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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[h2]Loading Screen[/h2]
As usual, the first piece of art is the loading screen. Since the Incas are one of the pillars for the Winds of Change DLC and the free update, weve decided to introduce a new leader for the Pre-Columbian Civilizations, marking the first since El Dorado in 2015, which featured Moctezuma II in Tenochtitlan. Our choice was Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui, also called Pachactec (14381471), because of his importance as the founder of the Incan Empire.

Pachactec was the ninth Sapa Inca of the Kingdom of Cusco, one of the most important cities in the Incan Empire. He successfully brought together the territories spanning from Quito to present-day Chile, forming the Incan Empire. Among his notable achievements was the creation of the world-famous Machu Picchu. Therefore, we decided to portray him in front of this town at its peak, full of gardens and llamas. Fun fact, in Quechua, Pachakutiy means 'the turn of the world'.

So we can probably say that he is the perfect candidate for Winds of Change since this DLC is about changing, and updates focusing on almost half of the world!


(A higher resolution image can be found over on our forums)

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[h2]UI Art[/h2]

Our 2D artists have spent the last few months creating new illustrations and icons. More than 300 new art assets have been added to the DLC, including more than 100 new mission icons, 25 new government reforms, and 5 new government mechanics to cover all the content created for Winds of Change and the 1.37 update. Here are some of our favorite examples:








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[h2]Unit Models[/h2]

Moving on to 3D models, with Winds of Change we have included 32 new unit models.

Our criteria for choosing the specific countries was to focus on areas lacking distinctive representations, presenting a considerable challenge as we've already explored most of the globe in previous DLCs. So lets see whos ending up with the newest fanciest uniforms and cool hats.

[h3]Romagnol Culture[/h3]



Romagnoli is one of the most important cultures in what is modern Italy today, while in the past the Duchy of Ferrara was involved in the infighting with their neighboring states in the region. One of our main inspirations was the Gala armor of the Italian General Alessandro Farnese, Duke of the Parma and Piacenza, which is very clear in the design of the early age armor set, and the heavy armor is also visible on the second unit, before going into a more modern and light uniform for the later ages, with more focus on agility and utility.

[h3]Umbrian Culture[/h3]



The Umbrian countries (Urbino, Spoleto, and Perugia) fell under the control of the Papal States in the Middle Ages. They used a great variety of armor pieces, but in general, they wore padded clothing, chainmail, breastplates, and helmets. We see that especially between the 15th and 17th centuries, one of our inspirations for them was the Infantry of House Frederico da Montefeltro. For the later ages, the uniforms were also more based on mobility and utility, with the use of belts and pouches for ammunition and occasionally swords or bayonets as well.

[h3]Rhenish Culture[/h3]



The Rhenish units came from one of the most important regions in Germany during the period, and had great recognition for their military force and discipline, playing an important role in European military history during the 16th and 17th centuries. For the units in the earlier ages, we got inspiration from the typical Rhenish Palatinate Landsknecht outfit, with its intricate designs and very unique use of colors and style. For the later ages, the main inspiration was the Regiment Von Nassau and also the 2nd battalion of the 6th Infantry of the Confederation of the Rhine.

[h3]Westphalian Culture[/h3]



The Westphalian units (like Munster, Dortmund, or Oldenburg) had a very significant military history in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries. For our early-age units, our main inspiration was the Maximilian armor, a typical 16th-century German plate armor made in steel and decorated in a very specific way that helped to deflect blades during melee combat.

[h3]Dalmatia Culture[/h3]



Most of Dalmatia, in the eastern coast of the Adriatic sea, was part of the Venetian Republic for most of the period, their inhabitants having served in the armies, while the most relevant independent state in 1444 was the Republic of Ragusa. The Dalmatians' impact and expertise in maritime warfare are clearly apparent in the design of the units, crafted to maintain the essence of a military force seamlessly integrated with a naval fleet.

[h3]Croatian Culture[/h3]



As Croatia was part of the Habsburg Monarchy during most of the period, they were quite important for the military forces of the Habsburg and were involved in many conflicts and campaigns across Europe, including the Thirty Years War. One notable feature of the units is the influence of this Croatian military style, showcased in one of the outfit designs featuring their distinctive cravat. This design also served as inspiration for the formation of the Cravat Regiment in contemporary Croatia. Additionally, countries with Slovenian culture will use these Croation unit models as well.

[h3]Moldavia[/h3]



Moldavia starts in EUIV as an independent principality, but soon after fell under the control of Lithuania, then passed into the hands of the Ottomans for about 200 years, and finally was annexed by Russia at the end of the 18th century, which would make their units to be part of different army forces of the Eastern European region. Nevertheless, they managed to maintain some independence during all these years. We have tried to portray their culture while showing some influence of their rulers. For the late-age uniform we decided to use a tall shako with leather details, decorative lace on the pants and utility belt, and sashes for the sword and sharp-looking jacket.

[h3]Slovakian Culture[/h3]



The Slovakian units are based upon the region of Nitra, situated in present-day Slovakia, a region mostly that was controlled first by Hungary, and then by the Habsburg monarchy. Our design inspiration drew heavily from early Habsburg military attire. We decided for a more distinctive approach by crafting lighter variations of these uniforms, avoiding bulky breastplates and armor in favor of a more agile appearance.


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[h2]Portraits for Woman Advisors in North America[/h2]

As we mentioned last week, we have decided to include the last possible combinations of advisors that were missing, to cover all the different graphical cultures (such as European, African, Muslim, and East Asian cultures). This means that with the upcoming Update 1.37, you will be able to enjoy a total of 21 new portraits for women advisors in North America. These portraits will cover all the possible combinations for administrative, diplomatic, and military advisors. Let's take a look at all of them!



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[h2]Winds of Change Art[/h2]

We are extremely happy about the great reception that the key art for Winds of Change has received. We would like to take this opportunity to give you some context as to who the different characters starring in this art piece are. The idea behind this illustration is to portray these three different rulers facing the dawn of a new age. Lets start with the closest ruler; the last Incan, Atahualpa. The second is Babur, founder of the Mughal Empire and descendant of Timur and Genghis Khan. And the last one is William of Orange, also known as the Silent, who was the leader of the Dutch Revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs.


(As with the loading screen art, you can find a higher resolution over on our forums)

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[h2]Achievements[/h2]

Lets move to the next section since [USER=1611326]@Dargeths[/USER] is going to talk about Achievements implemented in 1.37.



[h3]It's all coming together[/h3]
Complete the Incan mission tree (Sunset invasion missions excluded).

A path of conquest for the Inca is waiting for you, it only requires adoring the Inti Gods, embracing the Andean traditions, and pulling the right lever.



[h3]Doge Coins[/h3]
Starting as Venice, become the Economic Hegemon.

A rich doge is a happy doge, especially when he has an enormous fortune thanks to his crazy investments that can reach to the moon.



[h3]Veritas Vincit[/h3]
Starting as Bohemia, make Hussite the official faith of the Empire and become the Emperor.

With the Emperor dethroned it is time to redecorate a bit. The Goose seems superior to an eagle anyway!



[h3]The eagle flies alone[/h3]
Starting as Hisn Kayfa, reach a forcelimit of 500k

We know that Hisn Kayfa already had one achievement but is not enough to calm the ambitions of the Saladin Eagle. Now you have a second excuse to do the new playthrough of Hisn Kayfa into Ayyubids.



[h3]Mayapahit?[/h3]
Starting as any Mayan country, form Maya and own or have a subject own the island of Java.

What happened? You seem confused. Majapahit? What is that? It has always been Mayan land.



[h3]There Khan only be one![/h3]
Starting as a Steppe Horde, ensure there exists no other horde on the world.

The steppes are a land of greedy and ruthless people. Here alliances and brotherhoods are created as quickly as they are destroyed. Only a warrior can survive unifying the Hordes under a single rule.



[h3]Baborg[/h3]
As the Mughals, assimilate at least 12 culture groups.

Babur was famous for forming the Mughal Empire and conquering most parts of India. But the Babur's ultimate goal is achieving perfection and assimilating the rest of the world.



[h3]Get out of my swamp![/h3]
As the Netherlands, own all of the Low Countries and have 50% or more Fort Defense.

Sooomebody once told me, the world is gonna roll me And even more so if you decide to go into the Dutch swamp.



[h3]Timurizz[/h3]
Starting as the Timurids, have 75 prestige and 5 allies with 100 trust and 150 opinion

The lame was a benevolent ruler who decided to spread love and freedom to Central Asia, or that is what I remember from school.



[h3]The Hungarian Games[/h3]
Starting as Hungary, win 23 battles with the Black Army against at least 12 different countries.

The Hungarian Games are close to starting, but this year the Black Army has all the numbers to achieve the victory over the rest of the tributes.

A last note. Since Winds of Change and the 1.37 Inca update is are mainly focused on giving flavor to different regions and countries, we have adjusted different old achievements related to the new content added from previous patches to make sure that all of them are possible to complete with the new set-up for Europa Universalis IV.

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This concludes this week's Dev Diary and also the second to last Dev Diary before the release of Winds of Change. Next week, Dargeths will talk about the Patch Notes for the 1.37 Inca Update.

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.
  

Coming from Central Asia, this Gunpowder Empire has only one objective in mind: "Conquering India and embracing their heritage and traditions.

• 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.
  

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Flavour Content

• 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.
    
  
  

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Lets now move into the content added as a part of the free 1.37 Inca update. The first decision we made was to take a look at the generic mission trees, which have not received attention over the years, therefore making their overhaul to be consistently on the players wishlist.

Although we have not reworked the entirety of the missions, as many country-specific missions are dependent on them or their structure, we have decided to at least update them and give them some much-needed attention.

First of all, we have addressed the lack of claims. In the new update, generic missions will award you with claims on neighboring provinces, and as you progress further down the tree, you will also gain permanent claims on your home region and on all neighboring areas.



Secondly, we have updated some of the rewards, making stuff such as Prestige, Army Tradition, or Mercantilism be converted into monarch points should you go over the limit of these resources. For example, the effect add_prestige was replaced by add_prestige_or_monarch_power.

Moreover, many missions have received completely new rewards, including discounted advisors, explorers, admirals, power projection, and more!

Overall, we have given a facelift to about 15 different generic or shared mission trees, including European, Berber, Indian, African, and Native American, just to name a few.

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Lets move to the modding part. We have added new functionalities to allow you to create content. The most relevant tools are:

• 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.
  

Code:

custom_icon = {
...
frame_variable = "variable_name" #Use the value of a variable to determine the icon frame
...
}


• 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.
  

Code:

custom_window = {
name = custom_window_testing #Must match a scripted windowType in a .gui file
potential = { } #Determines when the window is visible, and will affect every other gui object inside it, not running their potentials if the window isn't visible.
}


• 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:
  

Code:

round_variable = {
which =
value =
# If value < 0 round down
# If value = 0 round
# If value > 0 round up
}
sqrt_variable = {
which =
}
random_variable = {
which =
value =
# Random from 0 to value
}
modulo_variable = {
which =
value =
}


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Another free upgrade of this patch is going to be the addition of portraits for women advisors in North America. This is the last cultural graphic that was missing its female counterpart, and since we have been touching America in this DLC, we have not lost the opportunity to fix this issue. Lets take a look at some examples:

Master of Mint:


Spymaster:


Army Reformer:


Next week, we are going to take an even-closer look at them, since we are going to have Art Dev Diary for Winds of Change.

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Before finishing the DD, lets talk about Monuments. We have added 9 new Great projects for Leviathan owners. This time we added 4 extra monuments for Central Europe (in the Netherlands, Venice, Austria, and Carpathia), 3 in Asia (in the Pontic Steppes, Central Asia, and Syria), and 1 in America (Mexico).

The Golden City, in Nitra:


Schnbrunn Palace, in Wien:


Amsterdam Bourse, in Amsterdam:


Venetian Arsenal, in Venice:


City of Sarai, in Sarai:


Note: This is a movable monument!

Citadel of Aleppo, in Aleppo:


Afaq Khoja Mausoleum, in Kashgar:


Tzintzuntzan, in Patzcuaro:


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As always, we have mange to solve hundreds of bugs reported on the forums with your help.

This is all for today. I hope you will enjoy playing the upcoming content as much as my colleagues from PDX Tinto and I have enjoyed creating it. Winds of Change has allowed us to rework and improve a lot of countries that are among our favorites, so we are excited to see which type of interesting playthroughs you are going to experience soon.

If you want to learn more about the content of this DLC, dont hesitate to read the previous Dev Diaries or join us tomorrow at 17.00 to explore the new content for the Netherlands and Venice together with jobarin94 (our new Embedded QA with thousands of hours in EUIV, as befits a QA) and Community Ambassador Ryagi. As always this will be on the

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!

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Baburs Gate IV


Hello everyone. We are the Baburs Gate IV team, and today we are honored to present the fruits of our work during the 2024 Modathon - the first (and currently only) Europa Universalis IV RPG: Baburs Gate IV.

For the 2024s Modathon we wanted to make something truly impressive and something that would show how far the game can be pushed to its limits. With 1.36, the modding scene has been revolutionized with the addition of custom GUI. Before, possibilities of modding UI were next to nonexistent and such a project as Baburs Gate IV could not have simply existed.

[h3]Gameplay Elements[/h3]
Baburs Gate IV is an RPG comprises of four core components:

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

• 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!
  

• 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
  

200e200w - This was my second Modathon, and I had a good experience in EU4 modding! However, this project forced me to learn about what I lacked experience in - UI modding. Learning this allowed me to start creating a custom GUI for our mechanics, which my teammates further polished later on. Being the most experienced member of our team, I was also the person that did most of the coding, especially regarding the more intricate parts of Professional Armies. I felt really happy that people liked our lightweight mod! But I felt happiest when I read that we won the General Mechanics category! I feel proud of our mod and hope it will stay popular!

Gandalf - My modding experience was shallow before the modathon; I mostly just messed around with adding custom modifiers through decisions and changing the defines a little. I joined Professional Armies specifically because it had a simple scope, so I knew I wouldnt be overwhelmed for my first actual team project. It ended up being a great idea - I learned a lot about how the GUI and localisation work in this game and knowing that I was able to contribute to an award-winning mod gave me the inspiration to consider potentially making some of my own down the line.

JustFalcon - Prior to the modathon, my modding experience was pretty limited. I had a good grip on the basics, but the more difficult areas were completely new to me. Things like UI and Defines were well outside my wheelhouse. I joined Professional Armies to help refine my knowledge and expand the branches of the game I was comfortable working with. I learned a lot by participating, especially about working with a group of other modders and using collaborative tools like GitHub. Overall, I was excited to see our mod take first place in General Mechanics, and it has encouraged me to continue learning how to improve my modding so that in the next modathon, I can do even better.

Rocksauze - I had some limited modding experience going into the modathon. I joined the modathon to learn more about EU4 modding. I ended up learning a lot from participating in the modathon; from UI modding to how to work with a team under time pressure and winning several awards in the modathon was the cherry on top. I really enjoyed my time during the modathon and recommend everyone to take part in the next one.

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

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,
[h2]You can find the rest of this Dev Diary over on our forums[/h2]

To amend our misgivings of making you click links, we present you this weeks comics by FatherLorris:


Next week PDXBigBoss will be back with Hisn Kayfa, Hormuz, Oman, Theodoro and Trebizond. Have a wonderful day!

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.

[h2]Venice[/h2]
Reaching its apogee of power during the 15th century, the Most Serene Republic of Venice is located in the heart of maritime activity, with a strong grip on its home end node. Following an illustrious history, La Serenssima stands as one of the most influential Italian states. At the cusp of the Renaissance, the prosperity of the arts & culture gives way to the blooming and rise of new artists, architecture and traditions. To the south, the remnants of Rome are ripe for the taking, between the forces of the Republic and the Ottoman Turks. To the North, the imposing shadow of the Holy Roman Emperor as he struggles to maintain Italy in his decentralized Empire. The peninsula will soon be the home to a bloody struggle, as prospecting conquerors eye each others land with covetous greed. Venices content has been crafted with attention to detail, historicity, and the telling of a grand story around Italys most celebrated republic during the games time frame. Andiamo!



The new content for Venice comes packed with a tree armed with lots of new missions. These will branch and cover various aspects of the Republics history, ranging from the Italian wars, conquests in the peninsula and beyond, to maritime expansionism, internal development, the cultivation of the arts and culture, and even colonization. But wait, theres more! Venice also now has access to a brand new government mechanic, the Council of Ten. Alongside that, the narrative of your game will be enhanced with the introduction of new events around Venices (and her peoples) most celebrated accomplishments ranging from theatre to Titian and the Loredanian Academy.

Starting off, the upper third of the tree will be focused on internal matters, starting with the introduction of the Council of Ten, your primary adversary in domestic affairs:


Note: Note: Historical insights is one of the grand themes of the content around Venice, showing the whys and the hows of various political, military and cultural events!


Note: ALL ART in this Developer Diary is placeholder.

Opposed to the Doges influence and attempts to lead Venice into wars or even autocratic rule, the Councils Authority for Venice will commence at around 90%, placing the Doge in a difficult position. Throughout your play through, this mechanic will have a prevalent spot in your decision-making, and be affected by the various generic and unique events that may occur as well as mission rewards and interactions. Should the councils authority surpass the 90% mark, it will forbid the Doge from commencing any offensive wars and have further severe repercussions, as shown above.

It is worth noting that a council would be more compliant and at ease, should the Doges stats are low, whilst a competent Doge will cause the Council to react, increasing its authority passively.

The three interactions tied to the Council of Ten are a representation of the ruling faction and its abilities. Venice has access to the Aristocrats, the Traders, and the Guilds. Each interaction is an exchange between the Doge and the faction in power. You grant them crownland and political power. In return, you may gain powerful short-term benefits:

Both the Aristocrats and Traders will demand crown land for their respective estate alongside monarch power, whilst the Guilds will demand Republican Tradition alongside monarch power. In return they will grant a great variety of bonuses that allow for versatility, from development in the capital, to government reform progress and even marines or galleys in Venezia. Along with the aforementioned grant of ships, troops, or development, the interactions will also lower the authority of the Council, with each faction having unique interactions available.

Moving on, a substantial amount of this branchs missions are associated with historical events, showcased through their rewards:


Note: The second option grants the same reward. It goes into detail about Venice, architecture, and the Renaissance for those who wish to learn more about it!


Here are a few other missions and their associated rewards from the first part of the content:


The culmination of this branch ends with the event:





Note: Changed your mind after having the event and want your old colour/name back? You can do so with the Restore our Name / Restore our Colour national decisions!

And here are the ideas of the Golden Republic:

LNS_ideas = {
start = {
trade_steering = 0.33
galley_power = 0.25
}

bonus = {
discipline = 0.05
}

trigger = {
tag = VEN
NOT = { has_country_flag = ven_upgrade_state_inuisition_idea_flag }
}
free = yes #will be added at load.

lns_renaissance_art = {
technology_cost = -0.1
}
stato_da_mar = {
#Present in the previous VEN_ideas ideaset
}
lns_maritime_dominance = {
global_trade_power = 0.2
}
lns_a_gunpowder_republic = {
fire_damage = 0.15
land_forcelimit_modifier = 0.2
}
backing_of_the_ducat = {
naval_forcelimit_modifier = 0.5
}
reform_the_uscocchi = {
global_ship_trade_power = 0.35
global_trade_goods_size_modifier = 0.1
}
maggior_consiglio = {
max_absolutism = 10
max_revolutionary_zeal = 10
}
}

The second branch will deal with the outward expansion of the Republic, and the various fronts in Italy, the Mediterranean and beyond. Early on you will be tasked with choosing the specialization of your military, with options that range from favouring the land army, to favouring the Navy or Mercenary groups.

The Standing army branch will imbue your selection of current Military advisor with a powerful permanent bonus, as shown below:


Note: Hmm, maybe that Siege Ability needs some nerfing, 3%? What do you think?
The second mission will grant an interesting modifier for Venice:


The Mercenary path will improve the effectiveness of its associated Militarization mechanic and grant access to a unique new decision, turning Venezia to the administrative capital of your mercenary army:



The final possible path, focused on the Navy:



The conquest path involves many avenues for expansion, events and interesting modifiers:




The final branch follows an alternative-history path of Venice spreading its mercantile and maritime grasp beyond the Mediterranean, with routes to Aden, India, China, and even the Americas:



Finally, Venice has access to the Into the Red Sea mission which may facilitate and accelerate the construction of the Suez Canal in the Red Sea, allowing access to their fleets for exploration, conquest and trade purposes. The mission will require cooperation and alliance with the Mamluks, and the breakdown of diplomacy between the two countries will restore the Mamluk cores in the two associated provinces, leading to war:


[h2]Italy[/h2]
Whilst we are on the Italian peninsula, lets take a look at Italy herself. In line with the calibre of content featured in Domination, Italy is due to receive new and revised content. Many of the core tenets of the mission tree have been kept, but they have been revised and expanded upon, lets take a look!



As in the Emperor variation, the mission tree places much focus on the restoration of the Roman Empire, unification of Italy both politically and economically and reforming the military. Besides that, there is a subtree concerning continuing renaissance and a branching mission tree about which of the two
end-nodes you choose to favour.

Structure-wise, the mission tree is quite similar to that of Byzantium, not just in the general theme of Roman Restoration, but also in the way it is designed. The mission tree makes use of evolving modifiers, incrementally building up the "permanent modifier" that is the reward for your efforts. Later missions in the conquest offer age-timed modifiers, encouraging swift and relentless conquests.
Get those modifiers while you still can!

The leftmost branch about Risorgimento forces you to develop your core territories in Italy Region and to
unite it politically. At the end of this tree, you shall claim your spot as one of the Great Powers:





The mission tree also has 3 missions about your military, starting with a possibility to maintain a Condottieri-based army then tasking you with modernizing the Galleass (increasing their available amount, their fighting power or allowing them to transport troops) and upgrading your Alpine defences. Here's the "Adapting Our Military" mission reward:



Before we move on, the other mini-branch left between us and the economic missions concerns the Renaissance. Your first mission tasks you with developing the Birthplace of the Renaissance (in this case Lucca) 10 times and requiring you to be ahead of time in all technologies:




Lastly, the missions about Economy & Trade, beginning with Economy. This portion of the mission tree is concerned with achieving parity between the economies of the north and south while also pushing Italian goods onto the world markets. Notable is also the inclusion of Camillo Benso Cavour as an Statesman advisor, who, while outside of the game's time frame, we found fitting to include due to his role in the Risorgimento and early politics of Italy.





Finally, the branching missions about trade. In order to get started, you need to gain a sizeable trade income of 300 Ducats, 30 Centers of Trade and 3 Trade nodes with at least 80.0% trade share, the reward mainly giving you the ability of to select your new mission tree:



Besides the mission tree you choose, your choice will also have an impact on the privilege you just unlocked! Let's go over the two branches, beginning with the Venetian branch, focusing on funnelling the trade from the near and further east to the markets of La Serenissima:



The Venetian Supremacy focuses on establishing the Venice trade node as the richest in the World and with at least 150 Trade Node Value, something you will probably be close to. "Eastern Markets" force you to dabble in the affairs of the Eastern Mediterranean, gaining 80% Trade Share in Egypt, Aleppo and Constantinople. Lastly, "The Journey to the East" requires you to build the Suez Canal and to funnel the trade from the West Coast of India through the Gulf of Aden, here's what rewards that brings you:



Let's explore the Genoese branch now:



This mission tree is in many ways analogous to the other one. "Western Favoritism" is the same as "The Venetian Supremacy" but refers to Genoa instead. "Plus Ultra" requires 80% trade share in Tunis, Valencia, and Sevilla. "The Italian Discovery" is all about creating a Colonial Empire in the New World. Here's what you might expect:


[h2]Netherlands[/h2]
During the start date of EU4, the Low Countries were mostly under the Burgundian Crown, with only a few of them still independent. The nation of Utrecht is fighting against the growing influence of Philip the Good of Burgundy, while Frisia has established itself as a state with waning noble power for quite a while. For that reason, some of their starting minor missions will have a different reward depending on which nation you started as:






After unifying most of the Low Countries, and completing the above missions, youll be able to form the Netherlands earlier than usual. This was done in order to not block the player from getting access to the rest of the content, and continue on a flow of gameplay, uninterrupted by artificial barriers. The mission "Je Maintinendrai" will alleviate the Administrative Tech 10 requirement and grant you a bonus to your development cost, discipline and valuable claims to solidify your borders across the Low Countries region.



[h3]Glorious Revolution[/h3]
The moment you form the Netherlands, you will gain access to three missions revolving around competing against England. Supremacy in the Channel, Relations in Britain and Glorious Revolution. Once you completely overshadow England/GBR in every aspect of government (development, trade share in the Channel, etc.), you will be able to launch the Glorious Revolution and claim their throne.


Later on in your campaign, when you hit tech 20, should you have England or Great Britain as a Personal Union still, youll be able to form the United Crowns nation, with a unique colour, as well as unique ideas, as shown below.


Note; This will also be available in the base game

The ideas shown above (barring the traditions and ambition) are a pure mixture of the two nations and as the United Crowns, you will have access to the flavour of Great Britain, England and the Netherlands (such as events).

[h3]Hansa Relations[/h3]
In 1441, during the Treaty of Copenhagen, the Dutch were able to secure the grain trade of the Baltic Sea. However, they had to pay a sizeable amount of reparations. For that reason, there is a branch dedicated to the Hanseatic rivalry with the option to gain more access in the Baltic through diplomatic means, or through the sword.



[h3]Army and Navy[/h3]
The Dutch had a unique character that pertained to the organization of their military. For example, the army they founded during the 80 Years War, the Staatse Leger, was a defensive force with impressive capabilities. Considering the size of the Low Countries, this force was able to react fast against an invading force. In addition, the Dutch were experts in the art of engineering. They established the Fixed Garrisons System that would delay any invading force, and men such as Menno van Coehoorn would be hailed as pioneers of modern siege warfare.



However, as impressive as the above may be, the primary focus of the Dutch military lay within its navy. From the Five Admiralties, which all had their own interests, to their all-purpose Flyut Vessels, to their grand admiral Michiel de Ruyter. The Dutch naval flavour focuses on dominating trade and crushing your maritime rivals, establishing an empire that rules throughout the oceans.



[h3]Focus on Development[/h3]
The 1.37 content for the Netherlands offers new tools for the player to engage in the development of urban cities across the Low Countries. As most Dutch players prefer a historical path which pivots towards a tall and colonial gameplay, new content in the form of reforms, missions and more has been added to add substantial depth and flavour during the game. Much of this revolves around the Dutch reclamation of land as well as the Seven Provinces on which the Republic organized itself.



[h3]Colonialism[/h3]
The colonial flavour that the Netherlands has to offer is quite extensive. The mission branch will focus more on setting up outposts in order to reach the spice in the Indies. In addition, the Netherlands has now access to one of the most requested additions: The VoC. You can now establish the VoC as a Commercial Enterprise similar to the East India Company. Ive also given them new Subject Relationships, allowing for customization of your new Commercial Enterprise.


Note: We opted to go for a light version of the typical Dutch colour.

[h3]Internal Flavour, New Events, New Reforms[/h3]
Lastly, the internal management of the Netherlands has received additions. The Religious and cultural branch of the mission tree (Re-Organizing Clergy, Low Countries Universities, etc) now provides you with more tools to increase your tolerance of heretics and promote more humanist ideas, as were the teachings of Erasmus. There are mentions as well of the artistic achievements, such as their Baroque Architecture or the Northern Renaissance.


There are now more ways to play with Dutch factionalism. New Government Reforms have been added for the player to take sides with the Statists or the Orangists. There is also a small branch dedicated to this conflict between those two factions, and the rewards there depend on which one you decide to side with, maybe eat an opposing prime minister or two whilst youre at it.



Note; This event will be part of the base game.

Lastly, the Netherlands now has more events, most of them revolving around Great Men and a few about some other Dutch architectural feats. These will also be available in the base game and are a great way to complement an already well-fleshed-out country like the Netherlands.


Note: These Events will also be available through the base game!

Thank you for reading todays Developer Diary! We will be back next week with the countries of Austria, Germany, Hungary as well as Bohemia with Pintu!

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.[/CENTER]

Additionally, you also have access to the following estate privilege:


Once you form Inca you gain the following mission tree as a whole:


While you have the original Cusco missions about the conquest, you also get four additional, smaller subtrees that have their own focus.

The first small subtree is about the Mitma - a policy of forced resettlement of the border provinces. The highlight here is the following reward:


Another subtree is about the religious nature of the Inca, highlighted by the following reward:




You might now notice that Regenesis of History mentions Mummified Rulers. As you can see, the Incan religion has an interesting and unique quirk which is the fact that your dead ruler is de jure still alive. They get mummified and continue to participate in all of your governmental activities. To represent this in EU4 you will now always trigger the following event upon your rulers demise:


The third subtree is about gold, idols, and economy represented by the following mission rewards:

Finally, the last subtree focuses on developing your lands and your military, giving you the following rewards:


And with that, we conclude the Incan missions. However, we are not entirely done as all the aforementioned countries get one mission subtree which is all about the so-called Sunset Invasion:


These missions are always at the very bottom and follow one major theme which is the invasion of Europe and Asia by the American powers - both main culprits of colonizing the new world in many EU4 campaigns.

I wont go too much into detail with those missions as they are mostly focused on large conquest campaigns. However, some rewards are worth mentioning:


Last but not least, Fatherlorris' comic:


That was it for this week. Thank you all for reading todays Development Diary! My colleague Big Boss will continue next week with a DD on the Netherlands, Venice, and Italy.

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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[h2]Hello Eu4 Fans! This is the Gods and Kings Development Team - Im Nitr0gue , and were here to have a little chat about our mod.[/h2]

[h2]Origins[/h2]

Gods and Kings started out as a personal project between a few friends. We wanted to create a mod featuring a more expansive and better representation of various religions around the world. In fact, the working name for the mod was More Religions until just before release. This idea expanded towards an alternate timeline which can better serve the interests of showcasing different faiths. As we developed the setting, we moved toward focusing on things that are rarely usually discussed in these alternative history mods: a directed focus on the Early Modern period, rather than calling back to earlier times. A lot of us are history buffs, and our team has knowledge that covers most of the major areas.

[h2]World Creation[/h2]

As the name implies, we have worked on both the secular and spiritual side of the world, as can be seen here in the map. We have a completely redone world map, politically and demographically, with few regions left untouched. Nearly every region was set up to include some kind of interesting way of playing out, either as a narrative, or for potential gameplay.

With over a thousand provinces added, the scope of our mod is truly global in what it seeks to change.

You can fight for the philosophical and religious destiny of China or lead the Holy Roman Empire to greatness as a Polish emperor. Reunite the nomadic tribes from the western Blue Horde to the eastern Northern Yuan, or colonize the new world of Reisland as the prosperous Mali or Japanese Empire.

The focus of our mod was to create something familiar but foreign, but with more in depth global representation, we decided to increasingly make the world of Gods and Kings less eurocentric.
This is done through the institutions, trade nodes, and colonial powers. Gameplay wise, we are more aiming for a Vanilla (But More!) experience and not aiming for any extreme overhauls.

We have added in several new institutions, which start in the east and the spread in the west. We added in new trade nodes, focusing on the rise of colonial powers outside of Europe such as Mali and Japan, and have added in new colonial regions to reference that as well.




[h2]Religions[/h2]


The first and foremost aspect of our mod is the sheer amount of new religions we have added in - from the old Christian heresies to esoteric Buddhist cults and many flavors of paganism, there are many to investigate. I will showcase five of them here, with some unique mechanics.

[h2]Qizilbashi[/h2]

A sect representing the form of Islam as propagated by the Safavid Order of Ardabil. Centered on the city of Ardabil, propagandists have brought the faith to large swathes of Turkic tribes in northwest Iran and eastern Anatolia, known as the Qizilbash. This religion utilizes a reworked Guru mechanic.



[h2]Shinbutsu[/h2]


This religion is an amalgamation of the various schools of Buddhism in Japan, from Zen to Pure Land, that existed alongside traditional ancestor worship. It is located entirely within Japan. This religion reworks the old Isolationism to represent the syncretism of Japanese faith and local traditions.


[h2]Tengerleg Shashin[/h2]

The culmination of years of interfaith dialogue & tolerance. The Divine Faith of Tengerleg Shashin seeks to bring together the various faiths of the Empire into one syncretic belief. Tengerleg Shashin is built on the central belief that there is no incorrect path to ascertaining the noble truth of God.


[h2]Maitreya[/h2]


The Maitreyan faith is a branch of Buddhism centered around the millenarian Bodhisattva Maitreya, who shall appear when the world is the farthest away from the Dharma and bring it back into the light. A prominent force in the Red Turban Rebellions, the movement remained prominent throughout the 13th and 14th centuries and found its home in the southern Song state by 1444. It utilizes an entirely new mechanic - the Maitreyan Authority mechanic, granting rewards for the player to discover on their own!


[h2]Fraticelli[/h2]


Fraticelli were a sectarian group that split from the Franciscans on grounds concerning apostolic poverty. They were declared heretical near the turn of the 1300's but continued to expand within the religious communities, especially the more ascetic types. In the current version of the mod they utilize fervor mechanics, but they have a new mechanic in development, the Apostlic Poverty Mechanic. Although we are showcasing it under Fraticelli, this will be a shared mechanic between Wycliffite (Lollardy), Adamites, and Waldensian as well.


Religious Schools
Eagle eyed readers will have probably noticed the religious schools in each of those shots - almost every religious group now has access to this mechanic, ranging from local catholic traditions to language or cultural practices!


[h2]Mission Trees and Content[/h2]

We have a decent amount of content already in the mod. These range from mission trees to disasters and flavor events. We have large scale disasters such as the Hotoku War in Japan, a large scale rebellion against the dominant Emperor of Japan.


Meanwhile, across the pond, major battles occur during the Hungarian Civil War, rocking the heart of central europe as each faction vies for power.


In addition to these changes, we have also updated some core mechanics. Trade Goods have been expanded to include new items such as Rice, Saffron, Cheese, and many more.


Many of these trade goods are natural - some, however, must be spawned in using Goods Upgrade buildings, a new feature to improve and change trade goods.


By building a Winery building you can turn a simple Rice producing province

into a Rice Wine producing province!


We hope to represent a more tailored flavor in economic events and missions with these simple new additions!

[h2]Mission Trees[/h2]

The tags highlighted here already have completed mission trees - each with different events, rewards, and flavorful mechanics to go along with them. The tags shaded have a unique generic mission tree shared with regional tags.


Sicily:
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Navarra:
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Song:
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Byzantium:
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Ifat:
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[h2]1.1 - Monarchs and Messiahs[/h2]

Yesterday, February 29th, we launched our 1.1 Patch. Here are a few of the updates in it!

Mali - The Golden Empire
With the discovery of the new world just beyond the horizon by Mohammad Qu in the 14th Century, Mali is geared to expand and conquer the new world, becoming a colonial powerhouse while integrating the Farma, local officials and rulers for the region.



Balkh - The Sons of Negudar
A remnant of the Mongol Invasions, the Qaraunas seek to unite their realm and prevent it from fracturing - before preparing their fated conquest of India.


Mae Nam - Sons of the Mother River
The faithful of Mae Nam seek to defend their great river from the prying hands of the Khmer - all while seeking to expand their religious traditions and ways.


Qurtubah - The Heirs of Al-Andalus
With the failure of the reconquista, the taifas that emerged at the end of the Almohad Empire have had time to coalesce and unite under a single banner - and with this, they seek to conquer Iberia, and bring it under their heel.


Overall, our 1.1 Patch has added dozens of new government reforms, over a hundred events, new mechanics regarding Factions and the minting of coin, and even a brand new religion mechanic.

[h2]Artwork[/h2]

Gods and Kings is the product of developers who really want to add more to the experience, and we do that by contacting and working with amazing artists to help fully flesh out the mod.

The mod features over 50 new religious icons, drawn by both the fantastic Nametag and Claivin.

We also have some Great Projects that have artwork done in house

The Castle of Carcassonne

The University of Oxford

The new update will change some things - for example, Mission icons will get a unique coloration.


Similarly, we will have unique Faction Art for both Mali and Egypt




We even have our own theme song, created by Utopia himself March of the Divine.
[previewyoutube=I6_6Uj2WMYY;full][/previewyoutube]
Please check out his channel!

Gods and Kings is still a very new project, so please stay tuned for new stuff - announced and unannounced. We have just released our 1.1 update and would love new players! If you want more updates:
- Join our discord
- Check out Gods and Kings on the steam workshop
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3114240232

Thanks for playing!

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

Although the American nations received new mechanics and features in some previous DLCs (Conquest of Paradise, El Dorado, Golden Century, and Leviathan), we thought that it probably was the region with the most outdated content in terms of flavor, so a new revisit to it would be very much on point. The focus for it would be similar to that of the previous DLCs, from Origins to King of Kings, aiming to get more depth and replayability to nations with already well-established mechanics, such as the Incas or the Aztecs. On top of this, we also wanted to add some more additional content in Central America to the Mayan area.

You may have noticed that weve not mentioned any Colonial Nations, and thats on purpose. Leviathan already implemented a new set of mechanics for them, and we feel that the experience of adding more flavor to play with any of them wouldnt be so rewarding compared to other nations, so we decided to skip them, to be able to devote more development time to other regions that had also been very requested by the players.

[h2]Inca[/h2]

The Andean Empire of the Incas was a great pre-Columbian nation with a rich history that was not fully portrayed in EUIV until now. With the release of this new expansion, the Incas will be able to experience new missions that involve unifying their land, exploiting the gold and valuable resources produced in the Andes, honoring the sun god Inti, and preparing for upcoming invasions.

[h2]Aztecs[/h2]

The valley of Mexico has a clear dominant power. The Aztecs have recently established their domain and their specialized troops, such as the mighty Jaguar Warriors, are determined to control all of Mesoamerica. With the new DLC, we are going to emphasize and recreate the differences between them and their neighbors, allowing them to expand their control and create new tributaries using the Flower Wars, offer fresh blood sacrifices, and prepare the Aztec society to face the newcomers from Europe.

[h2]Mayans[/h2]

The main purpose of the gameplay with Mayans will be to prevent the full collapse of their civilization, in the so-called Post-Classical Age. To do that, we are giving them more flavor and paths to unify all their neighbors under one ruler, taking advantage of the Yucatan jungle and the profitable trade in the region, while setting new objectives outside of it.

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Central Europe

Were back in Europe, again! Why is that, you may wonder? The main reason is that we had plans to develop even more content initially planned for Domination, but we had to prioritize the countries properly to ensure that we would get them in for the DLC. Thats why we decided to cut some of the initially planned content and wait for a better moment that would allow us to fully develop our initial design ideas. The time for it has come, and weve focused on 3 areas in this region. On the one hand, in the Empire itself, the Netherlands is receiving content in line with what a Great Power deserves to have, while Austria is also receiving an update in line with that of Prussia, as the previously existing content from Emperor was quite wide; this is complemented with more content for the Germany formable country. The second area is Italy, in which were also adding more content for Venice, one of the most popular Merchant Republics, but also for the formable Italy country itself, which will add a layer of gameplay to the different Italian countries. Finally, weve also reviewed the content for Eastern Central Europe, essentially for Bohemia and Hungary, which will be potential candidates to become a Great Power if deciding carefully which path to follow.

[h2]Netherlands[/h2]

The forums have been flooded with requests for more content related to the Netherlands in the past few years. It is fair because as we said, it was in our initial plans for Domination; therefore, were now adding a substantial amount of new content. The Netherlands had a powerful presence in trading through the merchant and war fleet, and we aim to enhance their abilities to control the most important trade nodes, interact with other great powers of Europe, colonize while setting the unfamous VOC and WIC while promoting the Dutch culture to a new level.

[h2]Austria[/h2]

The Habsburgs were always ambitious, seeking more power and control. With the introduction of the new mission tree, the Holy Roman Emperor will now have more ways to deal with both internal and external vassals, allowing them to extend their control over territories such as Hungary, Bohemia, Naples, Burgundy, Castile, Poland, and more. To manage all these thrones, unique features will be added to Austria, allowing them to interact with their junior partners. Additionally, a new formable will be created that may create some headaches for the Austrians.

[h2]Germany[/h2]

As with the soon-to-be-mentioned Italy, the primary objective of the German content is to enhance the late-game experience. Germany would need to unify their region, conquer neighboring lands, industrialize their cities, and manage any revolutions that may occur. It is worth noting that there will be variations in the flavor of the game depending on the specific German country that manages to unify all the land, creating some different gameplay from this.

[h2]Venice[/h2]

The Most Serene Republic of Venice was one of the most prominent nations in 1444. With the Renaissance in full swing, we have added new missions, events, and more content to interact with various illustrated characters, while reaping the benefits of their mighty trading fleet. Even if Venice can expand its trading empire across the Mediterranean, it might not be enough, and they may need to explore new territories beyond their current reach to further bolster the positions of the Serenissima.

[h2]Italy[/h2]

Were trying to address some of the shared requests for Italy, making for a longer campaign, with more diverse gameplay options. In the new DLC, we are trying to solve this issue and give extra flavor to the Italian nations that finish their missions trees and more. While not being a historical country in our time frame, their scope will be a mix of historical borders and goals plus an extra of what ifs regarding their glorious past. The main paths are going to be the conquest of the rest of Europe and becoming the true Roman successor, industrializing the Italian Peninsula, and dominating global trade.

[h2]Hungary[/h2]

In the Hungarian mission tree available with Emperor the main focus for this country was about conquering the Balkans. However, with the new expansion, well improve it to provide more options to increase the Hungarian control over neighboring regions. To achieve this, Hungary would need to confront Poland, Austria, the Ottomans, and other further territories such as the Teutonic Order and Naples. But, at the same time, they must also take care of their internal affairs by improving infrastructure and strengthening the economy.

[h2]Bohemia[/h2]

Bohemia is a nation that has not been significantly changed for some time. However, with the new update, we plan to introduce better and more engaging missions that allow Bohemia to interact with the Holy Roman Empire and make the Bohemian crown a main contender for it while improving the Hussite Wars outcome, and giving a deeper touch to the religion and the kingdom. Additionally, we are expanding the options to expand the domain of Bohemia to include the Balkans, Germany, Poland, and beyond.

[h2]____________________[/h2]

Central Asia

The final region well tackle is Central Asia. This is also a legacy of previous designs that initially wed like to implement both in Domination and King of Kings, but that we had to skip in favor of the other countries. We have a divide between countries aspiring to become Great Powers (the Timurids and Mughals), the Hordes (for which well implement differential regional content and branches), and some Middle Eastern player and dev favorites that we were very requested in the past few months: Hisn Kayfa, Hormuz & Oman, and Trebizond. And, of course, we also have Theodoro! It might not be either in Central Europe or Central Asia, but Well, maybe with their new content, they might be a power to reckon with in these regions

[h2]Timurids [/h2]

The descendants of Timur start in a precarious situation. With the new design, we aim to recreate the administrative chaos that was due to the Mongol succession laws. If they manage to overcome the myriad of successor estates existing around the death of Shah Rukh, their fates are going to be attached to the paths they decide to follow. Create a new Nomadic country, being able to reclaim their ancestral lands, or accept new traditions and try to consolidate a new domain and power in Persia.

[h2]Mughals[/h2]

This Gunpowder Empire born from an offspring of the Timurid dynasty is primarily focused on conquering the Indian subcontinent. However, we aim to incorporate a new flavor that would allow for a more interesting management of their internal affairs, such as the mansabdars. Additionally, the Mughal Empire will undertake new goals to enhance its economic and cultural standing.

[h2]Hordes[/h2]

The nomadic lords of the steppes are an important addition to the content of this DLC. We have decided to make some of their goals accessible to all the Hordes, while other parts of the content will be exclusive to specific regions. Therefore, the Western Tatars, Central Moghulistan, and the Eastern Mongols will have new paths enabling them to conquer new lands and raze them to the ground, as a proper Khan should aim to do!

[h2]Hisn Kayfa[/h2]

The golden age of the Ayyubid dynasty came to an end a long time ago. Hisn Kayfa is surrounded by heathens, pagans, and minor dynasties, but also by powerful countries ready to crush them if not prepared to tackle them. To restore the former glory of the Caliphate and reclaim Syria, Egypt, and Arabia, Saladin's legacy requires a more ambitious mission tree.

[h2]Trebizond[/h2]

The once powerful and prestigious Komnenoi family now only retains their name. Trebizond has lost its dominance in the Black Sea, and the remnants of the Byzantine Empire are close to collapse. However, they might still be able to reclaim their lost territories, extend their control over the Black Sea and Anatolia, and take back Constantinople, either from the Palaiologos or from the heathens.

[h2]Theodoro[/h2]

Theodoro is a nation that faces a challenging start. To survive, they must defeat neighboring Hordes, Turks, and Slavs. The new campaign will enhance the flavor of this heroic contender for the control of the Black Sea. Raise the banners, and a new Gothic invasion might go on once again!

[h2]Hormuz & Oman[/h2]

The prosperous nations of Hormuz and Oman in the Arabian Peninsula have mainly relied on trading within the Persian Gulf to prosper and become wealthy entrepots. However, with the new opportunities presented to them, they might be able to expand their horizons and potentially establish a global trade empire that controls the trade and land in Arabia, East Africa, and India, extending their influence across the Indian Ocean.


Thats all about the new content for 1.37! Thanks for those of you reading us again, were very excited about receiving your feedback about this roadmap! And next week, well start with proper development diaries, showcasing the new content for America: the Aztecs, Mayans, and Incas! It will be a meaty Dev Diary, for sure!

*Edit* A post publishing addition for you, as a new FatherLorris comic just dropped!

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.


[h3]Get the pack: here
Follow Kairis work on Soundcloud: here
Read some words from Kairi regarding each of these tracks: here[/h3]


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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:

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Here are some words from the creators - plus some links to where you can find more of their work:

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"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/

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"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/

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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!

[h2]King of Kings[/h2]



Last week we released patch 1.36.2, fixing several issues reported after 1.36 Byzantium release. Were so far quite happy with the stability and level of quality of this update, so weve decided this will be the last patch for it. This doesnt mean that there arent issues that need to be fixed, or that there arent going to be any new ones that arise; but we will be tackling them in the 1.37 update, which is planned for the first half of 2024.

Apart from that, were quite happy with the reception of the King of Kings Immersion Pack. It has reshuffled new content to a region highly demanded by the community, and we think this is reflected across several aspects, from direct community feedback to the number of players, etc. Were very thankful for that! And as there were demands for more Middle East-focused content, we'll definitely work on that in 2024.

[h2]Domination[/h2]



We also released in April the other main Expansion of this year, EUIV: Domination. It was very different from other previous ones, as it was thematically focused on most of the Modern Age great powers at once, for which we created a great amount of content. It was released along with a quite ambitious update, 1.35 Ottomans, as touching so many different regions and aspects of the game at once made balancing one of the most challenging issues to tackle on it. As we were aware of this, we planned for a longer Post-Release Support, and we were able to release 3 hotfixes and 2 patches up until early July.

Nonetheless, Domination was a total blast for us, as it allowed us to work and update the content for the most important countries in the game, something very demanding, but rewarding as well. And, again, we need to thank the community for the reception of this DLC, as it was a great success!

[h2]Music Packs[/h2]



This year we released two standalone Music Packs. The first was the free-to-download 10th Anniversary Community Music Pack, a remaster of 10 songs composed by Utopia and produced by George Hammond to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the game. The other is Utopias Holy Roman Empire Music Pack, which we release this Thursday, December 21st! Great music that comes from the EUIV community itself.

[h2]History Lessons[/h2]



A new experimental type of DLC that we released in June was the History Lessons for China and Japan. Available in the games internal music player, we collaborated with two experienced podcasters, Laszlo Montgomery from The China History Podcast, and Isaac Meyer from The History of Japan Podcast, to craft them, and approach a new immersive experience for the game - listening to a History podcast while you play it!

[h2]10th Anniversary[/h2]

This year was marked by the great milestone of the 10th Anniversary of Europa Universalis IV. Johan, the games original and current Game Director, made a retrospective of its development back in August. I just want to add on top of that that its been a great pleasure and honor for the whole team of Paradox Tinto to have worked on it since the studio was founded, working closely with the other involved Paradox departments.

[h2]New Official Discord Server & Grandest LAN[/h2]

Having the opportunity to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the game, our Community Team organized different activities during the month of August to get even closer to the community. The main one was the launch of a new official server on Discord, making for a new place to engage with other players and fans of the game, and with us, the developers, as well!

Other than that, the community could also celebrate its passion for the game in yet another edition of the Grandest LAN hosted at the magnificent Czocha Castle, in Poland. Our friends at Turbolarp prepared yet another great edition of the yearly EUIV event, and both the players in the castle but also those watching the streams at Twitch could experience another amazing and fun multiplayer experience.



Thats all for 2023, and for today! Its been an exceptional year for Europa Universalis IV, and all the people working at Paradox Interactive and Paradox Tinto just wanted to thank you all, and wish you Happy Holidays! Well be back with new Dev Diaries around February, see you then!

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!
Hello Everyone,

I am Minnator, one of the creators of the Mesoamerican Expansion, a mod that completely overhauls the Central American region also known as Mesoamerica.
I am happy to welcome you to a mod that was created during the 2023 Modathon and thus created in a very strict time frame of two weeks. Even though time was scarce the mod is filled with secrets, flavor and a very interesting story to its creation.

In this mod spotlight I not only want to show you around the content we have done, but also showcase how we did it during the Modathon and how you can take part in the next Modathon yourself. But more about that later.


[h3]Lets start with a rough overview of what we have for you today:[/h3]

• 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
  

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!



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# Other
- Added the custom_desc trait for estates which works exactly like custom_names, but shows the custom description for the estate instead.

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# 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.

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- 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

Grandest Lan 2023 is here!

Since 2017, EUIV The Grandest Lan Party events have introduced completely new ways of playing EUIV. Together, almost 100 LAN participants will forge their great stories all under one roof.
This Lan consists of multiple nations lead by a team of 2-3 people, these players will work together to gather espionage and enact diplomacy with other teams, keep their nations running smoothly, and work towards their goals. This is not a competitive event! There will be no losers or winners.

And for those who couldn't make it, this event will be streamed live to the world! In addition to the PDX livestream, we'll also be updating our forum post here as well as our Newsfeed on Discord with the latest LAN developments. We hope you enjoy!

Watch the Lan live now on Twitch: twitch.tv/paradoxinteractive

Want more info on the event itself? You can find our Grandest Lan 2023 webpage here!

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.


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# 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.

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# Bugfixes
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- 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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Hello again, Europa Universalis Enthusiasts!

Since our first Mod Spotlight for Europa Expanded, 8 months have passed and a lot of new modding changes have happened, and so did Europa Expanded accordingly!

That is why today were very excited to present our brand new 1.12.1 UI update, and all the fancy UIs and mechanics that came with it! From a complete rework of the Caliphate originally introduced in our 1.12 Caliphate update, to automatic Advisor re-hiring, a Mission Preview System and more! We will both present these features, as well as talk about the process behind creating them for those who are eager to learn!
So, without further ado, lets get started!

[h2]Court of Advisors[/h2]

To start off with a very simple but very useful mechanic, were delving into our Court of Advisors menu, which you can toggle on or off in order to hire a specific level 3 advisor of your faith and culture at a 100% hiring cost markup, rather than having to wait for the right one to appear in the advisor pool! In the future, we also plan to expand on this using government reforms or mission rewards.




Furthermore, you now have the ability to automatically re-hire advisors based on their profession and skill; meaning if your level 1 Natural Scientist dies, the game will automatically hire a new level 1 Natural Scientist!


[h2]Mission Tree Previews[/h2]
Something that long-time fans of Europa Expanded know is that our old system of choosing a mission tree through an event that fires 1 day after game start was ratherimperfect.

In order to make the whole thing not only easier to understand for new players, but also to make it more streamlined and enjoyable to use overall, weve developed a system that allows for previewing the entire mission tree before choosing whether youd like to play with the EE or the PDX one!




Of course, while in this preview mode you will not be able to redeem any rewards, but the requirements and rewards of each mission will still be visible to you; how we accomplished this is explained in the UI Creation section down below~!



[h2]Expanded Vanilla Menus[/h2]
With scripted UI finally giving us the opportunity to tweak mechanics that were previously rather hardcoded, weve decided to give some vanilla menus a new coat of paint; and sometimes even intertwined them with mechanics from previous EE updates!

The first of these reworks is that of the Government Screen;
The window for Government Mechanics has doubled in size (assuming sufficient screen space is available for it) to make using multiple mechanics concurrently more comfortable, and Absolutism has received its own dedicated window, similar to the Disasters window!



Ever since the introduction of Absolutism, weve felt that there was never any interactions created specifically for it. It has been inserted into Increase Stability, Harsh Treatment, Strengthen Government and Decrease Autonomy, all 4 of which you can exhaust if you have a stable and prosperous country. As such we have decided to add Conduct Public Executions, allowing you to always expend a portion of your military power at a competitive, albeit quickly-increasing price. Another interaction we have added is Appoint Absolutist Ministers inspired by ministers like Richelieu, Buckingham and Pombal. This toggle has two use-cases: a source of Max Absolutism for nations with Max Absolutism above 100 and a source of Yearly Absolutism with Statesman advisor for rich nations looking for a source of passive increase.
Lastly, nations that are willing to conduct many executions (a rather risky enterprise!) in a short period of time may enter into period of Reign of Terror, a state in which they may benefit from extra Harsh Treatment Cost and Max Absolutism, though entering the state may be difficult without the Letat cest moi Government Reform that reduces the threshold.

Absolutism isnt the only such example of a gameplay element wed like to further expand.
In similar fashion, wed like to add & rework interactions for economy, and we have plans here underway, concerning Inflation & Mercantilism.



The second rework weve done is that of the decentralized HRE;
The release of the Emperor DLC added some much needed choices within the Holy Roman Empire, allowing you to either Centralize or Decentralize. The former however had always been the strongest choice, with the latter not offering much in terms of internal management and roleplaying ability. This is a problem, as the entire mechanic should not be something you forget after you pass all reforms.
In our update of Austria, it was possible for the Austrians to unlock special imperial titles in case of fully decentralizing the HRE, which could be handed out to princes in order to provide them with strong benefits.
Now, we have turned it into a universal mechanic included in the Reichskrieg reform of the HRE, and gave it a wonderful UI for it as well!



These Imperial Titles can either be assigned by the Emperor through a Diplomatic Action, or be requested by a member clicking one of the unoccupied positions if they match the needed criteria, and each title provides buffs relevant to their focus - Economy, Military or Religion!






Lets say that youre Austria, and you have a very strong Prussian ally that has been fighting wars against Poland and been successful, granting them the Imperial Marshal title would not only benefit them to win harder, but also grant you Imperial Authority per battle Prussia wins.


Imperial Princes themselves may wish to request some of these titles for themselves, as they grant really strong bonuses should you be granted one of them. Whilst not implemented yet, bribing or using favors against the Emperor to claim these would give the player even more reasons to stay in friendly relations, besides worrying about Unlawful Territory and sometimes using their armies for your own wars.

Freedom is the core tenet of our design philosophy, which is why in the future we plan to make it so the Emperor can claim all of these titles if they so wish, but at the cost of significant support from the Princes and the Electors. Allowing the player the choice to do that would also add a risky yet rewarding way to use this feature, gaining strong bonuses at the cost of your Emperorship if you do not find a way to justify your unjust actions, either through bribery or maintaining a high opinion and diplomatic reputation.
[h2]The Caliphate Window[/h2]
But the above uses do not yet showcase the full potential of the scripted UI introduced with 1.36!
Behold! The Caliphate Window, a highly requested feature by many, finally made possible, a testament of what is possible.




Now, any muslim country may claim and seize the title of the Caliph, gaining access to Fatwas - religious rulings granting bonuses to the Caliph and all muslims of their denomination!
We wanted these Fatwas to be different than for example EoC decrees, in that they shouldnt only benefit a select group, but the entire faith - additionally, we wanted them to be somewhat based on historical precedents, such as Permit Taqiyya for example being based on the Oran Fatwa that permitted the muslims in post-reconquista iberia to preach their religion in secret to save them from prosecution!
And to keep it balanced, they carry a cost of 20 Authority with them, meaning that while you gain the benefits of the Fatwa, its not a no-brainer get buffs button, as in the process you lose the benefits of having a high Authority.
Unify Islam is also no longer a decision that Muslim nations can take, but rather is now a button within the Caliphate Window, with multiple ways you can become the uncontested leader of Islam! You may either simply collect all the Holy Sites of Islam like it was required of the vanilla decision, or you can maximize your Authority to get away with only owning most of them.
This especially allows for much better roleplay, since as an Ottoman Caliph you will no longer have to blob all the way into central asia or Yemen in order to Unite Islam, and can instead stay within the boundaries of the Roman Empire!



And this new Caliphate Window doesnt just show these glimpses, but it also offers:

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

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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.

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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.



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# Free Features
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- 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.

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# Gamebalance
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# 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.

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# Interface
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# 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.

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# Usermodding
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# 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.


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# Script
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# 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.


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# Bugfixes
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- 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
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!

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# Expansion Features
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- 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.

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# Free Features
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- 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.

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# Gamebalance
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# 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.

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# Interface
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# 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.

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# Usermodding
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# 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.


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# Script
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# 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.


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# Bugfixes
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- 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.

[h2]Loading Screen[/h2]
As our first piece of art, along with the patch we are adding the loading screen of Shah Ismail I of Persia (14871524), founder of the Safavid dynasty.

One of Persias most impactful rulers (and thats saying something), he was a warrior at heart and is usually depicted engaging in activities such as fighting and hunting. Ismails reign is celebrated for his religious zeal, military prowess, and political cunning. His military victories and his patronage of the arts solidified his legacy, making him a significant figure in Iranian history.

His fiery red hair, unusual for a Persian, is attested in contemporary accounts and betrays his complex and oft-debated ethnic heritage as a child of the culturally diverse city of Ardabil.

In this loading screen, a youthful Ismail heroically leads the Qizilbash cavalry charge against the Uzbeks at the battle of Merv.



[h2]UI Art[/h2]
As always, our artists have created a staggering amount of work, with around 300 brand new 2D assets including 83 new mission Icons, 20 government reforms, and 3 new government Mechanics to support the content that has been added to King of Kings and the 1.36 patch. Take a look at some of our favourite examples:


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[h2]Unit Models[/h2]
Coming up with unit models for King of Kings has been a challenging task, as all the major countries in the region have already enjoyed one (or more) unit packs. As such we have largely fallen back on the minor countries to spice up your conquests in the DLC.



Early Georgians are well represented with lamellar armour and conical helmets. Later, the chainmail continues to make an appearance, even with the advent of musket and pistol shot. For the later periods, we drew inspiration from Ossetian costumes and Georgian cossacks, the most notable elements being the traditional jacket (chocka) with cartridge bags (gazyr).



The Armenians, also from the Caucasus, have a progression that is not so different. For this project, we were working with our Ukrainian friends in N-iX Game Studio, so as with the Georgian troops they had some unique insights into the aesthetics of Black Sea cultures.



The Kingdom of Tlemcen is provided with unique North African uniforms. The Tier 1 is a Tuareg warrior complete with his iconic shield. The following tiers display Tuareg swords, and other items inspired by the cultural clothing that evoke North African people. Tier 3 is inspired by Algerian janissaries, while the final tier is based on Algerians in French colonial service.



Israel is a rare formable, but with the unique Jewish history in the region, we thought it was a good opportunity to provide them with unit models. The ahistoricity of this tag in the context of the EU4 timeline lends itself a little to fantasy, which allowed us to have a little bit of fun with the designs, but we also were mindful of the complex situation surrounding Israel and Judaism so respect was always at the forefront of our minds.

The very earliest tiers are inspired by ancient Ammonite warriors, as we wanted to achieve a look that is uniquely Israelite without much inspiration from other medieval cultures, but also the Turkic Khazars, who converted to Judaism and may have sheltered Israelite refugees. The chained crossbelt of the Tier 3 is a nod to the Jewish people of Yemen, who became renowned as both great silversmiths and mercenaries.



Syria has been promoted from releasable to a starting vassal under the Mamluks, and as such we have created for them a set of units. Finding things which make them distinct from both the Turkish and Egyptian units was an interesting task for our research team, but we think we found a really compelling and unique look for them.



The Pontic Greeks of Trebizond developed a unique aesthetic, detached from their European brethren and forced to meld with their Anatolian neighbours who were growing in power.

The iconic polearm, as well as the Byzantine-inspired lamellar armour with the leather belts, shows the stronger Greek connection of the early years. Later we see a heavy brigandine melded with pileas hat, an undercurrent of Greek civilization that ran from the ancient era to that of revolutionary France.



A Crusader outpost in the outremer, Cyprus adopts an intriguing mixture of their Frankish lords and their largely Greek populace. The headscarf of Tier 1 protects the helmet from burning in the intense heat of the Eastern Mediterranean. Later we see further indications of East vs West; the final tier is inspired by Greek infantry who fought in British service during the Napoleonic wars.



The Karamanid units will be used for all Turkish minors (we have solved a bug that some of you noticed in the streams where these were showing up for the Ottomans as well). For these we wanted to evoke a uniquely Turkish vibe without relying on the Janissaries or other Ottoman-specific troops from the era.

As always, let us know what you think of the units, and if there are any unique models for countries you would love to see in the next DLC, let us know in the comments!

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[h2]Achievements[/h2]
Now it's time for me, Pintu, to introduce you to the Achievements implemented in 1.36. But before I start with that, I want to talk a little bit about the previous iterations of achievements and what we changed in our approach to the achievements in 1.36. With 1.35 and Domination focusing on Great Powers around the world we decided to make challenging achievements for nations starting in a strong position and connecting them with other regions touched in Domination. This meant that one too many achievements turned out with a focus on conquest and less on utilizing Mission Trees and newly added content. With the achievements of King of Kings, we are trying to flesh these points out and have fewer outright conquest-reliant achievements, while still giving expansion some presence. With that being said, lets get into the list of achievements!


King of Kings
Complete the Persian Mission Tree.

An old classic of Achievement types makes a return! This achievement will be completable with any of the branching religious paths and as any Nation forming Persia, regardless of which Legacy Missions they have access to.


Restore the Pentarchy
Starting as Byzantium, own Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem.

While starting in a Union of Churches, Byzantium might want to restyle this so-called Union into something that fits their own ideas more. Make the necessary changes to restore the Pentarchy.


Mets Hayk
Starting as Karabakh, own, core, and convert to Coptic the borders of Great Armenia.

Greater Armenia was once a state controlling land from the Caspian to the Mediterranean Sea. Recreating that ancient kingdom will not be an easy task and will put you at odds with strong powers in the area.


Desert Power
Starting as an Arabian Tribe, have the Oasis privilege enacted, and more than 1000 development in the Arabian Region

The people of the desert are hardy and strong and with the right development, who knows what they can achieve? I was also told you can expand across two franchises if you really dont like sand.


Breadbasket of the World
Starting as the Mamluks, export grain to every continent.

The fertile land of the Nile was already known as the breadbasket of the Mediterranean Sea. But why settle for that? It's time to feed the world!


The Last Crusade
Starting as Byzantium, control Venice, and make sure that the country doesn't exist.

Surviving as Byzantium is not an easy task. But to ensure your survival lasts its also necessary to settle old grudges. And who knows, maybe you will be able to fill a museum in the process?


A truly good maaa-tch
Starting as either Aq Qoyunlu or Qara Qoyunlu, have a royal marriage and an alliance with Ramazan.

Black Sheep? White Sheep? Make sure that your choice will not have any negative ram-ifications!


Legacy of Saint George
As Georgia, have Genoa, Aragon, England, and Trier as vassals, while controlling Wales.

As its a time-honored tradition for this game, you will have to make your way into England for at least one achievement per patch. While there are a few (lot) more countries with a connection to Saint George or the Saint Georges Cross, we decided to not go overboard too much with the required countries.


ZoroAustrians
Starting as Austria, convert to Zoroastrianism, and complete the Persian Zoroastrian missions.

This seemed like a natural fit between the Dynasty of the Habsburgs and this Religion.

I would also like to mention that we updated to older achievements. The David the Builder achievement received a rework, now being accessible via a (re-)formed Georgia. We made this change since Imereti was removed from the starting setup of the map and Georgia now owns the previous Imereti provinces directly. Furthermore, Mehmets Ambition is now updated in line with the reworked Restore the Roman Empire Decision, requiring 425 Provinces in the highlighted provinces.

And this concludes this week's Dev Diary and also the second to last Dev Diary for 1.36 and the King of Kings Immersion Pack. Next week Dargeths will talk about the Patch Notes for the 1.36 Update.

Which of achievement is your favorite? Let us know in the comments or join our Discord:
https://discord.gg/europauniversalisofficial


*Edit: Before you leave! Enjoy this FatherLorris comic hot off the presses. 1.36 UI is something many of us are looking forward to ;)

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:

• A recap on the list of features that will come in EUIV: King of Kings.
  
• Addressing the questions and some feedback that arose in the last DD.
  
• Presenting you the free features coming in the 1.36 update, which are mostly focused on QoL (Quality of Life) improvements added to the base game, and 8 new monuments added for the Leviathan DLC owners.
  

• 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).
  
• 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 for Persia, 'Ghilman' and 'Qizilbash', with their own set of agendas and disasters.
  
• 20 new estate privileges.
  
• 6 government reforms.
  
• A new special unit, the Qizilbash, which can be recruited either as Infantry or as Cavalry units.
  
• 68 new events for Persia.
  
• And even more additional content like Diplomatic Actions, Subject Types, CBs, and Local Organizations.
  

• New mission tree for the Mamluks with 39 missions.
  
• A new 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.
  
• New hirable Mercenaries, Diplomatic Actions, and Estate Agendas for the Nobility centered around the Mamluk ruling class.
  

• 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.
  
• New Decisions and hireable Mercenaries.
  

• New mission tree for Arabia Minors with 34 Missions, making it possible to form Arabia using the Mission Tree.
  
• 1 New Estate Privilege for Arabia.
  
• 9 new events.
  
• A new CB, 'Spread Islam', and a new Decision for Arabia.
  

• New mission tree for Yemeni Nations with 26 Missions, and 5 extra missions for the Rassids.
  
• 1 new Estate Privilege for Yemen.
  
• 7 new events.
  

• 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'.
  
• 7 new events.
  
• Added a New Georgian culture and a new setup for the Georgian area in the base game (free).
  

• New mission tree for Armenia with 30 missions in total.
  
• 2 new government reforms for Armenia, 'Nakharar Title' and 'Sparapet Office'.
  
• Added 4 new events.
  

As Aq Qoyunlu, take the reins of the White Sheep Tribe and lead the Tribal Federation to new Conquests. Or, as Qara Qoyunlu, the Black Sheep, secure your position in the fertile region of Iraq, and further expand your domain over the rich lands around you.

• New mission trees for Aq Qoyunlu with 31 missions in total.
  
• New mission tree for Qara Qoyunlu with 30 missions in total.
  
• Aq Qoyunlu and Qara Qoyunlu can now access Janissaries and Pashas through the mission tree.
  
• Added 1 new government reform, 'Turkmen Ottoman Institutions'.
  
• Added 2 new Estate Privilege for Turkmen Tribes, 'Emirs of Baghdad' and 'Great Works of Iran'
  
• 11 new events
  
• Added the Turco-Iranian culture in the base game (free).
  

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Flavour Content

• 32 New Unit Sprites.
  
  
  
  • 4 new units for Cyprus.
    
  • 4 new units for Trebizond.
    
  • 4 new units for Karaman.
    
  • 4 new units for Israel.
    
  • 4 new units for Tlemcen.
    
  • 4 new units for Syria.
    
  • 4 new units for Armenia.
    
  • 4 new units for Georgia.
    
  
  
• 3 New Music Packs, with 12 new songs.
  
  
  
  • Music pack with 4 new songs of Persian flavor.
    
  • Music pack with 4 new songs of Egyptian flavor.
    
  • Music pack with 4 new songs of Caucasian flavor.
    
  
  

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Now that weve presented you with the full content of the upcoming DLC, lets continue with the design philosophy, and some numbers behind it, as a direct answer to the feedback we received last week.

Our benchmark for King of Kings was Lions of the North, both on the quantitative and qualitative scopes. So after diving a bit into the numbers of each of these DLCs, we are happy to say that we have created more content in KoK in terms of total Missions, Estate Privileges and Estates-related content, Government Reforms, Government Mechanics, Miscellaneous Content, and Songs, while were at similar numbers in Events and Sprite Models. And this just focuses on the main content, and not counting on what we term as miscellaneous content, like new types of Subjects, Diplomatic Actions, Holy Orders, etc. So, what you may notice here is that in the rough numbers of content assets created, both Immersion Packs are not only comparable, but in most of the aspects KoK is the DLC having more, which is something that we desired to achieve.

But another topic we want to tackle is the design direction. A lot of you have pointed out that there are a few countries that are much-loved by the community that are not receiving content in this DLC. We had to make design decisions on which countries to cover, and which not, in order to deliver this new DLC spending a comparable amount of time in its development to LotN; thus, we decided to focus on some selected countries rather than spreading ourselves thin over more, to make sure that we could deliver content for the chosen ones with a higher level of quality. Persia, which is the most important country of the expansion, is probably the best example, as we created a wide range of possible gameplays coming from very different origins, making it one the most replayable countries in the game, if not the most.

Does this mean that we arent going to work on Middle East countries anymore? Not at all! We have read a lot of content requests and suggestions for countries like:

• The Timurids
  
• The Mughals
  
• The Central Asian Hordes
  
• Hisn Kayfa
  
• Oman/Hormuz
  
• 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

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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"Iran's glory has always been its culture." - Richard Nelson Frye in Greater Iran, A 20th-Century Odyssey.

With this quote, I welcome you all to our first Dev Diary for 1.36, which will be focused on Persia. I dont think there is much of an introduction needed for it, as it is a country that the community has been actively requesting to receive an update, especially after the Great Powers update of EUIV: Domination. Its been an easy pick for us to work on, as it already had been in our plans for a while! So lets get started by taking a look at the historical founder of the Safavid Dynasty: Ardabil.


[Note: All the screenshots shown in the DD are a work in progress, as usual!]

The Ardabil tree aims to help the player to unify the region. You gain permanent claims on the Tabriz and Shirvan areas, a core on the Tabriz province itself (once you have conquered the area first), +3 development in every province in the Tabriz area (a note about this, Ardabil province is now part of this area), and a religious CB against heathens and heretics for 25 years.

A common complaint on the forums was that missions simplify hard tags too much, and as such we have also decided that Ardabil will not get many of these, in order to keep the initial years as rather tough still - at least from a mission perspective.

The highlight of the tree is the mission Into Persia which is completed after conquering 15 provinces in Persia:


Another thing unique to Ardabil is the Safaviyya Holy Order, that you can promote in your areas:

Twice as expensive as normal orders, but it comes with one additional Base Manpower too.

Now that Ardabil has been covered, let us focus our attention on the religious setup of Persia as this affects the content of the country. The setup has been adjusted to reflect history a bit better. As such, many (but not all) Shia provinces are Sunni now as the conversion of the region happened massively only after Ismail established the Safavid dynasty in the region early in the 1500s:


With this out of the way, let us get to the gritty details of the tag of Persia itself. First thing first, the Persian ideas have been slightly adjusted to keep them more on par with their Ottoman and (sometimes) Mughal neighbors:

• 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!

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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
  

[Saudade mechanic]

[Lisbon Earthquake]


[Tomb of Muhammad]

[Portugal colours]

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

[Tutorial event page 1]


[Tutorial event page 2]

[Knights of Montesa]

• 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?
  

• 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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[h3]Read our Anbennar Spotlight Part 2 here![/h3]

And check out the moditself on the workshop here:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1385440355

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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Anbennar is a fantasy total conversion mod set in an original setting inspired by D&D settings like Forgotten Realms as well as settings like Dragon Age and The Witcher. But first, lets begin with a question:

Have you ever wanted to see how a fantasy world evolves PAST the medieval era?
How wizards react to the advent of gunpowder?
Or what if colonial exploration actually unearthed relics of immense magical power?

Anbennar is all about exploring those themes and more.
In the EU4 mod youll be playing through a fantasy world set during the same time span as vanilla (1444-1821). Youll witness all the events and themes of the early modern period albeit through a fantasy lens.
Watching how a fantasy world evolves through the ages is something we don't often get to see, let alone play through, but PDX games give us the perfect platform to tell these stories - and so enters Anbennar: A Fantasy Total Conversion mod for Europa Universalis IV.

[h3]Screenshots:
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The World of Anbennar



Magic UI



Necromancy is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural



Racial advisor portraits



The God Fragment by Biegeltoren


Weve been around for five years now, and later this year Anbennar is aiming to release our largest ever update, Scions of Sarhal, and we are incredibly excited to introduce our version of Africa when it drops in Q4 (and we finally update the mod to 1.35 - we hear you, chorus of people in the steam comments)!

But our special EU4 10th Anniversary Dev Diaries aren't just about that update.
Were also going to take you on a grand tour of Anbennar as a whole, showcasing the regions of the world, their cool gameplay mechanics, systems, and the lore you can expect when you download the mod. Additionally, well share some insight and commentary on how and why we brought these unique twists on EU4 gameplay to life...

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As you might expect there is a lot to cover with such a massive Mod. Too much to fit even just part 1 into this post! Whether you have heard of Anbennar before or it's a first, if this spotlight sounds interesting we encourage you to
Read the Rest here


And check out the moditself on the workshop here:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1385440355

[h3]Hello everyone![/h3]
Today we have some very exciting news for you. If you have been waiting for EUIV to finally have its own Official Discord server. Your day has come!



As part of our August Anniversary celebrations, we are launching the official Europa Universalis Discord server. If you are interested in sharing your game moments, interacting with the EUIV team, and generally hanging out with our awesome community in a Discord setting we invite you to join! If this sounds appealing to you and you do not have a Discord Account it's fairly easy to make. Discord should do a good job at giving you instructions by simply clicking the link but you can also find more information on account creation here.

In recognition of this launch as well as continuing our 10th Anniversary celebration month we are also hosting a displate giveaway on the newly launched discord server itself. This is separate and in addition to our recently concluded social media displate giveaway. We will be giving away 4 displates per day for 4 days. (See because, EU4, 1444, shoutout to the number 4 in general.)

The first of these starts today!

Giveaway times here:


Whether you are just interested in throwing your hat in the ring for our giveaways or you're interested in participating beyond that.

We welcome you to join us at:
https://discord.gg/europauniversalisofficial

Cant wait to see you there!

[h2]Today we release the free 10th Anniversary Community Music Pack for EUIV![/h2]

Were very proud to have collaborated with Utopia Music - known to many of you as the brainchild of Runite Drill - and producer George Hammond, to release these community favourites directly through the game as DLC.

Utopia/Runites passionate work over the years has become a recognisable staple of EUIVs modding community, and stands as testament to the talent and dedication of our community. This music pack is but one representation of the thriving enthusiasm that has been built around and within the game, and all the people it has brought together. Thank you.

Ten iconic tunes have been remastered for this pack, featuring tracks from Anbennar, Extended Timeline, Ante Bellum & more. Theyll be available via your store of choice and will indeed be free for all players; you simply need to claim it and its yours. You can also listen to them on Spotify for any extracurricular conquests.

[h3]Some words from Utopia:[/h3]

Hello Conquerors!

This music pack is a celebration of Europa Universalis IVs modding community and the incredible creations they have made. It features ten of the most popular original main theme songs from iconic EU4 mods, such as Anbennar, Ante Bellum and Extended Timeline. Each song has been carefully recreated from scratch and remastered to add depth, breadth, power and glory in a way that the communitys music has never before experienced.

Inspired by great composers such as Andreas Waldetoft, Howard Shore and Geoff Knorr, the songs are built upon a series of motifs and themes designed to invoke the magic, wonder and essence of each of the communitys mods. Come join us, and experience an iconic journey through the legendary ten years EU4s modding community.

Your conquests have never sounded better.

- Utopia


[h3]Get the music pack: click here
Listen on Spotify: click here
Utopias official website: click here[/h3]

Full track listing:
1. Dawn of an Empire (Anbennar)
2. Into the Beyond (Ante Bellum)
3. The Conquistador (Atlas Novum)
4. A World to Explore (Europa Expanded)
5. A Brief History of Everything (Extended Timeline)
6. One World (Flavor Universalis)
7. All Roads Lead to Rome (Imperium Universalis)
8. Clara Umbra (Lux in Tenebris)
9. Back to the Motherland (Third Odyssey)
10. In Taverns and Great Halls (1356 - A Timeline Extension)

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.

[h3]Please enjoy this retrospective from him below:[/h3]

Today it is 10 years ago since we released EU4, back on August 13th of 2023. I guess it's a sign that you are getting old that you can write posts like this.

Back in the early autumn of 2011, PDS was much smaller, I was still the studio manager, and we had 1 full team led by Henrik Doomdark Fhraeus working on CK2, while a smaller team with Dan podcat Lind and 2 other people was doing expansions for HoI3 and V2. Paradox France, which was a small subsidiary with 2 employees, was working on March of the Eagles with support from Olof Birken Bjrk.

I remember this as a time when we had lots of experience, with some of us doing these games for a decade or more, and the studio was growing every year.

We had just wrapped up Sengoku with another small (4-5 people) team, and we needed to decide what to do now. Thomas Besuchov Johansson, by then a ten year veteran, who had been away on parental leave was coming back, and the two together with Chris King King started to define what project we want to do.

It was quickly obvious that it should be a sequel to Europa Universalis III, but how we should go ahead was a bit harder. After a few days of talks, we settled on a simple vision of

• 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?)

[h3]Check it out here: https://pdxint.at/3qbFXVG [/h3]

We are also giving away 9 free EUIV Displate posts across our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram channels, so be sure to check that out too (entries strictly limited to one per person). Winners will be chosen & announced on August 9th.

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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Hello Everyone,

I am MDoulos, the creator of Ages Reformed, a mod that completely overhauls and improves the age mechanic that was introduced in Mandate of Heaven. Welcome to the mod spotlight for the mod that adds several small but very meaningful mechanics to the ages feature. If you aren't already using Ages Reformed, I appreciate that you're giving me the opportunity to convince you to try. :)

In this mod spotlight, Id like to talk about the important features which help improve your gameplay experience. Ill also briefly mention some of the unimportant features which were created with love, just because theyre cool. So lets go!


Painting: Ferdinand Pauwels, "Luther Posts His 95 Theses"

Lets start with an outline of the things touched in Ages Reformed:

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