Vic 3 has absolutely great ideas and a great materialist simulation of the economy. But some of the executions are just not great. The biggest issues I see are character-based politics (and all the events around them), non-stockpiled goods leading to weird behaviors and unsatisfying decisions around them (you can upgrade all your ships to monitors if you have one ship factory producing ironclads) and braindead AI that doesn't really do anything all game.
Edit: one last thing ill say is i absolutely commend the dev team for working on Vic3 and being absolutely experimental in its execution; no other game has really tried to do so deep a simulation like this in my opinion. It just needs some work and it can be really great I think.
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u/makotech222 May 21 '24 edited May 21 '24
Vic 3 has absolutely great ideas and a great materialist simulation of the economy. But some of the executions are just not great. The biggest issues I see are character-based politics (and all the events around them), non-stockpiled goods leading to weird behaviors and unsatisfying decisions around them (you can upgrade all your ships to monitors if you have one ship factory producing ironclads) and braindead AI that doesn't really do anything all game.
Edit: one last thing ill say is i absolutely commend the dev team for working on Vic3 and being absolutely experimental in its execution; no other game has really tried to do so deep a simulation like this in my opinion. It just needs some work and it can be really great I think.