The third HRE reform (Absolute Reichtsstabilität) is supposed to give you casus belli against any state bordering the HRE, but I cannot select it as an option because it is not available in the Declare War diplomacy window.
At first I thought it was because the country I wanted to target had too much development (Ragusa had swallowed all of its Baltic neighbors), so I attacked and subdivided it into small bites. But even after waiting a decade in-game for the truce to expire I still have no CB for adding them to the Empire.
Help?
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This made me oddly happy

This is my second post of the day, apologies if it’s annoying. I’m having a malfunction with my 20 inch Huion Pro tablet. Only when my pen is plugged into my Mabook port, it’s zooming in and out on its own. Very frustrating. I have a video attached. If you look at the top, you will see my menu bar is actually triggering along with the glitching. It’s as if I am manually zooming in and out using my photoshop menu bar. Does anyone have any advice or clue what it could be?

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Dear Fighter Pilots, Partners and Friends,
We are excited to launch the Sinai map with a 20% early access discount. This stunning new terrain for DCS is of huge historical importance and offers an incredibly diverse and challenging battlefield for you to explore and dominate. Watch the video!
The DCS: Sinai map spans from Egypt to southern Israel. It is a strategic location, rich in resources, nature, religion and history. This huge map includes all highly detailed airports, military airbases, towns, cities, deserts, fertile farm lands, oases and coastlines. The Suez Canal waterway connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea and provides a shorter route between Europe and Asia. This significant trade route is of immense economic value and regional security and stability are essential for global business. 18’000 plus vessels transit through the canal per annum and with a value in excess of 3 trillion USD or 12% of global trade, it is fair to say that Sinai is a big deal. Enjoy!
Please check out the first part of our Radar White Paper. This first paper discusses our work on F/A-18C radar enhancements and how radar detection range is simulated based on several factors.
Next week, the vast majority of our staff will be on a global team offsite and therefore support and updates may be somewhat less active. We apologise for this and thank you for your understanding.
Thank you for your passion and support.
Yours sincerely,
Eagle Dynamics

Sinai - Early Access

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This new map territory includes the entire Sinai Peninsula, eastern Egypt, the Nile Delta, southern Israel, western Jordan and Saudi Arabia. It also includes the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The total size of the map is 1500 x 1000 km, and the detailed section is 700 x 700 km. This is the first phase of this map and later phases will add additional detail, airfields, and other map content.
In modern times, it is associated with the Arab-Israeli wars, during which it repeatedly became the subject of disputes. This includes the Suez Crisis of 1956, the Six Day War of 1967, and the Yom Kippur War of 1973. We truly hope you enjoy this fantastic addition.
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The map contains many military bases and strategic seaports, emplacements for air defense systems, and helipads. This will allow you to create interesting missions in both the air and on the ground. A large number of military facilities and bases will help to reenact the Arab-Israeli wars, as well as modern missions and campaigns based on fictional scenarios.
Key Features:

• 20 Egyptian airfields and 9 Israeli airfields. Airfields are accurately modeled and include lighting, approach lights, PAPI, TACAN, and VOR systems.
• City lighting using Eagle Dynamics Graphics Engine (EDGE).
• Major cities like Cairo, Ismail, Alexandria, Suez, Port Said, and Tel Aviv.
• Close to 100 unique objects; airfield facilities and monuments including the famous Giza pyramids. All objects and assets are divided into territories.
• The coastline of the Suez Canal, the Gulf of Suez, and the Gulf of Aqaba
• Implementation of new procedural generation technology of land textures and normal map textures for mountains.
• Improved height maps that result in an accurate surface mesh.
• Unique tree models.

Early Access

DCS: Sinai map

Available in Early Access for only $39.99
We believe that the DCS: Sinai map will enhance your gameplay experience and attract new pilots to the world of DCS. Whether you are an experienced flight simmer or a newcomer, the DCS: Sinai map offers endless opportunities for thrilling missions and challenges.

Radar - White Paper

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The F-16C and F/A-18C radars are undergoing significant refactoring to provide a more accurate and realistic accounting of their detection capabilities. This includes a wide array of real-world factors that were previously unaccounted for. This first Radar White Paper discusses our modeling logic of the F/A-18C radar. A later Radar White Paper will discuss the F-16C radar and how we calculate its detection capabilities. Please read the in depth Radar White Paper.
Thank you again for your passion and support,
Yours sincerely,
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Justin Parker, the founder of Golden Valley, leaves a Port Moresby prison on bail in 2016. Despite his conviction for manslaughter, he retains full ownership of the company. Below: A family pans for gold together in PNG. PHOTOS: LOOP, SHAWN BLORE, Small-scale gold mining provides much-needed income for families in Papua New Guinea, above; Perth Mint chief executive Richard Hayes, below, and chairman Sam Walsh, bottom left. PHOTOS: COLIN MURTY, BLOOMBERG
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The Perth Mint, owned by the West Australian government, is buying up to $200 million of ‘‘conflict gold’’ annually from a convicted killer in Papua New Guinea, a breach of its global accreditation and internal policies. An investigation by The Australian Financial Review can reveal the historic Mint has repeatedly ignored staff concerns around purchases from smallscale gold miners in PNG, a practice heavily criticised for using child labour, degrading the environment through the use of mercury, and promoting conflict.
Chaired by former Rio Tinto chief executive Sam Walsh and backed by a state government guarantee, the Mint is the largest refiner of newly mined gold in the world and in February said it was at the ‘‘forefront of setting the highest possible ethical standards’’. But insiders, speaking on the condition they remain anonymous, said the Mint is paying little more than lip service to this pledge by dealing with the PNG firm, Golden Valley. It is owned by Justin Parker, who was convicted of manslaughter in August 2017 and sentenced to 13 years’ jail after beating his helicopter mechanic to death. He was released on parole last year.
Despite Mr Parker’s conviction, he has retained full ownership of Golden Valley and it remains a large supplier to the Mint, despite internal reservations. When a Mint employee asked a delegation of senior managers from Golden Valley how they dealt with competition in PNG, a representative said: ‘‘It’s easy, a gun to the back of the head.’’
Luke van Boehm, the managing director of Golden Valley, denied a comment like this was ever made by anyone at the company. But he said the Perth Mint had never conducted an audit on its supply chain, conceded mercury was often used by those it purchased gold from and that children were involved in mining with their families. ‘‘In a country like PNG, all the family gets involved,’’ he said during a phone interview.
He said Mr Parker was no longer a director of Golden Valley, but continued to have some input into its operations. Ciaran O’Faircheallaigh from Griffith University, who has studied smallscale gold mining in PNG and cited Golden Valley in his research, said the Mint could never claim its gold was ethically sourced.
‘‘They [the Mint] would have no idea where the gold came from. They would not have a clue,’’ he said. Both Mr O’Faircheallaigh and Mr van Boehm said small-scale gold mining provided muchneeded income at the village level in PNG and entire communities often depended on it for their livelihood. Mr van Boehm said efforts were being made to phase out the use of mercury. ‘‘We are trying to encourage the use of other chemicals,’’ he said. The Mint insiders said buying from Mr Parker was highly profitable, as the margin from Golden Valley was 10 times higher compared to other corporate customers such as Newcrest or Lihir Gold.
‘‘Golden Valley is happy to take a cheaper price because the gold is being washed through a government-backed institution,’’ one insider said. ‘‘They know if someone did proper due diligence then maybe the metal would not be accepted.’’ Mr van Boehm said he was not aware of this discount and denied his gold would be rejected by other refiners.
The Mint insiders said in previous years Golden Valley had sold up to 50,000 ounces to the Mint, worth $137 million at today’s prices. They said this had increased to around 80,000 ounces last year or $200 million at current prices. Richard Hayes, chief executive of the Mint, said it could not comment on individual customers but was acutely aware of the ‘‘complex issues’’ associated with small-scale gold mining in developing countries. He said five of the Mint’s largest PNG customers, who bought from smallscale miners, were subject to audits as the country was rated as a ‘‘medium risk’’. ‘‘All of our customers have been granted and currently hold export licences from the Bank of PNG and due diligence documentation accompanies all shipments from the nation,’’ Mr Hayes said in a statement. Like the consumer backlash over ‘‘blood diamonds’’ which forced buyers and cutters to be more accountable at the end of last century, the gold industry has sought to stamp out ‘‘conflict gold’’ and ensure the integrity of its supply chains in recent years. This is part of a broader push by companies and government bodies to ensure they meet their environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) responsibilities. In the gold sector the move towards ethical sourcing has been led by the world’s largest gold exchange, the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA), which traces its roots to 1750 and the East India Company. The LBMA is loosely regulated by the Bank of England. Under the LBMA’s responsible sourcing policy refiners like the Perth Mint commit to not buying gold which promotes conflict, human rights abuses, including childlabour, and issustainably sourced.
‘‘Failure to adhere to the LBMA’s Responsible Sourcing Programme will result in the removal of the refiner from the Good Delivery Lists,’’ said the LBMA’s chief technical officer, Nick Harby, in a video explaining the policy. In a February press release the Perth Mint said it had ‘‘long been at the forefront of setting the highest possible ethical standards across all its operations’’. In launching an ethical supply chain solution, Mr Hayes talked about ‘‘child labour and other,
abhorrent practices’’ and how this contrasted with ‘‘ethically sourced [gold] from mines in Australia and the United States’’. He made no mention of the Perth Mint’s purchases of alluvial gold from PNG, of which Golden Valley is among the largest buyers. Nor did he mention that these small miners frequently use child labour and often remove impurities through the use of mercury, which is banned in Australia. ‘‘The use of mercury causes serious environmental and health problems. It is unambiguously awful,’’ said Professor O’Faircheallaigh from Griffith University. In addition, he said, silt from the gold mining often had an adverse effect on food suppliers and water quality downstream due to increased levels of sediment in rivers.
Professor O’Faircheallaigh said the Mint could never say with any confidence that the metal it buys from Golden Valley was ethically sourced. ‘‘Some of it may be [ethically sourced] but equally there would be a high proportion where mercury was used,’’ he said. A 2016 report co-authored by Professor O’Faircheallaigh also identified Golden Valley as a supplier of mercury. ‘‘Dealing in bulk mercury can be remarkably lucrative,’’ the report said, noting the likes of Golden Valley could expect a 10-fold mark-up. Mr van Boehm said the company did sell some mercury, but had sought to educate miners on its correct use to avoid the worst side effects of the chemical. These include physical and mental disabilities in children and compromised development, according to an article published in the European academic journal, Chemistry. ‘‘The health effects on the miners are dire, with inhaled mercury leading to neurological damage,’’ it said. ‘‘The communities near these mines are also affected due to mercury contamination of water and soil and subsequent accumulation in food staples, such as fish.’’
Another researcher who asked to remain anonymous due to fear of reprisals said small-scale gold mining had a highly negative impact on remote villages in the PNG highlands. The researcher said when gold was discovered children were often taken out of school and there was an influx of outsiders. ‘‘Suddenly there are guns in the village, along with conflict and crime which had previously not existed,’’ the person said. ‘‘It is definitely not ethically sourced gold.’’
Typically, gold from these villages would make its way down to a regional centre, where an aggregator like Golden Valley would purchase it. From here it would be flown by helicopter down to Port Moresby and then onto Perth.