Hello and welcome back. Mare Nostrum will be upon us very soon so I will take this last dev diary before release to show some extras and the 15 new achievements which will be part of the 1.16 patch. With Wiz safely banished to the furthest reaches of space to make friends with Blorg, I am free to ensure there are no more Eastern Roman Empire related Achievements. The 15 new achievements, which some clever cookies may have seen before are:

• Mare Nostrum: Restore the Roman Empire and own the entire Mediterranean and Black Sea coast lines.
• Kuban Cigars: As Kuba, own or have a subject own Havana and be the world’s leading producer of Tobacco.
• Kushite Restoration: As a Nubian culture nation, own the entire Egyptian region as core provinces.
• The Fezzan Corridors: As Fezzan, control at least 90% of the trade power in Tunis, Katsina, Safi and Timbuktu.
• Victorian Three: As Basoga, Buganda or Karagwe, reach administrative, diplomatic and military technology level 32.
• The Animal Kingdom: As Manipur, unite the Bengal region and convert it to Animism.
• Golden Horn: As a Somali nation, fully own the Horn of Africa region and have a monthly gold income of at least 50 ducats.
• Kinslayer: As Tver, Yaroslavl, Ryazan or Odoyev, eliminate all other Rurikovich nations without changing your ruling dynasty.
• Choson One: As Korea, own or have a subject own all Shinto, Confucian and Buddhist provinces in the world.
• Sailor Mon: As Pegu, have at least 100,000 sailors.

• The White Company: Hire your army out to both sides in a war and fight in a battle against your former employer.
• Networking: Have 100 point spy networks in 3 rival nations.
• Time Bandit: Successfully steal a map from another nation.
• With a little help..: As Ragusa, lead a Trade League of at least 5 nations and guarantee the Ottomans’ independence
• Just Resting In My Account: Corrupt the officials in a rival country

Going hand-in-hand with one of these achievements, we have added one of the longest requested formable nations: The Roman Empire. It is no easy task to perform, requiring Christianity or Paganism and ownership of the regions of Italy, France, Iberia, Balkans, Anatolia, Mashriq as well as certain key provinces, but doing so will allow you to recreate the thousand year empire and grant you the new unique culture of Roman.
Forming Rome is a free feature, available as part of the 1.16 patch. Next up is Timeline, a new Mare Nostrum feature
At any point through your campaign you can hit the new timeline button next to the date and observe how the world has evolved throughout the years. Watch as empires rise and fall and re-live how your own nation rose to its great heights (hopefully)
Opening Timeline will bring the map back to how it was at the start of your campaign and then you can choose at what speed to run through the world's history. You can pan all over the map during this timeline, so while the Big Blue Blob takes over Europe you can admire infighting new world natives or see which of the Daimyo's made Japan theirs. Finally, some ideas, starting with the aforementioned Roman Empire Roman ideas: Traditions: discipline = 0.05 legitimacy = 1 Ambition: global_manpower_modifier = 0.33 pax romana global_unrest = -1 legacy of rome diplomatic_reputation = 2 SPQR stability_cost_modifier = -0.2 roman legions infantry_power = 0.10 land_forcelimit_modifier = 0.15 roman architecture production_efficiency = 0.2 imperial bureaucracy = global_tax_modifier = 0.1 imperium sine fine = { core_creation = -0.20 African Great Lakes Ideas: traditions: loot_amount = 0.25 hostile_attrition = 1.0 ambition: merchants = 1 source_of_the_nile global_manpower_modifier = 0.15 heirs_of_kitara prestige = 1 no_illegitimate_children heir_chance = 0.5 cwezy_religion tolerance_own = 2 emitwe infantry_cost = -0.1 unity_of_clans infantry_power = 0.1 development_of_clientship global_tax_modifier = 0.1 And as a representative for the Irish, let's bring in Desmond. Traditions: garrison_size = 0.25 global_manpower_modifier = 0.25 Ambition: defensiveness = 0.15 dms_the_land_of_castles build_cost = -0.1 dms_cadet_lines stability_cost_modifier = -0.1 dms_gaelic_bastion land_morale = 0.1 dms_the_munster_ambition province_warscore_cost = -0.1 core_creation = -0.1 dms_fierce_independence diplomatic_upkeep = 1 dms_promote_the_clture_of_service war_exhaustion = -0.02 prestige_from_land = 0.25 dms_inner_perfection adm_tech_cost_modifier = -0.1 Mare Nostrum will set sail on Tuesday April the 5th for €14:99, and by popular request is available for pre-order at https://www.paradoxplaza.com/europa-universalis-iv-mare-nostrum

[ 2016-04-01 11:55:25 CET ] [ Original post ]