VICTORIA III - Available now!

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Easy.  You've got 174 hats that have been run through with swords vs 23 something-or-others backed up a whole lot of zeroes.  Also there's a lake.

[al_infierno]

Also there's a lake.

  I can't tell you how relieved I am that the game thought to provide such a helpful tool-tip!   O0

The more I play with the front system the more I absolutely despise it.  It really is just glorified whack-a-mole, but with "fronts" instead of dudes on a map.  I'm just constantly reshuffling generals around, and there's no way to actually assign division to a general.  The enemies have 200 divisions stacked on one front and 2 on another?  Too bad, you're forced to split your forces 50/50!  It seems like the AI intentionally just keeps opening new fronts to screw around with the player.  I also somehow ended up getting St Petersburg navally invaded and got NO warning (!!!!!)

Teleporting troops with absolutely no control over which divisions are assigned where?  Yeah, real awesome immersive stuff!

[Commander Cody]

In HOI4 the only time I used fronts was for amphibious invasions, since I'm pretty sure that's the only way you can do it. Otherwise I was moving divisions individually. It's a lousy system and I'm sorry to hear Vicky 3 has it. I'll pick this game up on Humble Bundle in five years for $16 with five DLCs like I did with HOI4.

Cheers,
CC

[al_infierno]

OK, this Reddit post made me laugh.   

https://old.reddit.com/r/victoria3/comments/z0f7ip/i_understand_imperialism_now/

Like most people, I always believed imperialism was an inherent evil. I understood why the powers of the time thought it was okay due to the times, but I believed it was abhorrent on moral grounds and was inefficient practically. Why spend resources subduing and exploiting a populace when you could uplift them and have them develop the resources themselves? Sure you lose out in the short term but long term the gains are much larger.

No more. I get it now. As my market dies from lack of raw materials, as my worthless, uncivilized 'allies' develop their industries, further cluttering an already backlogged industrial base, I understand. You don't fucking need those tool factories Ecuador, you don't need steel mills Indonesia. I don't care if your children are eating dirt 3 meals a day. Build God damned plantations and mines. Friendship is worthless, only direct control can bring prosperity. I will sacrifice the many for the good of the few. That's not a typo

My morality is dead. Hail empire. Thank you Victoria, thank you for freeing me.

[Destraex]

Gave me a chuckle as well. Thanks.

[Gusington]

^They should put that post on the Steam page as an endorsement  :nerd:

'Victoria opened my eyes to what the world lost when imperialism died.'

[fran]

Is anybody playing VIC III currently?

[Old TImer]

Is anybody playing VIC III currently?

Waiting for a couple of patches.   Maybe a couple of DLCs.

[al_infierno]

Is anybody playing VIC III currently?

I still fire it up from time to time, but in its current state it feels rather empty and disappointing.  Especially the god-awful war system.  This one definitely needs some DLC before I'd consider it a solid game IMO.

[Gusington]

Does it 'play itself?'

[al_infierno]

Does it 'play itself?'

Yeah, at a certain point it feels a bit like Cookie Clicker but you can choose your strategic goals.   

[Gusington]

I felt that way all the way back in EU1... :/

[al_infierno]

Update 1.1 "Early Grey":

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/victoria-3-update-1-1-earl-grey-is-now-live-checksum-0d2e-not-for-problem-reports.1560487/

Features

- Reworked Morale to inflict a base loss for every round of battle, modified by the difference in casualties inflicted between the sides as well as various other modifiers
- Reworked Legitimacy to provide bonuses and penalties to countries at different Legitimacy levels
- Added a new Legitimacy modifier based on Votes in Government
- Replaced Legitimacy Penalty from Government Size with a Legitimacy Penalty from Ideological incoherence
- Treaty Ports will no longer function if the owner's Power Rank isn't greater than the market owner's, ensuring Great Powers cannot use them to get access to the markets of other Great Powers

[Tanaka]

Also there's a lake.

  I can't tell you how relieved I am that the game thought to provide such a helpful tool-tip!   O0

The more I play with the front system the more I absolutely despise it.  It really is just glorified whack-a-mole, but with "fronts" instead of dudes on a map.  I'm just constantly reshuffling generals around, and there's no way to actually assign division to a general.  The enemies have 200 divisions stacked on one front and 2 on another?  Too bad, you're forced to split your forces 50/50!  It seems like the AI intentionally just keeps opening new fronts to screw around with the player.  I also somehow ended up getting St Petersburg navally invaded and got NO warning (!!!!!)

Teleporting troops with absolutely no control over which divisions are assigned where?  Yeah, real awesome immersive stuff!

I don't buy brand new Paradox games anymore and you just reaffirmed this for me. This new front system sounds terrible. I hate whack a mole games.

[fran]

Anybody playing this at the moment?


Not bought it but would like to know your thought a few months in


Thanks