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I would hope some laws also affect your political setup, or else how is a Democracy different from a Dictatorship? Clearly you can change from one to the other:

It'd be a shame if that process is just: You are a Democracy. Vote in the National Socialists. Wait for a random event. You are now a Dictatorship.

Cleary you are not reading the Dev diaries, you can influence your and other country's political set up via esponainge.
 
Education = leadership and science thats simple IMO
Back to the NS - its not said that it will become dictatorship. I really hope that its just a possibilitie. The same for stalinists.
 
Back to the NS - its not said that it will become dictatorship. I really hope that its just a possibilitie. The same for stalinists.
Well, Johan answered that one already:
First off I suppose your are wondering what happens if you end up with someone like the National Socialists as the largest party but your country is a democracy. In this scenario your democracy is living on borrowed time. Sooner or later there will be a fire in the parliament building, a state of emergency and a dictatorship. Now I know what you are thinking, what are the odds? However as with all these things we work on the policy, well it could happen.
 
Cleary you are not reading the Dev diaries, you can influence your and other country's political set up via esponainge.

I was talking about changing your own country's political setup via laws. Either you've misread my post or you're saying you can only change your own political setup by performing espionage on yourself. I do read the DDs, but it's never been clearly stated you can only affect your own nation by spying on yourself, although if that is the case I suppose:

DD 6 said:
However the first big change is a concept we call party organisation. This is a dynamic variable that can be altered via espionage in either your home country or others and via events and decisions. This represents how well a particular ideology is organised, covering a broad brush stroke of concepts from party membership, newspaper editorial stance, the views of opinion formers in the country, actual campaigners going out trying to convince people to support them, just give you an idea. For an ideology group that is out of power it also reflects the chances of a coup d’etat, if a democracy has well organised fascist parties then the risks of a right wing coup d’etat are much greater than in a country where they have simply no organisation.

does explain it. But while it might seem obvious when you already know how everything works, if you don't it's more logical to think Johan meant 3rd parties might alter your party organisation via espionage while you had access to similar tools for your own nation on the yet to be revealed politics screen. I suppose there's nothing wrong with managing your own nation via the espionage screen too, but it's not entirely intuitive.
 
Can you only suppress other parties in your country via espionage or can you support them as well? The latter would seem counter-intuitive.
 
Can I get a no, yes or a maybe on this, King?

Is it possible to be able to add symbols (like elephant and donkey) to special parties? You can then do it and add all symbols you want, or just have default and a friendly modder (me) will gladly do it. :)

So instead of the fasces for the Nazi party, a player who can do basic modding can add his own little logo?
Another question about moddability, can we add new ideologies?

:)
 
Someone mentioned badboy, from what I've read of the DDs so far... there's nothing to lead me to assume that badboy scores will be a part of HoI3.
 
Are the portraits in the screenshot placeholders or will Hearts of Iron never get color photos?

i hope they stay as they are i don't want colour photos.
 
This is a WWII game and most photos from the time are B&W. Colorization is a tedious task if you want it to look right and with so many ministers for every country it would be an overload of work.
 
Nice, I like it. Especially the laws. Thanks Johan and crew for all the hard work, and the nice updates.
 
Someone mentioned badboy, from what I've read of the DDs so far... there's nothing to lead me to assume that badboy scores will be a part of HoI3.

I think you mean me. I haven't seen BB in HoI3 mentioned anywhere so far, but it's been in every Paradox game I've played, so I expect it in HoI3. If they don't have BB I expect they'll have some other measurement for a nation's agressiveness/expansionism, it's too useful a trigger not to have.