Rakaly Status Report #6: Maps!
EU4 is just a fancy map simulator and any EU4 site without maps would be incomplete. I’m excited to announce that Rakaly now features maps!
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Rakaly Status Report #5
Let’s start with the eye candy. I posted this a couple weeks back on the discord but I want to highlight it again, as I feel like some may have missed it: a racing bar chart where one can see how nation sizes changed through the playthrough.
Calculating EU4 Province Terrain
One of the many EU4 achievements left to implement on the leaderboard is Eat your Greens where one needs to control all grassland provinces in Asia. While the terrain of a province is an easy concept to grasp, it’s surprisingly difficult to calculate.
A Tour of PDS Clausewitz Syntax
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Paradox Development Studio (PDS) develops a game engine called Clausewitz that consumes and produces files in a proprietary format. This format is undocumented. I decided it would be worthwhile for myself as well as future developers interested in writing parsers to not only know the basics of this format but also the edge cases that I’ve encountered along the way.
Rakaly Status Report #4: Imperator, APIs, and Moving
It’s been a few weeks since the last update, and in that time frame I’ve moved to a new city. Moving a household can be time consuming so I took about a week vacation from programming, but I was also able to sneak in a few tidbits:
- Foundations laid for a user savefile query API
- Improved the range of game files rakaly supports
- Imperator parser