Victoria 3

[Solmyr]

Right now there's a bug where AI values trading states at zero (despite what it says on the UI), as long as you have other treaty terms that will be accepted. I managed to buy half the world in exchange for military access.

[Syt]

I missed that exploit

Meanwhile. CK3 had its mod that added a couple thousand potential dog names to the game.

Victoria does this:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3513520927

Eloquent Treaties

A mod that transforms Victoria 3's vanilla treaty screen into actual treaty documents written in formal text format.
Experience various preambles based on different conditions.

Features

Toggle between treaty formats: Switch between the standard treaty interface and formal treaty text through a button in the treaty window for an immersive diplomatic experience with authentic treaty language.

Compatibility

Safe for ongoing games - Can be applied to games in progress
High compatibility - Only modifies UI elements (specifically the Treaty_panel.gui file), so it's compatible with virtually all other mods

Translation Guidelines

Currently Officially Supported Languages
Korean
English

Machine Translation Support
The following languages are currently provided through machine translation, but we encourage native speakers to create separate sub-mods to improve naturalness and reduce awkwardness:

Japanese (日本語)
Chinese (中文)
Portuguese (Brazilian) (Português Brasileiro)
French (Français)
German (Deutsch)
Spanish (Español)
Polish (Polski)
Russian (Русский)
Turkish (Türkçe)

Font Recommendations Needed

I have the ability to specify different fonts for each language in the MOD. Since fonts must be adjusted in the main mod, we kindly request native speakers of each language to recommend copyright-free fonts suitable for their respective languages.

You are welcome to make suggestions in your native language rather than English.

[Tamas]

Right now there's a bug where AI values trading states at zero (despite what it says on the UI), as long as you have other treaty terms that will be accepted. I managed to buy half the world in exchange for military access.

I thought they have fixed that.

[Solmyr]

Right now there's a bug where AI values trading states at zero (despite what it says on the UI), as long as you have other treaty terms that will be accepted. I managed to buy half the world in exchange for military access.

I thought they have fixed that.

It's being fixed in the next patch (which is in beta and you can opt into it).

[Norgy]

I tried Victoria 3 again and have spent some hours in the last days of my summer holidays.

1. I suck at this game. But despite going bankrupt as Sardinia-Piedmont, I managed to become the only major power among the Italian states and belatedly formed Italy in 1866. The Austrians are so strong I am not going up against them, and France is being very French and annoying.
2. By accident or bug I formed some kind of Super-Germany after spanking France as the NGF. Austria just became mein, alles mein. But Bavaria is still holding out by 1888. I suddenly had a construction sector that was nearly bankrupting me after a few months going 400k in deficit.
3. The British Empire is even more of an asshole in this game, and in this patch in particular than it was historically. Allying with them was a mistake, as suddenly I am called to war against Qing and end up with owning Beijing and rather a lot of annoyed pops. 2400 bureacracy to integrate over 20 years. Thanks.
4. Massive failures as the Japanese Shogunate, and my Russia developed even more poorly than it did historically.
5. Brazil was fun, but I am disappointed no company had "Brazilian wax" as a luxury product.

[Solmyr]

Too big of a construction sector can be a source of runaway expenses, yes, especially if your construction goods are not dirt-cheap yet.

Also, don't incorporate places like Beijing. It doesn't give anything useful and just allows them to vote in your elections. Generally you only need to incorporate your core areas unless you are going really multicultural utopia.

[Syt]

Too big of a construction sector can be a source of runaway expenses, yes, especially if your construction goods are not dirt-cheap yet.

Also, don't incorporate places like Beijing. It doesn't give anything useful and just allows them to vote in your elections. Generally you only need to incorporate your core areas unless you are going really multicultural utopia.

Actually, it might be worth spinning Beijing off into a puppet, even and let them self-administrate (if you can keep their liberty desire low).

[Syt]

Did a game with Spain. Didn't play optimally or anything (going absolutist => free trade + Laissez Faire + Census Voting + Parliamentary Republic + Public School/Healthcare + Compulsory Schooling => Oligarchy + Interventionism + Private Healthcare/Schools + Child Labor Allowed when the Industrialists had 60% influence), mostly sniping territories where I could get away with it. Persia, some bits of Indonesia, most of Central America, Morocco, Tripolitania, Somalia/Ethiopia. With the vassal exploitation I was rather swimming in cash from my underlings. Still, way behind on tech. I did start to catch up around 1930 (and had just dismembered the Ottoman empire, releasing Iraq, Syria, Bulgaria, Albania, Bosnia, which were joining my Bloc), but then the USA demanded I hand over El Salvador (which I had expanded with some former Mexican territory). I refused, and soon I was in a war with me, British Republic and Mexico on one side and USA, France, Bengal on the other and outnumbering us 3:2. I played the losing war for a bit but then decided to call it in 1934. New beta patch should drop today (which should also fix a big beta bug in AI investment .... https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/oib-1-9-6-ai-evaluation-for-production-buildings-uses-profit-prediction-of-all-existing-levels-instead-of-just-the-additional-level.1827989/ . they confirmed on Reddit it will be fixed).

When I was taking apart Ottomans, I took Macedonia, thinking I could trade it to Greece. Except Greece didn't want it. Neither did Bulgaria. In the end I traded it back to the Ottomans in exchange for Albania which I released as puppet

A major hindrance in gameplay was the church. You start with State Religion AND Charity Hospitals AND Church Schools, so they're crazy entrenched and hard to get rid off; especially if you also want to improve education. But AI formed super Germany, so that was cool.

[Syt]

Also currently very partial to this collection of map gfx mods:

https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=3426721289

"Clean Map" flattens the colors:


And then the Victorian one for the paper map:




They have an "Edwardian" one which comes with blue oceans (which I generally prefer), but I don't like the look quite as much:


I'd love to use their German version, but it has spelling mistakes.

[Solmyr]

Using those maps myself.

[Solmyr]

By the way, I've started a semi-ambitious project of creating a historical flavor mod for Finland.

[The Minsky Moment]

I'm itching to jump in on 1.9 but still waiting for the bugfixes to settle in.  Some of the fixes in the beta patch are pretty big.

[Syt]

Comments on the beta thread indicate that AI construction was messed up with today's beta, where they now either build nothing or 100s of one building in one state.

[The Minsky Moment]

Saw this on the latest beta patch drop

The Boer States now start out guaranteed by Britain as per the Anti-Cheese Treaties of 1836

Guessing to shut down the opening Transvaal land grab?

[Syt]

Saw this on the latest beta patch drop

The Boer States now start out guaranteed by Britain as per the Anti-Cheese Treaties of 1836

Guessing to shut down the opening Transvaal land grab?

Yep, Gaza (the one in South Africa) also gets an army.