20-01-2004 09:35									#1
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Johan's been busy.
Did nobody notice or are peoples already trying it out?

quote: - Increased technology costs by 15% - Morale damage given depends on morale of the troops. ie, should make it possible to have battles decided upon good morale as well as troopsize. - Shipyard restriction is now on base-tax, not current tax. - Building a conscript center now takes 2 years instead of one year. - Implemented straitscode, allowing a nation with a fleet to block passage across for enemy armies. - Crossing a strait gives a bigger penalty than just crossing a river. - Added back the strait connection between Jutland and Sjaelland. - Added in a strait connection between Skåne and Sjaelland. - Inserted the values from Asian Manpower mod into the province database. - You will now see which county competed your merchant out of a CoT. - Fixed some broken tooltips. - Whitepeaces should no longer cancel trade embargoes. - Fixed native sprites. - Improved automerchant. - Fixed some recent bugs with cursor logics. - Fixed a problem with cheats not being cleared when switching games. - 1419: fixed some problem with the norwegian policy settings. - 1419&1492: The city of Iasi was renamed to Suceava. - 1419&1492: The city of Bucaresti was renamed to Targoviste. - 1617: Ulster is now anglosaxon and reformed. - 1617: Scotland and England have a RM and have 120 in relation. England also lost their CB on scotland. - 1617: England lost Bandjarmasin, and gained Sunda. - 1617: Corrected english posessions in the carribean. - 1617: The dutch colony is Sambas is now a TP. - 1617: Persia gained Daghestan and Azerbaijan from Turkey. - 1617: Moved Tula, Welikia, Kursk, Belgorod and Donetsk from Poland to Russia. - 1700: Ulster is reformed now. - 1700: England lost Bandjarmasin and Sunda. - 1700: Holland gained Sunda. - 1700: Lorraine got its army moved to its homeprovince. - 1700: Persia gained Daghestan and Azerbaijan from Turkey. - 1700: Moved Welikia, Smolensk and Chernigov from Poland to Russia and Ukraine. - 1700: Sweden got Riga from Poland. - 1773: Moved Senegal's TP from France to England. - 1773: Moved Daghestan from Russia to Persia, - Changed some provinces to 0 natives in some scenarios. - Genoa gained 2 admirals and a general. - Poland lost Sigismud II as a leader. - Removed some Savoy leaders that only fought for other nations. - Changed deathdates for some Spanish leaders. - Increased alot of provinces to be above the new 1000 limit in the scenarios. - Renamed the cities of Ismail->Chilia, Magnitogorks->Kurgan, Pskow->Pskov, Warsawa->Warszaw, Pyatigorsk->Stavropol, Souchi->Abkazia and several more... - Kalmuk is now buddhist. - Kazan is now sunni. - Welikia is now russian culture. - Kazan is now mongol culture. - Dobrudja is now slavonic. - Zanzibar is now arabic. - Yorkshire is now protestant, while Lancashire is catholic. - Scotlands default capital is now 239, not 238. - Revised some Lithuanian and Polish leaders incase no union etc. - Added Magdeburg, Oldenburg, Münster, Thüringen, Bremen and Mainz to revolt.txt. - Expanded potential revolter for Bulgaria. - Added some random leader names for Bulgaria. - Revised climate in North-American provinces to make winter more realistic. - "Manchu Takeover of China", now removes cantonese and adds manchu as country cultures. - "Kingdom of Prussia" changes Memel and Prussia to german culture. - "Hohenzollern Prussia become Polish Duchy" changes Memel and Prussia to german culture. - "The incorporation of Prussia into Brandenburg" changes Memel and Prussia to german culture. - B choice in "Dutch Nobility demands General Estates" for Spain, Austria, Burgundy, France, & England is now CEN-1 instead of INN+1 - Fixed bug in trigger of "Repatriation of Holland" event. - C choice in "The Effects of the Pragmatic Sanction" now affects PRU/FRA instead. - "Swedish Parliament of 1738" now sleeps the "Mercantile Reforms of the Hats", if the Hats option is not chosen. - Spanish succession events revised completely for alliances. - "The Crown of France" gives Flandern french culture. - Luxemburg can never get "The Crown of France" anymore. - Changed Navarra's timespan for "The Crown of France" to 1480-1575. - Moved addition of Altai culture from "Claims in the East" event to "Claims in the Steppes" event where it's more appropriate. - Revised triggers of "The Act of Union". - Removed revoltrisk from the French National Bankruptcy. - Fixed some bugs in "The Polish Succession of 1733" - Spain nolonger gets benefits from the expulsion of Moors. - Moved Fuggers Event from 1510 to 1517. - "Royal Letter of Bohemia" now opens a CoT either in Prague or Vienna. - "Phillip of Bourbon succedes Carlos II in Spain" now gives some cores to Austria.

Lots of rather interesting-sounding stuff in there.

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...ead.php?t=80424

	20-01-2004 23:59									#2
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Yes, it looks quite promising...though apparently there are some problems with CTDs (even after Johan's 20th Jan fix...?) and/or savegame compatibility....

	21-01-2004 02:44									#3
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Er, what? I got EU 2 a couple of days ago. After about 15 failed starts I finally have a grasp of how to run an economy.

I think I downloaded one patch, because I was pissed at CTDs, but they still happen. Is this one going to make that better?

Expect a newbie questions thread this weekend as I can't figure out combat.

	21-01-2004 05:50									#4
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quote: - Added back the strait connection between Jutland and Sjaelland. - Added in a strait connection between Skåne and Sjaelland.

Wow, that ought to spice up Germany.

Too bad I hardly have time for Vickie nowadays and none at all for EU2.

	21-01-2004 07:41									#5
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I'm more interested in Victoria and Hearts of Iron thesedays.


The huge provinces on the EU2 map seem so strange after playing Victoria, or even Hearts of Iron.

	21-01-2004 09:39									#6
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What I'd most like to see is an AI that accounts for the attrition level of a territory it's sieging. Too many unnecessary losses reduce its performance too much.

It'd be nice if they gave some of the other trade goods a property too. Quantities of spices/china/tea (ie: luxuries) give you a small stability bonus perhaps?
Fur/wool reduces winter attrition, ... etc.

quote: Originally posted by Snotty I think I downloaded one patch, because I was pissed at CTDs, but they still happen. Is this one going to make that better?

As this is a beta patch, probably not. Vanilla 1.07 though has proved rather stable on most machines. The only ctd's I still get occur infrequently when a colonisation attempt fails but that's about it.
If yours is repeatable you probably want to have a look through their support forum.

	22-01-2004 17:54									#7
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this new patch is supposedly way buggier than the last beta due to either the new straits code or new sounds.

	23-01-2004 19:46									#8
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Johan has discovered one of the reasons that the new beta crashed so much, there will probably be a new beta fairly soon.

	24-01-2004 22:32									#9
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Updated beta is up today

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...268#post2451268

	28-01-2004 23:54									#10
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Wow, when I bought this, I expected it to be pretty stable by this point in its release. I have experieinced a few CTD, but only in the very beginning of a game.

Also what is up with the initializing graphics screenie with half the screen flashing black?

	29-01-2004 00:34									#11
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Remember that this is a beta release, and not an official patch per se. As for the initializing screen, I don't know, but I have it too, and it doesn't give any problems, so I'd say don't bother.

	29-01-2004 04:02									#12
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What I meant by the graphics screen, was that is wasn't very professional looking.

	01-02-2004 16:02									#13
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must be something with your graphics card or directX or something, I don't have it on my version.

could maybe alos be some program running in the background.

	01-02-2004 18:00									#14
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All of the Paradox games blink to a black screen every couple of seconds when I have eDonkey or bit torrent running in the background, for some reason.

	01-02-2004 18:22									#15
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I've had the same problem with a message on ICQ

	01-02-2004 23:48									#16
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That's why it's better to turn off almost all background programs when running these games (it also tends to improve stability somewhat ) and not do much ALT-TAB-ing either....

	02-02-2004 05:41									#17
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quote: Originally posted by Spaced Cowboy Also what is up with the initializing graphics screenie with half the screen flashing black?

This sounds a bit like what happens when I load it up too. It didn't do it before I installed XP though so it's almost certainly platform-related.
It isn't necessarily related to background apps either as I never have anything else running.

Havard.

	02-02-2004 18:53									#18
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Lots of work done by Johan & co lately. A new beta was released yesterday!