HUGE Meta Changes w/ Power Block Principles Will MASSIVELY Shake Up Victoria 3 Gameplay! DD Rundown

[@bargiona]

I was starting to worry that you had a stroke out of excitement from the happiness of this Thursday

[@generalistgaming]

I did have a stroke. I made this video from the hospital.

[@I2yantheGreat]

@@generalistgaming LUL

[@photinodecay]

@@generalistgaming The hospital production method switched to overwhelming happiness and hospitals are now making 10% greater profits.

[@hellokittygaming42069]

Thank you for acknowledging the presence of girl in this community. Although i do hope i am not the only one 😅

[@maycherryblossoms]

Heyy sis

[@lazykatie42069]

you're not, I'm here too

[@generalistgaming]

Gatekeep, Girlboss, Gunfight 💅

[@Mattilainen45]

Are you trans? no offense

[@noahjones1192]

The three musketeers

[@zigzera7757]

I’d still like it if they added a random resource game mode where you wouldn’t know ahead of time exactly where every valuable province at game launch Preferably weighted based on mountains and distance from equator

[@genew3452]

Anno 1836 Mod kinda does this by making a large percent of ingame resources undiscovered at start of game and then appear during the course of the game, so unless you have the location of resources on the map memorizes, it will feel more randomized in terms of where resources are located.

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

Ideological union seems to be the most fun for roleplaying.

[@generalistgaming]

I think I agree.

[@lazykatie42069]

Party Whip is the interest group with the most clout in a political party, they serve to mitigate ideological incohesion within a given political party to help make legitimacy better, and the Ideological Truth principle seems to boost this effect, letting you get higher legitimacy more easily assuming you have a voting system in place

[@generalistgaming]

Thank you for the clarification!

[@lazykatie42069]

@@generalistgaming no problem!

[@genew3452]

Vassalization 3 - enact Greener Grass campaigns in low population vassal territories to encourage migration to get workers in mining industries perhaps??

[@alexandruscarlat8026]

Or you can also get foreign investment 3 and construct buildings that provide resources your power block's market lacks and then boost said resources with a decree. This gets even better if your subjects have states with OP modifiers as that means you get to stack those on top. You need foreign investment 3 because it allows you to invest in basically all the other members and boosts your leverage so you can keep them more easily in your power block. You also have to get market unification since otherwise you can't have a customs union(unless trade league but in that case it's unlikely you will go vasalisation) it s extra MAPI will further boost the buildings you just built in your subjects which should make them not only a good way to acquire resources that you desperately need but to also be very profitable. Since vasalisation 3 increases income from subjects you will get even more cash.

[@lazykatie42069]

yeah that's what I was thinking, get people to move to states in subjects where you want people working

[@pelayla]

you mentioned that the increased influence from one of the trade principles didnt seem very useful, but you have to keep in mind that influence will now be more useful considering the amount of subject interactions in 1.7 that will use it

[@rabidfurify]

Maintaining a Power Bloc also costs influence

[@generalistgaming]

Ah, I had forgotten about that. Really keen on knowing just how much influence you get from some of these things.

[@genew3452]

Re the External Trade I bureaucracy cost, I *think* it means that if you choose it as say UK trade block, if you form a trade treaty with say a rival France trade block, having it will reduce the cost of bureaucracy between the British block and the French block. The French block does not become integrated with the British block, but the cost of trade is lowered between the two blocks. Think say a trade deal between USA and EU today, USA would not become member of EU but there likely would be lowered costs to trade negotiated in the deal.

[@MrHeavyrifle]

I thought trade route competitiveness works for importing only. If yours is higher you get to buy first at a certain price. When selling whichever seller has the best prices gets to sell first.

[@generalistgaming]

I believe it works on exports too, but I don't understand it well as I mentioned

[@MrHeavyrifle]

@@generalistgaming you may be correct. To be honest my only source is that matketplace of the world journal entry has an option called “Buy! Buy! Buy!” Which gives competitiveness. So I just had assumed that based on vibes and feelings

[@generalistgaming]

@@MrHeavyrifle the vibes and feels are deceptive

[@MrScoot27]

Happy Thursday (even though it's Friday morning over here already)! Clearly, Lino should take the supervisory role for every remaining dev diary, they're obviously someone who understands and appreciates the culture.

[@generalistgaming]

We should start a petition.

[@siegechamp2295]

0:30 Ladies and gentlemen, we won

[@genew3452]

Now what would be neat is if leverage percentages could translate into support for different factions within a country, including if civil war breaks out having different power blocs support different sides.

[@SireBab]

Also, oh man I'm rubbing my hands together planning a ideological union as the USA, have internal trade, have defensive coordination (Monroe doctrine), creative legislature, and vassalization. I'll create republics in the americas, preferably puppets but w/e, also making puppet republics in Africa, and I'll focus on building up their raw good extraction, while I focus on creating all the finished goods for them. Defensive may be irrelevant if many of these guys are vassals, but would be good if I want to ride low infamy. It occurs to me that this is just larping a more aggressive USA, that actually cares about changing the laws in the nations in the sphere, so they have to trade with it, rather than just proccing revs.

[@SireBab]

Oh damn, I didn't even see the other principles! Well now I need to re-evaluate. That mapi in market unification is big nice. Aww, and I can't have ideological and internal trade, I guess I just take market unification instead

[@SireBab]

Yeah foreign investment is also a must, looks like tons of fun

[@Donsomebody]

Yessssss so damn excited man! Can't wait to see how the update gives players a chance to experiment and play around a bit more on each run. Look forward to seeing how you handle it all. Cheers mate!! 🐐 Channel

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

My guess is that the tarrifs on countries outside the block are to encourage internal trade

[@generalistgaming]

I realized this potential after I made the video - which is interesting. I think the fact that the ai sucks makes it not too valuable UNLESS you have something like a treaty port on Qing, you import from them, and you dump the imports to your CU effectively while preventing them from doing good routes of their own or something?

[@davidd.w.8681]

15:15 now that subjects can have their own market, external trade allows you to trade with them without having to pay bureaucracy.

[@generalistgaming]

Ah, big true!

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

14:54 maybe that will be a pick up if you are playing a different type of power block.

[@lazykatie42069]

Speaking of interests, I think a neat video idea could be like an interest tier list that's kind of like the tech tier lists where you rank the strategic regions based on how likely you are to prioritize getting an interest in that region. Far as I can tell the best regions to prioritize are ones with discoverable resources (i.e. gold, rubber, oil) and ones where GPs tend to get involved in plays in frequently

[@generalistgaming]

I actually have notes for this video topic already! I just don't know if it plays better going over ever SR or doing a top ten. I suppose a tier list is good, but I have no idea how I'd get images for such a tier list without it taking a long time to set up.

[@lazykatie42069]

@@generalistgaming that's true, tier list format could be kinda hard

[@T4G95]

The way i’ve been thinking about the authority bonus through subjects goes like this. You get the bonus authority which you might want to use as edicts in their land on states that you might own a lot of buildings in. Like encourage resource industry in one of their states with a lot of rubber or oil that you are trying to exploit. Not only would your market benefit from the extra goods but your pops should also be making more money from their investment as the buildings are making more money.

[@generalistgaming]

That makes sense. Being able to spam a lot of decrees in your states seems decent enough too, we just haven't been able to do that in the past except for the patch where the UK had the op PB bonus

[@bargiona]

Can I suggest a pre 1.7 video listing possible play styles and strategies to try out? Like several new meta possibilities.

[@generalistgaming]

I think I might do that, yeah. I want to do that when I think I know most of the changes already - something big might drop next Thursday.

[@photinodecay]

The East India East India company is actually an Organization, making it the EIEIO

[@siegechamp2295]

All principle groups not locked behind a central identity pillar also act as generic ones

[@MickeyDoop1]

A "Party Whip" is a party official who runs around the Capitol and makes sure that all the members of the party vote for the party line. An example: the Purple party wants to repeal the minimum wage. The party ran on repealing the minimum wage, but a few of the members of the party are not showing up to vote or are refusing to vote for personal reasons. The party whip goes to them and does everything they can to ensure that those members show up and vote with the party. I would assume in the game the Party Whip modifier will have something to do with conformity to the leaders ideology. Perhaps you can assign a character to a bloc member to make their ideology shift closer to yours?

[@cyberrb25]

I have to say, for me it's no longer Happy Thursday. At best, Happy Friday.

[@generalistgaming]

Meta is to start the video at 11 pm Thursday so it will still be playing Friday and you can double dip the Happy.

[@AdventurerPrimefire]

​@@generalistgaming almost did that till I fell asleep with the video on, now time to increase that watch time.

[@aaronhpa]

HAPPY THURSDAYYYY!!

[@KFishproductionII]

You should try releasing Yue from Portugal and playing as a treaty port. It used to be easier in earlier versions.

[@generalistgaming]

That's actually a pretty good idea. Maybe that's more interesting than Panama for a single state trade run.

[@besacciaesteban]

If i didn't misunderstood the religion intervention thing you get a chance every time any revolt has your religion as a state religion. This is huge for countries that have sunnism or catholicism as revolts of those religions will happen in multiple contintents.

[@KittenCritters]

I have a hard time making it through this video. The wound from not being greeted With a happy wednesday yesterday just just hangs as a constant reminder when Paradox does it

[@generalistgaming]

I recognize and acknowledge that the damage I've done cannot be undone. I can only try to do better in the future.

[@frederickryeland313]

Am I the only one who sees balancing issues and balance inequalities between the "identities"? One of the identities has block cohesion dependent on GDP. Another has it dependent on Prestige, but Prestige in turn is also dependent on GDP! So in one case cohesion is derived from a base metric of buildings' profitability, in the other case - from a metric derivative of the base metric. Even at first glance this already looks like shoehorning the player into the "raise GDP and you win" playstyle, which was one main problem that the SoI expansion was intended to address. I wonder if anyone even pauses to think about those things. Judging from the forums, the answer is no.

[@bricelevai8520]

Finally I can impose freedom and democracy as America worldwide

[@generalistgaming]

World Police

[@sethyboy0]

30:00 Old Mac Donald had a colony

[@generalistgaming]

EIEIC!

[@volty5790]

Happy Thursday!!❤

[@generalistgaming]

You too!!

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

Will the Atheist religious union be possible?

[@lazykatie42069]

No

[@sureee_kidsure9180]

50:15 the Thalmor did this in Skyrim 😨

[@cyrusol]

You can get >100% MAPI with mods already, it has no effect beyond 100%. I.e. local prices = market prices and that's it.

[@midnightfox6378]

Happy Friday

[@generalistgaming]

Same to you!

[@connorvic3]

34:58 is that enough infamy reduction to take eic without going above 100 infamy if you wait till a day before infamy drops?

[@1337Dudez]

"We did it boys and girl" LOL

[@abdulpadela4738]

I’ll be honest I think you’re underestimating the ideological union bonuses a bit. Decreasing stall chance and decreasing strength of opposing movements is nutty. Sure you can try and cheese revolutions but I think that’s lame and is probably going to be patched out and even if it isn’t its not 100% reliable and it’s better if you can pass laws without relying on it (I also think its an unfun play pattern) And ideological truth can be taken together with vassalization its not one or the other. I also think for the decrees in your subject lands part, the thing that’s most useful for is boosting resource production if your subject has a state with a ton of resources. Like if Sindh is my subject I’m using the resource throughput decree on that state the increased sulfur production is probably worth it for me, especially if I’ve invested money into it directly through foreign investment.

[@generalistgaming]

I mean even without the cheese I think there are a lot of small things you do to make law passes easier and that getting the laws you want isn't something I want to use a slot for, unless it is helping me to pass laws in subject nations a ton.

[@ethaneryk]

Rejoice for the Happy Thursday!!

[@SireBab]

Great video thanks! As an aside, I assume you didn't means to not capture the lower half of your face, you may want to adjust that for next time 😂

[@generalistgaming]

Is this a beard joke? This feels like a beard joke.

[@SireBab]

@@generalistgaming now I'm left wondering if this is a joke, no in the first half in the video you only had your face taking up a small part of the webcam, and it only had like your nose and up visible.

[@generalistgaming]

@@SireBab I think there's something wrong with your video player

[@SireBab]

@@generalistgaming You were totally right, I was watching on my phone when I wrote the comment, and apparently I was zoomed in 🤦

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

53:47 releasing and playing as Isreal meta?

[@generalistgaming]

Gotta mod it if you wanna play them from game start.

[@jywert]

Thanks for the long video :) Religious convection + Atheism would be "cool", but sadly, it won't work as atheists pop cannot be devout. Almoust would have wanted an option to force that clergy oversight into subject to boost more people into devout Japan with Shinto and Sikh Empire. Not sure of Israel in mid-game etc for the memes

[@hansnotig2138]

I can have decrees in my vassals?! Finally i can flood the south americas with german workers to fill the mines and oil rigs yeeeeees

[@Shaddarhim]

That -50% military goods cost is broken af. With Qing you can get to -100% military goods cost.

[@ariton2990]

Didnt you read the text below? Its a placeholder and it will be changed before release.

[@Shaddarhim]

@@ariton2990 yea but still. Some of those buffs seem pretty unbalanced.

[@pelayla]

i want the version of the game where this stays in

[@Shaddarhim]

@@pelayla you can probably mod it

[@abhishekchaudhari913]

The dev diary was kinda unclear. Anyways, good stuff👍

[@Abd121]

Tariffs sounds bad to the player, but you missed the point, this is for everyone, what this means is that you're effectivly forcing the AI to buy from you and not anyone else from the outside, giving you a big edge in dominating all your Econamic union subjects as for things like police, I don't like the whole unrest in subject in hopes of getting mass migrations, mostly because I'd rather never have my subjects revolting every few years and wasting my time try to manage those entirely pointless wars!

[@sureee_kidsure9180]

0:18 LET'S FUCKING GO!!! OF COURSE IT'S THE GUY WHO SHARES MY NAME WHO GIVES US THE HAPPY THURSDAY! THE WORLD IS HEALING, EVERYONE! THE WORLD IS HEALING!!!

[@Syrnix]

1 hour long video?? Feels like Happy Friday instead

[@generalistgaming]

Hope you enjoyed it!

[@verbalwhale]

As someone who is currently down the hegelian influence on political ideology rabbit hole. I too shudder just reading capital t truth.

[@generalistgaming]

When recording the video I felt like I was freezing there, trying to find a way to articulate the real Truth of my trauma.

[@batropablo]

STELLARIS FEDERATION COPY PASTE IN VIC 3

[@SireBab]

I mean... In the shallowest of senses, sure. But no, this will play out pretty differently I feel.

[@connorvic3]

mapi

[@generalistgaming]

mapi

[@swagysnoop5248]

not a very good video, you were too eager to give takes and opinions tbh you should just read the dev diary word for word

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

Is this sarcasm?

[@hellokittygaming42069]

​@@andrewgreenwood9068nope we hate when youtubers dont post slop. I want a reading of the entirety of the dev diary, no opinions. This obsviously isnt sarcasm as well

[@lixxark47]

I'm just here to see how the loud car outside impacts the game balance.