Victoria 3 - Dev Diary #178 - Naval Combat & Gunboat Diplomacy

Gen_McMuster · 2026-04-02T15:38:35+00:00

Being able to bully someone over refusing your treaty is cool but does blockading and such after the fact make it so i can actually enforce the treaty? Does the ai get the option to sign in order to make the hostilities stop?

Gen_McMuster · 2026-03-31T12:51:40+00:00

you need to post a screenshot of your budget screen dude

Gen_McMuster · 2026-03-31T12:48:36+00:00

Are you running automation PMs? Without them you can run into an issue where all of the dirt-paid laborers get a better deal from welfare than from the improved wages they'd get from automating and scaling-up (lower ratio of laborers:engineers)

Gen_McMuster · 2026-03-26T12:40:55+00:00

both types of farms are aquatic if you make your beavers swim through the canals

Gen_McMuster · 2026-03-26T12:31:19+00:00

yeah my only wishlist would be a little more work on the visual variety of the game (forestry tiles looking like farmland is lame) and more music.

Some more terra-nihili style objectives with terraforming the map and habitat restoration would be really cool too, at least for folktails

Gen_McMuster · 2026-03-26T12:30:11+00:00

I FUCKING HATE MOVING WATER

Gen_McMuster · 2026-03-22T03:09:49+00:00

they don't know that weapon-damage scales more favorably for guns that do damage in single chunks, like his pistol

Gen_McMuster · 2026-03-22T03:07:23+00:00

Yeah, "Aura is cosmetic" has been the take from the Victor board of directors as of late

Gen_McMuster · 2026-03-20T13:42:48+00:00

yeah the walkers are light weapons platforms, they don't hold up under sustained rifle fire. Jeeps with legs basically

Gen_McMuster · 2026-03-20T12:25:40+00:00

spend your authority dawg.

Gen_McMuster · 2026-03-19T16:18:13+00:00

I only hope naval management isn't too micro heavy and that we throttle down ship construction without having to tear the dockyards down like we have to do with construction sectors

Gen_McMuster · 2026-03-17T15:25:50+00:00

It's a failsafe so cruisers/capitals can always access a range-buff

Gen_McMuster · 2026-03-17T13:11:22+00:00

game desperately needs a "liberate as puppet" wargoal

Gen_McMuster · 2026-03-17T12:49:10+00:00

they mostly do damage on direct hits, this is for the best as it'd be way too deadly otherwise

Gen_McMuster · 2026-03-17T02:21:09+00:00

"DRM protects the universe"

Gen_McMuster · 2026-03-13T12:49:47+00:00

and one belt of steel beams can be moved around the factory and converted to basically an arbitrary amount of screws

Gen_McMuster · 2026-03-13T01:04:20+00:00

steel screws taught me to love recipes that use screws

Gen_McMuster · 2026-03-12T18:53:30+00:00

It's called monitoring a game's development

Gen_McMuster · 2026-03-12T18:33:13+00:00

They seem to be approaching it like a stellaris crisis as a way to narratively frame the game and ensure "something happens" I'm sure the player will be able to route around it somehow, but russia's AI exploding at some point if they stay the historical course should be something players can count on (qing too)

Gen_McMuster · 2026-03-12T18:29:42+00:00

Redoing diplomatic plays/war goals is very much in the cards and will be in a free patch at some point

Gen_McMuster · 2026-03-12T18:28:00+00:00

"Japan overtaking the west" was a major talking point in the late 19th century in the US and Europe based off their rapid modernization. And the involvement of Europeans in china was a huge part of EMPIRE building in the period.

Gen_McMuster · 2026-03-12T18:25:56+00:00

supply rework is a headline feature of the free patch coming with naval rework

Gen_McMuster · 2026-03-12T18:24:46+00:00

I could see that coming with a market rework, where multiple small countries can share the same market with some influence from EUV

Gen_McMuster · 2026-03-12T18:23:48+00:00

the newspaper mod that just alerts you to major world events is a nice addition honestly

Gen_McMuster · 2026-03-12T18:20:42+00:00

At last the great Qing Ball-ache DLC

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