Victoria 3 News

• [p]Added Journal Entries for organising the United States of Greater Austria. Upon forming a Dual or Triple Monarchy and researching pan-nationalism, one may endeavour to form the USGA through the Federal Solution Journal entry and integrating enough cultures within the Empire to form the USGA[/p]
• [p]Added a decision and event chain for transforming the Austrian Dual Monarchy into the Triple Monarchy through issuing a Trialist Manifesto. Issuing this Manifesto permits creating a third, more cooperative crown in Croatia to offset Hungary - at the cost of a potential conflict with Hungary.[/p]
• [p]Added a Journal Entry (The Ständestaat​) for organising Austria into a Corporate State. With the rise of mass politics in Austria, the Corporatist Movement seeks to end democracy in favour of the “Ständestaat​”[/p]
• [p]Added narrative content and a Journal Entry pertaining to the Great Eastern Crisis[/p]
• [p]Added several Events and Journal Entries for Russia and Austria to interact with the Great Eastern Crisis[/p]
• [p]Added a starting Journal Entry (The Age of Metternich​) to Austria, themed around the twilight years of Klemens von Metternich. This Journal Entry focuses on his objectives of maintaining the Austrian monarchy, maintenance of the Austrian sphere, and promotion of the arts and sciences[/p]
• [p]Added a new building set for the Balkan region, including completely new 3D models for the Rural and Urban Residential, Farm, Civic, Port and Forestry buildings. Port and Forestry in particular have received a huge overhaul, showing much more information to the player on the map about their selected production methods. The building set also includes reskins of the currently existing Factory and Mining Models to help them fit better with the rest of the new Balkan buildings[/p]
• [p]Added historical Austrian emperors and heirs past game start date, along with several events pertaining to the affairs of the Habsburgs.[/p]
• [p]Added a Journal Entry and associated events pertaining to the Hungarian revolution[/p]
• [p]Added historical uniforms to Austrian, Hungarian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Greek, and Montenegrin generals, monarchs, officers, and soldier pops[/p]
• [p]Added a Journal Entry for developing one's national identity as a Balkan state[/p]
• [p]The Balkan League may now be created as an alliance between Serbia, Montenegro, Greece and (if they exist on the map) Bulgaria. Ottoman subjects may be added as de facto members. These nations receive various options to represent their militarization. Should they win the Balkan War, they may then turn on each other to retake their homelands[/p]
• [p]Added loading screens for National Awakening[/p]
• [p]Added new pop and character clothing, including outfits for Greek Fustanellas, Balkan Hajduks, late-game winterised uniforms, and early-nineteenth century tailcoats[/p]
• [p]Added a Journal Entry simulating Montenegro's dependence on raiding to feed and clothe their people, with associated events. This can, with some difficulty, be upscaled to create a warlike nation set on destroying the Ottomans, but the Great Powers will not approve[/p]
• [p]Added a Journal Entry for Montenegro to stop (or at least reduce) raiding and modernise their laws in an effort to appeal to the Great Powers for more land from the Ottoman Empire[/p]
• [p]Added a Journal Entry for the Ottoman Empire to deal with Montenegro's raiding and to reward players for crushing the rebels once and for all[/p]
• [p]Added a series of events reflecting the history of Montenegro's rulers and the dramatic transition from Theocracy to Monarchy[/p]
• [p]Added the Throne of Thorns Journal Entry for Serbia, covering the conflict between Obrenovič and Karađorđević dynasties over the Serbian throne[/p]
• [p]Added a Journal Entry for Montenegro and Serbia to combine into a single nation if they share borders, reflecting the history of Montenegrin rulers at the time considering themselves Serbs[/p]
• [p]Added the Prussia of the Balkans Journal Entry for Bulgaria, covering Bulgaria's rapid militarization following its independence from the Ottoman Empire[/p]
• [p]Added a Journal Entry for the formation of Yugoslavia[/p]
• [p]Added a new 3D building representation of Hagia Sophia[/p]
• [p]Added a Sausage Platter table asset, with Kolbász and some lovely pickles[/p]
• [p]Added a Bugbear Flask table asset, a carved coconut to carry your gunpowder in. Created by sailors on their voyages home[/p]
• [p]Added a Chibouk Pipe table asset, with matches depicting a certain Basil…[/p]
• [p]Added a Coffee Cup table asset, alongside Turkish delight[/p]
• [p]Added a new Austrian coin, based on a Maria Theresa thaler[/p]
• [p]Added the Gründerzeit Journal Entry to the game, valid for all German nations[/p]
• [p]Added the Autocracy in the Age of Liberty Journal Entry to Austria, along with associated events[/p]
• [p]Added 'Bavarocracy' as a new starting Journal Entry for Greece[/p]
• [p]Added 7 new companies to the game[/p]
• [p]Added new custom Interest trait names and traits to the game for German, Romanian, and Hungarian nations[/p]
• [p]Added content related to the 1873 Vienna World's Fair[/p]

• [p]Reworked discrimination traits on Cultures and Religions. Cultures now always have a heritage and language trait each. These both belong to a wider family of similar traits. Cultures can also have tradition traits, which may change over the course of the game. Religions now have a defined heritage trait similarly to Cultures. As a consequence of this, many modifiers, triggers, effects and historical setup have changed[/p]
• [p]Cultures now have Cultural Fervor, which acts as a measure of how much a culture has come to identify with a single national identity[/p]
• [p]Added a new hostile Diplomatic Action "Support Separatism" that will increase Movement Pop Support Attraction and Movement Activism for Cultural Minority Movements of one’s Primary Cultures in a target country[/p]
• [p]States now have an "Obstinance" value which, when high, gives penalties to the state's cooperation with the country's government[/p]
• [p]Added the ability to edit a Prestige Good's name next to the Goods button (Charters of Commerce)[/p]
• [p]Many nation-specific Journal Entries can now be previewed from the Sandbox map while selecting a country, giving players an indication of the historical content available to each nation. A maximum of three journal entries are displayed[/p]
• [p]Added an "African Diaspora" ethnicity[/p]

• [p]Added a "Delete All" button to the "Load Savegame" window[/p]
• [p]Companies now have categories, which change the employment structure of their headquarter buildings. For example, companies focused around plantations and farms will tend to have partial aristocratic ownership instead of being fully owned by capitalists[/p]
• [p]The Promote National Values decree now allows Pops in the state to be assimilated even if the state is one of the homeland states for their culture[/p]
• [p]It is now possible for multiple political movements to try and secede at the same time. You can still only have one ongoing revolution, but this can happen alongside any number of secessions[/p]
• [p]It is now possible to downsize buildings and disband individual units while there is a revolution or secession brewing, so long as that building/unit is not located in an insurrectionary state[/p]
• [p]When a revolution has a democratic form of government, the revolutionary IGs will now join a special Revolutionary Party which is the only one eligible for votes, to ensure democratic revolutions are not stuck at zero legitimacy. If the revolutionaries win, the Revolutionary Party will dissolve at the next election[/p]
• [p]Reworked how Ideological Opinion is calculated. Instead of being purely based on government compositions, it is now calculated from a combination of active laws and government ideologies, which should result in a more coherent mechanic[/p]
• [p]Under Cooperative Ownership, building levels owned by the country's companies will now pay out 75% of their dividends to the workforce before passing the rest on to the company HQ[/p]
• [p]Under Command Economy, company HQs will now pay out 75% of their dividends to the government instead of having it be hoarded by bureaucrats[/p]
• [p]Units stationed in an HQ can now defend against invasions[/p]
• [p]Added a Stimulants pop need category, which produces demand for Sugar, Coffee, Tea, and Tobacco amongst pops of Wealth 6 to 30[/p]
• [p]Allowed fleets to be borrowed in naval battles[/p]
• [p]Added a new Subjecthood law, representing the conception of the populace as subjects of a sovereign, rather than citizens of a nation-state[/p]
• [p]Added Italian and German national-liberal movements, which support both liberal reform and desire the unification of Italy/Germany[/p]
• [p]When a released country inherits laws from the country it was released from, it will no longer inherit any laws that are not valid for them to enact (such as laws specific to a religion they do not share)[/p]
• [p]Pops that become unemployed now keep their profession rather than turning into laborers[/p]
• [p]Adjusted the starting ideologies for Ottoman Interest Group Leaders[/p]
• [p]Insurrectionary Political Movements will also increase the radicalism of movements of the same type in neighbouring countries[/p]
• [p]Non-Revolutionary IGs in revolutionary countries no longer get political strength while the revolution is ongoing[/p]
• [p]The presence of Insurrectionary Cultural or Religious movements will now increase the Activism of other Cultural and Religious movements[/p]
• [p]Buildings now usually prioritize hiring unemployed pops before employed ones, so long as they are qualified[/p]
• [p]Russia now starts with a decaying modifier that reduces its Acceptance of Polish pops, and increases Polish Cultural Fervor[/p]
• [p]Default-gen characters that appear in countries with non-default state religions now spawn with the non-default religion[/p]
• [p]The Provisional Government event for France now enacts Parliamentary Republic, rather than Presidential Republic[/p]
• [p]Political Movements will have a higher chance of appearing if a more prestigious neighbouring country has this movement[/p]
• [p]Gave the Liberal Movement a stance opposing Serfdom[/p]
• [p]Hooked Cultural Fervor into the Brazilian Nation-Building content (Colossus of the South)[/p]
• [p]Changed generic Interest Group leader's spawned characteristics in some circumstances[/p]
• [p]Added weights to the ideology chances of non-interest group leader characters wherever applicable[/p]
• [p]Added localisation to certain journal entries to display the results of triggered events[/p]
• [p]Adjusted population balance in Bohemia, Moravia, and East and West Galicia to make Jewish pops more urban on average[/p]
• [p]Ensured that gaining Orleanists’ support from trade only works if you have trade going on (Voice of the People)[/p]

• [p]Fixed a bug that largely made the AI unable to correctly evaluate when passing a law would cause a civil war and when cancelling an enactment would avoid one, which should result in less unnecessary civil wars[/p]
• [p]AI willingness to unify Italy and Germany is now largely determined by the presence of Interest Groups pressured by Italian/German national movements in government. Additional weights include researching the Pan-Nationalism technology, and high Movement Activism of Italian/German national movements.[/p]
• [p]The AI is now willing to attack even with fairly low organization, so long as they perceive themselves to still have the advantage on the front[/p]
• [p]Made Princely States more inclined to be conservative[/p]

• [p]Migration attraction factors for arable land, employment and unemployment now look at the amount of employed/unemployed pops relative to the population in the state rather than absolute numbers, so that large states will not always have inherently higher migration attraction compared to small ones[/p]
• [p]Generals part of a naval invasion now must have advancing orders and can no longer stall the invasion. Your armies can't be on a cruise outside the coast forever anymore[/p]
• [p]Civil Wars will now have a stockpile of military goods generating additional sell orders in their capital, so that rebels do not start with instant severe supply shortages. The size of the stockpile is based on market conditions pre civil war.[/p]
• [p]Doubled Liberty Desire added from support independence articles, which scale by rank of the providing nation, but reduced max combined effect to 0.5[/p]
• [p]Overlord's alliances and defensive pacts will now reduce their subjects' Liberty Desire, though to a lesser extent than support independence and to a max combined effect of -0.25. Overlords can use this to partially counteract the effect from their subject's support independence pacts[/p]
• [p]Liberty Desire is now increased/decreased by the ratio of overlord to subject's army projection power, with overlords expected to have at least 5/7.5/10x stronger forces depending on the subject's autonomy level. If the overlord has more than the expected ratio, the subject's liberty desire will decrease to a max of -0.1, otherwise it will increase to a max of 0.5. In practice, this makes it easier for players to break free as a subject by increasing the size of their army[/p]
• [p]A special exception where the above effect is capped to 0.25 is made for the liberty desire of the East India Company and the Raj, as these represent the British presence in India, rather than resistance to British rule[/p]
• [p]Added liberty desire effect based on the comparative size of a country's army to the subject's, if the overlord themselves have an overlord. (E.g. subjects of the East India Company are affected by the size of Great Britain's army if it is more than ten times bigger than their own, to max -0.1)[/p]
• [p]Liberty Desire will decrease based on fervor if the subject and overlord share primary cultures, to a max of -0.25. If the subject has a mix of shared and non-shared primary cultures, the fervor effect on liberty desire will be a sum, with shared cultures decreasing and independent cultures increasing liberty desire[/p]
• [p]Assimilation in homelands now has a 0.75x multiplier to its speed[/p]
• [p]Blockade strength now scales from 50% sea presence cutoff, meaning you start building it later. Exact algorithm is `MaxBlockadeStrength
• Max(0, (SeaPresence - Threshold)/(100%-Threshold))`[/p]
• [p]Reduced acceptance gain from Multiculturalism[/p]
• [p]Enabled assimilation of pops in the Full Acceptance bracket[/p]
• [p]The Multiculturalism law now disables the Promote National Values decree[/p]
• [p]Added a Sugar Beets production method for Wheat and Rye farms[/p]
• [p]Reduced production of Sugar from various Orchards production methods[/p]
• [p]The market trade panel now shows total and used Trade Capacity for your country in markets where you have Trade Centers[/p]
• [p]Increased the base political strength of Officers and Soldiers[/p]
• [p]Most European nations now have Egalitarianism at game start[/p]
• [p]The relations impact of articles now maps directly to whether they are considered friendly, hostile or neutral. For example, Non-Colonization Agreements are generally considered to be a source of friction and will reduce relations, while Goods Transfers will not impact relations at all[/p]
• [p]Increased civil war cooldown from 6 to 9 months[/p]
• [p]Added a training rate bonus to civil war uprisings[/p]
• [p]Movements will now have greatly reduced Activism for twenty years after launching a failed revolution or secession[/p]
• [p]Bureaucrats are now able to contribute to the investment pool under economic systems where they have ownership shares[/p]
• [p]Washington DC now starts with a bit more arable land and more buildings[/p]
• [p]The White House now provides a migration attraction boost[/p]
• [p]The US now gets a positive modifier while Washington DC is the capital, and a negative one if Washington DC is \\*not\\* the capital[/p]
• [p]Adjusted the effects of National Guard to disadvantage Officers and benefit the Petit-Bourgeoisie[/p]
• [p]The Absolutist movement no longer instantly disappears once a voting law is enacted[/p]
• [p]Austria now starts with Central Archives and Secret Police[/p]
• [p]The Radical ideology now favours Parliamentary Republic over Presidential Republic[/p]
• [p]The Elitist, Republican, and Royalist ideologies now favour Presidential Republic over Parliamentary Republic[/p]
• [p]Changed the starting laws of the Danubian Principalities to reflect their historical situation[/p]
• [p]Changed Piedmont's agricultural product from Wheat to Rice[/p]
• [p]Upper and Lower Canada start with small radical movements, reflecting conditions leading up to the rebellions of 1837[/p]
• [p]Reduced factors limiting the relevance of trade unions in the early game[/p]
• [p]Increased required Movement Activism for failing Indian Home Rule and activating The Indian Nation journal entries for British India[/p]
• [p]The German National Identity Journal Entry is now dependent upon the Cultural Fervor of North German and South German cultures[/p]
• [p]Increased the base chance for Polish pops to join cultural minority movements[/p]
• [p]Added more building levels to the state of Bulgaria[/p]
• [p]Moved most Prussian arms manufacturies in Silesia to Brandenburg to reflect the location of contemporary arsenals[/p]
• [p]Added fish potential to Courland and Lithuania[/p]
• [p]Reduced the pop attraction to the Devout from Religious Schools, and increased the penalty due to literacy[/p]
• [p]Rebalanced all character ideology weights[/p]
• [p]Limited Jacksonian Democrat ideology to Petit-Bourgeoisie, Rural Folk, and Trade Unions interest groups[/p]
• [p]Croatia now starts with a University[/p]
• [p]Added two University levels to the Scottish Lowlands[/p]
• [p]Reduced movement activism decrease from National Guard to -3% per level, from -5%[/p]
• [p]Improved the stances of various Liberal ideologies regarding National Guard[/p]
• [p]Changed starting lobbies for Serbia, placing the Landowners in favour of Austria[/p]
• [p]Removed French monarchist ideologies from the set of default ideologies for Devout, Industrialists, Intelligentsia, Petit-Bourgeoisie, Armed Forces, Landowners, and Rural Folk[/p]
• [p]Removed Personal Union junior partners' bonus to law imposition chance[/p]

• [p]Added DNA and a custom outfit for Klemens von Metternich[/p]
• [p]Adjusted Russian uniforms to be more historical. Generals and royals begin wearing single-breasted tailcoats, and move to double-breasted coats upon researching General Staff[/p]
• [p]Added map graphics for Austrian and Hungarian military units[/p]
• [p]Improved the uniforms of French Officers and Soldiers pops[/p]
• [p]Added Polynesian irregular military unit illustration[/p]
• [p]Changed the colour of the Russian Tsar's sash to that of the Order of Saint Andrew[/p]
• [p]Heirs will no longer erroneously wear top hats[/p]

• [p]Added law variants "Women in the Fields" and "Šef Paternalism" to simulate Montenegro's unique history of women performing agricultural labor so more men could fight, and adding a historically inspired gameplay solution to support their unemployed population[/p]
• [p]Reworked the existing Greek Nationalism Journal Entry[/p]
• [p]Reworked the Ionian Islands decision[/p]
• [p]Added the "Natural Harbors" State Trait to a bunch of state regions across the world that did not have it already including places like New South Wales or Suzhou[/p]
• [p]Added new State Traits in Anatolia including "Pontus", "Anatolian Plateau" and "The Bosporus"[/p]
• [p]Added a Labour Associations lawgroup, which governs the legality of various sorts of labour associations[/p]
• [p]Reworked Springtime of the Peoples content, with a new journal entry and several events[/p]
• [p]Added an event which fires if one unifies Greater Germany, giving the opportunity to release the Austrian empire as subjects[/p]
• [p]Added a new Journal Entry and events for Zanzibar if it's spawned via Oman's Journal Entry[/p]
• [p]Updated the starting diplomatic relations in Indochina in 1836[/p]
• [p]Added a new journal entry for monarchist countries abolishing Autocracy[/p]
• [p]Added a journal entry for the European Potato Famine[/p]
• [p]Added a new Colonial Slavery law, which functions like debt slavery, but only in unincorporated states. Pops below a certain level of Acceptance and Wealth in unincorporated states are passively enslaved, and all slave pops in incorporated states are automatically made free[/p]
• [p]Reworked the Matter of Hungary Journal Entry for Austria[/p]
• [p]Added additional characters for Canada, Haiti, Liberia, and dynamic broad portions of the Middle East[/p]
• [p]Revised the map setup for East Africa. Added 16 new tags along the East African coast.[/p]
• [p]Added historical Ottoman Empire monarchs past game start date along with several events pertaining to the affairs of the sultans[/p]
• [p]Dai Nam's capital has been moved from Tonkin to Annam[/p]
• [p]The "Oresund" State Trait now grants MAPI[/p]
• [p]Added the "Rio Grande" State Trait to states along the Rio Grande river[/p]
• [p]Added a new Journal Entry to enshrine technocratic rule in a country that has enacted Technocracy, along with a new ideology for the Intelligentsia that favours Technocracy[/p]
• [p]Added an "Eastern German" culture, representing the German population of the Russian Empire[/p]
• [p]Added an Organic Regulation law for the Danubian principalities, a variant of Oligarchy[/p]
• [p]Added a Manorialism law for Austria and Austrian subjects, a variant of Serfdom[/p]
• [p]Added a Crownland Diets law for Austria and Austrian subjects, a variant of Hereditary Bureaucrats[/p]
• [p]Added the historical Treaty of Adrianople between Russia and the Danubian Principalities, with the Danubian Principalities committing to Organic Regulation and Russian military access in return for Support Independence from Russia[/p]
• [p]Updated the population of South Tyrol to include its Italian pops, and increased its Arable Land to match[/p]
• [p]Added 3 free new companies to the game[/p]
• [p]Split the state of Silesia into two: an Upper and a Lower part[/p]
• [p]Adjusted the state borders of Vilnius, West Prussia and East Prussia to better account for historical international borders[/p]
• [p]Expanded namelists for several Balkan cultures[/p]
• [p]Added historical characters to Transylvania[/p]
• [p]Added the Ibadi religion to the game[/p]
• [p]Added some new government types for African countries and the USA[/p]
• [p]Historical Confederate characters in the USA get dragged to the CSA if/when it spawns[/p]
• [p]Added dozens of new historical characters for Austria, Hungary, Serbia, and Greece[/p]
• [p]Updated the starting map, hubs and splines of Indochina in 1836[/p]
• [p]Added some Vietnamese and French dynamic names in Indochina[/p]
• [p]Expanded the Nile to South Sudan via the "White Nile" State Trait[/p]
• [p]Galicia-Lodomeria is now formable by Krakow[/p]
• [p]Added historical clothing for National Awakening characters[/p]
• [p]Added Lead and Gold (“Silver”) mines to Bohemia[/p]
• [p]Changed the name of the "Stratocratic" ideology to "Hierarchic"[/p]
• [p]Added Czech endonyms for Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia[/p]
• [p]Added additional German city endonyms[/p]
• [p]Added dynamic naming for the entire Austrian Empire[/p]
• [p]Poland is now released only in the "core" Polish lands[/p]
• [p]Fish no longer avoid the coasts of Pattaya[/p]
• [p]The "Bremerhaven" State Trait has been renamed to "Hamburger Hafen"[/p]
• [p]Italy is now referred to as a Kingdom, not Empire[/p]
• [p]Changed Haiti's starting economy and church-and-state laws to Agrarianism and Freedom of Conscience[/p]
• [p]Changed Ferdinand I's personality trait from Arrogant to Compliant[/p]
• [p]Croatia is now pink by default[/p]
• [p]Updated the population of South Tyrol to include its Italian pops, and increased its Arable Land to match[/p]
• [p]The "Reforms at Gunpoint" event may now enact a greater variety of laws[/p]
• [p]Added a Haitian Empire flag, colour, and custom name for autocratic monarchy Haiti[/p]
• [p]Uruguay can no longer support Tobacco & Coffee plantations, as the climate isn't actually suitable for it. The Uruguay River state trait (affecting Uruguay and Rio Grande De la Sul) now also gives a throughput bonus to ranching, and a penalty to plantations[/p]
• [p]Significantly revised some cultures' name lists[/p]
• [p]Created new clothing combinations for African and Arabic pops[/p]
• [p]Changed the ideology of Franz Anton von Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky in Austria to Royalist[/p]
• [p]Changed the alignment of the Austrian Landowners to the Pro-British lobby, and the Austrian Intelligentsia to Pro-Russian[/p]
• [p]Changed the ideology of Edward Smith-Stanley from Traditionalist to Democrat[/p]
• [p]Changed William Lyon Mackenzie's interest group to Petit-Bourgeoisie, and his ideology to Jacksonian Democrat[/p]
• [p]Changed Robert Baldwin's interest group to Intelligentsia[/p]
• [p]Renamed Frederick VI of Denmark and Christian VIII of Denmark from "von Oldenburg" to "of Glücksburg"[/p]
• [p]Changed the name of communist Central Europe from "Union of People's Republics" to "Union of Council Republics"[/p]

• [p]It is now possible to choose the main menu backdrop via the theme selector[/p]
• [p]Added a "dynamic" theme option which automatically picks a theme based on the country you play[/p]
• [p]Added a faster way to select all themes from the base game or from specific paid content packs[/p]
• [p]Left-aligned all texts in events to make it easier to digest and read. You can change text alignment for event options under Game -> Accessibility[/p]
• [p]Added warnings to confirmation popups when players can potentially break alliance-like treaties[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug where civil war events for revolutions would appear twice in the outliner[/p]
• [p]The tooltip of a diplomatic play in the outliner or diplomatic play panel now shows what treaties will be broken once war breaks out[/p]
• [p]Added optional striped visuals to the Culture and Religion map modes, these should help to more easily identity minority cultures and religions in countries[/p]
• [p]Government-owned production building levels no longer have a penalty to Economy of Scale compared to privately owned levels (the support for it remains though in case modders want to make use of this system)[/p]
• [p]Added a list of the reworked Heritage, Language, and Traditions traits on the Culture panel and in the Culture fancy tooltip[/p]
• [p]Added a map marker for Cultures that have a National Awakening[/p]
• [p]Added a map marker for States that have Obstinance[/p]
• [p]When looking at other countries pop breakdown tooltip it will now show their pop stats and not yours[/p]
• [p]The original release version of the main menu backdrop has been brought back from the past and can be selected in the theme selector[/p]
• [p]Added a proper notification for when an agitator spawns in your country and goes into immediate voluntary exile due to lack of a movement to create or join[/p]
• [p]Lightened the flavor text in events to make it more readable, especially in italic[/p]
• [p]Made the Goods icons show up more consistently with the Good's name for better recognizability in tooltips especially[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug in the Pop panel where a Pop's supported Political Movements were frequently not being shown[/p]
• [p]Removed the top part of the Laws tab where the currently enacting Law was, in favor of only showing all info on the law group itself for less duplication of info[/p]
• [p]When 'inheriting' radicals from conquered states, this is now correctly shown as the reason for those radicals being added to your total amount[/p]
• [p]Improved tooltips for Unit Veterancy and Popularity by providing a better overview over the effects they bring[/p]
• [p]Added new descriptions to all Citizenship laws[/p]
• [p]Updated descriptions for No Home Affairs, National Guard, and Secret Police laws[/p]
• [p]Revenue & Expenses in Building Weekly Balance tooltip now uses same SI format for easier readability[/p]
• [p]Fixed overlapping names of Cultures and Religions on the Society panel when too many were shown[/p]
• [p]Fixed missing cost breakdown for treaties[/p]

• [p]We have worked on a set of performance improvements which drastically cut down on the number of Pops (not population numbers) we see in the game (especially in the late game), without having a noticeable impact on how well the economy is doing. In total, we have been able to cut the late game Pop number by roughly 25% through these changes. It is essentially done by imposing some more rules for how Pops can engage in the economy to avoid fragmentation. While we haven't been able to observe any major issues with this, if you do note something related to these changes, make a save, make a report and we will take a look at it to see if we need to tweak these behaviours further[/p]
• [p]The concrete changes are the following:[/p]
  • [p]Added a limitation to the amount of Pops that can work in a building per profession. The total amount of Pops that can be hired depends on the total amount of workforce in the building. For example the Engineer workforce of a building with only 100 workers will be composed of up to three Culture+Religion combinations, whereas in a building with 50000 engineers, you can have five combinations[/p]
  • [p]When a building fires pops, it now starts firing the smallest Pops first, rather than proportionally[/p]
  • [p]Similarly, when a building hires new people, they will prefer to hire Pops that are already present as workforce in their building[/p]
  • [p]Migrations are now done in "buckets" of at least 1k people per migration. That basically means that people wanting to migrate from a state need to gather enough people to do so and then they all leave in one go, rather than immediately splitting up into many small Pops migrating everywhere[/p]
• [p]The AI now remembers when a country is completely uninterested in a sway offer and doesn't try to evaluate that particular sway offer for that country again for a little while[/p]
• [p]The AI no longer bothers with evaluating sway offers for countries that would not support them under any circumstances[/p]

• [p]Added a new state modifier type state_allow_assimilation_in_homeland_bool which allows pops in the state to be assimilated even if the state is one of the homeland states for their culture[/p]
• [p]Added dynamic modifier for goods to inject sell orders into the market from a state: state_sell_order__add[/p]
• [p]Law validation during game setup is now done after diplomacy and other key factors have been initialized, to avoid throwing errors due to subjects not being set or similar[/p]
• [p]Added new on action on_new_interest_group_leader[/p]
• [p]Added a simpler system for creating JE event outcome descriptions using the effect system to autogenerate tooltips[/p]
• [p]Added country_acceptance_homeland_add and country_acceptance_not_homeland_add modifier types.[/p]
• [p]Added ACCEPTANCE_FROM_NOT_HOMELAND_COMMUNITY define allowing you to set a base acceptance for pops not in their homeland.[/p]
• [p]Added "country__cultural_acceptance_add" modifier types and an "add_culture_acceptance_modifier" effect for changing the acceptance of a culture in a country[/p]
• [p]Added "country_fervor_target__add" modifier types and an "add_fervor_target_modifier" effect for changing the fervor target of a culture proportional to how many of that culture lives in the country compared to the entire culture's population[/p]
• [p]Added effects liberate_slaves_in_incorporated_states and liberate_slaves_in_unincorporated_states.[/p]
• [p]Added new modifier type state_institution_impact_add which can be used to increase/decrease the impact of institutions in a state[/p]
• [p]Added a simpler system for creating JE event outcome descriptions using the effect system to autogenerate tooltips[/p]
• [p]Secret goal scores in AI strategies now supports filtering triggers to avoid unnecessary calculations and improve performance[/p]
• [p]Added new effect execute_event_option[/p]
• [p]Added support for event outcome localization when Journal Entries are activated and invalidated[/p]
• [p]Religions now have the following methods available to them in the UI: GetName, GetNameNoIcon, GetNameNoFormatting, GetTextIcon, GetIcon (alias: GetTexture)[/p]
• [p]Events can now use an After = {} section The effects within this section will execute no matter which option is selected, and their tooltips will be appended to the bottom of each option[/p]
• [p]loyalist_fraction & radical_fraction now properly recognize database object scopes when being set for filters. (i.e culture = cu:dixie)[/p]
• [p]Scripted lists localization will now find the correct trigger key[/p]
• [p]Added modder-facing hub validation during startup. The game will now emit errors in the error log if a state region definition is missing a hub it should have, or if it has hubs it shouldn't (such as a landlocked state region defining a port hub)[/p]
• [p]Added movement_is_causing_obstinance trigger which checks if the scoped movement is currently supposed to be causing obstinance somewhere[/p]
• [p]Added support in AI strategies to weight the AI for or against including a specific interest group in their government[/p]
• [p]The is_visible trigger for laws now correctly blocks enactment of the law as well, so you do not need to write duplicate triggers[/p]
• [p]Added script value support for liberating specific country tags to AI strategies[/p]
• [p]Added a "getPluralDemonym" custom localisation function, which returns a plural demonym for all existing cultures[/p]
• [p]Added console cheat fastactivism[/p]
• [p]Merged the "Republican Unrest" and "Legacy of the French Revolution" modifiers for France[/p]

• [p]Fixed a bug where ships could end up in a land formation[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug where subjects could end up both allied to and enemy of their overlord simultaneously if an uprising happens while a subject is rebelling[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug where low tax collection efficiency would result in Income and Poll Taxes being collected and then destroyed rather than just not being collected[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug where it was possible to add a Conquer State wargoal against a state already being targeted by a Unification wargoal[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug where it was possible to nationalize building levels owned by foreign HQs whose home countries have investment rights in the nationalizing country[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug where an enforced wargoal was not removed from drafted peace deals, resulting in those peace deals being invalid to propose until 'set terms to white peace' was used[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug in cross-country secessions where secondary targets of the uprising would get a 'Crush Secession' wargoal targeting the wrong country[/p]
• [p]Insurrectionary countries can no longer establish companies while the civil war is ongoing[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug where heavily discriminated pops would end up hired as Capitalists or Aristocrats due to those positions incorrectly being downprioritized for not offering a wage[/p]
• [p]Government petitions can no longer request the enactment of laws that cannot actually be enacted[/p]
• [p]Fixed an out of sync from small pops being merged together in the wrong order on different machines[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where the conscription ratio from popular support was incorrectly recalculated after a civil war broke out, resulting in virtually no conscription rate for some secessions[/p]
• [p]Fixed an Out of Sync that could happen inside Economic Migration parallel calculation when hot joining[/p]
• [p]Fixed crash when trying to set incorporated state on an non existing state when merging civil wars[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue with the active_law scriptlists (any\\_, every\\_, random\\_) where it was checking active and inactive laws, instead of just active[/p]
• [p]In the notification from a treaty being withdrawn from, the articles of the treaty can now be viewed[/p]
• [p]The Opium Ban penalty is now lifted if forced to open market via diplomatic play or demand[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug where democratic revolutions rebelling against autocratic regimes would not have their political parties correctly initialized, resulting in low legitimacy[/p]
• [p]Revolutionary countries are no longer affected by Ideological Incoherence while the revolution is ongoing, putting their differences aside until the revolution is either won or lost[/p]
• [p]Non-revolutionary IGs can no longer be part of the government of a revolutionary country while the revolution is ongoing[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue that caused the British East India Company to not put higher value on building certain Plantation buildings as determined by the British Dictate JE[/p]
• [p]Removed the Extra Company Slot and Free Charter modifier from Corporate State, and moved it to Technocracy[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug where clicking the goto button on a local goods fancy tooltip would give a NULL object[/p]
• [p]It is no longer possible to establish a unique company that has already been established in another country[/p]
• [p]Heathen tax (Cizye Tax) now only applies to heathens and not fellow muslims[/p]
• [p]Heathen tax is now counted in as poll tax and not embezzled away into the aether anymore[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where certain agitators could never join pro-slavery movements[/p]
• [p]Added starting debt to Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Prussia, Balkan states, and the Ottoman Empire[/p]
• [p]It is no longer possible to demand a Treaty Port in a capital state consisting only of the port province[/p]
• [p]Made the correct context for overlords show up when you are a subject and you look at another subject from another overlord[/p]
• [p]Treaty Ports that are in the wrong market will now force-update on the weekly tick, fixing an issue where Treaty Ports taken via war goals could remain in their owner's market indefinitely[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where some table map objects looked worse than they needed to on low quality settings[/p]
• [p]Fixed so Convoy contribution to market as a minor member now shows how much you contribute, not what the market owner gets[/p]
• [p]Fixed a crash in the culture tab of the society panel[/p]
• [p]The eastern himalayas state region is no longer home to a port hub, fixing treaty names sometimes rolling this unnamed port for countries that have a presence in the state region[/p]
• [p]The Man Who Will Be King event will now cancel properly if Josiah Harlan dies mid-event[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug where the Positivist Movement was displayed for non-Catholic or ex-Catholic nations[/p]
• [p]The Risorgimento journal entry has been updated to use the new Italian National Movement[/p]
• [p]Fixed definite article in front of company name in French[/p]
• [p]Made the 'Inconclusive' text on past battles on the Front panel have the same fontsize as all the other battle results[/p]
• [p]Kashmir now starts with a Hindu Devout Interest Group, that will change to Sunni if the country is annexed and re-released[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where the All-India Muslim League would occasionally spawn twice[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug where clicking the goto button on a local goods fancy tooltip would give a NULL object[/p]
• [p]Fixed issue with the Powerplant 3D mesh overlapping other buildings on the map[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where the country and culture name didn't display properly in the "A Web of Distrust" event (Sphere of Influence)[/p]
• [p]Fixed incorrect appearance of `j` character in one of the company names in Russian language[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug that was causing factory smoke to flicker[/p]
• [p]Earning Recognition now advances properly if a country has high Standard of Living[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where enacting Technocracy could fail to give a country the Enlightened Despotate government type[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where "Foreign Influx Provokes Outcry" could return a null scope[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where the Positivism journal entry could cause error spam[/p]

• [p]They didn’t show the player everything you had built in it; for instance, we didn’t have a visual representation of Whaling Stations or Military Shipyards, and so we have added those.
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• [p]In the late game, your port would generally only have one attached building spawned three times in a row, creating a repetitive, “fork-like” structure. To avoid this, we have given each attachment quite a distinct shape and limited them to only spawn one time each in one hub.
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• [p]This solution caused another issue however, of the player not being able to tell what a port was most proficient at, which we deem is vital information. This was resolved by adding yet another attachment for each building, essentially changing the base of the Port hub Centerpiece depending on what the port is focusing on the most.
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• [p]Base Production Method is reflected in the design of the main centerpiece building, from temporary wooden shacks to brick factory structures.
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• [p]Hardwood Production Method decides what type of piles of wood appears: logs or cut planks.
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• [p]Special Equipment Production Method decides what type of equipment is spawned within the centerpiece (FYI: Chainsaws are tiny and may not be visible on low resolution without glasses).
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• [p]Transportation Production Method decides what type of road (or rail) that goes through the Centerpiece.
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History boffins, your time is now. I'll happily admit that I don't count myself among you. I have a decent knowledge of history, but games like Victoria 3 show me new depths that never fail to astonish me. The brilliant thing about the game's published diaries from developers at Paradox is that you can see the sheer amount of research that's gone into making this game as authentic as possible. There's no difference for the next update, which comes alongside the National Awakening DLC.

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