Hey zusammen,
Ich hab’s geschafft mit Hamburg, Deutschland zu vereinen. War als erstes nicht mein Ziel, allerdings hat sich dies im Laufe des Spiels so ergeben.
Am Anfang echt bisschen Panik gehabt das Preussen mich einnimmt.

Like my last post, I got a president under the legal minimum of 35. This time though, he's also Afro-American, even though he managed to become leader of the Intelligentsia when I was still at racial discrimination.

Black president in 1876. Take that Obama.

As you can imagine that before Panama Canal everything went through Cape Horn.
Yes, all three armies supply in San Salvador (west, far), instead of Honduras. Not the largest problem with the game, by far, but this shouldn't be happening, period.

R5: As I was playing qing, I looked over to Hong Kong after hearing the opium war treaty expired, only to see that their president was "Missing character" and had this aura portrait, I think it was funny so I posted it.

Do bear in mind I got no dlc though.

I was doing a greek-->byzantines run, and I declared on egypt to return the states i had claimed in the levant. However, i underestimated how long the war would take, so Egypt occupied and then annexed my (ungarrisoned) suez canal provinces I had purchased, and eventually the generated war goal to get the suez back expired. By the end of the war I had actually conquered all my claims in the levant (egypt capitulated), but there was no way for me to retake the lost provinces I had lost in the suez, even though it made perfect sense to do so.

I feel like its situations like this where the new war goal system is a bit iffy. I tried to make up for it with my LARP headcanon that I (the byzantines) never truly ceded the suez and it's just "occupied" by the egyptians because of a shitty peace deal to secure levant.

tsar has bloodshot eyes

R5: I got a Frankenstein Event, got him as a commander, and now hes my chancellor, and upon that happening it made me the union of egoists. I didnt know this was in the game lol

I was just trying to make socialist Central Europe but my trade unions are allergic to power

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Happy Thursday, and welcome to the Art & Music developer diary. I am Karl, Art Director, and the less I write, the better. Let’s get started. 

As usual, to avoid this turning into an interminable list of random things, we have to break this down into two general parts: 3D Art, which encompasses the character art, the 3D map buildings, the seasonal visual effects, and the table assets; and 2D Art, which includes the 2D map, the interface, the event illustrations, and the main menu illustration.

Also as usual, too many things have been added for us to bring them all into this diary, and we look forward to you discovering them in the game.

With that, let’s begin with the 3D category, and a brief look at architecture.

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Due to how large this Dev Diary is we couldn't fully post it here on reddit! Please read it in full on our forum HERE!

I was thinking about the next dlc and the fact that Poland was gonna get added as a starting nation. Then I was wondering what kind of achievements could be added.

> So I have an idea for the achievement "Szklane domy" or "Glass houses". This idea comes from this very popular polish book called "Przedwiośnie" written by Stefan Żeromski. The book talks about a boy from Baku called Cezary Baryka who has a russian dad (actually his dad was polish but was just in the tsarist army thanks for the correction) and a polish mom. This takes place before, during and after the russian revoultion. At first the boy thinks the communist ideas are great but he soon sees the harsh reality of violence, chaos, and even the death of his own mother at the hands of the communists who sent her to do forced labor.

> Later on Cezarys dad, Seweryn who was a russian officer and was presumed dead or missing finds his son and after some time Seweryn tells his son that they will travel to a newly created Poland because of the chaos and instability in Russia. Seweryn presents the idea of Szklane domy or Glass houses. He says that he knows a guy in Poland who builds houses out of glass. They are very modern and protect people from extreme tempratures, are very cheap, stable and easy to build. He presents Poland as a very technologically advenced country where issues like poverty, and illnesess can be overcome with modern ideas. This later turns out to be false but thats not the point.

> The achievement could require you to get independence as Poland, and then have the highest standard of living and also be the no. 1 producer of glass. The standard of living refers directly to the idea of the modern and technologically advanced Poland, and the glass production is a small pun since after all the idea is called "GLASS houses".

What do you guys think?

"Starting subject" as in they have an overlord country or in somone else's market at game start

Can be from vanilla or any mod

Krakow was one of the best games I've ever played in Victoria, very fun indeed but I'm never playing it again.

I often end up in a situation where there are still millions of peasants in my country, but there's so much production that prices fall and buildings become unprofitable, so they can't hire everybody and SoL can't rise. Right now I'm playing as Russia in 1890, I have almost three times the GDP of the next great power (Britain) and I'm the number one producer of every single good except some tropical plantation ones (the prices of which are still very low because my puppet Persia and my colonies in Africa produce a lot of those, and my capitalists have built a bunch of plantations in central Asia and the Caucasus too). I have a treaty port in China to import stuff to their market and a bunch of good transfer treaties with my allies, but that's still not enough. What should I do? Should I set export subventions and subsidize buildings? Enact free trade? Get welfare or wage subsidies?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions

PS: I don't have any labor saving PMs anywhere. The only relatively expensive good is iron, which is barely above base price anyway and the iron mines in all of the heavily populated states are already maxed out

Original post - https://www.reddit.com/r/victoria3/comments/1x6898d/the_springtime_of_ashes/

Europe burned, and went dark. 6 years of war between the French empire and rising Prussia left no victors, only graves. The Austrians - the first to fall, slipped into quiet oblivion as the winter ice melted in 1864, a mauled but united Hungarian Kingdom emerging from its cadaver. Rot devoured what was left; Italian, Polish and Bohemian nationalists all rose as one.

Prussia almost followed. Despite making rapid gains throughout 1864 (even besieging the French city of Metz), the war had lasted 6 years and public will had snapped. If it wasn’t for last minute British naval intervention, the country would have starved. Millions had lost their lives, millions more had nothing to return to. Germans were fleeing to Russia for hopes of a better life. A bitter peace was signed in Munich, recognising Prussian gains but denying them a united Germany.

In the court of Sofia, Tsar Alexander had come to a decision. The Prussians were the superior military force, yet they alone could not replace the Russian support that his reforms had lost. Envoys were sent to Paris and Berlin - the Bulgarian army would march in French boots, and in Prussian formations, yet still under a Russian banner. The Tsar of the Bulgarians needed the help of each to turn his country’s peasant militia into the envy of the Balkans. 5 years passed. Muskets were swapped for French rifles, conscription centres sprang up in every town.

Yet Alexander was no fool. Russia had forbade further advances into Ottoman territory years earlier to appease the British. An offensive war would doom his campaign, perhaps his country. So he waited, waited as Ottoman arrogance returned to Rumelia. Hiking rents, mishandling taxes, imprisoning ‘traitors’. By 1869, the people of Rumelia had taken up arms (French arms - a coincidence? No.). Independence was declared, and when the Ottomans mobilised to put down this insurrection, Alexander Exarch, first elected Tsar of the Bulgarians, stood up to defend his people. His hand was forced… The Greek King, nominally a subject of the Porte, followed his lead.

Advancing Ottoman columns were pushed back through the mud of Plovdiv. For a month, the lines held, as Alexander waited with bated breath for news of whether the Russians would force him back to Sofia. Then news came - the old Tsar in Petrograd was dead, struck down with cholera as he lead his armies in Galicia. Better yet, his heir was a reformer of similar mind to the Bulgarian sovereign. Alexander ordered the advance, raising as his banner not the Eagle, nor the Bear, but the Lion. The die was cast.

Yet as his armies marched, something else stirred in the west. From the Ashes of Spring rose a Phoenix, fierce and vengeful. Prussian diplomats had been busy the last 6 years, visiting each decrepit duchy of the fallen Austrian domain, offering salvation for a dead nation. They would show all that their people were not yet buried. One final war of unification, to put the French and their coalition of false states where they belonged - under the Hohenzollern heel.

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And yes for anyone who hasn’t seen my original post - I am Bulgaria. The AI is being this cool almost entirely on its own. Posted a follow up because someone kindly asked for an update to how the game was going - I’m only getting more hyped :)

Edit- again also huge props to gates of the Bosporus mod for the Bulgarian content!

I became the worlds biggest producer of engines and steel, second in ships and cars.

I have the best quality of life in the world.

Qing dynasty remained relevant (although miserable)

India remained independent (there was not a single point that I paid attention to them in which they were not having an armed revolt)

France stagnated and was unstable.

The USA stagnated and spent most of the game bullying mexico.

Germany industrialized extremely quickly and is about to pass britain as the worlds biggest superpower and is my biggest competitor.

The only thing keeping Britain at the top is it's colonies, as Germany has already surpassed Britain in almost everything.

Thoughts?

(Sorry the game is in Portuguese)

Given that infamy cost for conquering a state will now also depend on GDP in the beta and upcoming update, should GDP ownership play a role?

Imagine the following: You build up a subject by investing in them. As a consequence, you own a high share of their GDP. But the investment has pushed their GDP upwards, making them very expensive to annex - even though it's still your stuff.

My question: Should having a large ownership share in the GDP of a state reduce the infamy cost?

The effect would be that only the GDP not owned by yourself counts towards the infamy calculation.

In this case, it would be a valid reason to build up a state through foreign investment first, before annexing it. Same goes for the example with a subject that I mentioned before. Because the system, as it is right now, would disincentivize investing abroad if you'd have the plan to take the states in the future (except through unification). If you already own 75% of the stuff in a state, taking it could maybe lead to fewer consequences than if you took something that you don't have any ownership in.

Transportation should be a market wide good, but only if the state has a railway and that railway is connected to a world market hub. (Or market capital)

I think that having it be a local good makes sense when from a developer perspective, but from a gameplay perspective it’s major pain point. This is simply a compromise, allow transportation to still be market wide to reduce the subsiding + auto expand nightmare while still sticking to the essence of the feature. I doubt this would have any computational impact as checking to see if something is connected is easy and the framework for market hubs, market goods, and alike already exist.

Maybe we could come up with another idea for electricity because my god it’s so painful to use.

Hi, so I’ve played the hell outta Vic3 and am curious what everyone would say the compare and contrast between Vic3 and HOI is in terms of the mechanics, gameplay, etc. and if y’all would recommend a Vic3 fan check it out.

For context on what I enjoy about Vic3 I would say pretty much everything. Economic and supply chain management, the law passing and bureaucracy mechanics, diplomatic strategizing to either avoid war or set myself up for territorial conquest based on my goal for whatever country I’m playing. I’ve enjoyed playing countries with strong starting positions as well as countries doomed to fail without some serious strategizing and tactical play (Indian Territory, Sokoto from the angle of trying to unify as much of Africa against colonization as possible).

How similar or dissimilar is HOI in these mechanics from Vic3? What makes them different other than obviously the historical setting?

Also sorry if this post is actually better suited for an HOI subreddit or if the flair I chose isn’t the ideal one lol

Update: thank y’all for all the feedback! I’m thinking I’ll hold out on HOI for now but can now make an informed af decision when I inevitably still end up giving it a try!

Still new to the game so don't roast me for the bad economy. Anyway, i managed to form Yugoslavia as Serbia. I had a rough couple of years in the beginning but eventually things started going better. Managed to get the post ww2 borders and also no colonization. Learned a lot of useful stuff in this save file.

Infamy is gained pretty much only by wars and special events, we can lose it only by waiting or diminishing the size of the country. Different laws, technologies, and events cause the decline and growth to be sometimes faster and sometimes slower, but do you think there should be more variables with infamy?

A few examples:

-Slavery is not widely supported in developed countries, as time goes on, more and more countries view it as barbaric. In the end a country that enters the 20th century with slavery should be extremely infamous. Lets say +10 to infamy passive. Serfdom would be pretty similar.

-Domestic policy. If you are an authoritarian tyranny, your citizens are starving, and you do not allow even a small bit of freedom of speech or even rigged elections—all of this makes you, in the eyes of others, a horrible regime that should not exist.

-Lobbying could lower your infamy because you’re portraying yourself as a wonderful country (sort of like “useful idiots”), but on the other hand, your rival could constantly use their own lobby to slander you, causing you to lose popularity on the international stage.

-A technological advantage can reduce your infamy. This is already partly the case with one specific technology that significantly slows the rate at which infamy increases, but the game could also consider technological development as a whole.

-Special "grand projects"—similar to what’s currently in CK3. For example, a massive flood, a volcanic eruption, an epidemic, a famine, or the construction of great architectural wonders like the Suez Canal—all of these require significant financial investment, and individual countries can participate. For example, in exchange for sending food, you’ll get a 10% more expensive food in your market, but your infamy will decrease. Meanwhile other countries will accept refugees, other will donate ship and so on and so on.

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I got a president who is under the legal minimum to be POTUS

Hi everyone,

I just had around 30 achievements removed from my Steam achievements page and also the ingame tracker. Anyone else been having this issue? I'm wondering if there are any solutions, I verified the integrity of my game files, cleared download cache, restarted Steam,... But no workaround yet.

Im buying a new laptop soon and I wanna play Vic3 as soon as I get it. but what specs should I look for to play it smoothly until end game(i wanna avoid the endgame lag of Paradox games...) Do i need greater CPU, RAM?

isn't this a patch 1.2-ish mistake just wondering when they fix the game

In our timeline, shipping fruit from India to Britain or Hawaii to the US was functionally impossible until refrigeration technologies improved to a point where perishable goods could be imported from overseas at scale, particularly from 1900 onwards. Despite that, fruit exports are one of the most profitable early-game strategies for less developed nations due to the low marginal gain from technology combined with fruit’s use in the basic and luxury food groups.

My best understanding is that good-specific MAPI to represent perishability isn’t a thing, which makes representing their profitability difficult, but something like a modifier to world market exports could function similarly.