'Victoria: Revolutions'

[ShadesWolf]

A new update will be released for my fav game in August

Posted on Wednesday, June 07 @ 10:09:36 PDT
Paradox Interactive announced today that it is working on an expansion to its history simulation, Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun. The new expansion will be in a similar vein while offering several new and exciting features. Among other things, players will be able to link this game to other Paradox games, thus extending the gameplay for both!

Victoria: Revolutions Features :

15 extra years of game play. Lead your nation through the challenging interwar period!
An expanded tech tree to cover the interwar period, including aircrafts and carriers.
A DOOMSDAY converter which allows players to continue their game in “Hearts of Iron 2: Doomsday”.
A revamped election and politics system, adding a new level of realism to the game.
An overhauled military system, which will be linked with the player’s policy decisions.
A new economic system that brings more realism through various economic models.
The expansion will be available exclusively through the online retailer Gamersgate.com. “Victoria – Revolutions” is scheduled for a release in August 2006, at $9.99/€9.99.

This looks great and you can convert it in Hearts of Iron2 Doomsday

[Shahed]

That's going to be great ! I hope I have time to play it. DOOMSDAY converter... wooooo t !

[AntiochusIII]

My problem is with the new laissez-faire model. I don't trust Paradox AI to manage my factory-building process for me, thank you. If one looks at how they do it already in the game for AI countries (HUGE bunch of mess--a depopulated, over-industrialized Poland by the Russians is one of the frequent examples) I'm quite afraid of the result for my own nation. And no capitalistic fatcats are going to be anywhere near my nation for a long time, either.

Otherwise, cool.

[L'Impresario]

Excellent news. I'm surprised I hadn't heard of this earlier.

The price looks just fine as well.

[Duke Malcolm]

For a chap who only acquired Vicky (and Doomsday) on Saturday, I am thoroughly looking forward to Revolutions to ensure the British Empire can continue into the modern day...

[ShadesWolf]

For a chap who only acquired Vicky (and Doomsday) on Saturday, I am thoroughly looking forward to Revolutions to ensure the British Empire can continue into the modern day...

Welcome aboard.

Might I suggest Belgium is a good selection for your first few Vicky games, nice and easy.

[ShadesWolf]

Belgium is a good bet as you can produce loads of steel and then sell it to make money. Which then allows you to build more factories.
With steal you can easily produce railways .
It also introduces you to the military campaigns early on.

[ShadesWolf]

The game has now been launched and I have downloaded it.

It another online only game from the paradox shop.

I have installed it and will run the game in a few moments...
I will report back in a while what I think

[ShadesWolf]

First impressions - very good.

I like being able to split my workers.......
havent worked out what naval bases do yet.....


I will need more time to really have a look. The extra time scale, ie upto the 2nd world war is a welcomed addition, as is the ability to export to Hoi2- doomsday.

[L'Impresario]

I wonder how different the new military system is...
Heard that it's a pretty small expansion size-wise, is it true?

[GoreBag]

I decided to stick with my HoI2 experience and use a country that's left pretty much uninvolved for much of the game, left to my own devices. This time, it's Transvaal, and I'm enjoying myself. The Laissez-Faire model seems to be working pretty well, even though the capitalists tend to build railroads more than anything...but then, I can't support much of an industry at this point anyway.

[ShadesWolf]

I wonder how different the new military system is...
Heard that it's a pretty small expansion size-wise, is it true?

Dont quite know what you mean, it seems the same to me so far, havent noticed to many differences.

The expansion itself is tiny, only about 28mb, but it only cost $9.99 so cant really complain.

Im playing as belgium and currently are about 20 years into the campaign of 1836. I have quite a few provinces, including a number of Dutch provinces and a few small german states.....

Britain doesnt seem as keen to give me armies to fight my battles as she did in previous versions, and as of yet I cant build any colonies.... The AI seems a little more aggressive, France has already created indo-china and Britain is marching through India and adding provinces to her empire as she goes.

[L'Impresario]

Dont quite know what you mean, it seems the same to me so far, havent noticed to many differences.

The expansion is being promoted like this:

"Also features a revamped election and politics system, an overhauled military system, a new economic system, and an expanded tech tree to cover the interwar period, including aircrafts and carriers."

EDIT: Ah, just noticed that these are mentioned in the first post as well.

[ShadesWolf]

The expansion is being promoted like this:

"Also features a revamped election and politics system, an overhauled military system, a new economic system, and an expanded tech tree to cover the interwar period, including aircrafts and carriers."

EDIT: Ah, just noticed that these are mentioned in the first post as well.

Ive noticed an advanced Tech tree, but for the other I cant really say ive noticed to much.

Depending on what party rules yor state, will depend on what you can do though. For example if you have a government that is 'Laissez-Faire ' you cant build railways or factories. But this isnt a problem, as all you do is build up the correct amount of cash and resources, and change your ruling party to one that allows this, I also then hold an election, which I feel personally keeps the population happy, well in my own mind anyway.

I will take a better look at these systems when I play later.

What I have noticed is that the game tells you if factories dont have resource, or you have a budget deficit, so you dont need to keep checking the tabs to find out yourself....

[GoreBag]

Depending on what party rules yor state, will depend on what you can do though. For example if you have a government that is 'Laissez-Faire ' you cant build railways or factories. But this isnt a problem, as all you do is build up the correct amount of cash and resources, and change your ruling party to one that allows this,

Or let the capitalists do it...hence 'laissez-faire'.

[GoreBag]

Well, I've played through two GC's and I like the game very much, but the export feature is, for all intents and purposes, broken. This depresses me.