What is new in Divine Wind?

What's new and what has changed in Divine Wind?

The Far East

Japan divided in four Daimyos vying for control of the Shogunate^[1]
Ming becomes a Celestial Empire with factions struggling for government control. Some actions like trading, colonizing, religious conversion or war declarations are only available with a certain faction in control.^[2]

New building types^[4]
Buildings cost magistrates^[4]
Fort 5 & 6 now give 100% defense^[5]
Trade Range now controls which CoT's you can trade in^[6]
Controlling the trade of Strategic resources will provide bonuses^[6]
Bonus for controlling the majority of the worlds trade and/or production of a trade good^[6]

Ability to call allies into war when needed if you are the war leader^[7]
Possibility of integrating countries you're in personal union with after 50 years^[7]

Each country in the player's Sphere of Influence will now provide increased magistrates and diplomacy skill^[8]
Sphere of Influence cost is scaled by amount of countries in it^[8]
Sphere of Influence range is now the same as your trade range^[8]
Vassals will no longer give military access to a country its master is at war with^[8]
Masters can call on vassals in a war even if they're not the leader
Half of a vassal's support limit will count towards its master's^[8] without subtracting from its own^[9]

Leaving the HRE is no longer a province decision^[7]
When a HRE country inherits another country, the imperial provinces are automatically cored^[10]
New peace option to force the Holy Roman Emperor to revoke the last decision^[8]

Some province decisions becomes buildings^[4] but provinces decisions as a concept stay in the game ^[11]
Sea provinces have increased colonial distance^[10]
New trade winds have been added and altered to make England closer to North America and the Iberian Peninsula closer to South America^[10]

New map and unit textures^[12]
New peace negotiation interface^[13]
Imperial authority and papal influence is now displayed in the main interface^[14]
Army size is now displayed on the map, similar to Victoria 2^[10]
March 4 beta patch adds new map modes, to see fortification levels, province wealth, and other informations to more efficiently administrate your empire

Achievements^[15]^[16]
You will generally receive more magistrates than in HTTT^[10]
Englands missions have been scaled back^[10]
During development, the idea to increase the maximum storable envoys from 5 to 9,^[10] was dropped. 5 remains the maximum in Divine Wind.
The offensive "lose fort of go defensive" events have been changed to lower the defensiveness of a province^[17]
National ideas rebalanced, including boosts for Bureaucracy and Bill of Rights.