Victoria 3 - Dev Diary #91 - Post-Summer Plans

[amocpower]

I quit to play Vic3 because there is extremly unblanced 2 goods output factories. After around 1900 many factoris like Chemical Plants, Shipyards, Textile mills have extremy big surpluce in one good and extremly big deficite in another one. For expamle shipyards : no body in the world want streamers but Ironclads is missing anywhere. After a point any factory lost so much money and ruin your economy.

I see they want finally add separate buildings

 

[TempestM]

Yeah there's definitely problem with some PM. At some point I always have deficit in Explosives, chem factories are unprofitable because fertilizer is dirt cheap

 

[yurcick]

For some of the industries, where a secondary output is literally a byproduct to the primary one, this is more or less understandable that the output composition is fixed. You wouldn't select your cows to produce more manure and less meat.

However, for some others, like civilian/military ships or regular/luxury consumer items this doesn't make much sense. If splitting the industry will hurt the performance, at least make the PMs much more gradual, to allow for 90/10 or 10/90 splits at the same industry at player's discretion.

Dunno which category fertilizer/explosives should belong to.

 

[amocpower]

I slider would fix this and it should not be diffucult to build in

 

[inVit]

I slider would fix this and it should not be diffucult to build in

this would be a great new game loop:

Bro! just check the slider

 

[Soranya]

I quit to play Vic3 because there is extremly unblanced 2 goods output factories. After around 1900 many factoris like Chemical Plants, Shipyards, Textile mills have extremy big surpluce in one good and extremly big deficite in another one. For expamle shipyards : no body in the world want streamers but Ironclads is missing anywhere. After a point any factory lost so much money and ruin your economy.

I see they want finally add separate buildings

Simple Solution:
Make the PMs only produce either or - so you can switch as needed and balance it out. (as long as you have two of each kind).
Same with the Vinyard/Farm thing - whyhave another building type we have to keep track off?
ok maybe in case of vine this actually makes sense, but that could be achieved by locking certain production methods behind local conditions (eg "can grow wine")
Thid would be much less obvious and not very paler friendly though.

 

[Exasperation]

You can do something like this (taken from a personal mod I made):

Spoiler: Long code segment inside

pm_mixed_arms_production = {
    texture = "gfx/interface/icons/production_method_icons/mixed_arms_production.dds"
}

pm_artillery_production = {
    texture = "gfx/interface/icons/production_method_icons/artillery_production.dds"

    building_modifiers = {
        unscaled = {
            building_input_mult = 1
            building_output_artillery_mult = 1
        }
    }
}

pm_small_arms_production = {
    texture = "gfx/interface/icons/production_method_icons/small_arms_production.dds"

    building_modifiers = {
        unscaled = {
            building_input_mult = 1
            building_output_small_arms_mult = 1
        }
    }
}

pm_no_small_arms_production = {
    texture = "gfx/interface/icons/production_method_icons/unused/no_arms_manufacturing.dds"

    unlocking_production_methods = {
        pm_artillery_production
    }
}

pm_matchlock_muskets = {
    texture = "gfx/interface/icons/production_method_icons/muskets.dds"

    unlocking_production_methods = {
        pm_mixed_arms_production
        pm_small_arms_production
    }

    building_modifiers = {
        workforce_scaled = {
            building_input_iron_add = 1.25
            building_input_wood_add = 2.5
            building_output_small_arms_add = 5
        }
    }
}

#upgraded small arms production methods omitted for brevity

pm_no_artillery_production = {
    texture = "gfx/interface/icons/production_method_icons/no_artillery_production.dds"

    unlocking_production_methods = {
        pm_small_arms_production
    }
}

pm_muzzle_loading_cannons = {
    texture = "gfx/interface/icons/production_method_icons/artillery_production.dds"

    unlocking_production_methods = {
        pm_mixed_arms_production
        pm_artillery_production
    }

    building_modifiers = {
        workforce_scaled = {
            building_input_iron_add = 2.5
            building_input_wood_add = 5
            building_output_artillery_add = 2.5
        }
    }
}

#upgraded artillery production methods omitted for brevity

Basically, set up the methods as if they're using half the production capacity, and have a selector method that doubles input and output if set to only produce one of the two goods (alternately, you could set it up as if the production methods use the full capacity of the building, and have the mixed production method halve input/output).

 

[WillemDeZwijger]

Will there be a dev diary this week?

 

[Mannio5]

Will there be a dev diary this week?

No, next one on 10.08. according to discord.

 

[28680:GhoulDiamond]

Will there be a dev diary this week?

Yea on august 10th so tomorrow

 

[yurcick]

Will there be a dev diary this week?

Unfortunately not, we've already had one.