Victoria 3 - Dev Diary #58 - Interest Revisions

[Wizzington]

1. How many interests do you get at minimum, without navy and being a really low rank country?

2. Is it possible to cheese the system by simply having a small colony everywhere, thus not needing to declare interests?

1. There is no minimum - Insignificant Powers don't get to declare any interests if they don't have a navy large enough. You still get an Interest where you own land, though.
2. Small/incomplete colonies do not give you an Interest in the region.

 

[Wizzington]

Love the idea of tying Interests to navy. Britannia rules the waves, of course.

My only issue with what's described is the notifications. I'd at least like the option to have notifications outside of Interests. If you play as the United States, you should probably be notified of the wars breaking out in Europe, even if you don't have the ability to interfere.

You do get notifications about countries that are relevant because of overlapping interests, to be clear. So US would get notified if say, a trading partner ended up at war.

 

[Wizzington]

Do production method / quality of ships matter? or spamming low level ships will be the meta for more interest.

Right now it's just 1 per 10 but that might change before release.

 

[Wizzington]

From the twitter teaser we see that we get declared interests from rank and now naval bases.

Spoiler: Teaser image

Do we still get the implicit interests in locations that we or one of our subjects have land?
(Is Britain going to have interests everywhere between the implicit interests, rank based declared, and now navy based declared?)

You get 'natural' interests anywhere you or a subject owns a state that isn't a colony in progress.

 

[Wizzington]

What happens if you lose your navy or go down in rank? Will a dialogue pop up forcing you to get rid of one of your interests or will it just get rid of one automatically? And will it make us get rid of an interest immediately or will there be some sort of grace period to give us time to re-raise our interest cap?

You don't lose declared interests from ships being sunk, only from downsizing naval bases.

If you do lose declared interests then the last interest you declared will start to get removed, you get a notification, and have a period of 30 days to react by removing another declared interest and re-declaring he one that was automatically removed before the actual Interest goes away.

 

[Wizzington]

Do we need to have interest in the area in order to interact with country, even if we share land border with them? For example if two countries are at the border of two strategic regions without having any land or declared interest in the other one.

Or is the interest required only for oversea interactions?

Sharing a land border always lets you interact with and receive notifications about a country.

 

[Wizzington]

@Wizzington Any chance players could opt-in to more notifications than what you've described above?

I'm not opposed to the idea, though we won’t have time to do it for release at least. Possibly after!

 

[Wizzington]

It should be tied to ships though, not naval bases.

Would be more realistic but also very annoying to have to redeclare interests anytime you have a naval battle, so we chose gameplay over realism here.