Europa Universalis IV announced

[DGuller]

Started the download just before shaving myself, the download was already finished when I checked back after.  The wonders of 21st century.  Now I just have to figure out when to play it, between working and studying.

[garbon]

Exporter seems pretty cool. No real work needed to be done, just click export while in CK2 and then it automatically creates export where EUIV can access it. So just shows up as mod to be checked off.

Does look like it does something curious with armies. Not sure if these were all raised by my vassals at the time but I've started with a flurry of tiny armies.  

Negatives:
Sort of as only one state do I see with a different name (muslim state)
Nodes seem to be fixed so you just have the vanilla ones that likely don't make sense with a CK2 start.
Every nation ported over had the same tech levels.


Anyway, off to fiddle around with vanilla EUIV after I get some work out of the way.

[Syt]

RPS is in love with the game:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/08/13/wot-i-think-europa-universalis-iv/

I think I will export my current CK2 game tonight (with the mega-HRE that covers most of France, West Germany, parts of Italy and the entire Byzantine Empire) to see how it turns out in EU4 - it should be mostly independent states, but they should all be part of the HRE, and it should be interesting to see who the electors are (West Francia, East Francia, Byzantine Empire, plus ...?).

[garbon]

RPS is in love with the game:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/08/13/wot-i-think-europa-universalis-iv/

Sound less like a review and more just a love song to strategy games. Very little I think in that to let someone know what the game is like.

[Fireblade]

Jesus Christ this is the longest day ever.

[JonasSalk]

Sweet, you can make your HEIR a general now.

I predict a fairly substantial amount of unwanted heirs being suddenly thrown into the military.

[Tamas]

Jesus Christ this is the longest day ever.

First thing I noticed as Castille is that I am basically unable to convert sunni provinces at the moment. Base rate you have is 2% which equals sunni conversion-defense. Castille does gat a national idea boosting said rate so there is that, but it sure does look better than the rates in the demo

[Valmy]

I think I will export my current CK2 game tonight (with the mega-HRE that covers most of France, West Germany, parts of Italy and the entire Byzantine Empire) to see how it turns out in EU4 - it should be mostly independent states, but they should all be part of the HRE, and it should be interesting to see who the electors are (West Francia, East Francia, Byzantine Empire, plus ...?).

Yeah I want to make a super Empire and import it into EU4 and see what happens.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Jesus Christ this is the longest day ever.

First thing I noticed as Castille is that I am basically unable to convert sunni provinces at the moment. Base rate you have is 2% which equals sunni conversion-defense. Castille does gat a national idea boosting said rate so there is that, but it sure does look better than the rates in the demo

Yeah, full game seems to be significantly harder than demo 

[JonasSalk]

Wow, it is really difficult to form Russia nice and early like I'm used to. I keep running out of admin power left and right. This is definitely a challenge now.

[Fireblade]

Went home for lunch.

[crazy canuck]

Someone booked a meeting for me this afternoon 

[dps]

They are.

Very disappointing.

[The Brain]

15th century African rulers seem bland and generic.

[JonasSalk]

Sigh. As expected, Novgorod AI still leaves pirates perpetually patrolling the White Sea.