Sphere of Influence, Feature Highlights: Power Blocs | Victoria 3

Welcome to the start of a short series highlighting key upcoming features in the Sphere of Influence Expansion for Victoria 3, starting with Power Blocs. What they are, how to form them, keep Power Blocs maintained and grow them!

Thank you to @TobyYellsAtThings for collaborating with us on making these videos!

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[torrent]

With this + the new investment rules, exploitation of other countries is gonna be through the roof. And I love it

[-Mopo]

she power on my bloc till i zollverein

[witcher-]

Basically stellaris federation, but I like it

[lovewingsmc]

When does Generalist get to narrate one of these

[Fouzi]

the guy in the Start looks like the grand vazir Midhat pasha

[thomasjames]

Finally a massive buff to politics. When this game released it really was lacking in everything save for a decent economic system, which made it feel like an economic sim... Love to see expansion in the exploitation, influence and investment aspects which were so prevalent in the Victorian era! They still need to fix the military/navy side of things and need to add a whole bunch of flavour, but they are going in the right direction!

[laeon]

Will the AI be able good enough to understand it and use it correctly?

[Rusher_]

Looks great in theory but I'm worried the ai will even be able to use these features in a random fashion never mind in a logically targeted way.

Massive win for multiplayer users though(even if I don't play it myself).

[mossberg]

it's a modifier based on a condition, with custom UI. I don't know of a vic3 player who ever said "I need such a feature" but I know of a lot who said they needed other features. The modifiers would have mattered if the game was at all difficult.

[VictoriaConnoisseur]

Dominating the world will be more stylish and satisfactory than ever 😊

[cantalope]

ay glad to see Toby !! 💯 seems like a nice dlc

[FlosBlog]

I am not too happy about these changes. I think its just a feature where you press some button to get some modifier

[froozigiusz]

I really hope the development team took feedback from the forum and scaled back the most game-y modifiers coming from those unions. Wouldn't like to see this beauty of a game slowly get deranged into a Stellaris/HOI4-style modifier stacking game.

[peterschmidt]

Wow. Balancing and bugfixing this must have been a huge amount of work. Thanks Paradox! I even deviated from my "never preorder!" policy.

[KAPTAINmORGANnWoeva]

Between adding character models and customizing statues that mean nothing, I wonder where this recent fixation on superfluous aesthetic junk has come from at Paradox. It works in Crusader Kings but pretty much all their other games are country-focused rather than dynasty-focused.

It's superficial junk that even if it's not a lot of resources in a vacuum, servicing still eats into game resources that could be devoted to the actually important systems.

[puransu]

Wish it wasn't mostly just modifiers as a bonus of forming/joining a Power Bloc but rather a way to make AI behavior more consistent (ie guarantees from AI of joining your aggressive wars or embargos on other nations in exchange for foreign investment and some PB membership buffs). Foreign investment sounds good though, and hopefully it leads to AI diplomacy that isnt so fickle, where it won't just abandon you at a moment's notice. If it's just buffs on buffs the game is already easy enough from a internal politics/economy side, it just gets easier with that. Diplo on a consistency level needs to be a priority, where AIs pick and choose what diplo plays to join from a historical/regional and reasonable sense, not just throwing it's economy down the drain because of you taking an OPM on the other side of the earth.

[vematry]

When vic 3 released i think it was disapointment but after two years i like every patch, keep going. I think this game need more historical character for senario.

[asrinyoutube]

Paradox Wouldnt it be a good idea to customise country flags, logos and names of the political parties etc.? We need more customisation.

[Solano]

somehow these devs always prove me wrong and that the game can always get worse. it even seems to be their specialty.

[smokersally]

Praying this will save the game, but 29, 99$ for sth which should have been there from release will be main blocker for this to succeed...