Dev Diary 2019-02-01

Welcome to the first dev diary for 3.8.7, in early access now and due out February 8th. Today we look at some European missions, changes to colony range, and changes to stability.

Coring Range
The early benefit from coring range before exploration ideas become available have all been truncated to level 0; this will address most of the issues in the early game where it can be difficult simply to demand provinces across the Mediterranean.



France Missions
France's mission tree was significantly expanded in terms of colonial missions with an additional ten missions brining their total to 24



Sweden Missions
Sweden got a net gain of ten missions for a total of 18; the head of the tree (not shown) is the familiar mission to end the succession crisis Sweden finds itself in prior to 1314 after which one can embark on Swedish expansion in the Baltic and local/overseas colonization missions.



Stability
The stability calculations had two big changes the first being the treatment of state/core provinces; the stability system was still thinking of things in the old way and looking at states as being more important for stability than territories. In a system where everything was supposed to be a state as soon as it's conquered, this could result in some severe stability penalties. Calculations that previously considered states as important now only consider CORE provinces. The second big change was the factoring in of devastation. Devastation reducing stability seems like a natural idea, but thus far hadn't factored into VeF's system. We calculate the total percentage of your realm that is devastated; this is based on the percentage of each province being considered relative to the provinces development. For example, in a nation with 100 development, a 10-development province with 10% devastation is considered 1% of the realm being devastated. Stability growth is reduced by the % of the realm devastated; if you have a net negative stability drop for the month it is increased by the % of devastation.