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Victoria 3 - Dev Diary #132 - Pivot of Empire

Hello Victorians, happy Tuesday! It feels odd having a happy Tuesday instead of Thursday, but we have a good reason to release two Dev Diaries this week!

This week is our Anniversary and yesterday we talked about what came in free updates since launch. As a follow up, today we have a special treat for you: the announcement and the release date of a new immersion pack, Pivot of Empire, which will come alongside Update 1.8.

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Some of you may know the name of this pack from a famous quote:

“India is the pivot of our Empire... If the Empire loses any other part of its Dominion we can survive, but if we lose India, the sun of our Empire will have set” - Victor Bruce, Viceroy of India during the Indian Uprising.

This sets the scene for the immersion pack. Pivot of Empire is set in the Indian Subcontinent, focused on the events following the years of discrimination and suppression by the East India Company. The Indian Uprising events take us through the eventual downfall of the East India Company and rise of the British Raj.


Within this Immersion pack you will get to experience narrative content for the East India Company, but also the other Indian Nations, Great Britain imposing its will upon such a wealthy land, and the nearby Sikh Empire trying to assert itself with such an avaricious neighbor. Regardless if you already played in this region or not, Pivot of Empire will bring a lot of unique and fresh flavor to the game.

And for your easy reference of the content we have this handy dandy infographic (you can enlarge it by clicking on it!):
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Now, if you have forgotten what is coming with the free Update 1.8, we also have another quick reference overview graphic too!
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As you might have noticed, the Caste System Laws and updated Indian Uprising events are part of the free Update available to all players, while narrative content related to them will be added in Pivot of Empire, along with additional content related to religious tensions in the region, Indian national movements and local initiatives for independence (among other things).

We hope you enjoy our foray into the Indian Subcontinent and the surrounding interactions caused by discrimination and movements for liberation! Of course this is just the tip of an iceberg, as we are going to delve more into the details in the upcoming Dev Diaries.

Both Pivot of Empire and free Update 1.8 will be released on the 21st of November, Pivot of Empire will cost €9.99 . Check out the Steam store page for screenshots, and don't forget to wishlist this immersion pack!

Now, with that all said and the release date coming up in just about a month, we have quite a few Dev Diaries delving into the meat of Pivot of Empire. Starting this week already, with Emperatriz leading the charge on the 24th, where we look at a selection of the narrative content!
 
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It will be finally possible to have finally a playable free Hindu India or some kind of long term political agency playing as one of the princely states?
 
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Are castes only for India or do some other places use them as well?
 
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Nnorm said:
Imagine downvoted somebody, because he dared to call out significant historical flop from devs.
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Go ahead and explain to me why the Carlist Wars are so much more historically significant than India that it’s worth throwing a fit over in the dev diary comments.

Don’t be scared, explain your line of reasoning.
 
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When are we going to get immersion packs about the actual actors in the era? We still don't have a springtime of the peoples, or a functioning German unification! Is it really that important to re-explore colonial regions when the core historical game cycle is still broken?
 
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When are we going to get immersion packs about the actual actors in the era? We still don't have a springtime of the peoples, or a functioning German unification! Is it really that important to re-explore colonial regions when the core historical game cycle is still broken?
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It will get funded by all the purchases from this dlc.
 
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I agree Europe needs a ton of work and Spain specifically has one of the most generic setups of a major nation. But it's really not like India should be something obscure. This is the most important colony of the historical #1 Great Power, it was always going to be one of the most obvious places to make bespoke content for.
 
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Don_Quigleone said:
Will the cheese that allows a player to force the east India company to be independent of the UK be patched out?
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Hopefully we get the massive colonies weighted to the point releasing them would be unfeasible. Maybe weight releasable colonies so they are worth way more diplo points the higher their population and GDP?

As an alternative we could get content on the Hindu-German conspiracy (or rather Hindu-X country conspiracy) if the player wants to lend a support for a free India to weaken Britain.
 
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Will other countries get a different version of caste laws, maybe discrimination laws? Or will only India get the caste law group?
 
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as far as we can see, caste laws seem to be something relating merely to indian/hindu countries, of wich has we can see in the new screenshots there are plenty of now, so while not "a country unique law" from this it does not follow that other non-indian/hindu will have acess to them.
 
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CivMasters said:
Very nice! From the language in DD#124 ("However, I can tell you that the next update (1.8) will be a standalone free update [...]") and the changes of plans described in DD#126, I didn't think a DLC was accompanying this update! @nudu seem to be the only person on the right tracks back then!

If anyone, like me, was a bit disappointed to see this DD on the short side, I took the time to take screenshots from every relevant frame from the fast-paced section in the video, from ~0:18 up to ~0:25. They are quite interesting, though I reckon not final.

Let's take a nice look:

Every level of discrimination (Japan)
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This seems very promising!

Caste System Law
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Maybe there should be an "informal" Caste System to represent discrimination in former slave states?

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I find it interesting that companies pay very little in wages. Who do they employ? I guess their weekly balance is fully added to the Investment Pool with no bonus nor malus?

Every level of Bulk Nationalization
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I find it interesting that nationalizing some levels is "free", since it cause no extra radicalism.
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Huuummm, don't really understand the screens for the moment, did they add the Burakumin in Japan?
 
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When are we going to get immersion packs about the actual actors in the era? We still don't have a springtime of the peoples, or a functioning German unification! Is it really that important to re-explore colonial regions when the core historical game cycle is still broken?
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Explain to me why German unification is more important than the collapse of EIC, the formation of the British Raj, and the Indian independence movement. Go ahead, I'd love to know why colonial regions are not part of the "core historical game cycle", and how you define "actual actors" and why that doesn't include the successful independence movement for a nation containing about 1/6 of the global population (at the time).

I can't wait to hear your insights into why the struggle for self-determination of the most important colony of the largest colonial power in the world, leading to the end of the very system of colonization that defined the era this game is set in, pales in importance to... improving the already-existing German unification system.

We're all friends here, don't hold back, please elaborate.
 
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47pik said:
Go ahead and explain to me why the Carlist Wars are so much more historically significant than India that it’s worth throwing a fit over in the dev diary comments.

Don’t be scared, explain your line of reasoning.
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And you go explain, why we - for a two years already - should not have carlist wars? Please, explain your line of reasoning.
 
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Nnorm said:
And you go explain, why we - for a two years already - should not have carlist wars? Please, explain your line of reasoning.
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I’m not against Carlist Wars being in the game. Back to you! Still waiting for that explanation on why a regional civil conflict over ideology and a couple provinces absolutely must be included before anything else
 
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When are we going to get immersion packs about the actual actors in the era? We still don't have a springtime of the peoples, or a functioning German unification! Is it really that important to re-explore colonial regions when the core historical game cycle is still broken?
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Even as a French I'm not as self-centered as this guy. He wins the euro-centrist competition of the millennium. Should buy a 19th century history book not centered on Western Europe with the prize money.
 
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CivMasters said:
Very nice! From the language in DD#124 ("However, I can tell you that the next update (1.8) will be a standalone free update [...]") and the changes of plans described in DD#126, I didn't think a DLC was accompanying this update! @nudu seem to be the only person on the right tracks back then!
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The original plan was to have 1.8 be a smaller update without a DLC and 1.9 be the update with Pivot of India but since we combined the two that also meant 1.8 being the update with the DLC.
 
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