What changed in Europa Universalis IV in 2014

Peasants' War can now only happen once per country.

Fixed a bug where allies would not be called to a defensive war if the nation being attacked was already participating in an offensive war.

Fixed a bug where events war_of_the_roses.2 and war_of_the_roses.3 would affect neighbouring provinces not owned by England.

Fixed a bug where events war_of_the_roses.2 and war_of_the_roses.3 would affect neighbouring provinces not owned by England.

The Holy Roman Empire will no longer be disbanded when the Protestant League wins the war.

Fixed a bug with disappearing cores in overseas provinces and colonial nations.

Civil War can now only happen once per country.

The Holy Roman Empire will no longer be disbanded when the Protestant League wins the war.

Claim now correctly gives -25% coring cost and overseas provinces -50%, instead of the other way around.

Fixed a bug with disappearing cores in overseas provinces and colonial nations.

Claim now correctly gives -25% coring cost and overseas provinces -50%, instead of the other way around.

Civil War can now only happen once per country.

Peasants' War can now only happen once per country.

Buryatia is no longer stuck with nomad units forever.

Buryatia is no longer stuck with nomad units forever.

Fixed a bug where allies would not be called to a defensive war if the nation being attacked was already participating in an offensive war.

Claim now correctly gives -25% coring cost and overseas provinces -50%, instead of the other way around.

Claim now correctly gives -25% coring cost and overseas provinces -50%, instead of the other way around.

Buryatia is no longer stuck with nomad units forever.

Fixed a bug with disappearing cores in overseas provinces and colonial nations.

Buryatia is no longer stuck with nomad units forever.

Fixed a bug where events war_of_the_roses.2 and war_of_the_roses.3 would affect neighbouring provinces not owned by England.

Fixed a bug with disappearing cores in overseas provinces and colonial nations.

Civil War can now only happen once per country.

Civil War can now only happen once per country. Peasants' War can now only happen once per country.

Peasants' War can now only happen once per country.

Fixed a bug where events war_of_the_roses.2 and war_of_the_roses.3 would affect neighbouring provinces not owned by England.

As Scotland, have France as a vassal.

Form the nation of Croatia and station a unit of cavalry in Stockholm.

Conquer all three Georgias.

Conquer all three Georgias.

As a Maghrebi nation, have 500 light ships privateering at the same time.

Conquer all of Germany as Nagaur.

Own 1001 provinces directly.

Start as Bengal, own Samarkand as a core province.

As Scotland, have France as a vassal.

Guarantee the Independence of France, Ottoman Empire & Russia, requiring you to be more powerful than them.

Guarantee the Independence of France, Ottoman Empire & Russia, requiring you to be more powerful than them.

Start as Ethiopia, own Alexandria, Antioch & Constantinople.

As The Papacy, own Jerusalem and have Livonian Order, Teutonic Order and The Knights as Marches.

Form Kingdom of Jerusalem as Cyprus or Knights.

Form the nation of Malaya.

As Theodoro, own all Germanic culture provinces in Europe.

Form Romania and conquer all of the Balkans.

As Ming, have a subject from each religion group.

As Albania, conquer Iberia and Caucasus.

Start as Bengal, own Samarkand as a core province.

As a Maghrebi nation, have 500 light ships privateering at the same time.

Own 99 provinces as Switzerland, with no ports.

As Albania, conquer Iberia and Caucasus.

Form Hindustan and own Cape, London, Hongkong and Ottawa.

Form the nation of Croatia and station a unit of cavalry in Stockholm.

As Sweden, lead the Protestant League to victory against the Emperor.

As Sweden, lead the Protestant League to victory against the Emperor.

As Theodoro, own all Germanic culture provinces in Europe.

Own 99 provinces as Switzerland, with no ports.

As Ming, have a subject from each religion group.

Form Hindustan and own Cape, London, Hongkong and Ottawa.

Conquer all of Germany as Nagaur.

Own 1001 provinces directly.

Form the nation of Malaya.

A total of 15 new achievements have been introduced in the game.

Start as Ethiopia, own Alexandria, Antioch & Constantinople.

A total of 15 new achievements have been introduced in the game.

Start as Orissa, own all tropical wood provinces.

As The Papacy, own Jerusalem and have Livonian Order, Teutonic Order and The Knights as Marches.

Form Romania and conquer all of the Balkans.

Form Kingdom of Jerusalem as Cyprus or Knights.

Start as Orissa, own all tropical wood provinces.

Memory optimizations, should be about 100mb less now.

Fixed an issue where certain GUI elements could cause major performance slowdown.

Fixed bug where supported_version wasn't saved when uploading a mod to the steam workshop.

Fixed crash when recalling merchants from end nodes.

Should be about 100mb less memory usage now.

Fixed a performance issue caused by AI trying to use certain AoW features when Art of War was not enabled.

Fixed a bug where 'kill' console command was available in ironman.

Fixed naval supply range not being updated when coring a province.

Naval battles once again contribute warscore to wars.

Fixed bug where supported_version wasn't saved when uploading a mod to the steam workshop.

Attacking natives now works correctly in new provinces added in 1.8.

Fixed a bug where you couldn't decrease the amount of light ship in army builder if you didn’t have access to heavy ships yet.

Fixed a bug where forming a nation could cause you to lose cores on provinces you had previously gained as cores from other decisions.

Fixed a bug where you couldn't decrease the amount of light ship in army builder if you didn’t have access to heavy ships yet.

Fixed OOS related to Papacy.

Fixed a multiplayer crash caused by host and players differing in whether Art of War was enabled.

Fixed a bug where forming a nation could cause you to lose cores on provinces gained from other decisions.

Fixed problem with saving large saves, addressing Ironman save problems.

Fixed an OOS related to automated fleet transport.

Fixed a bug where papal actions would not work correctly for non-monarchies.

Compressed autosaves is now turned off by default.

Fixed checksum not calculated correctly for very large save files.

Fixed crash sometimes occurring at start of independence wars.

Marches can no longer pick rivals or be rivaled.

Patriots will no longer spawn in nations that would be friendly to them.

Fixed 'distant borders' penalty bug after creating a new country and changing your country tag.

AI is much less willing to end a war if they are fully occupying the enemy warleader and 5 years have not passed.

You no longer lose all cardinals as soon as you get 8 cardinals.

Egypt can no longer be formed by Arabia.

Fixed an exploit where you could add multiple idea groups at the same time.

Celestial Empire and Hordes can no longer get the Peasants' War event.

AI is now much less willing to end a war if they are fully occupying the enemy warleader and 5 years have not passed.

Fixed a performance issue caused by AI trying to use certain AoW features when Art of War was not enabled.

Fixed OOS related to building all mercenaries.

The latest expansion, Art of War, is now live and available for purchase.

The latest expansion, Art of War, is now live and available for purchase.

The Art of War expansion for Europa Universalis IV will be released on October 30, 2014.

The Art of War expansion for Europa Universalis IV will be released on October 30, 2014.

This occurs if there are no higher priority targets.

This was done to debug broken mods.

Made debug memory info in CEU4Application::LoadDatabases available to modders.

Added g_bDebug which is now set like any other command line argument.

Issue occurred while no country was selected.

Fixed issue where AI would refuse to make peace despite being offered all of its demands.

This occurs when the Struggle for Royal Power ends.

This occurred when there was no financial need to replace them with regular troops.

Revoltrisk increase on revoltsize scaled back to 20% of previous value.

It's now possible to finish integrating a union partner.

Enforcing Unions now give 50% of former AE.

BorderDistance is now decreasing AE about 25% per step.

Minimum Revolt Risk from nationalism is now 20% of the Revolt Risk given.

Harsh Treatment now lasts 15 years instead of 10 years.

Aggressive Expansion now decays 100% faster.

Fixed a glitch that made it impossible to convert to Sikh religion.

AE when force vassalising multiple vassals in the same war is no longer exponential.

Revoltrisk increase on revoltsize scaled back to 20% of previous value.

AE when force vassalising multiple vassals in the same war is no longer exponential.

Harsh Treatment now lasts 15 years instead of 10 years.

It's now possible to finish integrating a union partner.

Enforcing Unions now give 50% of former AE.

BorderDistance is now decreasing AE about 25% per step.

Aggressive Expansion now decays 100% faster.

Fixed the problem where some users got access to WoN without having bought it.

Minimum Revolt Risk from nationalism is now 20% of the Revolt Risk given.

Budgetview no longer thinks you get more from vassals than you do.

Fixed the problem where some users got access to WoN without having bought it.

Budgetview no longer thinks you get more from vassals than you do.

Fixed a glitch that made it impossible to convert to Sikh religion.

Your main trade collection point is now your Main Trading Port instead of your capital.

Now possible to Request Trade Power from another nation.

Added new siege strip + assault and breach overlays for Native Americans.

Now possible to change role of trader without travel time.

Modifiers such as Estuary now shown on map in Trade Mapmode.

Now possible to form Trade Companies by assigning provinces to the Trade Company.

Now possible to build the Kiel Canal, the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal.

Updated look of Macro Build Interface with new functionalities.

Now possible to build the Kiel Canal, the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal.

Implemented the 'Fervor' feature for reformed religion with bonuses.

Added several new events for Native Americans.

Countries now pick rivals from a list of nearby nations, unlocking the Power Projection system.

New Policy Interface under Missions and Decisions Tab with bonuses.

Implemented the 'Fervor' feature for reformed religion with monthly points and bonuses.

Now possible to form the nations Egypt, Bukhara, and Courland.

Your main trade collection point is now your Main Trading Port instead of your capital.

A trade conflict can be justified against another nation with specific trade power conditions.

Now possible to form Trade Companies by assigning provinces to the Trade Company.

Hindu rulers can now select their own personal diety out of 6 possible.

Now possible to enforce Military Access and Fleet Basing Rights.

You can now send Light Ships on privateering missions to trade nodes.

Several trade nodes designated as inland trading nodes for direct power.

Now possible to Request Trade Power from another nation.

Merchant republics now give a bonus to Goods Produced in provinces they do not own.

Hindu rulers can now select their own personal diety out of 6 possible.

Now possible to change role of trader without travel time.

You can now send Light Ships on privateering missions to trade nodes.

New country-wide bonus that reduces the impact of province base tax on overextension.

New ship models for Great Frigate, War Galley, Galiot, Brig and Trabakul.

Updated look of Macro Build Interface with new functionalities.

Now possible to enforce Military Access and Fleet Basing Rights.

Added the religions Coptic and Ibadi Sikh.

Modifiers such as Estuary now shown on map in Trade Mapmode.

Now possible to easily detach obsolete ships with one button.

Now possible to easily detach obsolete ships with one button.

Coptic and Ibadi introduced from the start, Sikh will appear later.

Names can now be scripted to be unique for province owner, culture, or culture group.

Added new siege strip + assault and breach overlays for Native Americans.

New Policy Interface under Missions and Decisions Tab with several new policies.

Given by Justify Trade Conflict with ticking warscore from blockades.

Now possible to form the nations Egypt, Bukhara, and Courland.

Several trade nodes designated as inland trading nodes for direct power gain.

New ship models for Great Frigate, War Galley, Galiot, Brig and Trabakul.

Added several new events for Native Americans.

A trade conflict can be justified against another nation with specific trade power conditions.

Merchant republics now give a bonus to Goods Produced in provinces they do not own.

Names can now be scripted to be unique for province owner, culture, or culture group.

Countries now pick rivals from a list of nearby nations, unlocking Power Projection system.

New country-wide bonus that reduces the impact of province base tax on overextension.

Replacing War Subsidies with Subsidies that can be used at any time, for longer durations of time.

Enabled modding in unit_type on ships.

East India Traderoute triggered modifier is now available for americans and africans, and is no longer limited by <30% mercantilism. Effect is now +5% trade income.

You can now collect trade in any node, though it's not advisable without fleet bases.

You can now collect trade in any node, though it's not advised where you don't have fleet bases.

Greatly improved naval invasion AI.

Fixed the infamous 26-player lobby crash.

Enabled modding in unit_type on ships.

If a player in MP is at war, a war-icon will be shown at that player's name in the outliner.

East India Traderoute triggered modifier is now available for americans and africans, and is no longer limited by <30% mercantilism. Effect is now +5% trade income.

Vassalize missions now give a cb for 25 instead of 10 years and abort on the cb expiring.

If a player in MP is at war, a war-icon will be shown at that player's name in the outliner.

Can no longer get the same mission twice.

Added DLC-icons to the frontend like the ones in CK2.

Annexing or integrating another country now makes you take over all their dependencies as well.

Annexing or integrating another country now makes you take over all their dependencies as well.

Replacing War Subsidies with Subsidies that can be used at any time, for longer durations of time.

Exported DAYS_PER_PHASE, DAYS_PER_SIEGE_PHASE and COMBAT_DICE_SIDE to defines.

Greatly improved AI for returning home when in exile.

Vassalize missions now give a cb for 25 instead of 10 years and abort on the cb expiring.

Navies retreating now pick closest port with naval distance, not the shortest how birds fly.

Can no longer get the same mission twice.

Greatly improved AI for returning home when in exile.

Added a checkbox to decisions to set whether or not you want to be notified about the decision being available to take.

Fixed the infamous 26-player lobby crash.

Added a checkbox to decisions to set whether or not you want to be notified about the decision being available to take.

Navies retreating now pick closest port with naval distance, not the shortest how birds fly.

Greatly improved naval invasion AI.

Added DLC-icons to the frontend like the ones in CK2.