Europa Universalis IV announced

[Anatron]

what's the effect of the hunyadi ruler? apart from magyar pride

Mathias is an excellent ruler (4/4/5).Plus if you have Mathias as a ruler there will be other events too,like increasing base tax of a random province.
On the other hand if you dont have Habsburgs, then Austria cannot force you under PU later.

Anyway the Vikinggame just finished.
Sorry I could not start the westernization becouse I still having overextension.But managed to conquer few province for the Viking Empire for the unhappiness of Slargosburgs .

[garbon]

I'm now waiting for EUIV to settle a little before picking it back up. Am I getting the wrong impression and p'dox isn't beta testing as much as the board suggests?

[Anatron]

I am playing now as Songhai and captured/vassalized all of the central african provinces (Ivory and timbuktu trade) till 1481.Westernization started at 1490 too.:-)

[Zanza]

Whom do you meet in West Africa by 1490? I rarely see Portugal there before the 1530s or so. Or did you expand towards Morocco?

[Anatron]

Whom do you meet in West Africa by 1490? I rarely see Portugal there before the 1530s or so. Or did you expand towards Morocco?

Portugals arrived at Africa around 1475.

Done.Westernization finished at 1508.My 36k westernized troops waiting for the Portugals now:-)

[Queequeg]

My Ironman mode is broken so I can't continue my France game.  This is the worst thing ever.

[Anatron]

My Ironman mode is broken so I can't continue my France game.  This is the worst thing ever.

Same happened with me after the 1.2 patch released so I stopped playing Iron man mode.

[Queequeg]

I've become a habitual cheater in Paradox games, Ironman relieves me of that temptation.

[Queequeg]

Did a Henri Bourbon start, pulled a LOL YOU THOUGHT I WOULD CONVERT STUPID PAPISTS and now the Dutch-French condominium rules half the world by 1680.   

[Valmy]

Yeah the world is such a happy place when Calvinists are in charge 

Did you: cancel Christmas?

[Queequeg]

There are many different wonderful fruits on the Reformed tree. 

[Razgovory]

What's the deal with using the term "papists", constantly?

[Queequeg]

I've been playing Reformed countries, it sounds like a Calvinist word for a Catholic.

[Drakken]

Next expansion announced.

First feature : randomized map generator for the New World. No more racing to get to Chesapeake.

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?733017-Europa-Universalis-IV-Conquest-of-Paradise-expansion%96-Developer-diary-1/page1

So, the time has come to announce the first expansion for our empire-building game Europa Universalis IV. As you all know, Europa Universalis IV is a game where you can play any country in the world. However the main focus has always been on Europe (hence Europa Universalis ), but now the time has come to move that focus a little, across the Atlantic. It's time to do the Conquest of Paradise!

Finding Paradise
Are you ready to explore a brave new world? Personally, a lot of the fun in playing Europa Universalis is the first X in the term '4x', eXploration and sending explorers out to discover new continents. If you play a nation in Europe close to the sea, you will send out an explorer to find America or the route to India. However, when it comes to true exploration, as opposed to real world explorers, you as a player have an advantage - because you would know where you should go to find a new continent. Most Europa Universalis IV players, unlike most 15th century explorers, have a rough idea about where America is - so some of the excitement in exploration is lost.
Therefore, in Conquest of Paradise, you as a player will have the option of completely randomizing the new world. We wanted you to have the option to really explore a brand new continent. So for the first time ever in a Paradox Development Studio game, you can now choose to discover a completely randomized American continent. Therefore, when Columbus sets sails across the ocean, he might just find some nice islands that he can use as a stopover on his route to India or something completely different...

The Inhabitants of Paradise
Europa Universalis IV: Conquest of Paradise will have some interesting new options for America's original inhabitants. Another aspect of having the design focus on the game in the old world is the fact that the pacing of the game is optimized for the old world powers. The downside of this is that while it can be a lot of fun and a big challenge to play the Native Americans, you might find that it takes a very long time between those satisfying clicks to get a new technology, a new idea or even to create buildings.
To address this, we are adding lots of new and interesting things for the Native Americans to do in this expansion. We want to make the gameplay between the tribes more exciting and to help you maneuver yourself into a better position, should the pale barbarians come across the sea. The expansion makes it possible for you to play as a Native American nation and create an empire in early America. If you take on the role of a Native American tribe in Europa Universalis IV: Conquest of Paradise, you will have some interesting new tools in the expanded Native American gameplay mechanics, new tribes, a chance to form federations with your peers, new events, ideas and buildings. We´ll tell you more about this later on

Conquering Paradise
It's time to explore a more interesting America. In Europa Universalis IV: Conquest of Paradise, managing your overseas colonies is going to get a bit more interesting. When you send lots of people across the sea in the age of sail, controlling them might not be the easiest thing in the world. With this expansion, your colonies in the Americas will take on a new form; the larger ones will actually become free nations that serve as your colonies. They will have a limited independence and you can get money and trade power from them, but they will also live their own life, colonizing, fighting Native Americans and maybe even rebelling and striving for liberty from their motherland. You can squeeze them hard if you want, but then you might get into trouble down the line (or you can just change sides and play as a colony).

DLCs and Free stuff
Naturally, we at Paradox Development Studio are continuing the model used in Crusader Kings II. So in addition to the expansion, we are working on lots of completely free gameplay features (in addition to bug fixes, of course).
Even if you don't buy the expansion, you will get completely new map modes, more playable nations, colonial nations and much more. Also, don't worry about MP: just like in Crusader Kings II, if the host has the expansion – everyone in the MP session can use the gameplay features of Conquest of Paradise.
We will reveal more in-depth information about the brand new gameplay features weekly up until the release on December 11th, so be on the look-out!

[Zanza]

Fantastic!

That's definitely something I'll buy.