Victoria 3

[Jacob]

1.7 has been crashing on Steam Deck although I can run it fine through GeForce Now.

How's the user experience on the Deck? I've been thinking of playing CK3 on it, but I'm not sure it won't be annoying.

[The Minsky Moment]

1.7 has been crashing on Steam Deck although I can run it fine through GeForce Now.

How's the user experience on the Deck? I've been thinking of playing CK3 on it, but I'm not sure it won't be annoying.

I prefer to run it through a full-size monitor because it's not ideal for the small screen.  But it's definitely playable through the Deck.  There's a community steam input that works well (although I modified it a bit for personal taste). It's from "Lord DarkWaffles".    The left trackpad is used a radial menu to access hot keys. So I don't find that a mouse and keyboard are necessary - although you could connect them to the Deck if desired.  I don't know if there is a similar community input for CK3 but there probably is and if not it wouldn't be hard to set up.

[Jacob]

Thanks!

[Syt]

Has anyone tried the Better Politics Mod? I think it looks ambitious:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2932134122

It aims to have a more realistic shift of politics from traditional interest groups (landowners, military etc.) towards ideological groups over time.

The goal of BPM is to make politics more dynamic, more legible, more materialist, and more historically accurate. Specifically, it sets out to correct these problems we have with the base game:

• Seven interest groups are not nearly sufficient to represent the breadth of political history.
• The ideology of an IG leader has too large and random an effect on politics. For instance, trade unions can swing from communist to reactionary overnight.
• All IGs are internally united, when many of them suffered infighting and splits IRL. Why should all urban workers become communist at the same time? Where did the moderates go?
• Political parties are shallow. They're too arbitrary, form and dissipate too frequently. Coalitions are either small and boring or huge and illegitimate.
• There is little international interaction between IGs, when many of them communicated and collaborated actively.

For more information about the design philosophy of BPM, you can read our design doc.


Features include, but are not limited to:

• New Ideological IGs: Liberals, Radical Liberals, Conservatives, Reactionaries, Agrarian Populists, Trade Unionists, Socialists, Anarchists, Reformist Socialists, Revolutionist Socialists, Market Liberals, National Liberals
• Vanilla IGs are reskinned and tweaked to represent various "Interests."
• IG splits: Socialists vs Anarchists, Reformist vs Revolutionary Socialists, Liberals vs Market Liberals vs National Liberals
• New Law enactment voting & sway mechanics
• New Political Rigidity mechanic
• New Journal Entries and Event chains
• New Laws and Institutions

As mods go, it seems to be one of the better thought out ones, but I loaded it up yesterday, and found the presence of 16 interest groups (many being tiny and irrelevant at start) a bit overwhelming

[The Minsky Moment]

Has anyone tried the Better Politics Mod? I think it looks ambitious:

Yes that's what would worry me as these systems interact with other ones.

Just eyeballing, 2.5% for the Legitimists in France seems low, given that at a later date (1871) there was majority support for a Bourbon restoration.

Total number of "American revolutionary socialists" is greater than the progressive liberals and bourbon democrats combined.  I can't think of any time in American history when that was remotely true or even conceivable.

[Not that vanilla handles US politics well - I got an option to ban slavery in the early 1840s (inconceivable historically) and the Republicans won the last four elections in my run through with 100% of the vote and no other active parties. It's like a Mitch McConnell wet dream. The US political setup and dynamics has been fubar since release and presumably will be addressed in a DLC.]

• The ideology of an IG leader has too large and random an effect on politics. For instance, trade unions can swing from communist to reactionary overnight.

Good morning, my name is Ramsay McDonald.

Where did the moderates go?

Where indeed?