Europa Universalis V confirmed

[crazy canuck]

Massive patch just landed

Looks like they went bug squashing

[Tamas]

Massive patch just landed

Does this mean I have to start my game over? 

I am going to check if anything resulted in an immediate AI behaviour change, then start a new game.

[crazy canuck]

I haven't gotten too far in any one game, just still trying to learn the mechanics so starting again will just be my current MO 

[Valmy]

One thing that bugs me is how to manage the size of the court. Obviously the bigger the court the more likely you can find great people to put in the cabinet or be in charge of military units.

On the other hand having to manage the personal lives of over 1,000 inbred nobles takes up way too much time.

I have no idea how to manage this going forward.

[crazy canuck]

I don't find it so problematic, every so often just open the diplo tab and see if there are any royal marriages you can arrange (not all will pop up on your alerts) and I just do the admin training for everyone when the education alert pops up. And of course when the marriage alert pops up, pay particular attention to that.

If a member of your nobility wants permission to marry, you will get an event that improves your standing with them, so best to wait for that event to fire.

[Valmy]

I get several notices every single month people are turning 16 and then I have to go check to see if I care about them. It gets rather exhausting.

And nobody wants to royal marry me since I am a dirty pagan. But I suspect when I play a non-Pagan country that will also be something I have to manage.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Ah, they increased trade maintenance costs by a factor of 10 and now my trading empire makes a loss 

[Syt]

I get several notices every single month people are turning 16 and then I have to go check to see if I care about them. It gets rather exhausting.

And nobody wants to royal marry me since I am a dirty pagan. But I suspect when I play a non-Pagan country that will also be something I have to manage.

I think they mentioned that they're looking at getting that coming of age spam sorted. I hope it will be a setting where you can decide how much control you want, i.e. how distant a relative you want to handle manually vs. automate.

[Syt]

From a post on their forums about "the released state of the game being unacceptable in 2025":

In a section complaining about the UI:

For a series known for complex but functional interfaces, this is honestly embarrassing.

[Richard Hakluyt]

It will be tweaked and rebalanced for the next 15 years or so, the game will probably be at it's best in 5 years time 

[Syt]

That seems right. Stellaris and HoI4 seem to have been struggling recently.

[Tamas]

1AM post from Johan:
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forums/europa-universalis-v.1171/

We will deploy a 1.0.6 update as soon as humanely possible.
We will restore trade maintenance changes to previous numbers
Negative Trade values will no longer break the entire system.
Privateers will be able to be destroyed again.
We are working on a new code for the economical base that is far less focused on the trade volume, but that won't be ready for tomorrow.

[Syt]

Classic Johan

Now waiting for KC4 to send a post that everything is broken, the team scrambling to sort it out over a weekend, and in the end KC4's local install being the problem.

[Tamas]

Lol.

Also apparently they made regulars even more powerful against levies so they get like 50 or 100 to 1 kill ratios. I think Johan needs to fix these couple of things and then get some sleep.

Although to be fair, as I understand regulars were like this prepatch, it's just levies we're bugged which masked it. Now they have fixed the bug and we have Space Marines.

[Syt]

I think I might give this a patch or two before going back to it