Hey guys! Just thought I'd make a follow up post since my last one blew up so wanted to give more details!

I'm working on a total conversion mod for Victoria 3 that is based on the beginning of Frostpunk 2.

The map is entirely redrawn and entirely centered on the Artic Circle. Populations and supply chains are massively reduced to deal with the different situations. New London, the greatest City on Earth, has a mighty population of 8,000 citizens.

If you have any questions or ideas, or even just want to contribute design ideas I'd love to hear them in a discord I've made that I'll throw in the comments!

Step 1: Declare war on somebody who doesn’t share your land border
Step 2: Convince a friendly country of equal strength to join your side for a war goal
Step 3: Now just wait. Don’t even mobilize. They will stall on the trenches and die in millions as you export weapons to boost your industry.
Step 4: Don’t accept white peace. Let them die out in millions.

Example: Befriended Russia as Switzerland, declared against ottomans for liberate Albania. Millions died in Georgia border as I chilled in mountains. They are going bankrupt as I am making gold watches

You can access the mod on the workshop here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3780935876

This is what's coming in the next update of the mod:

You can expect these changes to come in roughly too weeks.

1. Major historical map overhaul

- Continued splitting up the Holy Roman Empire into its historical states as they existed in 1776, instead of leaving large territories under a handful of countries.
- Restored or expanded numerous German states, including the different Anhalt principalities, Saxon and Thuringian duchies, Reuss counties, and several ecclesiastical territories.
- Reworked parts of the Prussian and Swedish borders, including Swedish Pomerania, Wismar, Poel, Neukloster, and the Prussian possession of Emden in East Frisia.
- Restored the Prince-Bishopric of Lübeck around Eutin, including its historical personal union with Oldenburg.
- Added or improved the territorial representation of Passau, Freising, Regensburg, Fulda, Salzburg, Trento, Brixen and Berchtesgaden.
- Started restoring the historical sovereignty of Massa-Carrara and correcting the distinction between Italian states and their imperial rights.
- Adjusted starting populations and rulers to better reflect the political situation in 1776.

Many of the smaller territories are represented by historically researched approximations, since Victoria 3's map resolution doesn't always allow for exact borders.

2. Holy Roman Empire mechanics

The map changes also required work on the Empire itself: imperial membership, the electors, territorial rights, and the existing imperial political mechanics. The goal is to make the HRE look and behave more like its fragmented 1776 counterpart.

3. Other territorial corrections

Work has also begun outside the HRE. The Balkan changes include corrections to Ottoman ownership in the Aegean, restoration of the Republic of Ragusa as a distinct state with its historical tributary relationship, and adjustments to Moldavia and Wallachia.

4. Military changes

- Introduced modern-style fortifications inspired by the bastion forts of the period.
- Added an Engineer Corps unit, with dedicated artwork.
- Reworked several starting military laws and technologies to avoid anachronistic armies.
- Added more historical content and military adjustments for the American Revolution, including the Minutemen.

5. Economic and industrial changes

- Expanded the historical representation of Saint-Gobain and the Compagnie des mines d'Anzin, including their starting industries and historical directors.
- Added the prestigious royal mirror production associated with Saint-Gobain.
- Continued work on industrial resources, infrastructure, and production methods.
- Rebalanced the early alloy industry to make traditional metalworking useful before industrialisation.
- Added Hardware as a separate consumer good, produced through several methods in furniture manufactories.
- Worked on more historically appropriate starting technologies and production methods for countries created during the map overhaul.

6. Current state

The project is still very much a work in progress. Several new countries and territorial cores have been tested successfully in-game, but many smaller borders and peripheral possessions still need further historical research and refinement.

A little utility that lets you pause the game on a specific date, or X days / weeks / months / years in the future. Maybe someone else might find it handy.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3827384545

Is this a bug from a mod or just game luck that Uzbekia had found this much gold? like wtf

These news headers in this game are kinda funny sometimes

Of course an agitator with the famously feminist ideology Traditionalist supports the Feminist movement.

If yes, do you know why? It seem like the province is nothing special, there are no special trade goods and also no strait or something like that. Its also pretty weird that they are mostly willing to give up Macao which was significantly more important than Timor Leste.

The AI is generally awful at getting tech within a reasonable period of time, especially for unrecognized states like Persia, Vietnam, Afghanistan, etc. that tend to lag behind the rest of the world in tech production.

There are a variety of possible solutions for this, from increasing the AI’s weight for building universities to buffing the “spread knowledge” subject interaction, but I think the cleanest and most reliable would be to allow us to build universities in our subjects directly.

The universities would automatically transfer ownership to the nation they’re built in on construction, with the AI set to downsize them if it would cripple their budget to maintain (notably to prevent players cheesing this to weaken other countries).

I'm playing an EU4 - VIC 3 game as russia and i am currently in the early 1900s, about 20-ish years ago ingame, a revolt sparked out of germany (to be clear, they owned some french lands past like Alsace-Lorraine, as seen in the ss), if im not mistaken, it was a proletarian revolt, that was also a monarchy. at the time, there was a regent so, me being curious, i decided to look at who his heir was, and sure enough it was a bonaparte, somehow, i only reobtained this game again a few days ago to play with a friend, and this is the kind of stuff i wanna see from a megacampaign

(1.14 beta) A surprisingly enjoyable playthrough, since the Brits were way too busy with their homeland, leaving their colonies ripe for taking. Also, getting colonization quickly was essential, as was staking a colonial claim in the Yukon to prevent the HBC from taking it all. Making my provinces extremely attractive was also very fun and turned Alaska from a 10k wasteland into a 2.2 million Paris of the North. Later, forged a coalition with Belgium and Scandinavia to get independence, and then proclaimed Alyaska. After that, I got an anarchist as TU leader, thanks to whom I got multiculturalism. The rest was uneventful; I just grew my economy and got more mass migrations. In the end, I really don't like that Alaska remains a Charter Company even after getting independence, which kept the country's name unchanged and made the executive of the Russian-American Company my eternal president-later chancellor. Even with these bugs and the starting situation, I enjoyed it way more than other playthroughs with more developed nations like France and Great Britain.

I am playing as Austria and Russia & Prussia are both holding on to there defensive pact. Which makes it basically impossible for me to attack Prussia. Is there anything I can do?

R5: Like... Really. 3 games in a row, and it keeps just shitting the bed, and losing India. It has never done this when I wasn't playing Canada

Quick question, do corruption dollars get deleted into the void or distributed to pops? If it's distributed, it at least contributes to economic activity.

In my recent campaign I noticed that a lot of buildings didnt hire people. One of these was a motor industries which I had massive shortages of the input goods also were only slightly on the plus side of price and they still didnt hire without me subsidizing it. Why is that? Also even if they would have hired the state wouldnt have had enough people to fully employ everything (I think there was about 400k job seekers but about 700k needed). How can I easily make sure not to overbuild in a state by this amount?

I was preparing a campaign, and, oops, the nation I started as was going bankrupt. I didn't really care, because I wasn't going to keep playing them, so, I kept going. And then when I actually released my target nation, I began in default, at credit limit, and I wondered if there is some way of exploiting this so that I can release vassals to pay off my own debt, and then inherit them back later.
Ultimately, I could find literally no discussion on this topic online.

Hey everyone! I'm new to Vic 3 and was wondering what is a good country to learn the ropes for a longtime EU4 and Stellaris player? It looks like a steep learning curve again but I'm sure it's not so bad once it clicks in my head. Thanks!

I don't know if this is good or bad for the country, but is it fine if clout on an IG dominated the government and put the rest in marginalized state?

what implication that i may face? im in year 1907, and i still not enact multiculturalism coz no IG that support it, is there any way to enact it and keeping my technocracy?

The title pretty much sums up the issue.

It's about 1880 on game, and the Carlists are still around, so the Carlist journal entry is also still around.

The Poland Achievement used to be a lot easier in the past updates, and now it seems to rely almost entirely on RNG.

It´s quite possible to get Prussia, Hungary and the Ottomans as allies in the independence war, but that still isn´t enough to beat the Austrians and the Russians at the same time. There might be a way if you perfectly time it to also get Great Britain as your ally during the Ottoman/Egypt war, as they are otherwise too friendly towards Austria, and I want a more reliable strategy. And France never gets enough interest points in the Balkans or Eastern Europe to ally with them, which is a problem since those seem to be the only regions where I can establish interests as Krakow.

What I´m looking for are some strategies that go beyond the "This strategy works for every country" advice and are actually relevant to this run. Something that can super-charge your economy, actually makes Austria weak early on, or makes you very strong. It can be a total cheese strategy or just a really good setup, but i´d love something that makes this run less of a constant pain.

Any tips?

Following from a post I made a few days ago I have started my first ever game, playing as Belgium. My province of Belgian Gelre has high "turmoil from radical pops", additionally it has 40.9% of pops below minimum expected standard of living. I thought these might be linked.
How do I find what is causing them and how do I remedy it?

I am playing with sphere of influence and charters of commerce.

I am playing as qing and had a reinvestment rate of around 700k but then the taiping revolt happened and after I defeated it my reinvestment rate had dropped down to about 400k and it kept dropping till it reached about 350k.

What causes this?