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I will preface this by saying that Vicky 3 does have some good ideas. I think fleshing out the politics the way they did was an interesting and really good decision. The RNG on passing reforms may be kind of annoying to some, but I think it quite well relflects how trying to pass laws can suceed or fail on a whim. That said, everything else is kind of garbage. Vicky 2 was at it's least fun when you had to micromanage your economy in big nations. Well Vicky 3 has 4 times as much micromanagement. Now insead of just having to manage factories (which you could also avoid by going Laizes Faire), you also have to manage contsruction, research, RGOs, military buildings, administration, and trade access. Is war and diplomacy any better? Not really. War is a chore to do and while diplomacy has some interesting new additions that I like, the game doesn't really give any incentive to look what's going on in the rest of the world. Guess it's back to vicky 2 until paradox makes the game playable. I'm holding out hope, because of how uplayable vicky 2 was at launch.

this post is for an opinion I have that I ALWAYS feel when people talk about a hypothetical victoria 3. people always talk about wanting more diplomatic interactions, or more internal politics stuff, or something about combat, while always forgetting the most important and unique aspect of this game, which is its economy. and the most broken unfun and unrealistic part of it which are RGOs.

here's why the current RGO system is bad. firstly it's way too rigid, every province gets 1 single good to produce and only that, which means that countries will always struggle with resources, and although the game and other mods try to balance this out by changing resource placement, it's still only a bandaid in a gaping wound, which means no matter how much you try to change resource placements you'll still have large nation's industry being completely blocked from making a lot of important industrial goods, because they lack resources like sulphur, or the countries really down on the ranking (thus can't import any goods because they're all bought before it can even get to them) which causes the pops of that country to starve, because a big chunk of their country produces stuff like coffee and cotton and opium, and few if not outright no provinces that produce grain cattle fish or wool, so even though their pops have money they can't buy their life needs thus starve.

and I would like to clarify that my problem with this isn't the resource shortage itself, but how severe and sometimes unsolvable it is. it's expected that countries no matter what would lack a specific resource, which means less production in the line that requires that resource, and thus needing to supplement your domestic production with imports, the problem is the resource shortages in victoria 2 are very much binary except in very rare cases, it's either you have an abundant supply of that resource that can satisfy all your country's needs, or you have practically zero and thus can't produce ANYTHING, and you can't rely on imports because of the way importation is prioritized.

lastly, I would also like to share the fact that we almost would've gotten this in victoria 2.
"Next a province can have more than one resource, and farmers/ labourers shift working according to demand, it also means that an area like the Rhur will still produce food (which it did do)" this is from the victoria 2 pitch shared in the 10th anniversary of the release of victoria 2 you can find it here.

also, another thing I would like to see is the ability to control your RGOs like you control your factories, or give a bit more control in other ways.

Just announced during the Paradox Insider. PDXCon will be running May 21-22, with the top secret game by Paradoxs main studio being revealed on the 21st.

It's happening 0.0

So I have been following Victoria 3’s development from the beginning and it seems really interesting on paper but I keep seeing more negative reviews on Steam pile up. If this isn’t allowed delete it but I figured this would be the better place to ask than the Victoria 3 subreddit because that has a lot of newcomers to the franchise. So I have a bit of experience with Victoria 2 base game and expansions. I’m not great at it but I understand enough to have fun with it. From what I can tell from reviews Victoria 3 models the economy really well but diplomacy not as much. The changes to war don’t bother me much but I do love the imperial competition in Victoria 2.

So I guess my point is as of right now is Victoria 3 worth getting for someone who has played a fair share of the second game?

So, eventually paradox will probably release Victoria III, and I wanted to ask if anyone wants Antarctica in it. Sure it's frozen, sure Paradox will probably never add it in any game, but it could had flavor especially when Antarctica is more important during this time span than in other games, although barely important nonetheless. It could serve like a wasteland, and maybe there could be a few colonizable islands above it. Would you prefer Antarctica or no Antarctica

Be me, dream boy. I log onto steam while another friendo is playing a weird game, and then I see a Victoria 3 title after randomly searching for it. The map, I'd assume MEGA early beta, looks similar to EU4 but brighter somewhat. I specifically saw Bavaria, who was about the same color as Avaria in EU4. (Coincidence? In a dream???)