Victoria 3 News

The Victoria 3 Voice of the People DLC is finally here

Victoria 3 Voice of the People is here alongside a free update for the grand strategy game, as a brand new Agitator system shakes up your game, and a load of changes to the nation of France come into play, too. Victoria 3 isn't done, and this first DLC continues to prove it.

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Victoria 3: Voice of the People Now Available

Lose yourself in the dramatic political maneuvering of the 19th century as famous figures from history lobby for their preferred policies in Voice of the People, a new immersion pack for Victoria 3, available today. With dozens of new historical characters, you can write an intriguing new history of the Victorian age, where nihilist authors and liberal reformers challenge established authorities.

Victoria 3 is Paradox Interactive’s grand strategy simulation of society in the century from Andrew Jackson to World War I. Players guide the industrial, political and social development of a historic nation, moving with the tides of time as new ideologies and shifting political alliances challenge your grand plans. In Voice of the People, more historical flavor is added with new characters integrated into the new Agitator mechanic, as well as a deeper simulation of French politics of the century, with new events, missions, and more.

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Features of Victoria 3: Voice of the People include:

Over 60 New Historical Agitators: Explore new alternate histories with real historical characters, including John Brown, Emmeline Pankhurst, and Enver Pasha. These characters are integrated into the new free Agitator system, which allows for greater variety and engagement in the political reform and development of your nation.
Special Agitator Actions: Aid the agitators by promoting them to lead Interest Groups, or send them into exile to blunt their impact. You can also, in some cases, invite other nations’ exiles into your society to take advantage of their ideas.
Unique French Content: New events, journal missions, and decisions inspired by French history. Press your advantage in Northern Africa, back one of royal claimants, or establish a strong French Empire in Europe and worldwide.
New French Buildings: Historic structures from France added to the map.
New Art: A paper map unique to Voice of the People, wrapped in a new art nouveau appearance. New animations for revolutions highlight the interest groups in revolt, and new clothing and uniforms are added for many societies.

The release of Voice of the People accompanied a major free update to Victoria 3, available to all Victoria players. This update includes the new Agitator System, which allows individual characters to appear to push for political reforms that may not be available or desired by your current government. There will also be new political ideologies for France, changes to the world map, and reworks of the legislative and revolutionary processes, along with many other changes.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2282100

Paradox Interactive has also announced a new Expansion Pass for Victoria 3, which includes Voice of the People, two already released cosmetic packs, one forthcoming art pack, and the upcoming first major expansion to the game. This bundle offers a significant discount on buying each item separately, and includes cosmetic packs otherwise unavailable.

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American Buildings Pack: In many ways, the 19th century was the American Century - continental expansion, rapid population growth, and the stirring of an overseas empire. This pack includes unique building models for the United States, special American designs for other structures and the American Capitol Building as a landmark.

Melodies for the Masses: Inspired by the lives of the common people of the Victorian age, this selection of music draws on the sounds of farms and the towns. Drink in the musical reflections on the rural world that dominated society until the rise of the factory and the shriek of the steam whistle.

Voice of the People: This immersion pack for Victoria 3 adds more historical content to the game, including over 60 historical characters who can Agitate for change in your society. Major historical figures like Mazzini and Lenin may arise in your nation, pushing their agenda - either with you or against you. Voice of the People also includes new historical content for France, including events, political parties and unique historical decisions and journal entries. New art includes French building models, a new paper map, and a new UI theme.

Dawn of Wonder: From the glory of the sunrise to the glow of the gas lamp, this Art Pack takes the theme of light and shadow to add new life to the visual experience. A day-night cycle marks the time you spend in game, and other images shine with new life as the dawn of a new age is reflected in the art itself.

Sphere of Influence: In a more civilized age, the pen is supposed to be mightier than the sword. The first major expansion for Victoria 3 increases the depth and immersion of the diplomatic game. Build Power Blocs to protect regional interests, invest in foreign economies and interfere in your subjects' politics.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/32180/

Victoria 3: Update 1.3 is now Live!

Greetings Victorians!

Today we released Voice of the People as well as the new Victoria 3 Expansion Pass - and as usual these new releases are accompanied by a free update for all owners of Victoria 3.

Please do not use this thread to report any new issues you discover - but rather file any bugreports in the bug reporting forum, thank you! (We will not be able to collect bug reports from Steam)

We can not give any guarantees that save files from 1.2.x will be working in 1.3 without issues which is why we recommend that you roll back your game to the previous version and finish any ongoing games you want to finish before updating to 1.3. More information on rolling back your game version can be found here! (TL;DR is go to properties in Steam -> Betas -> select the version in the dropdown list).

We hope that you will enjoy these updates for Victoria 3!

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Major Features in Update 1.3

Agitator characters (new role) that create or empower Political Movements
Ability to invite Agitators exiled by other countries
New 'Character Interaction' system adds ability to interact directly with characters in your country (script extensible for modders)
Character Interactions: Exile Character, Repatriate Exile, Royal Marriage
Reworked Law Enactment mechanic, putting a law through three phases before it is passed
Reworked Revolution Progression mechanic with a plethora of new Revolution events
Politics Overview Panel overhaul providing easier overview of your Loyal and Radical Interest Groups, among other enhancementsA
New Political Movements panel giving you a breakdown of supporting Interest Groups, Agitators, and Pops
New Revolution map marker and visuals
New Law group: Land Reform
New Church & State Law: State Atheism
New Distribution of Power Laws: Single-Party State, Technocracy
New Economic System Law: Industry Banned
"Petition" Journal Entry lets Interest Groups in government encourage the passing of their desired laws
Country border rework for France, Algiers, parts of Africa and Germany
8 new Achievements

Improvements

Added a "Supported Law Cancelled" modifier that radicalizes a placated movement when their law enactment is cancelled
Political Movements can no longer become revolutionary without the support of an Interest Group
Added an effect to create more radicals from Standard of Living changes when a country has negative Authority
Added Opium growing potential to states in Ottoman Empire, Mexico, New Granada and Van Diemen's Land
Characters are more likely to become opium addicts if their culture is obsessed with opium
Freed Afro-American/Caribbean/Brazilian etc. nations now get an event that ensures slavery is almost always abolished in their nation
Added Coal and Gold potential to Morocco and the Sahara to account for historic coal and silver fields
Added Whaling Station potential to a few states around the world based on historic catch data
Buildings with low cash reserves, at least 10% employment, and low profits will now avoid hiring more employees, as this would often result in those employees then being fired a few weeks later
Female leaders of Interest Groups will now only show up after Women's Suffrage is passed (unless they are generated by special content such as the struggle for said suffrage), to better reflect historical disenfranchisement of women in politics
Base enactment time of various law groups adjusted to match new 3-phase enactment system
Populated the database with historical Scandinavian IG leaders, admirals, and generals
Haitian and Dominican population numbers and cultures have been updated to better reflect the situation in 1836
Updated population numbers in Belgium and the Netherlands to be more historically accurate
Montenegro has been shrunk even more to better reflect 1836 borders
Russian generals now have defined ideologies and interest groups
Updated the names and locations of hubs in Japan, Sakhalin and Taiwan to be more historically accurate
Revised the starting setup around the Lower Niger River and Mozambique
Auto expanding buildings will no longer evaluate the length of the construction queue but only check that Cash Reserves and Market Access are above 95%

Fixed a bug that was preventing some AIs with high budget surpluses from constructing high-priority government buildings such as Construction Sectors
AI (and Autonomous Investment) is now much more averse to overbuilding in states that don't have the infrastructure to support it
AI (and Autonomous Investment) will no longer continue to build railway buildings in states that have full market access but no workforce to support new buildings
AI is now better at prioritizing universities and innovation generation, particularly at using the more advanced University PMs
AI now has a greater tendency to make 'return state' wargoals into primary wargoals, particularly in cases when they're trying to complete a journal entry
Fixed an issue where the AI would repeatedly declare and then break rivalries
AI is now less inclined to seize Treaty Ports without having a strong reason to want them
AI is now more keen to rival countries back if they don't have the Conciliatory attitude
Peace evaluation AI no longer considers already enforced war goals as missed opportunities

Balance

Greatly expanded weights for when pops will join Political Movements independently of their Interest Groups
Monarchs and heirs now have a variety of factors affecting which Interest Group they are aligned with
Non-Commander characters are now less likely to become Wounded
Reduced the chance of Bankrolling giving you an obligation each week from 1% to 0.2%
Increased the number of radicals generated when conquering states that are not both homelands and a claim of the conqueror
Caudillismo ideology now favors Presidential Republic
Corn Laws now requires significantly expensive grain prices, and grants a Market Liberal Landowner Agitator rather than an IG leader
Landowner and Industrialist characters are more likely to have Expensive Tastes
Officers now gain Political Strength from the Autocracy law
Raised maximum personality traits for characters to 2 and reduced maximum skill traits for characters to 2
Council Republic now gets some Legitimacy from share of votes
Presidential Republic now gets a Legitimacy bonus for having head of state in government, but slightly less legitimacy from share of votes
Pops working in Subsistence Buildings now have the impact of Expected Standard of Living from Literacy greatly decreased
Reduced tech costs in era 4 and 5 to make it not quite so difficult to reach endgame tech
British East India now starts with railways technology
Interest Groups will now have a slightly higher tendency to support political movements if an Agitator of that interest group is supporting the political movement
Support for Multiculturalism is now found in the Humanitarian ideology
Various personality traits are now incompatible with each other
Added Logging Camp potential to Connecticut
Significantly reduced the speed at which characters gain skill traits over time, particularly if they are exiles or commanders in the recruitment pool
Several more building types are now subject to Dangerous Working Conditions
Adjusted pop attraction for the Devout Interest Group
Muslim characters are now less likely to become Alcoholics
Radical ideology no longer has a stance on Citizenship laws
Sepoy Mutiny is now a normal Diplomatic Play rather than an instant war
Industrial Barriers event now targets only notable minorities
Reduced throughput modifier on "Industrial Safety Slowdowns" from 50% to 10%
Changed the requirements of The Gamble to require multiple Interest Groups in government

Art

Added an option to enable an alternate occupation visual (stripes instead of flags) under Game settings
Added visual planes flying over the military units for the Aerial Reconnaissance production method
Military visual effects overhaul
Children now wear unique age-appropriate clothing
Heirs in monarchies are no longer bald and clean-shaven throughout their entire lives
Revised clothing weighting so children do not wear clothes that clip through their bodies
Tweaked pollution VFX
Louis Delescluze is now prohibited from wearing hats
Added Garibaldi's red shirts as dynamic soldier and officer pop clothing
Added a late-game uniform variant for the United States

Interface

Updated the Law tab, Law Group panel, and the Law Enactment outliner item with the improved Law Enactment system
Attached the associated Law enactment events to the Law enactment item in the outliner for much better visibility and feedback
Attached the associated Revolution events to the Revolutionary Political Movement item in the outliner for much better visibility and feedback
Improved the layout of the Interest Group panel
More informative tooltips for Political Movements and Revolutions
Combined Radicals and Loyalists graphs into one and make sure to always show this graph instead of the old one
Reworked the Law Enactment popup to actually be readable now
Added the outcome of the Law Enactment checkpoint to the Law Enactment event that spawned because of it for better feedback of what has happened
Added a State Construction Summary Map Marker for when there is more than one Building being actively expanded in a State, to reduce the amount of Construction Map Markers covering the map
Sort the entire Modifier databases to make tooltips more readable throughout the entire game
Added more information of any supported Political Movements on the Interest Groups themselves and their tooltips
Added the State's urbanization value to State tooltip and Urban Center building tooltip
Made several changes and tweaks to Alerts and Current Situation items to make them less spammy and more informative, including deactivating a few and moving their information to more appropriate places throughout the UI
Added functionality to unhide all Important Actions you have previously hidden
Added button to 'hide' an Important Action in the Current Situation window
Improved the Pop Support tooltip for politically inactive and total support number
Improved the Reform Government suggested options buttons and make it clearer which one is currently selected
Potential time-out results of Journal Entries can now be seen at the bottom of the corresponding Journal Entry panel if it has any
Added background colors for Journal Entry completion and failure effects
New game concept 'Neutral' has been added to explain the middle step of Loyalism/Radicalism better
Renamed Politically Inactive to Politically Unaligned to better describe what it means
Fixed an issue where a save made in the observer mode would look broken in the launcher
Fixed that the white peace button would always appear as if the AI would not accept it
Added Trade Route size trend indicator to the Trade Route list items
Liberate Country wargoal will now highlight the country being liberated on the map
Character tooltips have been updated with all relevant information for Agitators and Political Movements
Made the subtitles of all left side panels be consistent and have go-to buttons to relevant things if possible
Added the government/opposition stance to the top of Interest Groups' tooltips
Improved the tooltip for Research Queued
Right click menus are now accessible for all characters since there can be character interactions available for foreign characters or characters that are in the exile pool
Map interactions for Buildings you cannot expand further now have the padlock status and are not moved to the Unavailable Options list
Map interactions for Decrees are now default sorted by state name
Map interactions for Diplomatic Actions are now default sorted by country name
Map interactions status checkmark + red cross was removed from the UI and is now displayed as just a red cross
Map interactions status were reworked to prevent items from jumping from Available to Unavailable options in most cases
Added Expected Standard of Living to the State Standard of Living tooltip
Added Fancy Tooltip for Battle Conditions
Added Important Action for States with a high amount of Pops living under their Expected Standard of Living
Sort Decisions that can be taken on top of the Decision list
Migration Target Map Markers are now visible when zoomed further out
Cut down the amount of decimals for several Modifiers in order to make them more readable
Show Acceptance description for Citizenship and Church and State laws at the top of those Law tooltips
Show number of Battalions that can be Mobilized at the top of the Army Model and Internal Security Law tooltips
Reverse the order of the Ideology stances in the Ideology tooltip to show the Laws that Ideology approve of before the ones they disapprove of
Added Expected Standard of Living to the State Standard of Living tooltip
Players can now pin any market they desire to the outliner in the market panel
Improved map list panel for rivalry action
Added DLC icons with activation status and Steam store links to the main menu
Improved the Character right-click menu
Moved the "This option will be auto-picked" icon to the other side of the button in order to make it easier to get into the nested tooltip for that option
State Traits now shown as Map Markers in the Production Lens
Unrealized Taxes breakdown now shown in the Budget Panel
Interest Groups that support a Law are now shown on the first level of the Law tooltip
Fixed a bug where maplist highlight was not removed on mouse leave
The GDP chart now shows Yearly GDP instead of Weekly GDP, matching what's shown in the topbar
Empty values in initial land/naval battle size tooltips are now omitted
Fixed that an observer would see the game over screen if the country that they are observing was annexed
Improved the Current Situation for low standard of living
Made the Election panel handle more than 3 Parties
Trimmed recruitable commander tooltip
The 'Gold Reserves' widget in the budget panel is no longer empty when you have no gold reserves, instead just showing an empty bar
Removed (almost) unused highlight from Technologies
Added new background to map list options
Fix sidebar from opening too eagerly in some languages

Narrative Content

New dynastic Ideologies for France: Orleanist, Legitimist, and Bonapartist
New Ideologies: Positivist, Luddite, Socialist
Added Humanitarian, Protectionist, Jacksonian Democrat, and Authoritarian leader ideologies Socialist Ideology is now added to the Trade Unions after researching Socialism
Journal Entries are now inherited by a victorious revolution, meaning that JEs such as China's 'Fragile Unity' will not be abruptly ended if the Qing government is overthrown in a revolution
Major revisions to the Journal Entries surrounding German Unification. The process of annexing German minors through Customs Unions has been removed, and instead the JEs much more closely follow the historical narrative, starting with the Schleswig-Holstein question and allowing for annexation of North/South German minors only on the completion of the German Leadership War
Implemented a journal entry and variety of events for nihilist movements
Updated and expanded the Belle Époque journal entry
Nihilists now support State Atheism
Added Ruhr State Region
Added Rhineland releasable nation
Made Grand Exhibition more playable, removed inconsistencies, provided bonus to techs researched during the Journal Entry
Added events that retire agitators that no longer serve a purpose
Added events about the passing of Land Ownership laws
Added events about the passing of Industry Banned laws
Added some agitators present at game start
Added several events that allow for interaction with exiles
Added events that fire when you have an ongoing revolution
Added Franco-Provencal culture
Added additional character traits
Reduced the frequency of the 'Arming the Natives' Patagonia event, but made the effects more impactful.
Added Savoy releasable, for Franco-Provencal lands
Abe Lincoln only appears as an Interest Group leader when he's old enough to be President
Specified Switzerland's religion as Protestant, but gave it more explicitly Catholic leaders as well
Changed "Swiss" culture to "Alemannic", and changed all keys referring to Swiss culture
Converted the French history character file to solely use character templates
Added Flag for the USA if it were to be formed by California
Added new flags for communist California and if California controls Baja California

Performance

Improved performance of tutorial highlights
Map particle optimization

Modding

All logging console commands are now renamed to start with "Logging." and log output in a standardized way
Added Character.IsInExilePool and Character.IsExile for gui and loc scripting
Added new effect exile_character
Added new effect remove_character_role
Added the ability to scope to a character's home country (as opposed to their current country) via home_country
Added new triggers is_exile and is_in_exile_pool
Added political_movement link from a character to the movement they support and supporting_character link in the other direction
Ideologies can now have a priority value set, which determines which ideology is used when two non-leader ideologies have a stance on the same law group
Added a has_template trigger that can be used on characters to check if they are a certain template
Added new gui and loc script functions to access an exile's home country and interest group type
The trigger is_interest_group_type can now also be used in character scope (this is useful for exiles)
Added scripted weight ai_enact_weight_modifier to laws that allows direct modification of the AI's weight to enact that law
Added an on_action for when a law enactment a political movement supports is cancelled
Added a cancel_enactment effect
Added new trigger can_ruler_have_command to determine if a ruler can be granted command of the country's armies
New triggers investment_pool_net_income & investment_pool_gross_income
ordered_preferred_law scriptlist for laws sorted by scoped Interest Group approval
Added a console logging command for concluded battles
Added number of buildings, total building levels, and number of global unemployed pops to world population log
Added a has_monarch_ideology scripted trigger
land_hq trigger can now also be called in state scope

Bugfixes

It is no longer possible to recruit Commanders to temporary HQs
Fixed many instances where population, loyalists, or radicals values could overflow
Fixed labels for Tax Types in the Population Overview panel
Fixed a bug where Serfdom only unlocks Serfdom PM options rather than automatically enforce it
A war goal that has already been enforced (due to capitulation) can no longer be pressed again in peace deals.
Fixed a bug that allowed to exceed a building's max level cap
The Regime Change wargoal should now correctly create a government that has at least one shared Interest Group with the wargoal holder and force them to re-evaluate their political strategy shortly after being enforced
Alerts referring to wars will now open the correct panel when clicked rather than do nothing
Made loyalists and radicals tooltip numbers be red and green as intended
Insubordinate Jingoist event now adds tension instead of creating a native uprising
Rubber plantations are now affected by the Encourage Resource state decree
Fixed a crash where the game would try to reset script variables in a read-only (invalid) scoped object.
Subject countries can now only support their overlord as a unification candidate
The lower bound for throughput bonus is now -1 (in other words no throughput at all), rather than throughput bonus being capped to only positive values
Reduced Whaling Stations mortality
Fixed several bugs in the Internal Security laws
Fixed overflow of party name on Interest Group panel
Fixed issues that could happen during clean up of a commander's orders
German States will no longer be forced into Hannover's market if they left before Victoria comes to power
Honorable Restoration JE now requires that Japan is a monarchy
Rogue Imperialist and Colonial Clash events can now trigger only once per country
Fixed the potential crash-to-desktop on game exit when the save game window was open
Feminism and Patriarchal Suffrage now have their stances on Rights of Women/Free Speech override any stance from base ideologies, such as Liberal
Fixed an issue that prevented Unification play from being launched if all potential targets were in a Customs Union
Battle modifiers for captured provinces and recovery rate now work correctly
People's Springtime.5 event can no longer apply to the same state twice, and now applies only to incorporated states
Renamed the Maures culture to Bidan, and changed cultural traits to fit history more accurately.
Fixed a bug where buildings that have not been constructed yet would show an alert for being unable to hire
Scripted army_size link no longer includes conscripts by default, which should fix tutorial and the assumptions behind several AI scripts (new link army_size_including_conscripts now covers the previous use case)
Several missing or wrong UI highlights during the Tutorial have been fixed
Added the correct Interest Group tooltip for Interest Group buttons everywhere
Removed the in-government icon from the Interest Group icon on the Interest Group tooltip due to clipping
Fixed various small localization errors (spelling, grammar, phrasing etc.) across a number of game concepts
Changed the Naval Invasion Battle panel subtitle to mention Naval Invasion instead of battle
Assassination events now correctly invalidate if the assassin's target dies from other causes
Fixed loc string for modifier_unit_supply_consumption_mult
Romania is no longer a valid country for secessionists
Tanzimat: Suppress Separatism now fails with over 50% secession progress
Fixed an issue where the "show invalid savegames" checkbox had no effect.
Fixed a bug where bankrolling pacts would be cancelled unexpectedly
Fixed a bug where new traits for characters were not updated until game reload
Fixed a bug where occupying a province with connection via strait to an isolated island could cause split occupation
Fixed an issue when after researching quinine colony progress speed wasn't updated
Fixed a bug where countries without elections had no last reform date saved
add_pollution effect now displays correct amount of pollution
Characters in the "void" no longer gain skill traits over time
Turkestan now counts the state of Ili in the list of possible states to form Turkestan in
Releasing Transcaucasia no longer requires Yemen to be released
Removed duplicate modifiers for Livestock Ranch throughput modifiers
"Dangerous Equipment" and all other pm_events now have a five year cooldown
Option C of the "Kindly Burn this Letter" event no longer throws endless errors.
Removed NULL_OBJ from the name of goldrush.5
Sepoy Mutiny no longer leaves states unincorporated for the EIC once defeated
Sepoy Mutiny no longer results in the EIC having two annex wargoals
bic_breakup.1 event no longer fires every month when its conditions are satisfied
bic_breakup.1 event now properly switches the Devout to the Hindu Priesthood in the pan-nationalist option
Fixed several bugs in the Child Labour events
Resolved several issues in the Psychology event chain
Added missing icon to the Marginalized concept tooltip
Rhode Island forestry hub now has a name
Fixed an issue where the load savegame confirmation window would remain opened outside the load game view.
Fixed an issue with the Nicaragua, Tripoli and Cauca Treaty Ports not being properly defined
Fixed a bug where the Opium Wars victory event could display without a title
Fixed some instances in which tutorial lessons could end up referring to a null object
Fixed a bug where the custom German flags based on different unifiers would not work if NGF/SGF was formed on the way to becoming Germany
italian_unification.1.b now uses the correct loc key
Fixed an issue that led to scope problems in expedition conclusion events

Dev Diary #86 - Changelog Update 1.3/VOTP

Hello and welcome to our final development diary before the release of Voice of the People and Update 1.3 on May 22! Today I have the pleasure of announcing the full list of changes made for both the Immersion Pack and the free update.

But first, let's talk about new Achievements! We have 15 new challenges for you, 12 of which are exclusive to Voice of the People and 3 that are also valid for the base game.

New Achievements for Voice of the People

It Never Ends: Cement the Bonaparte dynasty, become a Republic, and Stamp Out Monarchism

Hexagon No More: Complete the Natural Borders of France Journal Entry

Emperor Norton: As the USA, become a Monarchy with Joshua Norton as monarch

Shut the Door Behind You: Have an invited Exile become the ruler of your nation and pass the Closed Borders Law

Crush the Commune: As France, defeat the rebellion of the Paris Commune

Military Junta: Have the Armed Forces coup the government

Huge Ego, Sorry: Unite Germany and have Max Stirner rule your nation

New Achievements for Update 1.3

Agitate Elsewhere: Exile an Agitator with at least 100 Popularity

Amish Paradise: As a Yankee nation, pass the Industry Banned Law before 1846 and have at least 20 average Standard of Living

Authoritarian: Pass the Single-Party State, Militarized Police, and Outlawed Dissent Laws

Breadbasket: Pass the Homesteading Law and be the leading producer of Grain and Groceries

Euphoric: Pass the State Atheism Law and have the Intelligentsia be Powerful

L'Allemagne, c'est Rien: As France, prevent Germany from unifying until 1930

Meiji Restoration: Complete the Restoration Journal Entries as Japan before 1912

Vox Populi: Pass a Law with the support of an Agitator

Major Features in Voice of the People

60+ Historical Agitators
Many new Journal Entries and events relating to France, including dynastic squabbles, the colonization of Algeria, the Dreyfus Affair, the Paris Commune, and more
French building model set
New UI theme inspired by Art Nouveau
New paper map and map room look & feel
New outfits for historic and generic characters
City hub VFX for revolutions depending on which Interest Groups are revolting
Over a dozen new event images
Character interactions for making an Agitator an Interest Group leader or granting them military command
Character interaction to force a monarch to Abdicate under certain conditions
"Coup!" Journal Entry that can cause angry Interest Groups in government to seize power
New events about the adventures of Guiseppe Garibaldi
7 new Achievements

Major Features in Update 1.3

Agitator characters (new role) that create or empower Political Movements
Ability to invite Agitators exiled by other countries
New 'Character Interaction' system adds ability to interact directly with characters in your country (script extensible for modders)
Character Interactions: Exile Character, Repatriate Exile, Royal Marriage
Reworked Law Enactment mechanic, putting a law through three phases before it is passed
Reworked Revolution Progression mechanic with a plethora of new Revolution events
Politics Overview Panel overhaul providing easier overview of your Loyal and Radical Interest Groups, among other enhancements
New Political Movements panel giving you a breakdown of supporting Interest Groups, Agitators, and Pops
New Revolution map marker and visuals
New Law group: Land Reform
New Church & State Law: State Atheism
New Distribution of Power Laws: Single-Party State, Technocracy
New Economic System Law: Industry Banned
"Petition" Journal Entry lets Interest Groups in government encourage the passing of their desired laws
Country border rework for France, Algiers, parts of Africa and Germany
8 new Achievements

Improvements

Added a "Supported Law Cancelled" modifier that radicalizes a placated movement when their law enactment is cancelled
Political Movements can no longer become revolutionary without the support of an Interest Group
Added an effect to create more radicals from Standard of Living changes when a country has negative Authority
Added Opium growing potential to states in Ottoman Empire, Mexico, New Granada and Van Diemen's Land
Characters are more likely to become opium addicts if their culture is obsessed with opium
Freed Afro-American/Caribbean/Brazilian etc. nations now get an event that ensures slavery is almost always abolished in their nation
Added Coal and Gold potential to Morocco and the Sahara to account for historic coal and silver fields
Added Whaling Station potential to a few states around the world based on historic catch data
Buildings with low cash reserves, at least 10% employment, and low profits will now avoid hiring more employees, as this would often result in those employees then being fired a few weeks later
Female leaders of Interest Groups will now only show up after Women's Suffrage is passed (unless they are generated by special content such as the struggle for said suffrage), to better reflect historical disenfranchisement of women in politics
Base enactment time of various law groups adjusted to match new 3-phase enactment system
Populated the database with historical Scandinavian IG leaders, admirals, and generals
Haitian and Dominican population numbers and cultures have been updated to better reflect the situation in 1836
Updated population numbers in Belgium and the Netherlands to be more historically accurate
Montenegro has been shrunk even more to better reflect 1836 borders
Russian generals now have defined ideologies and interest groups
Updated the names and locations of hubs in Japan, Sakhalin and Taiwan to be more historically accurate
Revised the starting setup around the Lower Niger River and Mozambique
Auto expanding buildings will no longer evaluate the length of the construction queue but only check that Cash Reserves and Market Access are above 95%

Fixed a bug that was preventing some AIs with high budget surpluses from constructing high-priority government buildings such as Construction Sectors
AI (and Autonomous Investment) is now much more averse to overbuilding in states that don't have the infrastructure to support it
AI (and Autonomous Investment) will no longer continue to build railway buildings in states that have full market access but no workforce to support new buildings
AI is now better at prioritizing universities and innovation generation, particularly at using the more advanced University PMs
AI now has a greater tendency to make 'return state' wargoals into primary wargoals, particularly in cases when they're trying to complete a journal entry
Fixed an issue where the AI would repeatedly declare and then break rivalries
AI is now less inclined to seize Treaty Ports without having a strong reason to want them
AI is now more keen to rival countries back if they don't have the Conciliatory attitude
Peace evaluation AI no longer considers already enforced war goals as missed opportunities

Balance

Greatly expanded weights for when pops will join Political Movements independently of their Interest Groups
Monarchs and heirs now have a variety of factors affecting which Interest Group they are aligned with
Non-Commander characters are now less likely to become Wounded
Reduced the chance of Bankrolling giving you an obligation each week from 1% to 0.2%
Increased the number of radicals generated when conquering states that are not both homelands and a claim of the conqueror
Caudillismo ideology now favors Presidential Republic
Corn Laws now requires significantly expensive grain prices, and grants a Market Liberal Landowner Agitator rather than an IG leader
Landowner and Industrialist characters are more likely to have Expensive Tastes
Officers now gain Political Strength from the Autocracy law
Raised maximum personality traits for characters to 2 and reduced maximum skill traits for characters to 2
Council Republic now gets some Legitimacy from share of votes
Presidential Republic now gets a Legitimacy bonus for having head of state in government, but slightly less legitimacy from share of votes
Pops working in Subsistence Buildings now have the impact of Expected Standard of Living from Literacy greatly decreased
Reduced tech costs in era 4 and 5 to make it not quite so difficult to reach endgame tech
British East India now starts with railways technology
Interest Groups will now have a slightly higher tendency to support political movements if an Agitator of that interest group is supporting the political movement
Support for Multiculturalism is now found in the Humanitarian ideology
Various personality traits are now incompatible with each other
Added Logging Camp potential to Connecticut
Significantly reduced the speed at which characters gain skill traits over time, particularly if they are exiles or commanders in the recruitment pool
Several more building types are now subject to Dangerous Working Conditions
Adjusted pop attraction for the Devout Interest Group
Muslim characters are now less likely to become Alcoholics
Radical ideology no longer has a stance on Citizenship laws
Sepoy Mutiny is now a normal Diplomatic Play rather than an instant war
Industrial Barriers event now targets only notable minorities
Reduced throughput modifier on "Industrial Safety Slowdowns" from 50% to 10%
Changed the requirements of The Gamble to require multiple Interest Groups in government

Art

Added an option to enable an alternate occupation visual (stripes instead of flags) under Game settings
Added visual planes flying over the military units for the Aerial Reconnaissance production method
Military visual effects overhaul
Children now wear unique age-appropriate clothing
Heirs in monarchies are no longer bald and clean-shaven throughout their entire lives
Revised clothing weighting so children do not wear clothes that clip through their bodies
Tweaked pollution VFX
Louis Delescluze is now prohibited from wearing hats
Added Garibaldi's red shirts as dynamic soldier and officer pop clothing
Added a late-game uniform variant for the United States

Interface

Updated the Law tab, Law Group panel, and the Law Enactment outliner item with the improved Law Enactment system
Attached the associated Law enactment events to the Law enactment item in the outliner for much better visibility and feedback
Attached the associated Revolution events to the Revolutionary Political Movement item in the outliner for much better visibility and feedback
Improved the layout of the Interest Group panel
More informative tooltips for Political Movements and Revolutions
Combined Radicals and Loyalists graphs into one and make sure to always show this graph instead of the old one
Reworked the Law Enactment popup to actually be readable now
Added the outcome of the Law Enactment checkpoint to the Law Enactment event that spawned because of it for better feedback of what has happened
Added a State Construction Summary Map Marker for when there is more than one Building being actively expanded in a State, to reduce the amount of Construction Map Markers covering the map
Sort the entire Modifier databases to make tooltips more readable throughout the entire game
Added more information of any supported Political Movements on the Interest Groups themselves and their tooltips
Added the State's urbanization value to State tooltip and Urban Center building tooltip
Made several changes and tweaks to Alerts and Current Situation items to make them less spammy and more informative, including deactivating a few and moving their information to more appropriate places throughout the UI
Added functionality to unhide all Important Actions you have previously hidden
Added button to 'hide' an Important Action in the Current Situation window
Improved the Pop Support tooltip for politically inactive and total support number
Improved the Reform Government suggested options buttons and make it clearer which one is currently selected
Potential time-out results of Journal Entries can now be seen at the bottom of the corresponding Journal Entry panel if it has any
Added background colors for Journal Entry completion and failure effects
New game concept 'Neutral' has been added to explain the middle step of Loyalism/Radicalism better
Renamed Politically Inactive to Politically Unaligned to better describe what it means
Fixed an issue where a save made in the observer mode would look broken in the launcher
Fixed that the white peace button would always appear as if the AI would not accept it
Added Trade Route size trend indicator to the Trade Route list items
Liberate Country wargoal will now highlight the country being liberated on the map
Character tooltips have been updated with all relevant information for Agitators and Political Movements
Made the subtitles of all left side panels be consistent and have go-to buttons to relevant things if possible
Added the government/opposition stance to the top of Interest Groups' tooltips
Improved the tooltip for Research Queued
Right click menus are now accessible for all characters since there can be character interactions available for foreign characters or characters that are in the exile pool
Map interactions for Buildings you cannot expand further now have the padlock status and are not moved to the Unavailable Options list
Map interactions for Decrees are now default sorted by state name
Map interactions for Diplomatic Actions are now default sorted by country name
Map interactions status checkmark + red cross was removed from the UI and is now displayed as just a red cross
Map interactions status were reworked to prevent items from jumping from Available to Unavailable options in most cases
Added Expected Standard of Living to the State Standard of Living tooltip
Added Fancy Tooltip for Battle Conditions
Added Important Action for States with a high amount of Pops living under their Expected Standard of Living
Sort Decisions that can be taken on top of the Decision list
Migration Target Map Markers are now visible when zoomed further out
Cut down the amount of decimals for several Modifiers in order to make them more readable
Show Acceptance description for Citizenship and Church and State laws at the top of those Law tooltips
Show number of Battalions that can be Mobilized at the top of the Army Model and Internal Security Law tooltips
Reverse the order of the Ideology stances in the Ideology tooltip to show the Laws that Ideology approve of before the ones they disapprove of
Added Expected Standard of Living to the State Standard of Living tooltip
Players can now pin any market they desire to the outliner in the market panel
Improved map list panel for rivalry action
Added DLC icons with activation status and Steam store links to the main menu
Improved the Character right-click menu
Moved the "This option will be auto-picked" icon to the other side of the button in order to make it easier to get into the nested tooltip for that option
State Traits now shown as Map Markers in the Production Lens
Unrealized Taxes breakdown now shown in the Budget Panel
Interest Groups that support a Law are now shown on the first level of the Law tooltip
Fixed a bug where maplist highlight was not removed on mouse leave
The GDP chart now shows Yearly GDP instead of Weekly GDP, matching what's shown in the topbar
Empty values in initial land/naval battle size tooltips are now omitted
Fixed that an observer would see the game over screen if the country that they are observing was annexed
Improved the Current Situation for low standard of living
Made the Election panel handle more than 3 Parties
Trimmed recruitable commander tooltip
The 'Gold Reserves' widget in the budget panel is no longer empty when you have no gold reserves, instead just showing an empty bar
Removed (almost) unused highlight from Technologies
Added new background to map list options
Fix sidebar from opening too eagerly in some languages

Narrative Content

New dynastic Ideologies for France: Orleanist, Legitimist, and Bonapartist
New Ideologies: Positivist, Luddite, Socialist
Added Humanitarian, Protectionist, Jacksonian Democrat, and Authoritarian leader ideologies Socialist Ideology is now added to the Trade Unions after researching Socialism
Journal Entries are now inherited by a victorious revolution, meaning that JEs such as China's 'Fragile Unity' will not be abruptly ended if the Qing government is overthrown in a revolution
Major revisions to the Journal Entries surrounding German Unification. The process of annexing German minors through Customs Unions has been removed, and instead the JEs much more closely follow the historical narrative, starting with the Schleswig-Holstein question and allowing for annexation of North/South German minors only on the completion of the German Leadership War
Implemented a journal entry and variety of events for nihilist movements
Updated and expanded the Belle Époque journal entry
Nihilists now support State Atheism
Added Ruhr State Region
Added Rhineland releasable nation
Made Grand Exhibition more playable, removed inconsistencies, provided bonus to techs researched during the Journal Entry
Added events that retire agitators that no longer serve a purpose
Added events about the passing of Land Ownership laws
Added events about the passing of Industry Banned laws
Added some agitators present at game start
Added several events that allow for interaction with exiles
Added events that fire when you have an ongoing revolution
Added Franco-Provencal culture
Added additional character traits
Reduced the frequency of the 'Arming the Natives' Patagonia event, but made the effects more impactful.
Added Savoy releasable, for Franco-Provencal lands
Abe Lincoln only appears as an Interest Group leader when he's old enough to be President
Specified Switzerland's religion as Protestant, but gave it more explicitly Catholic leaders as well
Changed "Swiss" culture to "Alemannic", and changed all keys referring to Swiss culture
Converted the French history character file to solely use character templates
Added Flag for the USA if it were to be formed by California
Added new flags for communist California and if California controls Baja California

Performance

Improved performance of tutorial highlights
Map particle optimization

Modding

All logging console commands are now renamed to start with "Logging." and log output in a standardized way
Added Character.IsInExilePool and Character.IsExile for gui and loc scripting
Added new effect exile_character
Added new effect remove_character_role
Added the ability to scope to a character's home country (as opposed to their current country) via home_country
Added new triggers is_exile and is_in_exile_pool
Added political_movement link from a character to the movement they support and supporting_character link in the other direction
Ideologies can now have a priority value set, which determines which ideology is used when two non-leader ideologies have a stance on the same law group
Added a has_template trigger that can be used on characters to check if they are a certain template
Added new gui and loc script functions to access an exile's home country and interest group type
The trigger is_interest_group_type can now also be used in character scope (this is useful for exiles)
Added scripted weight ai_enact_weight_modifier to laws that allows direct modification of the AI's weight to enact that law
Added an on_action for when a law enactment a political movement supports is cancelled
Added a cancel_enactment effect
Added new trigger can_ruler_have_command to determine if a ruler can be granted command of the country's armies
New triggers investment_pool_net_income & investment_pool_gross_income
ordered_preferred_law scriptlist for laws sorted by scoped Interest Group approval
Added a console logging command for concluded battles
Added number of buildings, total building levels, and number of global unemployed pops to world population log
Added a has_monarch_ideology scripted trigger
land_hq trigger can now also be called in state scope

Bugfixes

It is no longer possible to recruit Commanders to temporary HQs
Fixed many instances where population, loyalists, or radicals values could overflow
Fixed labels for Tax Types in the Population Overview panel
Fixed a bug where Serfdom only unlocks Serfdom PM options rather than automatically enforce it
A war goal that has already been enforced (due to capitulation) can no longer be pressed again in peace deals.
Fixed a bug that allowed to exceed a building's max level cap
The Regime Change wargoal should now correctly create a government that has at least one shared Interest Group with the wargoal holder and force them to re-evaluate their political strategy shortly after being enforced
Alerts referring to wars will now open the correct panel when clicked rather than do nothing
Made loyalists and radicals tooltip numbers be red and green as intended
Insubordinate Jingoist event now adds tension instead of creating a native uprising
Rubber plantations are now affected by the Encourage Resource state decree
Fixed a crash where the game would try to reset script variables in a read-only (invalid) scoped object.
Subject countries can now only support their overlord as a unification candidate
The lower bound for throughput bonus is now -1 (in other words no throughput at all), rather than throughput bonus being capped to only positive values
Reduced Whaling Stations mortality
Fixed several bugs in the Internal Security laws
Fixed overflow of party name on Interest Group panel
Fixed issues that could happen during clean up of a commander's orders
German States will no longer be forced into Hannover's market if they left before Victoria comes to power
Honorable Restoration JE now requires that Japan is a monarchy
Rogue Imperialist and Colonial Clash events can now trigger only once per country
Fixed the potential crash-to-desktop on game exit when the save game window was open
Feminism and Patriarchal Suffrage now have their stances on Rights of Women/Free Speech override any stance from base ideologies, such as Liberal
Fixed an issue that prevented Unification play from being launched if all potential targets were in a Customs Union
Battle modifiers for captured provinces and recovery rate now work correctly
People's Springtime.5 event can no longer apply to the same state twice, and now applies only to incorporated states
Renamed the Maures culture to Bidan, and changed cultural traits to fit history more accurately.
Fixed a bug where buildings that have not been constructed yet would show an alert for being unable to hire
Scripted army_size link no longer includes conscripts by default, which should fix tutorial and the assumptions behind several AI scripts (new link army_size_including_conscripts now covers the previous use case)
Several missing or wrong UI highlights during the Tutorial have been fixed
Added the correct Interest Group tooltip for Interest Group buttons everywhere
Removed the in-government icon from the Interest Group icon on the Interest Group tooltip due to clipping
Fixed various small localization errors (spelling, grammar, phrasing etc.) across a number of game concepts
Changed the Naval Invasion Battle panel subtitle to mention Naval Invasion instead of battle
Assassination events now correctly invalidate if the assassin's target dies from other causes
Fixed loc string for modifier_unit_supply_consumption_mult
Romania is no longer a valid country for secessionists
Tanzimat: Suppress Separatism now fails with over 50% secession progress
Fixed an issue where the "show invalid savegames" checkbox had no effect.
Fixed a bug where bankrolling pacts would be cancelled unexpectedly
Fixed a bug where new traits for characters were not updated until game reload
Fixed a bug where occupying a province with connection via strait to an isolated island could cause split occupation
Fixed an issue when after researching quinine colony progress speed wasn't updated
Fixed a bug where countries without elections had no last reform date saved
add_pollution effect now displays correct amount of pollution
Characters in the "void" no longer gain skill traits over time
Turkestan now counts the state of Ili in the list of possible states to form Turkestan in
Releasing Transcaucasia no longer requires Yemen to be released
Removed duplicate modifiers for Livestock Ranch throughput modifiers
"Dangerous Equipment" and all other pm_events now have a five year cooldown
Option C of the "Kindly Burn this Letter" event no longer throws endless errors.
Removed NULL_OBJ from the name of goldrush.5
Sepoy Mutiny no longer leaves states unincorporated for the EIC once defeated
Sepoy Mutiny no longer results in the EIC having two annex wargoals
bic_breakup.1 event no longer fires every month when its conditions are satisfied
bic_breakup.1 event now properly switches the Devout to the Hindu Priesthood in the pan-nationalist option
Fixed several bugs in the Child Labour events
Resolved several issues in the Psychology event chain
Added missing icon to the Marginalized concept tooltip
Rhode Island forestry hub now has a name
Fixed an issue where the load savegame confirmation window would remain opened outside the load game view.
Fixed an issue with the Nicaragua, Tripoli and Cauca Treaty Ports not being properly defined
Fixed a bug where the Opium Wars victory event could display without a title
Fixed some instances in which tutorial lessons could end up referring to a null object
Fixed a bug where the custom German flags based on different unifiers would not work if NGF/SGF was formed on the way to becoming Germany
italian_unification.1.b now uses the correct loc key
Fixed an issue that led to scope problems in expedition conclusion events

And that's it!

It should be pretty obvious at this point but most of Update 1.3 focuses on increasing both the complexity and your agency over your internal politics. Expect to be surprised by some of the situations that can arise from the interplay of the new Agitator, revolution, enactment, and petition mechanics, among other improvements and tweaks we've made! We can't wait to see what political imbroglios that arise in your nations next Monday, and hear how you end up dealing with them.

Next week will likely be a brief dev diary from us, as we'll be focusing our efforts on listening to feedback and planning the next update. As always you can find us on the forum and on the official Victoria 3 Discord server!

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