14 DAY TRIAL // The team at Paradox Development Studio continues to deliver diaries for the upcoming Wealth of Nations expansion for Europa Universalis IV even if lacks a clear launch date at the moment and the most recent one offers details on how the national policies and ideas have been changed.
The policy concept is designed to eliminate those decisions which added and then took away permanent effects from some countries and have evolved into a way for gamers to boost some aspects of their nations for a limited period of time.
The company explains in an official forum announcement that, “each policy is connected to two idea groups. To enact that policy you must adopt all ideas in those two groups. Each policy is also connected to one of the three monarch powers and as long as the policy is enacted it will cost you 1 monarch power each month. We have tried to balance to policies so that they cross over the monarch point categories a bit better to make it more interesting.”
A maximum of 5 policies can be active at one time and they need to run for at least 10 years, which means that gamers need to plan ahead rather than simply react to crisis.
Paradox Development Studio has also tweaked the way modifiers work for land and naval units, the way merchants work in some situations and there is a list of other tweaks that are designed to make the entire Europa Universalis IV experience better.
A lot of Ideas that nations can adopt have also been modified in order to make them more interesting to play as and the studio is listing all the changes in order to make sure that gamers can see how their favorite choices are affected before Wealth of Nations is launched.
The expansion will also introduce the nation of Courland.
Paradox explains, “For a time a very prosperous independent duchy in the baltic that for a time owned colonies in Africa and the West Indies, and managed to remain independant up until 1795 in spite of Swedish king Charles Xs best efforts. Now if you start the game as Riga och Livonia you can for Courland if you first become catholic or protestant, has admin tech 10 and owns Kurland and Semigallia.”
Wealth of Nations for Europa Universalis IV should be out before the end of the month and can only be played on the PC.