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• Leviathan - 35% Off
• Emperor - 35% Off
• Dharma - 35% Off
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• Mandate of Heaven - 35% Off
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• El Dorado - 70% Off
• Res Publica - 70% Off
• Wealth of Nations - 70% Off
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Hey all! Vasi here -- Im stepping in for Ryagi this week to bring you our latest mod spotlight: Aurora Regnorum. What would have happened if an isolated Alaska had been visited by Europeans much earlier? This is a niche but intriguing alt history mod, featuring a unique map and bringing richly detailed flavour to an overlooked region. Difficulty options are also embedded in the mod, for those wanting a variable experience.

>> Aurora Regnorum on the Steam workshop <<

Regions

• Kodiak: Semi Isolated from the action, Kodiak will typically be dominated by the Russian-tag of Kadyak unless otherwise challenged.
• Kenai and Anchorage: These regions are by far the busiest and where you will find the most traditional EU4 experience.
• Susitna and Glenallen: These regions begin very empty, but are intended to be colonized by whoever and create an opportunity for growth.
• Prince William Sound: This is my personal favorite region. PWS is all about trade and naval maneuvering. Most provinces here are hard to fight on but their goods produced make them worth seeking after.
• Southeast mega-region: As I said before, this area is underdeveloped. The terrain will look unfinished but I hope that it is at least functional enough to work as a colonization avenue.

Religion

Countries

• Afognak: Afognak is a rough start to be sure. If victorious, its designed to replace Kadyak as the dominant Kodiak tag. If Afognak survives its initial wars with Kadyak, it will easily be a dominant power. Afognak also follows Shamanism.

• Kadyak: This tag is more in line historically with colonial Russia. Exploitation of land and people for the sake of their own is a key principle.

• Svatosk: Maybe the most unique tag, Svatosk is built to peacefully integrate with the natives. It uses a mostly functional event system that is designed to build trust with their two Alutiiq neighbors, once trust is high enough, Svatosk can peacefully vassalize them.

• Velreiz: This nation happens to occupy maybe the most important province in the mod. There will be blood over the Kahtnu River.
• Kenaitze: Velreizs rival, Kenaitze has maybe the most content in the mod.

• Kordovaa: Only three unique missions, but this is for some reason my favorite tag in the whole thing. It is definitely the sassiest tag and prefers to use its diplomatic savvy to dominate the economy.

• Nanwalek: This country is very odd as I never made a mission tree for it, yet it has the most unique events by far. This is because it has a lot of events related to the Afognaq-Kadyak struggle and their role in it. Also Bigfoot lives there.

Unique Events

• War of the Kahtnu River: I created this event to cause an initial shake up between Velreiz and Kenaitze. If you play either of these countries, you will be pressured to go to war in the first year or so. Very similar to The Surrender of Maine
• The Pirates of Kalgin: I really loved making this event. Basically if Velreiz is losing the War of the Kahtnu River, the unique island tag of Kalgin will break free from Velreiz. It is the most unique tag in the game: A Native Alaskan, yet Catholic, Pirate Republic. If you are playing as Velreiz when the event fires you will get the option to play as them.

• The Nantiinaq: Fun little event chain. Currently only works if you are Nanwalek, but essentially it's about Bigfoot. This is because of the modern-day lore around the region of Port Graham, Alaska.

Province Names

Great Projects

• Fort Puyurniq: This is to give the Alutiiqs a chance to survive on Afognak. It is basically just a really cheap fort as they dont start with much money. Completely fictional.
• Cathedral of the Holy Resurrection: This is based on the real building that exists today in the city of Kodiak, Alaska. Something for the Orthodox nations to use.
• The Great Longhouse: This is another fictional building, but is essentially a way to get more goods produced in a central Kenai.

• Redoubt of Saint Nicholas: Based on a real nearby fort, Fort Nikolaevskaia, built in 1899, this great project essentially backs up the lore of Velreiz settling up the Kenai River.

• Mount Susitna: My favorite Great Project, the only one that is non-fictional that is related to Native Alaskans. There is a ton of lore on this mountain in oral native tradition, and I find it fascinating.

Spicy Options

• Hard Mode: This is based on Anbennars Great Conquerors feature. With a world this small, you may find yourself being too dominant too quickly. I added this to give an extra dose of challenge.

• Vinland Challenge: This option enabled Brimirhavn, a fierce offshoot of a wildly successful Vinland. Basically you are enabling a timeline where Vinland never died, but instead manifest destinyd itself all the way to your doorstep; and they dont like you.

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Hey folks! Ryagi here, today features our first ever multiplayer focused mod spotlight! Well be taking a deep dive into a toolset initially created for TurboLarp's Grandest Lan. Now you might be thinking Im not playing at the Lan, so what good does this mod do for me? well that dear EU4 player is where I invite you to let your imaginations run wild! Especially if you are interested in EU4 Multiplayer. A toolset such as this can prove hugely useful for curating the perfect multiplayer environments, and enhancing your MP experiences. Figuring out how best to utilize this toolset for yourself may be easier if we give you some examples. So let's go ahead and take a look at how this mod was used for this years Grandest Lan, and from that hopefully your ideas will run wild! Ill let Game Master (And pro modder) Lunar take it away:

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Statistics! Since we all love cool numbers, weve added a bunch of new automated ways to track in-game happenings to later share it with players at the end of the campaign.
So lets go through them one by one, shall we?

The Scenario

The theme of this years event was vampires, and so the storyline followed the vampires of the new bloodline (i.e. the participants) establishing themselves as rulers of their countries, and jointly deciding between following various vampiric ideals and philosophies. The first of these choices came when the ideals of vampiric inquisition came to grow in strength across the continent:
The Inquisition (later renamed to Order of the Dragon as it became formalized and overcame its pariah status) is a religion loosely inspired by Reformed, which allows players to switch between focuses that carried both heavy reward and heavy penalties:



On top of that, it allowed the oh-so-precious opportunity to impale your own advisors and watch them suffer, in exchange for a hefty sum of mana points (with a 15 years-long cooldown because blood is tastier when you give yourself the time to savor it)
Many decades later, in the wake of the Age of Absolutism, a new threat has emerged in the Americas, that the players now had to choose how to deal with:
The powerful nation of Enoch (played by one of our GMs), in spite of its small size, proved to be a formidable opponent that required the players to spend a long-time preparing a grand coalition before being able to best them, and the war nevertheless costed millions of lives
I will leave a lot of the nitty-gritty details of the scenario unmentioned here, as at the end of the day, this part of the mod was crafted specifically for the needs of the event, but nevertheless what Id love you - the reader - to take away from this is that variety is the spice of life, and it actually doesnt take that much to expand and adjust EUIV to add the things like Ive described here. Be that new countries, religions, idea groups; if there is something that you think would be cool to add to the game I encourage you to just try and do it! Even if you dont have much modding experience, at the very least youll learn something new and cool in the process :)

Blood Feuds

A major highlight of the event, that proved to be quite enjoyed by the participants in the end was the newly-added mechanic of Blood Feuds. In essence: Blood Feud is a challenge a country can issue to another to ask it for a 1vs1 duel. The catch? Both sides need to agree for the war to start, its much costlier to take lands and both sides are compensated in 75% of the manpower lost during the war once it's over.
Wars in EU4 MP are costly and often seen as very risky, so weve added this mechanic as a way to encourage players to engage in for fun wars where they get to show off the strength of their countries and their own ability to outmaneuver the opponent while removing the frequent risk of falling way too behind other countries, which instead would elect to just grow their economies and military in peace.

The Artifacts

Last aspect of the scenario that I will mention here is the mechanic of artifacts. Spread all over the world, from Tasmania to Nordkapp several vampiric domains stood, guarding ancient vampiric relics said to give their possessor a great power~~
Each of these domains posed a challenge to players to find them, and conquer. The victor would both obtain the physical form of the relic as well as an in-game modifier for as long as the relic remained in their control.
Screencap from Florryworrys LAN coverage (Florry pls no kill)

The GM Control Panel

A typical EUIV multiplayer game tends to be split into sessions. A community might gather once a week to play for a few hours, and then continue the week after, giving ample time for any modifications that might be necessary to keep the game running. Having no such time we developed an in-game control panel, accessible only to the GM countries, that allowed us to interact with the games world however it was needed.
The control panel served no specific, constrained purpose. Instead, it was meant to allow us to react to pretty much whatever was happening in the game. A team has lost their country and now they need to relocate onto an AI nation? Sure! We can add provinces to their new country, clear corruption and all the bad things that AI mightve done to it to allow them to rejoin onto it without having to restart the game A team has struck a deal with one of the NPCs to help with converting their nation to the Inquisition? We can help with that! The players have voted during a Conclave (a Player Council) that they should no longer be bound by the technology requirements in order to form countries like Germany or Egypt? We have a button for it! The control panel enabled an extensive ability to influence the state of a country. What in the past would usually take a rehost and very stressful save-editing that still could turn out to have some problems, with the control panel we can do it in just a minute, without interrupting the campaign for other players.

Extra statistics

The possibly most minor and niche feature of the LAN mod, that nevertheless I think is worth mentioning, was the addition of extra statistics. Some of you might already be aware of tools like PDXTools or Skanderbeg, which allow you to extract information from the save file to analyze the progress of the campaign, but we wanted to go a step further. Using a combination of scripted effects with a yearly biyearly on_action we are able to export a lot of new variables into the savefile that can then be extracted for it for our enjoyment, which is how we are able to say that, for example, the team playing Byzantium (led by none other but AbsoluteHabibi himself) exploited dev of its provinces 80 times just in the last 30 years of the campaign alone, on top of executing 10 barrages and recruiting 2200 new regiments, among many other fun facts :)

So whats in it for me?

It depends! The Grandest LAN Mod was crafted primarily with the LAN itself in mind, and its very probable that it just wont fit with how you usually play your games. With that said, there are three things that Id love if you could take away from this spotlight: Firstly, that LANs are really cool! We put a lot of effort each year into coming up with ways to make each new campaign feel different, and less so like your usual run-of-the-mill multiplayer campaign, so if you havent had a chance to join any of the previous events, I greatly encourage you to consider it the next time Grandest LAN returns. Secondly, and this part goes mainly towards MP players and hosts: I wanted to show that theres a lot of tools you can use to make organizing your games smoother. Even if you dont play in campaigns where having a separate Game Master country that could make use of our Control Panel is feasible, you may still want to add some extra logging to the savefiles to help with detecting potential abusers and cheaters (a problem thats unfortunately growing in the community). But it goes beyond that as well! If you find yourself playing in a group that relies on fancy formulas to calculate the strength of each player country, you can now aid yourself in that process by exporting necessary variables directly from the game, rather than having to rely on manual input or faulty calculations. Theres a lot of small scripting work that, when done right, could save you tons of effort and stress. Thirdly though, and perhaps more importantly, that it doesnt take massive mods that change and greatly build on every single aspect of the game for you to have a chance at improving your enjoyment of the EU4. The modding system provided to us by the developers is very wide and extensive, and even though it might be confusing at times, and solutions to some problems wont be obvious at a moments notice, if you start small you too can recraft and remake the game to your liking, even if you have no prior modding experience. So, if nothing else, may this spotlight serve as a set of ideas that you can draw inspiration from for your own work. Maybe theres some scenario that youd love to play out with your friends, DnD style? Or maybe you like our idea for artifacts? the duel system? the extra statistics? If you answer yes to any of these questions, then I feel blessed to have been given the chance to write this piece ^^ Thanks for your attention, and Ill see you all around! - Lunar AKA Jarvin

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Thank you Lunar, we hope that this look into the toolset gave you some ideas for how your next big multiplayer can be run. Whether it's just you and a few friends, or a big organized game. We encourage you to give it a shot! Until next time! You can find the toolset here https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3084307694

[ 2024-11-08 16:31:30 CET ] [ Original post ]

Ahoy! Ryagi here. This spotlight will be a little bit special, today we're not covering 1 mod but 3! All three of these mods will be from Modathon Season 3, which took place throughout late August (2024) and concluded September 8th. If you're unfamiliar with these Modathons, they are essentially game jams, but for EUIV mods. Teams of 3-5 people organize themselves and make a mod in just a couple of weeks. These mods are then voted on by the modders and community, and the "Winners" given awards!

The Awards for Season 3 are as follows:

• 1st place Overall Winner
• General Mechanics
• Ooh Shiny! (Tied)
• Innovative

• 1st Place: Alternate History

• 1st Place Regional Flavor
• Ooh Shiny! (Tied)

• Awards: Meme Worthy

• Overall Runner up
• 2nd place: General Mechanics

• 2nd place Alternate history
• Ooh Shiny! (Tied)

Cookies

Buildings

• Cursors: The cheapest building, where you employ hilariously underpaid workers to click the big cookie for you once a month.
• Grandma: An old lady, one with a lifetime of experience baking and a true mastery of the cookie form.
• Farm: A new agricultural revolution. Instead of growing cookie ingredients, cut out the middleman and grow the cookies directly!
• Mine: The earths formation was the ultimate oven, and the crust contains massive veins of cookie ore to unearth.
• Factory: A bit early for the industrial revolution, but nothing drives innovation faster than cookies.
• Bank: Cookies have become the primary currency of your state, so of course, your mints can regulate it!
• Temple: God finally answers your priests prayers!
• Wizard Tower: But sometimes, God isnt enough, and you have to take the supernatural into your own hands.
• Shipment: EU4 is a game about colonialism, so of course, your overseas holdings will contribute to your cookie Empire.

Upgrades

• Cookie Trebuchets: the enemy morale plummets when they see your forces feasting on cookies.
• Cookie Rations: and all the while, your troops are always ready and excited to fight, from the sugar rush!
• Steadfast Tax Regime: Cookie production is lucrative, so why not tax the extra income your people have now?
• Promote Sweet Immigration: Wages paid in cookies make foreigners eager to migrate and enlist.
• Hegemony of the Grandmatriarchs: Who would oppose their integration into the cookie regime? I wouldnt!

Province Modifiers

A Note on Math and Loading Times

Our Team

Get the Mod

There was an idea

Plans upon plans

Asia in Brief

Europe

The Highlands

The Rest of Europe

The New? World

The High Kingdom of Vinland

Archaeology

The idea behind Archaeology

Gameplay Design of Archaeology

Visual Design of Archaeology

Last Breath

Wacky Events

• Cookie Taxer
• Last Breath: The Sunrise Invasion
• Wacky Events

• Shattered England
• Mining and Ores Reworked
• Indica Universalis - Shadows of Zomia

Conquerors! Its me, your friendly community manager, Katten, bringing you exciting news! We're kicking off our free-to-play event, launching our new base game, and starting our grandest sale yet! So lets dive into the details below!

Free-to-Play!

The New Base Game

The Grandest Sale

Expansions

• Winds of Change - 20% Off
• Domination - 20% Off
• Leviathan - 35% Off
• Emperor - 35% Off
• Dharma - 35% Off
• Cradle of Civilization - 45% Off
• Mandate of Heaven - 35% Off
• Mare Nostrum - 35% Off
• The Cossacks - 70% Off
• El Dorado - 70% Off
• Res Publica - 70% Off
• Wealth of Nations - 70% Off
• Conquest of Paradise - 70% Off

Immersion Packs

• King of Kings - 20% Off
• Lions of the North - 35% Off
• Origins - 40% Off
• Golden Century - 40% Off
• Rule Britannia - 40% Off
• Third Rome - 40% Off

Music & Unit Packs

• Ultimate Sprite Pack - 20% Off
• Ultimate Music Pack - 60% Off
• Sounds from the Community - Kairi Soundtrack Part III - 50% Off
• Guns, Drums and Steel Volume 3 Music Pack - 60% Off
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Other

• Ultimate E-book Pack - 60% Off
• China History Lessons - 50% Off

Greetings! We come bearing tidings of an exciting future! First and foremost: as of today, all owners of the EU4 Starter Edition will receive the DLC Common Sense for free. At the same time, EVERYONE can now go to our Steam Store page and download the Rights of Man, Art of War, Common Sense and the Digital Extreme Upgrade DLCs for free! This is in preparation for next week, when we will merge all above mentioned DLCs into the base game for everyone by default.
Please note that trying to load a save from before using these DLCs will break it. This is why we have announced this initiative a month in advance, so you can choose to start the game with or without these DLCs active. If you wish to continue an old save without these DLCs active after October 17th, you can revert your game version to 1.37.4 (https://pdxint.at/rollback) But that is not all! Just as we promised, we also want to make it easier for you to complete your collection of EUIV Expansions and Immersion Packs - so the Ultimate Bundle is now heavily discounted! If you are an Europa Universalis IV veteran, your discount on Steam will be even higher - as the price will be lowered by the cost of DLCs you already own. https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/22085/Europa_Universalis_IV_Ultimate_Bundle/ If you are looking to either get EU4 for yourself or your friends, or enhance your experience, now is the best time!

Overview of the Map

Religions

Nation-Specific Content

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Hello again! Ryagi here to bring you yet another overhaul for EUIV. Overhaul mods are by definition some of the most ambitious projects to undertake for any mod team. And Atlas Novum is no exception, broadly touching almost every major game mechanic in EUIV, provinces, government reforms, techs, institutions, units and more! Taking inspiration from some of Grandfathers of EUIV modding such as Beyond Typus, MEIOU & Taxes and more. So, lets sink our teeth into this huge project with the help of lead Dev Amyzonis, presenting Atlas Novum! --------------------- Howdy! My name is Amyzonis and I am the lead developer of the mod Atlas Novum, a project that has been in development for the past six years. What is Atlas Novum? Described by some as EU4.5, Atlas Novum is a total overhaul of the game. Our development process has been to focus on reworks in three distinct phases: mapwork, mechanics, and content. Thus far only the mapwork has been completed in its entirety, though mechanics are rapidly approaching completion as well. Once those two aspects are done, we will consider the mod to be in a feature-complete state, and focus our efforts entirely on content.

Mapwork

Mechanics

Terrain and Climate

Population and Development

Cultures and Religions

Government and Estates

Technology and Institutions

• Golden Gears: Western, Latin, German, Nordic, Han
• Blue Gears: Eastern, Greek, Russian, Balkan, Caucasian, Anatolian, Mashriqi, Maghrebi, Persian, Indian, Tibetan, Japanese, Indochinese, Malesian
• Silver Gears: Sahelian, Guinean, Cushitic, Zanji, Nyanzan, Congolese, Nomadic, Uralic, Kanata, Mississipian, Mesoamerican, Andean
• Bronze Gears: Bantu, Khoisan, Siberian, Papuan, Aboriginal, Oceanic, Eskaleut, Athabaskan, Cascadian, Californian, Great Basin, Great Plains, Aridoamerican, Caribbean, Isthmoamerican, Amazonian, Chacoan, Brasilian, Patagonian
• Easter eggs: High American, Chthonic

Subjects

Trade Goods

Content

Missions

Wonders and Great Projects

• Reparata Varna or Revenge for Varna is our standard start.
• Satus Latius or Expanded Start is an expanded start with additional tags.
• Plus Ultra or Further Beyond is the start for those of you looking for maximum border gore and PC temperature.
• Maiora Imperia or Major Empires is a reduced tag start intended for lower power computers and multiplayer games, though it is a little under-maintained at the moment.

• Custom Rulesets, which is currently a placeholder, but will allow you to select between things like climate type (Historical, Hothouse, Ice Age, &c), disease virility and mortality, and Great Project & Wonder types.
• Alternative Histories, which are functional (though presently lacking content) and are split between region removals and custom setups.
  • Region removals include:
    • Tabula Rasa - No Afro-Eurasia tags
    • Seiuncta Beringia - No Americas tags
    • Anahuac Inhospitalis - No Central or South American tags
    • Invia Darien - No South American tags
    • Nul Insulae - No Oceania tags
    • Exculto Populo - No native or tribal tags
  • Custom setups imagine alternative scenarios for the New World based on apocryphal evidence or theorized settings including:
    • Absit Rome - Rome located in Mesoamerica
    • New Zion - Mormons located in Mesoamerica
    • Hawaii Nui - Polynesian colonists along the Andes
    • Vinlandic Perseverance - Vikings still residing in Newfoundland
    • Ard Majhulah - Arabic explorers in Brazil
    • Zheng Hes Eighth Voyage - Chinese colonies in South California
    • Third Odyssey - Byzantine refugees in the Chesapeake *cough Elysia cough*
    • Sunset Invasion - A massive High American technology Mesoamerica
    • Chthonic Awakening - currently a placeholder for some unnatural cultists worshiping long-slumbering eldritch Gods
    • We have some further ideas for Mali, Irish/Welsh, Ancient Egyptian, and Phoenician starts, but implementation is low priority compared to historical content

Conclusion

Greetings all! We are aware that our latest patch seems to have been causing some issues - this was obviously not our intention. We should have responded quicker to your concerns, and for failing to do so we are sorry. Thank you to all of you whom helped your fellow gamer to rollback game version and other workarounds. Save games should be unaffected by this hotfix. although no guarantees can ever be given. As always, please report any issues in our bug report forum or submit a support ticket Hotfix 1.37.4 Patch Notes ################### # Bugfixes ################### - Fixed a bug not allowing to split boats into two navies with reorganize window outside of harbors while the game is unpaused as the window disapped when a day passed. - Fixed land unit types being changed while teching up. - Fixed a CTD with countries being full annexed by a 3rd party while at war - Fixed a CTD with auto peace deals - Removed a cooldown on AI leaving coalitions. - Moved the separatist sentiment delay to immediate - Fixed the button to call allies to wars.

Finally the day is here! Welcome to the very first episode of our new Europa Universalis podcast! In this pilot episode our hosts Ryan and Lia are picking the brains of Will "BigBoss" Samelis - Content Designer at Paradox Tinto! [previewyoutube=xdwnHPO0cUo;full][/previewyoutube]

Hey everyone - Today we released patch 1.37.3, containing about 170 fixes. The patch is mainly focused on fixing King of Kings and Winds of Change content. Fixing CTDs, Diplomacy and Warfare related issues. As always, please report any issues in our bug report forum or submit a support ticket. Keep in mind while these changes shouldn't affect 1.37.0/1/2 save games too profoundly, as usual we can't 100% guarantee stability with saves. So it is recommended that you roll back to 1.37.2 before continuing any ongoing campaigns! ################### # Interface ################### # Other - Hovering over the river crossing icon in province view will now highlight all other provinces with river adjacencies. ################### # Usermodding ################### # Other - Added the on_expanded_infrastructure_removed on_action. ################### # Script ################### # Decisions - The "Form Great Yuan" decision now removes the Altaic cultures from being accepted. - Georgia can no longer move the capital to Constantinople if the province is not inside a state. - The "Form Austria-Hungary" administrative technology requirement has been changed from 20 to 18. - "Adopt Aztec Traditions" now highlights the province of Mexica and provinces owned by Aztecs. - The Transfer Nitra decision is no longer visible if the Slovakia area is directly owned. - The "Unite with the Iberian Crown" decision is now only visible if Castile or Spain are not subjects and they are valid Personal Union targets. # Events - Separatist sentiment event now has a cooldown of 180 days to discourage keeping the event open instead of clicking the option. - Elections no longer trigger the "Mummification of the Dead" event. - The Aztec event Deites of Nahua does not list the National Unrest for Quetzalcoatl option tooltip. - The Dutch event The Throne of England now properly checks for DLC on the first option. - The Dutch event The Thorne of England now properly spells Man Of Wars. -The Dutch event "The Throne of England" event now grants a naval reformer advisor. - The Great Council of the Low Countries can only fire for Burgundy now. - The Mongol Peace event removes previous modifiers and grants Pax Mongolica modifiers. - The event "Mongol Peace" now clarifies that only future rulers will gain the Conqueror trait. - Yuan released through the Timurid Event "Yuan Campaign" now inherits technology and ideas from its overlord. - Changing the culture group to Gothic Germanic with the The Court of Alexis event, will now change the culture of the ruler and heir as well. - The event "Independence of the Egyptian Eyalet" will now always trigger if Egypt is not an Eyalet under the Ottomans. # Ideas - Greater Armenian ideas are now properly assigned if the country does not have Armenian ideas. # Missions - Aztecs, Mayan nations, and Cusco now receive generic American missions without "Winds of Change" DLC. - Random New World tags can no longer randomly get missions of specific American natives. - The Mayan "Punish the Invaders" mission event preview now informs about the ability to convert the player technology group to High American. - The "Expansion of Tenochtitlan" mission now has alternative rewards if the City of Tenochtitlan modifier is already present. - The mission "Fall of the Isles" for the Sunset Invasion Tree will only highlight the Stonehedge province if the player owns 25 provinces in Britain except the one with the Stonehedge. - The mission "La Rose et le Lys" for the Sunset Invasion Tree will only highlight Paris if the player owns 15 provinces in France excluding Paris. - The "Iberian Windmills" mission for the Sunset Invasion Tree will only highlight Madrid if the player owns at least 15 provinces in Iberia excluding Madrid. - The Aztec Roads mission will no longer spill out if the player has an estate with a long name. - The mission tree no longer breaks when forming a Nation with High American Tree as an Aztec, Mayan, or Incan nation. - Removed the ability for non-Cusco tags to see the tooltip informing of the Machu Picchu upgrade after the "Ground Shaker" mission - The Dutch mission "Tales of Gold and Spice" now has an improved tooltip fixing an issue with the highlight. - The Dutch mission "Question of the Confederation" now grants rewards properly. - The Dutch mission "Ending the Sound Toll" requires to be the Netherlands. - Duch Mission "Ending the Sound Toll" will no longer display the country's name for the "Diplomatic" way of completing the mission. - Forming another nation as Bohemia no longer breaks the Bohemian mission tree. - The Austrian mission "The Imperial Border" now takes into account HRE member subject provinces. - The Austrian mission Defeat the French does not create new regiments as soon as the player converts France into a personal union. - The Austrian mission "Iberian Relations has an alternative trigger if Castile and Spain do not exist. - The Hungarian mission "Weaken Austria" is now completeable when Austria is a subject of Hungary. - The Italian Mission "Befriend Ethiopia" now has a fallback in case no Christian nations exist in the Horn of Africa. - The German mission Industrialize Rhineland requires only 250 of development in Rhineland instead of 500. - Forming any country that does not have any branching missions while allowing the preview for branching missions active will now remove the preview buttons properly. - Horde missions now grant claims needed for the mission "Ending the Divine Wind". - Horde missions now grant claims needed for the mission "Hermit Ender". - Tatar missions now give claims on Tibet. - The Moghulistan and Tatar mission tree now contain claims on Tibet. - Horde mission "Into Iran" now gives claims on Persia. - The Mongol mission "Tumu Crisis" now gives claims on Manchuria. - "For the Horde" Hordes mission no longer says that it will rename the Clergy estate into the Shamans. - The Mongol mission "Heart of Persia" now mentions the Persia Region instead of just Persia to avoid confusion. - The Horde mission "Into Egypt" now has alternative rewards in case the player is not able to raze. - The Horde mission "Siege Beijing" no longer gives duplicate claims for Mongols. - The Hordes mission "Cross the Caucasus" effect now properly displays Legitimacy equivalents. - Horde Mission "Opening the Dragon's Gate" no longer requires to directly own Ningxia. - The Tatar Mission "Unify the Great State" can now be completed if the Mongol Empire is formed before the Golden Horde. - Yuan mission "Emperor's Guard" now checks for Sino-Altaic cultured provinces. - The Hormuzi/Omani mission "Arabian Thalassocracy" now has alternative rewards in case the player is already a Thalassocracy. - The mission "Exploiting the Coffee's Secret" for Ormuzi/Oman now properly highlights the provinces if the player owns them. - The Omani mission "Forts of Oman" now requires to have ownership of the province of Nizwa. - The Omani mission "Indian Ocean Supremacy" now gives Monthly Arabian Mercantilism. - The Omani mission "Indian Ocean Supremacy" no longer removes the merchant from the "Far East Company" modifier. - The Hormuzi/Omani mission The Overseas Outpost mission now properly checks for DLCs and adds the effects for Trade Companies and Center of Trade if are unlocked. - The Omani mission "Indian Ocean Supremacy" does not contain any more unnecessary dash marks in the tooltip. - The "Befriend the Shah" mission of Hisn Kayfa no longer costs 50 of each monarch's power. - Purple Phoenix Byzantine Missions "Restore the Pentarchy" and "The Eternal City" accept subject-owning provinces. - The Overthrow the Turkomen mission for Armenia now discovers the Khorasan region instead of Persia, since Persia has already been fully discovered. - Byzantium formed by Morea can keep its mission tree and can utilize branching missions. - Theodorian mission "Basileus of the Balkans" no longer shows Great Projects reward if Leviathan is not enabled. - The Theodorian mission Return to Gothic Ways is now applied properly to future provinces. - The Theodorian mission "Russian Aristocracy" no longer shows both conditional rewards as completed. - The Theodorian mission "Rival Genoa" no longer shows favors if the player does not have the correct DLCs. - The Theodorian mission "A Merchant's Family Home" no longer keeps the Greek variant of Gothic culture if the player decides to change the Gothic culture to the Germanic one. # Modifiers - The Austrian province modifier "Hungarian Nobility Privileges" no longer gives global maluses. - The Hungarian province modifier Austrian Nobility Privileges no longer gives global maluses. - The Austria modifier "Bulwark of Catholicism" cant be obtained twice. # Setup - The Theodorian Privilege Italian Coastal Influence is no longer present in the setup if the player does not have the Winds of Change DLC. - Ala al-Dawla is now mentioned as a grandson of Gawhar Shad. # Other - Sunset Colonies can now declare their own wars. - The Aztec Estate Privilege "Arm Lesser Nobles with Macuahuitl" is no longer removed when switching to High American Technology Group. - Declare War for a Sunset Colonies no longer has unlocalized text. - The Great Project El Escorial cannot be rebuilt after completing the "Iberian Windmills" mission. - Old World Nations and Mesoamerican Tributaries no longer can have Mesoamerican Tributaries. - The Austrian Government Reform Great Council of Mechelen has a proper localization in the confirmation window. - The Dutch Goverment Reform Seven Provinces lists all the relevant modifiers. - The Dutch Revolt disaster no longer requires less than 3 Stability for it to progress faster - The Venician Government reform Venetian Government is available if the player forms Italy as Venice. - "Rekindle the Hussite Wars" aspect of faith is no longer visible when Winds of Change DLC is disabled. - The Timurids' privilege "Promote Ijazah" now prevents the estate from losing loyalty when seizing land. - The Mongol Brother Realms subject type has an improved tooltip explaining that it does not cost any diplomatic slots. - The Keshigs Mercenary company no longer costs Army Professionalism. - The Keshigs Mercenary company no longer takes 15% more fire damage. - Propagate Religion can now be maintained without needing a dominant religion if you use the Arabian plutocratic government's ability "Empower Religious Propagation. - The Turkoman Government reform Modernized Turkoman Federation is now also available for republics and theocracies. - Theodorian Government Reform Russian Mercenary Guard has a proper localization in the confirmation window. - The Theodorian diplomatic action requirements for Recruit Foreign General are now displayed properly. - Armenian Government Reform "The Sparapet Office" has a proper localization in the confirmation window. ################### # Bugfixes ################### # CTD - Fixed a CTD when selecting a big amount of treaties in a peace deal. - Fixed a CTD with missing submission_to_emperor triggered modifier. - Fixed a CTD with Restore dependency casus belli. - Fixed a CTD with automatic transportation and attached boats. - Fixed a random new world CTD connected with areas. # Warfare - Units are no longer allowed to attach if they are movement-locked. - Fixed an issue with attached units getting their movement canceled during a battle. -Fixed incorrect display of force limit in different places. - Fixed automatic army transportation bug with boats going to the wrong province. - Fixed military view not showing leader traits in some cases. - Fixed a monthly sailor gain overflow issue. - Made pathfinding want to move through neutral territory more often in certain situations. - Fixed boat attaching system not working. # Diplomacy - Vassals can no longer create Heathen Royal Marriages. - Declaring war on the subject of a guaranteed nation now correctly calls in the guaranteers of the overlord. - Vassalazing a nation that unconditionally surrendered in an offensive war will no longer make said nation stay in the war. - Fixed missing tooltip for AI acceptance of a call to war when declaring on own tributary who is allied to another tributary. - Fixed an uncommon issue for the Sending gift action being blocked without any reason. - Removing a guarantee with treaties now properly creates a truce between the two nations. - Fixed mission localization for declaring war on Incorporated Personal Union subjects. - Annexed tags no longer retain their siege objectives. - Fixed issue with the war declaration screen not showing the overlord of a tributary who in turn is the overlord of a vassal player is attacking. - Signing a peace with a Mesoamerican vassal's overlord will no longer end the war with the subject if the subject was the war leader. - Personal union-like subject types now correctly transfer over when their overlord becomes a junior partner in a personal union - Allies now take into consideration land given to them in separate wars when calculating favors given/lost. - Releasing a nation as a country with reformed native religion makes the new vassal also have the religion reformed. - Coalitions now don't suddenly disband after reloading a save. - Coalition members now leave them after reaching low AE. - Countries with elective monarchy can no longer break their personal unions established in a succession war with ruler elections. - Releasing a new nation now sets their unit types correctly. - Full annexing a country now correctly gives negative liberty desire to your subjects if they were given land. - Fixed incorrect description of modifier to enable transfer vassals treaty. - Fixed a rare issue with nations not being able to declare wars because of a pending call to war action against a nonexistent country. - Vassals no longer retain vassal independence support when they are transferred over after a war. # AI - AI subjects will not try to invade when set to a passive stance. - AI now correctly takes into consideration PU seniors of an overlord of a vassal they want to attack. - AI will no longer desire the land of others' vassals more than if the overlord owned that land. - AI will no longer break a royal marriage after claiming a throne. # Other - Changing the religion of the HRE emperor to one from a different religious group will no longer dismantle the HRE immediately. - HRE religious peace is now not locked behind Art of War DLC because it can be achieved by passing reform Proclaim Erbkaisertum as well. - Changed the tooltip for enforcing religious unity in HRE action to say that the actor will receive a CB on the recipient. - Missing Art of War DLC will no longer hide the HRE religion icon. - Fixed broken localization for the Dismantling the Revolution tooltip. - Austria can no longer form Austria-Hungary while at war to prevent other bugs related to tag switching at war. - Pronoias no longer give land to other nations when integrated. - Tagging into different countries now correctly updates the leader list if there is only one leader in the country. - Landlocked countries can get knowledge sharing again. - Fixed technology screen changing the Institution map mode even when not going into the Institutions tab. - Fixed constructions getting delayed in some specific situations in capitals and trade node capitals. - Fixed incorrect flag being shown in text for colonial nations. - hire_advisor and define_advisor effects are no longer limited to advisor level 3 if Cradle of Civilization is on. - Setting holy order via an effect triggers abandonment and establishes the effects of those orders. - Country Center of Trade modifiers now correctly get removed and added when a country loses or gains provinces. - Scripted diplomatic actions now get updated correctly in the diplomatic window. - Interesting countries now correctly change to new tags when another nation forms a new country. - Revanchism now gets distributed according to the core development lost. - Prestige penalty from signing a separate peace deal no longer takes into account only individual war score against War Leader. - Colonies now don't need a port to allow their overlord to colonize next to them. - Increased rate at which parliament seats are assigned if more than half of the seats is missing. - Fixed custom ui error log spam. - Limited amount of vassals Doom-using countries are getting. - Previously granted permanent claims are now correctly awarded to the tag that was destroyed and re-formed. - Fixed on_thri_yearly_pulses not firing.

Hey Folks! Ryagi here, today we take a brief dive into a nightmare, but not just anyone's nightmare. It's Voltaire's Nightmare! That's right! We're finally getting along to covering this classic EU4 mod. What took us so long? Well, gotta keep some of those classics in your pocket for a rainy day you know? Anyway, with pleasantries out of the way, lets get into the meat and potatoes on this mod, brought to you by the Voltaire's Nightmare dev team as a whole: ---------------------------------- Hello everyone, we are the development team for the mod Voltaires Nightmare. Voltaires Nightmare has evolved quite a bit over the years it originally emerged in 2016 with the idea of creating something like Iaponia Universalis for the Holy Roman Empire, which is to say, replacing the entire world map with an ultra-detailed HRE. Taking this chaotic world of tiny lordships, abbacies, and republics as our starting point, we have expanded the scope of the mod to cover everything from Ireland to Iraq and a full timeline from 1054 AD to 1871 AD.

While Voltaires Nightmare deliberately tries to preserve the flow of EU4s core vanilla gameplay as much as possible, this zoomed in map allows for a level of detail in provinces and countries that couldnt be captured by a traditional map mod, and weve added plenty of new religions, cultures, techs, units, governments, ideas, monuments, events, and missions to flesh out this expanded world beyond just the addition of nations.

Religions & Cultures

Interesting Starts

The Kievan Rus

New England

The Crusades

The Reconquista

Beyond the Middle Ages

Hey! We are happy to announce the integration of FOUR essential DLCs into the Europa Universalis IV base game: "Rights of Man", "Art of War", Digital Extreme Upgrade and "Common Sense". Thats right - all current and future EUIV players will receive these four DLCs absolutely free of charge! And you wont even need to do anything to receive them! So far, the first three of these DLCs were a part of the "Starter Edition" - but we decided to add the fourth one to the mix to enrich the core experience of EUIV even more. Once this initiative is launched on October 17, all of these DLCs will be automatically included with the base game purchase, enhancing your gameplay experience right from the start. In order to celebrate and honour constant support from our community, everyone buying the base game before October 17 or already having it in their library will receive these four DLCs for free once they are integrated. In this way we want to reward our fans for their ongoing engagement with Europa Universalis IV.
Are you a new player, wanting to give EUIV a try? Then dont waste time and take advantage of our ongoing Steam sale and get Europa Universalis IV for just $9,99 to benefit from additional DLCs after October 17, when they will be automatically unlocked. And what if you are a seasoned veteran, who already has the base game plus the 4 DLCs mentioned above? Well, we are preparing a special treat for you - on October 17 we will lower the price of the Ultimate Bundle and introduce a brand new Starter Edition. Keep in mind that DLCs you already own will reduce the price of the Ultimate Bundle even more, making it the best way to finally complete your collection!

FAQ

Hello Europa Universalis music enjoyers (Presumably most of you?). Ryagi back to wrap up our anniversary week with another mod spotlight. And yes that also included wrapping up what have been almost daily announcements here on steam ;D Anniversaries are a busy time! For this spotlight, we are covering an entire collection of mods, rather than just one mod. The name "Utopia Music" is ubiquitous within the EU4 modding scene for good reason, and he may not even need an introduction to some of you. But incase you haven't heard of Utopia or the work they've done, we're going to introduce them anyway. Take it away Runite/Utopia. ------------------------ Hello everyone! Do you like free stuff? Do you like headbanging and playing in ironman mode? Do you like the EU4 soundtrack and wish there was more of it? I have just the solution for you!

M u s i c

The Collection

Themes of the Old World

Scandinavia Music Pack

Ante Bellum Original Soundtrack

Serenades Music Pack

Themes of EU4

The Music-Making Process at a Glance

We're Going Back ft. Ian Martyn & Nagisa (Third Odyssey - Christmas Theme)

Ideas

(Back to the Motherland Music Video)

(WGB: #1 - First Idea)

Development

• Plan out the entire song, defining different melodies and rhythms through different sections, all on one or two instruments (often piano). Then start working through to orchestrate it and bring in the other instruments where needed.
• Orchestrate the current ideas and then see where the music feels naturally inclined to go next. A make-it-up-as-you-go approach.

(WGB: #2 - Melodies and Lyrics)

(WGB: #3 - Orchestration)

(WGB: #4 - Alternative Endings)

Production

The End

In celebration of the game's 11th Anniversary, we are finally launching a dedicated Official Europa Universalis YouTube channel!

What content will be on the EU channel?

• Dev talks
• Trailers and gameplay
• Podcasts
• Historical themed Documentaries
• And more!

• Gameplay tips and mini tutorials
• Short dives into community made events or content
• Mini nation spotlights
• Fun miscellaneous EU themed content

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Get yours today!

What is the Grandest Lan?

Looking back on Grandest Lan 2023

Looking forward to Lan 2024

Can I join Grandest Lan 2024?

Read more and buy your tickets here:

www.eu4lan.com

Welcome back to another Mod Spotlight! Unfortunately this one was far too gargantuan to fit into a single steam post. (We tried). So the full version including a map and mission tree overview can be found over on our main Forum post We'd encourage you to check it out if you want to hear more about the specific starts IU has to offer. Otherwise, enjoy the rest of the post!

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The world, 612 BC

Economy

Other Nation-specific content not mentioned available to view on the forums

Future content preview

To end

Hey all! Ryagi here, this time we're back to our roots with these Mod spotlights, giving a platform for those don't already have one. Today we're covering The Rise and Fall of Empires. A simple but effective mod made by Dante that aims to create a less blobby playstyle, for both players and the AI. I'll let Dante explain what what his mod is all about, enjoy!

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Map painters! We suspect you love all strategy games big and small, whether that's conquering the world, or managing a small group of survivors. That's why this year Europa Universalis 4 is taking part in Tacticon! TactiCon is a digital convention hosted on Steam celebrating strategy video games, and those that enjoy them. If you are interested in picking up EU4, or any EU4 content now is a great opportunity, with savings as much as 70% off https://store.steampowered.com/app/236850/Europa_Universalis_IV/

You can check out TactiCon 2024 here

Its Steam Summer Sale time, which means up to 90% off various Paradox titles!

Paradox Interactive Summer Sale

Good evening, good morning and good afternoon. Whatever timezone you're in, it's time for another Mod Spotlight! For this mod spotlight, we look to conclude our series showing off post 1.37 Major updates. With future mod spotlights going back to covering some of the more (hopefully) unknown diamonds in the rough. For now though, lets dive straight into a look at the upcoming Ante Bellum content, Blood and Iron. Presented by Lead Dev Parmelion. ------------------------------- Hello everyone! My name is Parmelion and I am the lead developer of Ante Bellum. Today, I would like to present to you the upcoming ninth major update of the mod, titled Blood and Iron, which is releasing in less than two week - on July 8! For those of you who are not familiar with the mod, Ante Bellum is a vanilla+ alternative history mod. The main design philosophy of the mod is to completely preserve the base game gameplay and add no new invasive mechanics to the game that would make the player feel like they must learn to interact with a new system in order to play optimally. In other words, if you know how to play the base game, you will instantly know how to play Ante Bellum! The mods main appeal is a completely new country setup caused by multiple historical points of divergence Normans losing the Battle of Hastings, Arabs failing to conquer Persia, Mongols succeeding in invading Japan as well as five years worth of content, with hundreds of mission trees, government reforms, events, decisions, formable nations and so much more! If you are looking for a more general overview of the mod, I would recommend you checking out the first mod spotlight of Ante Bellum.
Now, lets shift our attention to the main topic of today the 1.9 Blood and Iron update. In this update, we have decided to revisit one of the most popular regions in the world and give a proper facelift to the Holy Roman Empire. Although the HRE was a side focus of the 1.4 Empires Downfall update, the update was released four years ago, and the content is visibly dated and no longer up to our current standards. Now, I would like to show you a short list of the updates main features, and then I will speak about them in more detail:

• Province and country update of the Holy Roman Empire
• Nine new or updated imperial incidents
• Hussite, Gaelic and Anglican HRE paths
• Overhauled custom achievements screen window
• Protestant & Reformed religious schools
• Reformation changes & Counter-Reformation
• Paladins special unit
• German, Italian, Gallic and Byzantine pre-set colonial nations
• 24 new mission trees
• New soundtrack, loading screen, bookmark, achievements, formable nations, events, decisions, estate privileges, government reforms, monuments, cultures, cosmetic renames, dynamic province names and so much more

• Lombardy by Quarbit
• Francia by Chewy
• Lotharingia by Golem
• Capua by Laith
• Bohemia by Ludi

Hello everyone - today we have released 1.37.2, this patch brings 130+ fixes in total. As usual, please report any issues in our bug report forum or submit a support ticket; this is the fastest way for us to see and address any problems. Keep in mind while these changes shouldn't affect 1.37.0/1.37.1 save games too profoundly, this is something we're not able to fully guarantee, especially if using mods. See here for information on how to roll back or prevent auto updates.

Patch 1.37.2 Changelog:

Hey all! Ryagi back to give you another Mod Spotlight, this time we're taking a short dive into the alternate history world of Post Finem. Lead dev, Chewy does a great job introducing you straight into that world, so I'll let him take it away! _________________________________________ Hello everyone! My name is Chewy and I am the lead developer for Post Finem (and Im also the guy who watches the AI ruin itself on YouTube). For those who dont know what Post Finem is, it is an alternate history overhaul mod for Europa Universalis IV that aims to answer the question: What if it was CARTHAGE that was victorious in the Punic Wars, and Rome was dismantled upon their completion? Of course everyone has their ideas of how alternate history should unfold and what is realistic and unrealistic, and at the end of the day, the beauty of fiction is that reality is often even stranger! The lore dump is available on the wiki (still WIP, but will answer a lot of questions): https://eu4.paradoxwikis.com/Post_Finem/Lore_Dump Taking a look at the map you will see that Europe, northern Africa, as well as eastern Asia are very different, and that is for good reason! You will also notice some very sweeping changes in Arabia, the Horn of Africa, and into southern India, but that is yet unreleased content that we will explain toward the end of this showcase. So, stick around, because its content were VERY excited to release!
The political map of Post Finem in 1444, with Carthage a shell of its former glory. Without the rise of the Romans, there is a very large cascading effect on history. Without Rome, Christianity fails to take off and encompass much of the Western world. The Hellenic pantheon remains dominant in the east, while the Punic pantheon becomes the de facto faith in the west, even pushing into the Italian peninsula via trade relations and political pressures. The Carthaginian Empire continues to grow, incorporating all of Mauretania, Iberia, and southern Gaul into the fold. This is fairly evident when you look at the religious map of the mod.
The religious mapmode in 1444, with a diverse array of faiths throughout the entire scope region. Keep an eye on the Romana in northern Italia, as well as the Evangelos and Jewish provinces in northern Arabia. For the sake of brevity, we will explain that the so-called barbarians of Gaul, Germania, Slavia, and Scandinavia were mostly unaffected by the Punic and Hellenic worlds, as external forces were often viewed as untouchable and thus there was ever interest in pursuing conquest in the lands to their north. That allowed these faiths, although evolving internally over the centuries, to remain relevant in their homelands. These nations have a diverse cast of players, with multiple formable nations and dozens of unique mission trees scattered throughout the regions. A few notable examples are: Saxony, whose mission tree pushes them to unite Germania, proclaiming the Konigreich of Germania, and beyond. The Ostgermanic nations of Ostholm and Vildheim, pushing to unite Ostgermania as Donova, and eventually mend the schism that exists between the Germanic and Ostgermanic peoples. Kashubia, the de facto leader of the Slavic world, uniting Severoslavia, and eventually incorporating the Jugoslavians to form Slavia, with unique additions to the mission tree along the way.
Though the Gaelic peoples of Gaul and the Celtic Isles have embraced the feudal government system, the vast woods and highlands of northern Europe remain primarily in a tribal structure, with the Feudalism institution yet to be present. And while on the topic of government structure, the Zoroastrian Empire of Persia must be brought up, having recently (within the last 300 years) pushed the Selecuid Greeks from the Persian heartland and established a regional governance system known as the Satrapies.
The Satrapy system demands specific conquests and freedoms granted to the special subjects in exchange for more efficient governance of the borderlands of the Persian Empire. This lends itself to a VERY unique gameplay experience for anyone looking to utilize a vassal swarm game. There are currently over 60 unique mission trees in the mod, and I cant show off all of them, but I will happily show off a few of my personal favorites that I feel showcase the talent of the contributors and developers that work(ed) on the mod since it started last August.
Carthage, the shadow of the once great Carthaginian Empire, exists in its heartland, governing a few loosely incorporated vassal nations in the region. The Qahal, the parliamentary system utilized by Carthage, rules the nation and dictates a lot of the internal politics of Carthage.
Their mission tree will push them to reconquer their lost territory and beyond, all the while industrializing their nation and reclaiming the glory of their once great name. Macedonia is another formerly great nation, experiencing civil war after civil war for the past few centuries, with small breaks here and there to lose territory to outside forces. In 1444 they are ruled by a weak king of the Philoxenos dynasty, with the military War Cabinet dictating military organization and operations
Starting in a precarious circumstance, Macedonia must be careful not to get involved in costly wars early as their low Organization will lead to low military quality. If Organization were to hit 0, the War Cabinet may just coup the Basileus!
The Macedonian mission tree, as you would expect, pushes them to reconquer the lost lands of the once-great empire of Alexander, complete with flavorful events, and the opportunity to rule southern Italy (Magna Graecia) and Aegyptos as personal unions. Though the Hellenic world is ripe for reform, as the Hellenic pantheon has centralized dramatically over the past thousand years, with the Archonic Hierophantate of Athens dictating the beliefs and doctrines of the Hellenic faithful. Not everyone, however, is happy with that, and a certain conservationist movement known as the Paradosi have been making moves, primarily in the eastern portions of the Hellenic world. This is not even to mention the Kemetic synergist movement happening within Aegyptos, which is due to reach a boiling point within a few decades of the game start.. Over in Italia sits the land of the Italian Federation, an institution which was initially formed to act as a defensive alliance network to deter direct Carthaginian incursions into the Italian peninsula from their bases on Sardinia and Sicily. Over the centuries the Federation has reformed its contractual obligations, centralizing around a Grand Adirim, a lifetime appointed ruler to oversee the large scale operations of the federation. There is a lot of internal strife between the Punic majorities of Italia and Illyria, and the latin Romana minorities of the northern Portions, primarily in the Kingdom of Italia.
The new interface for the Italian Federation coming to Post Finem in the 1.2 update, complete with 24 possible reforms and the Religious Tension mechanic that acts as an engine to drive the Religious Leagues toward their inevitable conclusions. More on REDACTED at a later date. Of course, centralization will allow the Adirim to unite the Federation under the Roman banner, reclaiming that long-dead name. There is a lot of content to enjoy within the Federation. The Federal Seat of Roma, looking to unite the Federation under one banner, ruling with their special subjects, the Principates. The electorate of Sardinia, ruling the waves and challenging the piratical menace that plagues the Mediterranean. But perhaps one of the most impactful and engaging nations within the Federation would be Italia, the Romana minority leaders.
Italia is poised to challenge the Punics, especially following their persecution at the hands of the Scarlet Delegation, instituted by the Adirim in the year prior to game start. But for those looking for a power fantasy, look not further than the rump state of the Seleucid Kingdom. Despite falling very far from the powerful position they once occupied, the Seleucids are very much not to be counted out.
The Seleucid mission tree pushes for massive conquests, uniting the Hellenic world, all the while buffing their already powerful military, becoming the undisputed militaristic hegemon of the world. The branching missions open up upon the initialization of the Paradosi reformation of the Hellenic pantheon, allowing Seleucia to reform and lead the reformation, or reject it and defend the Archons Diktat! And those are just to name a few of the many beautifully crafted mission trees in the mod. On top of mission content, there are HUNDREDS of flavor events, including an entire rework of the colonial game and the new world, unique national ideas for almost every single new nation on the map, large generic mission trees that are shared across regions, such as the non-Saxon Germanic nations, and much, much more. We have also adopted the Ante Bellum system of updates for Post Finem, focusing heavily on specific regions of the map and going all-in on injecting them with as much engaging flavor and content as possible. The 1.1 update, the New Horizons update pushed large changes to Iberia, including 3 new formable nations (Boraliber, Gadrium, and Kusi-Iber), each complete with unique mission trees, as well as a rework to the map of Mauretania, introducing new tags, a regional mission tree, and Mauretania formable, complete with a unique and powerful mission tree, as well as a rework of the entire new world, trade nodes, colonial nations, and post-colonial formable nations, all complete with shared or unique mission trees and national ideas. It was huge! Currently the 1.2 update, the Sons of Abraham update is DEEP in development, and we are announcing today that it will be released on Friday, the 21st of June! This update overhauls Arabia, the Horn of Africa, and southern India, introducing 3 new Christian religions (Evangelos, the Levantine Christians, Sevasam, the Indian Christians, and Concetus, the Italian Christians), the Jain religion, and a rework to the Arabic religion. All religions included in the 1.2 update are receiving mechanics, with Evangelos and Jain receiving entirely custom mechanics, created from scratch!
The Evangelos faith is focused around spreading the faith, either by diplomacy or by the sword, and will lead to powerful buffs along the way, ultimately pushing for the unification of the Evangelos world into a united tag, the Theodokos.
The Jain faith focuses on enlightenment, and each of the 3 colored hands can be clicked to reveal various paths that enlightenment can be spent on, granting various bonuses that stack nicely. There will be dedicated mission content for many nations, with many more sharing regional mission trees that expand upon forming various nations such as Arabia, Dilmun (Gulf of Persia), Munifara (Horn of Africa), Sumukiun (Southern India), and many more!
The top portion of this tree is available in 1444 to Heliopolis, the leader of the Sacred Empire of Christ, with the bottom portion being unlocked upon unification of the Theodokos via the Christian Zeal mechanic shown previously.
The Munifara mission tree, with the shared portion being built upon by the yellow portion (East African vs Semetic tech groups vs coastal Somalian nations) and the red portion upon uniting the Horn and forming Munifara.
The Indo-Greek nation of Simylla, a one province minor in western India, has the ability for grow far beyond their 1444 borders and unite India as Yavana, unlocking this BEEFY mission tree to aid them in their conquests.
And the last mission tree to show for 1.2 will be Zulfaar, the theocratic center of the Islamic world, based in Yemen. The holy city of Taiz, the spiritual center of Islam, where the prophet Mohammed (PBUH) established the faith. Their theme will be to unite Arabia and the Horn, pushing beyond, and developing the home lands, creating a beautiful homeland for the Islamic peoples. All of that to show that we are VERY excited for what is to come in the near future for Post Finem. If you are interested in participating in an open beta for 1.2, we will be opening the Discord server up to it on June 7th, so hop in and expect a ping before too long! Additionally, Patrons to Post Finem get early access to the development alpha builds, so check that out in the Discord as well if that sounds appealing to you and you want to support development. https://discord.gg/postfinem Thank you all for taking the time to read about my little mod! I hope you enjoy playing Post Finem as much as I have enjoyed working on it over the past ~10 months! _________________________________________ We hope you enjoyed this Mod Spotlight. Even you Rome lovers (The Glory of Rome would surely never fail us as depicted here). If any of this sounds interesting to you, check out Post Finem over on steam workshop. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3142739241 If you're interested in some of Chewy's other work, you can find our mod spotlight on his other overhaul mod, Land of the Free, and his YouTube over at both Chewyshoot and Chewbert We'll see you next time!

Hey Folks! @Ryagi here to bring you a juicy mod (mod update?) spotlight. With EU4's latest free update and DLC recently dropping, 1.37 + Winds of Change, modders big and small have been hard at work to ensure your favorite mods can be enjoyed, and in many cases improved! One of EU4's most Popular mods, Europa Expanded, has joined in on this post 1.37 update party and will be releasing a much awaited major update soon themselves. Today we invited Stiopa, LordVarangian and LiaLunare on behalf of the entire EE team to showcase some of their upcoming content they have been working on. Enjoy! _________________________________________ Hello yet again, Europa Universalis 4 Enthusiasts! Since the previous Mod Spotlight, weve been focusing on finishing our next major update - Terra Incognita. In addition, with the release of 1.37 weve also released a few other features, such as game rules and achievements! In addition, we presume that the release date for 1.13 is going to be on June 16th, so get ready for a release in mid-to-late June. Before we continue with this mod spotlight, it is worth checking previous development diaries we had for this update, heres a few of them, showcasing some of the more major nations:

• Burgundy/Lotharingia
• England/Great Britain
• Netherlands
• Portugal
• Spain
• Papal State
• [url=https://www.reddit.com/r/eu4/comments/1911uls/europa_expanded_dev_diary_07012024_frankish/]Francia/Aachen

UI Additions

Miscellaneous

Achievements

Aragon

The British Isles

Wrapping things up:

Hello everyone - here is our first patch for 1.37, featuring over 100 fixes in total. Notable changes include:

• Gothic Invasion now accounts for the new Gothic culture that is part of the Germanic culture group.
• The Great Moravia achievement now accounts for Great Moravia's cores.
• The Timurid mission "Mamluk Delusions" now requires 40 provinces instead of 50, no longer requiring the player to make up 4 additional provinces in these areas.
• The Bohemian mission "The Golden City" no longer allows the player to develop the province for an unlimited time. It is limited to only 3 uses, giving a total of +9 development in total.

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Below is a full list of changes in the free 1.37 update, 'Inca'. Please note that we can't guarantee 1.36 saves are compatible with 1.37, and that some mods may not work properly! See here for information on how to roll back versions or prevent auto updates.
################### # Free Features ################## - Added 10 new achievements: It's all coming together, Doge Ducats, Veritas Vincit, The eagle flies alone, Mayapahit?, There Khan only be one!, Baborg, Get out of my swamp!, Timurizz, and The Hungarian Games. - Added 2 new formable nations, Austria-Hungary and Great Moravia. - Added a reworked generic Mission Tree with updated rewards and requirements, like regional claims or discounted advisors, for more than 15 generic or shared mission trees, including European, Berber, Indian, African, and Native American. - Changes in the set-up in Mesoamerica, the Andean region, Central Europe, and Central Asia. - Added 8 new Great Projects in America, Europe, and Asia for the owners of Leviathan. The Golden City (Nitra), the Schnbrunn Palace (Wien), the Amsterdam Bourse (Amsterdam), the Venetian Arsenal (Venice), the City of Sarai (Sarai), the Citadel of Aleppo (Aleppo), the Afqa Khojja Mausoleum (Kashgar), and Tzintzuntzan (Patzcuero). - Added new portraits for women advisors for North America, 21 new portraits covering all the possible combinations for administrative, diplomatic, and military advisors. ################### # Gamebalance ################### # Governments - The Venetian Government no longer allows switching to a Monarchy or a Theocracy - It's no longer possible to go over the special unit force limit with the Cossack government interactions - The Great Mongol Horde government reform now allows to recruit banners in all of the primary culture provinces regardless of what culture they are of - Government reforms which have the Iqta mechanics are now only usable by Muslims. This affects the Barbery Sultanate and the Ajuuraan Theocracy. - Meritocracy mechanics can now be used correctly with Republic and Theocracy government types - The government reform "Royal Marines" is now available to Great Britain and Angevin regardless of their primary culture - The Great Mongol Empire reform now grants you the Siberian Frontier ability. # Other - Vassals contributing negative force limit are no longer affected by Vassals Force limit Contribution modifiers. - The "Seize Court Resources" subject interaction has its cooldown increased from 5 to 10 years. - The Mayan religion now gives -10% Cost of Advisors with Ruler's Religion instead of +1 Possible Advisors. - The Chan Chan Citadel now starts at level 2 instead of 1. - The Tenochtitlan monument now gives 0.5/1/2 yearly doom reduction instead of 1/2/3. ################### # Interface ################### # Icons/Art - Rajputs will no longer have different banner colors in the army view window. # Tooltips - Added a tooltip for has_term_election = yes/no. # Other - Shift-clicking max accepted gold for a peace offer no longer puts the amount above 100 war score cost total. - Fixed so that the court view refreshes when there's a new monarch. - Fixed so game options in the game lobby start at their positions instead of moving to them. - Cultures that are promoted for free now have an indication. - Great Project construction progress added to the outliner. ################### # Usermodding ################### # Effects - Added round_variable, second value > 0 gives Ceiling, second value = 0 gives Round and second value < 0 gives Floor. - Added a force_create_marriage effect which allows to creation of royal marriages between nations with religions disallowing it. - add_accepted_culture_or_dip_power takes in culture slots from tech correctly. Is no longer a scripted effect. # Modifiers - Added reverse_relation_with_heretic_religion and reverse_relation_with_heathen_religion modifiers. # Other - Added frame_variable for custom icons to avoid many frame clauses. - Added custom GUI to colonization view. - Added custom GUI to siege view. - Added custom GUI to the topbar interface. - Added a custom_window to the custom_gui. - Added "on_state_edict_enacted", "on_state_edict_removed", "set_state_edict" effects. ################### # Script ################### # Achievements - Trade Protectorates now count for achievements. # Decisions - The decision to form Tuscany will no longer display the Swap your missions if your missions will not swap - All Adm Tech 20 Formable countries will now require Adm Tech 18. - Forming the LPC will no longer change your Lithuanian primary culture to Polish and the latter will just be an accepted culture. - The "Thalassocracy" Decision now may be completed with Trade Ideas. - You no longer need to have direct control over the Chinese cities, Central Asia, Crimea, and Urals to form the Mongol Empire. - Forming Japan will now grant claims on Korea if the Domination DLC is active. # Events - The event "The Destruction of the Persian Embassy" now properly refers to Persia. - The Mamluk mission Naval Enterprise's event reward will offer a choice for players without the Rule Britannia or Golden Century DLCs. - Added a second option in the Rebirth of Great Armenia event to allow keeping your old idea set - The event "A Very Strategic Marriage" can no longer trigger while either Castile/Spain or Austria are at war. - The End of the Tatar Yoke event has now a different description if it breaks when the Horde owner changes its government reform. - The event "The Milanese Succession" will grant a vassal instead of a union CB if Milan is ineligible for a union. - The event Feast of the Dead will no longer fire for non-Dakota culture countries. - The event Porcelain in Meissen will now correctly grant a Mill or upgrade the Production building if possible. - The event "Fall of the Mamluk Sultanate" will not trigger if Egypt already exists. - The Persian event 'Weaving Gold & Silk' now properly gives prestige or mana. # Ideas - The Aztec idea of "Imperial Tribute" now gives 1 Monarch Power Tribute from the Tributary States and -10% Liberty Desire of Subjects instead of 10% Tax Efficiency, the Aztec idea of "Pochtecayotl" now also gives +10% Burgher loyalty equilibrium. - The Incan idea of "Machu Picchu" now gives -10% Great Project Upgrade Cost; the Incan idea of "Quipu" now gives -5% Administrative Tech Cost. - Tuscan Traditions now offer Reformed and Protestant alternatives to Papal Influence. # Missions - Fixed some wrong highlighting for the "The Eyalet of Persia" Ottoman mission. - Fixed a broken tooltip for the requirements of the tur_venetian_relations Ottoman mission. - The Russian Mission mos_rus_conquer_persia will no longer mismatch the requirement religion with the effect of the potential ally it requires. - The Qing mission "Expel Foreign Merchants" will now correctly grant its reward. - The Russian mission "Appease the Patriarchate'' makes it now extra clear that the reward does NOT remove the state maintenance from consecrated Metropolitans. It just slaps a -10% local state maintenance on the modifier which negates the extra cost. - The Ottoman mission "The Eyalet of Persia" will no longer give claims on the Khorasan region as the previous mission already gave these claims before. - Georgia AI will no longer vassalize the Trebizond player by completing "Deal with the Komnenids". - The mission "Modernize the Banners" for Qing, now has a fallback if the EoC does not exist. - The Polish mission Varna Aftermath will no longer check for the Emperor DLC for one of its effects. - The Songhaian mission "Army Professionalism" can now be completed even if you don't own Cradle of Civilization. - Generic missions now have generally more flavorful and interesting rewards. # Setup - Renamed Chagatai to Moghulistan. - The starting ruler of Oirat now has his birth year set to 1407 - Venice now has a core on Thessaloniki (ID: 148) at the game start - Replaced all mentions of "Tarascan" with "Purpecha" due to the former being a derogatory term - Tarija is now a mountain province, and Camana is now a Coastal Desert province. # Other - Renamed the "Imperial Ban" cb from incidents to "Imperial Campaign". - Added AI logic to the new policies from 1.35, allowing them to pick those policies. - Added dynamic province names for Austrian and Bavarian cultures. - The Great Mongol Horde government reform can now recruit banners in all of their primary culture provinces regardless of what culture they are of. - The Anglican church action "Reformation Diplomacy" now also affects Hussites. - The government reform "Royal Marines" is now available to Great Britain and Angevin regardless of their primary culture. - Improved the tooltiping of the Burgundian Inheritance, notifying the player that they will declare war on Burgundy in 10 days. - The Burgundian Succession will now properly tell you what provinces you release when the Emperor demands the Lowlands. Additionally, you no longer release provinces that are NOT part of the HRE and are NOT Dutch, Flemish or Frisian. - The Burgundian Succession will no longer trigger when Burgundy has already fallen into a PU under somebody else before. - It is now possible to be eligible for the Burgundian Succession by accepting a royal marriage by Burgundy too. In other words, you are no longer forced to be the one sending the Royal Marriage to Burgundy. - Modernizing as a native country will now properly replace your buildings with an adequate new building (said replacement cannot be from a higher tech than tech 10 though, and manufactories are excluded). - The Technotitlan monument now gives 0.5/1/2 yearly doom reduction instead of 1/2/3. - The capitals of Theodoro and Hisn Kayfa are now treated by the AI as fixed. - Orthodox rebels can no longer convert your provinces when you give in to the Pope's pressure and form the Latin Empire. - The circumnavigation event now gives monarch power if you have already 100 Prestige. ################### # Bugfixes ################### - Fixed heir and consort names for Janissary countries. - province_trade_power_modifier is now called "Local Trade Power Modifier" instead of just "Local Trade Power", a name that is already used by province_trade_power_value. - AI will now want to form Spain Diplomatically. - Fixed the issue of being able to declare war on someone transferring trade power to you when either you or the recipient are subjects. - Fixed issue where music would start playing when paused and locked windows. - Fixed an issue that allowed Russia to gain modernization from countries that are technologically not any more advanced than Russia. - Fixed tax increase not being displayed in confirmation popup when the development of temple privileges is active. - Fixed so Strong Duchies and better integration estate privileges don't get removed when tag switching. - Spy network now correctly transfers over when the target forms a new country. - Fixed parliament seat map mode tooltip. - Fixed the issue with having to double-click the trade node button in the province view. - Fixed how we decide what government icons to show for tribes. - Fixed issue with not being able to cancel construction of annexed subjects. - Fixed an issue where monastic orders could generate female heirs. - Fixed so loading from in-game resets province highlights. - Fixed a hot join desync related to the tariff being set to 0. - Fixed a CTD related to AI attempting to claim RNW state. - Fixed potential crashes when annexing countries that have hereditary pronoiars. - Fixed missing tooltips for scripted GUI in the celestial empire view. - Fixed custom GUI not working in the parliament view. - Fixed a crash when using custom GUI scripted boxes when they aren't defined in custom GUI files. - Pathfinding will now correctly take into account open seas when finding a sea path greatly penalizing moving through them. - Changed the description of the Warned popup to mention only bordering countries, not all countries. - Decisions linked with estates now show their names correctly in the statistics and history window. - Fixed a bug with the Grown by development trigger which was making the French mission Shield of Outremer harder after a reload. - Colonies will no longer use colonial region colors when playing without Leviathan DLC. - Greatly shortened the vassal modifier description tooltip. - Fixed weird indentation for separatism effects. - Getting an upgraded default trade policy will now correctly set all merchants to it. - Provinces no longer get bonus trade power from Promote Investment action when they are not in a trade company. - Fixed one missing new line in trade power modifiers. - Changed description of the Spread Revolution peace treaty to no longer say the revolution will be spread only on one continent as it is no longer true. - The music player will now correctly display the pause button when the music is playing. - Annexing a subject will no longer use up more diplomatic power than needed. - Placate ruler can no longer be used when the modifier is at -100% LD. - Breaking alliances with Favours is now possible without the Rights of Man DLC. - Fixed areas appearing in the claim area diplomatic action menu even though there are no provinces to be claimed. - Flagship modifiers given to a country now are correctly applied to the flagships owned by that country. - Fixed a gray window appearing when trying to build boats in a landlocked country. - Fixed a bug that disallowed giving away province occupations in some cases. - The Tooltip for not being able to build a building in a province now correctly displays the reason when it's due to a missionary or cultural conversion. - AI will no longer be able to declare a war on the date a truce ends making the player unable to declare a war themselves. - Attacking vassals will now correctly call in a coalition that their overlord is part of. - AI will no longer be able to cancel the movement of a unit if it is not allowed to stay in a province. AI will no longer be able to hide boats in occupied provinces. - type = random will no longer crash the game due to wrong Province ID calculation. - Imperial incidents do not refer to the wrong countries. - Macrobuilder now correctly shows special unit constructions in the special unit force limit number. - Fixed inconsistent displayed values for force limit with special mercenaries not contributing to force limit. - Ai will now take Defender of Faith when possible. - Fixed framerate drop in the economy tab while playing as a big nation. - Fixed a bug where attaching units to already moving units causes the attached units to desync with the main army. - Removed the ability to cancel any movement with automatic ship transportation. - Fixed modifiers in reforms for players with missing DLCs. - Fixed overextension events not firing at all as well as on_overrun on action not firing any events. - Calling an ally who is also a defender of faith into an offensive war won't cause the tooltip to display wrong information. - Chance to inherit personal unions modifier now adds correctly to the overall chance. - Centers of Reformation will now use the owner's heathen missionary strength when converting heathen provinces. - Army maintenance will no longer influence mercenary morale damage. - Added a missing new line after a change of siege effect. - Fixed missing localization for mechanic_heirs. - Changing the name of an heir will no longer speed up personality gain timers for the ruling monarch. - "Establish the Qizilbash Regiments" privilege's modifiers are no longer hidden until it is enacted. - Scripted triggers with estate_influence no longer fail trigger validation. - Fixed custom attributes not appearing in government reform tooltips. - Knowledge-sharing actions now correctly calculate colonial range. - Imperial Mercenaries will no longer cost negative money when hired with enough negative modifiers. - Strict Drillmaster and Inspirational Leader leader personality traits now work correctly giving modifiers to armies. - Subjects not costing a diplomatic relation no longer cause royal marriages with them to cost a relation slot. - The 'Cannot combine with' tooltip for peace options now correctly displays the one for annul treaties. - Outliner now correctly shows that vassal annexation is halted when their provinces are occupied. - Personal Union calculations are no longer different for nations with more than 1000 development. - It is no longer possible to rival yourself after forming a nation. - It is no longer possible to mothball and move ships at the same time, locking them forever in a sea tile. - Fixed incorrect localization for Rajput regiments in tooltips. - Regency ending notification no longer appears with Leviathan DLC disabled. - Disband ship tooltip and message no longer displays max sailor count incorrectly. - Upgrade trade center notification no longer appears with Dharma DLC disabled. - Fixed the chat channel kick button and added tooltips. - Fixed issues with independence support war declarations when multiple subjects are involved. - Fixed issue with tooltipping past incident of Hanseatic League Decline not mentioning who got embargoed. - Fixed a bug where the capture of the Ming emperor event would trigger for the Ming heir instead of the ruler. - Fixed an issue that fired the starting Georgian events when reloading the savefile as a custom nation Georgia. - The Nizwa Fort Great project will now grant attrition in the area, in the third tier. - Fixed an issue with the Mamluk agenda 'Develop Military Infrastructure. - The 'Mercantile Relationship' Mamluk mission will no longer reference Galleas special units if you don't own 'Domination. - The event 'Heirs of the Romans' will no longer remove the 'Armenian Union' modifier for Georgia.

Reforge the challenges of today into achievements of tomorrow in EUIV: Winds of Change. From the waterways of Tenochtitlan to the canals of Venice, from the Holy Roman Empire to the Mughal court, from the Mongol Steppes to the Andean Highlands. Over a dozen nations get makeovers in Winds of Change, a new expansion pack for Europa Universalis IV, available now. This expansion pack adds new historical content for nations as different as the Aztec Empire that dominated 15th century Mexico, to the Mughal Empire that emerged out of Central Asia to dominate India for three hundreds years, to the trading republics of Venice and the Netherlands, each controlling the seas to guide precious cargo home. This historical content takes many forms, including expanded and branching mission trees, unique government reforms that reflect the characteristics of certain nations, new decisions and events, and special mechanics that allow you to leverage cultural abilities for unique bonuses. [previewyoutube=vVdw0eVeqQc;full][/previewyoutube] Europa Universalis IV: Winds of Change includes new historical content for:

• Major American Nations: The Aztecs, Maya and Inca all get significant updates, including an Aztec mechanic that promotes warfare and demanding sacrifices, new ways to unite the Mayan nations into one kingdom, Incan royal authority, and many other improvements and updates. These nations also receive special content to allow an alternate-history invasion of the Old World.
• Major Trading Nations: Both The Netherlands and Venice see expanded historical flavor, including more detailed content for the creation and enlargement of the Dutch Republic, the Glorious Revolution uniting the Dutch and British crowns, the Venetian Council of Ten, and the glories of the Venetian Renaissance.
• Gunpowder Empires: The declining Timurid Empire can either fully embrace Persian traditions or return to its horse empire roots through a life of plunder, and the rising Mughal Empire has new routes to unite all of India under its sway. The Central Asian Horde nations also get updates, including unique flavor for the Tatar, Mongol and Moghul Khanates.
• Central Europe: Austria, Hungary and Bohemia get revised trees, including the possibility for the Austrian and Hungarians to form the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary and for Bohemia to expand Hussite Power in the heart of the Empire, while all three can tailor the HRE to their liking.
• Major Formable European Nations: New alt-historical options and content for the formation of Germany and Italy.
• Minor Orthodox Empires: Surrounded by enemies, the Black Sea kingdoms of Theodoro and Trebizond seek to thrive and expand, potentially reviving Orthodox fortunes in the region.
• Hisn Kayfa and Hormuz/Oman: The minor nation Hisn Kayfa, heirs of the Ayyubid dynasty, and major Gulf trading powers of Hormuz and Oman get unique mission trees to dominate the Middle East.

Hello everyone! We're finally one week away from Europa Universalis IV: Wind of Change release! The next Wednesday, May 8th, be ready to play with the Incan Empire, the Netherlands, the Timurids, and all the other countries weve added content on for this new expansion! Remember that you can pre-purchase it and receive an additional Music Pack with 3 songs to give an extra touch to your campaign with exploration and trade tones. Meanwhile, we'll be hosting a Winds of Change Stream on our Discord server on Thursday, May 2nd at 13.00 CET, so be sure to check that out if you want to see any specific content of this expansion! And just before the Release, the same day May 8th, we are going to be streaming on Twitch, to have a final recap of the content for Winds of Change and answer your questions. Foukos (our other new Embedded QA who recently finished the EU4 tutorial after a few thousand hours) and Ryagi, our Community Ambassador, are going to be our champions representing Tinto. But before that, lets talk about todays Dev Diary since we're sharing with you the changelog of the new update, 1.37 'Inca'. Tinto has aimed to deliver an incredible experience with this new update, focusing on expanding the Mission Trees and mechanics for 3 different regions of the world, as well as much more new content, art, and music created for Winds of Change. The whole team is thrilled to share all this content with you, and we hope you are going to enjoy it. At the same time, weve also worked on fixing a number of bugs from previous versions, and other tweaks for the game. Lets go into the details and see you next week. Cheers!

Changelog Here

• Added 10 new achievements: It's all coming together, Doge Ducats, Veritas Vincit, The eagle flies alone, Mayapahit?, There Khan only be one!, Baborg, Get out of my swamp!, Timurizz, and The Hungarian Games.
• Added 2 new formable nations, Austria-Hungary and Great Moravia.
• Added a reworked generic Mission Tree with updated rewards and requirements, like regional claims or discounted advisors, for more than 15 generic or shared mission trees, including European, Berber, Indian, African, and Native American.
• Changes in the set-up in Mesoamerica, the Andean region, Central Europe, and Central Asia.
• Added 8 new Great Projects in America, Europe, and Asia for the owners of Leviathan. The Golden City (Nitra), the Schnbrunn Palace (Wien), the Amsterdam Bourse (Amsterdam), the Venetian Arsenal (Venice), the City of Sarai (Sarai), the Citadel of Aleppo (Aleppo), the Afqa Khojja Mausoleum (Kashgar), and Tzintzuntzan (Patzcuero).
• Added a new Naval Doctrine for Rule Britannia, called Pacific Vogaying.
• Added 3 new Local Organizations for Golden Century, the Order of the Dragon, the Scuola Grande, and Telpochcalli Academy.
• Added new portraits for women advisors for North America, 21 new portraits covering all the possible combinations for administrative, diplomatic, and military advisors.

Hello everybody! Welcome to todays Developer Diary! My name is Stefan and this is my first time presenting a Dev Diary, so let me do a small introduction. I am acting as the 3D Art Coordinator at Tinto and my main responsibility is to coordinate all the efforts of the Tinto 3D art team and make sure we create a cohesive and consistent artist look. Now, let's proceed and allow me to present some artwork for Winds of Change DLC. Afterward, Dargeths will present the new achievements for the 1.37 update. -------------

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Westphalian Culture

Moldavia

Slovakian Culture

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Achievements

Veritas Vincit

The eagle flies alone

Timurizz

The Hungarian Games

Hello and welcome to the latest EUIV Dev Diary! Today, Im going to present you a bit different one, addressing various topics related to the upcoming DLC and patch:

• The trailer and release date for Winds of Change, our newest Expansion for Europa Universalis IV
• A summary of all the features that are available in Winds of Change.
• A showcase of the free content we've included in the 1.37 Inca update, which includes improvements to the base game, new modding tools, a fresh set of portraits for women in North America, and a total of nine new monuments exclusively for owners of the Leviathan DLC.

• Atlantic Navigation - For those who want to immerse themselves as adventurers traveling to the New World.
• Hanseatic Trade - For those who want to immerse themselves as a Sea Wolf visiting different harbors and towns.
• Silk Road - For those who want to immerse themselves in this millennia-long trading road.

• A mission tree for the Incas with 40 missions in total, 12 for Cusco to unify the region and form the Incas, and 28 missions for the Incan Empire.
• 1 new Government Mechanic, the Divine Authority.
• 1 new Government Reform, the 'Andean Empire'.
• 11 new Events.
• Additional content, such as new decisions, mercenary companies, balancing and improvements for the Inti religion, and National Ideas for the Incas.

• A mission tree for the Aztecs with 42 missions in total.
• 1 new government mechanic, the Tonalli.
• 6 new Government Reforms.
• 3 new Estate Privileges.
• 6 new Events.
• A new Subject type, Nahuatl Tributary.
• Additional content, such as a new local organization Telpochcalli Academy, updated National ideas, and new types of peace offers.

• A mission tree for the Mayans with 40 missions in total.
• 2 new Government Reforms, the Divine Kingship and Mayan Confederation.
• 5 new Estate Privileges.
• New province modifier for Obsidian in the Yucatan peninsula.
• Additional content, such as new decisions, mercenary companies, and updated religious triggers for the Mayan religion.

• A mission tree for Aztecs / Incas / Mayans with 34 missions in total.
• 2 new Estate Privileges.
• 8 new Events.
• 2 new CB types, Sunset Invasion and Sunrise Invasion.
• New subject type, European Colonies, allowing the creation of subjects in the Old World.
• Additional content such as naval doctrines, diplomatic actions, and more.

• A new Venetian mission tree with 52 new missions in total.
• A new government mechanic, The Council of Ten.
• 2 new Government Reforms, Promissione Ducale, and Merchant representation.
• 15 new Events.
• Additional content such as new National Ideas for the Golden Republic.and a new Local organization, the Scuola Grande.

• A revamped Italian mission tree with 46 missions in total, of which 21 are new, and 25 are updated from the Emperor mission tree.
• 3 new Estate Privileges.
• 12 new Events.
• 3 new CB types, Roman Ambition, Scramble for America, and Dismantle HRE.
• 1 type of mercenary company, the Lost legion.

• A mission tree for the Netherlands with 64 missions in total.
• 4 new Government Reforms, like Seven Provinces or Modern Economics.
• 5 new Estate Privileges.
• 12 new Events.
• 2 new decisions, Unite Two Crowns, and Overthrow Statist Stadholder.

• A new Hungarian mission tree with 42 missions in total.
• 5 new Government Reforms, like the Apostolic Kingdom and the Cuman Lancers.
• 2 new Estate Privileges, Vegvar System and Hungarian Royal cities.
• 15 new Events.
• 1 new Local Organization, The Order of the Dragon.
• The ability to form Austria-Hungary.

• A new mission tree for Austria with 53 missions in total, Including 6 branching missions about the Legacy of Charlemagne, and 6 more about the German Conquest.
• 3 new Government Reforms.
• 9 new Estate Privileges.
• 12 new Events.
• 2 new decisions, The Iberian Union and the Habsburg Land.
• 2 new subject Types Core Vassal, and Core Personal Union.
• A new formable nation, Austria-Hungary.
• Additional content such as Diplomatic actions, mercenaries, Imperial Incidents, and disasters.

• A new mission tree with 33 new Bohemian missions, including 6 branching missions covering different paths for a Hussite or a Catholic Bohemia.
• A new formable nation, Great Moravia, with its own branching mission tree, with 9 missions in total.
• 2 new Government Reforms, including Bergordnung Reforms and Wagenburg Tactics.
• 1 new Estate Privilege.
• 10 new Events.
• Additional content such as new decisions, updates of the Hussite Religion, and Imperial Incidents.

• A revamped German mission tree with 30 missions, of which with 9 are new, and 21 are updated from the Emperor mission tree.
• 12 new Government Reforms.
• A new Government Mechanic, Cultural Unity.
• 2 new estate privileges.
• 15 new events.
• 2 new CB types, Scramble for Africa, and Claim a piece.
• Added a new subject type, Incorporated vassal.

• A new mission tree for Hisn Kayfa with 38 new missions in total, including 4 branching missions on the Conquest or Alliances paths to decide the fate of Anatolia and Persia.
• 1 new Government Reform, the Ayyubid Dynasty.
• 8 new Events.
• Additional content such as a new flag, the new cosmetic country name Ayyubids, and more.

• A new mission tree for Hormuz and Oman with 36 new missions in total, with 18 shared missions, 10 unique missions for Hormuz, and 8 unique missions for Oman.
• A new Government Mechanic, the Arabic trade influence.
• 1 new Government Reform.
• 2 new Estate privileges, Arabian traders, and Omani Marines.
• 5 new Events.
• A new cosmetic country name, Zanzibar.

• A new mission tree for Trebizond with 20 new missions.
• 2 new Government Reforms, Empire of Trebizond. Crusader Nobility
• 6 new Events.
• A new diplomatic action called Heathen royal marriage.

• A new mission tree for Theodoro with 20 new missions, including 4 branching missions about the paths of Russian Alliances or Russian Rivalry.
• 3 new Government Reforms.
• 2 new Estate Privileges.
• 9 new Events.
• Additional content such as a new Diplomatic Action for Theodoro allowing them to request Foreign Generals from other nations, a new cosmetic country name, Gothia, and a new CB type, Gothic Invasion.

• 3 new mission trees for the Hordes with 54 missions in total, covering the conquest path of the Tatars, Moghulistan, and the Mongols. 43 are shared missions for all the Hordes, 5 are unique missions for the Tartars, 3 are unique for Moghulistan, and 3 are unique missions for the Mongols. Plus 6 Religious branching missions, covering the Devout, Tolerance, and Confucian paths.
• A new Government Reform.
• 9 new Estate Privileges.
• 10 new Events.
• 1 new Subject Type, the Mongol Brother Realm. -------

• A new Mission Tree for the Timurids with 50 missions in total.
• 2 new Government Reforms.
• 6 new Estate Privileges.
• 11 new Events.
• 1 new CB Type, Reconquest of China.
• Additional content such as new decisions, a new Subject Type, the Soyurghal.

• A new Mughal Mission Tree with 53 missions in total.
• 7 new Events.
• 6 new Estate Privileges.
• Additional content such as new decisions, mercenary companies.

• 32 New Unit Sprites.
  • 4 new units for Umbrian culture.
  • 4 new units for Romagnol culture.
  • 4 new units for Croatian culture.
  • 4 new units for Dalmatia culture.
  • 4 new units for Slovakian culture.
  • 4 new units for Moldavia.
  • 4 new units for Renish culture.
  • 4 new units for Westphalian culture.

• 3 New Music Packs, with 9 new songs in total.
  • Music pack with 3 new songs of Pre-Columbian flavor.
  • Music pack with 3 new songs of Central European flavor.
  • Music pack with 3 new songs of Central-Asian flavor.

• Icon frames can now be tied to variables of ROOT. It allows for easier implementation of progress bars as well as making icons with many frames no longer require many if clauses.

• The custom window has been added as a new interface element that can hold other scripted and non-scripted elements inside it. It allows for easier organization of the UI and saves on the performance of checking potentials. Windows not fulfilling its potential won't check the potential of the elements inside it.

• Custom gui can now be put inside any descendant of any of the interface elements inside the example.txt file. It is now possible to have a chain of: Vanilla window -> Non-scriptable window -> Scriptable element
• New windows received support for custom elements:

• Colonization view (colonisationpanel.gui - colonisationpanel)
• Siege view (siege.gui - siege)
• Topbar panel (topbar.gui - topbar)

• New math effects have been added:

Hello and welcome to another Developer Diary! Today we shall talk about the last two nations that will receive specific content for this DLC. But before we start, I should mention some further tweaks based on your feedback from previous DDs:

• Montezuma no longer starts as a general for the Aztecs. In exchange, youll be able to convert him to one through a decision with the general stats he used to have before. If you feel lucky, you can use the normal way to make a ruler into a general if you think you can roll higher stats though.
• The modifier for Rise of Montezuma will give Average Monarch Lifespan in order to keep your ruler alive for longer.
• Should Montezuma die, the conquest missions will give alternative rewards.
• Oman-Zanzibar has been renamed to Zanzibar, and you can rename yourself back to Oman should you ever wish.

• Timurids now start with the entirety of Afghanistan as core provinces. This means we have added the fort province Roh as a core province of the Timurids, too, allowing you to diplomatically annex them without any cost.
• All of the Timurid dynasty nations now start with an additional 20 Army Tradition on top of what they already start with.
• The provinces in and around Balkh now start with increased local autonomy as those territories were governed by Muhammad Juki. In the game, it looks like this:
  
• Timurids now start with 3 estate privileges at the start, but we will get to that later!

Hey all, Ryagi here. If you've clicked on this post because you want to see just what modders can do when you let them cook, you're in the right place! Today we dive into the mods that took part in the Modathon Season 2, modders had only 2 weeks to create these mods. Think game jam but for EUIV mods. The outcome was spectacular, enjoy! --

Baburs Gate IV

Gameplay Elements

• The Combat System
• The Inventory System
• Custom Map
• Moving Story

Combat System

Inventory System

Custom Map

Moving Story

Future of the Mod

Our Team

• CzerstfyChlep
• Stiopa
• Comrade Flan
• Lia

• Rome must be included in some way, everyone loves Rome!
• It should have at least one unique mechanic or a base game/DLC mechanic used in a new and creative way.
• Lots of flavor text and wacky characters/happenings.

• Early wars were not fun.
• The execution of the expedition was not reliable and would often fail.
• It took too much time to get into the interesting part of the content. We made the mistake of developing this concept for too long and mismanaging the time we had. Because of this, we had to play way safer and remove the majority of our planned content.

• Serica has to exist in the 1444 start date, so the players can engage with its content from the start.
• It has to be balanced somehow, so its not too overpowered with all the lands it controls.
• It shouldnt be particularly hard to get through the mod, it should be just a fun, one-time playthrough with a few fun additions. With these changes and not much time left we started working!

Friends & Foes

• Nihon is meant to be the Carthage to our Serica. During the Sengoku period Romans not only settled in mainland China but in the western Japan too. With their technological and military prowess Ouchi managed to unify most of the region. Their goals are to challenge the Serican power structure.
• Mongolia is an interesting nation because it was inspired by the Great Khan Crisis in Stellaris. They were dormant for a time, not attacking anyone or being a threat. If left unchecked they have the opportunity to become a formidable force once again.
• Xinzhong is a monastic order with the Grand Sage leading it. After the proclamation of the Serican empire, the last line of the true Han dynasty fled west and took over a large chunk of the empire. They despise everything Serica and the Roman settlers stand for.

• Present on the map at the game start but can be changed or altered in some ways over time.
• Base game monuments with altered visuals.
• Monuments that have their own upgrade path.

• This monument is vital at the beginning of the game to repel Mongol attacks but later on loses its importance, so the player can repurpose it to fit their playstyle or destroy it and use the resources for other constructions.

• Most of us associate monuments with bonuses, we tried to change that with this one. At first it only gives negative modifiers to the province and state. The player has to actively improve it and build it up to restore the city. Once the restorations are over its upgraded to the Eternal city of Beijing

Winds of Silk

A Journey Begins

Danger in the Mountains - A call for war

Design

Upon a Crimson Horse

• Inferno: Lead Developer, flavor and ui
• Xorme (of Xorme AI): Art and ui
• Sol_InvictusXLII (of EU4 Minesweeper): Mechanics and Succession Crisis wars
• Cetai: flavor and events
• Minnator: events

Welcome back to another Development Diary! This week we will talk about the Hordes that occupy the lands between the Pontic Steppe and Mongolia. Before we start, I want to share with you some changes we made, based on the feedback we received since the last development diary:

• The formable countries that required Tech 20, will now be unlocked with Tech 18. This will affect all formable countries that previously required Tech 20.
• Andean Empire and Divine Kingship now allow their country to use to use Divine ideas instead of Aristocratic ideas.
• High-American nations will be able to benefit from Obsidian sources.

• Tatars will have unique missions about the Tatar Lands and Russia
• Central Asian Hordes have unique missions about Central Asia and Persia
• Oirat and Mongolia will have unique missions about China

Hey everyone, welcome to another Developer Diary! Before we get to the content, we would like to let you know that we have gathered a lot of feedback regarding last weeks Diary from various sources, and are extremely happy that the new Central European content generated feedback and positivity! Despite that, there have been some concerns and requests, so before we move on, lets take a look at what has changed since then, thanks to this feedback:

• Hungary is now a (re)formable nation for tags with Hungarian or Transylvanian primary cultures.
• Hungarian conquest missions no longer require Hungary to be an independent nation, which should make them a much more attractive subject.
• The 'Serbian Despotate' Tier 1 government reform now grants access to the Order of the Dragon.
• We have added the 'Bohemian Commonwealth' optional cosmetic country rename as a reward of the namesake mission.
• The decision to form Romania was updated to account for the map changes introduced in Emperor. It now correctly requires the province of Tolcu instead of Silistria.
• The Aztec Blood mechanic is now named Tonalli.
• The 'Tlpochcalli' Academy Local Organization now gives a +5 Governing Cost Increase instead of -1 Building Slots in the entire area.
• The Personal Union Casus Belli on Poland for Austria requires them to have less than 400 development instead of less than 300, making it less harsh on the player.
• The 'Universal Empire' incident can now be acquired by a Spanish Emperor as well, and it should have harsher penalties.
• To address the concerns regarding the weakness of the Hussite HRE path and the princes converting to Protestantism, we have tweaked the event which will now make them less likely to convert if the player manages to convert a sizeable portion of the HRE to Hussite.

Hisn Kayfa

Hormuz & Oman

Trebizond

• Hellenization of Anatolia. Trebizond will be able to convert the Anatolian region to Hellenic cultures Greek, Pontic, and Cappadocian through events.
• Referencing the historically close ties between the Komnenian dynasty and the Crusader states of the Levant, a small mission branch has been added. This branch involves liberating Cilicia, resulting in the local culture shifting to Armenian and excluding Armenian provinces from Hellenization events. The culmination of this branch is the liberation of the Holy Land, unlocking a Tier 2 Crusader Nobility' reform with beneficial modifiers and allowing players to release Jerusalem as a vassal regardless of age and religion.
• Another branch of the mission tree focuses on Genoa and the recovery of Perateia, the Trapezuntine Black Sea colonies. Initially burdened with an estate privilege symbolizing Latin dominance over the Black Sea trade routes, Trebizond must either forge an alliance with Genoa or expel them from the region to rid itself of this constraint. Similarly, the mission tree presents various options for dealing with Theodoro, offering the chance to vassalize them through an event or to seize the province by force, unlocking a permanent local modifier.

Theodoro

Hello folks! Today's Dev Diary covers some key central European countries, Austria, Bohemia, Hungary & Germany. As you can see, all of these countries received some Mission Trees before in the Emperor DLC. Therefore we decided that these nations should receive a touch-up, that is, an update similar in scope to that which Spain received during Domination. Thus, the main idea was not a total overhaul, but preservation of the core skeleton of their old tree, improving and expanding it where needed, and adding additional flavor and as many important historical things as possible that could not fit into their old mission trees. Unfortunately, this Developer Diary is simply too long to share directly here on steam, so if you are interested,

You can find the rest of this Dev Diary over on our forums

Hello and good afternoon! Today we will be taking a look at the content we have in store for Venice, Italy, and the Netherlands. All three of these countries have many gameplay aspects in common, trade, maritime prowess, and, to some degree, colonization. Either as important proponents of history, as is the case for Netherlands and Venice, or as valuable gameplay additions in Italys case, these countries are due to receive new content with the upcoming DLC.

Venice

Italy

Netherlands

Glorious Revolution

Hansa Relations

Army and Navy

Focus on Development

Colonialism

Internal Flavour, New Events, New Reforms

While the European kingdoms are leaving the Medieval period and starting their centralization to the modern states, the New World these soon-to-be colonizers will discover is already home to other empires. The heart of Mexico is settled by the Nahuatl empire of the Aztecs, led by the great Moctezuma I who aims to centralize the Triple Alliance and establish a realm that drives fear to the hearts of its enemies. The Mayans, once controllers of the jungles of Chiapas and Guatemala have retreated to the Yucatan peninsula. Their once great realm is now splintered into a series of city-states, not all too unlike the Italian domains. In the heights of the Andes reigns the many different Inti kingdoms. One of them, Cusco, will be destined to unify the region under the rule of Pachacuti and his descendants, forming the first Incan Empire. Welcome to our newest Development Diary for the upcoming DLC. Today, we will take a look at the content for Central and South America - namely the Aztecs, the Mayans, and the Incas. As always, all values you see here are NOT final. So without further ado, let us get started. First, we shall take a look at Mexico and a few setup changes there:
The Mexico Trade Node has received some additional Centers of Trade, as well as a new province modifier added to a few selected provinces that represent the mining of obsidian. This is, however, only limited to those of the Mesoamerican technology group:
Next are some changes to the country of the Aztecs. They now start with the Empire rank instead of the Kingdom rank and their starting ruler, Moctezuma I, also starts with the guaranteed Legendary Conqueror personality trait.
However, the Aztecs were never as centralized as EU4 can realistically depict it. Historically, they were more an alliance of the city-states instead, though Moctezuma I was on his way to centralize the state. As such, the Aztecs also start with a new privilege:
Now let us take a closer look at the mission tree:
Note: Mission icons are still placeholders and will be of course replaced with the proper images for the release. The mission tree is separated into 3 big chunks. The first block at the very top is about dominating the Mexican region, and as such is the main bulk of your New World conquest. The biggest highlight of this part is the opportunity to buff your Moctezuma progressively more as you continue through your missions.
Note: We might add a Monarch Lifespan modifier to these rewards so your Moctezuma can enjoy his newfound powers for a little bit longer. We also might consider changing his starting situation as a general into an event to further increase his survivability. The second subtree is all about your government and, of course, your blood tribute to the gods. Some highlights from this part are the following:
Now a few of you might have noticed that certain keywords such as Blood and Mesoamerican Tributaries have been mentioned. These are part of the new government mechanics the Aztecs will now start with:
Note: The art is still work in progress.



The Demand Sacrifices peace option always requires a 50% War Score and grants 10 Blood.
Next are the Mesoamerican Tributaries which is a new subject type available to all Mayan and Nahuatl countries. You establish them with a new peace treaty:

They act just like normal tributaries, though you can sacrifice their ruler and you can annex them. On that note, all of your conquest missions in Mesoamerica can be completed via these tributaries or vassals. Last but not least, the final subtree is all about the economic and military affairs of the Aztecs. I should also probably mention here that there are no Jaguar special units and a tease for them was not intentional whatsoever. With that being said, here are some highlights of these missions:
Note: these missions are more long-term based as you will require some higher advanced technologies to complete them. Also, the Telpochcalli Academy will probably have its Possible Number of Buildings penalty replaced. Before we move on to the next country, one quick note for all the non-Aztec Nahuatl countries: as there was time for only the Aztec mission tree itself, every Nahuatl country gets a decision to adopt the Aztec mission tree if they conquer the Aztecs and own the Mexico provinces themselves.
Moving on to the Mayans, every Mayan country gets a small mission tree at the start which helps you out for the formation of the Mayan Confederation:
Note: With Venus we mean the planet Venus. That was localized before finding the name Chac Ek or Noh Ek to use instead. Will be fixed before release. Highlights of these missions are the The Sign of Venus, Campaigning Season and Reforming our Society which have evolving rewards. Every time you unlock a Religious Reform, these three missions get reset (in other words un-completed) which allows you to complete them again. Their evolving modifier gets upgraded whenever you complete the missions again. Another change to the Maya formable is that you now need only 2 Mayan Religious Reforms instead of the full 5. However, forming the Mayas will still be rather painful as whenever you enact a new Religious Reform you get a 5 year penalty to your Manpower Recovery Speed (-10%) and your Harsh Treatment Cost (+100%) which also disables the ability to Increase Autonomy and manually decrease War Exhaustion. You also gain +3 War Exhaustion whenever you undergo a reform. Once you form the Maya you get the following mission tree:
Note: we are aware of the mission title leaving the GUI here. Will be fixed before the release. Similar to the Aztec mission tree, the Maya one is about unifying Mesoamerica under your banner, as well as focusing on the economic improvements of your empire. I will focus now on mentioning some highlights of the mission tree which are the following missions:


With that, we finish the Mayans and will now take a closer look at the Incas. The first thing that needs to be mentioned is that the map of the Andes does NOT get any additional provinces or tags. This also means that there are no new wastelands too. There are, however, some small setup changes. Similar to the Aztecs, Pachacuti starts with the Legendary Conqueror personality trait but has been reduced to a 4/3/5 (down from 5/4/6). The missions Cusco has received are similarly structured to the ones of the Aztecs as they buff your starting ruler:
Some early highlights in the mission tree are the following:
The decision to colonize the provinces requires you to defeat the local tribes and have 50 Ducats ready. Using the decision will then start a Frontier Colony in said province, and this decision can go far along the Andes as you can see in the following screenshot:
Note: All the green-striped provinces are ones you can colonize via the decision.

Hey all! Community Ambassador Ryagi here. EUIV has been busy preparing for 1.37, for more on that check out our 1.37 roadmap Dev Diary. But today we're not here to talk about what we have in store, but what some of the creative EUIV's modders have been cooking up! This time we're covering a brand new Alternate history total overhaul mod, Gods and Kings:

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Hello Eu4 Fans! This is the Gods and Kings Development Team - Im Nitr0gue , and were here to have a little chat about our mod.

Origins

World Creation

Religions

Mission Trees and Content

Mission Trees

Artwork

Hello, and welcome again to a new series of EUIV Dev Diaries! For those of you who dont know me yet, I joined Paradox Tinto a couple of years ago as QA, and Ive transitioned in the past months to the position of Associate Producer. Ive been pretty much involved in the development process of the new content for the 1.37 update, in a very exciting (and different) experience from my previous duties as QA. For this Dev Diary, Ive synced with @Pava, our Content Design Coordinator, to speak about the new content. So, its been some time since the last DD, but we now are ready to start sharing with you the plans we have set for the upcoming DLC. Weve learned the lessons from the development of King of Kings, and weve decided to start today by showing the overall plan for the new content, to correctly set the expectations about what to expect from the start. Without further ado, there will be 3 main areas we want to focus on: America, Central Europe, and Central Asia. Lets start, then!

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America

Inca

Aztecs

Mayans

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Central Europe

Netherlands

Austria

Germany

Venice

Italy

Hungary

Bohemia

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Central Asia

Timurids

Mughals

Hordes

Hisn Kayfa

Trebizond

Theodoro

Hormuz & Oman

First, a quick announcement for those who have been waiting: we will be starting dev diaries back up again next Tuesday 27th! Were excited to begin sharing with you all that weve been working on since King of Kings. With that aside, another announcement to let you know that weve just released another community music back - EUIV: Sounds from the Community: Kairi Soundtrack Part III. This new Community Music Pack includes 13 new songs from Skye Kairi Sawler, a composer previously featured in two other music packs for Paradox Interactives flagship historical grand strategy game. Inspired by the soundtracks of classic strategy games from the late 1990s and early 2000s, Kairi draws on the music from the many cultures you can play in Europa Universalis IV, crafting a musical landscape that mixes themes from Eastern and Western music in a way authentic to the Europa Universalis IV experience.

Get the pack: here Follow Kairis work on Soundcloud: here Read some words from Kairi regarding each of these tracks: here

We've just released some beats to revoke the privilegia to with the Europa Universalis IV: Utopia Holy Roman Empire Music Pack. Were excited to have teamed up with composer Utopia and producer George Hammond once more to bring you these tracks inspired by the mighty Holy Roman Empire. This music collection adds ten new songs to EUIV that highlight the vibrancy and majesty of the HRE at the peak of its power. We hope you enjoy this music pack, guaranteed to rouse the conqueror within. Listen to a preview here: [previewyoutube=4ZC176x2fUw;full][/previewyoutube] Here are some words from the creators - plus some links to where you can find more of their work: =========== "Greetings Emperors! George and I have been cooking up a special treat for you to finish off 2023! This is a pack of ten original songs that covers some of the most iconic moments in the Holy Roman Empire's early-modern history. There are five intense tracks for war, and five gentle tracks for peace; all ten integrating seamlessly with the existing game music. You will hear the Prussian space marines come rolling in; you will hear the mighty pen of Austrian Diplomacy as it strikes yet another strategic manoeuvre; and you will hear the legacy of Holy Roman Emperors past, present and future come forth to celebrate your next coronation. Production of this music has been a huge undertaking, and George and I have really enjoyed bringing this to reality. The end product is far deeper and richer than I ever imagined, and is a nice nod back to the original magic of Utopia. So join us! And immerse yourself with the power and glory that your most Holiest and most Roman Empire deserves. Enjoy! ~ Utopia" Utopia's website: https://utopiamusic.net/ =========== "Its really exciting to finally be able to share what Utopia and I have been hard at work on over the last few months, and I really hope that you all enjoy the music! Its been an absolute pleasure to work with Utopia and Paradox on this project, and its an experience Ive learnt a lot from. Utopia and I have painstakingly worked to create these 10 tracks for you all, going backwards and forwards over every little tiny detail, but we can confidently say that the final result is a thousand times better than what we could have ever imagined when we first started working together. I especially found it very fascinating reading up on the history of the Holy Roman Empire and the German nations within it in preparation for this set of tracks, and it was really interesting to see how Utopia had interpreted the events and institutions of the HRE in his music, and this is one of the main things Ive loved about my work on these projects, as its so inspiring listening to and sharing different methods and ideas with other composers, and seeing the work that results from working together. To a happy 2024! ~ George Hammond" George's website: https://georgehammond.myportfolio.com/ =========== https://store.steampowered.com/app/2602580

Greetings everyone! Its been a while since the last Europa Universalis IV Developer Diary, but we didnt want to end the year without reaching out one more time, in order to share with you a retrospective view not only of 1.36 and EUIV: King of Kings after its release, but of what has happened to EUIV in 2023 as a whole. Lets get started!

King of Kings

Domination

Music Packs

History Lessons

10th Anniversary

New Official Discord Server & Grandest LAN

We've just reworked much of our bundles on Steam - meaning lower prices and more relevant content. Almost all of our existing offerings have been streamlined, consolidated, or revamped to be more thematically consistent. The most significant changes have been to the Ultimate Bundle and Starter Pack (now the Starter Edition), which have seen much of their content rearranged; for example, the Ultimate Bundle has had cosmetic packs removed and repackaged into the new Prestige Collection. These bundles are therefore now better organised (and cheaper!):

• Starter Pack (US$89.96) now Starter Edition (US$49.99)

• [NEW] Prestige Collection (US$89.95)

• Ultimate Bundle (US$425.36) Ultimate Bundle (US$319.30)

Embark on a Fascinating Journey: Discovering Mesoamerica's Rich History through the Mesoamerican Expansion Mod Created as part of the 2023 EU4 Modathon!

Lets start with a rough overview of what we have for you today:

• How the mod came to be
• Map changes
• Reworked Nahuatl religion
• New government reforms
• New generic mission tree
• New Aztec mission tree
• New buildings
• New government mechanics
• New disaster
• New estate privileges
• Three new music tracks
• The next Modathon

How the mod came to be

Map Changes

Reworked Nahuatl religion

Tezcatlipoca

Tlaloc

Quetzacoatl

Huitzilopochtli

New government reforms

New generic mission tree

New Aztec mission tree

New Buildings

Government Mechanics

Doom

Colonial Influence

Struggle for Power

Estate Privileges

Music Tracks

The tracks in general

The City on The Lake

The Sixth Cradle

Enemies at our Shores

The Next Modathon

Hello everyone! Here is the changelog for version 1.36.2 - our final update of 2023, with 84 fixes in total. As always, please report any issues in our bug report forum or submit a support ticket; this is the fastest way for us to see and address any problems. And be mindful that while these changes shouldn't affect 1.36.0 save games too profoundly, this is something we're not able to fully guarantee. See you in 2024! ############################################################# ######################## 1.36.2.0 ########################### ############################################################# ################### # Usermodding ################### # Other - Added the custom_desc trait for estates which works exactly like custom_names, but shows the custom description for the estate instead. ################### # Script ################### # Achievements - "Legacy of Saint George" is now doable with either England OR Great Britain. - "Legacy of Saint George" now accounts for countries reforming into others as well. - Improved the description of the "Basileus" achievement so it is clear that the Eastern Roman Empire's borders are meant. - The achievement "Norwegian Wood" is no longer blocked when you form Scandinavia. - "This Is Persia" now can be completed if you are Eranshahr. # Decisions - Restoring the Byzantine Empire will now make you into a monarchy and grant you the Byzantine Autocracy government reform. - The decision to form Rm will now rename you to the Seljuk Empire if you do it as AQ or QQ. Atop of this, you will now keep your AQ / QQ missions when you have formed into the Seljuk Empire. - Fixed a decimal error for the "Contribute Warriors" Estate Decision. # Events - The event "Parsi Sanctuary in Sanjan" now no longer locked behind having an advisor who has the Parsi culture. - MEE_Byzantine_Events.33 about the Ottomans building a castle that would no longer fire if Byzantium won a war against them. - Fixed a bug where the event "Ottoman Troops Haul Ships" had the wrong event option text. - The event "The Tripolitanian Rebellion" will now correctly trigger with Tripoli as the revolter tag, not Trier. - Fixed a small typo for the Teutonic event effects which explains the mission paths. - Removed reference to 'nodynasty' in the event consort_events.56's description. #Government - Enabled the government reform "Karimi Merchants" for King of Kings DLC, as originally intended. - The government reform "Persian Government" is now available to Zoroastrian Custom Nations. - The "Legacy of the Safavid" government reform is now linked to the Feudal Theocracy Mechanic. This means gaining the Caliphate will no longer automatically remove the Safavid reform. - The government reform "Reform the Pronoia System" is now only available to you if you have King of Kings, as intended; the modifiers do not make sense otherwise. - The government reform "Reform the Pronoia System" is now exclusively available to those who have the Pronoia Mechanic active. - The government reform "Reform the Pronoia" is available to Roman countries too. - Fixed missing localization for when you hover over the Pronoia icon to see what effects they have. # Ideas - Fixed a typo for the Eranshahr ideas which mentioned a "Zoro" and his infamous religion of "Zoroastrian". # Missions - Mamluk's "Center of the Islamic World" mission now takes colonial subjects into account when measuring cultural unification. - Mamluks no longer receive ex machina cash by canceling the Suez Canal. - The "Highway of an Empire" Mamluk mission now checks for control and siege. - The Mamluk Mission "Highway of an Empire" now requires at least 5 buildings in the Sharqiya province and no free building slots. - Fixed a bug for the Persian "Restore the Avesta" mission where the core was not correctly applied to the province of Daman. - The Persian mission "Restore the Avesta" will no longer block you from converting your own heretic/heathen provinces to the true faith via Trade Policies. - Fixed the province highlighting of "A New Eranshahr" / "Indomitable Lion". - The Persian mission "Protect the West Iranian" now requires 8 Kurdish provinces instead of 10. It also has a fallback in case there are no more Kurdish provinces in the world. - The second option of the mission reward event "Future of the Pronoia System" will now only trigger the Crownland gain from inheritances every 5 years. - The estate privilege unlocked by the Byzantine mission "Recover Authority" is no longer locked behind the Byzantine tag. - Reduced the number of province requirements for the mission geo_catholicos_patriarch. - Reduced the Patriarch Authority gain per advisor level from the geo_cathedral_living_pillar mission. - The Byzantine mission "Church in Distress" now requires 20% Patriarch Authority instead of 2000. - Completing the 'Reorganize the State' mission as Aq Qoyunlu no longer removes the 'Tribal Unity' government reform. - The AQ and QQ mission "Repopulate Iran" now only requires 500 instead of 600 total development in Persia and only 5 instead of 10 provinces with 15 dev. - The AQ and QQ mission "Turco-Persian Architecture" now requires you to have 15 Temples, 15 Workshops and 5 Market Places instead of 20 of each. - The AQ and QQ mission "Legacy of the Seljuk" now only requires you to own 10 provinces in the Khorasan region instead of the whole region. - The AQ and QQ missions "Break Timur's Bloodline" no longer require you to own Herat. Instead, they will now require you that the Timurids have no provinces in the Persia region. - Fixed a bug for the Yemen mission "Expel the Sunni" which showed the wrong number of wars to win. - Added a fallback requirement for the mission "Uniting the Tribes" for NA natives. - Fixed an issue that prevented Dakota's mission 'Village to the End' from being completed. - Added a helpful tip in Pegu's mission "Reconquer Dvaravati" to indicate possible rewards if AYU is a subject. - Fixed an error with the Hungarian and Bohemian missions for Poland. - Fixed a bug with removing Ming's "Monopoly on Horses" when a subject no longer controls Lhasa. - Simplified the mission rewards of the EoC mission "Examination System". - The EoC mission "Examination System" now highlights Xi'An. - Lubeck's "Organize Hanseatic Diets" mission should now scope to trade league members and subjects in the requirements. - Crusader missions will now require the tag to be independent or a subject of another Catholic nation. - Fixed a tooltip bug for the Swedish mission "The German Coastline" where it promises -15% CCR instead of -10%. - Fixed the missing modifier "Germanic Alliance" for the Swedish mission "The German Coastline". - Added a helpful tip for the reward of the Restore Hariphunchai mission for Pegu. - The event Diplomacy with the Emperor of China now correctly appears for the owner of Kyoto. # Setup - Fixed a small typo for the startup screen for Byzantium. - Renamed the Georgian Culture of the Byzantine Culture Group into "Greco-Georgian". - As a native, you can no longer get the "Push Back the Colonizers" CB against other natives or their tribal land. - Shirvan no longer starts with a Shia school as a Sunni country. - Fixed a dynasty typo for Shirvan. Now their rulers are of the dynasty Derbendi instead of the Derbendid. # Other - Eyalets, Sphere of Cultural Influence subjects and Pronoias get turned into vassals if their overlord gets annexed by a country that cannot support these subject types. - Fixed the missing number of Zoroastrian Invitations in the UI if you have no invitations set yet. - Fixed missing localization for the description of the Zoroastrian Holy Sites. - Adjusted the localization for the "Supremacy over the Aristocracy" privilege if you are Zoroastrian as Persia. - The Qizilbash estate has now an Aswaran description should you become Zoroastrian. Also replaced some Qizilbash mentions with the dynamic Aswaran name in case you are Zoroastrian. Note: the unit name is static and cannot be adjusted... - Fixed the weird adjective for Eranshahr to Iranian. - The naval doctrine "Tactica" is now available to countries of the Roman primary culture too. - Releasing Sapmi via Return Province will now spawn them as Catholics instead of Fetishists (they are not Animist to avoid making the Norse events easier to get). - The estate privilege "Promote Single Market" now benefits from Court Ideas' absolutism penalty reduction. - The peace treaty "Claim the Norwegian Throne" will no longer mention that Denmark becomes a subject. - Fixed missing localization for the Ahmudan System once you are attacked/attacking somebody. ################### # Bugfixes ################### - Landing a Pronoia no longer clears accumulated liberty desire effects. - Ottoman decadence no longer influenced by yearly government power modifier. - Fixed the issue where you would get 25 karma per enemy when honoring a call to arms. - Fixed an issue where special units would require double manpower to reinforce. - Fixed issue for custom nation ideas modifiers missing labels. - Fixed issue with the "For The Glory" achievement. - Fixed issue with "End Latin Favouritism" decision checking monthly trade income. - Fixed crashes related to technology specifying unit types that don't have files specified for them. - Fixed crash related to modifiers for subunits not belonging to a unit. - Fixed crash related to assigning holy orders while changing UI. - Fixed a CTD related to the carpet siege army mission. - Fixed CTDs related to threading if one of the tasks takes too long. Old 1.36 changelogs: 1.36 1.36.1

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Greetings all - today we release the first hotfix for 1.36, with approximately 75 changes in total! Please report any issues in our bug report forum or submit a support ticket; this is the fastest way for us to see and address any problems. And be mindful that while these changes shouldn't affect 1.36.0 save games too profoundly, this is something we're not able to fully guarantee. ############################################################# ######################## 1.36.1.0 ########################### ############################################################# ################### # Interface ################### # Other - Fixed a typo for the Themata event. - Added special unit modifiers to the country modifier list. ################### # Script ################### # Achievements - Fixed a bug that prevented the achievement "King of Kings" from being earned when you chose the Zoroastrian path. - The achievements "This is Persia", "The Zoro-Austrians" and "Shahanshah" are now achievable when you form Eranshahr instead of Persia. - The achievements "The Zoro-Austrians", "Breadbasket of the World" and "Desert Power" now only show up if you have King of Kings enabled as they are not possible to achieve otherwise. - Fixed the highlighting for "Mehmet's Ambition" so it properly shows the needed provinces. - The achievement "Around the world in 80 years" now properly requires San Francisco. # Events - Fixed the modifier for the Grand Vizier: Inquisitor from the event Appointment of the State Minister, triggered by the Persian decision Select Grand Vizier. Now it increases instead of reducing the Warscore from Battles. - The Zoroastrian event chain for Persia now puts a bigger punch against you as there will be significantly more rebels during the event chain. - Reduced the art progress penalties for the Art Promotion events. The rule of thumb is now that around after 10 events the art is done. - The event "Parsi Sanctuary in Sanjan" now only fires once per country, but has now a higher chance to trigger. - The event "A Questions of Faith" will no longer fire for Persia while it is going through the Zoroastrian religion event chain. - The event "Imereti Declares Independence" will now only trigger during the disaster and when you are not a vassal. - Fixed a rare bug where pretender rebels can trigger the 10 Imperial Authority event if they enforce their demands. - The Event "Refusal to Pay Taxes" now has a go-to button. - Added go-to buttons to several events about Company Investments. - Added custom tooltips for the event The Valladolid Debate. # Missions - The Persian mission "Caucasian Conquest" no longer requires you to own direct control over provinces. - The Persian mission "Expand our Influence" now considers accepted cultures and cultures within your group. - Fixed a bug that removed the counter of provinces you have culturally converted for the Persian "Language of Poetry" mission. - Completing the Georgian mission Throne of the Romans no longer removes Armenian as an accepted culture. Atop of this, you won't have Georgian as both an accepted and as the primary culture at the same time. - The Georgian mission Vakhtang's Succession can no longer be completed before accepting the starting event. - The Georgian mission Preventing the Collapse now gives the correct reward relating to Estate Loyalty. - Changed the mission icon for the Armenian mission "The Office of Sparapet". - Added legitimacy equivalent requirements for Aq Qoyunlu and Qara Qoyunlu missions. - King of Kings and base-game Aq Qoyunlu missions no longer intersect if Domination is not active. - Qara Qoyunlu's mission 'Break Timur's Bloodline' now correctly grants the PP reward. - Added alternative for Ardabils 'Establish the Safaviyya' mission in case Golden Century is not active. - Fixed a trigger for Egypt that prevented the 'Center of the Islamic World' requirement from counting Westernization. - Mamluks' The Northern Territories mission now only gives claims on key states across Anatolia instead of the whole region. - Adjusted the icons of the default Timurid missions to remove repetition. - Mission rewards which give an accepted culture and a culture slot alongside it will now mention that you gain +100 Dip points when you have the culture accepted already. - Added the GUI for more flexible previews, allowing you to preview up to 3 batches of branching missions at the same time. - The branching missions of Songhai, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, the Ottomans, Ming, Qing, the France missions related to the HRE, and the Japanese missions related to the military have now preview buttons. The branching missions of Mali, Kongo, Poland, Gotland, the religious branch of Japan, the Italian branch of France, and the mission tree of England/GB/Angevin will continue without them for a while due to their mission tree structures, which need a deeper future fix. - The Aragonese mission Consulate of the Sea can now be completed with any trade building. - Taking the Mandate of Heaven will no longer reset missions in certain outliner cases. - The Kongo mission "A proper Kingdom" now has its legitimacy requirement only when they are a monarchy. - Removed a duplicate permanent claim from the Songhai "Conquer Timbuktu" mission. - Maori mission "Perform a Haka" no longer requires the mission "Gain Mana" for Custom Nations compatibility. - Enabled Franconian missions for Coburg. - The Chinese Kingdom mission "Fall of the Great Ming" now properly grants the +1 Tech increase. # Setup - The Narikala Fortress monument will now have no culture requirements. - Syria now has a proper starting ruler. - The decision to declare the Hanseatic League no longer depends on having fewer than 20 provinces. # Other - Aq Qoyunlu can now form Persia without the King of Kings DLC. - Fixed some mission titles not appearing correctly in the German and Spanish translations. - The Persian Age Ability is now available for Eranshahr. - The Qizilbash agenda "Win a Glorious Battle" now scales in its conditions and Army Tradition rewards with age. - Fixed unit description typos for Stratioti cavalry. - The Pronoiar Monarchy is now only available to custom nations that pick it in the first place. - The Byzantine Tier 3 government reform 'Restore the Master of Offices' now provides the proper Global Autonomy Reduction scaling with your Statesman's skills. - The estate privilege "Development of Temples" for the Brahmins now properly applies the modifier whenever a tax building is built. - Subjects of the Cultural Sphere of Influence type now count as autonomous subjects (in other words: triggers like "is_subject_other_than_tributary_trigger" and "is_free_or_tributary_trigger" now contain this new subject type too). - Added fallback for Local Organizations and Holy Orders in King of Kings and Domination, for players who do not own Golden Century. - The White House monument is now available to all former colonial subjects and countries with their capital in North or South America. ################### # Bugfixes ################### - Fixed crash when shift right-clicking multiple alerts. - Fixed crash related to 0 size navies. - Fixed overextension impact modifier to scale the effect of overextension. - Fixed flickering confirmation when attempting to remove subject buildings you haven't built. - Tooltips saying an advisor is -100% cheaper now say it's 100% more expensive. - Modifier icons and collected/transferred value text are no longer shown when selecting merchants in the trade node view. - Fixed a missing modifier icon for the influence_to_vassal_elevation_cost modifier. - Fixed the icon for the "has_marines" modifier. - Fixed a privilege icon where the legitimacy icon is way too low.

Hey all! Community Ambassador Ryagi here to bring you the return of mod spotlights! As you might imagine, King of Kings being released kept us busy. But you can expect regularly scheduled mod spotlights starting with this one. And it's a juicy one, especially if you are a UI nerd like me. Today one of EUIV's most impressive mods makes a return into the light, Europa Expanded. Europa Expanded has had plenty of room to grow with the new modding tools added by 1.36. Join as Stiopa, Lia and LordVarangian share their most recent work on User Interface and quality-of-life updates to the mod. Enjoy!

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Court of Advisors

Mission Tree Previews

Expanded Vanilla Menus

The Caliphate Window

• genuine Authority mechanics with scaling modifiers
• Jihad targets just like a Crusade target

QoL Improvements

UI Creation

Part 1: Court of Advisors

Part 2: Mission Previews

Part 3: The Caliphate

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Build New Empires on Old Ground in EU4: King of Kings As the Early Modern Age dawns, rising empires collide against faded glories. The divided lands of Persia hold great promise for any who can unite them. The imperial seat of Constantinople rules only the rump of a once mighty empire. The wealth of Egypt makes the Mamluk Sultanate an attractive target for enemies. Rise to the challenge of the ages in King of Kings, a new Immersion Pack for Europa Universalis IV, available now. Europa Universalis IV: King of Kings adds even more historical flavor and alternate historical possibilities to Paradoxs celebrated grand strategy game, with a specific focus on the kingdoms and empires that challenged the Ottoman Empire in Asia and Africa. With hundreds of new missions and dozens of other changes, King of Kings is a substantial addition to Europa Universalis IV, a game that has been challenging amateur strategists and history buffs for over a decade. [previewyoutube=xHi9XtasgoI;full][/previewyoutube] Europa Universalis IV: King of Kings includes major updates for: Persia

• Use the influence of Persian art and culture to bring neighbouring kingdoms into your orbit.
• Over 70 new National Missions
• Unique mission choices depending on the state religion - Sunni, Shia or Zoroastrian - as well as Centers of Reformation and other ways to expand the faith.
• New National Idea sets, unique Government Reforms and unique Estates and agendas.

• Over 30 new National Missions
• New Diplomatic options including exporting Egyptian grain and promoting the Hajj.
• Unique Mamluk Government Reforms, Mercenary Companies and Estate Privileges.
• Option to Westernize Egypt.

• Over 60 new National Missions
• Unique Government Reforms and Estate Privileges
• New Subject type - the Pronoia
• Over 50 new Byzantine themed events and 10 new Decisions

• Armenia and Georgia: Two Christian kingdoms, pinned between rising empires
• Arabia and Yemen: Competing powers on the Arabian peninsula, guarding the holy sites of Islam and the trade routes to India.
• Ardabil: A major seat of Iranian culture, and the origin state of modern Persia/Iran.
• Aq Qoyunlu and Qara Qoyunlu: Turkmen middle powers resisting Ottoman expansion before the unification of Persia.

Below is a full list of changes in the free 1.36 update, 'Byzantium'. Please note that 1.35 saves may not be compatible with 1.36! See here for information on how to roll back versions or prevent auto updates.
################### # Free Features ################### - Added 9 new achievements: King of Kings, Restore the Pentarchy, Mets Hayk, Desert Power, Breadbasket of the World, The Last Crusade, A truly good maaa-tch, Legacy of Saint George and ZoroAustrians. - Added 8 new Monuments accessible through the Leviathan DLC: Golestan Palace, Al-Azhar University, City of Sanaa, Tomb of Shah Rukn-e-Alam, Nizwa Fort, Itchan Kala, Narikala Fortress and Kazan Kremlin. - Added the Savayyid Order for Ardabil and Shia Persia accessible through the Golden Century DLC. - Added 25 events for Persia which fire during a playthrough. - Added a new Georgian culture and a new setup for the Georgian area in the base game. - Added the Turco-Iranian culture in the base game. - The Teuton and Livonian Order mission trees now have buttons to preview branching missions. ################### # Gamebalance ################### # Governments - The government reform "Millennialist Theocracy" no longer grants Monarch Power per dev when converting a country. Instead, you will gain devotion per dev. Additionally, the gov reform now grants +1 Monthly Church Power, +0.25 Monthly Fervor, -25% Enforce Religion Cost, +10% Morale Damage and -2 Yearly Devotion. - The government reform "Elite Mercenaries" now only decreases merc cost by -15% instead of -25% - The government reform "Mercenary Leadership" now only decreases merc cost by -10% instead of -25% - The government reform "Cavalry Warfare" now decreases Cav Cost by -10% instead of -15% - The government reform "Expand Temple Rights" no longer decreases Admin Advisor Cost. - Land of the Christian Sun reform now turns Japan into a monarchy to avoid script complications with overlapping reforms - Land of the Christian Sun reform will no longer allow for heirs since generals become rulers - Added two new government reforms for Byzantium and one reform exclusively for Custom Nations so they can play with the Byzantine subject too. - Added a new government reform for Tier 6 which is available for countries which completed Court Ideas. The reform allows you to seize and sell crownland to targeted estates. - Fixed government power bars not working properly with values different from -100 and 100. # Units - Added more sources of Revolutionary Guard special unit in relevant government reforms. # Other - Removed Manpower reward from the Brandenburg Gate via the Prussian mission 'Balance of Power' - Appanages have now the subject interactions "Seize Court Resources" and "Request Extra Levies". - The Ottoman holy order "Mevlevi" now only decreases local dev cost by -5% instead of by -10% - The Eyalets now only provide 10% of their forcelimit / manpower to their overlord instead of 20%. Core Eyalets now only provide 20% of their forcelimit /manpower to their overlord instead of 33%. - The Ottoman mission reward of the mission "The Eyalet of Al-Andalus" no longer reduces Warscore Cost vs Other Religions. - The Ottoman mission reward of the mission "A Sunni Empire" will no longer increase Tolerance of Own Faith and will no longer decrease Warscore Cost vs other Religions. - The Ottoman mission reward of the mission "Spread the True Faith" no longer decreases Warscore Cost against other Religions. - The Janissary estate privilege "Strict Devshirme System" now only grants 10% Local Manpower Modifier and +15% Fort Defense". - The Janissary privilege "Ensure Disciplined Training" now increases the discipline of Janissaries by 2.5% instead of 5%. - The Janissary estate privilege "Professional Soldiers" now reduces the Reinforce Cost Modifier of Janissaries by -10% instead of by -20% - The permanent Ottoman modifier "Expanded Imperial Administration" from the "Expansion of the Imperial Bureaucracy" event no longer decreases CCR. - The Devshirme ability "Assign Local Pashas" now only decreases CCR by 5% instead of 10%. - The Devshirme Action "Conscript Heathen Recruits" will now only increase the Vassal Manpower Contribution by 15%, nerfing it down from +25% Vassal Manpower Contribution and +10% Manpower Recovery Speed. - The modifier "The Ottoman Rule" from the event "The Internal Power Structure" now only gives -25% Autonomy Change Time, removing the passive War Exhaustion reduction from it entirely. - The Ottoman government reform "Expanded Devshirme System" will now decrease only the Reinforce Cost of Janissaries by 10%, nerfing it down from its previous -20% and +25% Reinforce Speed. - The Tripitaka Koreana now gives +100% Local Institution Spread instead of a passive Institution bonus. The tall Empire of Korea will be slowed down by it, but should still be a force to reckon with even if they do not conquer a single province. - The Provincial Government System will now only increase the local tax by 20% instead of by 33% and giving -1 Local Unrest. - Recruitment by Merit now increases the Janissary Infantry Combat by 10% at 100% crownland instead of by 20% - The Janissary Estate privilege "Sultan-Appointed Aghas" no longer grants +0.3 Yearly Army Tradition. - Taking the Great Council of Mechelen reform will now disable the Dutch Revolt even after it started getting progress. It will NOT stop the disaster once it has fired though. ################### # Interface ################### # Icons/Art - Added an icon showing mutually exclusive reforms for the empire of China. # Tooltips - Improved tooltipable area for estate factors in grant privilege view. - Improved the tooltip for introducing a new heir. # Other - Added a Development based information in the tooltip of the Religion pie chart in the Ledger. - Added sort buttons for Autonomy Macrobuilder. Provinces that can have their autonomy Increased/Decreased will be now grouped together. - Added an alert for State Edicts that are no longer needed. For example Missionary Strength Edict if all provinces are converted. - It's now possible to click on names in State View to view that province. - You are now able to transfer multiple province occupations to one ally by selecting provinces with Shift + Left Click beforehand. - Its now possible to merge normal armies without needing to deselect mercenaries. The mercenary armies wont be merged but they wont block the button to merge. - Added a sort by giver in the peace deal screen. - Fixed so diplomacy mapmode gets updated as states and cores are added/removed. - Improved the coring list height and button positioning when having height resolution greater than 1080. - Added the ability to remove buildings via right click in the macrobuilder. - The Metropolitan map mode is now renamed into the "Local Organisation" map mode and its tooltip now reflects its changed purpose. - An explanation has been added saying why you cant set Threatened attitude. - Added a "Go to" button to leader death message. It opens the military leader menu. - You can now spend more ducats or manpower when holding Shift in the Great Project window to speed up the construction. - Go to button in the Claim Fabricated message now moves the camera to the claimed province instead of the nations capital. - Permanent claims are now shown in the Peace Deal menu similar to how normal claims are shown.. - Mapmodes: Diplomatic mapmode shows core provinces over claims. ################### # Usermodding ################### # Effects - Added 'effect' and 'removed_effect' clauses to Ideas, Institutions (only 'effect'), Hegemons, Fetishits Cults, Technologies (only 'effect') - Added play_sound effect. - Added transfer_papal_controller which will change the controller without killing the current Pope. - Added random_in_area and random_in_region effect scopes - on_actions are now additive # Modifiers - Added has_marines modifier. - Added Manpower and Sailors Percentage static modifiers. - Added "reverse_under_governing_capacity_modifier" static modifier. # Other - Added on_overrun on action. - Added can_join_hre and can_leave_hre scripted functions. - base_tax, base_production, base_manpower, development and development_discounting_tribal now accept scopes as value. - Added a new set_naval_doctrine effect. - Cost of a Naval Doctrine can now be set for each individual one in script.. - Added scriptable GUI. - Added is_mod_active trigger. ################### # Script ################### # Achievements - The Achievement "David the Builder" no longer requires you to start as Imereti. - The "Mehmet's Ambition" achievement has now been updated to reflect the changes to the Roman Empire decision. # Decisions - Timurids can now form Persia. - Forming Persia as the Timurids will now require that every single subject nation of the Timurids as well as Ajam and its subjects is not existing. - Barbary Iqtas can now form the Mamluks too. - You now have to be Muslim to form Arabia - Countries of the Byzantine culture group can now restore Byzantium. - Forming a country will now always reset your name and color to the default name of the newly formed country. - The decision to form Siam as anybody but Ayutthaya will now require you to complete 2 non-estate disasters to mirror the difficulty Ayutthaya has to overcome to form Siam. - The decision to convert to Islam will no longer be taken by the AI immediately if they are a Theocracy, Jewish or Zoroastrian. Additionally, it now demands of Theocracies to have less than 80 devotion to be picked, making it impossible to have Sunni Jerusalem day one after they are released. - Forming Rome will no longer require you to own the entirety of the highlighted regions. Instead, it will require you to own 425 provinces of these regions (for comparison: before this change, you were required to own at least 328 provinces, but you were obligated to own everything of France, Italy, Balkans, Anatolia and Mashriq). The highlighted provinces are the ones the real Roman Empire owned at any point of time. # Events - The Ottoman AI will now try to make Mamluks to their Eyalet should they declare on the Mamluks with the right cb and occupy their capital for one year. - The events of Purple Phoenix have now all a MTTH of 72 months as they tended to be very spammy. - Added a line to all the Eyalet events emphasizing that the cores on regions are only applied to the provinces already owned by the Ottomans. # Ideas - The Persian ideas now give +10% Production Efficiency instead of 5%, +15% Manpower Recovery Speed instead of +10% Manpower Recovery Speed, +15% Global Tax instead of +10% Global Tax and additionally -5% Dev Cost Modifier. - Added ideas for the nation of Arabia. - Added ideas for the nation of Egypt. - The Byzantine Ideas now give +20% Improve Relations, +10% Goods Produced Modifier instead of +5%, +25% Core-Creation Cost instead of the Mercenary Maintenance, +0.3 Yearly Patriarch Authority, +20% Reform Progress Growth instead of the National tax modifier, +15% Fort Defense instead of the -10% Stability cost modifier, +15% National Manpower Modifier instead of +10%. Global Trade Power and Yearly Prestige has been removed from the ideas. - The game will now properly subscribe LPC ideas when the Commonwealth is formed by Lithuania - The first idea of Court Ideas now gives +1 Dip Rep. # Missions - The Polish mission that extends your Golden Era, will now do so for 50 years, instead of 30. - The Daimyo mission "Regulate the Social Order" now offers an alternative requirement to Absolutism, so you can complete it before the Age of Absolutism. - The timed challenge around the Franconian Succession will now only be available to Brandenburg. - The Spanish mission 'Rein in France' now grants 10 Power Projection instead of 25. - The Varna Aftermath mission for Poland will now grant 1 PU CB instead of 2, and claims instead of the 2nd PU CB, depending on the choice in the Jagiellon event. - Streamlined the Polish missions Protect Hungary, Throne of Bohemia and Balance the Princely Lands. - The Polish mission "Leverage the Magnates" will now require fewer than 4 privileges, instead of fewer than 2 for the nobles. - The Mughals missions are available if you own King of Kings. - Fixed a bug where the default missions for England without all DLCs are disconnected. - Added DLC checks for some missions in Iberia that require flagships - Economic ideas now properly grant the development from constructing manufactories once the ideaset is completed - Economic ideas now grant their mechanic rewards at proper times - Fixed a localisation error with the PLC mission 'Golden Liberty' - Fixed an incorrect scope for Pagan faiths in the EoC missions - Qing's Three Feudatories no longer gives Subjugation CB towards the wrong country - The Examination System mission for the Emperor of China will no longer cost more Gov Reform progress than it should - Added checks for Leviathan in many missions that require trust because the latter is hard to attain without the DLC despite being a base game feature - Completing the Japanese mission Balance of Power via Absolutism will now grant the proper reform as reward - The Qing mission "Expel Foreign Merchants" now gives proper effects for the trade nodes of Ragusa and Aleppo. - The Ming mission "End the Sengoku Jidai" now properly gives a fallback reward in case you don't own Mandate of Heaven. - The conditions for the Manchurian mission "Reorganize the Tribes" now properly checks for the primary cultures of the countries. - The highlighting for the French mission "House of God" now works properly if you decide to align with the Pope. - The conditions for the French mission "The Peninsula War" now properly checks for local autonomy. - The fallback for the Spanish mission "Holy See Politics" will now properly check if you have an inquisitor. - Fixed an issue where the Chinese mission "Fortify the Coast" would not grant any reward whatsoever. # Modifiers - Fixed an issue with 3 French religious wars modifiers granting local unrest instead of global. # Setup - Timurids and the Ottomans are now historical rivals. - Added proper names for the Tabriz and Azerbaijan areas. - France will no longer integrate Burgundy if the latter is a player. - Syria now starts as a subject to the Mamluks. - Changed the bonuses of the Pyramids great project to better co-exist with the new great project in Cairo - Added Krakow in the european_trade_node_scope scripted trigger - The province of Daman now starts as a religious center for Zoroastrianism. - Most of the provinces in Persia now start as Sunni instead of Shia. - Konstantinos Palaiologos, the starting heir of Byzantium, is now a 5/2/3 instead of a 3/2/2, but has only 60 Claim on the throne. - The province of Burgas now belongs to Byzantium in 1444 instead of the Ottomans. - Byzantine provinces in the Morea area now start with +25% Local Autonomy. # Other - AI is now actually inclined to form Arabia when they reach ADM tech 19 - Removed some immersion-breaking military reforms from the 5th tier for Tribal nations. - Forming Arabia now allows you to place your capital in one of 5 important Islamic cities. - Added a disclaimer to the scripted effect for Innovativeness or Monarch Power gain from Events, which emphasizes that you do not gain extra monarch power from Innovativeness Gain modifiers. - The decision "Promote Sojunghwa" now is usable even after the Mandate has been destroyed. - Persia and Eranshahr (the Zoroastrian Persia tag) are now Endgame Tags. - Prussian militarization evolution rewards will now only show up if you are Prussia / Germany and have the Prussian Monarchy reform - The "Cathedral" building is now called "Great Synagogue" and "Great Fire Temple" for Jewish and Zoroastrian countries respectively. - The Edinburgh monument no longer tells you that you could use it from a mission reward as such mission reward does not exist in the game. - The Zoroastrian religion can now propagate their religion via the trading policy. - Changed the Zoroastrian blessings a bit: Replaced the Yearly Corruption with +10% Improve Relations - Replaced the "Shirvan" and the "Sabzevarian" holy sites with the provinces of "Zanjan" and "Tun" respectively. The achievement "Keep the Flame Burning" has been updated to reflect this change, and as such requires now the 5 Holy Sites AND atop of it the monument in Shirvan. - Zoroastrian and Jewish countries are now allowed to claim the Defender of Faith title. No other religions will get this privilege as it is intended for Zoroastrian / Jewish countries to spread their religion without affecting the overall balance too much. - Diplomacy: Distant war modifier is less impactful for calling in rivals in wars. - Diplomacy: AI desire of provinces and desire of subjects' provinces is now combined into one opinion modifier. ################### # Bugfixes ################### - Advisor's death now correctly fires on_x_advisor_fired on action. - Fixed a crash when using trigger values. - Fixed attached units moving in different directions in some cases. - Curia Power Cost is now capped at 10%. - In the Trade Favors for Trust menu the values are now displayed correctly. - Ifs in Scripted triggers now correctly assign values to triggers. Added a post validation function to IfTrigger to assign values in the limit. - Fixed a missing "is" in a tooltip for several monuments. - add_province_triggered_modifier will no longer show errors when used in different places. - Removed a bug that allowed a ruler to be immortal if Ottomans were in a disaster and without an heir. - Added a new line in the description of the trade company investments modifier. - Added a check if a human ally can join a war in the war declaration screen. It will now show an X instead of a question mark. - The Russian AI will no longer bankrupt itself by purchasing Modern Ideas - The Estate Action "Ask for Contribution" from the Vaishyas now actually scales with their influence. - Fixed an issue which caused estates to have their loyalty and influence reduced while they are in power. - Changing trade goods to Coal now properly subtracts 1 base production from the province, if the province had a manufactory and Economic ideas - Placing a relative on the throne in a subject now correctly calls the on_new_monarch and on_monarch_death on actions. - Government reforms now display Special Unit forcelimit modifiers in gray when that unit isn't available yet instead of being hidden. - Fixed tooltips for State Edicts in the Macrobuilder - Added replacements for Mandate of Heaven modifiers when playing without that expansion. - Ming no longer starts with more boats than their forcelimit allows. - Overlords can now request maps from their subjects. Subjects can request maps from their overlords or subjects under the same overlord. - Fixed Revolutionary text not being hidden when creating a Client State before Revolutions are available. - Removed an unnecessary new line in the Annexation tooltip. - Fixed remove_trade_modifier tooltip having the color "spill out" - Expand the Empire peace treaty no longer allows for full annexation. - Fixed blockade capacity tooltip showing half of the development that can be blockaded. - extend_golden_age now adds to the month counter, using it two times will result in a sum instead of only one value. - Force Religion Warscore cost modifier is now capped at -90% - AI will no longer send privateers to Trade Nodes they can't reach. - Fixed Fervors not being updated correctly with their potential trigger. - Fixed a CTD when the start_debate effect is used on a country without a Parliament. - Regiment Discipline from mercenary modifiers and special unit modifiers is now accounted for when calculating Military Tactics during a battle. - Fixed a crash when hovering over a building in the technology screen. - Made it so the core_all button in the state view doesn't get enabled if we can't core due to war. - Fixed government power bars not working properly with values different from -100 and 100. - Parliament issue modifiers are now tied to the duration of the issue which can be changed with modifiers. - Fixed so the disinherit button becomes visible immediately without having to reopen the court view. - Fixed issues with DLC only modifiers applying wrong values. - Moving the date from a bookmark will no longer cause interesting countries shields to show wrong information. - Fixed issue where tribal rebels are more likely to spawn than separatists before coring a province. - Non-existing countries will be automatically removed from tribal federations. - Unconditional surrender now isn't applied to provinces that are sieged by 3rd party nations in different wars. - AI will buy trade company investments more often - Fixed an issue with non reinforcing rebels using only the relocation movement - Set the minimum trade power transferred between nations to 0. - Changed local_unrest in reset_parliament_debate_modifier to global since it's applied to a country not provinces. - Raise Cossack Host no longer grants 50% of the force limit but 5%. - Fixed parliament issues being initially backed by too few seats, because the wrong define was used. - Establish Eyalet peace treaty no longer allows to take War Reparations as well. - Fixed Government Reform switch confirmation window showing wrong potential. - Provence now properly integrates Lorraine in the House de Valois event for France - The Eunuch Agenda Appease Eunuch Quotas will no longer require you to embrace undiscovered institutions - Swapped the power level calculations of Eyalets and Core Eyalets. Core Eyalets are now much easier to keep loyal while Eyalets themselves consider the power of all subjects instead of just their own now. - Only Eyalets are now allowed to gather favor towards their overlord. - Fixed an issue where the name "Nouvelle-crosse" could not appear for Colonial Canada. - Fixed a bug with the Polish disaster "Struggle for Royal Power" - Placed_merchant_power_modifier now works correctly. - CBs such as Imperial Liberation no longer disappear when the target country changes tag. - Fixed "Is not running a deficit" trigger taking into account non-monthly expenses. - Custom nation flag emblems are now centered to background. - Rebel model no longer appears as default in the battle summary screen. - Native countries no longer lose stability on native chief death. - Trade button in the province view no longer opens the trade node window if the node is not discovered. - Imperial Authority Modifiers no longer increase the growth of Mandate for the EoC. - Fixed an issue with resending a colonist, after they have been recalled, back to a colony adjacent to a Colonial Nation. - Positive all_estates_influence modifiers (such as Cabinet Cooperation for EoC and Reformation of the States for Ottomans) are properly applied when calculating bonuses from the estate. - It is no longer possible to placate subjects when over the max limit. - Grant Administrative autonomy now properly displays Liberty change correctly. - Subjects', who don't have legitimacy or equivalent mechanics, information is now displayed in the subject menu. - Manpower and sailor modifiers of subject countries now displayed correctly in the tooltip. - Subject countries may now convert provinces even if they're at max Religious Unity - Generals that are loaded onto a ship cannot be reassigned. - Exiled armies are not allowed to attack natives in uncolonized provinces. - Indulgence cost no longer shows up in the monthly treasury menu - Countries already at war with the claimant of a PU won't be invited to contest. - Selecting peace options now centers the camera on the target of the option. - State holy order / office descriptions no longer show an inflation modifier - Fixed the incorrect trade value of a node in the trade interface - Fixed the incorrect display of unit losses in the battle report message

Greetings! Im Arnau Casellas, the new Associate Producer at Paradox Tinto. You may remember me from previous Dev Diaries, as I have been in Tinto as Internal QA since Lions of the North. So I hope to be with you more often from now on. We're finally one week away from Europa Universalis IV: King of Kings release! As a preview, we'll be hosting a King of Kings Q&A on our Discord server on Thursday, November 2nd at 15.00 CET, so be sure to check that out if you have any specific questions! In todays DD, we're sharing with you the changelog of the new update, 1.36 'Byzantium'. Im really proud of the work that the Dev Team has put into King of Kings over the last few months, as more than 200 fixes and tweaks have been added since the last patch. We hope you appreciate the effort we've put into this update, and we'll try to answer any questions and concerns relating to it during this week. Thanks for your attention! Cheers! [expand type=details] ############################################################# ######################## 1.36.0.0 ############################### ############################################################ ################### # Expansion Features ################### - Persia: Added a new Mission Tree for Persia with 116 Missions in total (77 common Missions, 31 Mission depending on Religion - Sunni, Shiite, Zoroastrian, 8 Missions depending on Origin - Ardabil, post-Timurid, Mazandarani); a new mission tree for Ardabil with 12 Missions; 2 new government mechanics (Persian Influence' for a Muslim Persia, and 'The Three Royal Fires for a Zoroastrian one'); 2 new Estates ('Ghilman' and 'Qizilbash) with their own set of agendas and disasters; 20 new estate privileges; 6 government reforms; 1 new special unit, the Qizilbash, which can be recruited either as Infantry or as Cavalry units; 68 new events; and more additional content like Diplomatic Actions, Subject Types, CBs, and Local Organizations. - Mamluks: Added a new mission tree for the Mamluks with 39 missions; 1 new government mechanic, 'Egyptian Westernization' (either by forming Egypt through the Mamluk Mission Tree, or independently as another Nation); 7 new government reforms; 13 new estate privileges; 1 new Holy Order, 'Kashifs'; 4 new Naval Doctrines, 'Mamluk Galleys', 'Mamluk Light Ships', 'Mamluk Warships', and 'Mamluk Transports'; 1 new special unit, 'Mamluks; 16 new events; and more additional content like new hirable Mercenaries, Diplomatic Actions, and Estate Agendas for the Nobility centered around the Mamluk ruling class. - Byzantium: Added a new mission tree for Byzantium with 55 missions; 6 new government reforms; 6 new Estate Privileges; 57 new events; 10 new decisions; a new Type of Subject, Pronoia; and new Decisions and hireable Mercenaries. - Arabia: Added a new mission tree for Arabian Minors with 34 Missions (making it possible to form Arabia using the Mission Tree); 1 New Estate Privilege, Oasis Development; 9 new events; 1 new CB, 'Spread Islam'; and a new Decision for Arabia. - Yemen: Added a new mission tree for Yemeni Nations with 26 Missions, plus 5 extra missions for the Rassids; 1 new Estate Privilege, Monopoly on Coffee; and 7 new events. - Georgia: Added a new mission tree for Georgia with 30 missions in total; 1 new disaster, 'Georgian Crisis', with 4 new related events; 1 new Estate Privilege, 'Highland Fortifications'; and 7 new events. - Armenia: Added a new mission tree for Karabakh/Armenia with 30 missions in total; 2 new government reforms, 'Nakharar Title' and 'Sparapet Office'; and 4 new events. - Turkomen: Added new mission trees for Aq Qoyunlu (31 missions in total) and Qara Qoyunlu (30 missions in total); Aq Qoyunlu and Qara Qoyunlu can now access Janissaries and Pashas through the mission tree; 1 new government reform, 'Turkmen Ottoman Institutions'; 2 new Estate Privilege, 'Emirs of Baghdad' and 'Great Works of Iran'; and 11 new events - 8 new Unit Packs, including Cyprus, Trebizond, Karaman, Israel, Tlemcen, Syria, Armenia and Georgia, with 32 new sprites in total. - 3 new Music Packs (Persia, Egypt, Caucasus), with 12 new songs in total. ################### # Free Features ################### - Added 9 new achievements: King of Kings, Restore the Pentarchy, Mets Hayk, Desert Power, Breadbasket of the World, The Last Crusade, A truly good maaa-tch, Legacy of Saint George and ZoroAustrians. - Added 8 new Monuments accessible through the Leviathan DLC: Golestan Palace, Al-Azhar University, City of Sanaa, Tomb of Shah Rukn-e-Alam, Nizwa Fort, Itchan Kala, Narikala Fortress and Kazan Kremlin. - Added the Savayyid Order for Ardabil and Shia Persia accessible through the Golden Century DLC. - Added 25 events for Persia which fire during a playthrough. - Added a new Georgian culture and a new setup for the Georgian area in the base game. - Added the Turco-Iranian culture in the base game. - The Teuton and Livonian Order mission trees now have buttons to preview branching missions. ################### # Gamebalance ################### # Governments - The government reform "Millennialist Theocracy" no longer grants Monarch Power per dev when converting a country. Instead, you will gain devotion per dev. Additionally, the gov reform now grants +1 Monthly Church Power, +0.25 Monthly Fervor, -25% Enforce Religion Cost, +10% Morale Damage and -2 Yearly Devotion. - The government reform "Elite Mercenaries" now only decreases merc cost by -15% instead of -25% - The government reform "Mercenary Leadership" now only decreases merc cost by -10% instead of -25% - The government reform "Cavalry Warfare" now decreases Cav Cost by -10% instead of -15% - The government reform "Expand Temple Rights" no longer decreases Admin Advisor Cost. - Land of the Christian Sun reform now turns Japan into a monarchy to avoid script complications with overlapping reforms - Land of the Christian Sun reform will no longer allow for heirs since generals become rulers - Added two new government reforms for Byzantium and one reform exclusively for Custom Nations so they can play with the Byzantine subject too. - Added a new government reform for Tier 6 which is available for countries which completed Court Ideas. The reform allows you to seize and sell crownland to targeted estates. - Fixed government power bars not working properly with values different from -100 and 100. # Units - Added more sources of Revolutionary Guard special unit in relevant government reforms. # Other - Removed Manpower reward from the Brandenburg Gate via the Prussian mission 'Balance of Power' - Appanages have now the subject interactions "Seize Court Resources" and "Request Extra Levies". - The Ottoman holy order "Mevlevi" now only decreases local dev cost by -5% instead of by -10% - The Eyalets now only provide 10% of their forcelimit / manpower to their overlord instead of 20%. Core Eyalets now only provide 20% of their forcelimit /manpower to their overlord instead of 33%. - The Ottoman mission reward of the mission "The Eyalet of Al-Andalus" no longer reduces Warscore Cost vs Other Religions. - The Ottoman mission reward of the mission "A Sunni Empire" will no longer increase Tolerance of Own Faith and will no longer decrease Warscore Cost vs other Religions. - The Ottoman mission reward of the mission "Spread the True Faith" no longer decreases Warscore Cost against other Religions. - The Janissary estate privilege "Strict Devshirme System" now only grants 10% Local Manpower Modifier and +15% Fort Defense". - The Janissary privilege "Ensure Disciplined Training" now increases the discipline of Janissaries by 2.5% instead of 5%. - The Janissary estate privilege "Professional Soldiers" now reduces the Reinforce Cost Modifier of Janissaries by -10% instead of by -20% - The permanent Ottoman modifier "Expanded Imperial Administration" from the "Expansion of the Imperial Bureaucracy" event no longer decreases CCR. - The Devshirme ability "Assign Local Pashas" now only decreases CCR by 5% instead of 10%. - The Devshirme Action "Conscript Heathen Recruits" will now only increase the Vassal Manpower Contribution by 15%, nerfing it down from +25% Vassal Manpower Contribution and +10% Manpower Recovery Speed. - The modifier "The Ottoman Rule" from the event "The Internal Power Structure" now only gives -25% Autonomy Change Time, removing the passive War Exhaustion reduction from it entirely. - The Ottoman government reform "Expanded Devshirme System" will now decrease only the Reinforce Cost of Janissaries by 10%, nerfing it down from its previous -20% and +25% Reinforce Speed. - The Tripitaka Koreana now gives +100% Local Institution Spread instead of a passive Institution bonus. The tall Empire of Korea will be slowed down by it, but should still be a force to reckon with even if they do not conquer a single province. - The Provincial Government System will now only increase the local tax by 20% instead of by 33% and giving -1 Local Unrest. - Recruitment by Merit now increases the Janissary Infantry Combat by 10% at 100% crownland instead of by 20% - The Janissary Estate privilege "Sultan-Appointed Aghas" no longer grants +0.3 Yearly Army Tradition. - Taking the Great Council of Mechelen reform will now disable the Dutch Revolt even after it started getting progress. It will NOT stop the disaster once it has fired though. ################### # Interface ################### # Icons/Art - Added an icon showing mutually exclusive reforms for the empire of China. # Tooltips - Improved tooltipable area for estate factors in grant privilege view. - Improved the tooltip for introducing a new heir. # Other - Added a Development based information in the tooltip of the Religion pie chart in the Ledger. - Added sort buttons for Autonomy Macrobuilder. Provinces that can have their autonomy Increased/Decreased will be now grouped together. - Added an alert for State Edicts that are no longer needed. For example Missionary Strength Edict if all provinces are converted. - It's now possible to click on names in State View to view that province. - You are now able to transfer multiple province occupations to one ally by selecting provinces with Shift + Left Click beforehand. - Its now possible to merge normal armies without needing to deselect mercenaries. The mercenary armies wont be merged but they wont block the button to merge. - Added a sort by giver in the peace deal screen. - Fixed so diplomacy mapmode gets updated as states and cores are added/removed. - Improved the coring list height and button positioning when having height resolution greater than 1080. - Added the ability to remove buildings via right click in the macrobuilder. - The Metropolitan map mode is now renamed into the "Local Organisation" map mode and its tooltip now reflects its changed purpose. - An explanation has been added saying why you cant set Threatened attitude. - Added a "Go to" button to leader death message. It opens the military leader menu. - You can now spend more ducats or manpower when holding Shift in the Great Project window to speed up the construction. - Go to button in the Claim Fabricated message now moves the camera to the claimed province instead of the nations capital. - Permanent claims are now shown in the Peace Deal menu similar to how normal claims are shown.. - Mapmodes: Diplomatic mapmode shows core provinces over claims. ################### # Usermodding ################### # Effects - Added 'effect' and 'removed_effect' clauses to Ideas, Institutions (only 'effect'), Hegemons, Fetishits Cults, Technologies (only 'effect') - Added play_sound effect. - Added transfer_papal_controller which will change the controller without killing the current Pope. - Added random_in_area and random_in_region effect scopes - on_actions are now additive # Modifiers - Added has_marines modifier. - Added Manpower and Sailors Percentage static modifiers. - Added "reverse_under_governing_capacity_modifier" static modifier. # Other - Added on_overrun on action. - Added can_join_hre and can_leave_hre scripted functions. - base_tax, base_production, base_manpower, development and development_discounting_tribal now accept scopes as value. - Added a new set_naval_doctrine effect. - Cost of a Naval Doctrine can now be set for each individual one in script.. - Added scriptable GUI. - Added is_mod_active trigger. ################### # Script ################### # Achievements - The Achievement "David the Builder" no longer requires you to start as Imereti. - The "Mehmet's Ambition" achievement has now been updated to reflect the changes to the Roman Empire decision. # Decisions - Timurids can now form Persia. - Forming Persia as the Timurids will now require that every single subject nation of the Timurids as well as Ajam and its subjects is not existing. - Barbary Iqtas can now form the Mamluks too. - You now have to be Muslim to form Arabia - Countries of the Byzantine culture group can now restore Byzantium. - Forming a country will now always reset your name and color to the default name of the newly formed country. - The decision to form Siam as anybody but Ayutthaya will now require you to complete 2 non-estate disasters to mirror the difficulty Ayutthaya has to overcome to form Siam. - The decision to convert to Islam will no longer be taken by the AI immediately if they are a Theocracy, Jewish or Zoroastrian. Additionally, it now demands of Theocracies to have less than 80 devotion to be picked, making it impossible to have Sunni Jerusalem day one after they are released. - Forming Rome will no longer require you to own the entirety of the highlighted regions. Instead, it will require you to own 425 provinces of these regions (for comparison: before this change, you were required to own at least 328 provinces, but you were obligated to own everything of France, Italy, Balkans, Anatolia and Mashriq). The highlighted provinces are the ones the real Roman Empire owned at any point of time. # Events - The Ottoman AI will now try to make Mamluks to their Eyalet should they declare on the Mamluks with the right cb and occupy their capital for one year. - The events of Purple Phoenix have now all a MTTH of 72 months as they tended to be very spammy. - Added a line to all the Eyalet events emphasizing that the cores on regions are only applied to the provinces already owned by the Ottomans. # Ideas - The Persian ideas now give +10% Production Efficiency instead of 5%, +15% Manpower Recovery Speed instead of +10% Manpower Recovery Speed, +15% Global Tax instead of +10% Global Tax and additionally -5% Dev Cost Modifier. - Added ideas for the nation of Arabia. - Added ideas for the nation of Egypt. - The Byzantine Ideas now give +20% Improve Relations, +10% Goods Produced Modifier instead of +5%, +25% Core-Creation Cost instead of the Mercenary Maintenance, +0.3 Yearly Patriarch Authority, +20% Reform Progress Growth instead of the National tax modifier, +15% Fort Defense instead of the -10% Stability cost modifier, +15% National Manpower Modifier instead of +10%. Global Trade Power and Yearly Prestige has been removed from the ideas. - The game will now properly subscribe LPC ideas when the Commonwealth is formed by Lithuania - The first idea of Court Ideas now gives +1 Dip Rep. # Missions - The Polish mission that extends your Golden Era, will now do so for 50 years, instead of 30. - The Daimyo mission "Regulate the Social Order" now offers an alternative requirement to Absolutism, so you can complete it before the Age of Absolutism. - The timed challenge around the Franconian Succession will now only be available to Brandenburg. - The Spanish mission 'Rein in France' now grants 10 Power Projection instead of 25. - The Varna Aftermath mission for Poland will now grant 1 PU CB instead of 2, and claims instead of the 2nd PU CB, depending on the choice in the Jagiellon event. - Streamlined the Polish missions Protect Hungary, Throne of Bohemia and Balance the Princely Lands. - The Polish mission "Leverage the Magnates" will now require fewer than 4 privileges, instead of fewer than 2 for the nobles. - The Mughals missions are available if you own King of Kings. - Fixed a bug where the default missions for England without all DLCs are disconnected. - Added DLC checks for some missions in Iberia that require flagships - Economic ideas now properly grant the development from constructing manufactories once the ideaset is completed - Economic ideas now grant their mechanic rewards at proper times - Fixed a localisation error with the PLC mission 'Golden Liberty' - Fixed an incorrect scope for Pagan faiths in the EoC missions - Qing's Three Feudatories no longer gives Subjugation CB towards the wrong country - The Examination System mission for the Emperor of China will no longer cost more Gov Reform progress than it should - Added checks for Leviathan in many missions that require trust because the latter is hard to attain without the DLC despite being a base game feature - Completing the Japanese mission Balance of Power via Absolutism will now grant the proper reform as reward - The Qing mission "Expel Foreign Merchants" now gives proper effects for the trade nodes of Ragusa and Aleppo. - The Ming mission "End the Sengoku Jidai" now properly gives a fallback reward in case you don't own Mandate of Heaven. - The conditions for the Manchurian mission "Reorganize the Tribes" now properly checks for the primary cultures of the countries. - The highlighting for the French mission "House of God" now works properly if you decide to align with the Pope. - The conditions for the French mission "The Peninsula War" now properly checks for local autonomy. - The fallback for the Spanish mission "Holy See Politics" will now properly check if you have an inquisitor. - Fixed an issue where the Chinese mission "Fortify the Coast" would not grant any reward whatsoever. # Modifiers - Fixed an issue with 3 French religious wars modifiers granting local unrest instead of global. # Setup - Timurids and the Ottomans are now historical rivals. - Added proper names for the Tabriz and Azerbaijan areas. - France will no longer integrate Burgundy if the latter is a player. - Syria now starts as a subject to the Mamluks. - Changed the bonuses of the Pyramids great project to better co-exist with the new great project in Cairo - Added Krakow in the european_trade_node_scope scripted trigger - The province of Daman now starts as a religious center for Zoroastrianism. - Most of the provinces in Persia now start as Sunni instead of Shia. - Konstantinos Palaiologos, the starting heir of Byzantium, is now a 5/2/3 instead of a 3/2/2, but has only 60 Claim on the throne. - The province of Burgas now belongs to Byzantium in 1444 instead of the Ottomans. - Byzantine provinces in the Morea area now start with +25% Local Autonomy. # Other - AI is now actually inclined to form Arabia when they reach ADM tech 19 - Removed some immersion-breaking military reforms from the 5th tier for Tribal nations. - Forming Arabia now allows you to place your capital in one of 5 important Islamic cities. - Added a disclaimer to the scripted effect for Innovativeness or Monarch Power gain from Events, which emphasizes that you do not gain extra monarch power from Innovativeness Gain modifiers. - The decision "Promote Sojunghwa" now is usable even after the Mandate has been destroyed. - Persia and Eranshahr (the Zoroastrian Persia tag) are now Endgame Tags. - Prussian militarization evolution rewards will now only show up if you are Prussia / Germany and have the Prussian Monarchy reform - The "Cathedral" building is now called "Great Synagogue" and "Great Fire Temple" for Jewish and Zoroastrian countries respectively. - The Edinburgh monument no longer tells you that you could use it from a mission reward as such mission reward does not exist in the game. - The Zoroastrian religion can now propagate their religion via the trading policy. - Changed the Zoroastrian blessings a bit: Replaced the Yearly Corruption with +10% Improve Relations - Replaced the "Shirvan" and the "Sabzevarian" holy sites with the provinces of "Zanjan" and "Tun" respectively. The achievement "Keep the Flame Burning" has been updated to reflect this change, and as such requires now the 5 Holy Sites AND atop of it the monument in Shirvan. - Zoroastrian and Jewish countries are now allowed to claim the Defender of Faith title. No other religions will get this privilege as it is intended for Zoroastrian / Jewish countries to spread their religion without affecting the overall balance too much. - Diplomacy: Distant war modifier is less impactful for calling in rivals in wars. - Diplomacy: AI desire of provinces and desire of subjects' provinces is now combined into one opinion modifier. ################### # Bugfixes ################### - Advisor's death now correctly fires on_x_advisor_fired on action. - Fixed a crash when using trigger values. - Fixed attached units moving in different directions in some cases. - Curia Power Cost is now capped at 10%. - In the Trade Favors for Trust menu the values are now displayed correctly. - Ifs in Scripted triggers now correctly assign values to triggers. Added a post validation function to IfTrigger to assign values in the limit. - Fixed a missing "is" in a tooltip for several monuments. - add_province_triggered_modifier will no longer show errors when used in different places. - Removed a bug that allowed a ruler to be immortal if Ottomans were in a disaster and without an heir. - Added a new line in the description of the trade company investments modifier. - Added a check if a human ally can join a war in the war declaration screen. It will now show an X instead of a question mark. - The Russian AI will no longer bankrupt itself by purchasing Modern Ideas - The Estate Action "Ask for Contribution" from the Vaishyas now actually scales with their influence. - Fixed an issue which caused estates to have their loyalty and influence reduced while they are in power. - Changing trade goods to Coal now properly subtracts 1 base production from the province, if the province had a manufactory and Economic ideas - Placing a relative on the throne in a subject now correctly calls the on_new_monarch and on_monarch_death on actions. - Government reforms now display Special Unit forcelimit modifiers in gray when that unit isn't available yet instead of being hidden. - Fixed tooltips for State Edicts in the Macrobuilder - Added replacements for Mandate of Heaven modifiers when playing without that expansion. - Ming no longer starts with more boats than their forcelimit allows. - Overlords can now request maps from their subjects. Subjects can request maps from their overlords or subjects under the same overlord. - Fixed Revolutionary text not being hidden when creating a Client State before Revolutions are available. - Removed an unnecessary new line in the Annexation tooltip. - Fixed remove_trade_modifier tooltip having the color "spill out" - Expand the Empire peace treaty no longer allows for full annexation. - Fixed blockade capacity tooltip showing half of the development that can be blockaded. - extend_golden_age now adds to the month counter, using it two times will result in a sum instead of only one value. - Force Religion Warscore cost modifier is now capped at -90% - AI will no longer send privateers to Trade Nodes they can't reach. - Fixed Fervors not being updated correctly with their potential trigger. - Fixed a CTD when the start_debate effect is used on a country without a Parliament. - Regiment Discipline from mercenary modifiers and special unit modifiers is now accounted for when calculating Military Tactics during a battle. - Fixed a crash when hovering over a building in the technology screen. - Made it so the core_all button in the state view doesn't get enabled if we can't core due to war. - Fixed government power bars not working properly with values different from -100 and 100. - Parliament issue modifiers are now tied to the duration of the issue which can be changed with modifiers. - Fixed so the disinherit button becomes visible immediately without having to reopen the court view. - Fixed issues with DLC only modifiers applying wrong values. - Moving the date from a bookmark will no longer cause interesting countries shields to show wrong information. - Fixed issue where tribal rebels are more likely to spawn than separatists before coring a province. - Non-existing countries will be automatically removed from tribal federations. - Unconditional surrender now isn't applied to provinces that are sieged by 3rd party nations in different wars. - AI will buy trade company investments more often - Fixed an issue with non reinforcing rebels using only the relocation movement - Set the minimum trade power transferred between nations to 0. - Changed local_unrest in reset_parliament_debate_modifier to global since it's applied to a country not provinces. - Raise Cossack Host no longer grants 50% of the force limit but 5%. - Fixed parliament issues being initially backed by too few seats, because the wrong define was used. - Establish Eyalet peace treaty no longer allows to take War Reparations as well. - Fixed Government Reform switch confirmation window showing wrong potential. - Provence now properly integrates Lorraine in the House de Valois event for France - The Eunuch Agenda Appease Eunuch Quotas will no longer require you to embrace undiscovered institutions - Swapped the power level calculations of Eyalets and Core Eyalets. Core Eyalets are now much easier to keep loyal while Eyalets themselves consider the power of all subjects instead of just their own now. - Only Eyalets are now allowed to gather favor towards their overlord. - Fixed an issue where the name "Nouvelle-crosse" could not appear for Colonial Canada. - Fixed a bug with the Polish disaster "Struggle for Royal Power" - Placed_merchant_power_modifier now works correctly. - CBs such as Imperial Liberation no longer disappear when the target country changes tag. - Fixed "Is not running a deficit" trigger taking into account non-monthly expenses. - Custom nation flag emblems are now centered to background. - Rebel model no longer appears as default in the battle summary screen. - Native countries no longer lose stability on native chief death. - Trade button in the province view no longer opens the trade node window if the node is not discovered. - Imperial Authority Modifiers no longer increase the growth of Mandate for the EoC. - Fixed an issue with resending a colonist, after they have been recalled, back to a colony adjacent to a Colonial Nation. - Positive all_estates_influence modifiers (such as Cabinet Cooperation for EoC and Reformation of the States for Ottomans) are properly applied when calculating bonuses from the estate. - It is no longer possible to placate subjects when over the max limit. - Grant Administrative autonomy now properly displays Liberty change correctly. - Subjects', who don't have legitimacy or equivalent mechanics, information is now displayed in the subject menu. - Manpower and sailor modifiers of subject countries now displayed correctly in the tooltip. - Subject countries may now convert provinces even if they're at max Religious Unity - Generals that are loaded onto a ship cannot be reassigned. - Exiled armies are not allowed to attack natives in uncolonized provinces. - Indulgence cost no longer shows up in the monthly treasury menu - Countries already at war with the claimant of a PU won't be invited to contest. - Selecting peace options now centers the camera on the target of the option. - State holy order / office descriptions no longer show an inflation modifier - Fixed the incorrect trade value of a node in the trade interface - Fixed the incorrect display of unit losses in the battle report message [/expand]

Hello everyone, and welcome to another EU4 dev diary! My name is David Horler (SaintDaveUK), the art lead at Paradox Tinto, and today we will talk about two different topics; the artwork behind King of Kings, and also the new achievements of the 1.36 update.

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Hello, and welcome to another EUIV Dev Diary! Today it will be a bit of a different one, as we will be addressing three topics that we think are of the most relevance to the upcoming DLC and update, which are: [list=1]

Trebizond Im allowed to tell you that many of these are likely to receive content in 2024, as were already planning our pipeline for next year; therefore, KoK/1.36 wont be the last opportunity for them to get content. Also, these arent the only countries that will receive content in 2024 But Im not yet allowed to further disclose our future plans, Im sorry to say.

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Lets speak now about the quality of the content itself, which was a different focus from that of quantity. First of all, we were busy early on in the development process with the fixing of Domination post-release bugs; were happy to say that over 100 of them are fixed in the 1.36 free update, which will increase the overall quality of the last DLC. Weve also implemented some of the new features, like the Branching Missions buttons, in countries such as the Teutonic and the Livonian Order. But that was on the Content Design Team, and they arent the only ones working on this project. Our Programmers have been busy as well, not only fixing bugs, but also working on the games performance - which wont be worse compared to 1.35 on most of the PCs, and will most likely be better on a number of them, although we prefer to be cautious about this -, and on new Quality of Life improvements for the base game, as well as increasing the modding possibilities of the game, which Ill comment now in detail. First, it is now possible to transfer the control of multiple provinces by SHIFT-Left Clicking the controlled provinces and transferring them to another war participant.
Then a feature that will be appreciated by all of the players who love to see their own religions name big on the map, Autonomous Missionaries finally making their way into the game (yay!):
A few new alerts which have been requested by the community for quite some time:

Note: Modders can decide which state edicts should have an alert and when.
Some small improvement for your blobbing campaigns:
For all of our spreadsheet enthusiasts, the pie charts now show the development part in the ledger too:
For those who like to play with Mercenaries in their armies, they now merge units even if they have Mercenaries in the mix (mercs do not merge with other mercs though):
You can now sort provinces if you can in- or decrease their autonomy:
And for those who are sick of AI building churches in every province. If you select a building in the macro builder and right-click a province that has this building present already, you will instantly destroy it instead:
Now for the modding part: the biggest addition to 1.36 is the ability to add custom, functional UI buttons. One example has been shown in the form of the Preview Mission Branch as these buttons are fully scriptable. For those wondering how it is done, here is the surface magic (a lot of scripted effects and triggers here): custom_button = { name = select_current_branch_missions potential = { ai = no #make sure the AI gets an event or something similar where they can choose their branch the moment these buttons get unlocked for the player has_branching_missions = yes has_preview_mission_flag = yes } trigger = { has_selected_a_branch = yes } effect = { select_current_branch = yes } tooltip = select_current_branch_missions_title } And in the .gui file: guiButtonType = { name = "select_current_branch_missions" position = { x = 545 y = 80 } quadTextureSprite ="GFX_select_current_missions_button" scripted = yes } This is just a very small example of what could be done, and I am looking forward to the very creative buttons and mechanics added via the custom buttons. Here is the readme file to give you an idea how the script works: # The custom guiButtonType/instantTextBoxType/iconType must have a 'scripted = yes' line to work #custom_button = { # name = custom_button_testing #Must match a scripted guiButtonType in a .gui file # potential = { } #Determines when the button is visible # trigger = { } #Determines when the button is clickable # effect = { } #Effect # tooltip = localisation_key #Can use customizable localisation # frame = { #Can define multiple frame clauses # number = #Which frame to use. Check dds files with multiple icons like icon_religion.dds # trigger = { } #First matched frame clause will be used. # } #} #custom_text_box = { # name = custom_text_testing #Must match a scripted instantTextBoxType in a .gui file # potential = { } #Determines when the text is visible # tooltip = localisation_key #Can use customizable localisation # #To localize it, use the name of the button as a key, can also use customizable localisation #} #custom_icon = { # name = custom_icon_testing #Must match a scripted iconType in a .gui file # potential = { } #Determines when the icon is visible # tooltip = localisation_key #Can use customizable localisation # frame = { #Can define multiple frame clauses # number = #Which frame to use. Check dds files with multiple icons like icon_religion.dds # trigger = { } #First matched frame clause will be used. # } #} #custom_shield = { # name = custom_button_testing #Must match a scripted guiButtonType in a .gui file # potential = { } #Determines when the shield is visible # trigger = { } #Determines when the shield is clickable # effect = { } #Effect for clicking # tooltip = localisation_key #Can use customizable localisation # global_event_target = # Global event target name # open_country = #If clicking opens the country view #} ############################## Supported files with scopes ############################## # The Gui objects must be directly inside the specified window Gui element! # FROM is always the country that clicks # provinceview.gui: # province_window (ROOT: Clicked province) # buildings_window (ROOT: Clicked province) # state_window (ROOT: Clicked province) # countrycourtview.gui: # countrycourtview (ROOT = FROM) # countrygovernmentview.gui: # countrygovernmentview (ROOT = FROM) # countrydiplomacyview.gui: # countrydiplimacyview (ROOT: Selected country) # countryeconomyview.gui: # countryeconomyview (ROOT = FROM) # countrytradeview.gui: # countrytradeview (ROOT = FROM) # countrytechnologyview.gui: # countrytechnologyview (ROOT = FROM) # countryideasview.gui: # countryideasview (ROOT = FROM) # countrymissionsview.gui: # countrymissionsview (ROOT: Selected country) # countrydecisionview.gui: # countrydecisionsview (ROOT = FROM) # countrystabilityview.gui: # countrystabilityview (ROOT = FROM) # countryreligionview.gui: # countryreligionview (ROOT = FROM) # countrymilitaryview.gui: # countrymilitaryview (ROOT = FROM) # countrysubjectsview.gui: # countrysubjectview (ROOT = FROM) # countryestatesview.gui: # countryestatesview (ROOT = FROM) # ages_view.gui: # ages_view (ROOT = FROM) # tradeinterface.gui: # TradeNodeInterface (ROOT: Trade capital of a trade node) # hre.gui: # hre_window (ROOT = FROM) # papacy.gui: # papacy_window (ROOT = FROM) # faction.gui: # All faction windows (ROOT = FROM) # celestialempireview.gui: # celestial_window (ROOT = FROM) # countrynativesview.gui: # natives_window (ROOT = FROM) # religiousreforms.gui: # reforms_window (ROOT = FROM) # parliament.gui: # parliament_window (ROOT = FROM) So in the end when you add a new button you will have this connection at the end:

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Now lets move into the final part of the DD, which is some content that we are adding to previous DLCs: the new Monuments for Leviathan owners! We have added 7 new Great Projects around the Middle East region, which were now presenting as well (all shown at their Tier 3 level): Golestan Palace, in Teheran:
Al-Azhar University, in Qahirah:
Note: We rebalanced the Pyramid to not overlap with the Idea cost of the new monument, and now they grant +1 Yearly Government Power, All Estate Loyalty Equilibrium +5%, -1% Prestige Decay, and no Stability Loss on Monarch Death, at Tier 3. City of Sanaa, in Sanaa:
Tomb of Shah Rukn-e-Alam, in Multan:
Nizwa Fort, in Nizwa:
Itchan Kala, in Khiva:
Narikala Fortress, in Tbilisi:
Kazan Kremlin, in Kazan:
Note: the monument has always the same type of modifiers, but they are set to Province/Area/Region in Tier 1/2/3. This is all for today. I have to say on behalf of PDX Tinto that were very excited about the upcoming content in King of Kings, and also with the free 1.36 update, and we really hope that you can enjoy and have fun with it, as weve put a lot of effort into it, as usual. Because of this, we wanted to be as transparent as possible with you in this Dev Diary, and answer directly to the comments and feedback that we received after last weeks one. We will be very much open to further answering follow-up questions, as this DD is the proper place to do it. And whats coming next? First, my fellow colleague Pintu (who will soon join the ranks of the Content Design Team from his previous role as Embedded QA), and I will be playing and commenting on the new content with BjornB; this will be on the Paradox Twitch account on Wednesday at 16:00. And next week, SaintDaveUK, our Art Lead, will present the Art for King of Kings, while the new Achievements will be presented by Pintu. See you!

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Greetings everyone! Today we will take a look into Yemen and the Arabic states, coming back to a more regular type of DD. Let us start with the content for the Yemeni countries:

Note: Mission icons are still WIP. As you might notice, the first mission tree is for the Rassids while the second one is for all Yemeni countries. The reason for this is that they are one of the two unique tags that follow the Zaidi school of Islam (the other one is Gilan on that note) and even are a Feudal Theocracy, so figured they deserve a bit more attention. In general, though, the Yemeni tags are relatively similar with a similar focus which is the unification of southern Arabia, expansion into the Horn of Africa, and, of course, trade. The Yemeni tags wont have any big gimmicks to play with as you will probably either form the Mamluks / Egypt or Arabia later on. With that being said, they still have some interesting additions and small design experiments. An example is the addition of more age-lasting rewards like in the Unite Yemen mission:
Note: Completing missions with age-limited modifiers after the age has passed will just give some small monarch power instead. These kinds of rewards should incentivize you to focus on certain missions and allow us to give impactful rewards without having to worry about them stacking too much indefinitely as this was the case with permanent rewards. A bit of a theme for the Yemeni mission rewards is to strengthen the Propagate Religion Trade Policy as you can see in the following missions:
And as a trade-focused nation, you will gain the Thalassocracy reward when you manage to make the Gulf of Aden the highest-valued trade node and make a monthly income of 300 ducats.
What is a Yemeni country without its focus on coffee?
The Port of Mukha requires you to have a workshop, shipyard, and 20 development in the coffee province. The resulting plantation will then pretty much carry your economy while you can focus on Qahwah Monopoly. Now a short insight in the Rassids-specific missions:

And when you are done with the Yemen mission tree then you can form into Arabia to continue your campaign. With Unite Arabia you will be able to form Arabia a lot earlier too:
With that being said, lets take a look at the Arabic content. Before I go into the Arabic mission trees, I should mention that Arabia has received new ideas so they are no longer a drawback to form: ARB_ideas = { start = { tolerance_own = 2 years_of_nationalism = -10 } bonus = { siege_ability = 0.15 } trigger = { tag = ARB } free = yes ARB_arabian_pincers = { cav_to_inf_ratio = 0.25 cavalry_power = 0.25 } ARB_pact_of_umar = { dhimmi_loyalty_modifier = 0.1 global_tax_modifier = 0.2 } ARB_engage_in_indian_ocean_trade = { trade_steering = 0.2 } ARB_conversion = { global_missionary_strength = 0.03 } ARB_jihad = { warscore_cost_vs_other_religion = -0.1 } ARB_new_caliphate_rising = { missionaries = 1 missionary_maintenance_cost = -0.25 } ARB_mubarizun = { army_tradition_decay = -0.01 } } Also forming Arabia will now fire the following flavor event, allowing you to change your capital to one of the important provinces from the Caliphate states:
Now to the mission tree for the Arabic countries and Arabia as a whole:
These missions are available to all Bedouin and Hejazi countries. The mission tree is split into 5 parts, 2 of them are inspired by Hejaz while the other 2 smaller parts are inspired by Najd. The last and biggest part is telling the narrative of the formation of a new Arabic Caliphate, and as such possesses a large number of conquest missions. Starting with the Hejaz-flavored mission parts which branch from the missions Promote Shura and Protectors of the Two Cities. Here are some highlights of these missions:


Note: Jeddah is a Coastal Desert province. So in total, the province will have a -5% Local Development Cost from mission rewards after completing these missions. As for the Najd-flavored part, here are the following highlights:
Note: Countries which do not have the government mechanic gain +15% Permanent Reinforce Speed instead.

Before moving on to the last part of the mission tree, I should mention a special decision available to Bedouin and Hejazi countries. Near the city of Medina used to be an old gold mine which was virtually exhausted in EU4s timeframe. However, as your early economy in Arabia is barely sufficient enough to cover your state maintenance, we have added a decision that allows the Medina province to help boost your economy for the early years:
And once gold runs out of its usefulness to you, you can restore Cloth production once more.
At last, we now take a look at the core of the mission tree which is heavily dedicated to expansion to mirror the past achievements of the Islamic conquests. As these missions are quite self-explanatory, I will focus on the big highlights of this part:



Note: The mission is significantly easier to complete than the Unify Islam decision.
That was it for this week. Next week @Pavia will present you a feature breakdown of 1.36 as well as new and exciting QoL and modding additions. Until then, I wish you all a great week! What do you think of these new missions for Yemen and Arabia? Let us know in the comments below or discuss with us on our Discord here: https://discord.gg/europauniversalisofficial

Good afternoon everyone and welcome! This week we will be covering multiple nations through the lenses of 2 Developer Diaries, one for Qara/Aq Qoyunlu and one for Georgia/Armenia in the thread below! Embroiled in both external and internal conflicts, the Turkomans in the Middle East offer a very interesting playthrough including government mechanics, events, and now completely new mission trees, government reforms, and more! Both tags share similar mission trees, each imbued with unique branches for AQ and unique branches for QQ.

QQ and AQ will largely share most missions, each tree granting certain diversity in key points. Despite its smaller size compared to its Eastern neighbor, AQ starts at a much stable situation (more on that further down!). In 1444 the legendary Uzun Hasan stands as the heir to a Tribal Federation ready to spread its wings and bring the surrounding territory under its heel. The AQ mission tree offers 31 new missions, interacting with nearly every facet of gameplay, from conquest and integration to estate interaction and events. Your first tasks would be to eradicate the last remnant of the Ayyubids in Hisn Kayfa, and rally your powerful cavalry. The former will then give rise to aspirations for expansion in every direction while the latter mission (Rally the Turkomans) will play around with the existing Tribal Allegiance mechanic and grant a bonus to province warscore cost.
At the same time, you will be called to eradicate one of the last Roman bastions in Eastern Anatolia, Trebizond, offering a unique event reward:

The first option of the event will grant some prosperity over time in the entire state as well as some reduction to local autonomy among other minor rewards. Another highlight of the Aq Qoyunlu conquest path is The House of Wisdom. The House of Wisdom in Baghdad was a renowned center of scholarship and intellectual activity in the Islamic world. Established during the Abbasid Caliphate in the 8th and 9th centuries, it continued to flourish into later centuries, being a hub of learning, translating, and preserving ancient Greek, Persian, and Indian texts, contributing significantly to the Islamic Golden Age. Scholars from various backgrounds gathered there to engage in scholarly pursuits, making significant advances in fields like astronomy, mathematics, medicine, and philosophy. The House of Wisdom's enduring legacy lies in its role in preserving and transmitting knowledge, which later influenced the European Renaissance and the broader development of human civilization. Therefore, there will be a mission about fully restoring it:
To wrap up the showcasing of conquest for Aq Qoyunlu, lets take a look at A Gunpowder Empire. This is a term coined for empires such as the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals, as they used this new warfare technology to expand their territories and dominate their regions. Their military strength and control over trade routes were largely built upon their mastery of gunpowder weaponry and tactics, and Aq Qoyunlu may be able to join that group as well:
Moving on to the internal part of the content, we will be greeted by objectives centered around an improved court, the patronization of art and literature, as well as the development of new imperial fabrics:



Finally, lets take a look at some more highlights before we move on to the Black Sheep:

The Black Sheep on the Eastern border suffered a turbulent time during the middle of the 15th century. In 1444 the lands around Mesopotamia were highly autonomous and far away from the central domain in Tabriz. As a result, the lands that fell in the hands of Ispend Mirza (brother of Jahan Shah) created a thorn in the side of the government, resisting the payment of taxes and drafts, thus posing a significant threat to Jahans rule. We decided to represent the Emirate of Baghdad via an Estate Privilege, which increases the autonomy in select areas via a flat and a monthly amount:


Getting rid of this privilege will be a race against time, as the autonomy of the provinces affected will be very difficult to lower - and at times it may even grow naturally over time. Against the threat of the Ottomans to the West, not losing a single battle against this fearsome enemy will yield a powerful permanent reward:
The defeat of the Ottomans will herald a new era of warfare by introducing Janissaries in Tabriz as well as a new Tier 1 Government:
Unlike its Western counterpart, Qara Qoyunlu will facilitate a lot of its expansion into the lands of Persia in a different style, starting with the Princes of Persia mission:

The content for the Turkomans could not be complete without a reference to a very iconic place of worship. The Blue Mosque in Tabriz, also known as the Masjed-e Kabud, is a historic mosque in Iran that earned its name from the stunning blue tiles that once adorned its walls. The mosque was originally built in the 15th century during the rule of the Qara Qoyunlu dynasty and features impressive, intricate architecture with beautiful calligraphy and geometric patterns:
Before we conclude this part of the Developer Diary, heres some more content for these two countries:

It should be mentioned that the Turkoman trees are designed in a non-restrictive way to allow the player any playstyle - tribal, monarchy, horde. Although the mission tree follows the historical narrative of Persian conquests and Persianization, forming Persia is just an option the player can do at the end of the tree rather than being forced to do it. This philosophy is inspired by forum and Reddit comments by people who are hoping for the ability to stay as AQ/QQ rather than having to form another tag. Lastly, the content shown here is about half of the content planned for the Turkomen, and in the interest of keeping you excited and allowing you the ability to discover the content for yourselves, I decided against fully showcasing more missions, events, etc. Here we will focus on the new content we have to present on Georgia and Armenia. Georgia in 1444 was a state in disarray and disintegration. After the Timurid invasions, it broke down into several smaller kingdoms and principalities. The major political entities during this time included the Kingdoms of Kartli, Kakheti, and Imereti, and the Principality of Samtskhe. This fragmentation weakened Georgia's ability to defend itself against external threats and hindered efforts at reunification. To add some more historical accuracy while trying to deal with the looming disaster, we have added a truce between Georgia and Qara Qoyunlu for both gameplay and historical reasons. Jahan Shah of Qara Qoyunlu in fact invaded Georgia in early 1444 and so we depicted it with this short starting truce.

To add more depth to the Georgian content, we have created a new starting disaster to better mirror the situation in the region under the weakened rulership of Vakhtang. 1.36 completely reworks the disintegration of Georgia in 1444, the country has not yet divided the way it was in 1.35, and so Imereti is now a part of Georgia and Samtskhe starts as its vassal:


WIP Art. In order to restore order, you will need to succeed in a multitude of different objectives:

• Increase legitimacy to 90
• Produce an heir
• Increase your stability to at least 1
• No provinces controlled by rebels

On the 13th August 2013, EU4 was released to the public - and with it a small little event pack called Purple Phoenix for a country whose popularity was almost uncanny even back then. Over the ten years, this popularity did not stop but rose further and further, and now it is one of the main three focus points of King of Kings. Welcome to todays Development Diary which is all about the one country you guys have been looking forward to the most: Byzantium. Hardly in need of any more introduction on the country, as every single patch of EU4 has at least one video tutorial dedicated to the remnant of the Roman Empire. So without further ado, let us jump into the content we can expect for Byzantium in 1.36. So first thing first: the setup of Byzantium. The province change has been somewhat spoiled already, but I will mention it here nonetheless to confirm it: yes, Mesambria is now part of Byzantium and it will have the Bulgarian core on it:
Another change is the adjustments on the stats of its heir, Konstantinos Palaiologos. Although the empire did eventually fall under his rule, it was not anything he could have prevented, and as such the stats he had were a bit unfair considering his experiences as the past Despot of Morea. He is now a 5/2/3! Speaking of Morea, the area of Morea now starts with +25% Local Autonomy to represent the kinsmen of the Byzantine Emperors ruling over this part of the empire. Another point of Byzantine adjustments is their ideas. While their +3 TotF and 3% Missionary Strength make them a strong religious country, the rest of their ideas are relatively underwhelming. As Byzantium is an end-game tag it felt kind of justified to balance their ideas a bit better out. Additionally, it is a nice reward for players who survive the early years. These are the new ideas (Ideas with a # at the start are the modifiers that used to be there pre-1.36): BYZ_ideas = { start = { advisor_cost = -0.10 improve_relation_modifier = 0.2 #tolerance_own = 3 } bonus = { tolerance_own = 3 #prestige = 1 } trigger = { tag = BYZ } free = yes repopulation_of_countryside = { global_trade_goods_size_modifier = 0.1 #merc_maintenance_modifier = -0.15 } byz_roman_empire = { core_creation = -0.25 #global_manpower_modifier = 0.1 #global_trade_goods_size_modifier = 0.05 } ecumenical_patriarch = { global_missionary_strength = 0.03 yearly_patriarch_authority = 0.003 #global_tax_modifier = 0.1 } byz_corpus_iuris_civilis = { #Replaces byz_admin_power for Purple Phoenix events reform_progress_growth = 0.2 #stability_cost_modifier = -0.1 } byz_protect_the_frontiers = { defensiveness = 0.15 #global_trade_power = 0.1 } byz_strategikon = { discipline = 0.05 } new_imperial_army = { global_manpower_modifier = 0.15 #global_missionary_strength = 0.03 } } With that out of the way, lets talk for a moment about the intentions for Byzantium. I mentioned in the Persia Development Diary that countries that receive content tend to become a lot easier than they used to be, hence Ardabil received explicitly nothing that could trivialize their early game. Byzantium is another candidate where we explicitly want it to be a fight for survival. Because of that, the Byzantines will now start with 4 privileges which are more curses than blessings to you:
Note: That privilege increases the starting opinion of the Papal State of you by 125. More to it later.
Note: The Morale Reduction is only present if you have King of Kings active as the mission tree will give you Land Morale modifiers over the course of the campaign to counteract this privilege.

All of the privileges with the exception of 'Reliance on Republics' can be removed through decisions. Both the starting privileges and the decisions are part of the 1.36 update. Additionally to the penalties, the privileges also cause certain events to happen to your country. Our first example is the Union of Churches. Roughly 3 months into the game you get greeted with the following event in regard to the union:
While revoking the privilege immediately would prevent the spawn of rebels further down the line, there is an argument to be made for keeping the privilege active as they can trigger the following event if you are in a defensive war against the Ottomans while having this privilege active:
I dont want to spoil this part as this should be rather experienced in your own playthrough. But a little teaser: the second option allows for a very different religious path for the Byzantines! Moving on, the 'Tax Exemption' privilege also fires an event that can be an early game boon with a long-term penalty.
Byzantium has been fitted with many early game events leading up to their eventual demise. While it would be lovely to showcase them all, we only have so much time. So here are a few:
Note: that event is firing for the Ottomans. The follow-up event is triggered for the Byzantines.


Also an event for the Ottomans in relation to the Byzantine content:
One final thing to mention to make the early game even more of a challenge - the starting reform for the Byzantines has been adjusted with a new penalty and a new mechanic (more to it later):

There is nothing more Roman than falling in the back of your countrymen in time of need for a chance to seize absolute power for yourself. Now that we have the events through, it is time to take a look at the new mission tree for the Byzantines for the upcoming DLC:
Note: with 55 missions in one playthrough, the Byzantine tree is the largest of the DLC. First a few words about the general theme of the mission tree before going into detail: there are vastly different ideas of what is to be expected of a tree for Byzantium (a look into your local Steam Workshop is a fast way to see what I mean). Some would like to see the addition of Hellenism and a whole path revolving around it, others want a mission tree that revolves around the big what if questions of a modernized Byzantium that no longer tries to forge its own destiny independently from the Roman legacy. While all of these ideas are great ones to explore, we have decided to focus on the one path which is generally the one accepted by the majority of the player base which is the ambition of restoring the Roman Empire. The goal was to keep the spirit of the Purple Phoenix mission tree and expand it with flavor so the reconquest of your empire feels like a bigger narrative than just good ol blobbing. The mission tree is split into six parts:

• A small defensive part with three missions revolving around reinforcing the Theodosian Walls and constructing the Hexamilion Wall
• A large conquest part starting from The Impending Doom
• A small trade part of the two missions Peloponnesian Renaissance and Monemvasian Merchants
• An internal infrastructure part starting from A Tarnished State and Promote the Emporoi
• A part about the military and administrative aspects of the Empire
• And finally the religious part

Note: the mending will be significantly more difficult though as you must ensure that 300 provinces in Europe are Orthodox and in Orthodox hands. Fortunately, many provinces are already Orthodox. They just need a Roman hand to free themselves from the heretics.

Good afternoon and welcome to todays Developer Diary where we will be discussing new content for the Mamluks! As a preface, there is merit in addressing the design approach I chose to pursue for this country. Domination and its huge amounts of content served as a great platform to gauge what the people wanted, what they liked and disliked. This helped shape the content for 1.36 moving forward, as the entire team takes feedback very seriously and our ears are keenly tuned to the forums and various platforms for it. How does this affect the content of the Mamluks? For starters, the entirety of the Mamluk tree hosts only 2 new country_modifiers, one temporary and one permanent (more on that later). The idea behind this shift is to give more room to mechanic-related bonuses over pure modifier stacking. So, missions for the Mamluks have been designed from the ground up as a way of investing more effort into slower and natural growth for the country. Moreover, the tree was conceived from the base with simplicity in mind, both for requirements as well as effects. Gone are the long lists (for the most part) of effects that were featured in Domination. As a pleasant side-effect, the AI is also more capable with this mission tree, as missions are simpler but fair in their difficulty for most players and not too overbearing.
To better simulate the turbulence that the Mamluks experienced, especially across their Syrian provinces, this event should help set the tone just at the start of the game; a vast realm whose fringe border provinces near Anatolia have come to disdain the rule of Qahirah, ready to take up arms.
Note; your choice in this event will impact the reward for The Northern Territories mission! The first option will release a rebellious Syrian subject whilst the second will severely increase autonomy and unrest in Syrian provinces The top third of the mission tree is devoted to expansion against Anatolia, Constantinople, and maritime dominance over the Mediterranean as a whole either through sheer might or diplomacy:
Note: Keep in mind that ALL art is WIP in this Developer Diary!






Note; The other option here will grant you some permanent power projection (+15) and give you the option to move your capital to Europe (wink wink, Trade Company enthusiasts).



The second third of the missions will focus on expanding Mameluke influence across the deserts of Arabia to the Southeast, the realms of the Tunisians and Moroccans to the West, the Ethiopians to the South, and the territories of the (soon to be) Safavids to the East, offering a satisfying avenue for expansion in any direction, without constraining and forcing you to always conquer towards one direction:

Note; Numbers are far from final, your feedback is appreciated!

Note; Should you complete this mission outside of the Age of Reformation, you will receive a different reward!

Note; Opting to integrate Ethiopian administration via the first option, will enable several flavor events over the course of the game (Zara Yakob as an advisor in your court, etc.) among other rewards! This leads us to the third (but not final!) part of this Developer Diary and by far my favorite: internal flavor! The difficulty of reading up on the Mamluks final 100 years made crafting content for them quite an interesting challenge. The following missions (much like the conquest missions above) are a mixture of what the Mamluks did between the 14th and 16th centuries, what they sought to do (corroborated by historical sources), and what would make sense for most players to do, in an effort to facilitate content that makes sense and does not break immersion. It should be repeated here, as noted in our introduction, that the Mameluke mission tree is by far not a hard or complicated piece of work to follow, for the player or the AI. It was made from the ground up for both the AI to follow and the player to comprehend, with simple tooltips, simple (but fair) requirements, and consistent flow. As part of the new content, you will gain access to a new special unit, the slave soldiers Mamluks:
Note: The modifiers are not final, feel free to leave feedback! The idea is for these units to become the backbone of your army. Not as powerful and few in numbers as the Hussars and not as stacked as the Janissaries. The primary source of these units will initially be a new Estate privilege for your Noble estate (now renamed Mamluks) but later on through idea groups, events, etc. you will potentially gain access to more!
Moving on, the impact of the Estate will be magnified via the Recruit the Mamluks mission, which will require you to recruit them and grant the following reward:
These new Agendas are meant to be very useful and help your nation militarize further, by performing tasks such as:

• Constructing barracks, regimental camps
• Improving your army tradition
• Improving your army professionalism

• Assist with immersion and add new avenues of gameplay
• Be useful (but somewhat minor) tools for multiplayer and introduce a new layer of importance to human-to-human diplomacy

• Administration
• Manufacturing
• Armed Forces

• The mission 'The Imperial Gambit' would grant Egypt Innovativeness, 25 progress towards their Westernization as well as reduce the cost of increasing Westernization by -5.
• The mission 'Center of the Islamic World' would grant Egypt Innovativeness and double the chance of getting positive traits for your rulers based on which aspect they excel in, the most.
• However, for the Mamluks, the mission Center of the Islamic World will grant an additional Golden Age or extend the current one by 50 years.

Hello everyone, and welcome back to EUIV Dev Diaries! Its been a while since the last one, but we come with renewed enthusiasm and energy, especially after having celebrated the 10th Anniversary of the game. Its been great to notice how big and strong the community is after a decade, and were very glad about the reception of the different activities that the CM Team has been deploying in the last month. Kudos to them, as well! During the summer weve also been busy planning, designing, and implementing new content for the game. We still have a bunch of ideas even after the massive amount of content that was added in EUIV: Domination, and we think that we can keep improving the game, even after its longevity. Our objective for the next update will be to further raise the quality of the game while finishing fixing and balancing the post-release issues from 1.35. In that regard, the topic of the next DLC will be new regional content. And the region that will receive it is the Middle East, something long awaited by the community! Then, were ready to reveal that it will be released in a new Immersion Pack, Europa Universalis IV: King of Kings, which can be wishlisted today. That said, now my colleague Ogele will present to you the first pieces of new content for this new DLC, and the coming update 1.36. I hope you enjoy it!

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• The Encourage Act now gives +10% Production Efficiency instead of +5%
• Promotion of Irrigation now gives -5% Development Cost and +15% Manpower Recovery Speed instead of +10% Manpower Recovery Speed
• Increase the Crown Lands now gives +15% National Tax Modifier instead of just +10%

• The Timurid successors (so basically the Timurids and every tag which starts or has a Timurid dynasty on their throne; yes, the Timurids will now be able to form Persia): Patronage of the Arts -a reference to Timurs passion to collecting artists throughout his empire and bringing them to his capital-, and Legacy of Timur, with the following event reward:

• The Mazandarani tags (Mazandaran, Gilan, and Biapas): Ziyarids Successor and Legacy of Eranshahr (based on the claims to be descendants of the Sasanian Empire), with the following event reward:

• The Qoyunlus (both AQ and QQ): A State on Horseback and Legacy of the Seljuk with the following reward event:

Note: They are currently called Ghulams internally, but what we actually mean are Ghilman - the plural of the Ghulam. This will be fixed soon. (Yay, a lot of ID fixes to do, thats what Under Development truly means to be!). But for the sake of consistency, we will call them by their singular which is Ghulam.

Note: Again, all icons and numbers are WIP.

Note: The buttons for the branches are WIP. They will have a different look in the end.

• Chinese Blue-and-White Porcelain
• Sarkhej Roza and the City of Ahmedabad
• Abbas I - Persia's Greatest Emperor
• The Two Rivers of the Fertile Crescent

Hello everyone! Our latest EU4 mod spotlight features Beyond the Cape. This mod enriches the seas of EU4 with a rework of several game mechanics, creating a fresh experience for exploration, navies, and colonisation. Portugal also receives a great deal of flavour in the name of immersion and historicity. Here is Fen_the_man to discuss their work. Enjoy! --------------------------------------------- Greetings fellow Explorers, I am Fen_the_man, the creator of Beyond the Cape. This mod focuses on providing a realistic and historical exploration and colonisation experience and overhauling many events and mechanics in the game to be more interesting, fun, and to better resemble how they happened in real life. The countries revamped by this mod are almost exclusively historical colonisers, mainly Portugal. One of the main mantras of this mod is Keep it Simple. There are no major overhauls of any mechanics, you will not need to learn anything that you do not already learn from vanilla, and there will not be so many provinces added that will lag your gameplay. As the Dev Diaries of the Domination DLC were being released, Ive noticed that many people were disappointed that their suggestions and desires were not added. Of course, not everything can be implemented, so I decided to take matters into my own hands and do what I can to help the community. Lets take a look at what this mod offers:

• Historically Realistic Exploration
• Overhauled Castilian Civil War Disaster
• Immersive Portugal Experience
• General Improvement to Colonisation
• Rework of Institution Spawn and Spread
• Increased Importance of Naval Dominance
• Overall Balance Changes

EXPLORATION

CASTILIAN CIVIL WAR

IMPORTANCE OF THE NAVY

PORTUGAL

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• The Netherlands, with an updated, improved and reorganised mission tree making it more accessible for both the AI and players to complete missions and reach the East Indies. They can release the VOC much like England can release the EIC. In the Eastern America colonial region they have a unique colonisation mechanic unlocked via the Patroonschap mission. Much of their newly added flavour revolves around their conflict with Portugal.
• Aragon, who now has Sardinia and Sicily as juniors, with missions to integrate them and Naples. If they integrate the three of them, theyll get an event that will allow them to choose where their capital will be, and depending on their decision it will upgrade the new Crown of Aragon government accordingly. There are 4 possible upgrades to the government, so choose wisely.
• Burgundy, with a unique casus belli that will allow them to subjugate the Dutch minors without the HRE Emperor interfering, as well as some historical events regarding their conquest of the Low Countries.
• Austria has Styria and Tirol as juniors, England has Wales as junior and Cornwall as a vassal, Bohemia has Moravia as junior, Wolgast has Rgen as a vassal.
• Castile, Morocco, England, Norway, and a few other countries also had slight updates to their ideas and mission trees.

BALANCE CHANGES

• Buildings - They are more expensive the more development a province has. Most buildings now reduce development cost. This represents the effects of infrastructure in a province. Some building bonuses have also been changed.
• Development - It is more expensive to develop a province the higher its development is. This represents the effects of population increase in a province. There is also a small chance that after an enemy army occupies a province that its development will decrease by 1 in a random category.
• Terrain - Combat width from terrain has been reintroduced. Watch out for that -50% width in mountains!
• Attrition - Maximum attrition has been raised fourfold. Scorched earth, monsoons and winters give increased attrition, amongst other modifiers.
• Devastation - There is a chance for every province with at least 10 devastation to lose 1 development in a random category. This has a cooldown time, but try not to have high devastation for too long.
• Prosperity - Conversely, there is a chance for every prosperous province to gain 1 development in a random category. This also has a cooldown time.
• Corruption - More sources of corruption, namely advisors and low crownland. This represents how those in positions of power can abuse that power.
• Institutions - Dynamic representation of institution spawn. Renaissance exists in North Italy at game start, Printing Press can spawn after the Gutenberg or Aldus Manutius event, and more. Institution spawn is no longer tied to specific years. Institution spread has also been significantly slowed down. While the chance that institutions spawn in Europe is higher, it is not guaranteed.
• Casus belli - Added specific casus belli for certain historical conflicts, and a Naval War casus belli that has a Naval Superiority Wargoal, giving navies increased importance. You can unlock this casus belli after completing either Exploration, Maritime or Naval ideas.
• Sound tolls - 6 different sound tolls have been added throughout the world. Controlling the required provinces to unlock the toll gives +5 trade power to each province.
• Colonial nations - Colonial nations can no longer colonise outside their colonial region. Subject countries will no longer colonise in the same colonial region their overlord has Inter Caetera in. If a country has 2 colonial nations with capital in the same colonial region, now you can combine them into one colonial nation.

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OTHER ADDITIONS

[Knights of Montesa]

FUTURE PLANS

GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY

• develop your own modding project?
• start modding but you do not know how to?
• make art, UI changes, or any exciting modifications?
• see your favourite region represented and improved?
• just give suggestions for improvements?

CREDITS

• Hermerico, for finding the Portuguese songs and for numerous ideas for events and balance changes, as well as being part of the mods development since the very beginning.
• Sete, for the many years advocating for changes to Portugal, as many of his ideas have been added to the mod.
• Xary Moft, for being the main tester and reporting all sorts of bugs and exploits that I wouldnt be aware of, as well as for the expert knowledge of the game files.
• Everyone that is active on the Discord server, continuously giving suggestions and bug reports, keeping the mod alive and helping it grow.

Grab some snacks Our Anbennar Spotlight has turned into an Anbennar Marathon. Part 2 (And 2.5) of our multi-part spotlight on Anbennar is out now! Featuring a look into the upcoming Sarhal update, join us as we continue our Anbennar world tour. (Once again way too long for steam )

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Read our Anbennar Spotlight Part 2 here!

Have a question for the devs? Now is your time to shine! Join us shortly as we host a developer Q&A live on our newly launched Discord Server. Paradox Tinto studio manager and long-time Europa Universalis developer Johan Andersson, and EUIV content designer lvaro Sanz, will be available to answer your questions. Q&A begins 15:00 CEST/09:00 EST, and will be live on our Discord server: https://discord.gg/europauniversalisofficial We can't wait to see you there!

Hello EU4 community, and welcome to the first Anbennar Mod Spotlight! Today, JayBean, the creator of Anbennar and Lead Writer Karlov will be introducing you to the Anbennar EU4 mod and the Anbennar setting as a whole as part of EU4s 10th birthday celebration in this first of a two-part series. We'll let JayBean and Karlov take it away:

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Hello everyone!

Today we release the free 10th Anniversary Community Music Pack for EUIV!

Some words from Utopia:

Get the music pack: click here Listen on Spotify: click here Utopias official website: click here

Today, August 13th of 2023, Marks the 10th Anniversary day of Europa Universalis IV. To look back on how we got here, we invite you to join long time GSG Developer and Studio Manager of Paradox Tinto Johan Andersson as he reflects on the last 10 years.

Please enjoy this retrospective from him below:

• 25% on better UI
• 25% on multiplayer
• 25% on better graphics
• 25% on new features

Europa Universalis IV is turning 10 this month, and were celebrating with some small community activities! Please note that there will be no major gameplay updates, but you can expect some giveaways and other exciting things. Today for instance, we want to announce that we now have an official EU IV Displate store! For those inclined towards some classy merch, these high quality metal posters featuring iconic EUIV art can now finally be yours. (is it truly a battle station without paintings of historys most famous leaders?)

Check it out here: https://pdxint.at/3qbFXVG

Hey all! Today's Mod Spotlight features pretty art and pretty numbers. Ages Reformed adds a plethora of well-thought-out age objectives and abilities. And, it conveniently plays nice with other popular mods too! we're excited to have MDoulos share it with you.

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• Selectable Abilities
• Nation Specific Abilities
• Age Objectives
• UI and Artwork
• Age Painting and Tooltip
• Mod Compatibility

Selectable Abilities

Permanent and Stacking Bonus Pathways

Nation Specific Abilities

Age Objectives

Age Objectives - Fulfilled

UI and Artwork

Region or Religion Specific Artwork

Age Paintings and Tooltips

• Nation Bonuses Listed
• Objective Rewards Listed
• Information about the Age Painting

Mod Compatibility

Conclusion

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Greetings, and welcome everyone to the last Dev Diary of the Domination cycle! Weve been active in the forums and receiving your feedback about this expansion and the 1.35 Ottomans update for almost 7 months, and now it is time to retire for a well-deserved Summer break. But before we do that, lets have a retrospective of the past months. First is first, on June 20th we released the 1.35.4 patch, and on June 27th and July 4th the 1.35.5 and 1.35.6 hotfixes. We think that the most important and urgent reported issues have been addressed, making this the final and stable version of the 1.35 update. Releasing them has been demanding for us, especially 1.35.6, as the Summer Break has already started in other regions, making releases more difficult; but we thought that fixing most of the reported CTDs would make for the better stability we were looking for, and therefore worth it. Generally speaking, were very thankful for the reception of Domination. This expansion was an ambitious project, as we were working on and creating content for most of the Great Powers of the Modern Age at the same time, something never done before in Europa Universalis IV. This was challenging, as the polishing and balancing of the game were set to be the most difficult tackled by Paradox Tinto since our tenure of EUIV started. In this regard, our QA Team did an amazing job, and they deserve to be praised for it; for every bug that slipped through and was reported in the release version, at least 5 had already been internally reported and fixed. Unfortunately, sometimes things will still slip through the cracks - yes, the Chinese floods will haunt us for a while! This is just a sign that even as we we're confident with our QA processes, there's still room for improvement with every new release. Speaking of the content, we also put a great effort into making the most possible for this expansion. There was also a great challenge regarding this, as most of the countries had already received content in previous DLCs. What we tried to do is to integrate as much as possible the previous systems, mechanics, and features with the new content, which was designed to expand the possibilities and gameplay options of some of the most-played countries of the game. That is, to create new experiences in a 10-year-old game. For some countries, we achieved this better than with others, I think; but well keep working on improving their balance and polish, in order to make Domination a truly must-have DLC. Also, following this line of thought, we have increased the depth of the game, by adding the new, scriptable government system, more reforms and privileges, the new idea groups, etc., for an even deeper experience. This is something that will make for some of our future plans: keep working on improving the base game and older DLCs as we work on new content. This is the design philosophy of PDX Tinto regarding EUIVs development, and well continue to work this way in the following months, going through the reports made in the Bug Reports subforum, and gathering the feedback we receive from the community. Coupled with this, we had the release of a new type of DLC, the History Lessons, which albeit not being a massive one, its a nice companion to Domination, already having generated interest in players desiring to know more about the History of China and Japan while they play. Before I finish, I want to note that next month we will be celebrating something that I already mentioned: Europa Universalis IVs 10th Anniversary! This is really great for Paradox as a whole, as this is the longest-lasting title ever published by the company, and it also makes our Team, led by the original Game Director Johan, to be quite proud of this achievement. Our Marketing Team is also working hard to celebrate with you the history of EUIV throughout the entire month of August, as well! With nothing more to say to you than thank you for your support with Domination and during these 10 years, I say goodbye until Autumn, when we will talk again about new content for the game. Goodbye!

Greetings one and all! Today we released a hotfix patch to address some crashes that's been annoying us all for a while. There shouldn't be any issues with 1.35.5 save files although we can never guarantee it. Please report any bugs in our official bug report forum as we won't be able to collect bug reports from Steam. Thank you for understanding! ################### # Bugfixes ################### - Fixed CTD related to region effect filtering out all provinces due to triggers. - Fixed CTD related to having trade centers as tributaries. - Fixed CTD fix related to the zone of control tooltips. - Fixed CTD related to tool tipping a subunit that doesn't belong to a unit. - Fixed CTD when missing to specify a modifier for opinion effect. - Fixed CTD related to removing countries from the war which would invalidate paths due to forts blocking. - Fixed CTD related to declaring war and subjects not having a subject type.

Greetings everyone! And to anyone in the United States celebrating we wish you a happy 4th of July! (Shoutout to Canada day as well) For this USA themed spotlight we will be joined by the well-known Chewy/Chewyshoot who in addition to his content creation, has also dabbled in modding. With no further ado, we'll let Chewy take it away!

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Greetings! Today we released a minor hotfix to address one critical bug! Save games should hopefully be unaffected - but if you have the possibility to start a new game that is always recommended. As always, please report any issues in our bug report forum or submit a support ticket. Thank you! ############################################################# ######################## 1.35.5.0 ########################### ############################################################# ################### # Bugfixes ################### - Fixed calculations of the Carolean Special Unit. Old 1.35 changelogs: 1.35.4 1.35.3 1.35.2 1.35.1 1.35

Greetings, and welcome to another Europa Universalis IV Dev Diary! Today patch 1.35.4 was released, and with it were fixing most of the issues reported by the community after the launch of EUIV: Domination, including the most pressing ones that were already covered in the Roadmap DD, making more than 170 fixes. We hope that it improves the overall state of the game as per the feedback that weve received during the past week. For any further issues that are found while playing, please use the Bug Reports subforum to report bugs and the Changelog post for any questions or comments regarding the patch. Along with the 1.35.4 patch were also releasing a new type of DLC, Europa Universalis IV: History Lessons, covering two countries for this release, China and Japan. Both of these can be found here: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/32797/Europa_Universalis_IV_History_Lessons_Bundle/ Let me explain a bit about what this is about, and why we are releasing this DLC now. This project started around one year ago, its objective being to add some more immersion to EUIV while playing it, in the format of a podcast. After some design discussions and planning, the Team decided to create a new type of Music DLC - but instead of listening to new songs in the in-game audio player, the tracks will be composed of lessons about the history of a certain country, similar to podcasts episodes. To prepare for this release, we made changes in the Audio player that were already released with the 1.35 update - so, these new DLCs work pretty much the same as any other Music Pack, so they shouldnt impact the stability of the 1.35.4 patch. And why did we decide to release the DLCs now, and not with 1.35? Basically, to dedicate most of our resources to the release of 1.35 and Domination, and to make sure that the release of the History Lessons was also done with the quality we wanted for them, so problems in one of the releases wouldnt impact much on the other. Taking into account the new content that we were aiming to create for EUIV: Domination, we decided to start with two of the countries in East Asia most attractive for our players, China and Japan, which also have a rich and engaging History in the time frame of 1444-1820. We were lucky enough to count for the project with two experienced podcasters, Laszlo Montgomery from The China History Podcast, and Isaac Meyer from The History of Japan Podcast. Along with the Team, they prepared and recorded the episodes, 26 for Europa Universalis IV: History Lessons - China, and 35 for Europa Universalis IV: History Lessons - Japan. In the case of China, you will find out a lot of interesting contextual information about the Ming and Qing dynasties, how the Mandate of Heaven was handled, and the relationships between China and its neighbors. Meanwhile, the context for Japan is more focused on the different Daimyos that are present in EUIV in 1444, and the start, development and ending of the Sengoku Jidai, the civil wars that spread out in the country during the 15th and 16th centuries, and that finished with the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate. We hope that you enjoy this new type of content as much as weve done while preparing it, specifically, those who love History as much as the members of the Team and I do. And speaking of me, I was also invited to record two special episodes of Laszlos and Isaacs podcasts which will go live this week, in which we discuss how we worked on the project, and why is so interesting for us the historical context of Europa Universalis IV, and thus this project itself! I also hope that you all have fun with the 1.35.4 patch of EUIV as well! Next week we will have the last DD before the summer break, in which Ill make a retrospective of Domination, and talk a bit about the roadmap for the following months. Cheers, bye!

Greetings all! Patch 1.35.4 is now live, containing fixes for many of the issues outlined in the earlier roadmap. You can also read the accompanying Dev Diary here. Though we can't fully guarantee it, it should be safe to continue earlier save games with this patch - but if you have the possibility to start a new game that is always recommended. As always, please report any issues in our bug report forum or submit a support ticket. Thank you! ############################################################# ######################## 1.35.4.0 ########################### ############################################################# ################### # Gamebalance ################### # Governments - The Ordenanas government reform now properly grants Army Tradition. - The English Monarchy T1 is now available for Great Britain which has been formed by a different tag than England. - Tweaked the likelihood of the AI investing in Prussian militarization if they don't have an abundance of military monarch power. - Added a fallback modifier for the Separate the Boyars from Court government reform. ################### # Interface ################### # Icons/Art - Re-exported and added .dds files for achievement_chop_chop and achievement_kinslayer in the corresponding folder. # Other - Fixed several issues with localization. - The parliament of Denmark will now be called "Folketing". - Added a lot of missing description localization. # Tooltips - The Fleeing Serfs Cossack interaction now scopes to a random province, instead of a wrong province. - Fixed the tooltip for Flood events in China. - Improved tooltips for granting and revoking privileges. - Updated the Expel Minorities tooltip. ################### # Usermodding ################### # Other - Added a on_heir_disinherited action. ################### # Script ################### # Decisions - The decision to form Siam no longer requires ADM tech 20. # Events - The Chinese flood events now check for appropriate provinces to apply to in all circumstances. - There is now a 25% chance that the development does not get reduced by the flood. - The Chinese flood events can no longer fire for the AI. - The event "The Karma Kagyu School and the [Root.Monarch.Dynasty.GetName] Dynasty" now properly grants a subjugation CB. - The Iberian Wedding now requires that Aragon and Castile are monarchies. - The Castilian Civil War option that grants the Aragonese candidate, will now grant Isabel as it should, if possible. - The event "End of the Castilian Civil War" now correctly takes away stability based on its outcome. - The French event 'Treaty of the Lily Flower' now grants the option to refuse the treaty, but the AI will never pick it. - Fixed an error that incorrectly attributed Crimea as a Tributary State to the Ottomans for players who do not own the Mandate of Heaven. - Nurhaci is now spawned with his historical dynasty preset from the Manchu flavor events. - The Urban event for the Ottomans won't fire until you have the money necessary to hire him in your treasury. - Advisors granted via English flavor events will now spawn with the Angevin culture in mind if you are Anglois. - The event Commercial Expansion in Alexandria will no longer fire continuously. - The event "The Baronial Revolt" will not fire for Naples while they are at war. - Nahuatl event Pochteca Spies now grants the Trade War CB for 10 years, instead of 152 years. # Missions - The French minor mission "Capture Paris" now properly grants claims on the French region. - Chinese EoC missions will now not be available to Japan, since the latter already has its version of EoC missions in their file. - The Angevin mission "Eliminate Burgundy" now takes into account land held by subjects of subjects. - The Brandenburg Prussia mission that grants access to the Polish Age Ability now only takes into account development you own directly in the Polish region. - The modifier "Tatar Vanguard" will not be removed for the Ottomans if Crimea is promoted to an Eyalet. - The Ottoman mission "End the Persian Threat" now requires 20 provinces owned by you or a non-tributary subject, instead of 20 provinces directly owned by you. - The Ottoman mission Collect the Siyasah now requires reform level 6 Government reforms while the Ottoman mission Expand the Devshirme requires reform tier 5. - Removed an excess claim from the Portuguese mission "Settle Indonesia". - The mission "End the Eyalet Rebellions" will now check for only eyalets and core eyalets instead of all subject types. - The Korean mission "Defeat the Shogun" will now properly display its Harmonization reward when applicable. - Fixed an error for Chinese warlord missions that did not grant the mil tech bonus. - Improved the tooltip of the Mutual Trade System mission for the EoC for better readability. - The mission to handle the Eyalet Revolts will no longer require you to have provinces in the Egypt and Persia regions. - The mission to handle the Harem will no longer ask for ruler stats to be complete. - Reorganized the requirements of the Russian mission "Most Holy Synod" for better readability. - Emperor of China missions should no longer disappear if you already have access to them upon forming Manchu. - The general for the Russian mission Dissolve the Streltsy has been lowered from 20 pips to 15 pips as a requirement. # Setup - Every level of the Brandenburg Gate monument now grants the same amount of militarization. - The Prussian militarization tiers are now available to Germany as well as other countries that may gain access to it (modding). - Fixed an issue with the trigger conditions for The Times of Trouble for Muscovy / Russia. - Perm can now be annexed at the same date as other subjects under the starting setup of Muscovy. - The Great Council of Mechelen will now properly disable the Dutch Revolt from ticking. - The Unify China CB now targets all provinces in China, not just neighboring ones. - The "Expand into X" Agenda for Noble/Cossack/Maratha etc estates will now request provinces to be held by you or any type of subject, including Tributaries and Colonies. # Modifiers - The modifier "Empowered Junkers" now correctly grants militarization for Prussia. # Other - The Slavic culture group has now dynamic names for the provinces. - The Sisterhood of Jeanne d'Arc" government reform is now limited to theocracies only. - The AI is now aware to pick the Yearly Mandate decree over other decrees to maintain the Mandate a bit easier. - Celestial Reforms now cost 70 Mandate instead of 80. The minimum amount of Mandate to take a Celestial Reform remains 80 for the sake of the AI. - The Potosi reward for Ming will now apply if the mine is controlled by a subject of the Ming. - lvaro de Luna now joins the Royalists during the Infantes of Aragon disaster. - Flavor Events for new Rulers no longer fire when Junior Partner in a Personal Union. ################### # Bugfixes ################### - The Ottoman Siyasah Tax System government reform now properly changes between manpower and tax based on province religion compared to your religion. - The Bektashi Order local organization no longer grants global Production Efficiency. - The Decentralized Reform reward for the EoC mission Examination System now correctly grants Development Cost country-wide. - Spawning Coal, while Smithian Economics is active, should now subtract 1 Base Production as the Manufactory of the old trade good is removed. - The Duchy of Finland, when released by Russia as part of the latter's event Reward will now have proper borders. - Japan now has proper access to the Port of Dejima mission. - The modifier "Parliamentarian Authority" attributed to provinces, will now grant the proper amount of Monthly Devastation reduction. - The mission "Protect the South Slavs" will no longer remove the "Hegemony over the Carpathians" modifier. The mission "Partition Poland" now also gives you Slovak as an accepted culture and will no longer have +10% Manpower in accepted culture provinces. - The Russian decision "Proclaim the Emperor Title" will now properly request to have 90 Modernization. - The event Fate of the Peasantry for Russia will not fire if Russia has no nobility. - The Russian mission "Fate of the Peasantry" will now give 100 points for each category in case you complete it with no privilege active. - The event "Fate of the Peasantry" will no longer add the respective estate privilege if you have already picked one before. - Appease the Patriarchate now applies in every province that is part of a state with a Patriarchate. - Completing the Ottoman Struggle for Power disaster now gives the Modernized Ottoman Government if you did not weaken the Harem. This means you have the Harem when you finish the disasters again. - Fixed an issue where the Gascon Musket Company and the Order of Saint Joan didn't have the new unit models from the Domination DLC. - Fixed a bug that prevented the Sisterhood of Jeanne d'Arc to have the proper government and ruler names if the modifier is missing. - The government reform "Bureaucratic Rule" now increases the Harmonization Speed instead of decreasing it. - "Reclaim Neumark effect for Domination when the player is the Emperor is changed. Now, you gain 1 Imperial Authority for every 25+ Dev province you conquer. - The EoC mission "Grand Coordinators" now has a non-DLC alternative reward. - The tooltip information about gaining a PU CB on Portugal for Castile is now displayed better. - The Catholic reward for the French mission regarding the French Wars of Religion is now granted for the properly displayed duration. - The Spanish Armada mission now properly displays the conditions for getting the Restoration of Union CB on ENG/GBR. - The event "A new Imperial Capital?" for the Ottomans will no longer grant you territorial cores outside of Italy when you decide to move your capital to Rome. - The estate agenda "Befriend 's Rivals" will not be available if you are at war with the rival's rival country. - The Anglican Aspect unlocked by the English mission Piety of the State for the Protestant Faith is now correctly granted and unlocked. - Zimbabwe will no longer magically create production development by building and demolishing farm estates. - The Tribe's estate privilege "Autonomy to the Tribes" will no longer prevent the Tribes from losing estate loyalty when you seize land. - The event "The Subjugation of Austria" will no longer cause Austria to be inherited by another Christian country in very rare situations. - Fixed a bug that prevented advisors outside of your culture group to grant monthly modernization. - Land of the Christian Sun T1 is now properly logged as a T1 for Republic / Theocratic Japan. - The system of Councils for Spain will only allow one bonus at a time. - France has access to Strong Duchies after integrating all their Appanages. - The reform "Representatives of the Crown" will now work with Appanages. - The Sino-Altaic culture now has proper access to Subutai's Strategies gov. Reform. - Fixed an issue of the "Protectors of Eastern Christianity" modifier being removed too soon for Japan. - Estate privilege "Noble Contracts" will now properly not subtract loyalty from nobles getting their land seized for Brandenburg and Prussia. - The Teuton AI will no longer kill itself by attacking other HRE members while inside the Empire under regulations by the Emperor. - Fixed issues regarding canals in savegames. - Reactivated base-game missions for Ming and East Asian countries in the absence of the Domination DLC. - Tibetan Horses will only be granted and permanent if a subject owns Lhasa. - Completing Mission Crisis of the Ming Dynasty no longer unlocks Government Reforms up to Tier 10. - Fixed AI not raiding Coast. - Fixed the overlap of the name and parliament button in the province view. - Support for conditional scaled modifiers for government mechanics. - Open Store Page will now use Steam Overlay Browser before opening an external browser. - Disinheriting your heir as Aragon will no longer create a personal union between Navarra and Castile. - Banner cavalry now has a static cost of 0.1 Corruption. The discount they get has been reduced from -0.1 to -0.04. - Banner cavalry cost can't be brought down below 0 to remove corruption for free. - Dismantle HRE tooltip shows electors' names again. - Prestige gain in Dismantle HRE tooltip is no longer visible if it's 0. - Effects are now shown in the Dismantle HRE button tooltip. - Vassals no longer have a merchant icon next to them in the subject's view. - Vassals now have a vassal-type icon in the subject view that shows what modifiers they get and give their overlord. - Added a missing new line in requirements to maintain a personal union tooltip. - Added missing localization for the history log about incidents starting in the HRE. - Fixed peace treaty terms changing after reopening the peace treaty interface with a province ceded in a state that is pillaged. - When two vassals that are allied to each other are being annexed, one declaring an independence war no longer results in the other being instantly annexed. - Fixed issue where forts un-mothballing cause movement to be recalculated. - Eyalet subjects are no longer displayed as automatically joining Overlords war. - Fixes so you can call on senior allies when going to war against a vassal. - Taking land in war no longer occasionally loses all crownland. - fixed AI over-prioritizing militarization. - Fixed state view interactions going out of the screen on smaller resolutions. - After accepting a Request to Share Maps from another nation, the popup that appears shows correctly who is the receiver. - Naval doctrine icon now shows the correct icon and the "No doctrine" icon is back instead of showing the first Naval doctrine. - Added an alert for Slacken Recruiting Standards. - can_use_peace_treaty now doesn't check if both countries are at war. - Fixed Expand Empire Casus Belli not showing up. - Fixed fleets not being able to merge after repairing. - Fixed mine depletion resulting in decimal development. - Form Coalition action is now available at 50 Aggressive Expansion, not 51. - Fixed incorrect number for sailors increase in macro builder tooltips. - Added information about government power being frozen in the tooltip. - Galley flagships can now be built. - The Wants your provinces modifier can no longer overflow into positive values. - Reinforcement cost is now capped at 10%. - Fixed occupation priority to match that from the siege screen. - Ideas taken within 1 year of the first country now correctly give innovativeness. - Fixed fleet speed modifier applying two times for flagships. - Fixed heir not being removed as a military leader in define_heir effect. - Fixed special units not being able to be hired when below 0 Absolutism. - Fixed colonial range map mode showing incorrect effective distance. - Fixed provinces are colored green in the macro builder when trying to build special units even if the limit has been reached. - Mercenary companies no longer use the origin province owner's land maintenance for their maximum morale. - Destroy and add building effects now update the building window properly if they are used together. - Added overflow checks to variable effects. - Sich Rada government ability now spawns Cossack cavalry and infantry in a 3-1 ratio. - Mercenary condottieri are now allowed to use the mercenary drilling modifier of the original country. - Random Candidate Bonus ability is now distributed in all categories instead of one. - CAT tag can be used again in the script. - Added a development cap for development-based growth of government power. - Tribal allegiance now can't go down by more than 0.25 monthly from development. - Define ruler now changes the original dynasty. - Fixed Cavalry to Infantry ratio from Born to the Saddle leader trait not working. - Fervor will no longer decrease the upper limit when a Focus is selected. - Condottieri can't loot provinces of countries that the renting country isn't at war with. - Changed the text of unoccupied forts requirement in peace deals. - Enemy Zone of Control no longer extends to tributary land. - Special naval units no longer show the cost and build button on provinces with the inland sea. - Fixed outliner tooltip for why integration can't progress. - The mandate Growth tooltip now includes the multiplier. - Fixed the wrong government name mentioned in the debate failed message. - Effects text in monument tooltips won't be shown if there are no effects applicable. - Added information about overextension in Grant Province Screen when it would go above 100% for subjects. - Fixed overlapping text in the naval macro builder. - Added a missing line break in the Current Trade Power tooltip. - Cleaned the Found Indian Company decision reward. - Added a missing line break to the monument upgrade effect. - Fixed sorting by diplomatic cost in the peace treaty screen. - AI will ignore truces with enemy subjects in the war declaration screen as they do with manual call-ins via diplomatic action. - Add a finish date to the tooltip for vassal cores. - Declare war screen now shows HRE emperor allies and counts them into force summary. Setting them as co-belligerents is now allowed. - Fixed trade protectorates not being able to be canceled. - Expand Infrastructure Cost Modifier will be replaced for players without Leviathan DLC. - AI shouldn't be able to call Players to war when they are already at war with a nation AI declared on. - Updated the Expel Minorities tooltip.

We're excited to bring you a more graphical-oriented Mod Spotlight. This time, to illustrate some of the points, we're covering a small collection of Mods made by experienced modder, Plati. Enjoy!

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Greetings everyone! EU community team member Ryagi here, today we bring you another Mod Spotlight. Since our last mod spotlight we've had a few folks ask us to bring our previously covered mods to steam, and so today we can begin with that. We plan to post these retrospective spotlights until we're all caught up to our "live" spotlights. In addition, we'll continue to post up to date spotlights here when they are out too. Please note this spotlights original posting was on the 17th of March 2023 and can be found on our forums here. If you've already read that spotlight, there is nothing new here. If this is the first you're seeing it, enjoy!

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Mamluks

Granada

Timurids

Mughals

Arabia

Austria

Malaya

Rm

Abbasid Caliphate Mechanic

Timurid Legitimacy

Spoils of War

Trade Outposts:

Starting Nations

Endgame formables

Cultural Formables

• England into Angevin Empire by Laith
• Brunei into Malaya by Zlewikk
• Granada into Andalusia by Chewyshoot
• Timurids Horde by Quarbit

Hello everyone! I am Ryagi, a Community Ambassador on Europa Universalis IV. Countless Modders do amazing work on their projects and the modding community they have built up is worth highlighting! For a brief while, we have been hosting mod spotlights written by the Mod authors themselves over on our forums. Today we wanted to bring them to you directly here on steam. Let us know if this is something you are interested in seeing more of here! For today's spotlight we look at the ever popular Extended Timeline It's likely this mod needs no introduction, but you may be less familiar with the mod author, Qweytr. We hope you enjoy their showcase today! For those of you who may not be familiar, you are in for a treat. Without further ado, I'll let Qweytr take it away.

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A couple examples of the many events I have made, belonging to the event chains to decentralize Japan and the rise of Islam

Ayyubid missions:

Funanese missions:

Sassanid missions

Vandal missions

A couple events from the Ostsiedlung event chain

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• Europa Expanded
• Ante Bellum
• The Idea Variation
• Dirinas

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Hello everyone! Im Kuba, Release Engineer & Interim QA Coordinator here at Paradox Tinto and today Id like to talk about some known issues and our plan for upcoming weeks. After making 1.35.2 and following the hotfix, we addressed most of the pressing issues that could negatively impact your gameplay and could be prepared and tested in the time we had available. That being said, we are not yet done with improvements and bug fixing, as there are issues that are brought up by the community in the forums as well as discovered by our internal testing. The following list is the Known Issues to let you know that we are actively working on fixing these. [list=1]

Greetings everyone! Today we released patch 1.35.3 for Europa Universalis IV! This is just a hotfix for an issue introduced with yesterday's 1.35.2 patch and contains only one thing, which is why I combine the 1.35.2 patchnotes with this. As always, please report any issues in our bug report forum or submit a support ticket. Thank you! ############################################################# ######################## 1.35.3 ############################### ############################################################# ################### # Bugfixes ################### - Yangtze river flood event doesnt add devastation to all owned provinces anymore PLEASE NOTE! There is still an issue with the Yangtze River Flood" Event, which causes it to effect all provinces along the River, even if below 15 Development. This issue occurs after completion of the missions "Tame China's Sorrow" and "The Jing Hang Grand Canal" - we're working towards a fix for this as well. Our apologies for the inconvenience caused. ############################################################# ######################## 1.35.2 ############################### ############################################################# ################### # Gamebalance ################### # Governments - The government reform "French Feudalism" no longer needs 50% of Crownland to integrate subjects. Instead, the "Seize Land" effect has now a counter which allows you to start the integration of an appanage. In other words: to integrate Orleans you would need to seize land and start the integration. For integrating Armagnac you would have to seize land again. You can save up the seize land charges so you can integrate all appanages later at the same time. - Modernization has now a base decay of 0.3 per month. - Increased the yearly manpower gain from the "Mobilize New Order Regiments" interaction from 0.3 to 0.75 for the Russian Empire and its republican equivalent. - Increased the yearly manpower gain from the "Equip Streltsy" interaction from 0.2 to 0.3 for the Russian Principality and from 0.1 (which was a number bug) to 0.6 Years of Manpower. - The elective monarchy is now mutually exclusive with States General # Other - The decadence mission "End the Eyalet Rebellions" now requires you to have 70 Absolutism if you are in the Age of Absolutism or Revolutions. "The Eyalet Rebellion" will now remove 100 Absolutism when fired. - Added an alternative trigger to the decadence disaster "Restructure Administration" which no longer forces you to have 2 Admin Idea Groups filled to complete this mission. - The decadence disaster "End the Eyalet Rebellion" will now request 60 provinces in the Europe continent instead of 50 in Western Europe specifically. - The Plot of the Harem disaster no longer reduces the stats of your heirs by 1/1/1. - The decadence event "Corruption of the Court" now costs 0.1 years of income instead of 0.2. - The mission reward of the decadence mission "The Eyalet Crisis" now lasts for 30 years instead of 19750 days. - The decadence mission "Handle the Janissaries" no longer requires you to make 9 Mil power per month. - Severely tuned down the Janissaries spawned from events of the Janissary Coup disaster. - Eyalets now count as your border, meaning you can core provinces next to them. - Missions that require you to have some idea groups of a category filled out have now alternatives. Also decreased the number of needed military and admin idea groups from 3/2 to 2/1 idea groups needed. - The Janissary Coup disaster now increases the Janissary Influence by 10% instead of 30% and Janissary Max Privileges by 3. It no longer decreases the Loyalty Equilibrium. - The events of the Internal Power Struggle disaster now have a lower increase of their penalties. Additionally, they no longer decrease the stability to their fullest strength. - The estate privileges for the Janissaries from the Janissary Coup disaster now increase influence by 10% instead of 20%. - The English Parliament Issue "Army Reform Acts" increases Army Tradition by 5 and Army Professionalism by 0.5% instead of 15 and 1% respectively. - The English Parliament Issue "Man-of-War Acts" increases Navy Tradition by 5 instead of 15. - The English Parliament Issue "Maritime Discipline Acts" adds 20 Military Power instead of 50. - The English Parliament Issue "The Black Act" will now increase stability by 1 instead of 3. - Restored Siamese ideas partially. They have their old traditions and ambition back as well as their cavalry combat ability. - Takeda ideas now grant proper Army Professionalism. - Restored Siamese ideas partially. They have their old traditions and ambition back as well as their cavalry combat ability. - Eyalets and Core Eyalets have now -5k Manpower and -5 Land Force Limit to reduce the benefits from having a high quantity of low development Eyalets. ################### # Interface ################### # Country - Fars is now pink. # Icons - Thalassocracy (Government Reform) now has a proper icon. # Unitmodels - Fixed typo in country colors that turned a lot of country unit models white. (Thanks for finding the solution [USER=540184]@Gunthah[/USER]) # Tooltips - Benefits from Celestial reforms no longer have a blank name in the country modifiers tab. - Fixed a tooltip error in the mission "Shield of Outremer" - Fixed an error that prevented the Divine Empire of Japan from granting the appropriate title of 'Tenno' to its rulers # Other - Fixed a typo in the description of the Portuguese achievement 'The Navigator'. ################### # Script ################### # Achievements - Fixed an issue that prevented the Forever Golden Achievement from being displayed as available to Castile for Golden Century or Domination owners - Aragonese missions are now properly cataloged towards the Forever Golden Achievement - The Achievement 'Big Blue Blob' now correctly highlights all non-French provinces in Europe - Fixed a few localization and requirement minor issues with 1.35 Achievements - Spain can now be diplomatically formed via 90 Republican Tradition or 100 Devotion so Aragon as a Peasant Republic can form it diplomatically. # Decisions - Forming England will now grant you the English Monarchy as long your tier 1 is not locked / your government is not locked. - The decision to form the Angevin Kingdom no longer requires you to have 25 provinces in the French region. - Forming Siam through the decision now requires Administrative Technology 20. # Events - Made the Yellow and Yangtze River floods less punishing. - English/British flavor events can now fire for the Angevin Kingdom too. - A Question of Faith event will no longer fire during the Shinto Christianity Incident. - The event 'Question of Faith' will also not fire during the Ikko Ikko and Neo-Confucianism incidents. - Hungary now has to be an independent country to be forced into a personal union under Austria. - Elective Monarchies now look for a Christian noble when the country is Christian itself. In other words, the House of Osman will no longer claim the Czech throne. - The Ottoman event 'The Ottoman Line of Succession' will now fire less frequently if you have already had this event with the same heir and will reduce its maluses for recurring instances of the event for the second option - Made it so if you choose to convert to Christianity via the Shinto incident event chain, you will always get the full Christian outcome (Land of the Christian Sun) - Revolutionary France will now properly be able to choose regarding the adoption of new national ideas upon embracing the Revolution in the event "The Storming of Bastille" - The Golden Bull Treaty event which subjugates the Pope for France, now also sets the Pope to start with much less Liberty Desire to account for Liberty Desire from Development - The event "Election of a New Ruler" for Elective Monarchies will now remove the heir if you decide to not elect your current ruler/heir. # Missions - The Qing mission 'Ten Grand Campaigns' now grants the necessary claims in the Burma region - Added proper highlighting for the Lower Burma area in the 'Campaign in Burma' mission for Qing in Domination - Adjusted the mission Campaign in Burma for Domination's Qing, to require 25 provinces in Burma, instead of certain set areas - Added Random New World triggers for 2 French missions - The mission "A Realm of Chivalry" now requires 100k troops killed in total instead of 20k troops killed in a single battle. - The Emperor of China mission Shengshi & Zhishi now has simplified requirements and rewards - The mission "Seize France's Throne" now grants permanent claim on the areas of Britanny, Burgundy, Picardy, Lorraine, and Provence. - Added dynamic province highlighting for the French mission 'Indian Dominance - Added a new and improved version of the 'Conduct Population Census' to better reflect and display the +1 Monthly Administrative Power granted by the Reform Civil Registration mission of the Emperor of China. - Added a new version of the Expand Palace Bureaucracy to better reflect its empowered version granted by the Cornerstone of an Empire mission - Added alternative triggers for French colonial missions if Random New World is active - The Angevin mission will no longer request you to discover Canada and this is already covered when you colonize North America. - Added an easier to understand tooltip to the "Mainland Alliances" British mission. - Fixed an issue that made it unclear that you can't cheese the upgrade of your Centers of Trade in the Swedish mission tree. - Added a sneaky missing bracket at the very end of the DOM_Spain_Missions file - The Brandenburg mission 'Construct the Kiel Canal' now properly grants access to the Canal even before Tech 22 and grants a supplementary bonus to your treasury - Fixed a trigger for a Revolutionary France mission - Added the Toulon Dockyard modifier to the correct province, for the Aragonese mission. - Fixed an issue that fired the failure event for the conquest of Franconia for Domination's Brandenburg mission - Fixed an error that prevented the Japanese Divine Empire from being granted - Daimyo missions now have alternative requirements other than "Is Japan" to allow Domination players to complete the mission tree before forming Japan. - The Spanish mission 'New Capital' no longer highlights every single capital everywhere. - The Mission 'Holy See Politics' now properly scopes to the capital of the Papal States. - The modifier "Religious Stability" from the English mission "Piety of the State" now increases Tolerance of true faith by 0.5 and Yearly Patriarch Authority by +0.5. - The Russian mission "Break the Tatar Yoke" has now a secondary condition that allows you to get rid of the Tatar Yoke modifier if you have 85% Warscore. - Fixed an issue with the Angevin mission "Settle in America" which tells you to colonize Canada instead of colonizing the New World. - Fixed an error that prevented 'A New Buddha' from granting a new mission for people without other DLCs other than Domination. - Fixed a wrong scope in the Fortify the Coast mission for Chinese minors, Qing and Ming. - Adjusted the displayed tooltip reward for the Toulon mission of France, to reflect the actual reward granted - Reordered the triggers for the 'Kingdoms of Spain' for better visibility and fixed an error associated with its reward - Added a missing claim for Malacca in the Portuguese missions - The modifier 'Reformed Haijin Policy' now has a proper modifier scoped to the country level - Added a missing claim for the Majeerteen area in the proper mission reward - The Shinto Warriors modifier now grants 0.5 flat Land Morale instead of 0.1 - The Portuguese mission "The Cape of Good Hope" now grants a claim on Zanzibar - Fixed an error that gave breakaway Chinese warlords 100 Monarch points instead of 150 in their Independence mission - Removed the positive gain of inflation from the modifier "Silver House of China" granted by the Single Whip Law mission - Fixed an issue between the Occitania and Provence missions for Aragon - Fixed an issue that prevent Qing from completing the "Dominate the Jurchen Tribes" missions due to the latter requiring "Be Manchu" - Fixed an issue that prevented some based game Qing missions from appearing without Domination - Reduced the refunding of corruption granted by the "The Eight Banners" mission available to Jurchen tribes, Manchu, and Qing - Provence will now always accept the subjugation offer by France in "Provenal Question" however they will not be instantly integrated by the "A House United" special mission reward. - Swapped the icons of Fecho del Imperio and Universal Monarchy for consistency's sake - Readded the mission "Prepare Reconquista" for Castile, so they can have claims to Granada again - Fixed an issue regarding Golden Century Castilian missions appearing in the wrong place # Modifiers - The Single Whip Law privilege now offers a lot more national tax and a lot less increased inflation to make it more appealing - Replaced both instances of flat land morale for Japan and Portugal with percentage ones # Setup - Fixed an error that allowed the estate privilege "Factionalist Nobility" to be momentarily visible for Castile even without the Domination DLC - Fixed a missing national idea for Orleans - Adjusted the Banners-related Celestial reform. It now requires 15% Cavalry Combat Ability OR 25 Banners and grants 10% Ratio instead of 50% as well as 5% Cavalry Combat Ability - Fixed an issue that prevented the Struggle for Royal Power from firing for the players who do not own Lions of the North # Other - Changed the icon for "Control over Monetary Policy" so it no longer gets confused with "Indebted to the Burghers". - The decadence bar now also mentions that it in- and decreases by stability. - The Decadence description now mentions that the ruler's victories and defeats decrease and increase Decadence. - The privileges regarding liberating or enserfing the peasants will now block government reforms which would remove the Nobles or Burghers estate. - All countries which can get their name or color changed have now proper access to decisions that allow them to restore their original color and name. Former Eyalets will now also restore their original names and color. - Fixed an issue with the Tier 5 Tercios Government reform being instantly abolished but remaining available. - The Expanded Black Army reform is now correctly registered in tier 5. - The event "The Franco-Ottoman Alliance" can no longer trigger when France and the Ottomans are at war with each other. - Fixed a wrong scope for the Emperor of China for Chinese Warlord missions - Fixed the Spanish localization of a few missions. - Estate Privilege 'Support the Brahmins' now is only available to Muslim countries. - Fixed a tooltip error with the mission 'Wine Monopolies'. - Fixed some issues with the German localization. - Improved the descriptions of some estate privileges. - The Franciscan order now grants base production instead of base manpower - Fixed one of the canals having the wrong development cost reduction - The event "The Franco-Ottoman Alliance" can no longer trigger when France and the Ottomans are at war with each other. - Fixed a wrong scope for the Emperor of China for Chinese Warlord missions - Forming Siam through the decision now requires Administrative Technology 20. ################### # Bugfixes ################### - Fixed null subject type crash - Fixed no federal constitution advancement crash - Fixed crash not finding GUI for a dialog - Fixed issue with GOG Windows build not shutting down when restarting at the exit to the main menu. - Russia can no longer have 5 different variations of serfdom active at the same time. - Removed confusing triggers for the Plot of the Harem disaster. - The estate agenda "Expand Port Infrastructure" is now properly auto-completed by the Burgher's privilege action instead of the one of the Clergy. - Damarwulan has enough of his imposters. Fake Damarwulans will no longer count in won battles for the Damarwulan event. - Buying subject upgrades for your colonies will no longer grant you admin power instead of costing it. - Fixed an oversight that would have allowed the Mamluks to integrate way too large vassals when they get turned into an Eyalet by the Ottomans. - Fixed a missing localization for the trigger "has_unembraced_institution" - Fixed a bug where under rare DLC circumstances you would see your ability to form Trade Leagues and Trade Cities twice as a Veche Republic. - Fixed a bug where the Russian Empire (and its Republican equivalent) would only give 0.05 Yearly Absolutism instead of 0.5 Yearly Absolutism. - It is no longer possible as Russia to have your peasants be enserfed and liberated at the same time. - Building and destroying farming estates will no longer increase your development under rare conditions. The "Expand the Fortifications" modifier is now properly removed from a province with a level 2 fort if said fort gets destroyed. - The mission reward for the Ottoman mission "The Cradle of Civilization" lasts now for 30 years instead of 29 years and 265 days. - Fixed a bug that prevented Anglois countries to benefit from Stonehenge. - Fixed a bug where the Gokaido Reform and the Reform the Samuari government reforms would not show up in Japanese countries. - Fixed the Decadence jumps from winning or losing battles with your monarch. - Renamed the second add_stability_or_adm_power to add_stability_or_adm_power_per_stab to avoid overloading a single scripted effect. - Removed an unnecessary base_monthly_growht from the Mercenary militarization. - Removed the secondary_religion_group scripted trigger as it is no longer needed. - Removed an unnecessary made_monthly_growht from the Mercenary militarization. - The Order of Avis can now be established when you accept the Portuguese culture. - Fixed a display error that showed Russia paying nothing for modernization ideas. - Fixed an issue where Monthly Innovativeness gain was colored in red even if the gain was positive. - The parliament issue "Fund an Industrial Project" now actually constructs a manufactory in the province. - The parliament issue "Acts of Representation" now properly reduces the liberty desire of your subjects instead of your own. - Fixed an issue where the rewards were swapped for the mission "The Asian Trade" for Novgorod-Russia. - The Russian Rule ability no longer resets completely to 0 for the diplomatic and military abilities when a new ruler comes to power. - Forming England and following the Angevin Path will no longer allow you to complete the mission "The Angevin Kingdom" twice. - Fixed a missing localization for the trigger "has_unembraced_institution" - Fixed some minor localization issues. - Fixed the missing diplomatic action which allows you to call Trade Protectorates into your wars as advertised. - Mission or event effects which distribute Development for provinces of a certain area do this now the defined amount of times. In other words: Missions like "Establish the Pashas" for the Ottomans now give properly 10 development instead of randomly giving more or less. - The event "Competition with Nobility" now reduces properly the influence of the Janissaries if you pick the third option. - Events for Russia and England / GB which define a new heir or ruler now check that the country is not a junior partner in a personal union. - Elective Monarchies can no longer trigger the event for the Imperial Authority to gain twice should they be re-elected as the Emperor.

Greetings everyone! Today we released patch 1.35.2 for Europa Universalis IV! Today we released patch 1.35.2 for Europa Universalis IV! So instead of our regular Dev Diary we will treat you to these fine patchnotes. As always, please report any issues in our bug report forum or submit a support ticket. Thank you! ################### # Gamebalance ################### # Governments - The government reform "French Feudalism" no longer needs 50% of Crownland to integrate subjects. Instead, the "Seize Land" effect has now a counter which allows you to start the integration of an appanage. In other words: to integrate Orleans you would need to seize land and start the integration. For integrating Armagnac you would have to seize land again. You can save up the seize land charges so you can integrate all appanages later at the same time. - Modernization has now a base decay of 0.3 per month. - Increased the yearly manpower gain from the "Mobilize New Order Regiments" interaction from 0.3 to 0.75 for the Russian Empire and its republican equivalent. - Increased the yearly manpower gain from the "Equip Streltsy" interaction from 0.2 to 0.3 for the Russian Principality and from 0.1 (which was a number bug) to 0.6 Years of Manpower. - The elective monarchy is now mutually exclusive with States General # Other - The decadence mission "End the Eyalet Rebellions" now requires you to have 70 Absolutism if you are in the Age of Absolutism or Revolutions. "The Eyalet Rebellion" will now remove 100 Absolutism when fired. - Added an alternative trigger to the decadence disaster "Restructure Administration" which no longer forces you to have 2 Admin Idea Groups filled to complete this mission. - The decadence disaster "End the Eyalet Rebellion" will now request 60 provinces in the Europe continent instead of 50 in Western Europe specifically. - The Plot of the Harem disaster no longer reduces the stats of your heirs by 1/1/1. - The decadence event "Corruption of the Court" now costs 0.1 years of income instead of 0.2. - The mission reward of the decadence mission "The Eyalet Crisis" now lasts for 30 years instead of 19750 days. - The decadence mission "Handle the Janissaries" no longer requires you to make 9 Mil power per month. - Severely tuned down the Janissaries spawned from events of the Janissary Coup disaster. - Eyalets now count as your border, meaning you can core provinces next to them. - Missions that require you to have some idea groups of a category filled out have now alternatives. Also decreased the number of needed military and admin idea groups from 3/2 to 2/1 idea groups needed. - The Janissary Coup disaster now increases the Janissary Influence by 10% instead of 30% and Janissary Max Privileges by 3. It no longer decreases the Loyalty Equilibrium. - The events of the Internal Power Struggle disaster now have a lower increase of their penalties. Additionally, they no longer decrease the stability to their fullest strength. - The estate privileges for the Janissaries from the Janissary Coup disaster now increase influence by 10% instead of 20%. - The English Parliament Issue "Army Reform Acts" increases Army Tradition by 5 and Army Professionalism by 0.5% instead of 15 and 1% respectively. - The English Parliament Issue "Man-of-War Acts" increases Navy Tradition by 5 instead of 15. - The English Parliament Issue "Maritime Discipline Acts" adds 20 Military Power instead of 50. - The English Parliament Issue "The Black Act" will now increase stability by 1 instead of 3. - Restored Siamese ideas partially. They have their old traditions and ambition back as well as their cavalry combat ability. - Takeda ideas now grant proper Army Professionalism. - Restored Siamese ideas partially. They have their old traditions and ambition back as well as their cavalry combat ability. - Eyalets and Core Eyalets have now -5k Manpower and -5 Land Force Limit to reduce the benefits from having a high quantity of low development Eyalets. ################### # Interface ################### # Country - Fars is now pink. # Icons - Thalassocracy (Government Reform) now has a proper icon. # Unitmodels - Fixed typo in country colors that turned a lot of country unit models white. (Thanks for finding the solution @Gunthah) # Tooltips - Benefits from Celestial reforms no longer have a blank name in the country modifiers tab. - Fixed a tooltip error in the mission "Shield of Outremer" - Fixed an error that prevented the Divine Empire of Japan from granting the appropriate title of 'Tenno' to its rulers # Other - Fixed a typo in the description of the Portuguese achievement 'The Navigator'. ################### # Script ################### # Achievements - Fixed an issue that prevented the Forever Golden Achievement from being displayed as available to Castile for Golden Century or Domination owners - Aragonese missions are now properly cataloged towards the Forever Golden Achievement - The Achievement 'Big Blue Blob' now correctly highlights all non-French provinces in Europe - Fixed a few localization and requirement minor issues with 1.35 Achievements - Spain can now be diplomatically formed via 90 Republican Tradition or 100 Devotion so Aragon as a Peasant Republic can form it diplomatically. # Decisions - Forming England will now grant you the English Monarchy as long your tier 1 is not locked / your government is not locked. - The decision to form the Angevin Kingdom no longer requires you to have 25 provinces in the French region. - Forming Siam through the decision now requires Administrative Technology 20. # Events - Made the Yellow and Yangtze River floods less punishing. - English/British flavor events can now fire for the Angevin Kingdom too. - A Question of Faith event will no longer fire during the Shinto Christianity Incident. - The event 'Question of Faith' will also not fire during the Ikko Ikko and Neo-Confucianism incidents. - Hungary now has to be an independent country to be forced into a personal union under Austria. - Elective Monarchies now look for a Christian noble when the country is Christian itself. In other words, the House of Osman will no longer claim the Czech throne. - The Ottoman event 'The Ottoman Line of Succession' will now fire less frequently if you have already had this event with the same heir and will reduce its maluses for recurring instances of the event for the second option - Made it so if you choose to convert to Christianity via the Shinto incident event chain, you will always get the full Christian outcome (Land of the Christian Sun) - Revolutionary France will now properly be able to choose regarding the adoption of new national ideas upon embracing the Revolution in the event "The Storming of Bastille" - The Golden Bull Treaty event which subjugates the Pope for France, now also sets the Pope to start with much less Liberty Desire to account for Liberty Desire from Development - The event "Election of a New Ruler" for Elective Monarchies will now remove the heir if you decide to not elect your current ruler/heir. # Missions - The Qing mission 'Ten Grand Campaigns' now grants the necessary claims in the Burma region - Added proper highlighting for the Lower Burma area in the 'Campaign in Burma' mission for Qing in Domination - Adjusted the mission Campaign in Burma for Domination's Qing, to require 25 provinces in Burma, instead of certain set areas - Added Random New World triggers for 2 French missions - The mission "A Realm of Chivalry" now requires 100k troops killed in total instead of 20k troops killed in a single battle. - The Emperor of China mission Shengshi & Zhishi now has simplified requirements and rewards - The mission "Seize France's Throne" now grants permanent claim on the areas of Britanny, Burgundy, Picardy, Lorraine, and Provence. - Added dynamic province highlighting for the French mission 'Indian Dominance - Added a new and improved version of the 'Conduct Population Census' to better reflect and display the +1 Monthly Administrative Power granted by the Reform Civil Registration mission of the Emperor of China. - Added a new version of the Expand Palace Bureaucracy to better reflect its empowered version granted by the Cornerstone of an Empire mission - Added alternative triggers for French colonial missions if Random New World is active - The Angevin mission will no longer request you to discover Canada and this is already covered when you colonize North America. - Added an easier to understand tooltip to the "Mainland Alliances" British mission. - Fixed an issue that made it unclear that you can't cheese the upgrade of your Centers of Trade in the Swedish mission tree. - Added a sneaky missing bracket at the very end of the DOM_Spain_Missions file - The Brandenburg mission 'Construct the Kiel Canal' now properly grants access to the Canal even before Tech 22 and grants a supplementary bonus to your treasury - Fixed a trigger for a Revolutionary France mission - Added the Toulon Dockyard modifier to the correct province, for the Aragonese mission. - Fixed an issue that fired the failure event for the conquest of Franconia for Domination's Brandenburg mission - Fixed an error that prevented the Japanese Divine Empire from being granted - Daimyo missions now have alternative requirements other than "Is Japan" to allow Domination players to complete the mission tree before forming Japan. - The Spanish mission 'New Capital' no longer highlights every single capital everywhere. - The Mission 'Holy See Politics' now properly scopes to the capital of the Papal States. - The modifier "Religious Stability" from the English mission "Piety of the State" now increases Tolerance of true faith by 0.5 and Yearly Patriarch Authority by +0.5. - The Russian mission "Break the Tatar Yoke" has now a secondary condition that allows you to get rid of the Tatar Yoke modifier if you have 85% Warscore. - Fixed an issue with the Angevin mission "Settle in America" which tells you to colonize Canada instead of colonizing the New World. - Fixed an error that prevented 'A New Buddha' from granting a new mission for people without other DLCs other than Domination. - Fixed a wrong scope in the Fortify the Coast mission for Chinese minors, Qing and Ming. - Adjusted the displayed tooltip reward for the Toulon mission of France, to reflect the actual reward granted - Reordered the triggers for the 'Kingdoms of Spain' for better visibility and fixed an error associated with its reward - Added a missing claim for Malacca in the Portuguese missions - The modifier 'Reformed Haijin Policy' now has a proper modifier scoped to the country level - Added a missing claim for the Majeerteen area in the proper mission reward - The Shinto Warriors modifier now grants 0.5 flat Land Morale instead of 0.1 - The Portuguese mission "The Cape of Good Hope" now grants a claim on Zanzibar - Fixed an error that gave breakaway Chinese warlords 100 Monarch points instead of 150 in their Independence mission - Removed the positive gain of inflation from the modifier "Silver House of China" granted by the Single Whip Law mission - Fixed an issue between the Occitania and Provence missions for Aragon - Fixed an issue that prevent Qing from completing the "Dominate the Jurchen Tribes" missions due to the latter requiring "Be Manchu" - Fixed an issue that prevented some based game Qing missions from appearing without Domination - Reduced the refunding of corruption granted by the "The Eight Banners" mission available to Jurchen tribes, Manchu, and Qing - Provence will now always accept the subjugation offer by France in "Provenal Question" however they will not be instantly integrated by the "A House United" special mission reward. - Swapped the icons of Fecho del Imperio and Universal Monarchy for consistency's sake - Readded the mission "Prepare Reconquista" for Castile, so they can have claims to Granada again - Fixed an issue regarding Golden Century Castilian missions appearing in the wrong place # Modifiers - The Single Whip Law privilege now offers a lot more national tax and a lot less increased inflation to make it more appealing - Replaced both instances of flat land morale for Japan and Portugal with percentage ones # Setup - Fixed an error that allowed the estate privilege "Factionalist Nobility" to be momentarily visible for Castile even without the Domination DLC - Fixed a missing national idea for Orleans - Adjusted the Banners-related Celestial reform. It now requires 15% Cavalry Combat Ability OR 25 Banners and grants 10% Ratio instead of 50% as well as 5% Cavalry Combat Ability - Fixed an issue that prevented the Struggle for Royal Power from firing for the players who do not own Lions of the North # Other - Changed the icon for "Control over Monetary Policy" so it no longer gets confused with "Indebted to the Burghers". - The decadence bar now also mentions that it in- and decreases by stability. - The Decadence description now mentions that the ruler's victories and defeats decrease and increase Decadence. - The privileges regarding liberating or enserfing the peasants will now block government reforms which would remove the Nobles or Burghers estate. - All countries which can get their name or color changed have now proper access to decisions that allow them to restore their original color and name. Former Eyalets will now also restore their original names and color. - Fixed an issue with the Tier 5 Tercios Government reform being instantly abolished but remaining available. - The Expanded Black Army reform is now correctly registered in tier 5. - The event "The Franco-Ottoman Alliance" can no longer trigger when France and the Ottomans are at war with each other. - Fixed a wrong scope for the Emperor of China for Chinese Warlord missions - Fixed the Spanish localization of a few missions. - Estate Privilege 'Support the Brahmins' now is only available to Muslim countries. - Fixed a tooltip error with the mission 'Wine Monopolies'. - Fixed some issues with the German localization. - Improved the descriptions of some estate privileges. - The Franciscan order now grants base production instead of base manpower - Fixed one of the canals having the wrong development cost reduction - The event "The Franco-Ottoman Alliance" can no longer trigger when France and the Ottomans are at war with each other. - Fixed a wrong scope for the Emperor of China for Chinese Warlord missions - Forming Siam through the decision now requires Administrative Technology 20. ################### # Bugfixes ################### - Fixed null subject type crash - Fixed no federal constitution advancement crash - Fixed crash not finding GUI for a dialog - Fixed issue with GOG Windows build not shutting down when restarting at the exit to the main menu. - Russia can no longer have 5 different variations of serfdom active at the same time. - Removed confusing triggers for the Plot of the Harem disaster. - The estate agenda "Expand Port Infrastructure" is now properly auto-completed by the Burgher's privilege action instead of the one of the Clergy. - Damarwulan has enough of his imposters. Fake Damarwulans will no longer count in won battles for the Damarwulan event. - Buying subject upgrades for your colonies will no longer grant you admin power instead of costing it. - Fixed an oversight that would have allowed the Mamluks to integrate way too large vassals when they get turned into an Eyalet by the Ottomans. - Fixed a missing localization for the trigger "has_unembraced_institution" - Fixed a bug where under rare DLC circumstances you would see your ability to form Trade Leagues and Trade Cities twice as a Veche Republic. - Fixed a bug where the Russian Empire (and its Republican equivalent) would only give 0.05 Yearly Absolutism instead of 0.5 Yearly Absolutism. - It is no longer possible as Russia to have your peasants be enserfed and liberated at the same time. - Building and destroying farming estates will no longer increase your development under rare conditions. The "Expand the Fortifications" modifier is now properly removed from a province with a level 2 fort if said fort gets destroyed. - The mission reward for the Ottoman mission "The Cradle of Civilization" lasts now for 30 years instead of 29 years and 265 days. - Fixed a bug that prevented Anglois countries to benefit from Stonehenge. - Fixed a bug where the Gokaido Reform and the Reform the Samuari government reforms would not show up in Japanese countries. - Fixed the Decadence jumps from winning or losing battles with your monarch. - Renamed the second add_stability_or_adm_power to add_stability_or_adm_power_per_stab to avoid overloading a single scripted effect. - Removed an unnecessary base_monthly_growht from the Mercenary militarization. - Removed the secondary_religion_group scripted trigger as it is no longer needed. - Removed an unnecessary made_monthly_growht from the Mercenary militarization. - The Order of Avis can now be established when you accept the Portuguese culture. - Fixed a display error that showed Russia paying nothing for modernization ideas. - Fixed an issue where Monthly Innovativeness gain was colored in red even if the gain was positive. - The parliament issue "Fund an Industrial Project" now actually constructs a manufactory in the province. - The parliament issue "Acts of Representation" now properly reduces the liberty desire of your subjects instead of your own. - Fixed an issue where the rewards were swapped for the mission "The Asian Trade" for Novgorod-Russia. - The Russian Rule ability no longer resets completely to 0 for the diplomatic and military abilities when a new ruler comes to power. - Forming England and following the Angevin Path will no longer allow you to complete the mission "The Angevin Kingdom" twice. - Fixed a missing localization for the trigger "has_unembraced_institution" - Fixed some minor localization issues. - Fixed the missing diplomatic action which allows you to call Trade Protectorates into your wars as advertised. - Mission or event effects which distribute Development for provinces of a certain area do this now the defined amount of times. In other words: Missions like "Establish the Pashas" for the Ottomans now give properly 10 development instead of randomly giving more or less. - The event "Competition with Nobility" now reduces properly the influence of the Janissaries if you pick the third option. - Events for Russia and England / GB which define a new heir or ruler now check that the country is not a junior partner in a personal union. - Elective Monarchies can no longer trigger the event for the Imperial Authority to gain twice should they be re-elected as the Emperor.

Hello everyone! Im Kuba, Release Engineer & Interim QA Coordinator here at Paradox Tinto and today Id like to talk about issues that are affecting our community and further plan how to deal with them. As you are aware, shortly after releasing the Domination DLC we realized we had some issues that affected some of our players, so we released a quick patch to alleviate those issues. With every hotfix that we make for our game, we have to limit the changes to the most pressing issues that slipped the release build testing. We want to react quickly to the bugs but we also do not want to introduce more issues into your games, as with short development time, bugs like to sneak in. That being said, we immediately focused on making a full patch that will address many of your issues. For an upcoming patch, which will be released in early May, we focus primarily on:

• Stability: We are actively addressing the latest crashes that have been introduced in 1.35, especially for the players using the modded version of the game. Since the launch date, we have been gathering crash reports from you, and organizing and prioritizing them. So if you encounter any crashes make sure to send us the report so we can look into a fix Gameplay and balance: We gathered the problems that the community reported, investigated the issues we saw on social media, and attempted to fix as many as we could.

Greetings everyone! Today we released hotfix for 1.35.1 Ottomans addressing some issues that surfaced since the release of 1.35. Save games should hopefully be unaffected - but if you have the possibility to start a new game that is always recommended. PLEASE NOTE THAT 1.34 SAVES WILL NOT BE COMPATIBLE WITH 1.35! (More info here!) As always, please report any issues in our bug report forum or submit a support ticket. Thank you! ############################################################# ######################## 1.35.1.0 ########################### ############################################################# ################### # Gamebalance ################### # War & Peace - Fixed naval damage calculations. ################### # Script ################### # Missions - Fixed an error that prevented players from accessing base-game Jurchen missions while owning Mandate of Heaven. - Fixed an error with Emperor of China missions requiring content that is only exclusive to Ming (Haijin mission, Single Whip National Idea). - Fixed an error that prevented players from progressing down the Aragonese/Spanish mission tree if they owned Golden Century but lacked Rule Britannia. - Removed duplicate requirement from Emperor of China missions that asked for 95 Mandate twice. # Setup - Increased to 40 from 25 the maximum number of owned provinces that France can have to be eligible for integration via the Parliament Act to Form the Angevin realm. ################### # Bugfixes ################### - Fixed CTD caused by disabling alerts which do not exist in the game. - Fixed AI asking other AI for a 0 Trust for 0 Favors. - Fixed so the game doesn't switch away from the main theme in the main menu. - Fixed CTD caused by revoking a seat when a parliament debate is ongoing. - Fixed crashes related to mods modifying the music player. - Fixed crash in faction view due to listbox not existing.

The Greatest Powers Are Yours to Rule in EU4: Domination Build the great empires of the early modern world in new ways with Europa Universalis IV: Domination, available today. The latest expansion pack for Paradox Interactives flagship historical grand strategy game adds a wagon-load of new choices, missions, and historical flavor to a game already bursting with endless possibilities. Centered on the most popular and powerful nations in Europa Universalis IV, Domination revisits and revises once familiar pathways while adding more historical context and challenges to great nations like China, England, France and more. In some cases, branching missions will force you to make a choice that will irrevocably change the course of your nation, focusing your priorities in a particular direction. [previewyoutube=x9tkAlvUXQk;full][/previewyoutube] Europa Universalis IV: Domination includes new national mission trees and features for:

• The Ottoman Empire: A revised conquest tree with new rewards for pushing Ottoman dominance, including expansion through the new Eyalet system, and new internal changes, such as the new Janissary estate, the new Ottoman Decadence mechanic, and the Ottoman Power Struggle disaster.
• China: Different mission trees for the Han Ming and invader empires like the Qing. Choose between expansion and Inward Perfection, and counter the power of the Eunuchs to build a more stable empire.
• Japan: Unite Japan as you deal with the power of the Shogun and the independent Daimyos. Choose to open the country to foreign influence or keep it isolated, while deciding upon different paths of expansion and reform.
• Russia: Free your country of the Tatar yoke, and transform it into a Great Empire. Choose the path of Peters reforms to modernize the state, so your mission tree as well as your mechanics will change and evolve as the game progresses. Use the power of Cossacks and Streltsy to expand your Empire to East and West.
• Spain: Expanded mission trees for Castile and Aragon, with different paths to form Spain, a new mechanic available for the new System of Councils government, and decisions about the Army and Navy to get the mighty Tercios and Spanish Armada.
• France: Fight the end of the Hundred Years War, centralize France into an absolute monarchy while dealing with the Wars of Religion, expand into Italy and the Holy Roman Empire, and lead the Revolution through an expanded mission tree.
• Great Britain: Separate paths for either a British Empire or an Angevin Britain, as well as a deeper internal gameplay, with unique features for the English Parliament and changes to the English Civil War disaster.
• Minor nations: Mission changes, new government mechanics and expanded flavor for Prussia, Portugal and Korea.

Please note that save files from 1.34 will NOT work with 1.35! (more information here) This is a selection of changes coming in 1.35 - please visit our official forum for the full changelog! - Added 3 new sets of Ideas (Infrastructure, Court, and Mercenary), and further rebalanced all the Idea Groups. - Added 27 new events related to the new idea groups. - Added a new Tier of Government Reforms, Related to Military Doctrines, with 7 reforms. - Added 7 new Estate Privileges, to estates that did not have a privilege that exempts them from seizing land. - Added more Ruler, General and Admiral personalities. - Added 7 new Parliament bribes and National Bribes, which are more expensive versions of bribes, but cover multiple parliament seats at a time, to Common Sense DLC. - Added 21 new Imperial Reforms, 21 new Decrees, and reworked special Age Abilities for Mandate of Heaven DLC. - Added 11 new Naval Doctrines to Rule Britannia DLC. - Added 11 New Iberian Holy Orders to Golden Century DLC. - Added the Latin Empire as a tag which can be formed through the Crusader mission tree to Emperor DLC. - Added 7 new Great Projects to Leviathan DLC. - Added 9 new Achievements. - Re-Added the Trade Protectorate subject type, available for countries that confirmed Thalassocracy. - Added a peace option that allows you to annex a migrative native country forcefully. - Added 6 new artillery units. - Added 27 new flavor events for the Ottomans. - Added 5 new flavor events for Russia. - Added 2 new flavor events for England / Great Britain. ################### # Gamebalance ################### # Economy - Expanded Temple rights no longer apply to a subject if the Overlord has the reform and the subject in question does not. - Expanded Infrastructure decreases the development cost now by 15% instead of 25%. - Buffed Mercantilism. Increased the Embargo Efficiency from 50% to 100% and the Burghers / Vaishyas Loyalty Equilibrium from 5% to 10% at 100 Mercantilism. - Local Unrest now decreases Local Tax Modifier by 2% per 1 point of unrest. - Province Tax now gives -2% Local Regiment Recruitment Time, -1% Local Great Project Upgrade Time, -1% Local Construction Time and +2% Local Institution Spread. - Inflation now also increases the cost of missionary maintenance, upgrading a great project, embracing an institution, adjusting colonial subjects, upgrading centers of trade and trade company investments. - Changed the color of Fars to mint green. # Governments - Parliament seats now give +10% Local Sailors Modifier and +15% Local Tax Modifier. Production Efficiency and Manpower are untouched. - Granting Parliament Seats now reduce Absolutism by 2 instead of 3. There is no difference in Absolutism loss when Parliament Seats are granted manually or automatically. - Every member of a Trade League gives its leader +5% Trade Steering, +2 Naval Forcelimit, +1k Sailors, +1k Manpower and +1 Land Forcelimit. - Militarization gives now -0.5 Monthly Militarization, basically adding decay to the militarization. Being at war gives +0.1 Monthly Militarization, being at peace gives -0.1, and every point of War Exhaustion gives. - The Sich Rada can now select Horde Ideas and have a 25% Special Unit Force limit. - Sich Rada can now have estates. Cossacks estate included. - Formalize the Right to Re-election and Dutch Republic are now mutually exclusive because the latter could not enforce a "re-election". - Native countries no longer gain from their government any buffs to their Land Maintenance Modifiers, Global Regiment Costs and Manpower Recovery Speed. - A Catholic Prussia and Custom nations can now maintain the Prussian Monarchy T1. - The Religious Tolerance state edict available from government reform "Regional Councils" gives now -100% Local Religious Unity Contribution instead of 50%. - The government reform "Maintain Balance of Power" now increases the All Estate Loyalty modifier by 10% instead of 5% and grants +1 Diplomat. # Religion - The Protestant Church Aspect "Priests May Marry" now gives -15% Same Religion Advisor Cost instead of Clergy Influence. - Declaring wars no longer affects Piety. Every new ruler now starts at 0 Piety. - Negative Piety now gives -10% Idea Cost instead of 20% Fort Defense. - Trade Companies now reduce the local missionary strength by 20% instead of 200%. - Being the Curia Controller now gives the bonuses of the "Send Papal Legate". - Coptic gives now +15% Fort Defense instead of +10%, All Buddhistic faiths now give +2 Tolerance to Heretics instead of +1. Shinto gives now +2 Tolerance to Heretics instead of +1 to Heathens. - Reworked the Reformed's fervor aspects. They have now a cost of 8 Fervor and have stronger modifiers. Added a fourth "Diplomacy Fervor" aspect. - The Fervor Aspects now cost 8 instead of 5 and have a maintenance cost of 8 instead of 5. Fervor points now decrease construction cost by -10%, Stability Cost by -10%, Years of Separatism by -5 and increase Improve Relations by +10%. The Stability focuses now gives -25% Spy Action Cost instead of -10% Construction Cost. Added a new diplomacy fervor aspect which increases Diplomatic Reputation by +2, Improve Relations by 25% and All Estate Equilibrium by 10%. # Units - Cossacks now have +15% Shock Damage instead of +10. - Cawa units now cost 2 Mil Power instead of 5, spawn with 50% Regiment Strength and 10% Morale (was the other way around before). Cawas now have -5% Shock Damage received, -50% Land Attrition and +50% Reinforcement Speed. - Janissaries now start with 10% of their manpower strength, and 10% of their Morale. Additionally, they have now a +50% Assault Fort Ability and +50% Army Drill Gain Modifier instead of a +100% Army Drill Gain Modifier and 100% Reinforcement Cost. - Cossacks no longer increase stability cost when used. - The Streltsy unit itself no longer increases stability cost and has +10 Fire Damage, -10 Fire Damage Received and +15% Land Maintenance. # War & Peace - Doubled the negative effects of Devastation. - Blockaded provinces now have -100% Local Trade Power instead of -50%. This has been done so market buildings can no longer counteract it. - Call for Peace now increases War Exhaustion by a rate of 0.005 instead of 0.008. - Rebalanced the unit pips. Nerfed Aboriginal and Pacific units, fixed issues where African / Muslim units got worse with better tech than their previous unit type, nerfed early-game Anatolian units and rebalanced some Indian units. - The "Inspirational Leader" General Trait now gives +5% Land Morale atop the Army Morale Recovery Speed. - The "Born in the Saddle" General Trait now gives a +100% Cav to Infantry Ratio. However, it requires also a 30% Cav fraction in the army instead of 20%. # Other - You can now change your rivals every 5 years instead of 25 years. - Native Aggressiveness decreases Local Colonist Placement Chance by 1% for each aggressiveness. - Tropical provinces now reduce local development costs by 5% instead of 10%. ################### # Script ################### # Achievements - The achievement "Baltic Crusader" no longer requires you to colonize two provinces or so in the Urals. (Note: apologies for not having this fixed earlier). - The achievement of "Master of India" can be completed when a subject owns all of India instead too. - The achievement "For the Emperor" can now be completed even if you play as a released vassal. It was never intended to be blocked this way anyway. # Decisions - Confirming Thalossacracy now unlocks a new government reform for tier 8 which allows you to establish Trade Protectorates. - The "Rein in Italy" has now a better tooltip, explaining what you are supposed to do. - The decision "Formalize Separation of Powers" is now available to every country with a parliament. The modifier "Separation of Power" now also gives a +3% Backing Chance for Parliament Issues. - The piety gained from Muslim decisions is now negative when you have negative Piety already. - Forming Egypt will no longer force you into a kingdom rank if you are already an empire. - Junior partners can adopt the Hussite faith via decision, their ruler will remain their overlord's religion. - Gaining the Sich Rada from the decision no longer blocks the decision. This means you will always have the opportunity to regain this reform. - Decisions that change your government will no longer remove reform levels. # Events - Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba is now of whatever culture you are. - Nahuatl Event 'Pochteca Traders Harassed' no longer grants a CB that lasts 152 years. - You can now see the "X Institution has Spawned" event even if you can't see its origin. - Granting Malta to the Knights will now give access to the San Juan Holy Order for owners of the Golden Century DLC. - The Nordic countries will no longer flip back to Catholicism when they proceed in their mission trees. - The Ethiopian AI will no longer move its capital through an event to a province that has not been fully colonized yet. - The Sisters Takeover for Orleans now gives a unique Tier 1 government reform. - The event for unifying the HRE will no longer create a grocery list that tries to escape the screen. - The event "A Helping Hand" now costs max 500 Ducats when you decide to get an advisor. - The event "The Maid of $PROVINCE$" no longer removes legitimacy for the PU overlord. Also, the general generated has now 50 Army Tradition and is always female. - Added an event to the mission tree of Finland which allows you to change your name to one of the Finish Empires. - Added an event to the Kongo mission tree which asks you if you want to become a monarchy or stay as a tribe. - The event "Consultation of the Monasteries" gives now Karma scaled with the amount of Karma you have right now. As an example: if you are above 90 Karma you would lose 25, above 50 you lose 15, above 25 you lose 10 and otherwise you lose 5. Vice versa for negative Karma is also true. - Good Monsoons now give +20% Local Tax Modifier instead of -20% Local Dev Cost. - The event "The Agenda of the Diet" now supports up to 6 estates at the same time instead of just 3. - Added an event that fires when you dissolve the Holy Roman Empire. The events give now the 100 Prestige (which turn into Monarch Power when overflowing), 200 Splendor, and 25 Power Projection. - The event Event A Helping Hand will not fire if all owned great projects are already fully upgraded. # Ideas - Norse ideas no longer overwrite all of your ideas if you just happen to have the Norse culture and religion. - Ruthenian's ideas have been buffed. They have now 20% Manpower Recovery Speed and -10% Morale Damage Received in their traditions. Foreign Influence now gives +2 Number of Accepted Cultures and -25% Promote Culture Cost. Zaporizhian Cossacks now give +1 Privilege Slots to the Cossacks. Reuniting Rus gives now -a 10% Core Creation Cost and Birth of Russian Orthodoxy now increases Tolerance of True Faith by 2 and Yearly Patriarch Authority by 0.5. - All ideas which increase Land Forcelimit Modifiers by 33% have their value decreased to 25%. - Russia's ideas have been adjusted. Their tradition now gives -a 15% Core Creation Cost. Land of the Rus now gives -a 15% AE reduction. Life-long Conscription now increases the Land force limit by 33% instead of 50%. Abolishing the Mestnichestvo now decreases the Nobility's Influence by 10%. - Ideas that have a Free Leader have their ideas now altered. Traditions and Ambitions with the Free Leader have a new modifier replacing the leader one. Everywhere else a second idea has been added. - The English idea "Bill of Rights" now gives +1 Num of Parliament Issues. The English Ambition now gives +10% Morale for Navies. - Reworked Siamese ideas and nerfed their power level considerably. - Added +2 Artillery Shock to Smolensk's ideas. BOOM!. - The British ideas of "Merchant Navy" and "City Upon a Hill" have been combined into one. Instead of the "Merchant Navy" idea, GB now gets the "British Parliament" idea, giving -1 Global Unrest and +1 Number of available Issues. - Orisa's tradition now gives +10% Production Efficiency (previously +5%). - Adjusted the Ottoman ideas. They now have -25% CCR (previously -20%), +15% Global Tax (previously +10%), +10% Reform Progress Growth (new), -2 Global Unrest (replacing the -10% War Exhaustion Reduction Cost) and +0.5 Yearly Naval Tradition (new). - Qing's Core Creation Cost from its ideas has been buffed from 20% to 25% so it can keep up with Yuan. - Adjusted the French ideas. They now have -50% War Taxes Cost (in addition to +10% National tax), +15% Morale of Armies and +0.5 Yearly Army Tradition (replacing +20% Morale of Armies), National Unrest -1 and +10% Reform Progress Growth (replacing the +1 Diplomatic Relation), -10% Core Creation Cost and +5 Maximum Absolutism (replacing the -10% Technology Cost), +15% Fort Defense and +50% Garrison Army Damage (instead of -20% Fort Maintenance), and -10% Development Cost as a Tradition (replacing the +2 Tolerance of Heretics and +2 Tolerance of Heathens). - Added a new set of National Ideas for Revolutionary France. - Adjusted the Spanish Ideas. They now have Church Power and Fervor in case of being Protestant or Reformed (added to Devout Christianism), replaced the Treasure Fleet idea with the Castilian idea School of Salamanca and added +10% Reform Progress Growth to it, A Spanish Armada now gets +25% Naval Force Limit modifier (replaces +1 Naval Leader Maneuver, which has been moved to Grand Armada Naval Doctrine), added -5 Estate Loyalty on Revoking Privileges to Rein in the Cortes. - Adjusted the Castilian ideas. The Tradition now has a +25% Naval Force Limit Modifier (replaces +25% Marines Force Limit), and +10% Reform Progress Growth (added to School of Salamanca idea). # Missions - You can now complete the Polish mission 'Delegate with the Emperor' as the Emperor of the HRE. - The English "Strategic Control" is no longer soft-blocked when you force a PU over France before finishing the mission. - The Burgundian mission "Chivalry is not Dead" now gives +25 Permanent Power Project. This is mostly a small addition to them as the Angevin Kingdom uses the same event. - The Polish mission 'Break Livonia' now grants claims to conquer Pomerania. # Setup - Added a missing escalated level of crownland between 80 and 100. - Renamed the province Kelang to Tamsui. - Valladolid is now part of the North Castile area and Asturias is now part of the Leon area. - Renamed the Asturias and Castile areas to North and South Castile. - Changed the trade goods of many provinces in Iberia to better reflect historical accuracy. - Muscovy is now a Historical Rival of the Great Horde. - Aveiro and Algarvae now produce Salt. - The Patagonia and Amazonas trade node now has a connection to Cuiaba. Lima has now a connection to the Polynesian Triangle. These changes aim to make colonizing South America more profitable for Asian countries. - Zaporizhzhia has now Eastern technology instead of Nomad one. - The Hudson Bay Trade now flows into California. - The Anatolian minors now start with the Beylik government reform. - All French appanages now start with the Appanage government reform. - The starting ruler of Augsburg now remembers that he went to university at some point and has gained 4 Diplo points. - The Great Horde has now its capital in Sarai. Additionally, Sarai now starts with the "Tatar Yoke" triggered province modifier if Domination is active. # Other - You will no longer be informed that seizing land will cause rebels when you have a government reform that disables rebels spawning from seizing crown land. - Colonial subjects should no longer get access to "Establish a Colonial Subject" Estate Agendas. - Pashas now give -20% Local Governing, 20% Local Minimum Autonomy, -0.1 Monthly Local Autonomy (basically, they have a higher base Autonomy, but they reach this base faster now), -33% Local State Maintenance Modifier and +10 Local Tolerance of Heathens. - Zhuang can now be sinicized. - The Zacatecas Great Project now ensures the province has Gold. - AI has now a 90% chance to automatically complete an estate agenda. - Self Governing Colonies now have access to Burghers and Nobles. (Note: Judging the events for the colonies, they were intended to have them ever since 1.31...). - Combined the special unit custom nation ideas into one. - Moved many random events from the bi-yearly pulse to an empty 4-yearly pulse to increase performance and, paradoxically, make them more likely to fire in the game. - The state edict "Centralization Effot" now decreases local autonomy by -0.03 instead of. - The global modifier "Disembark Time" has been renamed into "Disembark Speed". - All Estate disasters can now gain progress unless their respective estate hast at least 60% Loyalty instead of 50%. - Forming the Holy Roman Empire with Domination adds a new Holy Imperial Monarchy to your country. - The Ikko-Ikki rebels will now try to enforce the Ikko-Ikki government reform. - The admin costs of Subject Upgrades now scale down with all power cost modifiers. - The French Wars of Religion can now also fire if you are Hussite or Anglican. - Forming Scandinavia while having the Unified Kalmar Monarchy reform will now form Scandinavia but with the "Kalmar Union" as a name and the yellow from the flag as the map color. - The Religious Turmoil disaster can now fire for Hussite and Anglican countries too. - Added a Casus belli for Confucian nations against countries with other religions when you get the "Deus Vult" CB or when you finish Humanist ideas. The reason for this addition is the impossibility to use the Deus Vult CB against countries which religion you have harmonized with. - Added the "Sultanate of Rm" and the "Ruthenian Tsardom" as new government reforms for Rm and Ruthenia. - The triggered province modifier "Paektu Mountain" can now be active too if the religion of the province is Mahayana. - The triggered modifier for the occupation of Rome is now province-triggered. - Mali is no longer an endgame tag. - You can no longer gain the "Babbling Buffoon" ruler trait if you have more than 5 diplomatic stats. - The Naval Doctrine of Portugal now decreases Naval Barrage cost by 50%. - Replaced the bonus for the Korean naval doctrine with a +20% Hull Size Modifier. - Estate breakaways from the Cossacks are now Eastern and have the Sich Rada reform. They are no longer hordes. - The Unify China Casus belli now gives only territorial cores instead of full cores upon occupying a province. - Strong Duchies is now available if you have a combination of 2 marches, vassals or personal unions. - The government reform "Separate the Clergy from State" now also disables the Brahmin's estate. - The Teutons are properly no longer accepted to join the HRE when they choose to stick to their crusader path. - Re-enabled the event "National decline". - The event "Prospering Times" now upgrades a province greatly as it is a one-time-only event for countries. - The event "Incompetent Cousin" now specifies which of your subjects the cousin has. - Adjusted the colonial borders of the new world so they no longer split areas apart. - Added to the events "The Republic of Sal" and "The Pirate Queen of Ttouan" a third option that allows you to ignore the Pirate Republic entirely. The AI will still always release the pirates. - The Naval Doctrine 'Grand Armada' now also grants +25 Marines force limit +1 Naval Leader Maneuver. ################### # Bugfixes ################### - Fixed OOS related to cardinal IDs. - Fixed desync related to countries that are called to join a war but haven't yet for hot joiners. - Fixed CTD related to losing merchants when the trade node interface is open. - Fixed a desync that could happen when a country changes religion, invites a religious scholar, and there's a player that's lagging enough. - Fixed so the build flagship button is greyed out when light ships cost more than heavies and you can't afford it. - Fixed OOS related to modifier from trade centers applied to countries not resetting when trade center decreases in level. - OOS fix related to mercenary companies keeping track of which country they belong to, which didn't handle tag switching. - Fixed issue with automated improved relations entry text in outliner that wouldn't align to the right. - Fixed so that terrain bonus for combat map marker is displayed positive for positive values. - Improved logic for automatically computing the amount of money when demanding/offering peace. - Fixed issues with random factors regarding missions and their events always being the same. - Fixed a crash related to government reform properties not existing. - Moved federation strength computation to code, removed script functions with effects due to them causing crashes/desyncs. - Fixed an issue where the "carolean_infantry" where mentions Cawa units instead of Carolean units. - Fixed policies "Diplomatic Consolidation Act" and "Colonial Improvement Act" not displaying any value in the policy window. - Fixed on actions triggers when culture and religion change via the events. - Fixed desync in great projects executing on_built effect when loading a save game. - Fixed issue with ambient map objects visibility is reset after loading a save. - The event "Muslim-Born Men Enroll as Janissaries" gives now 5% Discipline to the Janissaries instead of a pathetic 1.5% (which was originally supposed to be 15% Discipline apparently...). - Fixed several script-related errors which inflated the error log over the period of a game. - Fixed a race condition crash related to AI taking decisions. - The special_units_forcelimit modifier now applies to all special units. Full changelog here!

EU4 Domination releases tomorrow! We hope you're ready to claim the world under your Domain. Today we wrap up our feature breakdown videos and proudly showcase part 2: [previewyoutube=CtEPSewqOfY;full][/previewyoutube] You can find part 1 here If you haven't already, be sure to check out our store page for domination here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2223660/Europa_Universalis_IV_Domination/

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.

Greetings everyone! Domination is less than a week away In anticipation of the April 18th release, we are excited to share part 1 of our feature breakdown. Enjoy! [previewyoutube=9tAVXXreUsg;full][/previewyoutube] If you haven't already, be sure to check out our store page for domination here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2223660/Europa_Universalis_IV_Domination/

Greetings Everyone! Today we share the long-awaited changelog for 1.35, nicknamed the 'Ottoman' update, and its accompanying Domination expansion! As you might expect there is a lot of text, so you'll have to go and read them on our forums here:

1.35 'Ottomans' Changelog

Hello everybody! Welcome to todays Developer Diary! My name is Arnau, I am an Internal QA Tester working at Tinto. And I'm here with Pintu to bring you this week's Dev Diary where we will focus on one of our favorite topics, the new Achievements that will accompany 1.35. The idea we have about achievements is to try to give a new inspiration or goal to our beloved players. Some of them are to provide additional depth and difficulty of the campaign and others are paths that will diverge from your normal gameplay experience. We have tried to give a little bit of everything in these new achievements and we hope you will enjoy them. With the focus of Domination being on some of the major powers of the time it was a bit more difficult than usual to find suitable Achievements, since a lot of these nations are already covered with a fair share of Achievements. So here is the list of the achievements we at Tinto came up with for the 1.35 Patch.

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Greetings! Over the last few months we've been communicating Domination's features through a series of regular dev diaries. Considering the diversity of content being bundled up into this DLC, and in the interest of being more concise, we've summarized and assembled into this infographic new features included in EU4: Domination.
And for those wishing to revisit each DD for Domination and for the 1.35 update, here they are in in chronological order:

• Roadmap to 1.35 (13/12/2022)*
• Unit pips rebalance (20/12/2022)*
• China (17/01/2023)
• Ottomans (24/01/2023)
• Japan (31/01/2023)
• Russia (7/02/2023)
• France (14/02/2023)
• Spain (21/02/2023)
• Great Britain (28/02/2023)
• All Blue (Portugal, Prussia, Korea updates) (7/03/2023) (also: naval special units, government reforms, estate privileges)
• Government Mechanics + Free Content (14/03/2023)*
• Balance Changes and Usermodding Additions (21/03/2023)*
• Domination Art and Unit Models (28/03/2023)

The last few months have been incredibly busy for the art team, and our artists have created a staggering amount of work, with around 600 brand new 2D assets including event pictures, government reforms, and missions to support the content that was added for Domination and the 1.35 patch. Heres some of our favourite examples:

Ottoman mission art:

Japan mission art:

Ming mission art:

new event art:

They say that no plan survives first contact with the enemy, but youre different. You have the foresight to lay out a centuries long scheme to humble your enemies and write your own legend. The greatest empires in history are yours to command in Europa Universalis IV: Domination, a new expansion coming April 18, 2023. In this add-on to Paradox Interactives flagship historical grand strategy game, you will experience new historical flavor and decisions for many of EU4s most popular and powerful nations. New mission trees, historical government reforms, estate challenges and units add greater variety and, sometimes, tough choices as you must pick a path in a branching mission, entirely closing off some possible rewards. [previewyoutube=Ty-svFTmUUc;full][/previewyoutube] Europa Universalis IV: Domination includes new national mission trees and features for:

• The Ottoman Empire: A revised conquest tree with new rewards for pushing Ottoman dominance, including expansion through the new Eyalet system, and new internal changes, such as the new Janissary estate, the new Ottoman Decadence mechanic, and the Ottoman Power Struggle disaster.
• China: Different mission trees for the Han Ming and invader empires like the Qing. Choose between expansion and Inward Perfection, and counter the power of the Eunuchs to build a more stable empire.
• Japan: Unite Japan as you deal with the power of the Shogun and the independent Daimyos. Choose to open the country to foreign influence or keep it isolated, while deciding upon different paths of expansion and reform.
• Russia: Free your country of the Tatar Yoke, and transform it into a Great Empire. Choose the path of Peters reforms to modernize the state, so your mission tree as well as your mechanics will change and evolve as the game progresses. Use the power of Cossacks and Streltsy to expand your Empire to East and West.
• Spain: Expanded mission trees for Castile and Aragon, with different paths to form Spain, a new mechanic available for the new System of Councils government, and decisions about the Army and Navy to get the mighty Tercios and Spanish Armada.
• France: Fight the end of the Hundred Years War, centralize France into an absolute monarchy while dealing with the Wars of Religion, expand into Italy and the Holy Roman Empire, and lead the Revolution through an expanded mission tree.
• Great Britain: Separate paths for either a British Empire or an Angevin Britain, as well as a deeper internal gameplay, with unique features for the English Parliament and changes to the English Civil War disaster.
• Minor nations: Mission changes, new government mechanics and expanded flavor for Prussia, Portugal and Korea.

Greetings Everyone! Today we will take a final look at some of the balance changes and the additions for usermodding coming with 1.35. We'll also be presenting changes to the Age Abilities. As some Great Powers have received changes to their power level, it was only fitting to adjust their Age Abilities too. We have a lot of balance changes to show off. So many in fact we don't have room to post them all in this steam post! Today's Dev Diary can be found on our forums here:

Developer Diary - 1.35 Balance Changes and Usermodding Additions

Good afternoon and welcome to another Developer Diary! This week we will be taking a closer look at various types of new content added to the game, starting with a review of the new Government mechanics that will come with Domination, and the additions we made to previous DLCs as well as to the base game. Before we begin, lets take a moment to address the concern around power creeping in 1.35 that has been discussed by the community in the past weeks. The content we showcase in Developer Diaries is usually in a rough form, not just from the perspective of numbers but also even from that bonuses. QA and Beta testing, along with your feedback, shape and changes the content vastly over the coming weeks. As a result, more often than not the content of the Dev Diaries does not reflect the final iteration. We take great pride in combing through and interacting with many of the comments under the Developer Diaries. We wanted to take this opportunity and note that in the cases of the Ottomans, France, Japan, and every other Great Power we have previously showcased, we have taken great steps towards rebalancing, snipping bonuses, nerfing, and even out-right changing modifiers completely. This is at least in part attributed to your stellar feedback, which helps guide us as we move through the development process. Having said that, thank you for taking the time to comment and contribute, even if were not always ready to answer as much as wed like, but we genuinely appreciate it and try to take it into account as much as possible. Now thats out of the way, lets move on to todays content! Lets start with an updated review of all the new Government Mechanics available with Domination. You may notice that they are using a similar box, which will now be part of the Government window (Note: the Purple box does not appear for countries who do not have mechanics). This has been done to make the expansion and maintenance of special Government mechanics easier, but also it will increase its modding possibilities (something we will talk about more in-depth next week):
New look of the Government window. When having more than one mechanic at your disposal, a lateral scrollbar inside the window will allow you to check them. So, lets showcase them: Ottoman Decadence
Ottoman Devshirme
Russian Table of Ranks
Russian Rule
Spanish System of Councils
Japanese Land of the Christian Sun
The New Prussian Militarization
Following up on your feedback for Prussian Militarization, I went ahead and tweaked it a fair bit:

• Removed Land Forcelimit and replaced it with Land Maintenance Modifier
• Decay halved in tier 2 and 3
• Added a decay countermeasure to slow down the loss of militarization
• Militarization Interactions now cost 20 Militarization instead of 50

• Forcibly Expel Ronin
  • -1 Global Unrest for 10 years
  • 50 Admin Power
  • -5% Liberty Desire in Subjects for 10 years
• Sankin Kotai
  • +3 Diplomatic Reputation for 10 years
  • 50 Dip Power
  • +0.25 Monthly Autonomy Change in Subjects for 10 years
• Sword Hunt
  • -15% Regiments Cost
  • 50 Mil Power
  • -10% Manpower Recovery Speed in Subjects for 10 years

• Church Attendance Duty now grants +10% Manpower in True Faith Provinces

• Moved the Core Creation Cost to slot 3
• Governing Capacity Bonus nerfed to 20% (used to be 25%)

• Changed the Idea Factories to - > -10% Trade Company Investment Cost & -10% Trade Company Governing Cost. It is now in the 5th slot of Exploration Ideas. Expansion now gets the Viceroys idea, which used to be in Exploration (We have also tweaked Global Tariffs, hopefully they will be a bit more worthwhile now!)
• Additional Diplomats now grants +1 Diplomat and -5% Liberty Desire of Subjects in Other Continents
• The goal of these changes is to turn Expansion into the Americas colonization idea whereas Exploration should now be more useful for general exploring and going into and beyond Africa!

• How militaristic their National Ideas are
• What is their current mana generation of ruler, heir, etc. (as in, can they support the idea group AND not fall behind in the same type of tech?)
• How threatened they are by neighbors and how they stack up against them
• How defensible their terrain might be
• What other idea groups they have picked (for better Policy combos)

Note; Given the scope of the reforms, spanning nearly the entire globe, you wont see them all by picking just 1 country. This is what Switzerland sees, as an example!

• Cuirassier Leader: +10% Cavalry Combat Ability
• Cruel Tactician: +10% Morale Damage
• Frontline Holder: -10% Morale Damage Received
• Strict Drillmaster: +2.5% Discipline and -50% Drill Decay

• Naval Strategist: +10% Disengagement Chance
• Inspirational Captain: +5% Naval Morale and +10% Navy Morale Recovery Speed
• Naval Cannoneer: +10% Number of Cannons Modifier
• Wooden Waller: +10% Hull Size Modifier
• Cunning Navigator: +1 Fleet Movement Speed

• Peasant Revolt Leader: +10% Morale Damage and -1 Global Unrest (available to Peasant Republics)
• Patron of Arts: -5% Technology Cost and -5% Idea Cost

• Number of Cannons Modifier: +10%
• Sailors Maintenance Modifier: -10%

• Ship Durability: +5%
• Morale Hit from Sunken Ship: -25%

• Heavy Ship Combat Ability: +5%
• Naval Morale: +5%

• Global Ship Trade Power: +25%
• Naval Tradition from Protecting Trade: +100%

• Global Ship Cost: -10%
• Naval Forcelimit Modifier: +20%

• Privateer Efficiency: +25%
• May Perform Slave Raid
• Available Province Loot: +50%

• Disengagement Chance: +10%
• Movement Speed in Fleet: +1
• Chance to Capture Ships: +20%

• Allowed Marine Fraction: +15%
• Sailor Maintenance Modifier: -10%

• Naval Tradition: +1
• Naval Leader Shock: +1

• Disembark Speed: +50%
• Naval Attrition: -25%
• Naval Transport Attrition: -50%

• Light Ship Cost: -50%
• Naval Forcelimit Modifier: +25%

• Trade Range: +25%
• Colonial Range: +25%
• Treasure Fleet Income: +25%

• Naval Barrage Cost: -25%
• Blockade Impact on Siege: +1
• Blockade Efficiency: +25%

• May Recruit Explorers
• Colonial Range: +50%

• Disengagement Chance: +15%
• Galley Combat Ability: +20%

• May Recruit Explorers
• Landing Penalty: -1

Hello and welcome to another Development Diary! Today we will be talking about the new, yet undisclosed content for Europa Universalis IV: Domination, the new expansion that was announced yesterday! We are very excited to show you the final features that we will include. But let's start by addressing some of the countries that may be on the list of what could be considered Early Modern Great Powers, the main theme of Domination, and that will not receive new content in this expansion. First of all, you may have noticed (and widely requested) new content to be included for two of the historical winners in the Middle East during this time period, the Gunpowder Empires of Persia and the Mughals, and also for some other historical losers in the area, as the Mamluks. To be clear, they were left out of this expansion on purpose, since we have future plans for the Middle East, so you can expect us to create new content for them in the future. Some of you may have also wondered why countries like Venice, Netherlands or Austria are not in this expansion. Youll see later that some of them have received some extra flavor in Domination; but, apart from that, today we want to show some countries that we decided to focus on, and that received more extra content, which are:

• Portugal
• Prussia
• Korea

• Naval Special Units
• Government Reforms
• Estate Privileges

Prussia

• The first level of Militarization is weaker than the 1.34 equivalent.
• Only Prussia will have access to this, everyone else that uses Militarization will keep the 1.34 iteration.
• I would like to reinstate the decay of Militarization so its not a button you press 10 times and then forget about for the rest of the campaign, that is not very engaging. The idea is that you should always weigh your Mil power and think Do I want to get a temporary boost, cap my Militarization or boost it ? especially during wars and crucial battles.
• Prussia does not need a special unit per-se. The entire army should be bolstered by this mechanic instead, not a few select parts of it. The army IS the special unit.

Korea

The story of the early modern world is largely the story of imperial growth and colliding ambitions. England, France and Spain battle for power in a New World to fuel hegemony in the Old World. The established Ottomans are confronted by a new rising power in Russia. In Asia, the old Chinese and Japanese empires fight centuries of inertia in search of centralized authority. Now, in Europa Universalis IV: Domination, you can rediscover the histories of these great powers with updated historical detail. Domination is a new expansion pack for Paradox Interactives classic grand strategy game about the rise and fall of empires from the Renaissance to the Age of Revolutions. In Domination, many of the most popular and powerful nations are getting updated mission trees and other historical details, in an add-on with true global reach and multiple new alternate histories. Europa Universalis IV: Domination includes new national mission trees and features for:

• The Ottoman Empire: A revised conquest tree with new rewards for pushing Ottoman dominance, including expansion through the new Eyalet system, and new internal changes, such as the new Janissary estate and the Ottoman Power Struggle.
• China: Different mission trees for the Han Ming and invader empires like the Qing. Choose between expansion and Inward Perfection, and counter the power of the Eunuchs to build a more stable empire.
• Japan: Unite Japan as you deal with the power of the Shogun and the independent Daimyos. Choose to open the country to foreign influence or keep it isolated, while deciding upon different paths of expansion and reform.
• Russia: Free your country of the Tatar Yoke, and transform it into a Great Empire. Choose the path of Peters reforms to modernize the state, so your mission tree as well as your mechanics will change and evolve as the game progresses. Use the power of Cossacks and Streltsy to expand your Empire to East and West.
• Spain: Expanded mission trees for Castile and Aragon, with different paths to form Spain, a new mechanic available for the new Hispanic Monarchy government, and decisions about the Army and Navy to get the mighty Tercios and Spanish Armada.
• France: Fight the end of the Hundred Years War, centralize France into an absolute monarchy while dealing with the Wars of Religion, expand into Italy and the Holy Roman Empire, and lead the Revolution through an expanded mission tree.
• Great Britain: Separate paths for either a British Empire or an Angevin Britain, as well as a deeper internal gameplay, with unique features for the English Parliament and changes to the English Civil War disaster.
• Minor nations: Mission changes, new government mechanics and expanded flavor for Prussia, Portugal and Korea.

Greetings! A new week, a new Dev Diary, and this time it is about our final big country of the DLC, England, and its follow-up nation of Great Britain. Similar to Russia, England and Great Britain received their content update with 1.25 which is now almost 5 years old. While the British mission tree was one of the most extensive in its time, it has become quite outdated and was in dire need of receiving an update in order to keep England on the same level as the other great powers which are seeing a liftover with 1.35. So, lets get started!

These are all the missions you have available as England and as Great Britain. These missions are available to everyone who forms GB.

The AI is very likely to accept as long as they dont have any negative opinion of you.

As long this modifier is active and you fully colonize a colony you get the following event:

Hola a todo el mundo, y bienvenidos! In this weeks Development Diary, we will be talking about the content that we have created for Spain and the different Iberian countries, mainly Castile and Aragon, as they are the top runners for its formation. First of all, for the redesign of Spains content for the upcoming DLC, we took a bit different approach than other countries that have been shown in the previous weeks, following this line of thoughts: - We thought that its mission trees did not need a major overhaul, as it was already quite developed in Golden Century, covering most of the Conquest & Colonization paths required as Spain; therefore, we aimed to redesign its structure, adding a few missions here and there to get some extra flavor, and to rework triggers and rewards, to update them in line with the other Great Powers. - We also decided to put more effort into adding more mechanical content instead. - On top of that, we also decided to add more unique content, linked to new game mechanics, but also to older ones, such as adding new Holy Orders for Golden Century owners, in order to keep adding more depth to the game as a whole. - I tried to add some not-so-known chunks of Spanish History to the content, because, you know, I have a previous background as Historian! That said, lets get started with the new content for Castile! When we started designing it, we decided that nothing could be more iconic that adding another civil war disaster:
Note: Effects and numbers are not final, as usual. The Infantes of Aragon were the sons of Fernando/Ferrn I, the first king of the Trastmara dynasty in Aragon, and therefore cousins of Juan II, king of Castile; his first wife, Mara de Aragn, was their sister. Early in the reign of Juan II, they tried to puppet the king, and seize power, leaning on their large properties in the country, and the support they had from a big sector of the Castilian Nobility. This is also portrayed by a new starting privilege for Castiles Nobility, which will cause the following disaster to progress:

A cursed start for Castile, I know, I know. What will happen after the disaster fires is that this event will be triggered, giving two different choices to the player:


The disaster will now be possible to be ended, and as you may have noticed, it will impact the outcome of a new mission:

The first path will reduce the effects of the Factionalist Nobility, making it easier to get rid of it earlier, apart from giving a temporary bust to Juan II, but also comes with a bunch of rebels. The second decision means that the Factionalist Nobility will be empowered, fewer rebels will appear, and it will give Castile early Restoration of Union Casus Belli on Aragon and Navarra, as it means the supremacy of the same line of the Trastmara dynasty over all the three countries. But, on top of that, the event Isabella of Castile wont be triggered if you decide to back the Infantes in their fight against the king, thus making it more difficult to have The Iberian Wedding event, and the peaceful unification of Spain. Its up to the player to decide which path to follow, with its own trade-offs: Back the king and face the Nobility early on, or side with the Infantes, and aim for an early military push to form Spain. Although the start of Castile will be troublesome, as there will still be the possibility of the 'Castillian Civil War' trigger, we wanted to make it rewarding to get out of it in any of the ways decided, and we also made a minor change in order that early game is a bit more bearable:
Enrique IV the 0/0/0 is nevermore a 0/0/0! Now lets move on to see what the new mission tree for Castile and then Spain looks like:
Note: As usual, the design and art of the tree are not final. You may have noticed a big change in the redesign, as we decided to leave the upper half of the tree as the Conquest & Government part of it, while the lower half will be for Trade & Colonization. There is a reason for this, which you will see later on the DD. For now, lets discuss the most important changes for the Castile path to Spain. The right-most part of the tree is designed around a new set of missions covering the evolution of the Modern State in Spain in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. The first one is about the final appeasement of the Castilian Nobility:

This leads to Law and Order, which will give nice flavor bonuses to the provinces of Valladolid and Granada until the end of the game, being the seats of the two main courts of justice in the country, the Reales Chancilleras:

Related to these, although not connected to them, we have another set of 3 missions down in the mission tree that is about the Government of the Spanish Empire:
The first one will trigger the following event after completion:
The second is directly linked to the construction of the El Escorial monument. Meanwhile, the third one will lead to a new mechanic we are implementing for Spain, the System of Councils, based upon the historical Polysynodial System which will be unlocked by a Government Reform of the same name:

How is this mechanic working? It will open a new 0-100 progress bar, the Council Consensus, which will be slowly refilled depending on your Monthly Average Autonomy and Monthly Average Liberty Desire of your subjects. Numbers are still WIP, but our initial design is to make it so that the bar can be filled at 10 years the fastest, while not progressing at all if Monthly Average Autonomy and Monthly Average Liberty Desire are 100%:
Note: Ruler ability modifiers are placeholder ones to make the mechanic appear in the game, there is still some code support needed to make it fully work with the Monthly Average Autonomy and Monthly Average Liberty Desire that Ive mentioned. Also, take into account that the other numbers are also WIP. The Council Consensus will give an increasing escalating effect, giving you Monthly Splendor and Administrative Efficiency, but thats not its only benefit, as when you reach 100 Council Consensus, you may be able of spending that amount in one of the three Government Actions, tied to each of the monarch powers. After clicking the button, you will get +1 monarch power of the chosen type for 10 years, and an event similar to the Estate Agendas will trigger, upon which you might be able to pick one of the Councils of that branch to support for 10 years, getting an additional modifier for that period.




Note: UI is WIP, but in the last pic youve got the current design of the new buttons, for the Royal Council, the Council of State, and the Council of War, respectively. So, coming back to the new mission trees, lets go to the leftmost part of it. We have moved there the already existing missions for the Spanish Armada and Invade England, but we have added 3 more there, making it the Military Branch of the mission tree:
The first mission, Armies of Iberia, will unlock the Navy and Army paths of the branch. But the meaty new content is on the Land part, to be honest, as we have created a new government reform for the Spanish Tercios:

Which is, obviously, a new type of Land Special Unit!
Note: Grey color is provisional. This unit might be recruited from provinces of the Iberian culture group, and their availability will be increased by the Army Tradition that Spain has at the moment. So, that means that you will be able to recruit double the amount of Tercios if your Army Tradition is 100. About its combat performance, these units will have at the start the same modifier as Spains Tercios Age bonus, -30% Shock Damage Received (therefore, that means that we will change Spains Age bonus, although it is not yet decided, as we want to wait for a bit more to get results from our internal tests to give a proper new modifier). But wait, this is not the end of the (Spanish) road! There is another mission, Refine the Tercios, which will allow you to modernize your Tercios units if you have a fixed number of Tercios (right now is 60, but this may change), and either 75% Army Professionalism or 90 Army Tradition, giving them the following effects on top until the end of the game, allowing Spain to extend the dominance of Tercios on the battlefields for a longer period than historically:
Note: Again, numbers are provisional, and might be changed. This fits for us with the expanded Conquest missions of the tree:
Rein in France can be completed either by defeating or by allying with France, giving permanent Power Projection as a modifier.

The Spanish Road aims to connect your dominions in Italy with the rich (and maybe cursed) Netherlands, which will now grant a big reward if completed.

We have also reworked a bit the Austrian branch flow and links and added a stronger reward for completing it (again, numbers are not final).

If you manage to complete all the different branches of Conquest & Government, you will unlock a finishing mission for Spain, giving a reward to your now Universal Empire. OK, now were done with the Hegemonic Ambitions of Spain, so lets move to the lower part of its mission tree, devoted to Trade & Colonization. The first redesign we made covers the commercial expansion and the new maritime routes that were established at the Age of Discovery. By completing it you will get some nice commercial bonuses, but most importantly, you will unlock two new types of ships:

Here you have a new feature that we are adding to the upcoming DLC: Naval Special Units! A few countries will get them, on top of the 3 new special units that we have already presented (Samurai, Musketeers, and Tercios). And these are the Caravels and Galleons that are mentioned here:

After completing the Reales Atarazanas mission, you will be able to recruit as much as 10% of your Naval Force Limit as this type of special ship (again, numbers are provisional). This will help you with the Exploration branch, which we have not touched much, as it was already quite well developed. As you may have noticed, we have redesigned a bit the position and flow of the different missions, added a few different triggers and rewards here and there, and made a final mission after finishing the conquest of both Mxico and Per:
Here Ive got to say that we have not added more content to the Colonial Nations and America. To be honest with you, its in our backlog, but it fell outside of the scope of the upcoming DLC, so this will have to wait for a future moment. What we are adding, on the other hand, is more types of Holy Orders, which will be part of the free update for the Golden Century DLC owners, and which will be the following ones (this list includes the 3 older ones, Jesuits, Dominicans, and Franciscans): Monastic Orders (ADM)

• Benedictines
  • -1 Local Unrest
  • +10% Trade Goods Size Modifier
• Carthusians
  • -10% Local Construction Cost
  • -10% Local State Maintenance Modifier
• Hieronymites
  • +10% Local Tax Modifier
  • -10% Local Governing Cost
• Jesuits
  • +1% Local Missionary Strength
  • +10% Local Production Efficiency

• Augustinians
  • +1 Institution Growth
  • -10% Local Missionary Maintenance Cost
• Carmelites
  • +20% Local Religious Conversion Resistance
  • +20% Local Religious Unity Contribution
• Dominicans
  • +1.5% Local Missionary Strength
  • +10% Local Institution Spread
• Franciscans
  • -1 Local Unrest
  • -0.05 Monthly Devastation

• Order of Calatrava (CAS/NAV)
  • +10% Local Defensiveness
• Order of Avis (POR)
  • +25% Local Sailors
• Order of Montesa (ARA)
  • +25% Local Garrison Size
• Order of Alcntara (LEO/AST)
  • -10% Local Fort Maintenance Modifier
  • -25% Local Construction Time
• Order of Santiago
  • +5% Local Manpower
• Order of San Juan
  • Blocks Slave Raids
  • -0.25 Local Monthly Devastation

• Buffed Spanish Naval Doctrine
  • Move the 'A Spanish Armada' Idea modifiers to the Naval Doctrine
• Ideas
  • Changed 'Devout Catholicism' name to 'Devout Christianism'
    • Added Church Power and Fervor in case of being Protestant or Reformed
  • 'Treasure Fleet' replaced by the Castilian Idea 'School of Salamanca'
    • Added +10% Reform Progress Growth (also to Castilian Idea)
  • 'A Spanish Armada' now gets:
    • +25% Naval Force Limit modifier from Treasure Fleet
    • +25% Available Marines
  • Changed 'Rein in the Cortes'
    • -5 Reduced Absolutism from Privileges
  • New Idea order:
    • Devout Christianism
    • Inter Caetera
    • School of Salamanca
    • A Spanish Armada
    • Casa de Contratacin
    • Siglo de Oro
    • Rein in the Cortes

Bonjour! Welcome to this weeks Development Diary where we will be taking a closer look at the new content for France. Before we begin, I would like to take a moment and discuss the idea behind giving content to France and other countries which have already received content of any form in previous years. The idea behind revisiting them for the upcoming DLC is that we want to elevate them up to our current standards of quality and aim at making these nations fun again for people who have completed several campaigns before, already. In addition, we consider France alongside the Ottomans and some of the other Great Powers as the final big bosses of the campaign, powerful and scary, but at the same time not railroaded towards success. To be clear, the content displayed here (missions, reforms and events tied to the tree) will be part of the DLC. Well also be adding a lot of new content in update 1.35 for free, but well talk about that later in March (although we already gave an early preview of that with the new Idea Groups). Please keep in mind that the values and art displayed here are far from final and will be further tweaked, with your feedback! On a personal note, France is one of my most favorite countries to play and as such, I am extremely excited to unveil the extensive content I have prepared for them. The philosophy behind this content is to imprint as much of Frances history as possible within the confines of the game. As a result, playing as France you will experience the most extensive and intricate mission tree we have created since Rule Britannia, with 84 new missions, dozens of new events, mechanics, decisions, a new monument, government reforms, a new subject type and even new Revolutionary content included in the tree. Please enjoy reading through this Developer Diary and I hope you enjoy it! So, starting off, lets take a look at the new mission tree I have in store for you:
Much like my previous work, this mission tree is also broken down into different parts, each with its own thematic direction, objectives and goals. The goal behind this extensive reward is to utilize the tree as a narrative vehicle to tell the story behind the growth and rise of the French kingdom from the end of the Hundred Years' War to the conquests of Napoleon. It features a combination of some of the games most popular aspects, lets take a look at some of the highlights. The start of the game will greet you with a new event, telling the story of the Hundred Years War and the state of France. Some of the first missions at the very top of the tree will deal with retaking the cores back from England, making your cores cheaper to demand in a peace deal and awarding you with more crown land. The culmination of that path, from retaking Gascony and Normandy, to securing the Armorican Peninsula leads to the Crown of France, with a reward that will help you consolidate yourself as a great power:
At the same time, on the right hand side of the tree, you will be called to decide the fate of Provence, with the choice to ask their monarch for a voluntary union under the French banner. By raising relations, a royal marriage, strong trust and favors you may earn yourself a powerful subject. Else, if you wish to conquer them, the reward will be a not-insignificant amount of Aggressive Expansion reduction, perhaps a great play for further conquest into Italy ?
Ducal Lands of Avignon is a very important part of the experience, as it will let you decide the fate of a considerable part of your campaign. I really enjoy the dichotomy of choice in Europa Universalis IV so I opted to give the player as much of a choice as possible when it comes to shaping your world, country and even your mission tree. Thus, this mission will give you the choice between amending your relations with the Pope and taking on the sword of Christianity back into the Holy Lands or denouncing his authority and gaining more missions for conquering Italy, that compliment the main Italy branch further below.
But wait a minute, you may ask: Why do I receive a mission path to conquer Italy if I amend my relations with the Pope and proclaim a mutual friendship and alliance ? Should you decide to side with the Pope and forge a bond between your nations, your missions around Italy will shift significantly. You are no longer conquering Italy DIRECTLY for the crown of France. You will be doing it as the righteous sword of the Holy Father and thus completing missions in the Italian Peninsula will cede these territories to the Pope and grant you powerful bonuses to strengthen both your nation and the Papal States:
You will of course have the choice to shift your approach before you embark on this conquest path, instead opting to have Italy directly for yourself. Lets take a look at some of the highlights on this path:
The Golden March will either have the Pope coronate your ruler or grant you a new type of evolving modifier. This reward will grow in strength as you conquer Italy, with each mission you complete.
Note: The second part of the reward is not an error per se, rather I still need to implement a new Great Project in the French region The tree offers a vast array of new events, one of which is the Treaty of the Golden Bulls, a way to demand direct allegiance from the Pope as you have been very successful in conquering Italy for the Holy See.
As noted further above in the mission tree, the Papal States has a right to decline both the initial cooperation agreement and the Treaty of Golden Bulls, albeit the latter will bring forth dire consequences in the form of stability, prestige and devotion loss. This path ends with the mission Expand the French Domain which will seek to consolidate all of Italy under either the Papal or French banner:
Note: changing your Catholic religion will result in the tree defaulting back to its direct-conquest approach, erasing all rewards earned from this path. Simultaneously, you will need to safeguard your southern borders, dealing with Iberia. You can either help an Iberian country towards consolidating their power in the peninsula (more on that in a future Dev Diary) or choose to conquer the region for the French Crown.
(This reward may be a bit too strong, but please keep in mind that you will lose it should you conquer any land in Iberia. Further balancing will take place!) Before we move on to further parts of the tree, the left side of these paths will lead into Facing the Habsburg / HR Empire. As shown before, here you will find a difficult choice: To unite the HRE and revive Charlemagnes ambitions or shatter it and take it all for yourself!
The path to diplomatically gain land in the HRE via contesting the Emperorship will reveal some interesting missions, lets take a look: By swaying the opinion of several electors and securing their crucial vote, while outgrowing the current emperor in terms of land, prestige and diplomatic ability, we will gain the following reward:
The current Emperor, will receive an ultimatum in the form of an Event with the following options:
The first option will relinquish the emperorship to France, but the AI will almost NEVER (in all caps) opt for this option. The second option will use funds from the Imperial treasury to block Frances ambitions for imperial ascendance while the third option will enable the Austrian player to counter the claim and receive a special Restoration of Union CB on the throne of France. This option will only be pursued by the AI when its militaristic and/or when its confident in its ability to eradicate the French in the field of battle (will make for some interesting multiplayer scenarios!) Through the other missions (Right by Blood and Means of Expansion) you will interact with new unique rewards in the form of events and evolution of great projects for owners of Leviathan:
Of course the tree would not be complete without the customary Beat England path which is thematically tied in with colonial and Low-Countries related missions:

Conquering the British Isles will result in the following event:
(The values here are experimental, especially since Ship Cannons is a new modifier I wanted to introduce in 1.35!) The alternative option would grant us a powerful permanent reduction to Culture Conversion cost, the ability to concentrate development without losses as well as the unique mechanic of reducing separatism in provinces we concentrate development from!

(Another example of a new modifier I was very excited to talk about, Max Number of Flagships!) This concludes the first part of the French mission tree, out of three! Moving on, lets take a look at my favourite part: Internal management and flavor missions! Lets begin by making a quick remark about the new subject types of France, the Appanages, in order to highlight the importance behind the gameplay of Frances path towards centralization. They will have a few unique subject interactions and they are only accessible by France. Their liberty desire will be quite high at the start of the game, for 2 reasons:

• They need to feel like a threat to the French dominion
• Burgundys mission League of Public Weal should now have an actual impact, raising the French subject liberty desire to above 50%

Privet! Welcome to this weeks Dev Diary, which is all about Russia. The last time Russia saw any big changes was with the release of Third Rome in 1.22 and the addition of their mission tree in 1.26. Ever since not a lot has happened there. 1.35 will change this as we are revisiting this region and updating it so it can keep up with Scandinavia, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottomans. All numbers and art you see here are not final. So lets take a look at what we have for Russia! The mission tree for Russia is split into two sections: the one you currently see is the Muscovite section, while the mission Found the Tsardom updates your tree with the actual Russian part. As Muscovy is the major player in this region, I have decided to focus first and foremost on their update, which is why we have this part here. However, the Russia mission tree you get when forming Russia looks a bit different - depending on who you form Russia with.
The mission tree when you form Russia as Muscovy.
The mission tree when you form Russia as Novgorod. Note: The mission tree is a bit outdated as your trade missions will focus on monopolizing the East and steer all the trade to Novgorod instead of competing with Western Europe. When you form Russia as neither Muscovy nor Novgorod then you get a slightly altered Muscovite version of the tree with the top right mission being the following one:
With that out of the way, let us dive into the main protagonist of the region, which is Muscovy. The Pre-Russian missions are all conquest-related missions for Russia. Here you get claims on the historical borders of the Russian Empire, but also very ambitious ideas for regions Imperial Russia was interested in. Regions like Ruthenia, the Baltic region, and Poland, but also regions like Scandinavia and the northern parts of Persia are included. An interesting mission would be the early Rally the Army mission, as this will define what kind of Russia you want to play:
Note: the -15% Core-Creation Cost is added to offset the fact that Permanent Claims have -25% Core-Creation Cost compared to normal claims with their -10%. Due to the mass of permanent claims given away through mission trees, we are considering nerfing the Core-Creation Cost of permanent claims to -10% and removing this modifier from Russia. But before we make a decision, we would like to hear the community out first. As you can see, you have the option to abandon all Permanent Claims in exchange for temporary ones and a buff that allows you to fabricate new ones easier - a modifier that synergies really well with the Claim State diplomatic action of the Tsardom. Of course, you are not forced to do it and can still go with the permanent claims from the first option. Another highlight would be the Conquest of Finland mission as it fires the following event:
Owners of Lions of the North DLC are able to get an experimental reward from the mission Slay the Lion of the North if they decide to release Finland as a subject country:
Note: There is a tooltip bug. What you actually get are Caroleans, not Cawa if you decide against releasing Finland. As for the other conquest-related missions, they are quite grounded. The Third Rome related missions have been integrated from the old mission tree into the new one. There is one highlight to be mentioned though with the mission Protect the South Slavs. You can complete it by liberating the Slavs of the Balkans from the Ottomans. As a reward you will be able to form the Slavic culture group, unifying all Slavs into one cohesive culture group:
Other missions worth mentioning are March into the Caucasus and Beyond the Caspian Sea as both missions can be completed by having an Orthodox ally in the Caucasus fulfilling the requirements.
As you might have noticed, the missions which have Dynamic Mission Rewards now have an indicator in the form of a red cross or a green checkmark that shows which of the rewards you will get when you complete this mission. A common issue reported from 1.34 was the lack of readability of mission rewards and triggers, and while I prefer to avoid the grocery lists, sometimes they are a necessary evil. Because of that, I have decided to work out this system which can be very useful when you have such switch-case mission rewards:
This mission is the worst offender of the grocery lists rewards in the Russian missions. Finally, you have of course the classical Colonize Siberia missions, which then expand into colonizing North America. In order to make colonizing North America actually a worthwhile endeavor, the trade flow of North America has been adjusted:
The trade from Rio Grande and Hudson Bay now flows into California, which itself can flow into the Girin Trade Node. And before you ask for it: No, there will not be dynamic trade in EU4. Period. Now back to Muscovy. When you start as them you will be greeted with the following event:
Historically, Muscovy was still a tributary state of the Hordes in 1444 and only stopped sending tribute to the Tatars in 1476. Instead of letting Muscovy start as a tributary state of the Great Horde, I have decided to portray their relationship in the form of this modifier instead as an actual tributary relationship has led to a lot fewer Russias in the game. While you get the negative version of the modifier, the Sarai province gets a triggered modifier which benefits its horde owner:
While this modifier is active you have to pay an annual tribute to the owner of Sarai:
The Great Horde will receive exactly this amount of Ducats if you decide to pay.
However, if you decide to not pay the tribute then this event will fire for the Great Horde:

In order to end this relationship you must ensure that a non-horde country owns Sarai.
Once the Tatar Yoke has been broken, it cannot be restored. While the Tatar Yoke is one early struggle, Muscovy has to face another one in form of the Muscovite Civil War, which is caused by a dispute for the throne between Vasily II - your starting ruler - and Dmitry Shemiaka, the last of Yurys three sons and cousin of Vasily. As it is the final phase of the Muscovite Civil War, I decided to portray it through a very small flavor event chain instead of an outright disaster:


This was for the Muscovy part of the content. Before we go into the matters of Russia, we take a look at the Novgorodian part first. As I mentioned earlier, if you form Russia as Novgorod your mission tree will be slightly altered as it does not make much sense for you to be asked to Conquer Novgorod while you originally started as Novgorod. While Monarchical Russia puts a great emphasis on the idea of a Third Rome, Republican Russia aims for commercial dominance in Europe. As such your missions are less about conquering your way to the Balkans but instead focusing on monopolizing the trade of Eastern Europe for yourself. Compete with the Channel is the penultimate end to it with a neat +25 permanent Power Projection as a reward. With that being said, let us continue with the missions of a unified Russia. While the top part is heavily focused on conquest, the lower part is about the internal affairs of Russia. Missions like Enact the Sudebnik and Book of Royal Degrees concern themselves with administrative reforms in Russia. Handle the Boyars and Abolish the Mestnichestvo are about your nobility and how you should get rid of your starting estate privilege. Note: Right now, the privilege can be finished on day one, but this will be covered during the development.

Another part of the internal affairs is related to Vodka (which was historically a big part of Russian society and the Tsars way to keep his people pacified) and the peasantry, represented by the missions The Vodka Monopoly and The Fate of the Peasantry - more to the peasants of Russia later. Finally, a mission about the Patriarchate which upgrades your Consecrate Metropolitan ability.
One of the more impactful missions regarding your special unit is Recruit the Streltsy as its reward is an event that can turn your Streltsy into a parallel version of the Janissaries:
With every new ruler, your Streltsy will demand their payment once again.
Note: should you lose your ability to recruit Streltsy in any way, shape or form then this event will no longer fire. The final mission of the Tsardom missions of Russia is the Great Imperial Ambitions which can only be completed if you finish modernizing your country. And, well, here I should address the elephant in the room. As you have seen, some rewards give something called Modernization. This is part of the new mechanic unique to Russia:
Note: The UI and the modifiers it gives are still very much in work in progress. As you might have noticed, there are a few issues with it like our +- Modernization gain. Modernization is a measurement of how much your country has westernized. You gain modernization from having more than 50% Crown Land, from embracing institutions 10 years after they have been unlocked, from Innovativeness (for now, I want to move this to a new Ahead of Time static modifier), from Advisors which are NOT from your culture group scaling with their skill level, from your rulers administrative abilities and from positive relations with countries which either have researched more technologies than you OR a great power of the Western Technology group. The Grand Embassy event chain (which triggers have been updated in order for it to fire more frequently) gives a huge boost to Modernization too. However, you lose Modernization on a base level as well as from every estate privilege you give away. This is especially the case if you give the Nobles or the Cossacks privileges while the Burghers or the Clergy have a lot less negative impact on Modernization. Having obsolete buildings which are not up to your technology as well as having any kind of instability, corruption, inflation, and disaster reduces modernization. This is especially noticeable during the Times of Trouble. I keep myself a bit vague with the sources of Modernization and how the actual numbers will play out as this is still in development and some ideas might have to be replaced with others. The aim is to recreate the necessary feeling that your country has potential for greatness, yet is stuck with outdated traditions which hinder you to reach said greatness until you get rid of these troublemakers. So, what do you get from handling modernization? You will be able to enact the following decision when you reach 90% Modernization, be one of the great powers and have humiliated one of your rivals.

Of course, there is a Republican version of this mechanic and event too!
Unlocking the new government reform also gives you access to the Imperial Russian missions and a cosmetic goodie:
Note: ONLY your tech group gets changed to Western, NOT your units. They get updated with a later mission. With the new government reform, you get a new mechanic which replaces the Modernization mechanic: the Russian Rule. Note: right now they are just bars, I am currently thinking of ways of making them a bit more interactive, but I figured I should still mention them anyway. These bars represent the different directions Russia went historically depending on what kind of ruler they had. Somebody like Catherine the Great would have a high rule while Peter III would be not so beneficial for the state in comparison. With every new ruler, these bars reset to 0, though they are still subject to further changes. With that being said, let us continue with the mission tree once again. With the formation of the Russian Empire, you get access to the following missions:
Note: right now they are just bars, I am currently thinking of ways of making them a bit more interactive, but I figured I should still mention them anyway. These bars represent the different directions Russia went historically depending on what kind of ruler they had. Somebody like Catherine the Great would have a high rule while Peter III would be not so beneficial for the state in comparison. With every new ruler, these bars reset to 0, though they are still subject to further changes. With that being said, let us continue with the mission tree once again. With the formation of the Russian Empire, you get access to the following missions:
Highlights here are the missions "Westernize the Military", The Governing Senate, and Pass the Issues. As the name implies, "Westernize the Military" will update your unit type to the Western Tech group, though you need to win 40 battles (starting counting after the mission "Handle the Streltsy", reach 80 Army Tradition and 90% Army Professionalism) Completing The Governing Senate gives you access to two unique government reforms - though you can only pick one of the two:
Note: Modifiers are not final. While the Governing Senate has the classic parliament, Enforced Autocracy changes the way you can interact with your estates.

Note: Depending on feedback, this could become a default thing for all countries at a certain government tier. At least this suggestion reached me within the office, but I am curious what you think of it. Pass the Issues has a reward that synergies with the reform you have chosen prior.
If you complete the mission Great Power of the East then you will be able to unlock the very final missions of Russia during the Age of Revolutions:
The highlight is +5% Administrative Efficiency and Revolutionary Zeal / Max Absolutism from the final mission. That was it for the mission tree part, but I am not done quite yet. Next to the mission tree, Russia has received a bunch of new flavor events too!




Note: Yes, I am aware of the missing localization in the effect section. It has been fixed after the DD has been finished.
And of course, a whole event chain related to the peasantry of Russia - and its unfortunate fate. One of your early missions as Russia will require you to enact one of the two privileges to the Nobility: Early Serfdom and Increased Peasant Freedom which would be the alt historical path for the peasantry to take. For the sake of the dev diary, I will showcase the Serfdom path.




In order to get rid of this privilege for good you need to complete the mission Abolish the Serfdom in the Revolutionary part of the mission tree. That was it for today. I thank you all for your attention! Next week we will focus on Western Europe with PDX Big Boss as we take a closer look at the content for France! Another special episode of Chapel Comic:

Konnichiwa! Welcome to another weeks Dev Diary, this time around focusing on Japan. As a region, it already received a good amount of interesting content during Mandate of Heaven, with the introduction of the Shinto interactions, as well as the Shogunate. The goal of revisiting Japan is to expand its mechanics & tie them around new flavor in the form of a mission tree for Japan, new events as well as government reforms. Lets take a look!

[WIP] All values, art and even layouts showcased here are work in progress![WIP]

] Give us some ideas about what color they should be and feel free to chime in with some overall feedback regarding these very powerful bonuses

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[spoiler] Kept you waiting huh?[/spoiler]

[This will probably be nerfed, its quite powerful!]

[Glorious Nippon steel, folded over 1000 times!]

[That trade value will definitely be nerfed, at the very least! Please keep in mind these numbers are FAR from final]
[Max Effect of Absolutism amplifies your current Absolutisms potency. If 100 Absolutism grants 30% Administrative Efficiency, then 20% Max Effect of Absolutism will amplify the 30% up to 36%]

[Should you claim the Mandate, you will be able to fabricate Tributary CBs on anyone, as long as they are weaker than you development-wise and independent]

[Should you complete the mission while already a hegemon, you will gain a special easter egg modifier called 'Unleash the Shinkirou']

Note, the modifier Protectors of Eastern Catholicism will also grant Papal Influence, which is not visible right now

Note; all these new reforms will also bolster the amount of Samurai you can recruit, by +10%

[Note; your title with this reform is God-Emperor]

Please keep in mind the art and the numbers showcased here are a WIP!

Merhaba ve hogeldin! I am excited to showcase the new content for the Ottomans. But before we get to that, I want to comment on some lessons we have learned from the development process of Lions of the North, even if we are quite happy with the final result and its release state:

• Branching missions are like seasoning: a few of them can add some interesting paths to your country. Too much and they ruin the mission tree as they are clunky to use, generate walls of text and are in general not pretty to look at. They are also prone to script-related bugs and are too painful to maintain. Because of that, we will not have any case akin to the Teutonic Order in the future where half of the mission tree is covered in branching missions.
• Customizable government reforms like the ones of Livonia were a fun experiment, but from a script perspective a nightmare to create. It also requires the player to have Wikipedia open in order to get the government reform they desire, which is not optimal. We liked the idea that you can customize your government reform in such a fashion, but for the future, we will instead utilize the different government tiers instead of having 15 different Tier 1 reforms for a single country.
• The new generic government reforms and tiers were exceptionally well received. Even though some reforms are still standing out as the most optimal choice, we like the diversity we see from the player base in their choice of government reforms. For 1.35, we want to expand this aspect of the game a bit further.
• Too many starting points of the mission tree can be quite overwhelming for the player - especially if they are far down. While this is inevitable to happen due to the rigid structure of mission trees (and a whole new redesign of how mission trees are built would be like opening Pandoras Box), we try to at least keep the amount of starting points to a minimum.
• The focus of previous Immersion Packs was too much on mission trees alone. While mission trees are highly popular, we think that we were investing too much time and focus on the mission tree part of a country and neglecting other parts of the gameplay experience. In 1.35, we still make sure to have interesting mission trees for the countries in focus which encourage unique playstyles, but we will also diversify from this part of the content and expand other parts of the country such as tag unique government reforms, flavor events, and even mechanics.
• Finally, mission trees and the content from Lions of the North make the content outside of the region of focus feel very outdated - even if the regions specific update was not that long ago. The new DLC and the 1.35 update aim to change this and we try to go beyond our scope to expand the countries and regions which are not the focus of the former DLC.

Hey everyone, happy new year and I hope 2023 grants you health, growth and lots of love. Lets take a look at the new content we have prepared for China! We started thinking about this one year ago, while working on the 1.33 update, but now the time has come for it! Before we begin, the content you will see here is by no means finalized, as always your feedback is greatly appreciated and cherished! Playing Europa Universalis is all about building up your nation, growing and expanding your borders. Its all about the struggles and the thrills of each conquest, fighting at the edge of bankruptcy or measuring your moves carefully. However, Ming does not really suffer from these issues at the hands of a player due to the fact that it starts as the nation with the highest development and strongest economy in 1444 and until 1.35 it was regarded as a fairly relaxing experience for most players. Surely there are some minor obstacles early on, but in general the playthrough was not at all challenging and thus many players steered away from playing the Great Ming, despite it having a not-insubstantial amount of flavor in the form of events, factions and later the Mandate of Heaven mechanic, the latter of which ended up being a bit of a pain to manage. All this unrealized potential is what we seek to tackle by giving the Ming, its offshoot Chinese Warlords as well as the Jurchen tribes and the Qing lots of new missions, events and more! The Ming will see many new additions, mechanics and cool-stuff-in-general with 1.35:

• A brand new, fully-fleshed out mission tree
• Accompanied by a new Estate - the Eunuchs
• New tough challenges as you struggle to curb the influence of the Eunuchs and prevent your (historical) collapse
• Over a dozen new Reforms that interact with and are complemented by various missions (yes we tweaked the gain and loss of Mandate)
• New Decrees that interact with and are complemented by various missions
• New Flavor events integrated in the mission tree - as well as independent from it
• Deep modability and new functions added to the Mandate mechanic
• A new great project that spans several provinces

(Note; Icons are a WIP!)

Note; missions, art and descriptions are not final!

Note; Icons are a work in progress!

• Lose 1 random privilege so as to lower their influence
• Spawn a special large stack of rebels, every province this stack of rebels sieges will lower your mandate considerably
• cost you stability (which is required to enact this decision)

(Note; W I P)

• Most of the new reforms can be completed at random order
• Some are unlocked via the mission tree (that is common with the Chinese Warlords)
• 2 of them are mutually exclusive with each other
• Some may require a certain number of reforms passed (yay modability!)
• Some require the country to move in a certain direction ( idea groups having been picked with alternative requirement, certain missions completed etc )
• (Nearly) Every reform now impacts both the Emperor and their subjects, both tributaries and non-tributaries.
• To account for the heightened number of reforms (and decrees) we increased the rate of Mandate growth and decay

(Note; WIP)

• May now be required to be active by some missions
• Will have their bonuses altered or increased by some missions
• May themselves be requirements for certain reforms and vice versa

• The unique content of a nation which varies between Ming- |Qing/Jurchen/Manchu|-Chinese Warlords
• The Emperor of China branch which deals with internal matters and administrating China
• A third branch unique to the Qing only

The Chinese Warlords, meaning the releasables of Ming will also have their own little mission tree which will help them unite the Chinese lands and take up the Mandate of Heaven, which will then unlock the Emperor of China mid-section of their tree (the bottom second part of the Ming tree):
The missions are partially dynamic in terms of their requirements/rewards based on your capital's location

Hello and welcome to another EUIV DD! Today we will be talking about the rebalance of the Unit Pips we're working on for the upcoming 1.35 update. This task has been led by our QA Team, which was reinforced throughout the year, and that has been key to the release of Lions of the North, as the new members that have joined the Team credit over 5,000 hours of gameplay on EUIV. But apart from testing the game, they are also involved in the game design process, a classic at Paradox, which usually relies on close cooperation between the different teams. Therefore, this is the proposal we'll be testing in the following weeks, taking also into account the feedback we receive in this DD, of course! [hr][/hr] Hello everyone, I'm Pintu, one of the Embedded QAs working at Tinto. I want to show you the rework we are doing on the Unit Pips of the different Techgroups, one of the Systems that saw very few changes since the Release of EU4. As we implemented changes to the Combat calculations in the 1.34 update, we think now its a good moment to address this rebalance. First I want to quickly outline what the Unit Pips do in what parts of combat they matter, for those not as experienced in the game. In each combat phase, Strength Damage is dealt depending on the Offensive Damage Pips of the Units, while Morale Damage is dealt based on Offensive Damage and Offensive Morale Pips. Defending works the same way with the Defensive Pips of the Unit, but half of the Defensive Pips (rounded down) of the Backrow Units is added on top of that. That means that over the course of the game, the priority of pips shifts from having a strong Shock Phase to a strong Fire Phase with a focus on defensive Pips, especially for Infantry. With this rebalance of Unit Pips we mainly want to focus on Infantry Units that are clear strong or weak outliers on their Tech level and the introduction of more choices in Artillery Units beyond the first Technologies when they become available. As always, these are by no means final numbers and will be under close observation during our Testing, apart from the feedback we are receiving in this DD, so there are good chances these will change until the release of the patch. One of the swiftly explained changes is that related to Aboriginal and Polynesian Units: both got their total amount of pips reduced, to be in line with the American and African Unit Groups. These changes make them preserve some of their strengths, while not being an outlier over other units. [table] [tr] [td]
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[/td] [/tr] [/table] Now onwards to a change that influences other groups as well, which means they have to get adjusted together. The Anatolian group has a very big advantage with their early Units with their Offensive Moral Damage. We decided to tune that down a little in their Unit Options on technologies 5 and 9. Unfortunately, this affects Muslim Unit groups, which should not have an advantage over Anatolians at that point, which in turn affects Indian Units. That's why we had to tune them down as well. The Anatolian Group will keep one of their big Spikes in Pips on Tech 12, which will let them be a threat to the groups around them. This is also partly because their Unit will stay around until Tech 18, significantly later than other groups get new units. [table] [tr] [td]
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[/td] [/tr] [/table] Speaking of the Muslims, let's take a look at the changes the group got independently from other groups. The Muslim Unit on Tech 23 suffered from both very poor Offensive and Defensive Fire Pips. They do have great Morale and Shock Pips to make up for it, but with the importance of Fire Phase in the later stages of the game, we decided to help them out a little by buffing their defensive Fire on the cost of their defensive Shock. [table] [tr] [td]
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[/td] [/tr] [/table] The Chinese Group has one outlier in their Unit selection, which is situated on Tech 19, with both 3 offensive and 3 defensive Fire Pips, in addition to 3 Offensive Morale. The one drawback with that Unit is that its successor becomes available only on Tech 25, later than most other groups. Since they have an edge with that against most of their neighboring groups, the solution for this is that they lose one offensive Morale. [table] [tr] [td]
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[/td] [/tr] [/table] On the same Techlevel, the Nomadic Group has a very solid, while not great, Infantry Unit, that would do with a small Nerf to fit their theme of military decline more. [table] [tr] [td]
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[/td] [/tr] [/table] The African Groups (this includes Central, East, and West African), got a small reshuffle of Pips, to make their Last Unit on Tech 30 an actual upgrade over the previous version. [table] [tr] [td]
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[/td] [/tr] [/table] Last but not least a small change to the High American Group, where their Unit from Tech 18 gets a small bump in Pips. Before this Unit had the same amount of total Pips as the previous unit level. [table] [tr] [td]
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[/td] [/tr] [/table] Let's now move on to the Changes to Artillery. These mainly focus on the Introduction of one new Alternative per Unit, which focuses more on a defensive style, where Artillery is used to push half of their defensive Pips towards the frontline while sacrificing their damage output with lower Offensive Fire and Morale Pips. There will also be a small Adjustment on Tech 13, with making one of the Options a defensive one.

Hello and welcome back to another Europa Universalis IV Dev Diary! Its been a while since the last one, back in September. The main reason for this is that the Team has been quite busy during these months. In October we released the 1.34.4 update, that fixed most of the issues we wanted to cover after Lions of the North, and participated in the last edition of the Grandest Lan, which could be organized again at Moszna Castle (and that you can watch at the Paradox Grand Strategy YouTube channel!). In November, the team focused on launching EUIV on a new platform, GOG, with the 1.34.5 update; this is the fourth platform in which the game can be played, after Steam, Microsoft Store, and Epic Games. So now comes December, and we feel its the proper time to give you an insight into what were working on and share with you a roadmap to the 1.35 update (as we wont be releasing more patches for the 1.34 version). First and foremost, and although weve already said this, we want to thank all the players that have bought and played EUIV: Lions of the North, making it one of the most successful releases in the history of this game. We think that a non-trivial part of this has been the quality of the 1.34 Sweden free update, and we are very happy about the fact of having to patch it only two times, as we deem this version quite stable. So, what are our plans for the future? Well, not surprisingly, we want to keep focused on continuing to reduce the bug count as much as possible; in the last couple of years, the Team has fixed between 2,000 and 3,000 backlog bugs, and we think that the state of the game is much better after this effort. However, we still have hundreds of issues in our backlog, so more effort needs to be put into it. The good news is that now we have some extra room to rework some game mechanics. Dont expect anything very ambitious, but some more changes that are on the line with the fixes for the AI and the new government reforms we implemented for 1.34, fleshing out features of the game that havent received any update in a while. We will cover two of these topics today and next week. And when is new content going to be shown? We will get started with that in January after the Team comes back from the Christmas Holidays. Were very excited about it, but you will have to wait a bit more to take the first look at it. And with no further words to say, let's go with the first ideas we want to share with you!

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Idea Group Additions and Rebalance

• Infrastructure Ideas for the Admin Category
• Court Ideas for the Dip Category
• Mercenary Ideas for the Mil Category

• Removed Stability Cost Modifier and replaced with Religious Unity

• Removed Religious Unity and replaced with Max. Tolerance of Heathens and Heretics

• Removed Merc Cost and replaced with Admin Advisor Cost
• Removed Merc Maintenance and replaced with Max Promoted Cultures and Promote Culture Cost
• Removed Interest and replaced with Religious' Stability Cost modifier
• Removed Merc Manpower and replaced with States Governing Cost

• Removed Construction Cost and replaced with -25% Monthly Gold Inflation and -25% Gold Depletion Chance reduction (This is a niche change, we would would welcome feedback on this)
• Increased Interest to 1 instead of 0.5 due to 0.5 being removed from Admin Ideas (this will probably get nerfed and the other half will be reintroduced elsewhere)
• Removed Monthly Autonomy and replaced with -25% Reduce Inflation Cost and -33% Autonomy Chance Cool down
• Removed Development Cost and replaced with +10% Goods Produced Modifier

Greetings! We just released patch 1.34.5 which is a minor patch to facilitate the launch of Europa Universalis IV on GOG. The contents of this patch should have no impact on your game on Steam. The new checksum is 2f83 ############################################################# ######################## 1.34.5.0 ########################### ############################################################# ################### # Other ################### - Added integration for GOG.COM store.

The Grandest LAN is back in it's physical form! ~100 people from the community and Paradox Tinto will be taking up the mantle and once more spend three days in a Polish Castle for some amazing Roleplaying and Multiplayer action. If you are not one of the lucky participants this year you'll be able to follow the event in real time through our Twitch livestream as well as Skanderbeg for some interactive map exploration.

Streaming Schedule

Caster Team:

Here is a map of our players:

This year the played countries will be:

Greetings all! Today we release the 1.34.4 patch for Europa Universalis IV with some balance changes and addressing some issues that has come to our attention. Please read the spoiler below for the complete patch notes. As usual - we strongly recommend that you finish off any ongoing saves you have in previous versions before updating your game. You can read how to revert your game version here! In our tests 1.34.3 saves are working, but this can never be guaranteed! And as always, please report any issues in our bug report forum or submit a support ticket. Thank you! We will not be collecting bug reports from the Steamhub so please use above linked channels if you encounter any issues ################### # Gamebalance ################### # Governments - Consolidated Power government reform cannot be chosen if the head of state rules for life. - Venetian Doges will now die less frequently. - Germany now has access to the Prussian Monarchy T1 Government Reform either by becoming the Military Hegemon or by having 25% Discipline or by having 500 Development in provinces with the Prussian culture (the reform stays after you pick it. - Grabbing the Prussian monarchy as a custom nation will no longer remove it immediately after the game starts. - The government reform "Empower the Monasteries" now strengthens the Monastic Temples estate privilege, increasing the Karma gain and loss from 3 to 5, removing the influence and absolutism penalties and increasing Yearly Karma Decay by +0.03. - The government reform "The Social Contract" now gives -1 Global Unrest instead of Religious Unity. Additionally, it now removes the Max Absolutism and the Clergy loyalty penalty from the "Enforced Interfaith Dialogue" privilege. - The reform "Machiavellianism Reign" now hits -1 Stability on Declare War (which means a no-CB with that would give you -1 Stab instead of -2). - The government reforms "Centralized Bureaucracy" and "Centralized Monarchical Bureaucracy" now refund 50% of the cost of centralizing a state instead of 100%. ################### # Interface ################### # Country - Fars is now slightly pinker. # Tooltips - Added proper tooltip for Guns Drums and Steel volume 3 on the lobby screen. - Fixed 2 tooltip errors in the "Loyalty of the Regent" event. - Renamed the modifier "+1 Tax, +1 Production and +1 Manpower when Colony Finished" to "+1 of Yeach Development! when Colony Finished. # Other - Bahmanis' mission "Southern Frontier" no longer shares the same icon name as a Norwegian mission, they are now titled southern_frontier_dharma and southern_frontier_lotn. ################### # Usermodding ################### # Other - The scripted triggers which ask you to have a building of a certain type now have a custom tooltip. ################### # Script ################### # Decisions - AI will now look to actively form Prussia after the Reformation has begun, to a reasonable degree. # Events - The Teutonic Order should no longer be able to cheese its entry into the HRE via the mission tree after deciding to follow the Crusader of the steppes path. - The "Times of Need" event does not refer to a dynasty if you don't have one. - The Burgher Estate agenda to expand your Trade Company does not fire for the Lapponian area since it does not have enough provinces that fulfill the criteria of the agenda. - The event "Bergen Riots" now correctly reduces Norway's opinion of Denmark, instead of reducing Denmark's opinion of Norway. - Picking the Holy Horde or the Crusading Kingdom as the Teutons no longer mistakenly replace a non-T1 reform for them. - The event "A Helping Hand" no longer mentions "nodynasty. - The event A Helping Hand will not fire if all owned great projects are already fully upgraded. - Polish-Hungarian and Polish-Bohemian events now correctly reflect when the player is not playing as Poland and is instead playing as the Commonwealth. - Declaring war against the HRE will no longer cause the Illegal War event to fire if you are not the Teutonic Order anymore. - The Rigan event "Religion as a Business" adds instead of removing government reform progress and the estate loyalty if you refuse to take the government reform. - The Shadow Kingdom incident now informs you that you lose Imperial Authority per development which breaks away from the Empire. - The event "The Crown of Rome" will now only convert provinces in the Balkan region to your culture and religion. - The Spanish event "The Valladolid Debate" will no longer clutter your entire screen if you happen to have many colonial subjects. - The event "Repairing the Great Wall" now requires you to own and control Ningxia to fire. - Adjusted the localization of Incan events which revolve around Machu Picchu to reflect that the monument is actually in Abancay and not Cusco. Also, the event "Machu Picchu" will give Abancay 4 Base Tax and make it to your capital. - The event options of the Livonian event "Administrative Chaos in the Office" will no longer clutter the entire screen. - The Teutonic event "Fate of Moscow" and the Danish event "A new Capital for the North Sea Empire?" now give 100 diplomatic power if you cannot accept the culture. - The Spanish event "A Very Strategic Marriage" now grants all Austrian provinces in the Low Countries to Spain / Castile properly. - The event "Incompetent Cousin" now tells you which of your vassals has the incompetent ruler. # Ideas - Norse national idea "Berserkir" now grants +20% Shock Damage, and "Norse Seamen" now grants +15% Morale of Navies and +1 Combat Roll off owned Coast. - The Norse National Idea "Norse Seamen" now grants +1 Combat Bonus Off Owned Coasts and +5% Ship Durability instead of +15% Morale of Navies. # Missions - Being a pirate no longer blocks progress in your East African-based mission tree. - Aragonese Mission "Integrate Naples" can no longer be autocompleted if you do not own Golden Century. - Fixed a typo in the Lithuanian mission "Enforce the Tribunal" so now it properly counts Noble Estate privileges. - Rearranged the Third Rome mission tree for minor Russian nations to fit more missions and enable a little more flavor. - The Polish mission "The Commonwealth" now correctly highlights provinces needed even if they are owned by a non-tributary subject. - Lithuania now has access to the entire Commonwealth tree's branching path about developing Ruthenian lands. - The mission Store Kopparberget can now be completed without requiring prosperity if you do not own the Mandate of Heaven. - The Polish mission 'Break Livonia' now grants claims to conquer Pomerania. - The PLC mission Path of entering and interacting in the HRE now has alternatives in case the HRE is dissolved after picking your missions. - The Majapahit mission "The Porch of Mecca" allows you now to convert Muslim and Christian provinces through Propagating Religion. - The Danish mission "Eliminate Novgorod" can now be completed if subjects own the provinces instead. - The Danish missions "Integrate Norway" and "Integrate Sweden" now remove the diplomatic reputation hit from annexing subjects when completed. - The Livonian mission "Secularize the Order" no longer requires you to wait for Protestantism to spawn. - The Livonian Crusader mission "Heal the Schism" no longer requires you to own the Russian provinces yourself. - Fixed the encoding of the Swedish mission file. By Odin, Novgorod shall now be renamed Hlmgarr. - Adjusted the tooltips of a few Danish, Gotlandic and Swedish mission requirements so they are easier to understand. - Made the first missions of Livonia available for Kurland too. # Setup - The game no longer steals your custom nation points by taking away the Great Veche Republic reform once you start the game as a custom nation. # Other - The emperor will now always reject the Teutonic wish to join the HRE if they take the Crusader Path during the incident. - Republic AIs in the HRE no longer pick "Union of States" if they are an OPM so they do not refuse to become a Free City. - The scripted trigger "province_has_current_tech_fort_trigger" is now true if you have a fort that is ahead of its time in a province. This fixes an issue where missions like "Fortify the Caucasus" could not be completed. - The tooltip of the government reform "Regional Councils" now tells you what these state edicts for the ages are. - The Norse culture is now a valid culture for recruiting Carolean units. - The estate privilege "Grant Orthodox Autonomy" is now available to all non-Orthodox/Coptic Christian nations and is no longer locked behind mission tree rewards. - Adjusted the localization of the government reforms "Open Public Elections", "A Dynastic Order" and "Lords of the Sea" to make them more fitting with non-monastic orders. - Government reforms which previously needed an idea group to be visible are now always visible. They, however, still require you to take the necessary idea group to be picked. - Poland and the Commonwealth's modifiers now have descriptions. - The Monument "Dujiangyan" now gives only local dev cost in the area instead of global dev cost. - The progress list for the Dutch Revolt has been simplified so it does not bloat your screen anymore. - The Custom Nation idea for Expand Administration Cost modifier has been buffed now, decreasing the cost by 100% for each level. - Added new ideas available for Custom Nations. - The objective "Asian Trade" of the Age of Reformation can now be completed if you trade in Cloves too. - State Centralization now grants -20% Local Governing Cost and +0.25 Prosperity Growth instead of -25% Local Governing cost and +0.1 Prosperity Growth. - The Teutonic mission "Secularize Prussia" no longer requires you to wait until Protestantism spawns to be completed. - Lbeck will no longer get two events related to "Georg Giese". The event which gives you him as your advisor as its only option will no longer fire. - Lubeck's modifiers now have descriptions. - The Teutonic/Prussian mission "The Silesian and the Sorbian" can now be completed if there are no Silesian or Sorbian in North Germany and Poland present. - Finland's modifiers now have descriptions. - Lithuania's modifiers now have descriptions. ################### # Bugfixes ################### - The triggered province modifier "Imperial Prussian Capital" is now working properly for the Stratocratic Administration reform. - Fixed an issue that made you lose the Prussian government if you form Germany. - Conquering a province with a temple or a cathedral while having the "Expand Temple Rights" government reform will now apply the modifier to the province. - Fixed missing strings for the unlockable Livonian governments. Also, fixed a bug for the Livonian Plutocracy where the Global Trade Goods Modifier was not applied correctly. - The events "The Situation of the Teutonic Order" and "The Situation of the Livonian Order" now triggers if you have Lions of the North instead of Emperor active. - Fixed a bug that prevented Riga from maintaining the Propagate Religion trade policy.

Greetings all! Today we released a patch to address some issues that has been brought to our attention since the initial release of the 1.34 Sweden Update. As usual - we strongly recommend that you finish off any ongoing saves you have in 1.33.x before updating your game. You can read how to revert your game version here! In our tests 1.34.2 saves are working, but this can never be guaranteed! And as always, please report any issues in our bug report forum or submit a support ticket. Thank you! ################### # Gamebalance ################### # Governments - The Prussian Monarchy / Stratocratic Administration / Militaristic Divine State reforms are now available for Germany if it was formed by the Teutonic Order even if it never formed Prussia before. - The native reform "Land Tradition" now also grants +1 Monthly Administrative Power so players without Conquest of Paradise do not have a reform without modifiers. - Polish unique reforms "Legislative Sejm" and "Integrate the Sejmiks" are now available with the new Polish T1 Reforms. - Removed the reduced governing capacity from the Mandala System reform. # Units - Carolean units now have 5% Morale Damage instead of 10%. # Other - The Aristocratic idea "International Nobility" now gives -10% General Cost instead of -20%. - The Divine idea "Friends in High Places" now gives -33% Cost of Reducing War Exhaustion and -10% Leader cost instead of 20% Leader cost. - Dynastic Administration now grants +0.2 Yearly Corruption instead of +0.15. - Fixed that you could prolong battle excessively by only reinforcing to backrow. Now artillery is forced to reinforce front row cells opposite enemy regiments as a last resort. ################### # AI ################### # Other - Made AI understand new morale damage modifiers. ################### # Interface ################### # Tooltips - Guns Drums and Steel Vol. 3 now has a proper localized description on the lobby interface. - Fredman's Epistles music pack does not reference Sweden when you play as Gotland in the Lobby. ################### # Usermodding ################### # Other - Made the government traits and flags which enable and disable estates more uniform and consistent. ################### # Script ################### # Decisions - The decision "Adopt Hussitism" is no longer usable for junior partners. # Events - The option "The infrastructure of the mine needs more attention." of the Swedish event "Investment of Falun" is no longer disabled if it already has a manufactory and a counting house. Reason for this change is because it is possible to get locked out of getting a Counting House in the province under certain circumstances. - The Swedish event "Rise of the Swedish Kingdom" now gives permanent claims on the areas required for the Swedish mission "The German Coastline". - The opinion bonus of the Swedish event "Sweden asks for Support for their Independence" is now applied on Denmark instead of vice versa if you refuse to help Sweden. - The event "The Pacta Conventa and the Henrykian Articles" can now only fire if the event "The Nieszawa Privileges" already occurred before. - The event "Sack of Capital" has its event option back. - Added a go to button for the Noble demands events for the Kalmar Union. - The event "Peasants' War" has now a go to button and the effects are now in the event option itself. - Livonian event "The Role of the [Root.Monarch.GetTitle]" for the creation of your government reform no longer requires you to have a 3/3/3 ruler to fire. - The event "Nobles Demand Recompensation" can now only fire if you have the Nobles estate in your country. - The Papal event "Sublimis Deus" will not trigger twice for the same country in Iberia. - The Machu Picchu events can now all trigger properly for the owner of Machu Picchu. # Ideas - The event 'The Rule of God' no longer grants 25% Morale of Armies and 5% Discipline, it now grants 5% Morale of Armies and 5% Discipline to better match its negative equivalent event. - Persian Traditions no longer grant +1 Cavalry Shock, they now grant +15% Cavalry Power instead as in previous version. # Missions - Getting Gold in your capital as Lubeck (instead of Fish) removes the "Lubeck Herring Market" modifier. - The event Pact of Cooperation that can happen between Poland/PLC and either Hungary or Bohemia no longer grants Poland the Union if Poland does not exist. - The Swedish mission "Integrate the Sami" no longer requires that the owner accepts the culture of the province if the owner is your subject. - The Swedish missions "The Crown of Norway" and "The German Coastline" now override claims with permanent claims in their rewards. - The Ethiopian mission "Surpass the Past" now requires you to be at peace to complete it. - Lithuania has its access to the default missions back if you do not own Lions of the North. - The Byzantine mission "The Eternal City" will no longer punish you with stability hits when you do not have the Purple Phoenix DLC. Instead, you will heal the schism and ask all Catholics to convert to Orthodoxy. - The reward of renaming your country to "Burma" has been moved from the mission "Chakravarti" to "First Burmese Empire. # Other - The Noble privilege "Increased Levies" and the Maratha privilege "Increased Maratha Recruitment" are now mutually exclusive. - The Livonian Order is now called "Livlndischer Orden" instead of "Livonischer Orden" in the German version of the game to keep it consistent with all the other references of the order. - The Black Army mercenary company no longer costs Army Professionalism when recruited. - The Angkor Wat monument is now available for Dharmic religions too. - Added a condition for government reforms which compete with an estates-enabling reforms. Through this condition, it is no longer possible to swap the estate reform with a non-estate one as long the unlocked estate has any privileges. - Removed the "take no Admin ideas" condition from Imperial Prussian Capital as it feels bad for being punished for taking an idea group. - The Estate Statutory Rights Privilege events will now fire even if you have more than four privileges active. ################### # Bugfixes ################### - The Polish mission "Cultural Flowering" now correctly checks if your ruler has fourteen monarch stats in total. - Fixed Lbeck mission name in Spanish for Double Entry Bookkeeping being out of place. - The reward tooltip for the center of trade upgrade in the Swedish mission "Window to the East" is now always shown. - Poland / PLC Now properly gets permanent claims in the "Varna Aftermath" mission if Bohemia or Hungary are not eligible for a Union. - The Teutonic mission "Develop Prussia" gets its progress no longer reset if you form Prussia. - The Danish mission "Challenge the English Navy" will only request a flagship if you own Golden Century instead of Rule Britannia. - Shun will now always be at war with Ming with the "Claim the Mandate" CB if the player chooses to play as them. - Fixed a bunch of typos. - Forming another country while having the Norse ideas previously refused will no longer override your ideas with the already rejected Norse ideas. - Fixed a bug which made the conversion of Catholic provinces impossible for Riga through propagating religion. - The native government reforms "Trading with Foreigners" and "The Great Plains calls to us" are no longer blocked for no reason if you do not own Conquest of Paradise. - Fixed an issue which made the usage of the Karma decision from the government reform "Empower the Monasteries" impossible. - The Kalmar Union is no longer active when you do not own Lions of the North. - Fixed that new morale damage modifiers did not work when applied to a country. - Fixed issue that the winner of a battle could get stack wiped. - Fixed rare crash when country trade view was open. - Fixed mercenary-related crash when using incompatible version of Extended Timeline mod (and potentially others). - Fixed crash when using old mod in nation designer. - War taxes no longer increase monthly military power gain by 2 instead of decreasing it. - Trading Posts from Reform 'Union of States' no longer persist after Government Change. - Vassalization Acceptance is no longer called "Vassalizatation Acceptance.

Hello everyone! It's been a week since we released EUIV: Lions of the North and 1.34 'Sweden' update, and I'll start by saying that the entire team involved in it wants to thank the community for their great support. The feedback we have received so far has been very positive and we greatly appreciate the passion with which players have embraced this release. The teams that have worked on this project at Paradox Tinto and Paradox Interactive have put in a lot of effort, and we feel very rewarded to see this great reception. So let me say on behalf of us, thank you very much! But even if the release has been really good from our point of view, there will always be issues appearing, and our goal is to continue to improve the state of EUIV. Therefore, were currently working on the first hotfix of the update, version 1.34.3, which will fix a bunch of issues reported since last week. Stay tuned, as it will be released in the next few days. Apart from that, we also want to address today some content that was not previously revealed but was planned since we started designing Lions of the North: the Norse Easter Egg we included in it. First question: Why was this content made secret? We had a couple of reasons behind this. The first is that even if we wanted to create some Norse-focused content, we also wanted to keep LotNs focus on what we thought was its core content, the new deep, branching mission trees we were creating for the countries in the Baltic region. So we were a bit afraid about the new Norse content hijacking the LotN discussions and negatively affecting the general opinion on the other content (which was the main focus of the Immersion Pack, at the end of the day). On the other hand, we also thought that it would be interesting to create some secret content, as usually EUIV has not used so many easter eggs compared to other GSGs; but it would also be a challenge, if created under certain conditions. So we went ahead with this overall design, even if we had to tackle some critics during the development process, especially in the dev diary devoted to Norway; at the time we were so adamant about adding more Norse content, because we had already added it to our development version, and we didnt want to mess that up! Second question: How do you become Norse? We know that many of you probably know the ways from the guides that this community has made, but we figured out it would be nice to give an official answer to this question, so thats what were going to do with the help of my fellow colleague Ogele. For those of you who may not want to have this content revealed to you go no further! There are two different ways of changing your religion to Norse: one is based on a lot of luck, the other is a lot more technically doable, but less flavorful. Lets start with the more flavorful way first. If you have the following conditions complete then the the event A Wave of Curiosity will fire:

• Your Primary Culture is either Danish, Swedish, Norwegian or Icelandic
• The current age is the Age of Discovery
• You are Catholic
• You are independent
• You are either excommunicated or you declared Statute in Restraint of Appeals
• Your ruler is either a 5/5/5 or is a Scholar or is a Sinner
• You own the province of Bergslagen
• You have a lot of luck, as the event has a Mean Time to Happen of 100 years. This can be at least halved if you are excommunicated despite also having Religious Ideas

• Your religion group is NOT Pagan
• Your primary is either Danish, Swedish, Norwegian or Icelandic
• Any owned province in Scandinavia is Animist and has animist rebels active
• The current age is the Age of Reformation

For almost a decade, Europa Universalis IV has encouraged players to explore new and exciting alternate histories of the early modern world. In the newest immersion pack, Lions of the North, dramatically different pasts can unfold before your eyes. Denmark can keep its hold on its northern subjects. The Teutonic Order can retreat to its past crusader glories. Gotland can become a pirate haven. All of these dramatic what ifs are now available in the new Baltic Sea themed add-on to Europa Universalis IV. With branching missions, new government options for major players and even new military units, Lions of the North is packed with variety and excitement. Make your enemies hear your roar! [previewyoutube=tXN3PmaGg6o;full][/previewyoutube] Highlights of Europa Universalis IV: Lions of the North include:

• Expanded Branching Missions: Decisions taken along some mission trees will determine what options are available to you in the future, allowing you to follow distinct and dramatically different alternate paths.
• New Mission Trees for Denmark: Maintain power in Scandinavia while expanding your influence over the northern German cities.
• New Mission Trees for Sweden and Norway: Break free from Danish dominance, and turn a foothold on the continent into the base for a northern empire.
• New Mission Trees for Teutonic Order, Livonian Order and Riga: Follow a path of religious zealotry or secularize your realm with an eye on the future.
• New Mission Trees for Poland, Lithuania and the Commonwealth: Vast lands on the border of East and West present unique challenges for ambitious rulers.
• Other Mission Tree Changes: Pirate kings of Gotland, unique options for a united Scandinavia, a free Finland, and a powerful Danzig.
• New Government Reforms and Estate Privileges: Some regional powers will have unique government options and new ways to court the favor and influence of local estates.
• New Units: The Swedish Carolean Infantry and Polish-Lithuanian Winged Hussars will be available for recruitment.
• New Unit Art: 35 new army sprites for regional powers.
• New Music: 3 new pieces of Scandinavian music, plus 3 other Baltic themed songs.

As is customary with the release of new paid content, we also release a free update for all owners of the Europa Universalis IV base game containing bug fixes, QoL changes and some new content like a mission tree for Lbeck. As Steam has a restriction on numbers of characters allowed in one of these posts we need to direct you to our official forum for the full changelog. >> FULL CHANGELOG HERE <<

Greetings everyone! Today we published our traditional Feature Highlight Video in which we do an overview of what's coming in Lions of the North and the free 1.34 Sweden update, respectively. [previewyoutube=LuGrcWClHCU;full][/previewyoutube] Also today, from 19:00 CEST, we celebrate the upcoming release by making the base game Europa Universalis IV free to play on Steam up until Thursday! So bring your friends in for some free EU4 gaming the coming days. And remember that if you play in multiplayer all players will have access to all DLC content owned by the host. Don't miss this golden opportunity to have some EU4 fun with that friend that haven't yet gotten the game - and from tomorrow Wednesday you can also let them try out Lions of the North for free (along with all other DLC's owned by you) https://store.steampowered.com/app/236850/Europa_Universalis_IV/

Greetings! It's been a while since the last Dev Diary, but for a good reason: We're finally one week away from Europa Universalis IV: Lions of the North release! Today we're sharing with you the changelog of the new version, 1.34, nicknamed 'Sweden' for good, not overpowered at all, reasons. We're quite happy with the effort we've put into this update, as well as with the new content we've created for Lions of the North, and the whole team is very excited about it being released and played! Along with the new version, we have a new loading screen, as usual, and we also want to share with you the picture of Charles XII of Sweden:
Apart from that, this Thursday, 8th of September, I'll be the guest of the EUIV Twitch stream with BjornB , when we'll play and talk about some of the new content, with great fun for sure! We hope you appreciate the effort we've put into this update, and we'll try to answer any questions and concerns relating to it during this week. Cheers! EDIT: Sadly Steam Announcements have a very limited space so I could only fit a small portion in here. So instead of cutting things out I must ask you to visit the original post on our official forum to see the actual changelog. //BjornB

Looking to stay in touch with the EU4 team? we've got you covered! Last week we proudly launched our very own Europa Universalis Instagram! There we look forward to sharing with you all of the most glorious content including

• Historical Maps
• Mod spotlights
• History spotlights
• much more :)

Join us and follow along!

Rich in natural resources and medieval trading cities, the Early Modern Baltic is fertile ground for a rising empire. Whoever controls the western passage can dictate access to lands ripe for development, exploitation and conquest. Old ways and ancient allegiances are quickly giving way to new ambitions. On 13 September, you will have your chance to be one of the Lions of the North. Lions of the North is a new immersion pack for Europa Universalis IV, Paradox Interactives best selling historical grand strategy game set in the dramatic centuries of the early modern world. In Lions of the North, you will find a host of new National Missions and unique content tailored for the great and middle powers of the Baltic and Scandinavian regions. Preserve or undermine the Kalmar Union between Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Revive the Teutonic Order as a Crusader state. Build an island pirate kingdom to threaten thriving commercial centers. Dozens of new alternate historical paths are open to you. [previewyoutube=egO5IvndkSM;full][/previewyoutube] Highlights of Europa Universalis IV: Lions of the North include:

• Expanded Branching Missions: Decisions taken along some mission trees will determine what options are available to you in the future, allowing you to follow distinct and dramatically different alternate paths.
• New Mission Trees for Denmark: Maintain power in Scandinavia while expanding your influence over the northern German cities.
• New Mission Trees for Sweden and Norway: Break free from Danish dominance, and turn a foothold on the continent into the base for a northern empire.
• New Mission Trees for Teutonic Order, Livonian Order and Riga: Follow a path of religious zealotry or secularize your realm with an eye on the future.
• New Mission Trees for Poland, Lithuania and the Commonwealth: Vast lands on the border of East and West present unique challenges for ambitious rulers.
• Other Mission Tree Changes: Pirate kings of Gotland, unique options for a united Scandinavia, a free Finland, and a powerful Danzig.
• New Government Reforms and Estate Privileges: Some regional powers will have unique government options and new ways to court the favor and influence of local estates.
• New Units: The Swedish Carolean Infantry and Polish-Lithuanian Winged Hussars will be available for recruitment.
• New Unit Art: 35 new army sprites for regional powers.
• New Music: 3 new pieces of Scandinavian music, plus 3 other Baltic themed songs.

Good afternoon and welcome to todays Developer Diary! Todays topics are new Achievements and Moddability expansion, as well as further discussion on the Idea groups changes proposed by the community and our QA But first, weve got a cool Stream for you! Tomorrow, Wednesday the 10th between 10am and 6pm CEST well go live with the Europa Universalis IV segment of this years Grand Campaign! So head on over to our Twitch channel tomorrow and join us! Read more here: [url=https://pdxint.at/3p5vuqp]https://pdxint.at/3p5vuqp [hr][/hr]

Achievements

Modding Additions

Modifiers and Effects:

The tag gets instantly bankrupt - Added reasons_to_elect which adds additional modifier for HRE election reasons - Added morale_damage and morale_damage_received that works similarly to fire_damage and fire_damage_received during combat - Added military_tactics modifiers which allows you to increase this value given by the military tech. - Added max_hostile_attrition - local_garrison_size = - modifies the local garrison size of the province as long it has a fort to begin with, see the "garrison_size" modifier for reference - global_attacker_dice_roll_bonus, local_attacker_dice_roll_bonus, global_defender_dice_roll_bonus, local_defender_dice_roll_bonus, own_territory_dice_roll_bonus, global_trade_goods_size
Modifiers both local and country-wide take a good bit of the spotlight for 1.34 with interesting new one such as the dice roll for defenders, attackers and own territory. This new modifier will add another layer of depth to military-related rewards of events, missions and decisions should you wish to mod them in. Whats more, some new modifiers we are excited to play around with are local garrison size, giving more defensive capabilities to smaller nations with defensible terrain and military_tactics, a very potent modifier that decreases the casualties your side takes during battle. A small note here, this modifier always applies as a percentage to the base amount (0.5) thus a 10% increase would always amount to essentially +0.1 military tactics.

Rule Modifiers

In the EU IV Wiki theres a portion of the Modifiers page dedicated to the so-called Rule Modifiers. Up until now, these were hardcoded to only appear either in Ideas or Age Bonuses. However, with 1.34 and onwards we will be able to utilize them as normal country modifiers! Some of the cool modifiers included are the ability for units to ignore fort zones of control, attack bonus in provinces with the same terrain as capital province and allowing ships to repair in coastal sea zones adjacent to owned provinces.

Triggers (requirements):

- any_war_enemy_country/all_war_enemy_countries - gives_military_access_to = (returns true if the country gives the specified country military access - receives_military_access_from = (returns true if the country receives military access from the specified country - gives_fleet_basing_rights_to = (returns true if the country gives the specified country fleet basing rights - receives_fleet_basing_rights_from = (returns true if the country receives fleet basing rights from the specified country - added has_naval_doctrine = or "any"
The idea behind adding these trigger checks is to help save time from long and performance-intensive scope checks for requirements such as all_war_enemy_countries. Furthermore, checking for countries that give any type of access would only serve to further imbue missions and new modding works with more freedom to create content as its visualized, without having to cut down or resort to duct tape solutions. Lastly, a personal favorite is the check for naval doctrine, a trigger I am very much looking forward to using!

Miscellaneous

Mercenary armies will now have descriptions so you can write the story behind some of the most legendary hired arms during the timeline of the game. This change aims at adding an increased sense of roleplay and help the player see the mercenary armies as a unique and alive part of the game, not just some faceless troops to be thrown into battle :D In this instance, the description is used to declare that the Swiss mercenaries will not cost any Army Professionalism:
Golden Ages now have the ability to be extended (in the form of months) and even be reset as part of a new effect reset_golden_age = yes & extend_golden_age =
The Breakthrough mechanic will also appear in the game, however by default it will be turned off (read more in this Developer Diary about Breakthrough). However, the system is in place and modders can activate and tweak it on demand via the defines file.
Aggressive Expansion can now be granted as an effect as add_aggressive_expansion and reverse_add_aggressive_expansion. Moreover, this effect can be affected by a parameter to simulate AE taking culture, religion etc into account. Monuments will be able to have descriptions, conditional modifiers (if X applies you get Y else get something else as a modifier) and even have region-wide effects on top of province, area and global effects.
We went ahead and added a new console command, namely remove_country , behold its effect! Before:
After:
(Sweden will still fight and win its independence, subsequently annexing the entirety of Scandinavia despite the fact that it does not exist anymore - still not overpowered ). Finally, we have converted all the stats of special units. They used to reside in the defines file, now they are static modifiers which are more moddable:
Having advisors give scaling bonuses based on their level will also be a reality with 1.34, a change we are most excited about! For example, you can have Advisors grant -5% Mercantilism Cost per level, for a total of -25% at level 5:
Overall, 1.34 adds a very healthy number of new triggers, modifiers and effects to play around with and we are looking forward to seeing how they will be utilized both by our colleagues as well as the modding community. Do bare in mind that the modding additions showcased here are still a work in progress and only reflect a portion of what we are adding for 1.34 due to us wanting to keep this Developer Diary from being 20 pages longer and only showing off some of the highlights! [hr][/hr]

Idea Groups

And now here Pava, talking (again) about the balance changes for the upcoming update. After going through all the feedback we received from the community a in the last couple of weeks, and more internal testing about the changes, this is going to be the final version of the Idea Groups changes for 1.34 Update:

• Economic Ideas:
  • Bonus now gives -10% Development Cost instead of -20%.
• Innovative Ideas:
  • Optimism now also gives +1 Leaders without Upkeep.
  • 'Formalized Officer Corps' replaced by Expanded Policies, now granting +1 Free Policies.
• Espionage:
  • State Propaganda now also reduces Covert Action Relation Impact by -100%.
  • 'Agent Training' now gives -15% Advisor Cost.
  • Vetting now also grants -0.2 Yearly Corruption.
  • 'Privateers' now give +25% Chance to Capture Enemy Ships instead of +25% Embargo Efficiency.
  • Audit Checks replaced by Blackmailing, now granting:
    • Reasons to Accept Vassalization +15.
    • Monthly Favors Modifier +33%.
  • Bonus now gives Rebel Support Efficiency of 100% instead of 50%.
• Exploration Ideas:
  • Free Colonies now gives +10% Settler Chance.
  • Global Empire now also gives +25% Treasure Fleet Income.
• Trade Ideas
  • National Trade Policy now also decreases Promote Mercantilism Cost by 25%.
  • Bonus now also gives +10% Loyalty of the Burghers/Vaisyas
• Aristocratic:
  • Noble Knights now gives -20% Cavalry Cost instead of 10% and +15% Cavalry Combat Ability instead of 10%.
  • 'Serfdom':
    • National manpower modifier now giving +15% instead of +33%.
    • Adding -5% Development Cost.
  • 'International Diplomacy': Replacing +1 Free Leader Pool for -25% General Cost.
  • Noble Connections now increases mercenary manpower by 25% instead of 20%.
• Divine:
  • 'Martyrs' now gives +20% Manpower in True Faith Provinces instead of +15% Global Manpower modifier..
  • 'Servants of God' now gives -5% Development cost.
• Horde:
  • 'Horse-lords of the Steppes' now also gives +10% Cavalry to Infantry ratio.
  • Bonus now also gives +10% Tribes Loyalty Equilibrium.
• Indigenous Ideas:
  • Controlled Burns from Indigenous Ideas gives now +15% National Manpower Modifier instead of +20%
• Plutocratic:
  • 'Tradition of Payment'
    • Replacing +10% Mercenary Manpower for -20% Mercenary Cost.
    • Mercenary Discipline now gives +5% instead of +2.5%.
  • 'Free Cities' now also gives -5% Development Cost.
• Naval Ideas:
  • Naval Glory now also gives +1 Impact on Siege.
  • Oak Forests for Ships now also gives +10% Ship Durability.
  • Bonus now gives -100% Naval Barrage Cost instead of +10% Ship Durability.
• Offensive Ideas:
  • Grand Army now gives +10% Special Unit Force Limit and +15% Land Force Limit Modifier instead of 20% Land Force Limit Modifier.
• Quality Ideas:
  • Quality Education now also gives +0.5 Navy Tradition.
• Quantity:
  • 'Leve en Masse' now gives +25% National Manpower modifier instead of 50%.
  • Bonus now gives +25% Land Force Limit Modifier instead of +50%.

Policies:

• Economic - Quantity:
  • No longer gives -10% Development Cost, instead it gives -10% Land Maintenance Modifier.
• Innovative - Quality:
  • Now gives Infantry Combat Ability +15% instead of +10%.
• Aristocratic - Espionage:
  • Now gives Cavalry Combat Ability +15% instead of +10%, and +10% Noble Estate Loyalty Equilibrium.

On top of that, weve made a few small balance changes here and there, implementing feedback weve received in the last DDs; most of them we already commented on in there , so I dont want to make this one longer. And speaking of, this is going to be the last Development Diary of this cycle. Most of the team here at Tinto will be going on vacation in the next few weeks, so were making sure that in the following days all the content gets as polished as possible for the release, and some team members will also be taking care of the preparations during this period. We know that there will be speculation about the dates of the next DLC, but we want to be sure that we offer a high quality product; so hopefully there will be more news on this soon. Thank you very much to everyone whos been following us and participated in this cycle of DDs that began more than 3 months ago. Were quite happy with the feedback weve received during it, and were also very excited about the new content and the update. See you!

[ 2022-08-09 16:04:29 CET ] [ Original post ]