinent size for city text
• Added min controlled SubContinent size for capital text
• Added min controlled SubContinent size for Nuclear text

How to enter competition: Send a image of your island and the required info in the games discord servers chat for the competition https://discord.gg/6aS4Eg4PHP Rules The Island needs to be smaller than 50x50 pixels. It needs to be pixel art. You need to mention how many provinces/Where provinces ends/begins if needed. You need to mention what classification the island would be within: Tiny = 1 province. Small = 2-3 provinces. Big = more than 3 provinces. Luxury = Any size but super rare. The island needs to have a clear black border that's 1pixel thick with a white inside just like how the in game map is, with the outside in any other colour to make it noticeable what is land and ocean It can be 1 island or a archipelago / island chain, up to you. The island can't look like any offensive or sexual symbols or objects. Price: All of top 3 will be added into the game and will gain prices First place will get 10 Euro steam gift card Second and third place will get a 5 Euro steam gift card (Gift cards will be gifted via steam, so to receive it you will need to accept a friend request) all 3 winners will have a name that they choose (real name or online handle they use, no offensive names will be allowed) added to the credits page inside of the game, unless they don't want it. Winner Selection: The best ones decided by me will be added to a public Straw poll where all players will be able to vote on which they thing is best Planned Contest Dates Start: 04/12/2022 Last day of Submissions: 15/12/2022 Start of Straw poll: 20/12/2022 End of Straw poll: 24/12/2022 Added to game: First update after the 24th

*Fixed crash caused by Shrink *Fixed crash caused by Annex *Fixed crash caused by Referendum *Fixed crash caused by Claimed Colonize *Fixed Settings on off buttons for texts

• Fixed NuclearSite text always having black outline
• Fixed Nuclear and Capital text not disappearing when country loses the land
• Fixed New Nuclear sites not appearing on map or not being added at all
• Added world war numbers
• Made peace treaties have a chance of mentioning a winner
• Fixed countries keeping alliance data after world war
• Fixed crash from division event when allied
• Slightly Changed limits on when to place markers
• Fixed Change in Government can change into the same country
• one of the Countries after both splits now stay within the alliance
• If one or both of the countries uniting is a part of a alliance the union joins it
• Culture unions do now not allow 2 countries in different alliances to join
• Culture unions now save the alliance if a member is a part of one
• Fixed shrink doing nothing if surrounded by allies
• Fixed Event text for ultimatum to not be weird
• Fixed spelling of legion

• Text Outline colour depends on brightness of country colour
• Text doesn't re apear each turn if turned on
• Shuffle Colours now respects Alliances
• Refferendums actually change the map
• Fixed WorldWar Crash
• Annexer now only needs to be 1/10th of the size of the annexee
• Change in Government does no longer turn country neutral in worldwars
• Added Capital Texts/Markers
• Added NuclearSites Text/Markers
• Added Capital Text on off switch in pause menu
• Added Capital Text on off switch in main menu settings
• Added NuclearSite Text on off switch in pause menu
• Added NuclearSite Text on off switch in main menu settings
• Added Country Name Text on off switch in Paintmode
• Added Country Name Text on off switch in pause menu in demo
• Added Country Name Text on off switch in main menu settings
• Raised Odds of Artificial Island Happening
• Added Artificial Island to Colonial Mode
• Moved Changing Capital to 1 code instead of multiple
• Moved Updating Text to 1 code instead of multiple
• Made Update Text only happen to effected countries each turn
• Removed Code Loop in take island event
• Cleaned up a bunch of UnUsed Code
• Renamed Melenesia to Melanesia
• Added Develop Nuke odds
• Fixed Setting Buttons
• Fixed Link Button
• Fixed Credit Button

Please report any bug found, as new features usually comes with new bugs that can be hard to find

• New events category "Chain Events Starts"
• New chain event, World War
• New value editible in paintmode "World Wars"
• New World war Event "Join Alliance"
• New World war Event "Leave Alliance"
• New World war Event "Move Front"
• New World war Event "Missile Strikes"
• New World war Event "Change Alliance"
• New World war Event "Alliance Expand"
• New World war Event "Joining Ultimatum"
• New World war Event "Peace Treaty"
• New Nuke Animation
• New event "Developed nuclear Facility"
• New Province bool tag "Nuclear Facility"
• Only countries with Nuclear Facilities can nuke
• Countries can only Nuke areas within a quarter of the world from any of their Nuclear Facilities
• Only Nuclear Facilities can experience Nuclear Facility Faliure events (Will be it's separate thing just like editor mode)
• Visible country name texts on map
• Added country name text option in pause menu
• Added Pacific South America Region
• Made Northern north America Smaller
• Added North American East Coast Region
• Added North American West Coast Region
• Removed Demo Grayed out savegame button
• Added Toggle Text button
• Added Toggle Text Shortcut "F1"
• Made Auto Camera zoom in more
• Increased the max zoom in Amount
• Increased the max zoom out Amount
• Annex can now not choose 2 allied countries
• Claimed Colonize can now now not choose 2 allied countries
• Can no longer expand into allied country
• Allies can no longer take land while shrinking
• Limits on how much bigger a country that's being annexed can be. roughly 1,5x the size of the annexer
• Updated some hitbox borders of provinces
• Random Map
• Removed the hundereds of console messages used for bug fixing in older updates
• Changed the way the game Stores data for countries
• Updated all Code in game to fit the new way it stores data, might have small changes in how events function
• Changed Leader board to show + or - the new or losing provinces that round, leaving the total score the same until round over, will still move position live
• Removed sub continent oceania
• Added Micronesia Sub Continent
• Added Polynesia Sub Continent
• Added Melanesia Sub Continent
• Added Australasia Sub Continent

So as the V12 Event vote is over and the update is closing in i thought i'd do a big sneak peak thread of all major things in v12 First of the 3 biggest things that are not added yet, the 3 winners of the vote: Singular Expand: A random country will be chosen, and it will expand into one of it's closest Neighbours, this will make normal expand more rare but most likely be more common that the normal expand is now Change in government: The country renames itself and moves it capital to the biggest "entity" within it's border, could be culture, former country, sub division or even city if that somehow happens Artificial Islands. A Country will Decide to make a new islands somewhere a long it's coast where it will be placed as far away from any nearby province as possible. Then there will also be a big visual change, Texts. it will be togglable as it might cause lag for some players. How it will work is that each country will gain 1 text for each sub continent they are in, and the text will be placed in between the 2 furthest away provinces they control in that sub continent and rotated based on the differences between those 2 provinces y and x distances there has been some changes to the sub continents to make the text more visually appealing, like changing England, Wales and Ireland to northern Europe from western Europe to stop the text there to merge with Gibraltar.
Then the Main theme/ new thing about the update, World Wars. the world war will be considered a "chain event" meaning that when it starts, it will unlock 8 new events that can happen related to the world war, and once the world war ends those 8 won't be able to happen anymore. As the world war starts it will divide the world into 2 or more alliances with randomized names based on what cities, regions or continents are within it.
While it doesn't in this image, it will say exactly what world war it is, and let you edit what the first world war number should be in paint mode. it will also show all alliances in the leaderboard
The alliances also means that most older events have been updated to respect allied nations borders if there is a world war going on. there 8 new events of the world war Join alliance: A neutral nation decided to join one of the alliances. Leave Alliance: A nation left their alliance to become neutral. Change Alliance: A nation left their alliance to join another alliance. Joining Ultimatum: an alliance pressures 3 neutral nations near the alliance to join them or be invaded. each of the 3 nations have 2-3 outcomes, 1 they join, 2 they get invaded but keep some land, 3 they get invaded and gets completely annexed. Moved front: The borders a long the front lines changes slightly based on how many enemy provinces surrounds it + a bit of luck
Missile strike: A alliance or country sends missile onto the enemy alliance, making some random provinces turn into wasteland
Alliance Expand: an alliance expands into the other alliances
And lastly, Peace treaty: the alliances decides to sign a peace treaty, either from there only being 1 left or due to wanting to end the war
There is also some other changes like randomized map, where all provinces, cities, cultures and countries gets randomly placed on the map, with all but cities having random sizes, shapes and positions.


There's also been a big change to how nukes work, now only countries who have a nuclear facility within it's borders got access to nuking other countries, the map starts out with a few within countries with nukes in real life (USA, UK, France, PRC, Russia, Israel, Pakistan, India, North Korea) But anyone can gain access to nukes by either taking over their provinces with nuclear facilities or making their own, and they can all disappears from having nuclear reactor failures happen there Nukes now can also only happen within roughly 1 5th of the map from a nuclear facility. There's been some smaller changes like how much you can zoom in and out, limits on annex event sizes. lastly there are some events stuff that might maybe be delayed to another update or not, depending on how much time i got before the deadline of sometime early December: God mode, let's you chose what event that should happen and what province / countries it should effect. Take subdivision / culture: a country forcefully take over an entire culture or sub division within a neighbouring country Worldwide & Local stats: pages where you can se how many times each country has won for you and worldwide, and also how many times different events have happened. In game stats: a menu you can open to get specific stats in game for each country like how much coast they got, how many nuclear facilities they got and more! Unfair Division: division event but doesn't create a equal split between countries

It's time, the finally of the v12 Event vote is now live! you got until Sunday to decide and vote for which event is your favourite and which 3 will be added to the game this December! https://strawpoll.com/polls/61gDB8QQOyw

Accidentally launched bracket 2 while trying to save it as a draft so ehm... go to https://strawpoll.com/polls/GJn4GNjX3yz to Vote for your 2 fav ones in bracket two of the v12 event vote, the top 5 will continue into one last vote where 10 in total (top 5 from the 2 brackets) will be voted on and 3 in total will be chosen to be added into the game. 3 of the ones in this bracket will be kept a secrete until they either win or lose! all 3 would be fun but rare events. if you got any questions about the events please ask and i might give some more details on how they might work if they win ^^

go to https://strawpoll.com/polls/Q0Zp4AEpJZM to Vote for your 2 fav ones in bracket one of the v12 event vote, the top 5 will continue into one last vote where 10 in total (top 5 from the 2 brackets) will be voted on and 3 in total will be chosen to be added into the game. 3 of the ones in this bracket will be kept a secrete until they either win or lose! all 3 would be fun but rare events. if you got any questions about the events please ask and i might give some more details on how they might work if they win ^^

Unless a big bug gets found within a few days, this is the last bug patch before v12. Development of v12 will start week 40 ^^

• Removed button code from highlights of v11.02 page
• Corrected button color for uploading to workshop.
• Made upload to workshop button work again.
• Made a new pause menu for non steam versions.
• Full version no longer have demo pause menu button
• Completely removed save game button from pause menu
• Added shortcut for pause menu (Escape)
• Changed how the game assigns provinces aka provinces related to islands and coast should fail less
• Fixed unclaimed land colonizing not doing anything
• Fixed bug where none provinces wasnt saved properly
• Changed how the game assigns provinces as normal, making less events fail due to picking a unclaimed province
• Fixed bug where partitions gave up if there was no possible independence within them
• Fixed bug where colonizing unclaimed land failed due to having less claimed coast than unclaimed coast
• Fixed bug where countries (mainly unions) didnt get a capital on first round
• Fixed bug where culture unions failed for no reason causing no event to happen
• Split union names now replace the Country tag of provinces, and can therefore get independence afterwards
• Fixed location of Drewistan
• Changed culture of the Iranian province East Azarbayejan to Azerbaijan
• Added Wessex Culture to England
• Fixed Revolt event doing event text for when the country already exists when it doesnt.

So, since this game now got players from all around the world (except Africa, where i sadly need the most help with this due to how hard i've had finding actual good reliable info on their cultures and how many cultures there can be in some areas of the continent and how a lot of the continent is just usually marked out as Arabic even though Arabic is more like a culture group and not one big culture) i thought i'd ask for help in giving me info about smaller local cultures that's not included in the game culture map or maybe areas where the border between 2 cultures aren't correct. You can use the culture map mode within the paint mode to see the entire culture map and any help with this is appreciated. on top of this, if you could tell me places where you think the game needs more cities added or any specific cities you feel like are missing that would also be appreciated ^^ aaand now that the game got like 1700 different sub divisions added, if you find any mistakes among them like if they are outdated or the name is slightly miss spelled or a border between them doesn't fully make sense please do that too ^^ but keep in mind that in some places i needed to merge 1 or more sub divisions due to the in game provinces not being small enough or not 100% following the actual sub divisions you can leave any info as a comment on this post, or you can join the games discord if it's more complicated info! thanks in advance ^^/liz

• Buttons for all special province types in paint controler menu of paintmode
• A text box to set streangth / how long some special province type will last in paint controler menu of paintmode
• Tags for each continent added in upload to workshop menu
• Changelog Text box in upload to workshop menu
• Tags for each type of scenario i could think if in upload to workshop menu
• Sub Divisions added to 42 more countries!!

• Added upload menu to paintmode
• Added upload menu button in pause menu in paintmode
• Added support for downloading stuff from the workshop
• Fixed bug allowing you to put month as 0 in paintmode
• Fixed bug where you couldn't change page in the event editor in paintmode

• Fixed bug where saves didn't load in
• Fixed bug where referendum events caused nothing to happen some turns due to failing to reach all their requirments
• Fixed bug where culture unions didn't delete data after a failed attempt, so some weird nations joined the unions
• Fixed bug where the advanced modes menu started on border changes and not taker over events
• Added a colour shuffle button in the pause menu
• Added a debug map (old refresh button) in the pause menu
• Version number is now shown under logo
• Changed Help menu to skins menu (still not functional)

• Fixed bug where the game freezes after a country lose their capital in a specific way
• Fixed bug where the event/mode editing menu in paint mode didn't work
• Removed the "Back" button in the event/mode editing menu in paintmode that did nothing
• Fixed the header placement in the event/mode editing menu in paintmode
• Fixed the Buddhist typo in split event
• Added a added disasters slider to the paintmode
• Colonial chance and added disasters is now counted in savefile
• shrink is now always based around the countries ingame capital

Fixed bug making it not possible to open savegame menu in paintmode Fixed bug saving not working Fixed bug saves not apearing in the list as you save Fixed bug not being able to load in saves Fixed bug too long names not working in paintmode Fixed bug Select box in paintmode not always filling in Fixed bug where countries not always had capitals, causing no event to happen sometime during culture unions Fixed bug where the game didn't look for other events if culture unions failed sometimes Fixed Typo Liechtenstein Fixed Typo Heald -> Held Added Scenario saving in paintmode Removed island status from Greenland Removed island status from Papua Removed island status from Borneo Removed island status from Madagascar Removed island status from Sumatra Removed island status from Honshu Removed island status from Great Britain Removed island status from Sulawesi Removed island status from Luzon Removed island status from South island (New Zealand) Removed island status from North island (New Zealand) Removed island status from Java Removed island status from Cuba Removed island status from Iceland Removed island status from Mindanao Removed island status from Ireland Removed island status from Hokkaido Removed island status from Hispaniola

• New update version formatting
• Renamed the Province tag and Country type to Sub Divisions to get rid of confusions with the provinces that makes up the map
• Edited way to start the game in main menu
• Added Support for infinite save files
• Removed bottom button bar in game
• Added Pause menu
• Added Main Menu button to pause menu
• Added Quit button to Pause menu
• Added Save game button to Pause menu
• Added a way to name saves whatever you want
• Added Load game menu to Pause menu
• Added cities to save files
• Added small culture unions to save files
• Added big culture unions to save files
• Added brand new paint mode
• Added enter paint mode button in main menu (can't enter from within the game)
• Added editor save files menu (Will support V10 Save files)
• Added Province city tag editor
• Added Province "Before Union tag editor
• Added small culture union tag editor
• Added big culture union tag editor
• Added Event odds Editor
• Added Paint entire country button
• Added live map edits
• Added Small Culture Union map mode
• Added Big Culture Union map mode
• Added culture map mode
• Added Sub Region map mode
• Added Sub Continent map mode
• Added Sub Divisions map mode
• Added cities map mode
• Added culture map mode
• Added staring country map mode
• Added current countries map mode
• Added visible tag to provinces
• Support to toggle Continents for Scenarios
• Support to toggle Countries for Scenarios
• Support to toggle Sub Divisions for Scenaros
• Support to toggle Cultures for Scenarios
• Support to toggle Cities for Scenarios
• Support to toggle SubContinents for scenarios
• Support to toggle Regions for scenarios
• Took x nations coast sub event to border changes
• Took x nations islands sub event to border changes
• Partition sub event to take over events
• Culture Union sub event to take over events
• Added small Culture union tag to provinces
• Added big culture union tag to provinces
• Added Time support for Scenarios
• Changed streangth of Continental flood and Island flood, and both of their mega version
• Added 3 new outcomes of fire event
• Medium Fire (fire starts in random provinces within a small area)
• Large Fire (fire starts in random provinces within a large area)
• Mega Fire (fire starts in random provinces within a continent sized area)
• Mega Hurricane

Before i show some of the new features and explain how much work is left, i wanna "Announce" the winners of the event vote for everyone that isn't in the discord and already know. The winners was Partitioned and Culture Union, What they do will be described further down this post but i promise that they are amazing. also the 8 losing events will re appear again in a new event vote together with some new ones for the next update when the development for it has started :3 Also if you got any suggestions or ideas for the game, you can leave it either in the steam community for it or in the games discord server, as i try to look at most things posted for the game to find bugs needing to be fixed or ideas i might not have thought about! So first of is the main big feature of the update, that the name "the Scenario Update" comes from, a new and improved paint mode
first of, the new PaintMode is completely separated from the normal base game, this is to be able to get rid of some of the technical issues that the old paint mode had such as not having the map update live. also, this paint mode has 2 new ways to paint. First of those is the 9 different "Brush" Sizes, with the 1st one being the old 1 province at a time brush and the and 9th being a massive Europe ish sized area. The 2nd way to paint is to paint an entire "Region", or an entire country, culture, city, sub division or whatever the map is currently showing. this will help if you wanna make for example Sweden-Norway, all you need to do is write in the name and then click both countries once. but if you do that you can also now make the game recognize it as an actual union that can split into 2 countries by filling in the "union member tags" for the country. as you might have seen in the image it also comes with being able to do custom starting year and month and custom event odds and the possibility of changing what map mode you see the game in as in you can change to only seeing cultures, or sub divisions, or the 3 easter egg values or union members or cities or the confusingly named country and controller, with controller being the existing country at the start of the game and country being the country that can gain independence as the game goes on. also while i've not started work on it yet, the paint mode will hopefully come with steam workshop support on the updates launch. i've never set up workshop for a game before so i don't know how to set it up and it might lead to workshop coming a bit later than the main update or it being connected in a wonky way at first. and due to all of this, the saves menu has been split into 3, one for save games, one for scenarios downloaded from the workshop and one for paint mode saves. with all 3 now supporting custom names and from what i know infinite save files, but i wouldn't recommend having millions of saves And on the same lines as workshop, i also wanna try to add a few achievements for now, roughly one per event and rare event type. with plans to make one per easter egg nation and making their independence menu in the main menu need you to unlock their achievements. but that will be done later on Next up is, drum roll please. new in game ui, that hopefully won't be confusing
This new ui keeps the auto camera button but moves it to the top left and shortening it to AC, it also adds a new Auto Play button, but space will still work for turning it on, on the top right you can see 2 new buttons, the top one opens up the pause menu where stuff like main menu, exit game and save game has been moved to. and under the pause button there is a leaderboard button. in the top middle you can see that the event text box has been made bigger since due to the union names and split names, and events like referendum, the old event text box just didn't work and made a lot of events end up taking up 2-4 rows. Also the time box has been moved to be in a 2nd row of the top bar in the middle, the ready/calculating text has been moved to the bottom middle and the rest of the bottom bar as been removed. and now for the most fun part of the new game in my opinion, the 4 new events and the 4 new secrete events first of we got the 2 new sub events within the border changes category First one being Take islands
In this one country takes all or a few island provinces from the closest country with island. they do not need to take the entire island, they might just take a few provinces. right now all landmasses are considered island except the mainland for each continent with Australia being the mainland for oceania. BUT i'm considering removing the island status from some bigger islands such as Borneo, Greenland and Great Britain And the next one is Take Coast
This one is the exact same as the previous one but this time with coastal provinces instead of island provinces, the game considers all provinces along a ocean (not lake or Caspian sea) as coastal ok next up is the 2 Event vote winners that both ended up being sub events within the take over category. culture unions have not been made or started work yet, but the way it will work is that it will force all countries that originates from within the area of a culture unions (for example "Germanic Union" or "Scandinavian union" or "Central American union" to be forced to join it, but i will most likely make the unions have more fun names such as the Kalmar Union. this does mean however that some easter eggs might be removed as there will now be a culture union with that name. you will also be able to draw your own culture unions in paint mode or turn on all culture unions at starts similar to how cities and cultures is right now. and lastly the big partition event
This one is really hard to explain, but what i aimed at with this one is to handle the country simIlar to what Austria Hungary experienced after ww1 and Germany after ww2. so first of, if it's a union the union members will gain independence, but as small as possible with it still seeming fair (most of the time their culture size or their start of game size) after that, it will look if any existing country got land within the country that belongs to them and gives it to them. after that it will give up to 15 countries, cultures, cities or sub divisions independence from it. and after that it will give up to 10 countries above 50 provinces 1 or more provinces within the country, with countries above 200 provinces being prioritized. and lastly it will then divide all other provinces between the closest other countries, the newly independent countries and the big nations that gained small areas within it. as you might have noticed, this event is clearly meant for big countries and not small ones. so it can only happen to countries with more than 150 provinces and will hopefully help with stopping some countries taking over half of the world with all other ones still being small. I really hope your as exited for v11 as i am, right now it looks like the update will be released within 1-2 weeks of this post with the only things left to add being:

• workshop connection
• achievements menu, pictures for them and code for unlocking them
• culture unions + buttons for it in paint mode and main menu independence menu and save data for them
• Help menu to explain paint mode, the events and other things that might be needed to explain.

Join the discord to vote on which 2 of these 10 events you want in the game! There will be 2 votes, The first vote will end on Wednesday the 17th and the second will end on Sunday the 21st [olist]

• New mode "Colonial" Mode, made to work best when some continents are turned unclaimed
• Fixed bug where unclaimed colonize event couldn't find a coast to be colonized by if there's a lot of unclaimed coast
• Fixed bug where colonized unclimed land could still be claimed by the claiming code when calculating at the end of the event
• Re did unclaimd claiming code again.
• Made each country get their own "odds of claiming unclaimed land" each round
• Made each country get a random ammount of provinces each round they can claim, based on their size
• Gave Normal Split event it's own event text "Split in half"
• New split prefix

• Fixed bug where saving a game replaced all empty province tags with a the id of the first province with a empty tag of that type, typically 29 or 77
• Changed position of save files for windows and linux to be the same as mac
• Re did the unclaimed script
• Added a Area2 Tag to provinces, that's only used for split events
• Raised claiming unclaimed land odds

• Fixed bug where Country tag gets replaced with "None" or "Unclaimed" if you use the continent menu
• Fixed the typo in United Arab Republics where it said Uniter
• Fixed where the Sinai Triangle / Asian Egypt still had UAR Instead of full name

• Added one more way to check if a province need to be updated
• Added a tag for cities to provinces
• Renamed the province "Lagos - Ogun" to "Ogun"
• Replaced the steam Advertisement with a advertisement for the discord, patreon and a link to youtube search for earthroyale (with only within the last month turned on)
• Added Colapse Unclaimed odds slider in settings
• Fixed hurricane invis nation bug
• Removed the old time limit of hurricanes, which now lets them play out fully no matter how long it takes :3
• Added country On, Off and unclaimed button in the independence menu
• Added cities independence slider
• Added cities independence values to each mode
• Added cities independence chance in revolt and collapse events
• Fixed Unclaimed colonization not working
• Fixed Colapse odds slider in settings not doing anything
• Updated Donets'k and Luhans'k names
• Changed Donets'k and Luhans'k cultures to be ukraine instead of their own cultures
• Fixed province without province tag in kazakhstan and Iran
• Fixed Vienna being a province tag and not city tag
• Made nones less laggy
• Added the 30 biggest cities in europe [olist]
• Moscow
• Istanbul (on european side Constantinople)
• London
• Saint Petersburg
• Berlin
• Madrid
• Kyiv
• Rome (in both vatican and the province surounding it)
• Bucharest
• Paris
• Minsk
• Vienna
• Hamburg
• Warsaw
• Budapest
• Belgrade
• Barcelona
• Munich
• Kharkiv
• Milan
• Sofia
• Prague
• Kazan
• Novgorod
• Tbilisi (In game within Asia)
• Samara
• Birmingham
• Rostov-on-Don
• Ufa
• Cologne [/olist]
• Added the top 40 cities in Asia (not some overlapping ones) [olist]
• Shanghai
• Beijing
• Mumbai
• Delhi
• Karachi
• Dhaka
• Tokyo
• Manila
• Guangzhou
• Overlaped with Guangzhou, would have been Shenzhen
• Zushou
• Bangkok
• Jakarta
• Lahore
• Seoul
• H Ch Minh
• Bengaluru
• Overlaped with Guangzhou, would have been Dongguan
• Chongqing
• Nanjing
• Tehran
• Shenyang
• Hanoi
• Hong Kong
• Baghdad
• Changsha
• Wuhan
• Tianjin
• Hyderabad
• Faisalabad
• Would have been Foshan but overlaped with Guangzhou
• Zunyi
• Chittagong
• Riyadh
• Ahmedabad
• Singapore
• Would have been Shantou but overlaped with Guangzhou
• Ankara
• Yangon
• Chengdu [/olist]
• Added the top 25 cities in Africa (not some overlapping ones) [olist]
• Kinshasa
• Lagos
• Cairo
• Giza
• Dar es Salaam
• Khartoum
• Johannesburg
• Abidjan
• Alexandria
• Nairobi
• Cape Town
• Accra
• Yaound
• Overlaped with Johannesburg, would have been East Rand
• Durban
• Casablanca
• Douala
• Pretoria
• Ibadan
• Kano
• Kumasi
• Abuja
• Kampala
• Addis Ababa
• Dakar [/olist]
• Added the top 25 cities in North America [olist]
• Mexico City
• New York
• Los Angeles
• Toronto
• Chicago
• Houston
• Havana
• Montreal
• Overlaped with Mexico city, would have been Ecatepec de Morelos
• Philadelphia
• Phoenix
• San Antonio
• Guadalajara
• Puebla
• San Diego
• Jurez
• Len
• Dallas
• Tijuana
• Calgary
• Tegucigalpa
• Would have been Zapopan but overlaped with Guadalajara
• Monterrey
• Managua
• Nezahualcyotl [/olist]
• Added the top 20 cities in South America [olist]
• So Paulo
• Lima
• Bogot
• Rio de Janeiro
• Santiago
• Caracas
• Buenos Aires
• Salvador
• Braslia
• Fortaleza
• Guayaquil
• Quito
• Belo Horizonte
• Medelln
• Cali
• Manaus
• Curitiba
• Maracaibo
• Recife
• Santa Cruz de la Sierra [/olist]
• Added the top 10 cities in Oceania [olist]
• Auckland
• Brisbane
• Overlaped with Brisbane, would have been Gold Coast
• Jayapura
• Christchurch
• Sydney
• Would have been Blacktown but overlaped with sydney
• Port Moresby
• Honolulu (In game in north america)
• Melbourne [/olist]
• Provinces for 21 more countries [olist]
• Argentina
• Ukraine
• Norway
• Mongolia
• Yemen
• Venezuela
• South Africa
• Uzbekistan
• Poland
• New Zealand
• Mauritania
• Malaysia
• Mali
• Latvia
• Angola
• Zambia
• Senegal
• Mozambique
• Iraq
• Ethiopia
• Cuba [/olist]