New EU2 Beta

ravagon · January 20, 2004, 00:35

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/...ad.php?t=80424

JCG · January 20, 2004, 14:59

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

Snotty · January 20, 2004, 17:44

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.

St Leo · January 20, 2004, 20:50

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.

General Ludd · January 20, 2004, 22:41

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.

ravagon · January 21, 2004, 00:39

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.

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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.

pg · January 22, 2004, 08:54

this new patch is supposedly way buggier than the last beta due to either the new straits code or new sounds.

adi321 · January 23, 2004, 10:46

Johan has discovered one of the reasons that the new beta crashed so much, there will probably be a new beta fairly soon.

Havard · January 24, 2004, 13:32

Updated beta is up today

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/...68#post2451268

Spaced Cowboy · January 28, 2004, 14:54

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?

Nikolai · January 28, 2004, 15:34

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.

Spaced Cowboy · January 28, 2004, 19:02

What I meant by the graphics screen, was that is wasn't very professional looking.

adi321 · February 1, 2004, 07:02

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.

General Ludd · February 1, 2004, 09:00

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.

adi321 · February 1, 2004, 09:22

I've had the same problem with a message on ICQ

JCG · February 1, 2004, 14:48

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....

ravagon · February 1, 2004, 20:41

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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.

Nikolai · February 2, 2004, 09:53

Lots of work done by Johan & co lately. A new beta was released yesterday!