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Not to be a little freak but will we have options to depopulate specific cultures?

Whats the deal with this non-standard file type? Has Paradox ever talked about why they created it? Does anyone know when they made this change to the file system?

Edit: I've been trying to save my edited gamestate by figuring out how to recompress it into a .ck3 file. I don't really know how to replicate the header. Its really a shame I didn't back up the original save. The file starts with SAV and then a unique set of metadata bytes and then the plaintext stuff which, it turns out, is for the main menu and the icon next to the save name, and then it has the rest of the save data compressed with the PK header, which means its in the .zip format. I can replicate all this but the save doesn't properly load due to the incorrect metadata in the header I believe.

Video Version of the Dev Diary

(11 minutes long) A mini-documentary with Johan and others in Pdx Tinto retelling how work on the game started. Found it really interesting to watch!

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/63416312

Paradox Interactive has announced that its next grand strategy game is Europa Universalis 5, following a tease posted last week.

Do you think the game will be announced soon?

Started this campaign as an adventurer run where I got a random event to convert to Bahá’í. Took it and spread the religion around before some vassals I converted deposed a Llanero, Aria De Machete king and put my character on the throne.

From there I became head of the faith and built a large empire that later switched over to admin. By the end Bahá’í was the worlds largest religion and we were able to muster larger armies than Brazil.

Sadly I was never to form actual Gran Columbia since its restricted to characters of the Divina Patriota faiths but I did fulfill all the requirements besides that.

Overall one of my favorite campaigns to date. I would highly recommend giving South America a go for future ATE campaigns. I know I will be visiting the region again.

Full dev diary here: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/dev-diary-164-realm-maintenance.1730576/

With adventurers, I have this idea that it would be fun to start as a Roman Hellenistic adventurer and reform the Roman Empire, but I seem to get stuck midways.

I usually travel around and upgrade my camp, adding men at arms as I go along, and then at some point you can use the adventurer CB to invade a region and take over, convert the counties to Roman and Hellenistic.

In a couple of tries I've done this in both Northern Italy and on Sardinia and Corsica, but the issue is... You're so behind in tech that your men at arms can't be upgraded much, and everyone and their mother will start to declare holy wars against you once you reach a certain size.

Got any tips on making it bigger than, say, owning Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily?

The one idea I've had is to join the Byzantines, but then the emperor immediately starts to convert your counties to orthodox...