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Off the Record / Re: US - Greenland Crisis Thre...

Last post by Syt - Today at 01:56:19 AM

#2

Off the Record / Re: The EU thread

Last post by Bauer - Today at 01:55:19 AM

I never understood why there are two Romanian speaking countries, it's not like it's a major language 

#3

Gaming HQ / Re: Victoria 3

Last post by Syt - Today at 01:28:26 AM

Btw, an excellent music mod:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3533972926

Has 100+ tracks of classical music. Each track can play only from the year it was released IRL, and will stay in rotation for 10 years before being phased out. Has two playlists - one instrumental, one with vocals.



Though it seems with it enabled it doesn't play any of the "normal" music in game.

Together with the mod that disables all musical stingers/sounds when events pop up (which would usually interrupt the soundtrack) this is currently a must have for me.

[Improvements]

#4

Gaming HQ / Re: Victoria 3

Last post by Syt - Today at 01:23:20 AM

If true that would be great. But not sure how intentional it was, honestly. Germany later formed, with Bohemia included (which had become independent after uprisings in A-H(.


First patch of the year. It's a bit more than was in the beta update (which mainly fixed the infamy bug).

Happy New Year Victorians!

Welcome to 2026! We have a hotfix fresh out of the developer forge today, featuring the contents of 1.12.3's Opt in Beta and a variety of other fixes, improvements and other balance changes.

Also, as we said in the last dev diary of 2025, we will have our first dev diary of 2026 at the end of this month, written by Martin - the subject will be revealed with the diary itself.

This is our final planned hotfix for 1.12 as we shift over to future content, which we will share with you in Q1 of this year.

Check out the full patchnotes below. Checksum is `8825`.

As always, please report any bugs on our bug reporting forums! We have also updated the Known Issues post for 1.12 with any fixed issues!

The following changes have been made to the game compared to 1.12.2:

Improvements�

• Upon researching Corporatism, the stances of the Carlist and Miguelist ideologies will change to support Agrarianism and Interventionism, and less intensely disapprove of non-Autocracy distribution of power laws
• The Two Spains Journal Entry may now be retained after forming Iberia as Spain
• Carlist, Miguelist, Legitimist, Catholic Fundamentalist, and Catholic Rights movements will now experienced increased Activism if their owner country has poor relations with the Papal States
• Reinstating the Basque Fueros as the Carlists will now add a Basque primary culture to Spain. Revoking this amendment will remove the primary culture.
• The "Ausgleich" event for Austria will no longer annex a player Transylvania without warning; rather, it will make Transylvania into a Hungarian subject
• The Spanish State Religion law at game start now has the State Anti-Clericalism amendment

AI�

• Fixed an issue where the AI would sometimes not deploy garrisons to fronts in adjacent HQs, even if failing to do so threatens the overall theater they are stationed in
• AI Liberal Spain will be now be much less willing to pursue the Reconquista

Balance�

• The Claim Greater Khorasan button for Persia will now add claims on Turkmenia and Merz
• When Interest Groups want to leave a party, they will no longer do so instantly but rather at the start of the next election, except in cases where their membership is no longer valid (for instance due to law restrictions)
• The traits of Interest Groups whose clout would make them marginalized will now only have half the effect if they remain Influential for non-clout reasons (such as being in a party)
• Interest Groups that are supported by less than 2% of the population and whose clout would make them marginal will now leave any party they are part of (and thus become properly marginal)
• The "The Good Mother" event for Portugal now typically fires in November of 1853, rather than January
• Moved the point at which Carlists and Miguelists become willing to participate in electoral politics from Political Agitation to Corporatism
• Removed negative tax revenue modifier from the Individual Redemption Payments amendment
• Pursuing the Reconquista of the New World as liberal Spain will now cost more infamy

Content�

• Added a new event and wargoal for Portugal to restore the Union with Brazil in the case of a Republican coup
• After completion of the Carlist War Journal Entry, we now also move the market capital to Madrid
• Added Antônio Carlos Ribeiro de Andrada as a starting Intelligentsia leader for Brazil

Interface�

• Goods expenses for construction is now split into private and government construction
• Fixed issue where UI was lying that goods from modifier (like the Carlist small arms) were available in market even though market access of state was zero
• Fixed issue where UI would list buy orders as sell orders in interface for goods from modifiers
• Building options in the production lens are now always fully alphabetically sorted
• Confirmation tooltips for actions that could cause a coup will now longer go off screen

Bugfixes�

• Fixed the infamy reduction for transfer money article enforcement that could result in 0 infamy against big nations (Thanks to player Gaspote)
• Fixed a bug when battles could be unable to start
• Fixed an issue where infamy values for Regime Change were calculated incorrectly, resulting in too low values
• Fixed an issue that caused several war goals to default to their infamy minimum value
• Fixed the Unstable Raj timer not updating upon Presidency Stability declining below 225
• Characters will no longer launch coups against law enactments that they support
• Fixed an issue where a coupist general could create a government with no Interest Groups
• Fixed a bug where the Revoke All Claims wargoal would be instantly invalidated, resulting in the wrong wargoal being used for secessions
• Fixed a bug where requirements for repealing amendments had disappeared.
• Emperor Pedro of Brazil now only starts the game as immortal if Colossus of the South is active
• Fixed a bug where agricultural buildings such as farms and ranches would not get cash reserves
• Fixed a bug where it was not possible to nationalize without compensation unless you had the money for compensation on hand
• Added trigger localization to the amendment_geheime_staatskonferenz amendment that was missing
• Fixed an issue that would cause the Modernisation Movement to pre-emptively switch ideologies, possibly locking AI countries into Peasant Levies
• Fixed an issue that led to the Yankee and Dixie cultures losing their Small Arms obsession upon the monthly tick
• Fixed a bug where adding a Liberate Country wargoal made the Conquer State wargoal unavailable even when not targeting conflicting states
• Fixed an issue where the ruling party would continually reform and disband under Single Party State
• Fixed a bug where Financial Districts and Manor Houses under Cooperative Ownership would pointlessly invest into foreign buildings that would then get collectivized
• Meiji Restoration events for Japan will no longer select Japan as the relevant foreign country
• Fixed a bug where buildings would sometimes try to pointlessly privatize themselves under conditions where they are able to self invest (such as Guild System)
• The "The Emperor's Regency" event for Brazil will now properly fire at game start
• Fixed a bug where unraised conscripts in a formation counted towards maximum manpower
• Fixed a possible NULL_OBJ in the Abdication and Resignation tooltip
• Fixed a crash during the disbanding of a company with a colonization charter
• Fixed a random crash when calculating a political strength of a pop
• Fixed a misplaced variable that could erroneously grant the Regeneration achievement if the Economic Regeneration journal entry timed out without making use of any creative accounting
• The Carlist Movement for Spain will no longer launch a second Carlist War whilst the first is still ongoing
• Fixed an issue where the african beard gene could get duplicated causing error spam and fps drop
• Fixed a bug where Treaty Port status would not get cleared correctly when a Treaty Port is annexed, leaving a state with 0% market access behind
• Fixed the abandon_revolution effect so that it properly removes targeted IG from a growing revolution
• Fixed a bug where sometimes the independence war goal wouldn't save in the game
• Timing out the "Bilaad al-Siba" Journal Entry for Morocco now removes the State of Anarchy state modifiers
• Fixed a bug where the cut down to size diplomatic demand was not possible to start through the interface
• Fixed a bug in the Carlist/Legitimist succession script which could spawn multiple clones of the same claimant, rather than a single claimant capable of inheriting both thrones
• Fix a bug where Trade Potential could sometimes incorrectly show up as a negative value when constructing Trade Centers
• Fixed a bug where the wrong alliances would be broken when declaring neutrality
• Fixed a bug where the election fraud event would not fire on the first election
• Added STATE_ENTRE_DOURO_E_MINHO, STATE_OLD_CASTILE and STATE_MURCIA to iberian_treaty_ports, requirements missing for The Western Protectorate achievement
• Fixed several events that couldn't fire due to incorrect trigger scopes
• Prevented the "Independence Day" event from briefly popping up as Cuba if the Carlists win the Carlist War
• Fixed a bug where oncreate effects for create_character could sometimes run twice
• Fixed an issue that caused Jose Rizal to be unable to spawn (Iberian Twilight)
• Fixed an issue where Pedro of Portugal could erroneously die if made the heir to Brazil in 1853
• Fixed an issue that caused stacking of multiple iterations of the "Setting Up Election System" modifier upon switching between Distribution of Power laws
• Fixed a bug where it was not possible to sign a renegotiated treaty if the can_ratify check failed for old, unamended articles, making it look like the AI was declining the renegotiation
• Fixed a misplaced adjacency line between Zulia and the Dutch Caribbean
• Fixed an issue in "The Status of the Vernacular", which incorrectly radicalised French pops for Spain
• Fixed a bug where having enacted/not having enacted NULL_OBJ could show up in law enactment tooltips due to checking against law groups that are not valid for the country (such as caste system)
• Fixed a bug where localization was missing in the map tooltip for diplomatic actions involving making subjects
• Fixed a bug where place holder text was shown to the player in the market panel
• Secessionist Interest Groups can no longer launch a coup
• Fixed a possible repeating error in military formation script

Couldn't try it yet as we had an all day workshop yesterday and went for dinner afterwards (at a lovely Portuguese place). I was getting bored with my Venezuela playthrough (I was trying to be a conservative oligarchy relying on slave plantations/resource extraction for economy. It was working reasonably well, esp. after joining the American market, though balancing the budget was tricky at times. But by 1900 it was also quite boring.

So time to try a new game tonight, maybe.

#5

Gaming HQ / Re: Victoria 3

Last post by Zanza - Today at 12:42:10 AM

Me minding my own business in South America. Get a notice that Great Powers have gone to war in 1854.

Prussia and Britain (plus colonies) vs. Austria, Russia and Italy. 500 vs 600 units.

The stakes?

Whoever is humiliated likely falls to major power, which means the winning side is the only contender for German unification and might form super Germany with the loser. Smart move by AI as the huge debuff only triggers when you explicitly fight for leadership.

#6

Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by crazy canuck - January 20, 2026, 11:45:56 PM

Yeah, same reaction.   

#7

Off the Record / Re: The EU thread

Last post by Zoupa - January 20, 2026, 11:10:27 PM

I sometimes dream of tanks flying the EU flag steamrolling northern Cyprus, then Transnistria, then Sebastopol and Donetsk. 

#8

Off the Record / Re: US - Greenland Crisis Thre...

Last post by Valmy - January 20, 2026, 10:20:35 PM

And he forgets one thing relevant to the current situation that has actually existed in most European countries in a more or less cohesive political current and is currently boosted extremely: anti-Americanism.

Well this is also very true in Mexico and Canada and for decades we did a pretty decent job keeping them managed.

Now anti-Americanism is running amok in those countries with likely very bad long term consequences. Which makes sense. I am pretty anti-American myself these days.

Biden found Trump has poisoned the well in many places once he became President and I suspect if the Democrats regain the presidency in 2029 it will be far worse.

To Conservatives this is all just a big joke. They couldn't care less if everybody hates us and opposes us and tries to undermine our trade and our interests. It's weird. Total internet troll brain.

#9

Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by Bauer - January 20, 2026, 10:12:56 PM

I listened to the speech on the drive home today.  It was something - really bold for a Canadian PM.

I'm proud of Carney for saying what needs to be said, and really hope middle powers can indeed make a new world together.

#10

Off the Record / Re: US - Greenland Crisis Thre...

Last post by Grey Fox - January 20, 2026, 09:31:29 PM

Is there a non-twitter source for that?

https://twitter-thread.com/t/2013694461520552201