Victoria 3 to deepen legitimacy mechanic, reduce army micromanagement, and strengthen navy. Updated roadmap after Patch 1.9

Victoria 3 developers have big plans for the future.

The creators of the grand strategy game Victoria 3 recently celebrated “Mostly Positive” reviews on Steam. They decided to talk about what they will focus on after Update 1.9.

They showed an updated roadmap — they will refine the legitimacy mechanic to give it more depth (a widely supported government will no longer be easily overthrown); revise certain military mechanics and continue releasing content for various countries.

Military:

New goal:

• Make generals/admirals more significant and prominent figures in their countries and reduce the micromanagement of large numbers of commanders.

Planned:

• Make naval forces more important for projecting global power and securing coastal control.
• Turn individual ships into full-fledged military hardware assets that can be built, sunk, and repaired, rather than just treating them as workplaces.
• Add a limited war system to reduce the number of global wars between Great Powers during the early game.

Historical Immersion:

New goal:

• Improve the way certain historical conflicts are modeled so that they play out a bit closer to how they unfolded historically.

Planned:

• Refinement of the Journal
• Adding more country-, state-, and region-specific content to enhance the historical flavor of different nations.

Diplomacy:

New goal:

• Rework the war exhaustion system, shifting away from one where a single uncontested war goal can stall a war into a deadlock, to a system where contested war goals and war outcomes become more dynamic and engaging.

Planned:

• Make declaring and maintaining diplomatic interests a more rewarding and challenging aspect of building a global empire.
• Allow peace deals to be negotiated during a diplomatic play instead of merely having the option to back down.

Internal Politics:

Planned:

• Turn legitimacy into a more engaging mechanic where government strength depends on its successes and failures, and highly legitimate governments cannot simply be ousted on a whim but must be undermined first.
• Introduce the concept of national pride, which can rise or fall depending on the nation's actions and is directly tied to legitimacy.

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