(You may have seen the previous thread. That was a discussion prior to Victoria 3's release. This is the announcement that the mod is starting to happen. It's not out yet. We love you and we will tell you when it's out, don't worry.)
It's 1972. Since the guns fell silent in 1918, there have been no major power wars. At times it looked like the world was going to fall apart - during the Great Depression of the early 1930s an ultranationalist party came very close to taking power in Germany, and there was a moment when Britain and France had to defy the Americans and Soviets to keep their empires alive - but it looks like the "war to end all wars" really did end the wars. We've entered the long-awaited era of universal peace. Oh, sure, all of Africa is still under the boot of the European empires, the USSR struggles internally, Italy is grappling with post-Mussolini fascism, and China is divided between conquerers; but that doesn't count. The world is at peace. Please ignore the blood seeping out from under the carpet.
Or maybe it's just complacency. Maybe, if the world were to suffer any one of a dozen upsets - a sudden rise in the price of oil, a spark that unites the anticolonial movements, an awareness of the first breezes of the oncoming storm of climate change - the decrepit, corrupt power systems would be unable to respond. Maybe the balance of power enforced by nuclear weapons isn't a reliable guarantor of the end of all conflicts. Maybe the future will see floodwaters overrunning suburban sprawl, farmland abandoned to drought, and long columns of refugees trying to find a gap through the barbed wire. Maybe you'll be smart enough and lucky enough to find a path through the worst of the trouble.
We would like to present to you an experience of one hundred years, divided into three series. (All three will come out at once, we're naming them series to be poetic.)
Our Great Powers:
Featuring:
Our discord is https://discord.gg/v4gCjXhPfv. If you commented on the last thread, or if this is the first you've heard of it, come say hi. You can even help if you like.
We'll post more stuff below as and when we have stuff to show. Obviously this will take time.
It's 1972. Since the guns fell silent in 1918, there have been no major power wars. At times it looked like the world was going to fall apart - during the Great Depression of the early 1930s an ultranationalist party came very close to taking power in Germany, and there was a moment when Britain and France had to defy the Americans and Soviets to keep their empires alive - but it looks like the "war to end all wars" really did end the wars. We've entered the long-awaited era of universal peace. Oh, sure, all of Africa is still under the boot of the European empires, the USSR struggles internally, Italy is grappling with post-Mussolini fascism, and China is divided between conquerers; but that doesn't count. The world is at peace. Please ignore the blood seeping out from under the carpet.
Or maybe it's just complacency. Maybe, if the world were to suffer any one of a dozen upsets - a sudden rise in the price of oil, a spark that unites the anticolonial movements, an awareness of the first breezes of the oncoming storm of climate change - the decrepit, corrupt power systems would be unable to respond. Maybe the balance of power enforced by nuclear weapons isn't a reliable guarantor of the end of all conflicts. Maybe the future will see floodwaters overrunning suburban sprawl, farmland abandoned to drought, and long columns of refugees trying to find a gap through the barbed wire. Maybe you'll be smart enough and lucky enough to find a path through the worst of the trouble.
We would like to present to you an experience of one hundred years, divided into three series. (All three will come out at once, we're naming them series to be poetic.)
Our Great Powers:
- The United States of America has become (by some measures) the largest economy in the world, but has shown little interest in throwing their weight around militarily. Traditionally they've been the standard-bearer of anticolonial movements and of the spread of democracy throughout the world, a movement which has brought them into sharp conflict with the decaying empires of Europe. Within the last decade the United States has been distracted internally by the rise of the Civil Rights movement and other Left causes. Many write this off as simple Bolshevik provocation, but others believe that the USA must at last meet the legacy of the failures of Reconstruction and the New Deal if they don't want to simply face the same conflict in every generation. Meanwhile, right-wing economic ideas coming out of the University of Chicago are beginning to take root, arguing for a financialised world, a hands-off government and no social safety net.
- The USA's sometimes-partner across the seas, the German Republic, has been facing their own issues. The Weimar constitution is fragile, and every time the market goes down the extremist parties swell with new voters. Half of the country are still obsessed with reclaiming the "lost territories" from Poland, while the other half wonder whether it's better to be the "bedside doctor of capitalism" or its gravedigger. Germany is a wealthy country with a high standard of living, but the high wages associated with this means that some factory owners have wondered about moving their operations overseas. Others note that Germany, once again, has no empire. German tourists may line the beaches of every tropical resort, but some wonder: perhaps if Germany was a friend to the rising nationalist movements within the colonised world, they might find their friendship repaid with more than cheap holidays?
- Possibly due to their mastery of the inevitable forces that shape history, The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has managed to go from dynamic rising star to a moribund, inefficient, bureaucratic mess over a mere 53 years. Their industrial output is vast, their natural resources almost infinite, and they won the race to the Moon, but how much of that matters when the queues to get a new car or a plumber are years long? One shouldn't write the Soviets off, however: they've been dabbling in anticolonial activity themselves, including arming leftist rebel groups across the world (to the great annoyance of the Europeans.) It's possible that a reformer will rise from the party machine and unite the USSR - or it's possible that they'll simply sink further into inefficiency and corruption until at last something happens. Maybe something good. Maybe not.
- Old Europe, formally referred to as the West European Union, began as a union between France and the UK to preserve their empires in the face of the rising power of the USA and USSR. Nowadays it's a four nation union, with the inclusion of Belgium and the Netherlands (with Portugal an uneasy possible-fifth) but regardless of promises of equality the important decisions are made in London and Paris. When London and Paris disagree, however - which is often - Old Europe has difficulty moving forward. While these are all nominally democratic countries, each of them rules over more people in their colonial empire than they have at home, and these colonial subjects are getting more educated and less obedient by the day. At home, new transgressive subcultures are springing up to shock the establishment, and importing ideas from abroad. To survive, the Europeans need to take their eyes off the past and decide what a future might be, otherwise the next shock to hit them might be the last, and the Red Banner might be flying at home as well as overseas.
- Japan is the smallest of the great powers. Their government lurches from one military-industrial conspiracy to the next, and the country's wealth is sapped by a ruinously expensive military and an equally expensive occupation of parts of China. Their space race and nuclear programme both languish as nobody can agree which one to cancel in order to properly fund the other. However, they're considered a great power mostly due to their sheer determination to be one, which means regularly throwing their weight around as if they were a lot bigger than they are. Anticolonial movements in East Asia have a friend in Tokyo, a fact which leads to regular crises with European powers, and occasionally one clique or another will suggest extending this friendship to India, Africa and South America. Japan may not be able to win a war against the Americans or Europeans as things stand - but if those countries become distracted internally and unable to project their full force, then the hour of the Rising Sun may come.
- China remains mostly unconquered by Japan, but how much does that matter when the government is corrupt and half the country teems with warlords? The people are poor and the countryside is alive with communist agitators, but there's enough potential here to become the workshop of the world - or its master. Perhaps under a red star, perhaps under a white sun, perhaps under some other flag altogether, the world will see China return to its stage.
Featuring:
- Trying to use as little scripting as possible, and instead unlock the potential of the rhythms of the base game!
- A lot of weird stuff with Production Methods!
- A lot of very weird stuff with Decentralised Nations!
- Harsh, sometimes no-clear-win struggles between Interest Groups!
- Country-specific and government-type-specific flavour events!
- Really, really bad graphic design!
- A whole new tech tree (naturally)!
- Laws and institutions!
- South American content!
- Almost certainly lots of game breaking bugs!
- As much more as we can plausibly add without making it impossible to ever release!
- Our promise to you: we will never implement automated capitalists or manually controlled armies! (Unless vanilla does, in which case maybe.)
Our discord is https://discord.gg/v4gCjXhPfv. If you commented on the last thread, or if this is the first you've heard of it, come say hi. You can even help if you like.
We'll post more stuff below as and when we have stuff to show. Obviously this will take time.
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