UPDATED June 28

Hotfix 1.7.1 is now LIVE! – Not for Problem Reports! June 27

Hello Victorians!

We have just released a hotfix for 1.7, Checksum b087, which has a number of improvements, bugfixes and balance changes based on feedback/bug reports from players. As always, this post is not for bug reports, please instead post them in the bug reporting forum (including a save and steps to recreate is always useful) .

The following changes have been made to the game compared to 1.7.0:

Patchnotes​

Improvements​

• Added mandate generation from Unrecognized countries to all Identities

• Earning Recognition Journal Entry is now unlocked by Colonization rather than Civilizing Mission and only requires 50 relations with a Great Power to complete

• It is now possible to 'upgrade' an Investment Rights pact to a Mutual Investment Agreement, if the other part agrees to it

• Conquering a split state now applies the 'Recently Liberated' rather than 'Recently Conquered' modifier, as the latter ended up giving tax penalties to a state you already owned, which could be devastating for tiny nations

• Ranches no longer consume grain as a default good, but only if more advanced PMs are activated

• Regime Change Diplomatic Play can no longer be used against your own subjects since Law Imposition can be used for it instead

• Collectivized building levels, or buildings with levels that are undergoing collectivization, can no longer be nationalized

• Cuirassiers no longer consume iron, but use more small arms instead

• Sovereign Empire statues now provides a 25% Decree Cost discount to the state it is constructed in instead of applying it to the whole country

• The Boer States now start with National Militia and with their independence guaranteed by Britain

AI​

• The autonomous investment AI now keeps track of how much investment has gone into foreign/domestic states and biases future investment towards domestic states if an excessive amount has gone towards foreign investment, to ensure investment isn't all going overseas

• Fixed an issue where civil war countries and native uprisings would not recruit commanders for their armies due to incorrectly set AI tags for their formations

• Rebellious and Defiant subjects will no longer actively aid their overlord in diplomatic plays outside of what they consider necessary to defend their own territory

• Loyal subjects now mobilize a higher fraction of their troops to aid their overlords in diplomatic plays

• The AI is now able to reassign armies/navies that are traveling, preventing suboptimal naval invasions due to the best fleets not being 'available'

• The AI is now able to launch simultaneous naval invasions, but will generally avoid using all of its armies/fleets at once for this

Balance​

• Manor Houses no longer require infrastructure, as this caused major issues for highly populous countries with a lot of subsistence agriculture

• Reduced investment weights for Manor Houses on all non-agricultural buildings, as their tendency to invest into factories in countries like Japan would lead to an odd aristocrat-led industrialization

• Reduced the rate at which generic random events appear to compensate for increased overall event spawn rate due to prior bug fixes

• Reduced effect of Asceticism (Devout) trait from -50%/-100% to -15%/-30% reduction on radicals from changes to standard of living (sorry)

• Reduced effect of Secular Shrine Theory (Devout) trait from +20%/+40% to +15%/+30% conversion

• Reduced effect of Da Wat (Devout) trait from +50%/+100% to +20%/+40% conversion

• Reduced effect of Propagandists (Intelligentsia) trait from +25%/+50% to +15%/+30% migration attraction

• Decrees now have a minimum cost of 10% of its base cost, to prevent modifier stacking for free Decrees

• Imperious now provides a 20% rather than 25% Decree Cost discount

• Cruel trait now provides a 5% Authority boost rather than a Decree Cost discount

Interface​

• Map markers will now indicate where your foreign construction is happening

• Demand Force Nationalization wargoal will now display how many building levels and what fraction of GDP would be nationalized

• Fixed some issues with the 'failing to hire' tooltip for buildings where it would sometimes lack a reason for failing to hire and/or contain unnecessary whitespaces

• Added Bloc Leader interaction icon to differentiate it from Bloc Member actions

• Cursor will no longer flicker between the game cursor and operating system cursor while moving the mouse in the loading screen

• Removed duplicated Leverage Resistance description in tooltip

• Fixed long overlapping texts to not overlap anymore in the Trade States Diplomatic Action popup

• Max number of setbacks modifier will now be displayed as a whole value instead of a confusing percentage value

Modding​

• Fixed a bug where modders using a create_country effect in global history files would lead to blocs being disbanded during initialization

• Added mandate generation by rank modifiers for unrecognized major, unrecognized regional, unrecognized and insignificant powers

• Added new generic Power Bloc invite acceptance modifier

• Made Power Bloc invite acceptance by rank modifiers support arbitrary ranks defined in script

• Cost calculation for Decrees is now done on a per-state rather than per-country basis, permitting for differing costs dependent on the state the Decree is applied in

• decree_cost link now operates in state scope rather than country scope

Bugfixes​

• Fixed a crash related to CollectOwnAndAlliedLandHQs

• Fixed a bug where it was possible to make a diplomatic demand against a country you were already at war with

• The "Land of the Rising Sun" event for Persia now gives a claim on the correct Georgia (hint: not the one north of Florida)

• Fixed inverted values in Earning Recognition Journal Entry causing you to gain progress for low GDP/SoL and vice versa

• Fixed a bug where leaders of Military Treaty Power Blocs would not pay maneuvers for adding wargoals in diplomatic plays where they were a main participant

• Fixed a bug where formations with no commanders could not be mobilized due to incorrect 'all commanders are busy' error

• Fixed bug where cohesion for ideological union was inexplicably trending towards 0

• "Enemy of my Enemy" lobby event can no longer target your own country as the enemy in question, however amusing that might sound

• The Pamir Delimitation will no longer carry over script variables from previous attempts

• It is no longer possible to capture a state in less than 2 battles, as this could result in issues such naval invasions that were impossible to consolidate due to creating multiple fronts

• Fixed bug that made Pacifists only spawn in the Armed Forces rather than the other way around

• Fixed a bug where the -30 relations penalty with Power Bloc leaders for creating a Power Bloc was applied during history initialization, causing the Great Powers to have erroneously low relations with each other at game start

• Political Lobbies will no longer form targeting Revolutionary countries until they actually win the revolution, to avoid highly temporary lobbies forming and then disbanding

• Replaced the Power Bloc Statue throughput with a level scaling effect under the "Prestige Only" game rule to prevent it from granting the prestige while they are still in the construction queue

• Fixed an AI issue that could lead to incorrectly removing conscript units, leading to negative amount of conscripts in an army

• Fixed a bug when manor house levels weren't removed when subsistence farms were removed

• Fixed a bug where the "Add to Primary" button would show up on an Overlord's Wargoals for the Subject

• Resolved issue where Communism and Populism progress bars didn't properly retreat due to laws

• Fixed an issue when 100% worker-owned buildings can still be nationalized if the building is level 1

• Fixed an issue where exiling/inviting agitators would never create lobbies in their home countries

• Fixed a bug where a victorious revolution could end up with a political lobby targeting itself

• The East Indies' End event can no longer fire multiple times per game

• The Tibet Expedition will now properly cancel if at war with Tibet

• The "Can't Touch This" achievement can now be gained even if a country has (non-nationalizable) gold fields or subsistence farms

• Fixed an out-of-sync related to markets

• Fixed the amount of compensation in the notification when nationalizing foreign assets

• Replaced the University and Art Academy's "Increased Exchange" (unlocked by the Freedom of Movement Principle) Production Method's country modifier with a state modifier as originally intended. The former led to way higher migration attraction as it was stacking all states' effects where it was active.

• General Brusilov no longer requires owning the American state of Georgia to spawn

• Fixed a bug where accept/decline effects of reverse pact actions such as Request Knowledge Sharing and Request Support Regime were not correctly shown in tooltips

• The emergency hunger relief modifier from the Famine event chain is now applied only to states affected by famine

• Pink faces will no longer be submitted alongside several Diplomatic Action proposals

• Pink face and NULL_STATE will no longer briefly appear briefly after a building has finished construction in Foreign Queues

• Fixed Power Bloc formation tutorial to prevent player moving forward despite not having completed a necessary step

• The British aid button for Persia will no longer state that it adds the "Russian Military Mission" modifier

• Fixed some instances of missing loc in Tibet Expedition tooltips (English only, other languages will be translated for 1.7.2)

• Fixed missing localization for key catalyst_revolution_successful

• Moved Saint Basil's Cathedral back to Moscow (from Mazovia)

• Added missing text for Building Relationships map mode (English only, will be translated for 1.7.2)

• Fixed a description error in the Dominion concept that stated that they wouldn't need to join their overlords (English only, will be translated for 1.7.2)

• Fixed error spam in the "Britain Demands Withdrawal from Herat" event

• Event ig_revolutions.8 will no longer display [ROOT.GetCountry.GetRuler.GetTitle] instead of the ruler's actual title

Previous Patchnotes
1.7

Hotfix 1.6.2 is now LIVE! – Not for Problem Reports! March 14

Hello Victorians!

We have a hotfix today, with a number of bugfixes and in particular fixing the internal migration issue reported by players.

Not for problem reports, but rather file any bug reports in the bug reporting forum, thank you!

Patchnotes

BugFixes

• Fixed CTD related to graphics and UI

• Fixed a crash that could occur when browsing different countries' census data

• Fixed an issue where South American cultures would spam the error log with errors, causing performance impact

• Fixed several possible errors caused by Garibaldi

• Fixed multiple miscellaneous script errors

• The River of Coffee journal entry will now fail properly if Brazil joins another market.

• Fixed bug where migration in a market would almost entirely stop if a culture in that market had no states it could migrate to (most often due to migration laws like Closed Borders)

• Fixed the mix up of Radicals/Loyalists sort buttons in the Census Data to sort on the correct value.

• Re-added the Ongoing Diplomatic Actions (bankroll, improve/damage relations) to the outliner based on player feedback.

• Fixed an issue where errors in Women's Suffrage modifiers could cause massive late-game slowdowns

• Fixed an issue where revolutions would cause error spam

• Fixed a missed scope in the Art Noveau event

• Fixed a bug where AI participants in Diplomatic Plays may compute the worth of its sways incorrectly

• Fixed a case where Call In Obligation sway might not clear the obligation

• Fixed a bug where an event script may cause error logging if Paraguay ceases to exist

• Embargoes are now possible at poor-and-lower relations

• Fixed a crash that could happen after starting a diplomatic play

• Fixed a bug in commander order script causing irrelevant error log spam when recruiting commanders

• Fixed a bug where the investment pool could tap into the treasury to cover private constructions if the country had a very long construction queue

• Fixed a bug where military formation map markers could show the wrong number of battalions if moving around the map while the game was paused

• Fixed a broken localization key in Japanese

AI

• AI will no longer disable Mobilization Options that have a cost (in Organization, Morale, etc) associated with them on a mobilized army, since in a fluctuating market this could lead to repeated toggling with disastrous results

All these error log changes together should hopefully improve performance but we are continuing to investigate the causes of the slowdown over time.

Those are the patch notes on June 27 for Victoria 3.

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