Europa Universalis IV announced

[Josquius]

- Garrisons can now sortie from their fortress against a besieging force.

Now this one is interesting. Always seemed a bit of an immersion breaker that your 5000 man fortress would just stay inside the walls whilst a few hundred enemy men sit outside its gates.
It does make forts a lot more powerful too....
Could be kind of exploity- lure enemy armies deep into your territory chasing one of your units and constantly attack them with small armies along the way.

Also  AI "Will no longer have a penalty to joining wars that have been going on for over 60 days"

That is good too. Far more realistic. It makes no sense France would stay out of Brittany and Ireland throwing insults at each other just because it has been going on for 40 years. If the French decide its time to end the war for whatever reason then they will end it.

[celedhring]

Wealth of Nations for 2,5 bucks at GMG.

[DGuller]

Anyone tried AoW yet?  Is it ready, or does it need to go back in the oven for a while?

[garbon]

Anyone tried AoW yet?  Is it ready, or does it need to go back in the oven for a while?

I haven't bought the expansion yet but I've played a little of just the free patch. I'm still learn ropes of the new autonomy/unrest system.

Forum is, of course, awash with lots of complaints though biggest one seems to be people angry about nerfs to native americans and african states (because of new colonial rules around autonomy minimum) - which is like who gives a fuck.

Little rough on the edges but nothing disastrous so far.

One thing I wish p'dox would do though is create some sort of internal validator. Whenever I use that validator that was fan created, I see that the files they create are full silly errors. Seems like something they could manage on their own.

[garbon]

There appears to be a new feature where by if enemies have taken control of your provinces during war - you'll get rebels that rise up against them sometimes by random event. Feature would be neat except that those rebels don't seem to have a disband command when war ends. I'm currently seeing about 3 nations that have rebels chillin' on their lands but because they are friendly to their host nation, they aren't doing anything at all.


edit: actually this appears to be the bug they have fixed now (in a beta patch) where patriot rebels would rise up against a nation with same culture and thus have nothing to do

[garbon]

Also I just saw AI start a colony where it will have -5 growth per year and 1% chance of attracting settlers with its colonist.

[Zoupa]

I never understood why game companies that are doing well push out obviously unfinished products.

Did Paradox need the money RIGHT NOW!!!!!11111one! What s the difference for them to release it in a couple of weeks to make sure they fix some obvious shit?

[garbon]

I never understood why game companies that are doing well push out obviously unfinished products.

Did Paradox need the money RIGHT NOW!!!!!11111one! What s the difference for them to release it in a couple of weeks to make sure they fix some obvious shit?

Agreed though, unless it causes them to lose customers, is there a downside for them?

I haven't yet purchased the expansion as I see no need to spend 20 bucks while they iron it out.

[Viking]

Also I just saw AI start a colony where it will have -5 growth per year and 1% chance of attracting settlers with its colonist.

As long as they leave the colonist there they will complete those colonies, it just takes very long. The colonization events will usually build the colony. AI get's bonuses for fewer native attacks, so they can do that.

[Viking]

I never understood why game companies that are doing well push out obviously unfinished products.

Did Paradox need the money RIGHT NOW!!!!!11111one! What s the difference for them to release it in a couple of weeks to make sure they fix some obvious shit?

I was in the beta we didn't even get free copies of the expansion.

[garbon]

Also I just saw AI start a colony where it will have -5 growth per year and 1% chance of attracting settlers with its colonist.

As long as they leave the colonist there they will complete those colonies, it just takes very long. The colonization events will usually build the colony. AI get's bonuses for fewer native attacks, so they can do that.

Well it lost the colony (presumably native attack) and then several years later started it up there again. Meanwhile other colonial nations are faring better as they started up targeting non-tropical provinces.

[Viking]

Also I just saw AI start a colony where it will have -5 growth per year and 1% chance of attracting settlers with its colonist.

As long as they leave the colonist there they will complete those colonies, it just takes very long. The colonization events will usually build the colony. AI get's bonuses for fewer native attacks, so they can do that.

Well it lost the colony (presumably native attack) and then several years later started it up there again. Meanwhile other colonial nations are faring better as they started up targeting non-tropical provinces.

yeah, going for tropical provinces early on is a bad idea, but sometimes necessary.

[jimmy olsen]

Also I just saw AI start a colony where it will have -5 growth per year and 1% chance of attracting settlers with its colonist.

Isn't that how Scotland went bankrupt in real life?

[garbon]

It looks like with the larger province counts they have swung too far in changing balance for colonial nations. Before most CNs stayed the course and remained subjects of their mother nations throughout the end of the game period. Now the opposite has happened and by the early 18th century, most are independent or nearing independence.

[Viking]

It looks like with the larger province counts they have swung too far in changing balance for colonial nations. Before most CNs stayed the course and remained subjects of their mother nations throughout the end of the game period. Now the opposite has happened and by the early 18th century, most are independent or nearing independence.

Its a good thing they revolt at all imho. The big factor driving this is the WE contribution to growth in independence desire. At the end of the game only three colonial nations should be still loyal, that is canada, australia and alaska. Everybody else should either be independent or revolting. Though 1700 is a bit early, but that is just as much a function of fast colonization as it is of the tendency of countries to fight until completely occupied thus having it's WE contribute massively to its liberty desire.