The developers of EUIV are kinda announcing their new expansion…
And now I just want to become a free city, I can imagine it now:
The Free City of Todayland
yay
[quote]Welcome back to our weekly series of development diaries about Europa
Universalis. This time we’ll talk about four new features that will be
part of the next expansion.
Free Cities of the Holy Roman Empire
Now the Emperor can designate up to seven free cities in the empire. A
free city is a one province minor with a minimum of 10 development.
Free cities provide Imperial Authority* to the emperor, as well as
manpower and income. A Free City also have some rather nice bonuses to
their development.
If a Free City gains another province or leave the HRE. they lose the
free city status. And a Free City is always a type of Republic, so
countries that aren’t a Republic will become one upon accepting Free
City status.
A Free City is always protected by the Emperor if attacked, so be
careful when expanding in the HRE. A Free City can never be the subject
of another nation.
Of course, as the ruler of a OPM**, you can always refuse the offer of
becoming a free city, and the emperor can spend some Imperial Authority
to revoke a cities rights.
Remove Electorate
The next expansion lets you get even more control over your electors.
If your religion is now official in the Empire, you can now spend IA(Imperial Authority) to
remove the Electorate status of your disloyal Electors***.
Pause Westernisation****
Sometimes while you are westernising, you end up where you need to use
your power for something else, like boosting stability, but currently
you can’t. Now we have added the option to pause westernisation.
You’ll still get the unrest from westernising, but there will be no
events spawning while westernisation is paused. Most importantly though
is the fact that your power is accumulating again instead of
contributing to the westernisation process.
Retire Advisor
Have you ever sat there with a lot of money, but cursing the options you
for advisors. In the next expansion, you can now spend the amount of
money it would cost to hire an advisor, and permanently retire him.
Within a month, if there is available space in your pool of advisors,
you will get a random new one in the same category. Maybe you get the
+discipline one you wanted…
Next week we’ll focus on Luther and Buddha.[/quote]
*Used to pass Imperial Reforms, for a more detailed definition go here: http://www.eu4wiki.com/Holy_Roman_Empire#Imperial_authority
**One Province Minor, a province-state(city-state)
***The countries who vote for the next Holy Roman Emperor, for a more detailed definition go here: http://www.eu4wiki.com/Holy_Roman_Empire#Electors
****This is a process to gain the Western tech, for a more detailed definition go here: http://www.eu4wiki.com/Westernization
Sources:
http://www.eu4wiki.com
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com