Before i show some of the new features and explain how much work is left, i wanna "Announce" the winners of the event vote for everyone that isn't in the discord and already know.
The winners was Partitioned and Culture Union, What they do will be described further down this post but i promise that they are amazing. also the 8 losing events will re appear again in a new event vote together with some new ones for the next update when the development for it has started :3
Also if you got any suggestions or ideas for the game, you can leave it either in the steam community for it or in the games discord server, as i try to look at most things posted for the game to find bugs needing to be fixed or ideas i might not have thought about!
So first of is the main big feature of the update, that the name "the Scenario Update" comes from, a new and improved paint mode
first of, the new PaintMode is completely separated from the normal base game, this is to be able to get rid of some of the technical issues that the old paint mode had such as not having the map update live.
also, this paint mode has 2 new ways to paint. First of those is the 9 different "Brush" Sizes, with the 1st one being the old 1 province at a time brush and the and 9th being a massive Europe ish sized area.
The 2nd way to paint is to paint an entire "Region", or an entire country, culture, city, sub division or whatever the map is currently showing. this will help if you wanna make for example Sweden-Norway, all you need to do is write in the name and then click both countries once. but if you do that you can also now make the game recognize it as an actual union that can split into 2 countries by filling in the "union member tags" for the country.
as you might have seen in the image it also comes with being able to do custom starting year and month and custom event odds and the possibility of changing what map mode you see the game in
as in you can change to only seeing cultures, or sub divisions, or the 3 easter egg values or union members or cities or the confusingly named country and controller, with controller being the existing country at the start of the game and country being the country that can gain independence as the game goes on.
also while i've not started work on it yet, the paint mode will hopefully come with steam workshop support on the updates launch. i've never set up workshop for a game before so i don't know how to set it up and it might lead to workshop coming a bit later than the main update or it being connected in a wonky way at first.
and due to all of this, the saves menu has been split into 3, one for save games, one for scenarios downloaded from the workshop and one for paint mode saves. with all 3 now supporting custom names and from what i know infinite save files, but i wouldn't recommend having millions of saves
And on the same lines as workshop, i also wanna try to add a few achievements for now, roughly one per event and rare event type. with plans to make one per easter egg nation and making their independence menu in the main menu need you to unlock their achievements. but that will be done later on
Next up is, drum roll please. new in game ui, that hopefully won't be confusing
This new ui keeps the auto camera button but moves it to the top left and shortening it to AC, it also adds a new Auto Play button, but space will still work for turning it on, on the top right you can see 2 new buttons, the top one opens up the pause menu where stuff like main menu, exit game and save game has been moved to. and under the pause button there is a leaderboard button.
in the top middle you can see that the event text box has been made bigger since due to the union names and split names, and events like referendum, the old event text box just didn't work and made a lot of events end up taking up 2-4 rows. Also the time box has been moved to be in a 2nd row of the top bar in the middle, the ready/calculating text has been moved to the bottom middle and the rest of the bottom bar as been removed.
and now for the most fun part of the new game in my opinion, the 4 new events and the 4 new secrete events
first of we got the 2 new sub events within the border changes category
First one being Take islands
In this one country takes all or a few island provinces from the closest country with island. they do not need to take the entire island, they might just take a few provinces. right now all landmasses are considered island except the mainland for each continent with Australia being the mainland for oceania. BUT i'm considering removing the island status from some bigger islands such as Borneo, Greenland and Great Britain
And the next one is Take Coast
This one is the exact same as the previous one but this time with coastal provinces instead of island provinces, the game considers all provinces along a ocean (not lake or Caspian sea) as coastal
ok next up is the 2 Event vote winners that both ended up being sub events within the take over category.
culture unions have not been made or started work yet, but the way it will work is that it will force all countries that originates from within the area of a culture unions (for example "Germanic Union" or "Scandinavian union" or "Central American union" to be forced to join it, but i will most likely make the unions have more fun names such as the Kalmar Union. this does mean however that some easter eggs might be removed as there will now be a culture union with that name.
you will also be able to draw your own culture unions in paint mode or turn on all culture unions at starts similar to how cities and cultures is right now.
and lastly the big partition event
This one is really hard to explain, but what i aimed at with this one is to handle the country simIlar to what Austria Hungary experienced after ww1 and Germany after ww2.
so first of, if it's a union the union members will gain independence, but as small as possible with it still seeming fair (most of the time their culture size or their start of game size)
after that, it will look if any existing country got land within the country that belongs to them and gives it to them.
after that it will give up to 15 countries, cultures, cities or sub divisions independence from it.
and after that it will give up to 10 countries above 50 provinces 1 or more provinces within the country, with countries above 200 provinces being prioritized.
and lastly it will then divide all other provinces between the closest other countries, the newly independent countries and the big nations that gained small areas within it.
as you might have noticed, this event is clearly meant for big countries and not small ones. so it can only happen to countries with more than 150 provinces and will hopefully help with stopping some countries taking over half of the world with all other ones still being small.
I really hope your as exited for v11 as i am, right now it looks like the update will be released within 1-2 weeks of this post with the only things left to add being:
workshop connection
achievements menu, pictures for them and code for unlocking them
culture unions + buttons for it in paint mode and main menu independence menu and save data for them
Help menu to explain paint mode, the events and other things that might be needed to explain.
Thanks for for the people who bought the game and all the support ^^ and also here's a small peak at a rare event that you likely will never see in the game that only has a 1 in 1000 chance of happening every time you get the normal version of it
Event Vote
Join the discord to vote on which 2 of these 10 events you want in the game! There will be 2 votes, The first vote will end on Wednesday the 17th and the second will end on Sunday the 21st
Tsunami: makes all coastal provinces within a radius + 1-3 closest non coastal provinces into flooded (Would come with a mega version of the event and ocean province type, which is the same as flooded but never retracts)
Volcano: makes all provinces with a "Volcano" tag be able to erupt (Would make some volcanoes cause mega eruptions for a mega version of the event, and comes with a new possible tag to each province)
Storm: Caused a storm to happen within area in a pattern similar to floods but within the biome and turns it all into Unclaimed (Would come with Biome tag and unclaimed being coloured based on biomes, also the even name will change based on what biome it happens in, Base bioems will be desert, Forrest, Grassland, Tundra, Mountain)
Pandemic: 1-50 Random provinces + 0-3 closest to each is turned into Wasteland (Would come with a mega version of the event and 5-10 Diseases that changes the event slightly
Earthquake: Camera shakes as some provinces in a random area turns into Wasteland in a pattern similar to floods but slightly different (would come with a mega version of the event)
Complete Collapse: Entire country turns into Chunks of Wasteland and Unclaimed
Partitioned: Any land that belongs to a existing country gets given to it, with 1-6 new things gaining independence, a part being given to one of the 5 biggest countries and the rest is of the country is divided based on who is closest, can only happen to a country above 500 provinces in size
Singular Expand: a country expands into only 1 neighbour
Culture/Region Union: Makes all Countries who originates from within a culture group join into 1 union with it's own name (Comes with new culture group province tag)
Integration: gives away a province, culture (that's not the countries main culture) or city away to the closest neighbour
V10.3
New mode "Colonial" Mode, made to work best when some continents are turned unclaimed
Fixed bug where unclaimed colonize event couldn't find a coast to be colonized by if there's a lot of unclaimed coast
Fixed bug where colonized unclimed land could still be claimed by the claiming code when calculating at the end of the event
Re did unclaimd claiming code again.
Made each country get their own "odds of claiming unclaimed land" each round
Made each country get a random ammount of provinces each round they can claim, based on their size
Gave Normal Split event it's own event text "Split in half"
New split prefix
Imperial
Socialist
Revolutionary
Islamic
Christian
Jewish
Hindu
Bhudist
Pagan
Atheist
New
Old
Tsardom of
Sultanate of
Principality of
Commonwealth of
Caliphate of
Holy
Soviet
State of
Realm of
Anarchist
Free
Fascist
Tribal
Satanist
Removed Soviet Republic Split Prefix
Nordic Cities added
Stockholm
Oslo
Copenhagen
Helsinki
Reykjavik
Gothenburg
Malmö
Tampere
Aarhus
Turku
Bergen
Nuuk
Longyearbyen
Baltic cities Added
Riga
Vilnius
Talinn
Kaunas
Tartu
Daugavpils
Central American cities added
Belmopan
San José
Guatemala City
Panama City
San Salvador
Santa Ana
Choloma
Fixed typos
V10.2
Fixed bug where saving a game replaced all empty province tags with a the id of the first province with a empty tag of that type, typically 29 or 77
Changed position of save files for windows and linux to be the same as mac
Re did the unclaimed script
Added a Area2 Tag to provinces, that's only used for split events
Raised claiming unclaimed land odds
V10.1
Fixed bug where Country tag gets replaced with "None" or "Unclaimed" if you use the continent menu
Fixed the typo in United Arab Republics where it said Uniter
Fixed where the Sinai Triangle / Asian Egypt still had UAR Instead of full name
V10
Added one more way to check if a province need to be updated
Added a tag for cities to provinces
Renamed the province "Lagos - Ogun" to "Ogun"
Replaced the steam Advertisement with a advertisement for the discord, patreon and a link to youtube search for earthroyale (with only within the last month turned on)
Added Colapse Unclaimed odds slider in settings
Fixed hurricane invis nation bug
Removed the old time limit of hurricanes, which now lets them play out fully no matter how long it takes :3
Added country On, Off and unclaimed button in the independence menu
Added cities independence slider
Added cities independence values to each mode
Added cities independence chance in revolt and collapse events
Fixed Unclaimed colonization not working
Fixed Colapse odds slider in settings not doing anything
Updated Donets'k and Luhans'k names
Changed Donets'k and Luhans'k cultures to be ukraine instead of their own cultures
Fixed province without province tag in kazakhstan and Iran
Fixed Vienna being a province tag and not city tag
Made nones less laggy
Added the 30 biggest cities in europe
Moscow
Istanbul (on european side Constantinople)
London
Saint Petersburg
Berlin
Madrid
Kyiv
Rome (in both vatican and the province surounding it)
Bucharest
Paris
Minsk
Vienna
Hamburg
Warsaw
Budapest
Belgrade
Barcelona
Munich
Kharkiv
Milan
Sofia
Prague
Kazan
Novgorod
Tbilisi (In game within Asia)
Samara
Birmingham
Rostov-on-Don
Ufa
Cologne
Added the top 40 cities in Asia (not some overlapping ones)
Shanghai
Beijing
Mumbai
Delhi
Karachi
Dhaka
Tokyo
Manila
Guangzhou
Overlaped with Guangzhou, would have been Shenzhen
Zushou
Bangkok
Jakarta
Lahore
Seoul
Hồ Chí Minh
Bengaluru
Overlaped with Guangzhou, would have been Dongguan
Chongqing
Nanjing
Tehran
Shenyang
Hanoi
Hong Kong
Baghdad
Changsha
Wuhan
Tianjin
Hyderabad
Faisalabad
Would have been Foshan but overlaped with Guangzhou
Zunyi
Chittagong
Riyadh
Ahmedabad
Singapore
Would have been Shantou but overlaped with Guangzhou
Ankara
Yangon
Chengdu
Added the top 25 cities in Africa (not some overlapping ones)
Kinshasa
Lagos
Cairo
Giza
Dar es Salaam
Khartoum
Johannesburg
Abidjan
Alexandria
Nairobi
Cape Town
Accra
Yaoundé
Overlaped with Johannesburg, would have been East Rand
Durban
Casablanca
Douala
Pretoria
Ibadan
Kano
Kumasi
Abuja
Kampala
Addis Ababa
Dakar
Added the top 25 cities in North America
Mexico City
New York
Los Angeles
Toronto
Chicago
Houston
Havana
Montreal
Overlaped with Mexico city, would have been Ecatepec de Morelos
Philadelphia
Phoenix
San Antonio
Guadalajara
Puebla
San Diego
Juárez
León
Dallas
Tijuana
Calgary
Tegucigalpa
Would have been Zapopan but overlaped with Guadalajara
Monterrey
Managua
Nezahualcóyotl
Added the top 20 cities in South America
São Paulo
Lima
Bogotá
Rio de Janeiro
Santiago
Caracas
Buenos Aires
Salvador
Brasília
Fortaleza
Guayaquil
Quito
Belo Horizonte
Medellín
Cali
Manaus
Curitiba
Maracaibo
Recife
Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Added the top 10 cities in Oceania
Auckland
Brisbane
Overlaped with Brisbane, would have been Gold Coast
Jayapura
Christchurch
Sydney
Would have been Blacktown but overlaped with sydney
