The tl:dr on the matter is that there has been a lot of performance work put into the 1.24 Japan Update, and we look forward to your feedback on how the game ends up running for you.
That's the bulk of what we have to talk about today, but we are looking to have 1.24 available to you as an early Christmas present, so let's fast forward. We were happy with the release of Cradle of Civilization, 1.23 and subsequent hotfix which tackled some of the more serious issues. Japan will, as all updates do, contain a lengthy assortment of bug fixes. Many thanks to the people who submitted reports through the bug forums to help us catch, reproduce and slaughter these issues. Japan will put to rest some rotters like the trade company merchants issues which we saw reported, as well as many others. Army Mintinance anyone?
Finally, there will be some Balance changes coming along with Japan.
For one, we were discussing the movement speed of an early modern army and comparing it to the overall speed of our units in game. Our in-game armies were moving oddly fast compared to historical estimations and as such, we have reduced the movement speed of units from 1.0 to 0.7, but not without ways of increasing it. For one, a historical strength of the Nomads was there ability to cover great stretches of land quickly and as such have tied faster unit movement speed to those governments. Additionally, Army Drill will increase an army's movement speed by up to 20% at full drill, so a well prepared army will have a much easier time moving into position compared to green units.
Other changes include Interest rates being capped at a minimum of 1.0. It is intended that nations will have to reasonable balance their debts, rather than it being treated as an infinite pool of money when modifiers were stacked heavily. To this end, we have also reduced the strength of many Interest reduction sources, as far more have been added since the launch of EU4 while the Interest and loans system have not.
Finally, a couple changes for Army Professionalism: the Supply Depot, which boosts reinforcement rate and supply limit, will last for 5 years instead of 2. The Reserves Morale Impact is now more effective due to increased daily morale damage and has switched places with the reduced General Costs.
Of course, there are many more fixes and changes along with the Japan update which we will talk about when the time comes. Until then, have a great day, which can be made greater by tuning into the Dev Clash at 1500 CET over at http://www.twitch.tv/paradoxinteractive
That's the bulk of what we have to talk about today, but we are looking to have 1.24 available to you as an early Christmas present, so let's fast forward. We were happy with the release of Cradle of Civilization, 1.23 and subsequent hotfix which tackled some of the more serious issues. Japan will, as all updates do, contain a lengthy assortment of bug fixes. Many thanks to the people who submitted reports through the bug forums to help us catch, reproduce and slaughter these issues. Japan will put to rest some rotters like the trade company merchants issues which we saw reported, as well as many others. Army Mintinance anyone?
Finally, there will be some Balance changes coming along with Japan.
For one, we were discussing the movement speed of an early modern army and comparing it to the overall speed of our units in game. Our in-game armies were moving oddly fast compared to historical estimations and as such, we have reduced the movement speed of units from 1.0 to 0.7, but not without ways of increasing it. For one, a historical strength of the Nomads was there ability to cover great stretches of land quickly and as such have tied faster unit movement speed to those governments. Additionally, Army Drill will increase an army's movement speed by up to 20% at full drill, so a well prepared army will have a much easier time moving into position compared to green units.
Other changes include Interest rates being capped at a minimum of 1.0. It is intended that nations will have to reasonable balance their debts, rather than it being treated as an infinite pool of money when modifiers were stacked heavily. To this end, we have also reduced the strength of many Interest reduction sources, as far more have been added since the launch of EU4 while the Interest and loans system have not.
Finally, a couple changes for Army Professionalism: the Supply Depot, which boosts reinforcement rate and supply limit, will last for 5 years instead of 2. The Reserves Morale Impact is now more effective due to increased daily morale damage and has switched places with the reduced General Costs.
Of course, there are many more fixes and changes along with the Japan update which we will talk about when the time comes. Until then, have a great day, which can be made greater by tuning into the Dev Clash at 1500 CET over at http://www.twitch.tv/paradoxinteractive
