Victoria 3 | Monthly Update #3 | September

[PDX_Maciej]

I would really love if they shown the date. It must be after the games start bcz of pop numbers

Screenshots are based on several campaigns - most of them were captured between years 1836 and 1869.

 

[PDJR_Alastorn]

I was unsure if I should open a thread for this so I am asking here:

Why Victoria 3 and not Victoria III?
I know the previous one is Victoria 2 but it is weird that this is the only one without Roman numeric.

As answered previously in the Q&A - if it leaked, you would never believe it

 

[lachek]

These are work in progress numbers, but not the numbers I expected...

Yes, these are work in progress numbers, we want to try to tighten these up a bit before release to increase the range of impact possible. At this point in development it's generally good to not set these too aggressively though - the economic engine underpins everything and the more extreme it can become the more severe the impact on the rest of the game. My plan is to tune these to be as harsh as possible without breaking the game. The impact of even small changes is greater than one would expect, since building expenses and revenues are both based on goods and the wages they're able to pay affect the Pop consumption and thereby demand for goods and thereby goods prices, etc etc.

 

[lachek]

But this begs the question- is there also a possibility to move goods by ships between say Palermo and Naples, if both have ports? Or are you doomed to land-based infrastructure alone when the provinces are connected by direct landline to the capital?

Yes

 

[Ofaloaf]

Doing like 20 backflips in a row involuntarily from the sheer joy of looking at a bunch of images of maps

Edit: Wait, hold on, obligatory complaint about a map detail I don't like, it seems like British Columbia and Oregon Territory are split away into their own nation which I assume is maybe the Columbia Department, owned by the North West Company. The only issue is that the North West Company and the Husdons Bay Company (which I assume is the big blob taking up most of central Canada) were merged by the British Government in 1821, so by the start date they should be one big blob.

Oh, this is something I can speak on! Hi, I do content design stuff for the game.

So, while the Columbia District was properly part of the Hudson Bay Company by the start of the game period, it did enjoy a modest amount of autonomy, and also was subject to a condominium with the United States, and we didn't want to totally ignore the joint occupancy agreed to under the Treaty of 1818. With these considerations in mind, we felt it best to represent the region as its own tag rather than an integrated part of the Hudson Bay Company.