The game should, as we mentioned earlier, not increase its complexity levels dramatically. This is something all our EU games have managed to achieve, and it is very important that EU4 will have that same feeling. You should feel like you are playing a country in the time period.

When playing a Grand Strategy game it should be about immersion and suspension of disbelief. In all our games we aim to have believable mechanics. So then, what is our goal with Europa Universalis IV? This flexibility has been a great benefit when it comes to designing the game. One such example is the complete removal of the old trade system with centers of trade, which was replaced with a new trade system with dynamic flow of trade. We could rewrite entire systems from scratch, and do some paradigm shifts. So we took a step back and looked at what Europa Universalis was and what we wanted to do, and since its a new game, we had quite a large amount of flexibility. EU has a complexity level we do not want to dramatically increase and while improving the interface can reduce it a fair bit, it is a very fine balance when it comes to designing a game. One important thing though, is that while we had lots of cool and interesting ideas for EU, we simply couldn't just add them all in, as the game would become an unwieldly mass. We've come to understand what Europa Universalis is about for a lot of people, and what it means for ourselves. During those years we've accumulated quite a lot of ideas, and discarded far more. Originally EU1 started development in 1997, EU2 in 2001, EU3 started in 2005, so we were overdue a new take on the genre.

We are a group who love playing Europa Universalis (EU), both in singleplayer and in multiplayer together, so you could definitely say it is the favorite series for the people working on Europa Universalis IV. Well, first of all, the team we are all major fans of this series, with me personally being the core guy behind the original game, back in the late 90's, and the others being involved for quite a lot of time on it. Why are we working on a sequel to Europa Universalis?

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