Hello everyone! Today is the final development diary before the release of Rights of Man! Which is next week! Actually, its next tuesday even! At 15.00 CET if all goes well.. 1.18 “Prussia” will go live on the steam-servers and you’ll be able to purchase Rights of Man.

So, to wrap up the teasers for this update, we’ll start with yet ANOTHER addition to a previous expansion. In El Dorado, we added advisor portraits for South Americans. Back in those days, advisors were all males.. Now though, we have added a set of female advisors to the South American graphical culture!



In our effort to make the games more user-friendly, or as some say, super-casual, we have now reduced the amount of clicks you need to continue a savegame. Now there is a nice “Continue” button in the launcher, that launchers your latest played game without stopping for a decision in the frontend.



And for those of you who play Hearts of Iron IV, you’ll be aware about the possibility for the game to automatically upload crashdumps to our servers, whenever you start the game after it had crashed before. Of course, this is all voluntary.


1.18 and Rights of Man adds 20 new achievements as well, for those of you that love hunting them.

• We bled for this - Win a war with at least 1M dead on both sides.
  
• Pick Your Poison - As Kaffa, develop in Cafa while a subject of yours owns it..
  
• Not just Pizza - Become a Great Power as Naples.
  
• All That's Thine Shall Be Mine - As a Greedy ruler, take all of a nation’s ducats in a peace deal
  
• A Blessed Nation - As a Coptic Nation, gain all 5 Blessings
  
• Queen of Conquest - Conquer land while in a Queen Regency
  
• AAA Credit - As a Great Power, take on over 1,000 ducats of another nation’s debt.
  
• Hoarder - as a Fetishist nation, have 13 available Cults
  
• Gentle Persuasion - Have a Siege Specialist general win a siege in a province with a fort
  
• Combined Arms - Have both an Admiral and a General with a trait
  
• Cities of Cibola - as Pueblo, own at least seven provinces with 10 development each.
  
• Turkish Delight - Start as Candar, and own 20 Sugar provinces between you and your subjects
  
• Baa Baa Black Sheep - As Qara Qoyunlu become the leading producer of wool
  
• Fanatic Collectivist - Own all Institution Origin provinces.
  
• Core-fu - force a nation to revoke 5 cores in one peace deal as Corfu
  
• Rozwi Empire - Start as Butua, conquer Mutapa (Zimbabwe and .Lower Zambezi areas)
  
• The Sudanese Expedition - Starting as Morocco Conquer the Niger and Sahel Regions
  
• A tale of two Families - Starting as Vijayanagar or Bahmanis conquer the other’s capital and have them not exist.
  
• Abu Bakr II’s Ambition - Start as Mali and have 4 Colonial Subjects in south America
  
• Consulate of the Sea - As Aragon conquer all Mediterranean Centres of Trade

We have tweaked quite alot of national ideas in 1.18, adding new modifiers to them, giving a new fresh feeling. This includes movement speed of armies, fire damage, institution spread and more, and as usual, some countries got new unique national ideas, including Malwa, Pattani, Kaffa, Corfu, Lorraine and Wurzburg.


Here is a quick look at the national ideas of Malwa.

Traditions: +3 Tolerance of Heathen and -10% Infantry Cost.

• Rajputs of Malwa : +15% Manpower
  
• Nimatnama : +25% Religious Unity & +0.5 Yearly Prestige
  
• Surat-Delhi Route: +10% Trade Efficiency
  
• Fortified Strongholds: +20% Defensiveness
  
• Black Soil: +10% Goods Produced
  
• Reliance of Jain Bankers: -0.1 Yearly Inflation
  
• Malwa Opium: +10% Province Trade Power

Ambition: +1 Accepted Cultures


And for those of you that play multiplayer. 1.18, will now give the option of making a player that drops totally brain-dead until he or she can reconnect.



Next week, we go live on the tuesday, so there won’t be a development diary that day!

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Hello everyone! Today is the final development diary before the release of Rights of Man! Which is next week! Actually, its next tuesday even! At 15.00 CET if all goes well.. 1.18 “Prussia” will go live on the steam-servers and you’ll be able to purchase Rights of Man.

So, to wrap up the teasers for this update, we’ll start with yet ANOTHER addition to a previous expansion. In El Dorado, we added advisor portraits for South Americans. Back in those days, advisors were all males.. Now though, we have added a set of female advisors to the South American graphical culture!



In our effort to make the games more user-friendly, or as some say, super-casual, we have now reduced the amount of clicks you need to continue a savegame. Now there is a nice “Continue” button in the launcher, that launchers your latest played game without stopping for a decision in the frontend.



And for those of you who play Hearts of Iron IV, you’ll be aware about the possibility for the game to automatically upload crashdumps to our servers, whenever you start the game after it had crashed before. Of course, this is all voluntary.


1.18 and Rights of Man adds 20 new achievements as well, for those of you that love hunting them.

• We bled for this - Win a war with at least 1M dead on both sides.
  
• Pick Your Poison - As Kaffa, develop in Cafa while a subject of yours owns it..
  
• Not just Pizza - Become a Great Power as Naples.
  
• All That's Thine Shall Be Mine - As a Greedy ruler, take all of a nation’s ducats in a peace deal
  
• A Blessed Nation - As a Coptic Nation, gain all 5 Blessings
  
• Queen of Conquest - Conquer land while in a Queen Regency
  
• AAA Credit - As a Great Power, take on over 1,000 ducats of another nation’s debt.
  
• Hoarder - as a Fetishist nation, have 13 available Cults
  
• Gentle Persuasion - Have a Siege Specialist general win a siege in a province with a fort
  
• Combined Arms - Have both an Admiral and a General with a trait
  
• Cities of Cibola - as Pueblo, own at least seven provinces with 10 development each.
  
• Turkish Delight - Start as Candar, and own 20 Sugar provinces between you and your subjects
  
• Baa Baa Black Sheep - As Qara Qoyunlu become the leading producer of wool
  
• Fanatic Collectivist - Own all Institution Origin provinces.
  
• Core-fu - force a nation to revoke 5 cores in one peace deal as Corfu
  
• Rozwi Empire - Start as Butua, conquer Mutapa (Zimbabwe and .Lower Zambezi areas)
  
• The Sudanese Expedition - Starting as Morocco Conquer the Niger and Sahel Regions
  
• A tale of two Families - Starting as Vijayanagar or Bahmanis conquer the other’s capital and have them not exist.
  
• Abu Bakr II’s Ambition - Start as Mali and have 4 Colonial Subjects in south America
  
• Consulate of the Sea - As Aragon conquer all Mediterranean Centres of Trade

We have tweaked quite alot of national ideas in 1.18, adding new modifiers to them, giving a new fresh feeling. This includes movement speed of armies, fire damage, institution spread and more, and as usual, some countries got new unique national ideas, including Malwa, Pattani, Kaffa, Corfu, Lorraine and Wurzburg.


Here is a quick look at the national ideas of Malwa.

Traditions: +3 Tolerance of Heathen and -10% Infantry Cost.

• Rajputs of Malwa : +15% Manpower
  
• Nimatnama : +25% Religious Unity & +0.5 Yearly Prestige
  
• Surat-Delhi Route: +10% Trade Efficiency
  
• Fortified Strongholds: +20% Defensiveness
  
• Black Soil: +10% Goods Produced
  
• Reliance of Jain Bankers: -0.1 Yearly Inflation
  
• Malwa Opium: +10% Province Trade Power

Ambition: +1 Accepted Cultures


And for those of you that play multiplayer. 1.18, will now give the option of making a player that drops totally brain-dead until he or she can reconnect.



Next week, we go live on the tuesday, so there won’t be a development diary that day!

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Hello everyone and welcome to another Europa Universalis development diary. This time we’ll take a look at the most important balance changes for 1.18, with a quick explanation on why we did them..

Setup

• Lucky nations are now down to 8, sorry Poland, Brandenburg & Sweden.

The balance of having 10 lucky nations made the likelihood of a strong Russia too uncommon for us, and especially having those 3 as likely lucky nations was too much for Muscowy.

• Lots of National Ideas have been changed, but most importantly Knights lost their tolerance for heretics, but can instead do slave raids.

As usual, we keep changing the ideas as we add new functionality, and giving people new abilities. There was a rather large following for giving the Knights access to Slave Raiding, as they were rather fearsome pirates, so they gained that ability.


Navies

• If you have a port, now you get at least 5 sailors per month.

This was also requested, as some nations with 1 port just could never get any sailors at all.

• Ships now engage in a priority order from heavy, galley, light to transport, up to a maximum of the engagement width (for which heavies count as 3 rather than 1).

This creates a more interesting naval combat experience, as you’ll all notice on October 11th.


Espionage

• Reworked foreign spy detection & counter espionage. Counter espionage have less impact on discovery, but both now impact the spy network buildup of the target in your nation.

Basically, being able to defend against spy activities is now possible, even if stopping them entirely might be impossible.

• Reduced unrest and Republican Tradition impact from Sowing discontent spy action

And many tears have been shed over this ….

• Spy network bonuses will now apply to the target's subjects.

No more micromanagement and extra hassle! Rejoice!


Subjects

• Breaking vassalage with a vassal that has over 50% in liberty desire no longer gives a relation penalty.

In the “duh?” category right?

• Increased Liberty Desire from tariffs, up to 50% LD at 100% tariffs

Tariffs are no longer no-brainers to increase..

• Colonial nations only lose half the money the overlord is getting in tariffs.

But this makes it so you can’t cripple your colonial nations..

• Large colonial nations now gives you +5 land force limit each

And now you also want LARGE colonial nations :) ie, buffing Portugal..

• There is now a scaled penalty to Liberty Desire up to +25% at max Mercantilism.

Aka, the longer the game goes, the more likely subjects get rebellious.

• Vassals fighting each others (i.e. in Japan) now always accept Enforce Peace requests of overlord, but all vassals except the defending peace target get +10 Liberty Desire.

More power to the Emperor! or.. The Shogun!

• All subjects now get reduced AE from your actions, not just vassals & marches.

No longer will your union-partners hate you for conquering their cores!

• Subjects now have land and naval access to other subjects of the same overlord.

No longer will your subjects units get stuck!


Religion

• Patriarch Authority no longer reduces tax income.

It all belongs to Mother Russia!. Sorry, I meant all orthodox nations..

• Sanction Commercial Monopoly now costs 50 PI, instead of 100.

And we boost Catholics!

• Defender of Faith now gives you +10 opinion of all with that religion.

Clearly this was our most important tweak in 1.18.

• Theocracies, especially the Papal State, have an increased alliance acceptance penalty towards different religions now.
  
• When you change religion as a Monastic order, Devotion is now decreased to the resulting Religious unity

These above are in the “this will improve immersion while improving the balance”-category.



Forts

• If you are enter battle while in an enemy province with a fort, you will be treated as the attacker in battle and incur that province's terrain penalties.

Building forts is now a strategic decision. Where can you stop your enemies the best?

• Penalty for not occupying forts in an area will no longer apply if the enemy does not control any forts in the area.

This will make it possible to sign a peace that you as a player likes far easier.


Misc

• There is now an increase in efficiency of embargoes for a nation scaled by its Mercantilism up to +50%.

This is also another change that makes Mercantilism more powerful, while at the same time improving immersion.

• Trade Companies is now open to all technology groups.

With the new technology changes, this just makes sense. However, you can not have trade-companies on the same continent as your capital.

• All countries should now have access to at least one skill 2 advisor at start.

Just for you to have a choice!

• You can no longer move capital to a continent that has less than a third of your total provinces, unless your capital is the last province you own on its continent.

There were a few exploits where you could swap continents back and forth a few times, that this solves.


Technology

We already talked about the changes to technology in a previous development diary, but here is a quick recap!

• In 1444, all non-tribal nations start without tech penalties.
  
• Primitive Status is now tied to starting techgroups.
  
• Institutions will appear in certain provinces at key dates and spread from province to province.
  
• Once 10% of your development has this Institution present, you can embrace that Institution for a monetary cost scaled on how much that institution has spread throughout your nation
  
• If you have not embraced an Institution, you will have a tech penalty. This penalty grows by 1% each year up to a maximum of 50% penalty per non-embraced institution.
  
• American Natives reforming their religion gain all the institutions from their advanced neighbour
  
• Many existing ideas have been altered to give faster Institution spread and cheaper embracement costs.
  
• Increasing development in provinces will also boost institution presence in that province

Culture

Cultures were also mentioned in a previous development diary, but here is a quick recap.

• Cultures are now promoted manually, and any culture of at least 20 development can be promoted for 100 DIP.
  
• All nations can promote 2 cultures in addition to their primary culture, and additional cultures can be promoted from ideas and Diplomatic technology
  
• Old modifiers to Accepted culture Threshold now affect number of promoted cultures
  
• Promoted cultures can be Demoted. This will give +5 unrest in all provinces of that culture

Stay tuned, next week we’ll show off new achievements and national ideas..

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Hello everyone and welcome to another Europa Universalis development diary. This time we’ll take a look at the most important balance changes for 1.18, with a quick explanation on why we did them..

Setup

• Lucky nations are now down to 8, sorry Poland, Brandenburg & Sweden.

The balance of having 10 lucky nations made the likelihood of a strong Russia too uncommon for us, and especially having those 3 as likely lucky nations was too much for Muscowy.

• Lots of National Ideas have been changed, but most importantly Knights lost their tolerance for heretics, but can instead do slave raids.

As usual, we keep changing the ideas as we add new functionality, and giving people new abilities. There was a rather large following for giving the Knights access to Slave Raiding, as they were rather fearsome pirates, so they gained that ability.


Navies

• If you have a port, now you get at least 5 sailors per month.

This was also requested, as some nations with 1 port just could never get any sailors at all.

• Ships now engage in a priority order from heavy, galley, light to transport, up to a maximum of the engagement width (for which heavies count as 3 rather than 1).

This creates a more interesting naval combat experience, as you’ll all notice on October 11th.


Espionage

• Reworked foreign spy detection & counter espionage. Counter espionage have less impact on discovery, but both now impact the spy network buildup of the target in your nation.

Basically, being able to defend against spy activities is now possible, even if stopping them entirely might be impossible.

• Reduced unrest and Republican Tradition impact from Sowing discontent spy action

And many tears have been shed over this ….

• Spy network bonuses will now apply to the target's subjects.

No more micromanagement and extra hassle! Rejoice!


Subjects

• Breaking vassalage with a vassal that has over 50% in liberty desire no longer gives a relation penalty.

In the “duh?” category right?

• Increased Liberty Desire from tariffs, up to 50% LD at 100% tariffs

Tariffs are no longer no-brainers to increase..

• Colonial nations only lose half the money the overlord is getting in tariffs.

But this makes it so you can’t cripple your colonial nations..

• Large colonial nations now gives you +5 land force limit each

And now you also want LARGE colonial nations :) ie, buffing Portugal..

• There is now a scaled penalty to Liberty Desire up to +25% at max Mercantilism.

Aka, the longer the game goes, the more likely subjects get rebellious.

• Vassals fighting each others (i.e. in Japan) now always accept Enforce Peace requests of overlord, but all vassals except the defending peace target get +10 Liberty Desire.

More power to the Emperor! or.. The Shogun!

• All subjects now get reduced AE from your actions, not just vassals & marches.

No longer will your union-partners hate you for conquering their cores!

• Subjects now have land and naval access to other subjects of the same overlord.

No longer will your subjects units get stuck!


Religion

• Patriarch Authority no longer reduces tax income.

It all belongs to Mother Russia!. Sorry, I meant all orthodox nations..

• Sanction Commercial Monopoly now costs 50 PI, instead of 100.

And we boost Catholics!

• Defender of Faith now gives you +10 opinion of all with that religion.

Clearly this was our most important tweak in 1.18.

• Theocracies, especially the Papal State, have an increased alliance acceptance penalty towards different religions now.
  
• When you change religion as a Monastic order, Devotion is now decreased to the resulting Religious unity

These above are in the “this will improve immersion while improving the balance”-category.



Forts

• If you are enter battle while in an enemy province with a fort, you will be treated as the attacker in battle and incur that province's terrain penalties.

Building forts is now a strategic decision. Where can you stop your enemies the best?

• Penalty for not occupying forts in an area will no longer apply if the enemy does not control any forts in the area.

This will make it possible to sign a peace that you as a player likes far easier.


Misc

• There is now an increase in efficiency of embargoes for a nation scaled by its Mercantilism up to +50%.

This is also another change that makes Mercantilism more powerful, while at the same time improving immersion.

• Trade Companies is now open to all technology groups.

With the new technology changes, this just makes sense. However, you can not have trade-companies on the same continent as your capital.

• All countries should now have access to at least one skill 2 advisor at start.

Just for you to have a choice!

• You can no longer move capital to a continent that has less than a third of your total provinces, unless your capital is the last province you own on its continent.

There were a few exploits where you could swap continents back and forth a few times, that this solves.


Technology

We already talked about the changes to technology in a previous development diary, but here is a quick recap!

• In 1444, all non-tribal nations start without tech penalties.
  
• Primitive Status is now tied to starting techgroups.
  
• Institutions will appear in certain provinces at key dates and spread from province to province.
  
• Once 10% of your development has this Institution present, you can embrace that Institution for a monetary cost scaled on how much that institution has spread throughout your nation
  
• If you have not embraced an Institution, you will have a tech penalty. This penalty grows by 1% each year up to a maximum of 50% penalty per non-embraced institution.
  
• American Natives reforming their religion gain all the institutions from their advanced neighbour
  
• Many existing ideas have been altered to give faster Institution spread and cheaper embracement costs.
  
• Increasing development in provinces will also boost institution presence in that province

Culture

Cultures were also mentioned in a previous development diary, but here is a quick recap.

• Cultures are now promoted manually, and any culture of at least 20 development can be promoted for 100 DIP.
  
• All nations can promote 2 cultures in addition to their primary culture, and additional cultures can be promoted from ideas and Diplomatic technology
  
• Old modifiers to Accepted culture Threshold now affect number of promoted cultures
  
• Promoted cultures can be Demoted. This will give +5 unrest in all provinces of that culture

Stay tuned, next week we’ll show off new achievements and national ideas..

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Hello everyone, and welcome to another development diary for Europa Universalis IV. This time we take a deep look at something different we’re doing for 1.18. This time we are adding and improving features to four different older expansions.


First our is a new feature for Mare Nostrum, called Create Trading City! Now the Merchant Republics that has a Trade League will be able to create a new one-province-minor out of one of their provinces. This new nation will become independent, but part of their Trade League, and they will never leave that Trade League on their own. A Trading City is created from the province view like Client States are. You can decide upon name, shield and color just like creating them.


An AI Trading City will not expand, and there can only be one Trading City in each Trade Node for a Trade League. The government form of a Trading City is a republic with +33% Caravan Power & +10% Trade Efficiency.



The second feature is for El Dorado, where we have improved the Nation Designer. In 1.18, if you own both Rights of Man and El Dorado, you will now be able to define which personalities your ruler and heir has from the start.



The third feature is for Common Sense where we replace a feature that was obsolete, the Pause Westernisation option. Instead, owners of Common Sense will be able to have a better control of their institution spread when they increase development in a province. Increasing a 30 development city by 1, gives +5 to Institution Progress of the oldest institution not present in the province. It scales to +10 at 60 development, and down to +0.5 in a 3 development rural backwater.



And our fourth feature mentioned today Random New World from Conquest of Paradise. In 1.18 we’re adding lots of new tiles, increasing the total by over 37%. There are some tiles that are big enough to be a double-continent, like this familiar and fun territory. This tile was created by community member [USER=720610]@Elzephor[/user] !



Of course, we’ve done quite a bit of bug-fixing, balancing and AI improvement to previous features. Next week, [SIZE=6]On TUESDAY[/size], we’ll talk about launcher and multiplayer improvements.

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Hello everyone, and welcome to another development diary for Europa Universalis IV. This time we take a deep look at something different we’re doing for 1.18. This time we are adding and improving features to four different older expansions.


First our is a new feature for Mare Nostrum, called Create Trading City! Now the Merchant Republics that has a Trade League will be able to create a new one-province-minor out of one of their provinces. This new nation will become independent, but part of their Trade League, and they will never leave that Trade League on their own. A Trading City is created from the province view like Client States are. You can decide upon name, shield and color just like creating them.


An AI Trading City will not expand, and there can only be one Trading City in each Trade Node for a Trade League. The government form of a Trading City is a republic with +33% Caravan Power & +10% Trade Efficiency.



The second feature is for El Dorado, where we have improved the Nation Designer. In 1.18, if you own both Rights of Man and El Dorado, you will now be able to define which personalities your ruler and heir has from the start.



The third feature is for Common Sense where we replace a feature that was obsolete, the Pause Westernisation option. Instead, owners of Common Sense will be able to have a better control of their institution spread when they increase development in a province. Increasing a 30 development city by 1, gives +5 to Institution Progress of the oldest institution not present in the province. It scales to +10 at 60 development, and down to +0.5 in a 3 development rural backwater.



And our fourth feature mentioned today Random New World from Conquest of Paradise. In 1.18 we’re adding lots of new tiles, increasing the total by over 37%. There are some tiles that are big enough to be a double-continent, like this familiar and fun territory. This tile was created by community member [USER=720610]@Elzephor[/user] !



Of course, we’ve done quite a bit of bug-fixing, balancing and AI improvement to previous features. Next week, [SIZE=6]On TUESDAY[/size], we’ll talk about launcher and multiplayer improvements.

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Good afternoon everyone. Thursday rolls around so once more we have some features from the upcoming Rights of Man to share with you. We've already shown off a huge number of changes coming with both the free 1.18 Prussia Patch and Rights of Man but we're still not done yet! Let's check out a couple more new additions.

Bodycount
When concluding a war, it's hard to get a sense of scale for just how many enemies fell to your blades, starved to death in your rolling tundra or were sent to the bottom of the ocean. Personally, I would like to know these figures so I can triumphantly explain to my nation why it was worth exhausting our manpower pool over the Border Friction at Jemtland to inflict massive casualties on our foes.

At the conclusion of a war you will be presented with a Bodycount screen showing losses for both sides and a breakdown of what was lost, how they perished and their unit model, just so you can look them dead in the eyes.



Additionally, you can select the shields for each nation involved in the war to see their individual burden that they shouldered, so you can see who did and did not pull their weight in a war. Very useful for those times where your ally in a war claims that they were fighting all the battles, you just weren't watching at the time. Clicking on the Defender or Attacker icons will show the losses for everyone on that side.



As with most pop-ups, you can toggle the display of this one to your liking. You can also observe game-long statistics about this in the ledger, where we have added pages for army and navy losses for all nations. Enjoy some numbers from last night's hands-off and try not to be scared of Russia, France and Ottomans.



Another minor change we has as part of Rights of Man is an indicator on the Minimap for friendly and hostile forces.



At times, panning around to keep an eye on all parts of your sprawling empire to see if your enemies are invading can be time better spent elsewhere. Now, as long as a nation's units are not covered by Fog of War, they will appear on the Minimap, either Green or Blue for friendlies, or red for hostile. Again, this feature can be toggled on and off.

These are two paid features in the upcoming Rights of Man expansion which will be released alongside the Free 1.18 Prussia Patch. Rights of Man will cost $20 or your local equivalent and be released on the 11th October. Our team is hard at work [S]plotting against each other for the ongoing multiplayer[/s] finalizing the expansion but we still have a few more things to show, and will be back again next week to maybe, just maybe, explain what Necromunda was all about.

If you hunger for more, perhaps the Rights of Man Developer Multiplayer will take your fancy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BSsR-P48Rw

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Good afternoon everyone. Thursday rolls around so once more we have some features from the upcoming Rights of Man to share with you. We've already shown off a huge number of changes coming with both the free 1.18 Prussia Patch and Rights of Man but we're still not done yet! Let's check out a couple more new additions.

Bodycount
When concluding a war, it's hard to get a sense of scale for just how many enemies fell to your blades, starved to death in your rolling tundra or were sent to the bottom of the ocean. Personally, I would like to know these figures so I can triumphantly explain to my nation why it was worth exhausting our manpower pool over the Border Friction at Jemtland to inflict massive casualties on our foes.

At the conclusion of a war you will be presented with a Bodycount screen showing losses for both sides and a breakdown of what was lost, how they perished and their unit model, just so you can look them dead in the eyes.



Additionally, you can select the shields for each nation involved in the war to see their individual burden that they shouldered, so you can see who did and did not pull their weight in a war. Very useful for those times where your ally in a war claims that they were fighting all the battles, you just weren't watching at the time. Clicking on the Defender or Attacker icons will show the losses for everyone on that side.



As with most pop-ups, you can toggle the display of this one to your liking. You can also observe game-long statistics about this in the ledger, where we have added pages for army and navy losses for all nations. Enjoy some numbers from last night's hands-off and try not to be scared of Russia, France and Ottomans.



Another minor change we has as part of Rights of Man is an indicator on the Minimap for friendly and hostile forces.



At times, panning around to keep an eye on all parts of your sprawling empire to see if your enemies are invading can be time better spent elsewhere. Now, as long as a nation's units are not covered by Fog of War, they will appear on the Minimap, either Green or Blue for friendlies, or red for hostile. Again, this feature can be toggled on and off.

These are two paid features in the upcoming Rights of Man expansion which will be released alongside the Free 1.18 Prussia Patch. Rights of Man will cost $20 or your local equivalent and be released on the 11th October. Our team is hard at work [S]plotting against each other for the ongoing multiplayer[/s] finalizing the expansion but we still have a few more things to show, and will be back again next week to maybe, just maybe, explain what Necromunda was all about.

If you hunger for more, perhaps the Rights of Man Developer Multiplayer will take your fancy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BSsR-P48Rw

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Good afternoon all. It's Thursday meaning that we are due a development diary for the upcoming EU4 expansion: Rights of Man.


Last week we gorged on five new features: Disinherit, Strengthen Government, Prussian Monarchy, Debase Currency and Abandon Personal Union. Today we'll be taking a light snack with just one, which is in no way related to me being busy with moving home at the moment.

Late game you could well have fought against or even played as a Revolutionary Republic. In the 1792 Start date you can enjoy spreading the revolution as France but mechanically any European nation can get into the mood for it. As part of the Rights of Man expansion, these Revolutionary Republics will have access to their own Revolutionary Republican Factions system, akin to Ming or Merchant Republics.



Three factions will wrestle for influence in your nation, which you can boost using ADM, DIP and MIL points.

Jacobins cost ADM to boost and gain influence from Republican Tradition being high. When they are the leading faction they have the following effects:

Global Unrest -2
Build Cost -15%
National Tax +15%
Diplomatic Reputation -2


Royalists cost DIP to boost. If their influence is high and republican tradition is below 40 then they can seize control to turn your nation into a Revolutionary Empire.

Diplomatic Reputation +1
State Maintenance Cost -25%
Subject Liberty Desire -20
Republican Tradition -0.5 per year


Girondists cost MIL to boost. They want to bring the revolution to other nations. They gain influence from being at war and lost it from being at peace.

Land Forcelimit +20%
Manpower Recovery +20%
Discipline +5%
Aggressive Expansion Impact +20%

So essentially you have your stabilizing faction, your empire building faction and your warring faction. Balance their effects and bonuses to either spread the empire far and wide or consolidate your holdings. If you allow yourself to "stabilize" into a revolutionary Empire, you will leave the faction system and return to a monarchy, albeit the best* monarchy in the game.

As is often the case, there are new events to coincide with them, usually affecting the influence of your factions.



Revolutionary Republic Factions will be a paid feature in the upcoming Rights of Man expansion, which will be released alongside the 1.18 Prussia Patch on 11th October 2016.

If you thirst for more (and why wouldn't you?) perhaps I can interest you in checking out the feature stream for Rights of Man with myself and Johan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhi_xQchvpY

*Not counting Hordes, of course.

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Good afternoon all. It's Thursday meaning that we are due a development diary for the upcoming EU4 expansion: Rights of Man.


Last week we gorged on five new features: Disinherit, Strengthen Government, Prussian Monarchy, Debase Currency and Abandon Personal Union. Today we'll be taking a light snack with just one, which is in no way related to me being busy with moving home at the moment.

Late game you could well have fought against or even played as a Revolutionary Republic. In the 1792 Start date you can enjoy spreading the revolution as France but mechanically any European nation can get into the mood for it. As part of the Rights of Man expansion, these Revolutionary Republics will have access to their own Revolutionary Republican Factions system, akin to Ming or Merchant Republics.



Three factions will wrestle for influence in your nation, which you can boost using ADM, DIP and MIL points.

Jacobins cost ADM to boost and gain influence from Republican Tradition being high. When they are the leading faction they have the following effects:

Global Unrest -2
Build Cost -15%
National Tax +15%
Diplomatic Reputation -2


Royalists cost DIP to boost. If their influence is high and republican tradition is below 40 then they can seize control to turn your nation into a Revolutionary Empire.

Diplomatic Reputation +1
State Maintenance Cost -25%
Subject Liberty Desire -20
Republican Tradition -0.5 per year


Girondists cost MIL to boost. They want to bring the revolution to other nations. They gain influence from being at war and lost it from being at peace.

Land Forcelimit +20%
Manpower Recovery +20%
Discipline +5%
Aggressive Expansion Impact +20%

So essentially you have your stabilizing faction, your empire building faction and your warring faction. Balance their effects and bonuses to either spread the empire far and wide or consolidate your holdings. If you allow yourself to "stabilize" into a revolutionary Empire, you will leave the faction system and return to a monarchy, albeit the best* monarchy in the game.

As is often the case, there are new events to coincide with them, usually affecting the influence of your factions.



Revolutionary Republic Factions will be a paid feature in the upcoming Rights of Man expansion, which will be released alongside the 1.18 Prussia Patch on 11th October 2016.

If you thirst for more (and why wouldn't you?) perhaps I can interest you in checking out the feature stream for Rights of Man with myself and Johan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhi_xQchvpY

*Not counting Hordes, of course.

Read the original post

Useful links
Official Website
Europa Universalis IV Wiki
Europa Universalis IV Development Diary Archive