Dev Diary 2019-01-23

Welcome to the second of two dev diaries for 3.8.6 scheduled for release on January 25th and available now on early access to our supporters. Today we talk about some missions in the Low Countries and some general other miscellaneous things.

Brabant & Holland Missions
A small branch each with the goal of driving them towards the formation of the Netherlands; they now form the Netherlands only via the mission but other nations in the region still have access to the decision until their own missions come around. Unlike the Irish minors from last week, unique rather than generic missions is the way we'll go for this region as the different polities have widely disparate immediate concerns. Holland, for example, needs to break free of Hainut first where Brabant is more concerned with linking up her disconnected province in Limburg.



The Netherlands tree from vanilla was rearranged and got 8 missions mostly to do with her historical colonies (both the failed and successful ones) and the Anglo-Dutch wars.



That last mission is for dominating trade in the Straits of Johor but even my big monitor couldn't quite catch it.

Government Reforms (Dharma DLC)
For those that have the DLC, I'm sure you'll agree those reforms giving you bonus states weren't particularly attractive in a system with the base state limit at 250 so most of those were replaced with reductions to state maintenance instead. Additionally I went through tweaking some that simply didn't have the appeal compared to their alternatives and bumped up the base requirement cost for reforms once again to try spreading them across our timeline a bit better.

Adjustments and Fixes

 * Adjusted colonial growth down across the board
 * Fixed an issue where a couple provinces in South India weren't in the trade company
 * Fixed an issue where the inheritance of a great-grandchild would cause problems when new characters were generated

That's all for today; Friday's release will also include some bug fixes pushed in from 3.8.7 but can't be 100% certain what those are until the release is built.