Diplomatic Actions

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I am playing Victoria version 1.00 and occasionally when I am trying to improve relations with another country, all of the diplomatic buttons will be greyed out, and a message says, "We lack the 1 diplomatic action necessary."

Does anyone know:
1) How you acquire diplomatic actions?
2) Where can you see how many diplomatic actions you currently have?

Thanks!

 

[Capt. Kiwi]

I am playing Victoria version 1.00 and occasionally when I am trying to improve relations with another country, all of the diplomatic buttons will be greyed out, and a message says, "We lack the 1 diplomatic action necessary."

Does anyone know:
1) How you acquire diplomatic actions?
2) Where can you see how many diplomatic actions you currently have?

Thanks!

1.00? You're brave, or mad. Patch to 1.4, or better get Revolutions and OHGamer's Hotfixes. But anyway:

You get diplomatic actions over time, and you get them faster if you're a great power, at war etc. You can see how many you have at one of the top of screen icons, and the tooltip will say the rate you're gaining them at. You can only store up to 10 at a time, so no point letting it max out.

 

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Great, thanks for the info! (And I just updated to the 1.04 version today!)

 

[henryjai]

1 is the base annual increase of Diplomatic actions(DI)

for Great powers, they got an additional of 1 Diplomatic action per year.

When at war, you got 1 extra DI per year too, so a war is probably something you might need if you are desperate of DI. (just DOW a random bankrupted unciv)

For each level of prestige you'll get additional Diplomatic actions per year too. (Accumulative)

25 Prestige - +0.25
50 Prestige - +0.25
100 Prestige - +0.25
250 Prestige - +0.25
500 Prestige - +0.25
2500 Prestige - +0.25

(I am not sure if there were further Prestige Levels, didn't tested it out. I didn't see any numerical relationships between these numbers also, only that they were products of 25)

For uncivilized nations, they got a modifer of 0.5 to the annual income of DI, I am not sure about satellites/dominions.

If you choose Meritocracy over Aristocracy, you'll have a modifier of 0.8 to your annual income of diplomatic actions, however, since Meritocracy is better than Aristocracy unless you play a communist state/state capitalism. That's sth that you have to live with.


Example 1
so, for a great power with 5000 Prestige, with Meritocracy, he'll receive.

(1 Base + 1 Great Power + 0.25*6 Prestige)*0.8 = 3.5*0.8 = 2.8 per year. (thats surprisingly low huh)


Example 2
for a independent nation with 2000 Prestige, at war, without Meritocracy, he'll receive.

(1 Base + 0.25*5 Prestige + 1 War) = 3.25 per year

You have seen how a war helps you to gain DI.


Exercise
You may try to verify by yourself that for a Great Power, Prestige 600, with Meritocracy, have an annual DI income of 2.6 per year.