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.