We're looking into a few things we've had reported since VotP release (particularly since this thread surfaced). If we can find any optimizations that are safe enough to roll out for 1.3.3 we will do so. Expect a changelog in a couple of weeks and hopefully we'll have something like that on there.
In particular, we have a lot of random events that aren't attached to mechanics like law enactment, revolutions, and elections which don't offer compelling choices, are too repetitive, or supersede rather than work alongside the game's mechanics. We're also going to look over content relating to unifications (Italian, Canada, etc.) to model more historical outcomes, similar to how we reworked German unification Journal Entries for 1.3. Reconstruction is another candidate for an update. To take some examples.
Agreed on all counts! @neondt, @hagerhink and I actually have a design for this that we're going to try out next time we do a game jam
Yes, this is exactly the idea - three different tracks which 'race' each other, advancing or retreating based on factors such as your economy, politics, engagement in foreign adventures and so on, and with the return of Republicanism as the result if none of the three dynasties manage to 'win'.
There's plenty of events relating to both historic and generic Agitators outside of France already, both free and paid (since the historical Agitators are paid). What we're focusing on here is paid content specifically for France.
Yes, it will be a configurable notification. We're also working on ways for you to customize which countries you're actually interested in but that's for a later update. And as always we are aiming for good defaults as a baseline - your customization should only be a personal preference, not a way to make the game playable.
We're taking performance very seriously, which I know are just words, but trust me on this one - I have daily conversations with programmers about performance. The thing is that you can't really throw everyone on performance work all at once, because people step on each other's toes, introduce weird knock-on side effects, bugs, or out-of-syncs we can't be sure the source of, etc.
We're looking into what feels best here, but it's on the table.
This is in large part why we want to update the scripted French AI logic to account for rulers of the different dynasties!
Aside from the enormous changes in graphics, the three biggest differences between V2 and V3 are:
It's actually one of the things we've discussed recently, but the consensus in the design team is that we don't think we can do it justice with the current mechanics. It's definitely a candidate for later though.
