Hotfix 1.8.4 is now LIVE!

Salutations Victorians!

Hotfix 1.8.4, is now live! Featuring improvements for Companies, fixes for Russia and Britain being too protective of Mexico, removal of the assimilation restriction in homelands and much more!! Check out the full patchnotes below! Checksum is `1a3e`. Alas, no amusing checksum this time.

As always please report any bugs on our bug reporting forums! We have also updated the Known Issues post for 1.8 with fixed issues and more known issues!

The following changes have been made to the game compared to 1.8.3:


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[h2]Features[/h2]

• Made the "Exempt from Service" subject interaction accessible to all
  

[h2]Improvements​[/h2]

• Changed companies so that if they own at least one level of a building, any new level that is built in it by local private investors will be company owned
  
• Made companies much more likely to be the one privatizing buildings if the building fits their type
  
• The East India Company now gains annex wargoals against rebellious princely states in the Indian Uprising
  
• Doctrine of Lapse now transfers the contents of the target's treasury to the East India Company
  
• Collectivization now only ever targets privately owned levels and is the number of levels to collectivize is calculated as a fraction of privately owned levels, so nationally owned levels are not subject to it, meaning that countries with Cooperative Ownership/Collectivized Agriculture can now also have a public sector and make proper use of public sector foreign investment
  
• The "Emergency Relief" Decree will no longer auto-cancel as long as least 20% of the population experience some form of starvation
  
• An independent Ceylon now automatically becomes Sri Lanka
  
• Improved the clarity of Unstable Raj tooltips
  

[h2]AI​[/h2]

• Russia/Britain now start neutral towards Mexico, so they don't block US westward expansion by default
  
• The AI now makes more of an effort to reach its desired level of construction and innovation generation
  
• The AI will now never accept being cut down to size as part of a peace deal and have to be capitulated to enforce this specific wargoal
  

[h2]Balance​[/h2]

• Removed restriction that you could not assimilate if you lived in homeland
  
• Removed restriction that you can only assimilate to cultures with which you share a cultural heritage trait
  
• A political movement with 100% militancy can now always 'replace' another movement with less than 100% militancy for the purposes of getting to start a civil war, even if they don't meet the usual 10% higher requirement
  
• Removed the restriction for conversion on the Violent Hostility acceptance status
  
• Allowed several revolution events to fire for secessions as well
  
• The efficiency bonus to private investment now applies all the way up to 50 million GDP, up from 10 million, to make the private sector more able to keep up with intense early game government investment
  
• Declaring Bankruptcy now radicalizes a minimum of 25% of the country population, with shares in buildings owned adding to that minimum
  
• Bankruptcy no longer increases the amount of loyalists & radicals gained on SoL changes
  
• Bankruptcy now reduces leverage gain, migration attraction and MAPI (the latter representing the general shock to the national economy causing business to become more localized)
  
• Bankruptcy now drastically increases the time it takes to change institution levels (all institutions are still reset to level 1 when declaring bankruptcy)
  
• Ownership buildings that own subsistence building levels now contribute less money to the investment pool relative to how large a part of their portfolio is subsistence
  
• Increased base wage and dividends weight for Shopkeepers
  
• Manor Houses can no longer invest in mines & power plants, and are much less likely to invest in logging & rubber
  
• Buildings will now lay off employees rather than lower wages if wages are already so low that the employees are going to be rapidly radicalized
  
• Subsidized buildings will no longer lower wages to increase profitability if wages are already so low that the employees are going to be rapidly radicalized
  
• Adjusted provinces in the Carnatic so that Pudukottai can't be cut off entirely from the EIC in rare cases
  
• "Secret Police" Political Movement Activism reduction per level has been reduced from 10% to 5%
  
• The impact of number of claims on the Fascist Movement pop attraction has been reduced by 50%
  
• The Fascist movement will now attract more middle and upper class pops if there are any powerful leftist movements in the country, it will now also more proactively poach from the Cultural Majority and Reactionary Movements
  
• Increased the movement pop attraction for Leftists and Social Democrats moderately, increased even further if certain conditions are met depending on the movement type
  
• Anarchist movements will now be a slightly less upset on average
  
• Extraction Economy will no longer destroy Power Plants when enacted
  
• Buildings are now a bit more willing to raise wages if their workers are being radicalized by low SoL
  
• Honorable Restoration now instantly fails if you declare bankruptcy
  
• The conscription rate added to revolutions/secessions from popular support & clout has been reduced and capped at +10%
  

[h2]Art​[/h2]

• Added locust swarm harvest condition effect
  
• Added optimal sunlight harvest condition effect
  
• Tweaked color of heatwave and disease outbreak ground effect
  

[h2]Interface[/h2]

• Updated how the affected movements are displayed in the tooltip when enacting Laws
  
• Added information about the significant threshold of 25% Movement Activism to relevant concept tooltips
  

[h2]Modding[/h2]