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Heart of Darkness Patch - 3.01 to 3.02
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- Gameplay Changes
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- Forming alliance between 2 GPs is no longer possible when there is active crisis.
- Added liberate LIB decision
- There are now news articles for certain national decisions
- Nationalist movement events no longer fire when provinces are occupied.
- Fixed bug with land units being affected by naval supply throughput penalty by having insufficient naval bases
- Naval distance tracking for colonial ranges is now fully working with buildable canals.
- Fixed exploit where it was possible to manually set trade to certain goods to buy 0, and the naval cap was ignored
- Extra attrition for navies when less then 25% of received goods
- Naval supplies status now affects the repairing speed.
- Fixed bug where releasing a puppet and playing as it, the transferred units couldn't move.
- It's no longer possible to build forts/bases/rails in our provinces that are under enemy control.
- Fixed bug where a small armies of size less then 2999 wasn't able to finish a siege due to rounding errors
- Fixed issue when raising tension in a region split between states where both sides had crisis cores on each other
- Fixed problem in factories economy, where factories were never paying $ to pops even though they were doing a profit and got tons of money saved.
- Fixed an issue with union tags being releasable as dominions (now requires most of the cores as well as other safeguards)
- Fixed issue where a country could get added to the same crisis backer list twice
- Added 20% influence bonus if target is neighboring someone already in your sphere (but not directly bordering)
- Fixed bug where naval base duplicates was not removed when states was merged by converting a colony into the full state.
- Fixed bug where westernizing without being in SoI gave best techs from all GPs.
- Fixed issue where dominions were not always added to sphere
- No longer gets neighbour bonuses to influence for two bordering states that are both colonial
- Successfully enforcing take from sphere wargoal will now set the target to zero influence and Hostile opinion towards the defeated GP.
- Winning Hegemony war will now set all minors of that culture group to zero influence and Hostile opinion towards the defeated GP.
- Winning Hegemony war will now increase influence with all unsphered minors in your culture group.
- Fixed issue where several losers did not get kicked once two countries that were both far ahead of them were competing in colonies
- Investing in guard posts now cost +10 per level which should lead to shorter races
- Added shortcut for colonial investment
- Improvements to Jan Mayen


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- Interface Improvements
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- Improved alerts for colonization
- Clicking colonization alert now scrolls through target colonies
- Added missing tooltip explanation of what's the battle plan buttons are for
- Goods icons in production view that are disabled because of 0 output are now clickable so it's possible to show the "goods flow" window that is so useful in this screen.
- Fixed bug where naval transports capacity (and other stats) didn't refresh after naval combat where some ships was sunk.
- Fixed unit sorting priority that was messed for battleships and dreadnoughts.
- Fixed new GP news text
- Added some colors in colonial map mode. The 2nd color stripes shows the provinces within the colonial range.
- Added colonization distance to tooltip in colonial mapmode (displayed for any province).
- Extra explanation in attrition tooltip
- Fixed no unread newspapers tooltip
- NF icons on the map, in the NF map mode are no longer rendered under the objects, but completely in front.
- Fixed missing tooltip info in unit view about units strength
- Fixed precision loss noticed in social spendings where sometimes it was saying that we can't afford to pay more then certain fraction. Fix was general to all distribution sliders.
- Tooltip for cost to make state now always show colonial power requirements
- Fixed list of newspapers window that was overlapping the screen after clicking any tab.
- Units scheduled for mobilizations are now showing paths to the nearest rally points (in recruitment map mode).
- Added info in tooltips explaining that can't colonize because of liferating. Now it lists the techs and inventions the life rating can be researched.
- Fixed ill formatted battleship names for US
- Fixed tiling issue on map where you would sometimes find black lines flickering
- Message type that says about some country being taken from our SoI is now default as popup=yes.
- Fixed corrupted railroad drawn between provinces on the edge of the world
- Fixed mismatch in siege efficiency numbers written in the unit view and it's tooltip.
- Fixed bad leader looooong names printing in the unit view.
- The sphere alert icon now may turn red when some SoIs have problems with rebels (if they break the country we may loose the SoI).
- Tweaked the naval ships sprites drawing weighted priority, so it's more possible to draw battleships and dreadnoughts in the unit stack.
- Colonization icons on the map are now showing up to 4 colonizing countries.
- NF to increase crisis tension in the outliner, now shows extra tension details in the tooltip.
- Plus many small typo and text fixes


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- Database Changes
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- US now starts with cores on Oregon, Idaho and Washington to discourage british colonization
- Corrected factor on clinical_thermometers_and_binaural_stethoscopes
- Improved transport network reform now grants railway tech and improves RGO eff
- Fixed bug where unciv reforms couldn't build rails/forts because of the political party rules.
- Newspaper - Should no longer print about war declared when such war is over.
- Congo provinces added to generic rubber event
- France can no longer take End The Merina Monarchy decision while either they or Madagascar ar at war.
- Fixed issue with fascists supporting all reforms even when not in power
- Gave Portugal some extra starting colonial points
- Added missing localizations for some battleplan tools descriptions.
- Less potato blight
- USA and MOR now have good (+75) relations
- USA and SIA now have positive relations with eachother
- Broke BUR-SIA relations so that they hate eachothe
- Added at least 1 CAV brigade to all of the Princely States' armies
- Corrected starting placement of FRA's West Indies and India squadrons
- Removed CLM core from Marabitanas
- Switched the 25LRs from Kariba/Kitwe provinces to Quibala/Huambo provinces
- Added GRE cores to Cyprus region
- Removed CAM core from Chanthaburi
- Removed NET core from Sekondi
- Removed PLC claims from most territories lost prior to the 3 Partitions (Estonia, Bryansk, Luhansk, Cherson regions; Chernigov and Poltava provinces)
- Gave POR a few more level 1 ports in 1836 and 1861 to help with their colonial point count
- USA now has a level 1 naval base in Boston and Washington in 1836
- Added COL core to Beatton River
- Added COL cores to uncolonized portions of the Oregon Country
- Macaronesian provinces are no longer colonial in 1836 as well as in 1861
- buffed added ports in Oporta and Beja to level 2 in 1861
- Guatemala has Mayan as an accepted culture
- Nicaragua had capital for 1861 bookmark corrected from Leon to Managua
- Paraguay now has Guarani as an accepted culture
- Added ZUL/AFG/ABU/YEM reform changes
- Fixed issue where Uruguay is a democracy with no voting rights in 1836
- Gave Pocatello and Boise to USA in 1836 to block MEX from Idaho and to give USA access to Oregon *
- Cherokee national value and literacy now correspond to those of USA, and the reforms are similar. CHE is also protestant religion in 1861. They also start civved so their reforms work as given from start.
- Seeded Russia (300), Denmark/Mexico/Netherlands/Portugal/Romania (200) and Serbia (100) with some capitalists in 1861
- Rebalanced Cherokee population in 1861 so that the vast majority is correctly placed in the Talequah province.
- The "Annex Hawaii" decision can only be done once
- Added decisions for LIB (Liberia) to become independent and to enact a constitution and get their 1861 reforms
- Enacting Webster-Ashburton Treaty now removes CAN cores from Caribou and Bangor
- Added comet sighted option


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- Performace and Stability
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- Fixed CTD caused by an AI upgrading and destroying factories in the same state
- Added file versioning into naval distances cache file, so people don't have to delete manually when we do some changes in game.
- Migration tracker wasn't really freeing memory once per month for all buffers, now it does. Memory usage should no longer grow so much after several hours of playing game.
- Fixed potential crash during rebel type selection in startup.
- Fixed multiplayer out of sync caused by disbanding undermanned soldiers.
- Fixed an infinite freeze after game resign.
- Fixed an issue where some savegames could become corrupted when writing.


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- AI Improvements
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- Fixed a bug where extremely disproportional army sizes would cause a huge negative modifiers to alliance chance.
- AI allies more reliable in long wars.
- AI will now always accept surrender in a crisis, even if it's early.
- AI will now disband cavalry and irregulars after it civilizes.
- AI better at getting mil access to reach their enemies
- AI will now always accept mil access if it is in their strategic interest to do so
- Fixed issue where the units were sometimes stuck during invasion.
- Fixed bug where AI was offering white peace to the non-leading opponents and taking GW capitulation on their whole side.
- Several fixes to AI army management, it should try to avoid disbanding troops more now.
- AI will now make use of the encourage soldiers NF
- AI should be much better at using encourage pop NFs
- Now better at maintaining a healthy population of soldiers in general
- Will now always accept alliance with overlord if a puppet
- Will now seek to break alliances with non-overlord allies if a puppet
- Will consider attacking countries they have friendly sphere relations with if they have a valid CB
- Now better at guarding straits adjacent to their home area
- More eager to attack countries that go over the infamy limit
- Will now avoid being primary backer in a crisis if it recently led the losing side in another crisis
- Will no longer care about potential canals for the first few decades
- Will now make use of the add to sphere CB to take control of potential canals
- Fixed a bug where the AI would not offer alliances to players
- Fixed a bug with war direction in the peace AI
- Fix for UK AI disbanding its fleets in early game
- Fix for bad math in determining crisis backers (Russia backing Ottomans!)
- Revamped AI logic for dominion releasing
- Ai no longer releases half colonies like melonstralia
- Improved AI colonizing priorities and evaluation for backing down
- The british fleet is now much less prone to hiding in port and pretending enemy fleets don't exist.
- Fixed a bug where AI could white peace in a crisis where both sides had added goals.
- AIs will no longer disband armies or fleets in the first months of the game before the economy has stabilized
- AI no longer obsessed with sphering countries that control canal provinces unless they have a nearby province
- AI no longer obsessed with sphering the Kiel canal unless it has good reason to do so.
- Fixed a bug that was making the AI prioritize sphering distant uncivs over more important targets (such as union cores).
- Fixed a bug that was causing AI armies to 'freeze' in planned invasion mode while their homelands were being invaded.
- No longer interested in invading colonies unless it is a colonial war.
- Various improvements to naval and naval invasion AI.
- Fixed a bug with great war capitulation that was causing wars to never end.


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- User Modding
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- New on_collection.txt script file for newspapers let modders control expiry of articles
- Loading screens now takes textures from proper folders in mods.

Podcat posted:

The short and sweet list is basically:
- UI improvements in many places
- AI colonization will be much better (i.e no watermelonstralia)
- AI is much improved in many areas when it comes to diplomacy and warfare
- The factory payout bug was squashed
- AI surrendering to minors in great wars bug is squashed
- Straights actually update distances and such now, blocking super colonizer austria etc

Drone posted:

Podcat just posted the HoD 3.02 beta patch in the Tech Support subforum on Paradox's site. Beta patch notes:

- Added comet sighted option

Drone posted:

Podcat just posted the HoD 3.02 beta patch in the Tech Support subforum on Paradox's site. Beta patch notes:

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Fix for bad math in determining crisis backers (Russia backing Ottomans!)

Drone posted:

- Fixed bug where westernizing without being in SoI gave best techs from all GPs.

WeaponGradeSadness posted:

Ah, this sounds amazing! It looks like they're fixing every issue I had with HoD and then some. About how long after a beta patch does the final version usually come out?

podcat posted:

a week or two. probably two.

also I hope you'll like the Jan Mayern improvements, brought to you by Wiz being crazy and me drinking too much wine one a sunday.

podcat posted:

a week or two. probably two.

also I hope you'll like the Jan Mayern improvements, brought to you by Wiz being crazy and me drinking too much wine one a sunday.

podcat posted:

a week or two. probably two.

also I hope you'll like the Jan Mayern improvements, brought to you by Wiz being crazy and me drinking too much wine one a sunday.

A Buttery Pastry posted:

A sneak peak at the most glorious nation in the world, and a new map feature. A big improvement, though Paradox has yet to fix the geography I pointed out many months ago.

Nightblade posted:

Will Australia get kangaroos and dodos?

Armani Glasses posted:

I just bought HoD a few days ago and I've been enjoying it a ton, after buying V2+AHD when they came out its the first time I've really clicked with it.

However, I've ran into a problem with my parliament, I've become plagued by Laissaz-Faire and I can't figure out how to get rid of it. I've tried running multiple elections but I just can't seem to shift it, regardless of my party.

Is there any trick to the voting system or am I stuck with a crippling 50% tax on all my lucrative poor folk?

Pylons posted:

You can use national foci to influence party loyalty in a state. Or, if you plan to try and stick with laissez-faire, you can prioritize researching the tax efficiency techs ASAP.

Armani Glasses posted:

However, I've ran into a problem with my parliament, I've become plagued by Laissaz-Faire and I can't figure out how to get rid of it. I've tried running multiple elections but I just can't seem to shift it, regardless of my party.

Transmetropolitan posted:

Hey. Three things with HoD:

1 - I want to add Iron in Brazil (5th largest reserve in the world, known in imperial time, all that jazz). Any helpful guides to do that?

2 - Any help in how to get a communist revolution rolling is appreciated. I tried doing one after I got Dai Nam civilized and get all of Indochina into one prosperous proletarian dictatorship, no luck. Maybe I am just being too impatient?

3 - I've seen posted around some event that helps with manipulating the upperhouse and the collective ideologies, but can't seem to find it

Many thanks in advance!

Transmetropolitan posted:

2 - Any help in how to get a communist revolution rolling is appreciated. I tried doing one after I got Dai Nam civilized and get all of Indochina into one prosperous proletarian dictatorship, no luck. Maybe I am just being too impatient?

Transmetropolitan posted:

2 - Any help in how to get a communist revolution rolling is appreciated. I tried doing one after I got Dai Nam civilized and get all of Indochina into one prosperous proletarian dictatorship, no luck. Maybe I am just being too impatient?

Guildencrantz posted:

WeaponGradeSadness posted:

Ahahaha, I think this is the hardest I've ever seen a war backfire:

Gorelab posted:

Hm. Is there any reason why a factory would be buying all it's inputs when they're produced locally?

Nckdictator posted:

Been playing my first Vicky 2 game for the past few days as the US.
Somehow the Democrats have won every single election I've held despite it now being 1908. A few times the Republicans came close to taking power but never managed it. Now it looks like the Socialists are pushing the Republicans out to become the major second party. 5 US-Mexican wars have been fought and Mexico still holds Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona. The USA and Communist Spain (which controls most of Africa) are close allies along with the USCA. US troops helped the Spanish put down a rebellion in Cubs, France built the Panama Canal, the Netherlands are a major power in the Pacific, and the North German Federation exists instead of Prussia or Germany.

I'd love to see a history book from that timeline.

(I would take a screenshot of the map but it doesn't seem to be appearing in my Screenshots folder after pressing F11.)

Nckdictator posted:

Been playing my first Vicky 2 game for the past few days as the US.
Somehow the Democrats have won every single election I've held despite it now being 1908. A few times the Republicans came close to taking power but never managed it. Now it looks like the Socialists are pushing the Republicans out to become the major second party.

WeaponGradeSadness posted:

I agree about the history book, thing, too. Paradox Games in general always end up in really interesting timelines that I'd love to see a novel or something devoted to.

WTF History posted:

On October 15th, 1941 the greatest naval invasion in history took place, as 200,000 Mexican troops unloaded onto the rocky shores of Finland...

WeaponGradeSadness posted:

I've found that there's two places screenshots will save to, and I can't see any rhyme or reason as to which one it picks: either in [User]/AppData/Local/VirtualStore/Program Files/Paradox/Victoria II/Screenshots, or My Documents/Paradox/Victoria II/Screenshots. Whichever one you checked, see if it's in the other one.

I agree about the history book, thing, too. Paradox Games in general always end up in really interesting timelines that I'd love to see a novel or something devoted to.

DrProsek posted:

...that was a bug?

uPen posted:

So finally finished my Germany game and I've got some thoughts.

Drone posted:

Philadelphia was where the Continental Congress (generally) met during the War for Independence, and it was the provisional capital while Washington, DC was being built. The precedent for Philadelphia is much stronger than the precedent for New York.

A Buttery Pastry posted:

A sneak peak at the most glorious nation in the world, and a new map feature. A big improvement, though Paradox has yet to fix the geography I pointed out many months ago.

WeaponGradeSadness posted:

Ahahaha, I think this is the hardest I've ever seen a war backfire:

Fintilgin posted:

I want to read the history book for HOI3 1.0.

Wolfgang Pauli posted:

I really hope they just haven't added a detail map to the world map yet. It still looks like it's made of play-doh. The lack of geographic features on the political map, which every other Paradox game has, leads me to believe they're still working on it.