1.9.6 Opt-in Beta Extended

[Mercy02]

Salutations Victorians!

While we intended to release 1.9.6 as its own patch today, we have decided to extend the opt in beta. We are now aiming to release 1.9.6 later in the week with an additional update to the beta tomorrow which you will be able to read here when it's posted.

 

[masteriw]

Sad, I thought the beta update was coming today.

 

[OxfordNik]

Thanks for the update. If that means we get more fixes with some of the various issues the (otherwise excellent) update introduced, like weirdness with naval invasions, bugs around the company's Regional HQs being able to build despite the lack of investment rights, and the like - all the better

 

[iagocor]

I have a question: If i blockade a british teatry port in china (f.i), shouldn't all the troops in there suffer the supply penalty, and not only the british ones, while their subject can mantain a 100% army.

Same way,if i am fighting a country with more combined navy, and i'd like to cut the supply of only one of them (namely, austria), how could i see where to cut the supply chain from their ports, supossing they don't have any other way to supply via land?

 

[Pendables]

I like the update and all but I hope at some point I get to play a version of it that doesn't have any gamebreaking bugs

 

[Slokurn]

It is still usefull to report bug? I have reported few and some have no answer.

 

[Mercy02]

Sad, I thought the beta update was coming today.

Unfortunately we've had to change it to tomorrow due to how late it would have been ready if it was pushed today. We would have also had to update without checking for any potential new nasty issues which is less than ideal. We'd rather delay todays patch and extend the beta a few days to ensure 1.9.6 is the best experience we can deliver.

 

[Miguelinileugim]

Salutations Victorians!

While we intended to release 1.9.6 as its own patch today, we have decided to extend the opt in beta. We are now aiming to release 1.9.6 later in the week with an additional update to the beta tomorrow which you will be able to read here when it's posted.

You posted this link: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...updated-july-4th.1823373/page-4#post-30569435

It should have been this link: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/victoria-3-opt-in-beta-1-9-6-updated-july-4th.1823373

I expect your immediate resignation in shame and infamy.

 

[Mercy02]

It is still useful to report bug? I have reported few and some have no answer.

Of course! Please do! They are all helpful. We aim to get through of them when possible but have been ultra busy with the beta.

 

[Mercy02]

You posted this link: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...updated-july-4th.1823373/page-4#post-30569435

It should have been this link: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/victoria-3-opt-in-beta-1-9-6-updated-july-4th.1823373

I expect your immediate resignation in shame and infamy.

My mistake, I will hand in my top hat and demote myself to Peasant. (Thank you for pointing that out, it will be fixed in a moment!)

 

[Freed Sellzen]

Of course! Please do! They are all helpful. We aim to get through of them when possible but have been ultra busy with the beta.

Okay, then I'll keep reporting bugs. Even though I haven't gotten a response and I don't know if you've seen it.

 

[Drakken]

My mistake, I will hand in my top hat and demote myself to Peasant. (Thank you for pointing that out, it will be fixed in a moment!)

No need to, I am sure His Imperial Majesty can demote you to Ambassador in Paris instead.

 

[Meneye]

I'm glad, it seemed unlikely that every bug would have been fixed in time, and I've been enjoying the stability of 1.9.5

 

[condythug]

I like the update and all but I hope at some point I get to play a version of it that doesn't have any gamebreaking bugs

nice dream but its >2 yrs and they still can't get a version without problems so don't keep your hopes up..

 

[yurcick]

Regional HQs are very broken right now. If they can’t be properly reworked in 1.9.7 before the holidays (which is expected, there’s just too little time left), maybe they could be turned off, or at least prevented from expanding when parent company’s country has no investment rights?
They’re a blight on the face of the otherwise marvellous 1.9 major version.

Further reading.

 

[Dr BAMF]

nice dream but its >2 yrs and they still can't get a version without problems so don't keep your hopes up..

I know it feels good when you invent reasons to believe statements like this were right when you look back on them - but it feels much better to be optimistic about things even when you are disappointed.

Doomer narcissism is for people who have nothing in their lives to feel good about besides cynical self-confirmation - and frankly you just sound like a child when you say stuff like this on a topic talking about the most successful update they've ever done.

 

[WTH666444]

Regional HQs are very broken right now. If they can’t be properly reworked in 1.9.7 before the holidays (which is expected, there’s just too little time left), maybe they could be turned off, or at least prevented from expanding when parent company’s country has no investment rights?
They’re a blight on the face of the otherwise marvellous 1.9 major version.

Further reading.

Yeah. I don't even get their gameplay purpose.

It seems their main thing is rationalizing asset display when the global economy grows in such a way as to make the display bloated, to let you be able to tell what the EAC owns in Britain, what in India etc. by splitting their ownership structure up, but I think there are other ways to accomplish this. You could have all buildings of the same type in a country folded into one, say. Or optional settings to abstract further and just show all buildings (again not filtered by location) by strategic region and only after a click by country in that strategic region.

 

[OxfordNik]

Yeah. I don't even get their gameplay purpose.

It seems their main thing is rationalizing asset display when the global economy grows in such a way as to make the display bloated, to let you be able to tell what the EAC owns in Britain, what in India etc. by splitting their ownership structure up, but I think there are other ways to accomplish this. You could have all buildings of the same type in a country folded into one, say. Or optional settings to abstract further and just show all buildings (again not filtered by location) by strategic region and only after a click by country in that strategic region.

They allow the company to build in your market by using your investment (and construction) pool - rather than the company's home country's one, which they initially use until the regional HQ is established - while sending the profits they generate back to the investment pool of the company's home country. It's a mechanical as well as a UI thing.

Unfortunately they continue to be able to build in your market (as currently implemented in 1.9.6, at least), even after you revoke the company's home country's investment rights (or if they never had it in the first place, e.g. in a situation where you conquer a state that happens to contain a company's regional HQ), meaning they can continue to spread unchecked without you being able to do anything about it - short of buying them all out (possibly, assuming you can afford to and have the laws that allow you to do so), which seems broken/unbalanced, to put it mildly.


Edit: latest patch for the 1.9.6 OIB has now been released; see @PDX_Pelly 's original (updated) post for today's changes.