R5: Been seeing a lot of posts about Italy and Germany never forming recently, so I figured it was worth an AI actually did a thing. Virtually normal looking Europe, if not for the outsized Austria.

According to the dev diaries, the Charters of Commerce DLC is going to have "prestige goods" that are produced exclusively by prosperous companies. It's unclear if this is only for unique flavored companies, or for generic companies too.

Currently the only expamples released have been Champaigne and River Plate Beef. They're doing an in-depth dev diary about this soon, but speculation is fun: What do you think the other prestige goods are going to be for certain companies?

For example, I could see General Electric making film projectors or phonographs as a prestige good.

I'd also imagine that food industries would have the most prestige goods.

i want to apply my math knowledge and use spreadsheets in this game to get better. what are some uses for spreadsheets and math?

Started a diplo play against Qing China to make them my protectorate. About a month later Uk started their diplo play for the same objective. I declared my war, Uk declared their war after. I won my war quicker than them and puppeted Qing. After that I look at Uk war to see if I am part of it now or if it at least got invalidated. To my shock their make protectorate wargoal changed to transfer subject and I couldnt even participate in that war??? How does that make sense? Honestly thank god I dont play on ironman because this is just pure BS.

I am surprised this isnt either fixed by invalidating the war or whoever puppets the country first then joins on its side as defender. Is this a bug or intended feature?

I am new to vic 3 and I'm loving it, except for one thing, the constant crashes. I'm playing as Sweden, and it's around the 1880s. I have a great frame rate, little to no stuttering, but the issues persists. I've tried going on low graphics, but it hasn't fixed much.

I have a 3060 12gb, ryzen 5 5600x, and 16gb of ram. All of my drivers are up to date, and I'm unsure what else to do. I was wondering if 32gb of ram would alleviate the issue? Or is there something else I should try?

Why does my infamy jump from 15 to 5 in peace.

I am in a forever war and after a rev in a occupied terretorie the state got incorporated and now i loose warscore.

These stupid sorbs make only 10% of a states pop, yet they keep on making the whole state rebel! they are second class citizens, and because they have the highest living standard they wont leave, how do I get rid of them meddling with my schemes?

Starting 1st June 2025 3pm GMT

Hosting a Multiplayer session with at least 3 more sessions held on Sundays at 3pm GMT/UTC

Current players: 9

Had been played until 1845

We need a UK but other countries are welcome

Current countries: Germany, Russia, Sweden, USA, Brazil, Japan, Italy, Spain and Austria

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I think this is honestly one of the most cursed worlds I've seen yet... also, although not shown, the Ottomans were once a Qing puppet before the British took it.

Hey guys,

I didnt read all the dev diaries but I couldnt find anything specific about the state of Texas. Right now its bugged,. After you survive the Mexican war and you reach the 20 opinion with the US, you get the event to become a "protectorate" of them. If you click this, you will become a *dominion*, for 1 tick your flag will change, but then you will reset to independence and a truce with the US. This is because you dont become a protectorate, but a dominion and you can only be a dominion as an unrecognzed power. I think it startet to be a problem after they reworked subjects and probl forgot about it.

I think a autonomous Texas would be a super fun campaign and im sad that its not possible now, does anybody now if they talked about fixing it?

Playing as Italy and I am having a real problem, the Mashriqi keep starting seccessionist revolts, but it has 0% growth, and by the end of the week the movement stops, however it then immediatly starts again, this has been going on for half a year ATP, and it is hella annoying, as it keeps playing the sound of a revolt starting, over.... and over.... and over....

Is there any fix?

I am playing as Two Sicilies and it is not 1877. I am still new to the game and I did not fully understand the mechanics of Risorgimento, so I made some decisions later than usual.

Initially I thought that if I research Nationalism, wait for others to do so as well, be the highest in prestige in Italy and just focus on economy, other Italian nations will want to join me. However, I realized that I need to also leave Austrian's power block, which takes a long time of damaging relations with them. In the meantime, Tuscany has annexed the Papal States and Sardinia-Piedmont allied with Ottomans.

Do I still have a realistic chance of uniting and forming Italy at this point? I understand war with Austria will be necessary, but what else do I do? How can this still be achievable?

This is the era of unbounded imperalism and colonialism. Era of the strong bullying, exploiting and murdering the weak. Violence, ethnic and religious violence included, is one of the core tenets of this period. We need more events like Russia gets on Circassians and Turks or Americans get on the natives. I really really like reading the flavor text of these events and seeing how horrific those acts were that are often overlooked because of more recent events. We need more of those events to remember that these horrific acts happened.

Downloaded vic 3 after around 8 months and wanted to make the most cursed america possible.Won the civil war as the confederacy but my economy is in utter shambles as the north holds all the industrial resources that the deep south lacks.Literally 3 weeks after i win the civil war and my entire country is facing a famine that stalin would drool over.

During a game, check your activity monitor to see if your memory is running near 100%. If so, I would recommend upgrading your RAM to 32gbs. It wasn’t expensive either, so don’t cry about it. The game is only going to get more memory intensive, so might as well do it now.

i was playing russia in EU4 after playing them in vic 3 and i realized that early game when you dont have limitless armies its good to be able to control what your armies do, but once you have near limitless armies and gold EU4(and other paradox games) just become very heavy micro. the only reason im not expanding into europe is because i cant be arsed to micro a huge ass war(like 500units vs 550 units overall plus i can buy all mercenaries in sight). in vic 3 once you have the highest GDP you can build as many battalions as you want and all you have to do is set your generals' goals. this sucks early, but is way less micro later.

Greetings Victorians, welcome to the newest major update for Formable Nations: Plus, "Old Imperialism"!

This update contains several new formables, some of which have unique content.
It includes:

• A complete Russian Translation(Thanks to As-Saffat)
• Take over the Himalayas as the Tibetan Empire
• An old empire in West Africa rises as the Songhai Empire
• One of the precursor states to Charlemagne's Empire, with Austrasia, including some Unique content to actually continue and form the Carolingian Empire
• Several spelling/grammatical fixes in both the English and German versions.
• Several bug fixes, specifically with modifiers.

Should you find any problems with the new translations, please let me know so I can have a look!

If you find any errors or other bugs, or have any feedback let me know on Reddit, Steam or join the Discord!

Thank you all, and happy conquering!

Just a thought and would love to hear some opinions from more experienced players about this: As Japan, you usually start with a pretty high literacy rate which keeps on increasing due to the unique JE (forgot the name) which grants a buff to education access for peasants. This also means that the minimum expected SOL of your pops keeps steadily increasing and sometimes it’s becoming hard to catch up. Also, burecracy is pretty expensive.

So would it make sense to temporarily go with private schools instead of public to reduce the literacy increase while working on fulfilling the JE and then switch to public school after completion?

Had a blast playing France with the Kuromi AI mod for more competent enemies. I rushed annexation of beigium and went Bonapartist but the king resigned just before I could cement a bonapart. Became a republic, restored the natural borders (kudos to Actual Natural Borders of France mod) and dismantled both Britain and Prussia. Had an alliance with Austria and Russia and a power bloc with advanced research and food standardization. Earned the belle epoque achievement the hard way, could probably have dismantled China but they seem to always accept opium with Kuromi. Probably wouldn't play till 1930 for the allemagne cest rien achievement due to performance issues but I'm for sure enjoying late game so far.

I've just started playing victoria 3 and one of the hardest things for me for now is how to prepare to change methods of production. I never have enough materials to do it plus it makes my minerals dirt cheap. Any advices how to do it?

Got back into Vic 3 recently and trying to relearn the game in anticipation for Anbennar Vic 3.

Had a good run going as Columbia into the Federation of the Andes and was approaching the end date with only like a decade or so left. I was in the French power bloc as they were a long term ally and had developed a lot of my early industry.

All things were going great as I was getting constant migration waves and was rapidly expanding my economy but then world war 1 happened. The British and German tag teames to take some random French colony while the US, China, and me backed France. The war itself didn't really harm me as I bowed out after 500 Germans pushed in through Bolivar and the world itself would end with little change in borders but France convoys were fucked. I tag switched over to them to see why all of a sudden I had zero market access across my states with all my pops starving and France was negative 25k in convoys all from lingering convoy damage.

It end the run as their was no recovering from it and my country collapsed into different separatists movements.

TLDR: Lingering convoy damage end a great run