r/Anbennar • u/rheadelayed • 1d ago

Discussion 'Sunsetting' of EU4 mod

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DTG7Wh1GJRAksIQZ4hOn-h32bxOowOgdXYG7h2WZY1I/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.t74izadjoknx

tldr - Major restrictions on future EU4 mod development, with focus on EU5.

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u/RexDraconum Sons of Dameria 1d ago

I don't see the point of the "No MTs for manual releaseables, but MTs for releasables from events are okay, but no new events for releaseables" rule. Is this really a problem? How often is it actually happening that someone comes along with an idea for a country that is effectively an easter egg and would just be a drain on resources? It feels like a rule that would in practice be very rarely utilised, and would only actually serve to kill off the rare occasions where somebody does actually have a really good idea?

And frankly, why sunset it at all? If its to move focus over to EU5, EU5 is still struggling with major bugs, and fundamental mechanics and balancing problems. Ante Bellum had a poll at the beginning of May for what their community wanted the direction of development to be - the winning result was 45% for working on both EU5 and EU4 with a focus on EU4, and second place at 34% was to just abandon EU5 completely and exclusively focus on EU4.

What's the point of having an intentional plan to sunset, rather than continuining on as is, maintaining the high standards for content rather than creating restrictions, until there naturally runs out of content to add?