News Liste Victoria 3

• [p]The Trade Rework managed to find a good balance between autonomous economic actors and player control, giving the player powerful strategic tools to manipulate trade but removing the micromanagement aspect present in the previous trade system. This level of control is something we intend to use as a guideline when creating or redesigning features in the future - for example, I could envision doing something similar with production methods on privately owned building levels.[/p][/*]
• [p]Having a much more robust trade system also paid considerable dividends towards improving the performance of the AI and allowing countries to actually properly specialize in resources, removing much of the samey-ness present in the old, autarky-centric economic loop.[/p][/*]
• [p]We spent extra effort on ensuring that the features of 1.9 and Charters of Commerce would all hook heavily into and compliment each other, which made them individually much stronger. As an example, without the Grant Monopoly Treaty Article, Monopolies would be a feature with much more limited, internal-only use instead of a tool of unbridled economic imperialism.[/p][/*]

• [p]Done: This is a part of the game that we now consider to be in good shape. Something being Done of course doesn’t mean we’re never going to expand or improve on it in the future, just that it’s no longer a high priority for us. Any points that were already marked as Done in previous updates will be removed from the list, to avoid it growing unmanageably long, but you can look at the older dev diaries (#79, #89, #102, #124 and #141) if you’re interested in what was done previously.[/p][/*]
• [p]Updated: This is a part of the game where we have made some of the improvements and changes that we want to make, but aren’t yet satisfied with where it stands and plan to make further improvements to it in future updates.[/p][/*]
• [p]Not Updated: This is a part of the game where we haven’t yet released any of our planned changes/improvements in any currently released updates but still plan to do so for future updates.[/p][/*]
• [p]New: This is a planned change or improvement that is newly added, i.e. wasn’t present on the list last time we went over it[/p][/*]
• [p]Reconsidered: This is a previously planned change or improvement that we have reconsidered our approach to how to tackle from previous updates. For these points we will explain what our new plans are, and change the list appropriately in future updates.[/p][/*]

Military

• [p]Tweaking-< and improving the frontline system to eliminate excessive front splitting and troop teleportation once and for all[/p][/*]
• [p]Adding a proper system of military access and finding solutions for the other remaining rough edges in the frontline system.[/p][/*]

p]Make generals/admirals into more meaningful and noticeable actors in countries and reduce the micromanagement of large numbers of commanders.[/p][/*]

• [p]Make sure that supply is an important and meaningful part of the military system that can win or lose you wars.[/p][list]
• [p]Supply is a lot more significant in 1.9 but we still want to do more in terms of adding interesting gameplay around logistics and tying them to the navy[/p][/*]

• [p]The addition of blockades has made navies more important for global power projection, but of course much remains to be done here![/p][/*]

• [p]Turn individual ships into proper pieces of military hardware that can be built, sunk and repaired rather than just being manpower packages.[/p][/*]
• [p]Add a system for limited wars to reduce the number of early-game global wars between Great Powers[/p][/*]

Historical Immersion

• [p]Improve the way we simulate certain historical conflicts such as the Opium Wars, American Civil War and similar to play out a bit closer to the way they did historically. For example, the Opium Wars should not regularly play out as 100k British regulars seizing control of Beijing.[/p][/*]

• [p]Going through the base game Journal Entries and events and making improvements and additions to ensure that they feel meaningful and impactful for players to interact with[/p][list]
• [p]As always, we’ve updated some of our older Journal Entries for 1.9 and will continue to do so in future updates.[/p][/*]

• [p]Also as always, this is something we continue to do each update and which I will keep on this list as it remains an important priority.[/p][/*]

Diplomacy

• [p]Improve on the Treaty Port mechanic and create more ways for countries to cooperate, compete with and exploit others using trade[/p][/*]
• [p]Improving the war support system to be much clearer UX-wise about what is needed to contest wargoals.[/p][/*]

• [p]Rework the War Exhaustion system from one where a single uncontrolled war goal can stalemate wars towards one where war goal control and war outcomes are more dynamic and interesting (and much less frustrating).[/p][/*]

• [p]Make declaring and holding onto diplomatic Interests a more rewarding and challenging aspect of global empire-building[/p][/*]
• [p]Allowing peace deals to be negotiated during a Diplomatic Play instead of only having the option to give in[/p][/*]

Internal Politics

• [p]Adding laws that expand on diversity of countries and introduce new ways to play the game[/p][list]
• [p]In 1.9 we introduced the concept of ‘Law Variants’, which we plan to use extensively, creating unique national variants of baseline laws so that those countries' political systems feel more distinct and flavorful.[/p][/*]

• [p]Turn legitimacy into a more interesting mechanic, where the strength of a government depends on their successes and failures, and highly legitimate governments can’t simply be ousted at a whim but have to be undermined first.[/p][/*]
• [p]Introduce a concept of national pride which can increase or decrease depending on a country’s actions and which ties directly into legitimacy.[/p][/*]

Other

p]Find a way to deal with the excessive fiddliness of the trade system in large economies, possibly by allowing for autonomous trade based on your laws in a similar way to the autonomous investment system.[/p][/*]

• [p]Improve on Companies by turning them into actual actors in your country that can own/expand buildings and interact with characters/politics.[/p][/*]