14 DAY TRIAL // El Dorado is designed to expand several aspects of Europa Universalis IV, with a focus on Middle American civilizations and their religions, and the team at the Paradox Development Studio is ready to deliver a first diary linked to the expansion, exploring a new religion, the Treaty of Tordesillas and exploration.
The Nahuatl religion is linked with a number of powers, including the Aztecs, and is based around the belief that the world was set to end and that human sacrifice was needed in order to power the gods and allow them to stop the impending catastrophe.
Europa Universalis IV has a new mechanic called Doom to simulate it and the team states, “All Nahuatl states have a ticking Doom value that increases every year based on the number of provinces they own. High Doom increases technology costs and idea costs and should the value ever reach 100 the Nahuatl state will be forced into taking drastic measures to avert Doomsday. The ruling family will be sacrificed, killing your ruling monarch and heir and replacing them with a 0/0/0 ruler.”
Nahuatl states need to stay away from the Doom by using sacrifices, which can be gained in war from neighbors or can be selected from the royal family, although that can have effects on stability.
Reforms can be executed to move away from the religion, and once a Western power comes close, a successful state can also Westernize and gain 80 percent of its tech.
Exploration continues to be important in Europa Universalis IV
The El Dorado expansion for the grand strategy experience also improves exploration, offering gamers a new mission type for fleets, which allows them to chart coastlines or try to circumnavigate the world automatically, with a range of events associated with the action.
The Treaty of Tordesillas was an important event in real history during which the Pope divided the known world between the Spanish and the Portuguese.
Paradox says, “In the El Dorado expansion, Catholic nations will be able to gain a similar sanction for their colonization by being the first nation to create a colonial nation in a colonial region while having positive relations with the Papal States.”
A nation can get a Papal Grant which speeds up growth by 10 and slows it for all other Catholic nations by 20.
El Dorado for Europa Universalis IV will also include a nation creation tool which will allow gamers to create their own custom states to play as.
