Grand Strategy Victoria 3

[Catacombs]

pretty certain Owen had a go at Emily for not including the +

Maybe they could cancel each other out with lack/abundance of representation. Maybe they're the same person.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Discordfags picking the worst options as usual,

Imagine picking Zulus over Egypt (or even Morocco & Sokoto). Very 'interesting' stream will that be indeed.

 

[Joggerino]

What is even Zulu in that time period. Some one province minor about to be clapped by Britain?

 

[Harthwain]

I am guessing Zulu is included because of this?:

Spoiler

 

[Heroic Liberator]

What is even Zulu in that time period. Some one province minor about to be clapped by Britain?

Glorious empire, comrade. There to rival Britain))

 

[Harthwain]

Glorious empire, comrade. There to rival Britain))

You laugh but modeling the British Empire having problems dealing with smaller states (as well as internal politics leading to civil wars or revolutions) is something I'd really like to see more in strategy games, instead of bigger fishes just becoming bigger and bigger due to the snowball effect.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Glorious empire, comrade. There to rival Britain))

You laugh but modeling the British Empire having problems dealing with smaller states (as well as internal politics leading to civil wars or revolutions) is something I'd really like to see more in strategy games, instead of bigger fishes just becoming bigger and bigger due to the snowball effect.

That I don't mind. I just don't see the point of wasting one of the few streams we get before release on them since it's not like they'll play it slow and actually pay attention (although hopefully not having much to do with their own tag, they'll focus more on what's happening in other corners of the world).

 

[Joggerino]

What is even Zulu in that time period. Some one province minor about to be clapped by Britain?

Glorious empire, comrade. There to rival Britain))

Game starts just after this embarrassment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blood_River
They got their revenge though, 150 years later.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

"Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius" - Dutch/Afrikaners had quite the monocled names back in the day.

 

[thesecret1]

Discordfags picking the worst options as usual,

Imagine picking Zulus over Egypt (or even Morocco & Sokoto). Very 'interesting' stream will that be indeed.

But according to those numbers, Egypt won, no?

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Discordfags picking the worst options as usual,

Imagine picking Zulus over Egypt (or even Morocco & Sokoto). Very 'interesting' stream will that be indeed.

But according to those numbers, Egypt won, no?

Seems so thus far. Someone started a thread on the Paradox forums asking for people to vote in that Discord server since before that Zulu was winning.

 

[RobotSquirrel]

I wanted Oranje it gave me Zulu. Zey Know I Like Oranje!

 

[HeroMarine]

Discordfags picking the worst options as usual,

Imagine picking Zulus over Egypt (or even Morocco & Sokoto). Very 'interesting' stream will that be indeed.

But according to those numbers, Egypt won, no?

WE WUZ KANGZ

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Egypt stream,

 

[thesheeep]

Partly saw the stream.

And I can say with confidence that Victoria 3 looks like a game.

 

[IDtenT]

I wanted Oranje it gave me Zulu. Zey Know I Like Oranje!

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Dev diary about modding.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Not an AAR proper, but it has quite a few screenshots.

 

[what am i doing]

The flags for occupation thing looks really bad. What happen, they forget how to do hatching?

 

[Hace El Oso]

I watched the Egypt stream. The beardfat was a less interesting host than Wiz, but not so bad. Again, the game really looks pretty good. They managed to fight the Ottomans to a white peace twice, which is a bit concerning, but they said that if the Ottomans had waited a couple more years as they usually do the military disparity would have been much greater in the Turks favor. When they took Basra I immediately thought of this:



They showed the standard of living map, which had evened out to be much more sensible than the one we saw previously:

They indicated that anywhere that is bright green this early in the game will usually have gold fields/mines.

The flags for occupation thing looks really bad. What happen, they forget how to do hatching?

It's a nice idea and it can look good, but when they played as Shogunate Japan with their white and black bicolor it looked like a graphical bug. Very ugly in some cases.

 

[HeroMarine]

Dev diary about modding.

Possibly the most important aspect of this game.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

Did they fix the economy? Because the ecomony in Vic2 made no sense.
>Low taxes
>low tarifs
>factories making money
>Life needs still unfilled because everything gets expensive even though the market is flooded
>Everyone is poor for absolutely no reason

 

[Joggerino]

At the very least no longer the most prestigious nation will hog all the resources on the global market since markets have been split now.

 

[what am i doing]

Did they fix the economy? Because the ecomony in Vic2 made no sense.
>Low taxes
>low tarifs
>factories making money
>Life needs still unfilled because everything gets expensive even though the market is flooded
>Everyone is poor for absolutely no reason

Well, from the looks of it they fixed SOME problems with the V2 economy. Like trade actually being somewhat meaningful, which was honestly one of my biggest problems with V2. I'm hoping that in V3 maintaining a large navy, patrolling trade routes, etc, will be something that is advantageous / required, and I hope it will be possible to build up everything you need to feed your own economy without having to directly annex countries. Historically for example, under Bismarck's guidance, Prussia / DB / German Empire was focused more on making trade deals and securing ports where they could station their fleet than on just hoovering up square kilometres of land - and this worked pretty well for them until the Hohenzollerns started wanting to win the colony dick measuring contest. But in V2 because of the lack of a real trade system you basically have to blob, and I hate blobbing.

I expect V3's economy will be broken in different ways, though.