Hello folks, Gnivom here.

Today I’ll talk about some of the many AI updates coming in the next patch, 1.33. At the end I’ll also mention some minor but impactful changes to the rules of land combat.

Our last major update, we shipped some AI improvements, but a few new issues slipped through as well. Two of those in particular (advisors and forts) were too complex to make it into any of the hotfixes. For 1.33, we have not only addressed those issues, but done a range of further AI fixes/improvements as well. Because of the large number of changes, some new AI issues will probably slip through this time as well. Our goal is to have a public beta for 1.33, which could help a lot with early feedback and time to address it before the final release.

Forts
The issue introduced (or at least worsened) in 1.32 was that the AI deletes many of its forts, and seldom builds new. This was likely triggered by changes we did to tighten the AI’s budget, as it had had serious budget issues for a number of versions before that. Clearly we couldn't just revert the changes blindly. Instead I wanted to dig deeper and fix underlying issues with the AI's handling of forts.

For example, there has for a long time been a bug that caused large countries to only build level 2 forts. In simplified terms: When the AI "defense minister" considered upgrading a fort, it wanted to make sure it could afford upgrading all its forts to the same level, or it would only upgrade to a lower level. So it asked the AI "finance minister" if it can afford maintaining e.g. 10 level 4 forts, but the finance minister says no, reasoning that "you shouldn't need this much money for building one fort". So the AI was in a stalemate, where it could only build the lowest level of forts.

Another issue was fort mothballing. The AI would often mothball forts in a way that allowed players to blitz them.

The result after spending some time with this is an AI that seldom deletes any forts, often upgrades forts to higher levels, sometimes builds new forts (especially in strategic locations with good terrain), and is much more careful/intelligent with mothballing. Of course, the AI will still delete forts it really can't afford (such as QQ at game start), and it doesn't have human-level tactical or strategic understanding of fort positioning. But overall, I hope you will find it a big improvement :).


(All of these are level 8 forts, in an 1821 AI-only game. Maybe it’s a bit front-heavy…)

Advisors
In 1.32 the AI rarely hires advisors, and often fires them as soon as they're at war. This too was the result of code intended to tighten the budget. Like with forts though, it turned out that there were other issues worsening the problem.

One such bug was that when deciding which mana it needed the most, two of them could tie for first place - causing the AI to pick the third (worst) type instead. This made the AI hire diplo advisors way too often. Another obscure bug was that if it took the AI too long to save up the money for the initial advisor cost, it could lose track of it, making the money "earmarked" but ever used.

In 1.33, the AI will usually keep a reasonable amount of advisors, often prioritizing military or admin. A reworked threshold system makes it not hire-and-fire advisors frivolously. AIs with Meritocracy will realize the importance of having enough advisors to keep it growing. With these improvements, and considering how it stacks with some Monuments and Estate Privileges, we've decided to remove the -20% Advisor Cost modifier for Lucky Nations. Most of them are doing more than fine.

Other budgeting
Other areas where the AI sometimes didn't spend enough include colonists and missionaries. Colonial Nations and AIs with Colonialist personality in particular will spend a larger amount on colonization. One neat addition is that Colonial Nation subjects will now direct all received subsidies towards colonization, in addition to what they would otherwise have spent, unless they have loans. This lets their overlord (or anyone else ;)) make sure they put their colonists to work.

Peace-time armies are now also a greater priority for small nations, especially for those without powerful allies/guarantors. You should find for example uniting Ireland to be more challenging.

Now of course you may wonder, if all these things get more spending, won't the AI go into debt spirals again? It turns out there were a couple of places where spending could be cut:
- Drilling armies: The AI now only does this only if it has a large budget surplus
- Corruption: Sometimes it makes sense to get "free money" for corruption, but the AI overused that, and then found itself rooting it out at several times the cost.
- Navy Force Limit: It makes sense for some AIs to go above Naval FL, but this has been reduced somewhat.
- Consolidate Regiments: When the AI finds itself with troops it doesn't need at the moment, usually after a war or a battle with rebels, it will consolidate regiments.
- Fort maintenance: Wait, didn't I say the AI is better at maintaining, building and upgrading forts? Sure. But in some cases, in particular poor OPMs with an expensive capital fort, mothballing it really can be worth it.
- Inflation: By giving a higher prio to reducing inflation, many AIs reduce all expenses by several percent.

If these measures are not enough, when the AI goes into longterm deficits and debt, it will implement progressive austerity measures. Firing advisors, reducing army size, and even deleting forts. As far as I've observed, this only happens during/after severe crises, and works fairly well.

The budget is also significantly helped by increased crownland, which we'll get to later.



(16’th century Ethiopian budget, recouping after an expensive war. They’ll soon lower army maintenance and mothball a couple of forts to get a better surplus)

Monarch Power (mana)
At release of 1.32, there was a major issue with AI mana spending, causing the AI to often fall behind in tech and/or ideas. This was made worse by how it interacted with the new institution tech cost, and by the issues with advisors mentioned above. Although a hotfix was issued including a fix to the main issue, we've spent more time looking at the AI's mana economy. The AI now:
- better understands when to buy tech vs. ideas vs. other things.
- uses more advisors (as mentioned before).
- uses Estate Privileges for free mana.
- better understands when to prioritize a certain mana, in terms of National Focus, Advisors, and Estate Privileges.

It also turns out that if you play a Republic, and especially with Plutocratic ideas, choosing randomly between the event options of those events can cause you to spend a majority of your ADM on boosting stability. We've gone through many of the events affecting Stability and/or Republican Tradition, and made the AI pick the better/safer option.
Estates

When the Estates system was last redesigned, AI was written to interact with it. But that AI wasn't necessarily written/tested too carefully, and years of design changes and lack of proper attention have made it worse.
It turns out that by making the AI play a fairly simple estates meta, but play it consistently, it gets quite a nice set of bonuses; from tax income and autonomy reduction, to mana; at very small cost.
The AI will:
- Seize Land even when it causes revolts (but only after maintaining troops and forts)
- Occasionally Call Diet to temporarily increase Loyalty, although it doesn't usually try to complete it
- Prioritize Privileges that give loyalty and mana
- Sell Titles only when crownland is high and/or the money is badly needed

Naval Invasions
1.32 saw some fixes in this area. 1.33 will have a couple of further small improvements/fixes that should reduce friction for multi-continent empires in particular. For example:
- Armies that have nothing to do are less likely to refuse an invasion mission
- Invasions will no longer wait for faraway ships to help out, unless they are necessary

In one game, I actually saw AI Portugal conquering a third of India by 1700 or so, while also having colonies in the Americas and Africa. But in fairness, that is not a common sight. AI naval invasions will remain an Achilles’ heel.

Army Quality
This is a major one. And huge thanks to [USER=1294106]@Tempscire[/user], who has helped me with running simulations, with mathematical analysis, and schooling me on how EU4 land combat actually works.

The question the AI is trying to answer here is whether to start a battle, or even a war. To do so, it must estimate the quality of troops. Basically: how many Swedish soldiers does it take to equal 1 Prussian soldier? Until 1.32, the AI did this by applying a series of modifiers, based on Discipline, Morale, etc., that were tuned on gut feeling. From 1.33 (and somewhat already from 1.32) we have proper math and simulations to back them up.

The AI now appreciates the value of morale more than before. It understands how a general’s impact on a battle depends on the terrain. It understands the interplay between e.g. Infantry Fire, Fire Pips of the Unit Type, Fire Damage, and Infantry Combat Ability. It also understands combat width and flanking, but it doesn’t yet understand army composition between infantry/cavalry/artillery. That is definitely something to continue working on.

With this improved confidence in its understanding of army strength, the AI’s safety margin for starting attacks has been reduced somewhat. It has also been made more aware of nearby armies on both sides. You will find the AI starting more winning battles, and hopefully fewer losing battles. Although the reduced safety margin combined with bad understanding of army composition can make the AI fail in this regard.

Changes to Land Combat
The thought that went into the army quality AI made us realize (again, with @tempscire’s guidance) we should change some things about how combat works. As mentioned in last week’s DD; Unit Type Fire and Shock pips now affect morale damage as well strength damage. This makes the choice between Unit Types less imbalanced. Contrary to what was said last week, and in part because of feedback on that post, this will also apply to morale defense from backrow. The fact that this makes artillery more powerful and battles longer is counteracted by some more important changes we decided to do:

• Infantry and Cavalry can no longer deploy/reinforce to the backrow.
  
• Backrow regiments will now retreat when reaching 0% morale (same as frontrow regiments).
  
• Constant 0.03 morale damage per day is now only applied to reserves, and not to regiments on the battlefield.

I’m sure many of you (just as myself not too long ago) do not understand how this affects the combat meta in practice. Without making this DD much longer than it already is, some important effects are:

• It’s no longer critically important to have a full combat width of artillery in the battle on day 1.
  
• An army of 2x combat width infantry is now superior to an army of 1x combat width infantry. Previously they were roughly equal.
  
• You’ll need more artillery than just the combat width to last a long battle.

That’s it for this week, hope you’re as excited for 1.33 as I am!
Next week @pavia will make a Dev Diary on the subject of “Script Debt”.

Thanks again to @Tempscire, but also to @xorme whose AI mod inspired some of the improvements. And thanks to everyone who provides great feedback on this forum and elsewhere!

Oh, and here is a full list of AI-related changes from the in-progress changelog:

Greetings, and Happy New Year to everyone! Today we’re coming back to EUIV DD’s, after taking a couple of months’ break from them (unfortunately not due to long Spanish holidays, as some on the forums have suggested :p). What we’ve been doing in that time was already mentioned by Johan in the last DD: working on 1.32.1 and 1.32.2 patches, and then moving on to the next one, 1.33, that will be live later this quarter.

As Origins and 1.32.2 release have been mostly well praised (and we're very happy about that!), we thought that we wanted to move on 3 main points for the upcoming 1.33 patch:

1) Fixing most of the remaining bugs from 1.32/Origins.
2) Balancing some mechanics that had been on our list for a while.
3) Continue working to improve AI performance, as some issues appeared in 1.32.

Today I’ll be focusing on the game balance changes that we’ve been working on, as we still have some room for making changes before releasing the patch (although not new content, as we may be adding more in the next immersion pack we will be working on after this patch), and we want to receive some feedback on them from you, the community.

With Origins release, we’ve been able to revamp the setup and balance of Africa, and we’re pretty happy with it, in general terms. So, we thought of moving back to the Far East, as there were some balance issues that were not fully resolved by Leviathan although focusing in part on the SEA region. Regarding that, we were aware of the big discussion on Ming balance in the forums, thus it would be a good idea to tackle it for this patch.

Ming and the Emperor of China is a really hard tag and mechanics to balance out. It starts as the strongest country in the world, and MingBlob was not a desired outcome in past patches, as it hindered Eastern Asia gameplay (even affecting India super-region, as others have said). So, because of that Mingplosion being a regular outcome was useful for gameplay purposes, although Qing and other successors are not usually so successful when it comes to reuniting the EoC, being honest. For players, it's true that it's not the most challenging/rewarding tag to play with it, because it may be not too compelling to handle the disaster if you advance on Mandate of Heaven reforms, while at the same time it won't be a very challenging playtime, if you reach some snowball point early on (which is pretty doable by experienced players).

So, we’ve come with the following changes to Ming/EoC to try to balance it a bit better:

- The Celestial Empire now has a sixth reform available which allows vassalizing your own tributaries at the cost of Mandate.
- Confucianism has been buffed:
- All the modifiers from harmonized religions have been standardized in their power compared to other religions.
- Reduced the base Yearly Harmony from 1 to 0.25.
- Increased the Harmony cost of harmonizing a religion from 3 per year to 3.25.
- Religious Unity now gives +1 Yearly Harmony at 100% Religious Unity (can not go above that).
- Positive Harmony now gives: +3 Tolerance of the True Faith, -10% Development Cost, +1 Meritocracy, +0.5 Legitimacy, +1 Devotion, -0.5 Yearly Corruption, +50% Harmonization Speed.
- Negative Harmony now gives: +1 Yearly Corruption, +20% Stability Cost, -1 Legitimacy, -2 Meritocracy, -2 Devotion.
- Negative Stability now decreases Yearly Harmony by 0.25 per missing stability.
- Eastern Denominations religions harmonized now unlock monuments requiring it.
- The new Holder of the Mandate gains the following bonuses atop of their +0.05 Mandate: +12 Force Limit, -10% Land Maintenance, +15% Manpower Recovery Speed.
- The events of the Ming Crisis disaster now allow you to swap your country with one of the Chinese warlords you release in the event.
- Force Tributary CB (along with other CB’s with a specific purpose, as Restoration of Union and Subjugation) don’t allow taking of provinces any more.

The Idea of the Harmonization Speed increase at high Harmony is to encourage alternating between harmonizing a new religion and accumulating Harmony. It should be possible for you to be just as fast with harmonizing religions as somebody who is chain harmonizing all the time.

Apart from that, we’re doing the following changes to other countries on the Far East neighborhood:

- Manchuria Overhaul with the addition of Nivkh culture, Korchin having a vassal, redistribution of provinces and addition of the Amur Estuary (mostly following this thread in the Suggestions subforum, as we think it was really well thought: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/manchuria-again.1505121/).
- Moved the Vietnamese culture out of the Chinese culture group
- Added "Sinicize our Culture" for the Vietnamese and Korean cultures, allowing you to move with your culture into the Chinese culture group. The decision requires you to have a Chinese cultural majority in your country or being the Emperor of China
- Korea's starting heir has been buffed by +1/+1/+1. (The reason being to buff Korea a little bit, while Hyang is a little bit more average of a monarch than the game might suggest. Sickness shortened his life quite a lot, which played a huge factor for us to give him the benefit of doubt and increase his stats a little bit).
- Hanseong gained +15 Development as it was quite the big city in 1444 and comparable to the many big Chinese cities.
- Shinto countries now can use Buddhist monuments.

Finally, we’ve been also doing some changes regarding Portugal, Indian estates, a combat pips rework, and other stuff:
- The Castilian/Spanish mission "Recover Portugal" has been moved. Now it requires the completion of the missions "Subjugate Navarra" and "Reclaim Andalucia". The Restoration of Union CB has been moved accordingly too and is only available to Spain if both missions are completed. This change will make Portugal not so easily PU’d by Castile, as we were seeing this a lot in our nightly AI tests in the first 20 years of the game
- Portuguese ideas have been buffed, as we felt that they were a bit lackluster compared to other Tier 1 countries, and that Portugal was having a rough time in early game against Castile and other powers:
- Traditions: +10% Infantry Combat Ability instead of current +15% Trade Efficiency (to give Portugal a bit of punch in early game).
- Legacy of the Navigator: +10 Naval Morale instead of current -33% Morale hit when losing a ship (on par with Danish NI's).
- Encourage the Bandeirantes: +15% Trade Efficiency instead of +1 Merchant (basically reshuffling the older tradition into here).
- Royal Academy of Fortification, Artillery and Drawing: +1 Artillery instead of +10% Artillery Combat Capacity (so it gives some land punch in early-mid game while diminishing in late game, and extra naval punch, which is WAD).
- The Indian Estates now have access to their versions of powerful estate privileges such as "Strong Duchies", "Religious Diplomats", "Religious Culture" and "Nobility Integration Policy".
- Added a new decision for Muslim Indian countries, which allow you to replace the Brahmins with the Dhimmi if you own any province outside the Muslim or Dharmic religion groups.
- Added events for Alcheringa nations, which allow them to unlock their cults without the need to complete their missions. The events, however, have the same requirements to trigger as their mission counterparts.
- Forming Rome will now convert all provinces of your culture group to Roman.
- Ottoman missions are now available to Rûm.
- Regiments’ fire and shock pips now also count toward morale damage in their respective phases. Many of you will know that morale pips have been superior to fire and shock pips. This change will make the pips more equal in value, although morale pips may still be the better pick most of the time. To preserve the overall flow of battles, we’re thinking not to apply this to artillery protection from backrow, as it is asymmetrical.

So, after most of these changes being implemented, and some still WIP, this is what we’re seeing in our nightlies AI tests:









In some games Portugal is performing really well, while in others Spain is still a top dog in the Iberian Peninsula and America. Regarding China, you can see that Ming sometimes manage to stay stable, while Mingplossion still happens regularly, and even some of the successor states are able to blob a bit after it, recovering MoH.

This is all for today. We’re open to feedback and suggestions given by you to further improve the balance for 1.33, if possible; just remember to have civil discussions about them, as there were some hot-heated ones a couple months ago (basically regarding Ming balance), and we don't want that to be repeated.

Next week my fellow colleague @Gnivomwill talk about the changes made to AI in the upcoming 1.33 patch (and yes, he will be tackling the AI deleting forts issue, among others). Hope you enjoy the DD!

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Greetings!

Following almost a week of public testing we are now releasing 1.32.2 for everyone!

You can read what the patch contain below. You may also find some updates to how the subscription service behaves in-game. We are continuing experimentation with the subscription to improve the experience for both old and new players, meaning some of you might see some changes over the coming months - for example, we have removed the widget for all players that already own all the DLC

As always, please report any issues in our bug report forum or submit a support ticket. Thank you!

Saves should be compatible between all 1.32.x version although we can never guarantee it! Our tests indicate there are no problems however.

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# Achievements
- The achievement "Knights of the Caribbean" will now ask for the entirety of Sardinia.
- The achievement "One nation to rule them all" now correctly checks if your subjects are vassals.
- Fixed a script issue regarding the global unrest for the achievement "This is Fine".
- Fixed an issue which made the achievement "Fugger Banking" impossible.
- The achievement "Prestor John" can now be completed even after forming Aksum as Ethiopia.

# Decisions
- The decision "Build the Third Temple" will be now hidden if you have the event "The Third Temple" open.
- The Mamluks can no longer form Israel.
- Reforming Bulgaria will now update the mission tree.
- Forming Kurland now allows you to be Anglican or Hussite too.
- The "Form Italian Nation" decision will no longer tell you twice that you leave the HRE when you form Italy.
- Forming Somalia will now colonize the provinces Dawa and Ewaso Ngiro.

# Events
- Re-added the Institution message event. This changes everything...
- Added a goto button for the event "Growth of the business of <Province Name>".
- Added a goto button for the event "Stagnation and Drought in <Province Name>".
- Added a goto button for the event "Mysore Revolts!".
- Fixed issues related to the event "Where the Legend Begins".
- Fixed event target issues for the event "Pirate Stronghold in Angoche".
- The event "The Great Mosque of Djenné" now has a goto option.
- The event which end the "Decline of Mali" disaster now gives +100 ADM, +100 DIP and +100 MIL as the +1 Stability was most of the time not needed at this point anymore.
- The event "Isabella of Castille" now has a mean time to happen of 200 months instead of 1000 months.
- The explorer from the event "Unexpected Explorer" is now always a female explorer with 10 Tradition.
- Reformed events will now properly check that the country has the Reformed religion too, and not only the Fervor mechanic.
- Muslim School events will now properly check that the country has a Muslim religion too, and not only the School mechanic.
- Orthodox events will now properly check that the country has the Orthodox religion too, and not only the Patriach Authority mechanic.

# Ideas
- The Plains Native Ideas no longer conflict with the Southeastern Woodlands Ideas.

# Missions
- The mission "Gideon's Revolt" now checks if you actually own the provinces of Semien.
- The mission "Destroy Majapahit" now highlights the Surabaya area even if Majapahit is already dead.
- The Songhain mission "Develop Salt and Cloth" no longer has the awkward custom tooltip in the triggers.
- The modifier "Expansion into the Cape" from the mission "Expand Kilwa" now has a duration of 50 years instead of 30 years.
- The Kilwan mission "Expand Kilwa" can now be completed if the monument in Kilwa has tier 3 too.
- The Songhain mission "Reform the Army" no longer requests you to be ahead in military tech compared to all other countries in the western tech group.
- The Kongolese mission "Unite the Congo Tribes" now counts provinces owned by your subjects too and does no longer request you to have cores on them. This means creating colonies will no longer make the mission impossible.
- The progress for the mission "Temples of Stone" no longer gets reset if you switch your tag.
- The Dithmarscher mission "The Peasants' War" will now properly check for the victory of the Peasants' War.
- The Papal mission "New St. Peter's Basilica" now gives +2 Base Tax to Rome if the monument is already on Tier 3.

# Setup
- The province Zacatecas is now guaranteed to have gold.
- Bunyoro now starts with the Acholi culture as an accepted culture.
- The primary culture of Darfur is now Tunjur.
- Ogaadeen now has cores on the provinces Degehabur and Werder.
- The provinces Korofan, Medwa and Kobbe have now the Tunjur culture.
- The country Geledi has now cores on the Ajuuraan provinces Afgooye, Bardera and Gedo.
- Changed the name of the province Kosti to Waylula.

# Modifiers
- The modifier "The Third Temple is built" now gives normal missionary strength instead of missionary strength against Heretics.
- The modifier "Expansion into the Cape" from Kilwa's mission tree now also increases Global Settler Increase by +25.
- The modifier "Adalan-Ethiopian War" now gives +0.1 Monthly Piety instead +1. Also fixed the tooltip issue with it, showing the wrong number.
- The modifier "Prime Herding Rights" from the privilege now gives +25% Local Manpower Modifier instead of 100%.
- The modifier "Authority Asserted" now increases max absolutism instead of reducing it.
- Fixed an issue where the modifier "Hegemon of Southern Africa" affected the West African culture group instead of the Southern African culture group.
- The modifier "Hegemon of Southern Africa" now gives +33% Sailor Modifier instead of 0.33 Sailors.

# Other
- Added missing dynamic, Greek names for a few provinces.
- Removed the Razing Power Gain modifier from the Buryat Band merc company.
- The estates have now learned to check if you can build manufactories in the first place before giving you the task to build manufactories.
- The estate privilege "Embrace Singular Cult" will no longer add a stability when the regency dies.
- The Malbork Castle Monument now has its garrison size modifier in the correct global modifiers scope.
- The Great Walls of China Monument now has its garrison size modifier in the correct global modifiers scope.
- The Heddal Stave Church Monument now requires the owner to be Christian too in order to have access to its modifiers.
- The estate privilege "Religious Society" now also affects syncretic and harmonized religions.

The original post on our official forum can be found here!

Greetings!

We are currently working on the 1.32.2 patch and we'd like to invite you all to help us test it before releasing it. This patch is targeting the crash occurring with games using Random New World. Unfortunately despite our best attempts - saves loaded in 1.32.1 and crashing will be corrupted and not possible to retrieve. We apologize for this inconvenience.

Please note that beta patches are only available through Steam.

How to opt-in to 1.32.2:
1. Right click Europa Universalis IV in Steam and go to Properties
2. Go to the BETAS menu and pick 1.32.2-Beta in the dropdown list
3. Close the window and let the game update in Steam

Please report any problems with 1.32.2 in the Bug Report forum! Make sure you put what version of the game you are playing in the thread title (ex [1.32.1] or [1.32.2]) to help us organize the reports - thank you!

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# Achievements
- The achievement "Knights of the Caribbean" will now ask for the entirety of Sardinia.
- The achievement "One nation to rule them all" now correctly checks if your subjects are vassals.
- Fixed a script issue regarding the global unrest for the achievement "This is Fine".
- Fixed an issue which made the achievement "Fugger Banking" impossible.
- The achievement "Prestor John" can now be completed even after forming Aksum as Ethiopia.

# Decisions
- The decision "Build the Third Temple" will be now hidden if you have the event "The Third Temple" open.
- The Mamluks can no longer form Israel.
- Reforming Bulgaria will now update the mission tree.
- Forming Kurland now allows you to be Anglican or Hussite too.
- The "Form Italian Nation" decision will no longer tell you twice that you leave the HRE when you form Italy.
- Forming Somalia will now colonize the provinces Dawa and Ewaso Ngiro.

# Events
- Re-added the Institution message event. This changes everything...
- Added a goto button for the event "Growth of the business of <Province Name>".
- Added a goto button for the event "Stagnation and Drought in <Province Name>".
- Added a goto button for the event "Mysore Revolts!".
- Fixed issues related to the event "Where the Legend Begins".
- Fixed event target issues for the event "Pirate Stronghold in Angoche".
- The event "The Great Mosque of Djenné" now has a goto option.
- The event which end the "Decline of Mali" disaster now gives +100 ADM, +100 DIP and +100 MIL as the +1 Stability was most of the time not needed at this point anymore.
- The event "Isabella of Castille" now has a mean time to happen of 200 months instead of 1000 months.
- The explorer from the event "Unexpected Explorer" is now always a female explorer with 10 Tradition.
- Reformed events will now properly check that the country has the Reformed religion too, and not only the Fervor mechanic.
- Muslim School events will now properly check that the country has a Muslim religion too, and not only the School mechanic.
- Orthodox events will now properly check that the country has the Orthodox religion too, and not only the Patriach Authority mechanic.

# Ideas
- The Plains Native Ideas no longer conflict with the Southeastern Woodlands Ideas.

# Missions
- The mission "Gideon's Revolt" now checks if you actually own the provinces of Semien.
- The mission "Destroy Majapahit" now highlights the Surabaya area even if Majapahit is already dead.
- The Songhain mission "Develop Salt and Cloth" no longer has the awkward custom tooltip in the triggers.
- The modifier "Expansion into the Cape" from the mission "Expand Kilwa" now has a duration of 50 years instead of 30 years.
- The Kilwan mission "Expand Kilwa" can now be completed if the monument in Kilwa has tier 3 too.
- The Songhain mission "Reform the Army" no longer requests you to be ahead in military tech compared to all other countries in the western tech group.
- The Kongolese mission "Unite the Congo Tribes" now counts provinces owned by your subjects too and does no longer request you to have cores on them. This means creating colonies will no longer make the mission impossible.
- The progress for the mission "Temples of Stone" no longer gets reset if you switch your tag.
- The Dithmarscher mission "The Peasants' War" will now properly check for the victory of the Peasants' War.
- The Papal mission "New St. Peter's Basilica" now gives +2 Base Tax to Rome if the monument is already on Tier 3.

# Setup
- The province Zacatecas is now guaranteed to have gold.
- Bunyoro now starts with the Acholi culture as an accepted culture.
- The primary culture of Darfur is now Tunjur.
- Ogaadeen now has cores on the provinces Degehabur and Werder.
- The provinces Korofan, Medwa and Kobbe have now the Tunjur culture.
- The country Geledi has now cores on the Ajuuraan provinces Afgooye, Bardera and Gedo.
- Changed the name of the province Kosti to Waylula.

# Modifiers
- The modifier "The Third Temple is built" now gives normal missionary strength instead of missionary strength against Heretics.
- The modifier "Expansion into the Cape" from Kilwa's mission tree now also increases Global Settler Increase by +25.
- The modifier "Adalan-Ethiopian War" now gives +0.1 Monthly Piety instead +1. Also fixed the tooltip issue with it, showing the wrong number.
- The modifier "Prime Herding Rights" from the privilege now gives +25% Local Manpower Modifier instead of 100%.
- The modifier "Authority Asserted" now increases max absolutism instead of reducing it.
- Fixed an issue where the modifier "Hegemon of Southern Africa" affected the West African culture group instead of the Southern African culture group.
- The modifier "Hegemon of Southern Africa" now gives +33% Sailor Modifier instead of 0.33 Sailors.

# Other
- Added missing dynamic, Greek names for a few provinces.
- Removed the Razing Power Gain modifier from the Buryat Band merc company.
- The estates have now learned to check if you can build manufactories in the first place before giving you the task to build manufactories.
- The estate privilege "Embrace Singular Cult" will no longer add a stability when the regency dies.
- The Malbork Castle Monument now has its garrison size modifier in the correct global modifiers scope.
- The Great Walls of China Monument now has its garrison size modifier in the correct global modifiers scope.
- The Heddal Stave Church Monument now requires the owner to be Christian too in order to have access to its modifiers.
- The estate privilege "Religious Society" now also affects syncretic and harmonized religions.

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# AI
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# Economy
- Improved AI powerspending priorities to primarily encourage lowering inflation and prioritize ideas higher.

# War
- Improved AI for considering terrain for threat evaluation.
- Fixed so AI is less afraid or rebels and more afraid of non-rebels.
- The Ethopian AI will no longer move its capital while being at war.

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# Bugfixes
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- Fixed a CTD related to tooltip of core creation.
- Fixed a CTD related to mercenaries when using random new world.
- Fixed a CTD related to removing lifted FoW.
- Fixed a CTD related to increasing great project tier.
- Fixed exploit of concentrating development with the game paused.
- Fixed a bug where condottieri would not deal morale damage.
- Fixed issues with displaying the monthly piety modifier.
- Fixed a few wrong localizations for the provinces "Wadai", "Mayika", "Sulaimaniyah" as well as a localization issue with the country name "Karabakh".
- The opinion modifier of the Torah Aspect "Abrahamic Roots" no longer gets removed and re-applied periodically.
- Fixed a bug where [Trigger.name] freezes the game, if used inside a sub section (e.g. OR).
- Fixed issue with federation names when federation countries form federations.
- Culture and religion of colony changed correctly in TC region.
- Fixed bug where stated territorial cores would cost less governing capacity than unstated territorial cores.
- Fixed OOS related to variable_arithmetic_trigger.
- Fixed OOS related to army exploration mission.
- Fixed issue with navy size trigger not displaying properly.
- Forming a nation with different estates now removes the old estates' privilege modifiers from provinces.
- No longer possible to colonize provinces cut off from the capital instead of it being reported as a 20,000+ days travel time for the colonist.
- Fixed an issue being unable to recall a working merchant, also can now right click him on the outliner to cancel.

Hello and welcome everyone to another Europa Universalis IV development diary. It is a few days since we released the Origins immersion pack and the accompanying 1.32 update. This was the first fully Tinto designed and developed release, and we feel proud of the result.

We can write a lot about how great it has been doing, but I want to focus on a few things in today's diary.

First of all, a thank you to all of you who are part of the community. It is sometimes hard to read when the work you have done is not good enough, but all the constructive feedback we have gotten this spring and summer have really helped us fix things for the 1.32 patch.

Secondly, I want to highlight how happy I am with seeing how you enjoy our new missions that our new CD team have designed. With a focus on more interesting experiences than just claims and buffs, it seems to be exactly what you, the community, wants. Hopefully we can attempt to revise some older ones in future updates.

Thirdly, and this ties nicely together to the next part of the diary, we have had a focus on fixing old bugs for EU4, and have managed to reduce our bug count in an unprecedented way for a GSG in the last 14 months. We want to continue this, and make sure that when we finally end development on EU4, the game should not have a large horde of bugs still around, like some previous games sadly have.


So, what happens now?

First of all, we aim to release another larger “hotfix” for any issues remaining, this should be out in good time before the Grandest Lan in December.

Secondly, we aim to release a larger patch with more fixes & improvements during late q1 next year.

After that we’ll start working on another immersion pack. This sadly means though, that for the next few months, there will not be a weekly development diary, but only ones when we have something new to say..

cheers!

//Johan (read original post here!)

Greetings everyone!

Europa Universalis IV: 1.32.1 Songhai is now live for everyone on Steam, Microsoft and Epic. This hotfix fixes the issues with Aggressive Expansion penalties from Personal Unions, a recurring crash issue affecting some people at certain dates, a problem with the effect of Army Tradition to Development Cost, and a few other issues.

This is the exact same patch that has been available as an opt-in beta patch on Steam since Friday. You should be able to continue save games from both 1.32 and the 1.32.0.1_beta after updating to 1.32.1.

As always, please report any issues in our bug report forum or submit a support ticket. Thank you!

1.32.1 Patchnotes
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# Gamebalance
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# Governments
- The Shogunate can no longer switch their primary culture

# War & Peace
- Reduced AE gained from PU. Austria no longer gets coalition when enforcing PU with Bohemia.

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# Script
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# Achievements
- The achievement "Knights of the Caribbean" does no longer require you to stay as the Knights to complete it
- The achievement "Surfing USA" can now be achieved if your country moves the capital to the new world and form the USA manually instead of using a former colonial nation to do so

# Decisions
- The decision "Build the Third Temple" now highlights Jerusalem if the conditions are not met to enact this decision
- United Hawai can now see the "Form American Nation" decision if they have their capital in North or South America. This change is mostly made for the achievement

# Events
- The AI will now always choose +1 Stability from the event "The Kingdom Semien" and the Jewish provinces gain a hidden modifier for 25 years, which remove the religious unity contribution. This change was made in order to give players a bigger tine window to conquer these provinces before the AI converts them
- The event "The Papal State" will no longer trigger for the united Holy Roman Empire

# Ideas
- The idea "Devoutness" from the Religious Ideas now gives +0.1 Monthly Piety, +0.5 Yearly Patriarch Authority, +0.1 Yearly Karma Decay, +1 Yearly Doom Reduction and +0.15 Yearly Authority (I doubt the last two modifiers will make a big difference though, but who knows.)
- The idea "Local Traditions" from the Humanist Ideas now increases Religious Harmonization Speed by +25%

# Missions
- The Ajuuraan mission "Hydraulic Expertise" can now be completed if you drop the Ajuuraan ideas
- The Ethiopian mission "Unite the Horn" no longer requires you to have the province Fazughli colonized
- The Kilwan mission "The Uncharted South" and the Mutapan mission "Uncover the South" have now an additional mission requirement in order to hinder the African AI to colonize the Cape frequently

# Modifiers
- Being over the Governing Capacity now decreases Tribal Development Growth (-100% at 100% over the capactiy)
- The modifier "Crushed Local Authority" from Court and Country now gives +20 Max Absolutism instead of -20
- The modifier "Rome Reborn" now gives +1.5 more Prestige, 1 Diplomatic Upkeep, +0.25 Legitimacy, +1 Tolerance of the True Faith, +1% Global Missionary Strength and -25% Mercenary Cost

# Other
- The government reform "Tribal Confederacy" is no longer available for other tribes unless they start with it
- Removed Hampi monument requirement for Hindu country with Buddha as personal cult, as it already has Dharmic religious groups as a requirement.
- Removed Ellora Caves monument requirement for Hindu country with Buddha as personal cult, as it already has Dharmic religious groups as a requirement.
- Changed Brandenburg Gate monument Tier 3 Militarization of State to 0.05.
- Changed Baiturrahman Grand Mosque Tier 3 Area Local unrest to -2.
- Added Global ship trade power and Prestige from naval battles modifiers to Cartagena de Indias monument.
- Added Devotion modifier to Malbork Castle monument.


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# Bugfixes
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- Improved great project UI to show GPs that can be built if all criteria are fulfilled other than cost
- Game will not crash when Mod is lacking icons for the unit tab. There will be entry in error.log instead.
- The achievement "KHAAAAAAN" is no longer locked behind starting as one of three formables, which don't even exist at the game start
- The achievement "One nation to rule them all" does no longer require you to start as Saruhan as they don't exist in 1444
- The achievement "Fugger Banking" has no longer a double negative check for the amount of provinces you own
- The achievement "Where are the Penguins?" will no longer try to highlight provinces in Iberia
- The estate rebel events of Mali's disaster now spawn as many rebels as the tooltip says
- The event "The King of Kongo Converts!" now triggers properly for Kongo and not for anyone else
- The event "Tribal Succession Crisis" will now give you an heir of your dynasty instead one of your consort's dynasty
- Army Tradition will no longer decrease Tribal Development Growth
- Unrest caused by seizing from the estates does no longer stack for 10 years after the land has been seized.
- Assam has now the proper Indian unit types instead of the Chinese units
- The policy "Faith Advisors" now has a monthly piety bonus of +0.1 instead of +10
- City of Prague vanished after taking province.
- Imperial City of Hue only gives 1/1.5% karma decay.
- Changed Fuerte del Morro monument Blockade force required modifier from country to provincial scope.
- Changed Cartagena de Indias monument modifiers Blockade force required and Hostile fleet attrition from country to province scope.
- Fixed Malta Forts Hostile disembark speed modifier scope, so now it's provincial instead of global.
- Fixed bug of Kashi Vishwanath monument (changed 'Keep' trigger requirements to 'Can use' trigger).
- Repair ships mission will choose province with maximum repair speed when faced with a choice of several that are the same number of days away.
- Fixed crash when hovering over units integrated from a country with units in TI.
- FIxed crash for the Yearly Authority modifier.

Greetings everyone!

Yesterday we released 1.32 Songhai for each and everyone. Unfortunately the update contained a fix for Aggressive Expansion from Personal Unions which previously was too low - but with the fix it got too high. This issue has been fixed in this 1.32.1 patch - along with a number of other things like a bug where people without Conquest of Paradise saw an unnatural increase in development cost from Army Tradition. You can read the full patchnotes below.

1.32.1 is not yet ready for full release as it requires more testing - but we wanted to give you a possibility to play EU4 1.32 Songhai without the above glaring issues over the weekend so we'll release it now as an opt-in beta patch.

How to opt-in to 1.32.1:
1. Right click Europa Universalis IV in Steam and go to Properties
2. Go to the BETAS menu and pick 1.32.0.1_beta in the dropdown list
3. Close the window and let the game update in Steam

Please report any problems with 1.32.1 (or 1.32 for that matter) in the Bug Report forum! Make sure you put what version of the game you are playing in the thread title (ex [1.32] or [1.32.1]) to help us organize the reports - thank you!

(We will not be able to collect bug reports from Steam I'm afraid)

Here's the full patchnotes for 1.32.1!

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# Gamebalance
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# Governments
- The Shogunate can no longer switch their primary culture

# War & Peace
- Reduced AE gained from PU. Austria no longer gets coalition when enforcing PU with Bohemia.

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# Script
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# Achievements
- The achievement "Knights of the Caribbean" does no longer require you to stay as the Knights to complete it
- The achievement "Surfing USA" can now be achieved if your country moves the capital to the new world and form the USA manually instead of using a former colonial nation to do so

# Decisions
- The decision "Build the Third Temple" now highlights Jerusalem if the conditions are not met to enact this decision
- United Hawai can now see the "Form American Nation" decision if they have their capital in North or South America. This change is mostly made for the achievement

# Events
- The AI will now always choose +1 Stability from the event "The Kingdom Semien" and the Jewish provinces gain a hidden modifier for 25 years, which remove the religious unity contribution. This change was made in order to give players a bigger tine window to conquer these provinces before the AI converts them
- The event "The Papal State" will no longer trigger for the united Holy Roman Empire

# Ideas
- The idea "Devoutness" from the Religious Ideas now gives +0.1 Monthly Piety, +0.5 Yearly Patriarch Authority, +0.1 Yearly Karma Decay, +1 Yearly Doom Reduction and +0.15 Yearly Authority (I doubt the last two modifiers will make a big difference though, but who knows.)
- The idea "Local Traditions" from the Humanist Ideas now increases Religious Harmonization Speed by +25%

# Missions
- The Ajuuraan mission "Hydraulic Expertise" can now be completed if you drop the Ajuuraan ideas
- The Ethiopian mission "Unite the Horn" no longer requires you to have the province Fazughli colonized
- The Kilwan mission "The Uncharted South" and the Mutapan mission "Uncover the South" have now an additional mission requirement in order to hinder the African AI to colonize the Cape frequently

# Modifiers
- Being over the Governing Capacity now decreases Tribal Development Growth (-100% at 100% over the capactiy)
- The modifier "Crushed Local Authority" from Court and Country now gives +20 Max Absolutism instead of -20
- The modifier "Rome Reborn" now gives +1.5 more Prestige, 1 Diplomatic Upkeep, +0.25 Legitimacy, +1 Tolerance of the True Faith, +1% Global Missionary Strength and -25% Mercenary Cost

# Other
- The government reform "Tribal Confederacy" is no longer available for other tribes unless they start with it
- Removed Hampi monument requirement for Hindu country with Buddha as personal cult, as it already has Dharmic religious groups as a requirement.
- Removed Ellora Caves monument requirement for Hindu country with Buddha as personal cult, as it already has Dharmic religious groups as a requirement.
- Changed Brandenburg Gate monument Tier 3 Militarization of State to 0.05.
- Changed Baiturrahman Grand Mosque Tier 3 Area Local unrest to -2.
- Added Global ship trade power and Prestige from naval battles modifiers to Cartagena de Indias monument.
- Added Devotion modifier to Malbork Castle monument.


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# Bugfixes
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- Improved great project UI to show GPs that can be built if all criteria are fulfilled other than cost
- Game will not crash when Mod is lacking icons for the unit tab. There will be entry in error.log instead.
- The achievement "KHAAAAAAN" is no longer locked behind starting as one of three formables, which don't even exist at the game start
- The achievement "One nation to rule them all" does no longer require you to start as Saruhan as they don't exist in 1444
- The achievement "Fugger Banking" has no longer a double negative check for the amount of provinces you own
- The achievement "Where are the Penguins?" will no longer try to highlight provinces in Iberia
- The estate rebel events of Mali's disaster now spawn as many rebels as the tooltip says
- The event "The King of Kongo Converts!" now triggers properly for Kongo and not for anyone else
- The event "Tribal Succession Crisis" will now give you an heir of your dynasty instead one of your consort's dynasty
- Army Tradition will no longer decrease Tribal Development Growth
- Unrest caused by seizing from the estates does no longer stack for 10 years after the land has been seized.
- Assam has now the proper Indian unit types instead of the Chinese units
- The policy "Faith Advisors" now has a monthly piety bonus of +0.1 instead of +10
- City of Prague vanished after taking province.
- Imperial City of Hue only gives 1/1.5% karma decay.
- Changed Fuerte del Morro monument Blockade force required modifier from country to provincial scope.
- Changed Cartagena de Indias monument modifiers Blockade force required and Hostile fleet attrition from country to province scope.
- Fixed Malta Forts Hostile disembark speed modifier scope, so now it's provincial instead of global.
- Fixed bug of Kashi Vishwanath monument (changed 'Keep' trigger requirements to 'Can use' trigger).
- Repair ships mission will choose province with maximum repair speed when faced with a choice of several that are the same number of days away.
- Fixed crash when hovering over units integrated from a country with units in TI.
- FIxed crash for the Yearly Authority modifier.


Here you can read the full 1.32 changelog as well!

Full Cangelog here!



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# Free Features

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- Added 9 new government reforms for African countries.
- Added 8 additional free estate privileges.
- Added 7 new formable countries (Israel, Aksumite Empire, Great Zimbabwe, Kitara, Nubia, Somalia and Rozwi).
- Reworked 3 already existing formable countries (Mossi, Hausa, Sokoto).
- Reworked 4 already existing countries as reformables (Mali, Macina, Kongo and Ethiopia).
- Added 1 spawnable country: Zulu.
- Added new sets of ideas for all the new formable countries (except for Rozwi), Jolof, Oyo, Adal, Kilwa, and generic for Horn of Africa countries.
- Added 52 new monuments for Leviathan DLC owners.

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# Performance

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- Fixed a lot of the performance degradation introduced in Leviathan.
- Increased usage of the country's military access cache.
- Fabricate claims and claim states actions don't need to run through every province.
- Stopped "Create States" notification alert from causing significant performance issues.
- Improved macrobuilder performance when a gigantic nation.

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# Gamebalance

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# Economy

- Concentrate development: changed algorithm to convert dev stolen to monarch points in the pillaged province, then use those monarch points to buy dev at the capital so that after a point it won't buy you anything.
- Fixed the "pillage state, release vassal, pillage it again" exploit.
- Now you know what trade goods are in tribal land so you can't keep migrating around in your land until gold shows up.

# Governments

- Being over the Government Capacity now decreases the Tribal Development Growth (at 100% over capacity, the Tribal Development Growth is decreased by 100%).
- Increased the settlement costs through Tribal Development, making it cost now 50 ADM, 50 DIP and 50 MIL.
- Reforming into monarchies, theocracies or republics as a Totemistic horde will now swap your technology group with the North American tech instead of the Chinese tech. This also applies for Inti, Mayan, Nahuatla and Alcheringa countries, which will get their respective technology groups back.
- Tribal reform into Kingdom, Theocracy or Republic require Feudalism to be embraced.
- Tribal reform into the Horde requires Military Technology level 6.
- Reduced Native tribal development gain.
- HRE: Changed requirements for declaring Reichskrieg: development doesn't matter any more; can declare on countries with a neighbour country that is in the HRE not necessarily a neighbouring province.
- Institutions effect on tech cost is now based on tech level instead of time.
- Added a new government reform for the fith tier of the Native governments, which let the nation remain being a native instead of reforming into a monarchy or any other of the governments. This government is the default reform AI picks, making them a lot less likely to become a proper government.
- Reduced tribal development growth, the growth will be now reduced by current tribal development.
- Replacing the government reform "Settle Down" will now cause a Stab Hit.
- The government reform "Settle Down" now reduces the Governing Capacity by 25%.
- The government reforms "Seasonal Travel" and "War Band" can only be selected if you own only 1 province (Tribal Land does not count).
- Militarists in power in Theocratic Open Public Elections do not cause elections.

# Religion

- Bless Ruler now gives additional +10% Morale of Armies.
Comment from Ogele: We had some additional playtests and we noticed that +5% Land Morale has been not efficient enough to make Catholicism a competitive religion regarding the military strength. Because of that we reverted the change from 5% to 10% again. We will keep a close eye on it though and observe how it performs in Singleplayers and Multiplayers.
- Catholicism gives now +1% Missionary Strength against Heathens instead of -1 Tolerance of Heretics.
- Fetishist provinces no longer have +2% Local Missionary Strength as they were historically not easier to convert than other religions.
- Forgive Usury now gives -0.05 Yearly Corruption.
- Indulgence for Sin is now available for every kind of government, increasing Devotion, Horde Unity and Republican Tradition too. Additionally, it now gives +10% Improve Relations.
- Levy Church Tax for Catholics now gives additional -10% Building Cost.
- Proclaim Holy War now gives additional -5% Army Maintenance.
- Send Papal Legate now gives additional -10% Diplomatic Annexation Cost.
- Shintoism now gives +1 Tolerance for Heathens so they too have two modifiers.
- The relation penalty / benefit to Heretics during the Council of Trent has been halved.
- The reformation speed of the Protestant, Hussite and Reformed reformation center has been increased by 25% in order to balance the reformation in HRE out due to the removed Tolerance of Heretics penalty of the Catholics
Comment from Ogele: In general we were quite pleased with the reformation change. However, Catholicism got eradicated a little bit too often during the nightlys. Because of this we tuned the reformation speed from 50% down to 25% in order to make the reformation stronger without replacing Catholicism entirely.

# Units

- Made it possible to turn Male consorts into generals.
- Tweaked disembark speed modifier usage so hostile_disembark_speed and movement_speed_onto_off_boat_modifier stack multiplicatively.

# War & Peace

- Added feature to pillage capital to allow just malicious pillaging with no gain if what you're pillaging doesn't buy you anything at your capital.
- Infiltrate Administration applies to allies in War.
- Empire: HRE reform Geteilte Macht now prevents other HRE members from accumulating AE against the Emperor when they take non-HRE provinces.
- Nations released through peace treaty will be guaranteed by the winning peace treaty negotiator for the duration of their.
- Scaled back war score, AE and overextension to reflect the fact that there are many more provinces than there were when these things were first balanced. Allows taking slightly bigger chunks of land.
- Currying favours made slower if you're militarily weaker than the target.

# Other

- Increased Kaaba's Prestige modifier.
- Increased Potosí's interest per annum.
- Ethiopia and Mali are now an Endgame Tags.
- Lucky Nations gain additional +25% Governing Capacity Modifier.
- The base Monthly Heir Claim has been reduced from 0.417 to 0.208 in order to make heirs with low and average claims more common.
- The diplomatic policy "Faith Advisors" now gives +0.5% Yearly Patriach Authority instead of +50.0% and +0.05 Yearly Karma Decay instead of +0.5 Yearly Karma Decay.
- The disaster "Crisis of the Ming Dynasty" is now much more lethal. It now cripples Ming's economy and increases the size of rebels spawned through the disaster.
- The modifier "Rome Reborn" from uniting the Holy Roman Empire now has all the modifiers the Emperor would have kept the the vassal swarm.
- The native building "Earthwork" now reduces Hostile Movement Speed by 25%.
- The native building "Fortified House" now only increases the Land Force Limit by 5 down from 10.
- The native building "Longhouse" now reduces the local Province Governing Cost by -25%.
- Changed the requirements for the Imperial City of Hue, and changed the name of the Potosí monument.
- Changed Jerusalem and Mecca max prestige to 0.5, as it was too easy for a muslim countries to stack +2 yearly prestige at max level coming from these two monuments.
- Dishonoring call to arms from defender of faith now a -15 trust loss.
- Chance of new countries being monarchies now depends on absolute number of institutions, not technology cost penalty.
- Corruption gained from lagging tech no longer discounts with tech cost penalty (but situation should be more managable with new system).
- Great Power score calculation changed accordingly to the changes in the Institutions.
- Immunity from instant (10:1) stack wipe now requires 2 institutions ahead of enemy (previously 80% less tech cost penalty).
- Maximum power storage is now based on tech cost penalty for the next tech level of given type.
- Rebels no longer reinforce slower in countries with tech cost penalties.
- Removed incorrect warning of losing monarch points when embracing institutions.
- Trade League no longer disallowed for being behind > 4 institutions.
- Forming Tibet while having Tibetan Ideas will no longer remove Tibetan ideas.
- Favors actions are way too harsh if you miss them. Stab hit now 0 and opinion lost is minimal and capped.
- Reduced migration cooldown
- Removed ability to pillage capital on behalf of your subjects.
- Subject type interaction fixes: can now rescind the upgrades for 100 ducats; fixed up script so that liberty desire isn't added as an effect; admin power taken from overlord, not subject.
- Added a Buddhism alternative for the Imperial City of Hue monument.
- Added +50% Monument cost when in Bankruptcy.
- Changed Forbidden City requirement to having Celestial Empire government reform.
- City of Khami religious requirement now works properly.
- Cologne Cathedral religious requirement now works properly.
- Heddal Stave Church religious requirement now works properly.
- Increased Monument manpower speeding up cost to 10K.
- Removed Alhambra requirements.
- Swapped Himeji Castle and Sankin Kotai Palaces requirements.
- Updated Culture requirements for all Monuments already having them, so now it will always be required to have the same culture of the monument's province as a country's primary or accepted culture.
- Countries inside HRE don't get relations penalty with Emperor if he is a Hegemon.
- Player can now move monuments from his subject's provinces to his own capital.
- Added Church Loyalty modifier to Hagia Sophia.
- Added reduced Idea Cost to Buddha Statues.
- Added Athenian culture to Parthenon requirements.
- Added Nobles Loyalty modifier to Moai.
- Added reduced Global Unrest to Borobodur Temple.
- Nerfed Pyramid of Cheops reduced Advisor Cost to -15% at Tier 3.
- Removed Pagan religion requirement to City of Khami.
- Nerfed reduced General Cost for Sankin Kotai Palaces to -10% at Tier 3.
- Changed the set of modifiers of Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.

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# AI

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# Diplomacy

- Fixed bug where subsidies were being given far too much budget for no reason
- Fixed it being possible to have AI nation subsidise your new nation by playing as a former colonial nation.

# Economy

- Fixed bug where advisors were always budgeted for, even when not required
- Fixed AI budgeting of the forts
- AI no longer gives budget for corruption when it's at 0
- Made AI less interested in buildings without concrete value.
- Added a mechanism to recall AI colonists promoting settlement growth if there's no budget for it.
- Fixed AI countries with very low income and loans clinging on to forts they can't afford.
- AI can now protect trade if they do not have any warships.

# War

- Made AI more likely to chase your armies.
- AI more competent at hunting down smaller armies.
- Better understanding of terrain effects on combat.
- Fixed AI exiled armies could stand idle instead of going to a province that would clear the exile.
- AI can now pick up and drop off troops in port.
- Fixed bugs preventing AI from completing troop transports and invasions.
- Made AI better at prioritizing between invasions.
- Made AI better at sticking to sieges.
- AI recruitment/disbanding issues - was disbanding regular troops before mercs.

# Other

- AI for settling and adding tribal land added.
- Improved AI monarch point handling (tech).
- Optimized Add/Remove strategy.
- Added a few more modifiers for the AI to be more likely to take the Land Rights privileges.
- Further improved AI fort building so that incremental improvements can be made to upgrade forts and improve the forts mapmode.
- Toned down releasing of vassals from governing capacity. Now tolerates 50% over instead of 20% over, and won't release anything that gives way more of a reduction than it needs.
- Some AI changes to consider using reform progress or estate privileges to boost governing capacity before releasing vassals.
- AI can no longer take blessings assigned to a different religion.
- Improved the AI decision making for Orthodox events, so they will be more likely to get authority.
- Made AI less eager to select icons when at low Authority.

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# Interface

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# Country

- Subject details displayed properly on lower resolutions.
- Refusal to do favor actions is now defaulted to popup and pause to show you that you've done it.
- Allow seeing ¨Sue for peace¨ window without needing a free diplomat.
- Added Perpetual Diet location to HRE interface and mapmode.
- HRE member shields now have a blue outline if they support the latest reform.
- Added Centers of Trade page to the ledger.
- New Filtering option called War Allies added in the Ledger.
- Hovering over a shield of an non-existent nation on the cores list will now highlight all the cores that this nation still have.
- Added new institution icons to tech view. Changed description of institution spawn event.
- Add space for extra edict on the edicts list.
- Condottieri while at peace alert doesn't need to popup if the price I'm paying is 0 ducats anyway.
- Added an alert for when federation cohesion maxes out.

# Icons/Art

- Added the flag for the Alcheringa rebels.
- Added new icon for Jewish mechanics.
- Added icon for "global_rebel_suppression_efficiency.
- Added new modifiers for "yearly_authority", "overlord_naval_forcelimit" and "all_estate_loyalty_equilibrium".
- Added new UI Gfx for the new cawa regiments.
- Added new icon for the institutions inside the great powers window.
- Fixed social buttons for lower resolutions.
- Fixed Sicily (SIC) and Two Sicilies (TTS) have mistakenly swapped flags.
- Added new different institution icons for the technology window.
- Added new alert icon for "Armies on missions too scared to engage Enemies".
- Added new icons for auto-improve relations in the outliner.
- Added new icon for "Convert consort to general".
- Added more "consistency" to the papacy dip bonus icon.
- Added new icons for disabled settlement growth.
- Added new icon for waiting human response in war window.
- Added new row to the edicts background.
- Added new message icons for favor actions.
- Added new icons for different cloud save states.
- Added exceptions to lower resolutions in the Subject statics window.
- Fixed great projects ledger background.
- Recolored "Absolute Reichstabilität" icon for better reading.
- Adjusted Hostile and maximize profit icons in the outliner.
- Added New siege iamges to polynesian cities.
- Added New alert icon for "Enemies sieging our provinces".
- Added new Icons for "move_capital_cost_modifier" and "local_gold_depletion_chance_modifier".
- Added new GFX for "Queen Nzingha Mbande of Ndongo and Matamba".

# Mapmodes

- Included nations that support a subject's independence on the diplomatic map mode.
- Added stripes to provinces with separatism in unrest map mode.
- Changed Development mapmode to use median as the colour anchor.
- Modified the "Coalition" mapmode to be more useful. Reds = enough AE and low enough opinion to join coalition; Ambers = enough AE but not low enough opinion, so full Amber = improve opinion NOW; Greens = not enough AE to join a coalition.
- Improved development mapmode so that yellow is still the median but now green is maximum instead of median x 2.
- When hovering over rebel progress provinces affected are now highlighted.
- Added Tribal Development to ledger and development mapmode.
- The Jewish religion has now a blue map color instead of the red it used to have.

# Tooltips

- set_ruler effect shows the ruler's age.
- The tooltip for faith tolerance tells precisely what Tolerance does now.
- The tooltip of the banners has been adjusted and now mentions Jurchen culture and the Great Mongol State.
- The tooltip on disasters lists "possible" progress increasing factors so you know what to avoid.
- Fixed a missing tooltip for the demands of the Alcheringa rebels.
- Fixed non-translated tooltip in suppress rebels interface.
- Added a tooltip in outliner for kick players.
- Improved building tooltips.
- The army action tooltips have been tidied up.

# Unitmodels

- Florence and Venice keep their unique units while dynamic color versions are given to minors with Tuscan and Venetian/Dalmatian cultures.
- French models from the Evangelical Union and Evangelical Majors unit packs no longer override Colonial French units in the Americas.
- Savoy keeps its unique units even if you change to Occitan culture in the mission trees.
- Tweaked some African country colors to fit the new unit models.
- Mothballed fleets now have an icon next to the location name so you can see mothballed fleets in a stack.
- Display a missionary model based on graphical culture AND religion.

# Other

- Malay, Tai, and Mon-Khmer culture groups given southeastasiangfx primary graphical culture, and their original asiangfx has been relegated to their secondary graphical culture.
- Added a pop up for the first time you get an institution.
- Added sound to Hussite and Alcheringa conversion and religion tab as well as sound for claiming the Defender of Faith for Hussite.
- Don't set window to collidable at show if it is already collidable.
- Added option for showing region names for parts of your country in other regions (e.g. 'Swedish Kongo' instead of 'Sweden').
- Added "Your forts are under siege" alert.
- Added an alert if your armies doing Rebel Suppression or Carpet Siegeing do not dare to engage Rebels.
- Added a chat message from the system when a player is kicked.
- Outliner: Added little Icon to show what Auto-improve relations task a diplomat is on.
- Outliner: Added subject revolt progress in Outliner and Alert bar.
- Added keyboard shortcuts to some often-used buttons.
- Macrobuilder: Show Military Tech for each Mercenary Company on hiring list.
- MP: added Mod and Version filter.
- Trade favours for trust is now just auto-accepted.
- Don't show claim shield if it's a core. The claim still being there is valid, but it just adds clutter.
- The UI was just doing its own thing, not using any of the combatant's engaged ships data. Also took the opportunity to add some sanity to the inland sea/coastal sea/open sea types and make sure it was accounted for when assessing naval strength.

...and much more

From the trading ports on the eastern coast to the gold mines of Mali, early modern Africa was a continent of rich kingdoms and cultural variety. Now, Europa Universalis IV: Origins brings this history to vivid life with new missions, events and regional flavor.



Europa Universalis IV: Origins includes:

• Jewish Religion: The Ethiopian Jews of Beta Israel are included, and Jewish nations can choose from nine religious characteristics to accentuate their national strengths, with new flavor events.
  
• Missions for Mali: Halt the decline of West Africa’s greatest medieval empire and reassert control of former vassals.
  
• Missions for Songhai: Develop your provinces and claim the mantles of Mali and Timbuktu as the new rising power.
  
• Missions for Kongo: Unite the peoples of the Congo River and confront the growing European threat.
  
• Missions for Ethiopia: Ensure religious unity and prestige in the Kingdom of Solomon while unifying the nations of the African Horn. Also adds the noble Ç̌äwa regiments.
  
• Missions for Ajuuraan: Control Indian Ocean trade and bring water to your desert provinces.
  
• Missions for Kilwa: Focus on naval economic power, establishing a colonial empire across the seas.
  
• Missions for Mutapa: Build on the legacy of the founders of Great Zimbabwe and exploit the riches of South Africa to dominate trade.
  
• Minor Mission Additions: New mission options for Jolof, Mossi, Hausa, Oyo and Adal.
  
• New Regional Mission Trees: New Missions for minor powers in Central, East and West Africa, and the African Horn, as well as new estate privileges for many nations and regions.
  
• New Army Sprites: 4 new army sprites each for Congo, Great Lakes, Southern Africa and Bantu nations
  
• Two New Missionary models: African Coptic and African Fetishist missionary animations added.
  
• New Music: 12 minutes of new West African themed music, and 12 minutes of new East African themed music.

Europa Universalis IV: Origins is accompanied by a major update, free for all EU4 players. This update, called 1.32 Songhai, includes reworks of Institution adoption by non-European nations, changes to Catholic Curia actions, rebalancing of existing game concepts and many more changes.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1756130/Immersion_Pack__Europa_Universalis_IV_Origins/