Wishlist for 1.3

[Forgiven]

That enemy retreating troops will not retreat to provinces I control, it makes absolutely no sense in a wwI trench warfare like situation.

Actually...
This does not really need fixing, what you need to do, is man those provinces behind the line with at least a regiment. Enemy will not retreat to province where you have troops in. -> Thus if you sensibly follow your main army with at least some reinforcements, the enemy will retreat in proper directions.

 

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-German civil war (1919 in real life)
-Russian civil war
-Great war
-Possibility to intervene in foreign rebellions, for example helping swedish nationalist rebellions in Finland as sweden, or support economically.
-"World revolution" events.
-Alliiances should be broken if a country turns communist and the other country is democratic for example.
-Ideolocial alliances.
-South african republic or united Boer republic
-Rebellions should be tweaked. If have slaughtered a big communist rebellion, it should be very rare to see one again. Now I have had huge communist rebellions that I have crushed in every fifth year or so.

Probably a lot of material for an expansion...

 

[Sternness]

How about more of an effect from the Promote Immigration National Focus?

 

[FelixCress]

Actually...
This does not really need fixing, what you need to do, is man those provinces behind the line with at least a regiment. Enemy will not retreat to province where you have troops in. -> Thus if you sensibly follow your main army with at least some reinforcements, the enemy will retreat in proper directions.

It DOES need fixing. If you have soldiers in neighbourhood should be irrelevant - enemy still should not escape through the lines.
It turns war into constant whack-a-mole situation.

 

[2146]

playing russia right now and allowing the anarcho-liberals to have their way (with how high militancy is, i'd rather them than communists) i find myself wondering why can't i create a capitalist alternative to the USSR? A United Corporate Cooperative, if you will

 

[Andrelvis]

playing russia right now and allowing the anarcho-liberals to have their way (with how high militancy is, i'd rather them than communists) i find myself wondering why can't i create a capitalist alternative to the USSR? A United Corporate Cooperative, if you will

That would simply be Russia with democracy or bourgeois dictatorship as it's government form. The USSR has a different name because it is internationalist, but there's no reason to presume (to the contrary, actually) that a capitalist-dominated Russia would be internationalist.

 

[2146]

why not? the radicals are big into free trade and full citizenship

 

[RorySheen]

Like i've said before... a way to give in to rebel demands (like in EU3) without having to let them take over your capital.

 

[Polar Mongoose]

I'd like to see more work on balancing pops and promotions. Clergy especially seem rather odd, with literacy modifiers all over the place and conciousness modifiers so large they overwhelm everything else.

 

[Forgiven]

It DOES need fixing. If you have soldiers in neighbourhood should be irrelevant - enemy still should not escape through the lines.
It turns war into constant whack-a-mole situation.

Well, I'm not saying it's necessarily perfect, but mind the scale of things.
I'll questimate that most province to province borders fall between 10km (minor german state borders) to 100km (larger european province borders, we'll not even talk about other continents with this...)
So, to have single file of 1 man per meter, you need in smallest case 10000 men in combat, ok, now that sounds quite easy... then you check how often battles are fought in single line...
...yea, until you reach say, strenght 100 combats there is room even on smallest provinces to evade around the enemy lines, and even then it'd apply only to smallest provinces, really.

I feel almost cheating with keeping those 1 regiment backups behind the line, and especially circling the enemy, to prevent the retreats, and, yes, knowing that, you don't need to whack a mole in a war...

Now, I'm not really that much against change like that, but I really don't think it's necessary.

 

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I'd like to see this:

1) Purchasing technologies through diplomacy from other countries
2) Purchasing provinces through diplomacy from other countries
3) Purchasing colonies through diplomacy from other countries

That was one useful thing I found about Victoria 2 that you would be able to gain technologies or provinces/colonies through an exchange thereof or by spending money.

 

[naggy]

I'd like to see this:

1) Purchasing technologies through diplomacy from other countries
2) Purchasing provinces through diplomacy from other countries
3) Purchasing colonies through diplomacy from other countries

That was one useful thing I found about Victoria 2 that you would be able to gain technologies or provinces/colonies through an exchange thereof or by spending money.

It's specifically removed because it is pretty much always abused by the player over the AI. Rather than spend many man-months perfecting the AI to use that one feature, it's simpler to not have the feature.

 

[Shanalya]

I would like have the possibility, when GP, to make alliance with another GP (what gave the 1st WW)
When minor, having the possibility to make an alliance not only with the one you are in the sphere of. (For exemple, playing Belgium, being in the sphere of UK, I should be able to make an alliance with France as well, as it was the case historically).
For Belgium, event that gives Congo as a colony.

 

[Old Joe]

1.Tzar of all slavs and crimea war events! where the hell is them?
2.and san stefano peace, berlin re-vision, or something for russian-turkish wars of 19th.
3.and russo-japan war decision or event for dalian and manchuria acquisition !
4.something of gold and silver culture ages in russia! literacy rate and inside tech tree russia by player have culture techs at NONE! when belgium and argentina all have like crowds of tolstoys tchaikovsky and shalyapin
5.transsib rr construction decision to connect far east with russian european cores! that was de-facto the most of all industrial-political takover of all siberia and far-east!
6.and finally krepostnye liberation by alexander!!!

all those was crucials and most atmospheric milestones of 19th century russian events and background. playing w/o them is so blank! in-game simulation is just not depicting all these however hard i'm trying to roleplay. and i spose for many other historcal events for other countries

sorry bad spelling
and the game still awesome! all those events i did for myself, and playing good but feeling like it is gamey

 

[FelixCress]

It's specifically removed because it is pretty much always abused by the player over the AI. Rather than spend many man-months perfecting the AI to use that one feature, it's simpler to not have the feature.

"Guys, the right indicator does not work every time. Shall we regulate it?"
."Hell, no! Remove it, its easier".

Seriously, it is not that hard, is it? Few simple rules (cores, land connection etc) and huge amounts involved (millions rather than thousands) and that's it. I think Paradox is perfectly capable to do that.

 

[safferli]

"Guys, the right indicator does not work every time. Shall we regulate it?"
."Hell, no! Remove it, its easier".

Seriously, it is not that hard, is it? Few simple rules (cores, land connection etc) and huge amounts involved (millions rather than thousands) and that's it. I think Paradox is perfectly capable to do that.

Well, you can either spend (let's just pick a number) 12 man-months on perfecting the AI for a single feature that isn'treally crucial to the game, or you can spend those 12 man-months adding new features, or perfecting partsof the AI that are widely used, like the capitalist AI or the military AI. I think it's a pretty simple decision, not?

 

[Andrelvis]

It's specifically removed because it is pretty much always abused by the player over the AI. Rather than spend many man-months perfecting the AI to use that one feature, it's simpler to not have the feature.

It worked well in V1. There was one exploit, but from the looks of it, it could have been fixed without much problems.

 

[Andrelvis]

Well, you can either spend (let's just pick a number) 12 man-months on perfecting the AI for a single feature that isn'treally crucial to the game, or you can spend those 12 man-months adding new features, or perfecting partsof the AI that are widely used, like the capitalist AI or the military AI. I think it's a pretty simple decision, not?

The feature *is* crucial, specially because now you can only take states in wars.

 

[sortulv]

I would like have the possibility, when GP, to make alliance with another GP (what gave the 1st WW)
When minor, having the possibility to make an alliance not only with the one you are in the sphere of. (For exemple, playing Belgium, being in the sphere of UK, I should be able to make an alliance with France as well, as it was the case historically).
For Belgium, event that gives Congo as a colony.

Multiple alliances among the GPs does happen occationally in 1.2, but can be tricky to get.
Same with the minors allying. I think it has something to do with powerlevels however, since a weak state isn't very good as an ally.
And the Congo-conferance is in the game... Who gets the province varies, but Belgium has the greater chance I think.

 

[safferli]

The feature *is* crucial, specially because now you can only take states in wars.

I guess the designers disagreed with you concerning the cruciality of some game elements.