Europa Universalis IV News

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# Gamebalance
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# Economy
- Bankruptcy cancels any monumemt construction.
# Governments
- Added a malus for IA if you're the Emperor and you extend your regency.
- Christian theocracies can't use Aristocratic ideas any more.
- Custom republics now get bonus on ruler skills with ideas.
- Extending Estate Regency now costs 10 Legitimacy.
- Increased governing capacity modifier of celestial empire so Ming is not over governing capacity at game start.
- Following tags are now downranked to duchies from kingdom rank: PAH, PAT, LUW, BNE, BEU, TER, TID, BTU, CEB, MNA, HAW, MAU, OAH, KAA, KEL, ATJ, BRS, TDO, PGS, IND, BTN, PGR, JMB, BLI.
# Units
- Seperatist rebels get the unit type of the country they want to be, not the country they're in.
# War & Peace
- HRE members can't be co-belligerents against another HRE member after Ewiger Landfriede.
- It's no longer possible to enforce peace in Religious League war.
- Emperor in coalition against you no longer causes the entire coalition to fight you in any war you try to start.
- Humiliate CB no longer allows vassalization.
# Other
- Changed Golden Temple monument to Doaba (2075).
- Changed Kiev Pechersk Lavra Yearly Patriarchal Authority modifier from +0,5%, +0,5% and +1% to +0,1%, +0,2% and +0,5%.
- Changed Mount Fuji Theravada religion requirement to Mahayana.
- Changed Registan Square Monthly Piety modifier from -1%, -2% and -3% to +0,1%, +0,2% and +0,3%.
- Having a colonial nation gives you Colonialism in your capital.
- Balancing favours diplomatic actions.


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# AI
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# Diplomacy
- Added AI refusal for favour actions.
# Other
- AI is more inclined to use the cults of the Alcheringa Religion, which fits the most to their AI personalities.


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# Interface
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# Icons/Art
- Event pictures now use graphical culture fallbacks.
# Mapmodes
- Macro builder no longer blocks map modes.
# Tooltips
- Fixed overlap problems for tooltipping monarch/heir/queen names.
# Other
- Ancestors too rubbish to give you any benefits don't show up in the list any more.
- OK/Cancel buttons now all have the shortcuts c and z.
- Less popups for favor actions by default.


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# Script
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# Achievements
- Fixed issues with the Wonderful achievement.
# Events
- Reworked the options of event "Anglo-Powhatan War". Now you have guaranteed two options: first one will give you a military boost while the second option will increase the opinion of rivals of Englan/GB additionally to the opinions of Castile/Spain and France.
- The event "A Helping Hand" (monument_events.2)'s first option will now ask for 6 months of income instead of 5 ducats. Additionally, the event can now trigger multiple times over the duration of a campaign instead only once.
- The event "Monument in 'Province Name'" (monument_events.1) grants now 1 stabilty as long you are under 1. Else it will give you 20 prestige. Additionally, the event triggers now for every highest tier monument instead of only once a game and gives you now -10% stability costs for 10 years.
- The event "The Completion of Borobudur" (monument_events.5) will now give you a proper subjugation casus belli instead of a restore union cb. Also, now the event allows you to move your capital to the temple.
- The event "The House of the Lord" (monument_events.3)'s first option now asks you for 3 months of income instead of 10 ducats. The second option will no longer affect three provinces in total but instead gives you a country modifier, which grants you +1 Tolerance of the True Faith and -1 National Unrest for 20 years.
- The AI will now priorize to choose the option "We should let Trailok decide." in the event "The Ascension of Trailok" when Sukhothai is controlled by a player.
- The events "The Kingdom of Champassak", "The Kingdom of Vientiane" and "The Kingdom of Luang Prabang" now only trigger if the Leviathan DLC is enabled.
- Fixed issues with native_americans.25 (The Potlatch) so that it is not as spammy.
- Fixed issue with volcano event.
# Ideas
- The Samoan ideas' first tradition will now grant -30% advisor cost instead of increasing the advisor pool by 1.
- Hawaiian Ideas have been rebalanced. The idea "Repurposing the Ali'i Nui" now gives 1 legitimacy instead of 2, the idea "Naha Prophecy" has no longer increased Hostile Core Creation Cost and the ambition of is now +20 Global Settler Increase instead of the ability to recruit explorers.
- Forming Aotearoa will no longer remove the Iwi Ideas. Instead, the player will be even asked if they want to change their ideas to the Iwi Ideas.
- Forming Viti will no longer remove Fiji Ideas. Instead, the player will be asked if they want to swap their ideas to the Fijian Ideas.
- The Fijian ideas have received balance changes. The idea "Waqa Drua" will now grant 100% prestige and 50% naval traditions from naval battles and the idea "Fijian Warlords" grants now +10% Morale of Armies and +0.5 Army Tradition.
- The Iwi idea "Kaikiakitanga" will now grant -5% development cost.
- Fixed so consort_events.2 doesn't trigger without a consort.
# Missions
- Fixed Palembang mission 'Orang Laut' so now it can be completed if the country is a pirate republic.
- Fixed triggering and reward issues in Palembang missions 'Orang Laut', 'Arrival of Dragonships', 'Pirate Kings', and 'Restore Srivijaya', to make them a more comprehensive and coherent set of missions.
- Palembang mission 'Orang Laut' now can be completed if pirate republic.
- The mission "Cultivate a Mandala" now rewards you with 100% prosperity in your capital area additionally to the other reward.
- The mission "Populate Ayutthaya" now rewards you with 50 Government Reform Progress instead of 100 diplo points.
- The mission "Win a Royal Duel" now requires you to have 3% Army Professionalism (or 20 Army Tradition if Cradle of Civilization is not active) and to have at least as much Army Tradition as Khmer.
- Siam can no longer be formed through a decision for people with the Leviathan DLC. Instead, they will now have to work through the mission tree to form it as intended.
- Corrected Tu'i Tonga Empire mission's conditions to be better.
- Fixed issues with polynesian and oceanian missions.
- Fixed an issue with not being able to complete the "Honor the Ancestors" mission.
- Added a fallback to Samoan and Tongan missions to avoid getting stuck in case one of them do not exist.
- Fixed an issue with the Samoan Army mission.
# Setup
- The province Manahoac (2552) is now part of the "Great Valley" area.
- Fixed starting rulers with no birth date in later game starts being too old.
- The province "Sawokli" is now a savanna instead of a desert.
- Changed color of Aotearoa to a red one as suggested.
- Exchanged the Trade Goods of two provinces in New Zealand.


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# Bugfixes
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- Fixed a CTD related to naval combats.
- Fixed a CTD related to naval misions.
- You can no longer pillage development from natives' capitals with no losses.
- You can't operate other people's great projects any more unless they're your subjects.
- Savegames don't get corrupted due to cooldown storage.
- The province Lau's name is no longer scattered around and the city of Maui is no longer underwater.
- Abdication no longer prevented in Celestial Empire owing to "low Legitimacy".
- Added the missing icons for the government reforms "Uparaya Succession" and "Sakdina System".
- Becoming papal controller now lifts excommunication from members of personal union as well.
- Can no longer exploit reduce infrastructure to gain an extra manufactory.
- The event "The Mandate of Heaven" (flavor_dai.4) has now the proper event picture.
- Double clicking on top row of Great Projects in the ledger no longer shows the wrong location.
- Favors from relative alliance strength works the right way around.
- Fixed a CTD when reforming native federation advancements when at war.
- Infinite concentrate development exploit no longer works.
- Lan Xang is no longer infinitely reformable.
- Monuments no longer get downgraded when a province changes owner peacefully.
- Fixed so Mount Fuji gives a local development bonus, not global.
- Fixed issue where nations with capitals that can get a path to the HRE couldn't join the HRE.
- Fixed so natives can build boats.
- Fixed issue with naval attrition not working.
- Fixed another issue with calling non allies using the macro builder.
- No more event flood of old events on loading.
- Fixed outliner not showing the correct name of colonies.
- Polynesians/Aboriginies use the correct fallback units if no Leviathan unit pack is installed.
- Ruler of Demak created by event majapahit.5 no longer has missing localization.
- Ruler of custom nation no longer disappears/gets bugged after reloading the save.
- Fixed some issues with separatism not disappearing when it should.
- Fixed issues with strengthening government when at lower legitimacy and max absolutism.
- The event "Dynastic Tensions in Dai Viet" now only triggers if the Leviathan DLC is enabled.
- Totemist ancestors now functional without Rights of Man.
- Zoroastrian religion no longer displays Coptic icons.
- Fixed an issue with assigning the correct government reform for different colony types.
- Battles against condottieri now count for war score.
- Canals no longer locked behind Wealth of Nations DLC.
- Disabled trade favors for trust and prepare for war diplomatic actions when Leviathan and Cossacks are disabled.
- Event sikhism_flavor.2 actually does something.
- Fixed issues with advisor portrait fallbacks.
- Fixed a CTD related to adding pashas.
- Huge amounts of dev in a province no longer cause overflow error for increasing development.
- Fixed a CTD related to using the cede_province effect with an invalid country.
- Fixed a CTD related to checking if we can vassalize someone we've already selected to pillage and their capital province is not in a state.
- Fixed issue causing massive error log.
- Fixed an OOS when host and client use different languages.
- Fail conditions for "Increase Autonomy in X" Dhimmi Agenda are now displayed properly.
- Fixed so Aotearoa, Fiji and Hawaii keep their National Ideas after their formation.
- The Mandala System government reform is only usable when the Leviathan DLC is enabled.
- Fixed a CTD for missing gfx culture tag for sprite packs.
- Corrected Kaitiakitanga spelling.
- Fixed a crash when running the every_tribal_land_province effect on non tribal countries.
- Fixed so blue mountains look like mountains.

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# Gamebalance
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# Economy
- Stopped native land from becoming totally devastated within 70 years.
- Fixed the amount of manpower required to speed up great project construction.
- Stop some subject types from having their development concentrated.
- Trade good changes will destroy invalid manufactories.
- Now centralize state reduces the governing cost of the entire state.
- Fixed so manpower and sailors received from colonies are based on max values instead of current.
- Rebalanced monuments.
- Fixed so that all tribal land is settled when you enact the federal constitution.
- Nations no longer lose their naval doctrine when failing to meet requirements.
- Fixed so that colonial cores get affected by the minimum autonomy in territories modifiers.

# Governments
- Forming Shan no longer gives player's state generic National Ideas.
- Nerfed native federation reform rate.
- Balanced federations values.

# Religion
- Stopped the ability to snowball ancestor personalities in totemism.
- Fixed Esprit de Corps policy giving ridiculous missionary strength.

# Units
- Fixed so you have docking rights for subjects of subjects.

# War & Peace
- Disabled Release Nation of a rebel you're supporting, use Enforce Rebel Demands.
- Demanding a country's capital and forcing religion on them changes religion in their new capital instead of their old one.
- Rebels set to be non-reinforcing won't reinforce.
- Attached armies now count as retreating if the main army retreats.
- Force converted nations are now granted the global_holy_war_released_modifier modifer.
- Threatening war now takes into account guarantors.
- Tributary Overlord now joins coalition war if it is declared by their Tributary.
- Nerfed primitive war score cost for taking provinces.
- Nerfed AE for primitives.
- Fixed so you can use the cb_push_back_colonizers casus belli to use it against non tribal nations bordering them.
- Fixed exploit where you could call to arms rivals of your enemies without being allied.
- Fixed dismantle the revolution peace treaty having different warscore cost and prestige depending on which side offers it.
- You can no longer pillage development from natives' capitals with no losses.

# Other
- Disallowed heir for favours for some government types.
- Fixed the climate of some provinces in north america.
- Favors from relative alliance strength works the right way around.
- Favours for x now uses the lowest monthly income of both actor and recipient country to determine how much is transferred.

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# Diplomacy
- Added AI for selection of trust usage actions between AI countries.

# Economy
- AI no longer prioritizes Trade Company Investments too high compared to buildings.
- AI will now look to release vassals and create trade cities if their governing capacity is over or if their overextension is large.
- Fixed an issue where AI controlling Merchant Republics never creates Trade Cities.
- Added AI for concentrate development.
- Fixed so AI countries will give more priority to monarch points if they have short term needs.

# War
- Fixed AI not attacking easy rebels in a country they're at war with.
- Fixed AI joining wars when bankrupt.
- Fixed AI only looking for adjacent provinces in peace deals instead of including provinces that were adjacent over a sea province too.

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# Country
- Allowed settled tribes to acquire tribal land from the colony window.

# Icons/Art
- crosses of the Great Britain flag have slightly nicer proportions.
- Ulster flag colours made a little bit less garish.
- Ulm flag made slightly higher quality.

# Tooltips
- Missionary tooltip for subjects shows their modifiers instead of overlord's.
- Added tooltip for not being able to save uncompressed saves with random new world.
- Improved tooltip for not being able to sell province due to debt.
- Improved "Average non-overseas autonomy" tooltip to state that it's only core provinces.
- Improved tooltip for selecting culture in nation designer.
- Fixed tooltip for war exhaustion in battle view.
- Improved description for average unrest and average effective unrest triggers.
- Improved tooltips for browsing subject mission trees.
- You can now see the effect of the monument in the ledger page.
- Relocating monuments now states that distance is a cost factor.
- Added a descriptive tooltip to heir claim strength.
- Improved tooltip for introducing new heir.
- Improved tooltip for promoting cultures if there are modifiers affecting its cost
- Fixed tooltip text to include information about losing the title if you lose a war to infidels.
- Added a tooltip for production increase when there are no trade companies.
- Added tooltip to show claim strength growth.
- Fixed confusing tooltip when attempting to demand the last province when war reparations are already demanded.
- Improved tooltip for federation cohesion.
- Fixed so that relocating great projects specifies where they would be relocated.

# Unitmodels
- USA unit pack now uses dynamic colours.
- Tweaked USA country colors to match the palette of the original American Dream unit models.
- Ayutthaya unit models spread to countries with Siamese culture.
- Brunei unit models spread to countries with Bornean culture.
- Champa unit models spread to countries with Cham culture.
- Lan Na unit models spread to countries with Khon Muang culture.
- Luang Prabang unit models spread to countries with Lao culture.
- Majapahit unit models spread to remaining cultures in the Malay culture group.
- Malacca unit models spread to countries with Malayan culture.
- Pagarruyung unit models spread to countries with Acehnese or Sumatran culture.
- Brittany, Cornwall, Normandy, Scotland, Wales units are now tied to the appropriate cultures in addition to their tags.
- The old Byzantine unit models are now used by Greek minors.
- The old Byzantine unit models are no longer overridden by the Imperator unit pack in the Nation Designer.
- The old Byzantine unit models now use dynamic colours.
- All countries with Turkish as primary culture now use Ottoman units.
- All countries with Dutch, Frisian, and Flemish primary cultures now use Netherlands units.
- Normals on the Malacca Tier 1 unit model fixed so it appears correctly.
- The Isles and Gaeldom use Leinster Tier 1 gallowglass instead of generic Western units.
- Mann swapped to Ulster units instead of Ireland units, because their design is a bit less specific to their country.

# Other
- Added to war peace description if a Hegemon will lose their status as a result of the peace.
- Event windows now move to the front when you click on them.
- Fixed "Suggest Demands" option generating a peace offer that will be rejected when occupying an OPM with allies who are not defeated.
- Can now use either shift key for templates.
- Can now upgrade existing buildings through building construction screen in province interface if the province has no free building slots.
- State macrobuilder now specifies which state you're changing the edict for.
- Fixed GUI for Sikhism.
- Trade favors for trust notification now disabled by default.
- You can now double click monuments in the ledger to center on their location.
- Fixed so you can right click culture and core creation in the outliner to cancel it.
- Fixed nations that could decline a call to arms being added to estimated enemy strength when declaring war.
- Fixed so that monarch dynasty names are added to the list of future possible leader names.
- Fixed so that message about gaining/losing casus belli appears for every affected nation.
- Fixed so extend regency doesn't show up for non-monarchies and non-hordes.
- Fixed so you can browse subject upgrades without fulfilling requirements.
- Fixed so icons for federation advancements are highlighted when you have 100% cohesion.

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# Logging
- Improved errorlog printout when failing to read a modifier type.

# Triggers
- Added support to use "all" for estate_influence trigger.
- Added trigger num_of_free_explorers for checking unassigned explorers.

# Other
- Number of sprites in nation designer can be raised with new variable MAX_ARMY_SPRITE_LEVEL_IN_NATION_DESIGNER in defines.lua.

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# Decisions
- Abolishing slavery now changes trade goods to a random goods instead of unknown.

# Events
- Decline of Hanseatic League event: Free Cities no longer only join Lübeckian Trade League if Lübeck has at least 1% trade power in their home trade node.
- The event "A Political Marriage" now grants you a consort from the married country and the localization makes now sense.
- Calvin becomes the Spiritual Leader of Geneva can trigger for any nation and convert the Papal States to Reformed.
- Fixed nobles_estate_events.7 triggering when you have a regency.
- Fixed issues with consort events triggering when you have a regency.

# Setup
- Rename Ngati Awa.
- Renamed Te Tai Tokerau to Ngapuhi.
- Moved Waitaha from 1109 to 2738.
- Fixed Missing reforms of Polynesian Kingdom and Polynesian Tribe.

# Other
- Fixed the incident_shogunate_authority where it was using absolutism without checking if it was a revolutionary nation.

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- Events or missions granting development now work for native countries.
- Female heirs are now generated without relying on female advisor chance.
- Fixed inheriting country during war disables all occupations from that country on enemy.
- Fixed no penalty for setting as co-belligerent a nation you have a royal marriage with.
- Fixed the Dhimmi agenda to build a temple may have been impossible to complete.
- Ming no longer loses the Celestial Empire mandate after going to war with any non-asian country.
- Monuments no longer get downgraded when a province changes owner peacefully.
- New ruler popup now correctly reports on ruler personality.
- Stopped leaders converted into monarchs having 0,0,0 skills.
- Subjects are now called into wars inherited by forcing personal union through peace offer.
- Totemism ancestors now have an effect.
- Trade power now transferred from colonies.
- Upgrading a territorial core no longer ignores former claims on the province.
- Upgrading colonies/changing colonial types no longer count as monthly expenditure.
- Fixed dialog on settling natives showing wrong development being added.
- Closed "support independence" loophole when forming a new nation with subjects, so their attitude initially stays the same as it was.
- Concentrate development cooldown is persisted in all states.
- Estate_vaisyas_disaster no longer incorrectly references estate_rajput.
- Fixed inconsistent units when Rajput nation is created.
- Fixed not being able to concentrate development in one state from more than one subject.
- Natives who reform leave federations, reforming federations removes all members.
- Special regiment modifiers applied to drilling.
- Now sprites are applied after loading the initial state of all countries. This fixed primary_culture working again in the sprite pack's triggers.
- Now when playing the same nation with a friend you don't have to play twice a tribute.
- Now second step in Spanish Empire A New World tutorial guides player to the correct province.
- Now the recruit tab in the province view is closed when the player closes the view and opens it again.
- Fixed an error blocking dismiss or detach of military leaders.
- Added a Leviathan DLC requirement to the potential of the fall_of_majapahit disaster.
- Fixed so majapahit.2 event can be triggered from the on_battle_won_unit onaction.
- Fixed a number of issues with the event personality_events.47.
- Added the correct age to Queen Shin Sabwu and added a minimum age to Dhammazedi so there is not a huge difference of ages between one option and the other.
- Fixed second step in Spanish Empire A New World tutorial guides player to the incorrect province.
- Fixed problems with Consort Events.
- Fixed Portuguese and Spanish missions being blocked for player.
- Consort should not fire west_african.27.
- Fixed issues found while testing Dynamic Historical Events.
- Fixed issues found while testing tribal casus bellis.
- Fixed issues with Event trade_policy_events.7.
- Fixed localization for mission gc_cas_spa_new_spain mentioning states instead of provinces.
- Fixed No Current Cult alert using Fetishist icon for Alcheringa religion.
- Fixed popup when diplo vassalizing a country mentioning we now receive half their tax incomes.
- Fixed When zero days are left to get the innovation boost for teching it gives no info on time remaining.
- Fixed province view fabricate claims stating duplicate text.
- Fixed text in continue game overflowing.
- Fixed issues in dynasty events.
- Fixed text for supremacy over the crown going out of bounds.
- Fixed text for colony name going out of bounds.
- Fixed text for supporting rebels going out of bounds.
- Added missing localization for opinion modifier when pillaging a state for someone.
- Fixed issue with event mnd_khmer_4 with Ayu pillaging itself.
- Fixed issue where Spanish Empire tutorial may ask to select a fleet in a province without any fleet.
- Fixed an issue where the wrong type of advisor would be generated.
- Fixed a desync related to converting a leader to monarch.
- Fixed issue where seizing land from an empty estate can cause revolt.
- Fixed the HRE cast vote button covering the top crest.
- Fixed bug where becoming a junior parner in a PU would cancel vassal annexation.
- Fixed so that annexing a country in a peace deal doesn't teleport the diplomat.
- Fixed issue where forming Italy may force nation into HRE.
- Fixed a potential crash for AI handling ancestors.
- Fixed so ledger doesn't show absolutism for revolutionary nations.
- Fixed a crash when hovering nonexistent great projects in the ledger.
- Fixed hotkeys not working in units macro builder.
- Fixed a potential CTD when hovering temple icon in technology view.
- Fixed an out of sync when removing the leader from their federation.
- Fixed oddities in province panel after changing government type away from native.
- Fixed score screen showing revolutionary flags for nations that previously went revolutionary.
- Escape menu game options now correctly preserved, displayed.
- Fixed a case where attaching to an army fails with no feedback.
- Fixed so tech screen shows correct cost for buildings.
- Fixed icons of active privileges not being centered properly.
- Fixed broken english with revolutionary country names for country names that start with The.
- Fixed tributary subject UI elements overlapping icons.
- Fixed an issue where you could extend regency without an heir.
- Fixed an issue where federation members would leave the federation at game start.
- Fixed an out of sync related to combat modifiers.
- Fixed an out of sync related to language configuration.

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# Other
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- Added Leviathan DLC country recommendations (NA tribes, Colonial nations, East Indies and Oceania countries).
- Fixed so credits screen expansion name is in bold.
- You now need to select a valid username before attempting to join a lobby.

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