VIP 0.3 Preview

[Darkrenown]

The VIP preview has returned at last! I know I said I would start this on monday, but more stuff was changed than I had expected. I guess that's the reason Johan never gives ETAs on patches

The preview will be updated whenever I see something interesting in my game, since I'll be playing as Austria the focus will be on europes goings on, but if anyone wants to to look out for a certain event just give me a location and time to focus on and I'll do my best. Screenies can also be requested.

Feedback on how VIP 0.3 is shaping up is desired, but bear in mind this is a beta.

I'll start you off with some screens and I'll be back when something interesting happens in my game. Memnon may be pleased to know that making this preview is cutting into my MP practice...but it won't save him!

 

[Darkrenown]

I imagine that's to show it's either lightly populated or not claimed by a nation in the game, but I don't know for sure.

Those cores are gone now, so they must have been a mistake.

 

[Darkrenown]

Here's something that'll surprize non VIP users, Texas ain't dead:

Meanwhile, in south america Peru has just broken free from Bolivia:

A nasty surprise for me:

Here you can see both that Carlist spain managed to end the spanish civil war by event and that the OE managed to do the same to eygpt, despite them both having an even 40 military rating:

 

[Darkrenown]

Yup, my uni mod and a couple of others are in there now. As for other kinks, well each beta version removes some old ones and adds some new Hopefully the release version of 0.3 should be fairly kinkless. Right now I've just been told the start of texas' chain to join the union is missing, but I don't think that starts untill 1840, so if I pause my game now I can hopefully get the fixed files tomorrow and continue.

 

[Darkrenown]

What are all the new countries in Africa, and that one new country in Northern Arabia? Did you just use the tags freed up from India to make those, or did you have to dip into a few user-defined ones as well?

We're up to U009 now

 

[Darkrenown]

Better off: A dominion!

Not anymore, dominions can't start seperate wars, not even by event so IND is now a free country but in perpetual alliance with the UK.

 

[Darkrenown]

This is nice. I am all for modders making things better. I may even try 0.3 sometime soon, but for now ..
Please move thread to correct forum page (mods and scens). Thanks.

Nope. I cleared this with DK beforehand, this is a GD thread.

 

[Darkrenown]

Well unless machine parts are available earlier in the game or there are more on the WM looks like I won't be using VIP .

Remember this is a beta version, by the time you get your hands on it, it could be compleatly different. If somethig messes up the game we don't keep it.

 

[Darkrenown]

I think that FIRST, you MUST understand that this is a BETA version, so everything is under testing...

I did say this was still a beta version in the first post, and again about the MP parts being subject to balance changes. If people can't stop saying "OMG, this change means I'll never play VIP!" I'm going to have to stop the preview.

At least we are getting feedback

 

[Darkrenown]

Please don't stop the previeew, darkrenown. We're just commenting, that's all. The fact that we're even here means that we're looking more at your preview than at our own suspicions. If you manage to build railroads successfully, then we'd be fine with it. If you can't, and then you tell us that improvements are being made, we'll believe you.

Comments on things are fine, it's the couple of "well now I'm never playing VIP!" reactions which are annoying. But don't worry, the preview only hasn't been updated yet because I've been waiting up some file tweaks.

 

[Darkrenown]

DR,are you "planning" to lose the war with S-P to let Italy form properly?

Hmm, no, I'm going to play to win But I'll tell you what, I'll run a hands off game and show you Italy forming too.

Are there any changes to the Austro-Italian setup (specifically thinking of more Austrian influence on Tuscany/Modena,satellites etc.)?

Oh,and just noticed in the 1839 screenie,it seems like Yemen got control over Mecca and Medina.How is this coming?

They revolted and became hedjaz, which the OE then made a satellite.

Unrelated screenie, Texas expands:

 

[Darkrenown]

Am I the only one who noticed what seems to be a US/UK war in the latest screenie? One of the things I must say I love about VIP is that North America is not the quiet sideshow like it is in vanilla Vicky. The depth of events, both historical and what if?, are really something else.

That's the arstook war.

Well I ran a hands off game to show you italy's unification, but the damn pasta eaters picked the B option Not only that, most of the screenies I took don't seem to have actually taken Still, in this one (the only one which worked) you can see the mighty british army. All of it :rofl:

And yes, it's normally larger than that, I dunno what happened this time

 

[Darkrenown]

And you think you have problems. Welcome to the USA, circa 1855-56.

Eek.

Hey, what is the CSA's military rating in that screen?

 

[Darkrenown]

It is the top military power with around 50 divs.

 

[Darkrenown]

It has 50 land units, or 50 total units? It it's overall military power score higher than ENG's (ENG in the mid-90s in you screenie, if IND is higher than that there is a problem)? If it is I'll need to retweak the AIs down. India having a larger army (but tiny navy - mostly transport) is fine since most of the UK army was in India but if it is outclassing ENG in total military power (something I tried to prevent) then I'll need to fiddle the AIs some more.

This is a different game than the earlier screens, but IND has a total Mil rating of 98 to the UK's 85. The UK as never had such a small army in my other games though.

 

[Darkrenown]

I don't think they give too much bonus. In fact I think that they should give more.

They already make your factories magically produce more goods. If I had my way they'd improve the intake as well as the output.

 

[Darkrenown]

This is also a worry to me, cause they can't garrison AUS, CAN, SAF and ENG with their current Army.

They can't garrison anything with the current army. Ireland tired to revolt away, but IND came to the rescue. But, as I said, UK has never had that small an army before, I'm not sure what happened. I'll post my saves for this no UK army game later.

 

[Darkrenown]

Dark: Who won the aristook war? Or is it still going on in your game?

Games not moved since the last update, I'm waiting on some fixed events. More tomorrow!

 

[Darkrenown]

The ETA for 0.3 is July 27th IIRC. Generalisimo keeps the timetable over in the "Important info" thread on the VIP subforum if you want to be sure.

 

[Darkrenown]

*yawn* stinking sleep, you won't get me...

Still not continued with the 'proper' game yet, but here a few interesting screens from a hands off game, I'll just post the URLs since there are lots for one post:

Persia and Belgium are doing well in this game:
http://img55.photobucket.com/albums/v167/darkrenown/pers.jpg
http://img55.photobucket.com/albums/v167/darkrenown/big_belgium.jpg

Russia no longer annexs everything in site, in fact they let Finland go by event and lost the crimean war to Prussia:
http://img55.photobucket.com/albums/v167/darkrenown/poor_rus.jpg

Japan is coming along well too:
http://img55.photobucket.com/albums/v167/darkrenown/japan.jpg

I don't know if this was the best idea, Serbia:
http://img55.photobucket.com/albums/v167/darkrenown/bad_idea.jpg

France wants Madagascar:
http://img55.photobucket.com/albums/v167/darkrenown/mas1.jpg
http://img55.photobucket.com/albums/v167/darkrenown/mas2.jpg
http://img55.photobucket.com/albums/v167/darkrenown/mas3.jpg

There was an ACW too, but it wasn't very interesting as I don't have the right events yet.

Edit: Oh yeah, you Texans, quit yer yammering