Addendum: Someone else asked about whether you can switch focus or ever research the things in the focus' you didn't pick and Johan responded with; "You pick one, and the ones you don't pick, you don't get ever. In the next age you have a choice of another 10 from another pool of 30."

5:00 I think he meant the institutions like Printing Press and Feudalism and Renaissance, not the estates.

"..will replace the Technology Levels and National Ideas of EU4..." wonder what game we're talking about here. Can't possibly be EU5 🤔

Isn't innovativeness green already?

Johan said you cant change the focus but they are only a small drop in the bucket of Advances. So you have to choose but they are only 10 of the 100 total advances in an Age.

What I think is quite cool is what johan mentioned in the comments that trees orders are partially random, should add an interesting bit of chaos to the system

It is exactly what I want for research in EU5. A mix of Civ/imperator/Victoria/HOI tech trees, but just heavily expanded. Put on top expanded national ideas compared to EU4 is so nice.

What I want is that whatever focus you pick unlocks those techs during that age, but the other two are unlocked later on during the next age. This still puts you at a disadvantage in your unchosen focuses but doesn't permanently lock you out from them. It feels a bit silly to permanently lock techs that seem important and relevant just because you didn't focus on them during that time. Edit: Nevermind I take this back, it seems the technologies locked behind are more minor than what I thought, being more like idea groups than important technologies that change how you play. This is perfectly fine, I can handle missing modifiers I just didn't want to miss game changing technologies.

It's quite literally what i thought it would be A mixture of vic2 (even being able to save 1 year worth of research) and imperator with institutions opening special tech trees and national ideas being in the tech makes sense and ideas groups being in the age focus too!

I like it a lot on the outlay! Eager to see more of Project Caesar

This new system is looking interesting

I haven't played eu4 in a while and one of the main reasons i stopped playing was that i felt the game felt less and less like a sandbox and more controlled in how you played. I loved doing wacky things with my countries like go colonial for Prussia or focusing on being a continental power with Spain. I feel the n current mission tree system kinda forces you to play one way because otherwise you will be missing out on huge bonuses. This new tech tree system is fantastic. I can build my nation however i want and if i want to take my nation into a different direction, I can. This opens the door to so many new builds and directions any nation can go down and i love it. Keep up the good work.

Very sad that the narrative structure of NIs is completely gone. It was a very good way for modders to give insight and a feel for a country, and an easy place to start work on what sets a tag apart. Most of that content in something like Anbennar won't survive this transition into "research utility". Both its brevity and the scope of what makes sense now.

Oh my, I should have watched this before leaving my comment on the other video. Confirming landless tags has increased my interest substantially. Revolutionary.

I love this system, especially with regards to how research is generated. I imagine that power of liturgical language probably refers to the prominence of your culture or tag's court language, whether Latin, Chinese, Arabic, or something else, and how prominent it is. It's a very cool mechanic, and I look forward to runs to foster my tag's liturgical language throughout the world. I'm also beyond happy that you can put research on autopilot-on many runs, I just want to keep up to speed on tech and not worry about it.

It is truly astonishing how they were able to remix some of the concepts in previous (definitely unrelated) games like EU4. National focus used to be a button that gave you a +3 point swing? Not anymore! National focus actually allows you to shape your country in a direction, which is so cool!

5:00 I think you're mixing up institutions and estates here.

Unique national technologies are an interesting concept maybe they could end up as a permanent buff as well

If unlanded countries are a thing, PLEASE tell me we can play as a Pirate Kingdom…

I am liking what I'm seeing here! Tons of potential!

19:00 It's also that when you build up a currency that you can spend on an instant bonus. Instead of having to make a chocie first and then that taking time to complete.

Wasn’t the song at 14:40 from Escape from L.A., when Snake surfes next to the cgi shark?

The tabs at the top of the Advances screen are in my opinion in order: Government, economy/taxes, [no clue, maybe society/culture], diplomacy, military, religion, and (obviously) advances.

I agree 100%. This is not mana. Mana are some out-of-the-blue points you freely get and spend. Here you get research in accordance to your game choices. Your choices on society and religion will determine how much research you get. Off course it's abstract, and I'm sure someone will find a way to break it, and to abuse the system. But I trust Paradox will close those loopholes, and will bring back the link between real game choices and the research you generate.

Keep research green. The need for the color blue is just a knee jerk

Will be fair to say that if he added some hybrid focus, like adm+mil with 5 of each, and that being full randomized will be good to

12:00: I do agree that it makes it seem very likely, but devil's advocate; AI needs tech tree as well, so might just be techs that landless AI countries (don't) get

A thing I overlooked until my third read was the collecting taxes is locked behind an advance. So before this, if you're tribal perhaps, can you not collect taxes? That's insanely cool

It says a new starting point per institution, not per estate

12:20 Fugger banking dynasty go brrrrrrr

How about some form of order in your videos ? time stamps perhapse ?

10:45 It's one of the big weaknesses of the crusader kings series, not enough unique content for... well there are no tags but, holders of certain titles I guess.

Only thing i am not happy about it the connection to ages. And what seems to be a hard looking choice at its start. People will feel forced to pick the focus that have the key meta advancements. And after getting the must have advancements they will be stuck with that focus for the entire age? If eu4 is anything to go by then thats a LONG time.

i think i would have to play to really get my head around it from what i understood the ideas and national ideas are something you research and those what ever the it gives you you keep for the reast of the game

I am all for the new advances system

11:00 As far as I know in German and Polish o is pronounced like the O in the name Oscar.

Generally I really like this a lot

I have very strong Civilization (especially Civilization 6) vibes from advances system.

In theory you could become a technocratic monarchy/republic/theocracy starting as a tribe, but the fact that early research is less expensive means that if you play as a tribe in the Americas you could potentially be in a position to surpass the technology of Europe if you play carefully

exploration next week yay. Hope they nail that and also the combat. I dont want no whack a mole simulator again, or genocide simulator slog fest for late game. They need to do something new with combat. I would suggest them to get ideas and depth of combat/army customisation like in HOI. That would be amazing.

Landless tags is dumb except in a few specific cases, natives, the pope without Rome, or pirates. I can’t think of one example other than the above of a nation without land during this period, maybe starting as a rebellion or playing one like in the war of the roses? Dunno, but landless tags don’t work like landless characters in crusader kings imo, there aren’t really any tags that need it, and honestly pirates owning a port or natives migrating worked better in eu4, can’t see how it’ll work so I guess I can’t be sure

i like "imperator like" tech tree, i just dont like that you cant speed up inventions speed (kinda create advanced country)

>>> what will replace the Technology Levels and National Ideas of EU4 Hmm wonder if PC part of a different franchise….

Engagement

Outer Heaven mod when?

I confess I'm *really* not a fan of the idea of the 'focus' being FIXED for a century at a time. Another specific dislike is the 'can't research a tech from a different tree EVER' idea. Between the two this becomes, for me, *a problem*. Otherwise, I could manage to summon up some mild enthusiasm for this Tinto Talk.

Dudes? Wait, did you just assume my gender?

OPMs? Too easy. I only play 0PMs that way I don’t world conquest by 1500

I feel like the whole focus thing should just be scrapped entirely. You aren't going to finish the entire tech tree before the end of the game anyway. so you're always going to have a sort of opportunity cost of choosing one tech over another. The focus system seems arbitrary, and I honestly don't see what it adds to the experience. I suspect they're trying to achieve a similar thing to eu4. where focusing mil to get crucial techs before other nations penalises you in regards to other techs. The problem is that they've already achieved this by moving towards research points anyway. If I spend my points on a mil tech, then I delay the research of other technologies. Which leaves the question, what's the point of the focus system?

3:00 Well I don't like tech trees. Best tech system to date is Stellaris with random techs drawn from a deck,

well EU4s was really bad so...

This reminds me of HoI4 focus trees. It's arguably a big reason for the game's success, as it allows content designers to build appealing narrative trees, bespoke for each country, fulfilling player fantasies and exploring alt-history, creating interesting player choices, a wide variety of game effects, mini-games and missions. What makes them powerful in HoI4 though is that the time frame is short enough that the narratives etc. of the trees will generally apply to whatever has happened in the game. In Caesar, I will be interested to see what they will do to avoid making trees feel too generic and divorces from both the real history of the country you're playing and its in-game history.

Another thing that makes Mana problematic is that it accumulates, as opposed to e.g. Capacities in Vicky3. The research points are not accumulated, but instead paid into whatever research you are currently doing.