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Hello and Welcome to another development diary for Europa Universalis IV. As it is another one written by me, it might be a bit shorter than you’d like, but I hope the information is interesting enough.
One of the things we wanted to focus on with Leviathan was to strengthen the ability to play “tall”,or in other words, how to become more powerful without necessarily expanding all the time. We talked in an earlier diary about the first of three new features regarding playing tall, Expand Infrastructure, which allowed you to stack multiple manufactories in the same province.
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Today we’ll be talking about the second of the ‘play tall’ features for Leviathan, as we delve into Concentrate Development.
Concentrate Development is an interaction that is done to either one of your territories or to one of your subjects states or territories.
This will reduce the development in that area by an amount comparable to a horde razing it, and then that development will be distributed to your country.
Fifty percent of that development will be going directly to your capital, while thirty percent will be distributed randomly among stated provinces, while the final twenty percent is lost.
There is a cooldown of 50 years for how often you can do this in an area.
Doing this to one of your subjects will upset them and also increase their liberty desire, so be careful.
There are also two government reforms that makes this loss less painful, as it removes the twenty percent lost, and instead adds that development to the capital.
- The Mandala Reform, available to the chinese techgroup and either dharmic, eastern or muslim religions.
- Siamese Absolutism - which is given from some missions.
Speaking of the Mandala Reform, it's a first tier reform, that besides giving you free development concentration also grants the following.
- +15% Vassal Income
- +1 Vassal Force Limit Bonus
- -33% Governing Capacity
Connected to this, is a new peace treaty called Pillage Capital!
As sometimes you want to grow your power, and weaken your enemy, but you do not want to take on more territory. In that case, just use the new “Pillage Capital”(™) peace treaty, which will concentrate development on their capital state, benefiting you!
Stay tuned for next week, when we will talk more about playing tall, and maybe something about canals.