Europa Universalis IV announced

[Zanza]

Hungary is useless for the Ottomans anyway. It's much better to spend you time on conquering all the way to India.

[garbon]

They really are going all out with the new provinces & nations. 17 new tags for West Africa.

At game start (1444), you will see fourteen of them on the map: Air, Bonoman, Dagbon, Dahomey, Kano, Katsina, Kong, Jenné, Macina, Mossi, Nupe, Timbuktu (the Magsharen Tuaregs), Yao and Zazzau. In addition, the pre-existing tag of Jolof will now be available from 1444.

Three more will appear, either via event (the Fulo empire) or via cores (Yatenga and Kaabu). These will also be available in the game on later start dates.

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(West African cultures are now split into three broad culture groups, and eighteen cultures, rather than the old seven cultures all in one group, along with the rest of the Africans).

[Liep]

Hmm.. my game is already getting choppy around 1600, so I wonder how much worse it'll get.

[garbon]

They said that they have worked on a lot of optimizations to make things not run slower. We'll see.

[Norgy]

32 gigs of RAM and an i7 4770K still struggles slightly with EU IV past 1700.

Then again, that's usually when an SP game is less fun.

[garbon]

I like this thread: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?800334-Conversations-that-must-have-happened-in-Eu4

"Sir, we have caught that diplomat from Austria trying to fabricate a claim on one of our provinces!"

"What? Shocking! Though that does explain what he's doing here."

"I...what did you think he was doing in our capital?"

"I dunno. We produce some nice grain, I kind of figured he just really liked grain."

"But... anyway, do I have him expelled now, milord?"

"Oh, heavens, no! What are we, uncivilized?"

"But... are we just going to let him fabricate a claim on our land?"

"No, now that we've discovered what he's doing, it'll take him longer. Also I'll make sure to glare at him whenever I pass him in the halls."

[garbon]

Interesting, I didn't realize that Wiz was now EU4's project lead.

[DGuller]

Interesting, I didn't realize that Wiz was now EU4's project lead.

Welcome to a couple of years ago.

[garbon]

Interesting, I didn't realize that Wiz was now EU4's project lead.

Welcome to a couple of years ago.

Odd given that he noted today that it was a recent promotion.

[Liep]

Interesting, I didn't realize that Wiz was now EU4's project lead.

Welcome to a couple of years ago.

He was just designing the AI a couple of years ago, no?

[garbon]

Interesting, I didn't realize that Wiz was now EU4's project lead.

Welcome to a couple of years ago.

He was just designing the AI a couple of years ago, no?

As far as I know, a couple years ago he was just a modder. Wasn't sure though if DGul was making some sort of snarky comment about p'dox relying on modders.

[Liep]

What did he mod? One of those that add a plethora of provinces (shaped to look like modern day borders) so that after a few years of gameplay Europe looks like shit and is also extremely slow? Like that VeF I recently tried.

[Zanza]

Wiz did CK2+, which IIRC didn't add a single province to the map. It added lots of other good stuff though.

[DGuller]

Interesting, I didn't realize that Wiz was now EU4's project lead.

Welcome to a couple of years ago.

He was just designing the AI a couple of years ago, no?

As far as I know, a couple years ago he was just a modder. Wasn't sure though if DGul was making some sort of snarky comment about p'dox relying on modders.

I thought that from the beginning of EU4 he took over Johan's role. 

[garbon]

Interesting, I didn't realize that Wiz was now EU4's project lead.

Welcome to a couple of years ago.

He was just designing the AI a couple of years ago, no?

As far as I know, a couple years ago he was just a modder. Wasn't sure though if DGul was making some sort of snarky comment about p'dox relying on modders.

I thought that from the beginning of EU4 he took over Johan's role. 

When P'dox took him on for EU4, he was just an AI guy, as far as I know.