In Europa Universalis IV, the Protestant religion is improved by Common Sense

Paradox releases Europa Universalis IV’s Common Sense DLC today. Let’s look at their description and see if we can figure out what it has to do with the Thomas Paine tract that encouraged the American Revolution.

Central to Common Sense is the idea of Development your provinces are now more than an all powerful tax number. You can improve your regions based on tax, trade and military power specifically, giving each a focus or strength. Or, you can develop broadly to prevent crushing losses when a center of manpower falls to the enemy. Were also introducing Parliaments, allowing constitutional systems of government new ways to put the power of the peoples representatives to work on behalf of the nation for a price.

There is a host of other changes to the game, including improvements to the Protestant religion, the creation of national churches, karma for Buddhist rulers and much, much more.

I’m sure Thomas Paine would be proud of something in there. Even if you don’t get the DLC, the latest patch changes plenty of stuff. For instance, it reworks how armies move. You can no longer freely charge past forts. They’ll now interrupt the movement of armies, which is what forts should have been doing all along. Now that’s what I call common sense.

Also, fish no longer reduce unrest. They just make it cheaper to persuade people to adopt a new culture. Seafood ain’t what it used to be. The full patch notes are here.