Victoria 3 - Dev Diary #53 - Characters

[neondt]

> Social Democrats are less likely to emerge from content Interest Groups

You sure you don't mean MORE likely?

Yes, typo! Social Democrats are more likely to emerge under content IG's, while more radical communists tend to emerge in angier IG's.

Are historical characters always set to die in their historical time? Is Friedrich III always going to die in 1888, Franz Joseph in 1916 or can I take him to 1936 by reloading saves, etc?

Character death dates are random. But in one case I added some malicious script to heavily increase the odds of a certain king Billy very early into the game.

Are heirs preset? As in, will the line of succession (barring nothing happens to uppend that status quo) in countries starting as monarchies go as we know they did historically? Or are they randomly generated as needed?

We've scripted starting heirs in most (if not all) monarchies in 1836. After that, characters are randomly generated.

Very nice! But wouldn't "Great Proprietors" be a more neutral name for the Austrian Landowners? Or is "Austrian Aristocracy" a dynamic name that will change depending on laws (or if A-H is a different country, tag)?

It's tied to some Austrian content, and will change if/when you become Austria-Hungary.

If Popular commanders improve morale, can unpopular commander's cause a mutiny/kill the commander?

No but that's a really good idea for an event.

 

[neondt]

Radical is a bit of a weird one. I'd be inclined to come up with a better term. Radicalism is not an ideology but a personal trait regarding an ideology. You can be a radical tradicionalist. Or a radical market liberal. Or a radical communist. What is a radical in Victoria 3?

See here:

They are talking about Classical Radicalism, which was in fact an ideology

 

[neondt]

How moddable are the characters?

For example could we create a mod that turned Lincoln and the US communist and have him as the leader? Lincoln abolishes wage slavery would definitely be a mod

I don't see why not. This is all highly moddable

 

[neondt]

Can characters stats other than popularity be modded as event modifiers as well,such as army leader or character health modifiers(if that's even a thing)?
Thanks for any replies about this.

Yes, of course!

 

[Wizzington]

About that, are there separate monarch names lists for each country? Because dynasties tend to use the same names over and over (e.g. Phillipe, Louis in France; William, George, Edward in England; Charles, Ferdinand, Alfonso in Spain etc.)

It kinda breaks immersion when a random Joseph pops in out of nowhere. There could still be a small chance for a random primary culture name, but countries with long established dynasties should have strong biases toward certain names.

You can specify separate namelists for commoners, nobility and royalty for each culture.