Hotfix 1.13.9 is now LIVE! - Not for Problem Reports!

Happy Thursday Victorians!

This is a larger hotfix for 1.13, containing a wide range of fixes with close to 200 separate issues fixed, improved or balanced. Including; Reducing output of Fruit Plantations by a bit, especially using slaves (though we will keep an eye on the balance for this), Updated supply information on the army panel to better showcase when there is a supply or goods shortage and stopped the AI from overflowing transport capacity during naval invasions. There are many more fixes below, so please make sure to check out the full patchnotes!

This was our last planned hotfix for 1.13, but there were some localizations that were unable to make it into the patch in time - due to the large amount of text changed. So, for some areas there is currently only English available. We plan to add in the complete localization into a new hotfix, 1.13.10, after our summer break, when it returns to us from our translators.

As always, we will keep an eye out for other critical issues which we need to address before 1.14 comes out.

As mentioned in Dev Diary 184, the AI Update (1.14), will have more information about it in Dev Diaries before it releases and is targeted for late August/early September with a possibility for an Open Beta for the AI Update if we can make our schedules work with it.

As always, please report any bugs on our bug reporting forums! We have also updated the Known Issues post for 1.13 with any fixed issues.

1.13.9’s checksum is `b2e3` and you can check out the full patch notes below.

The following changes have been made to the game compared to 1.13.8:

Features

• Added search bars in various places, including the Tech tree. It can be used to look for a specific unlock, for example if you want to find all technologies that provide a bonus to MAPI.

• Added fleet action to return a fleet to nearest friendly port for repairs, they will resume mission when they finish repairs

• Made it so Diplomatic Plays can be started over strait related war goals, rather than just having the option to add those to an existing Diplomatic Play

Improvements

• All movement types will now have substantially reduced Activism following their defeat in a Civil War. Movement defeat status is stored per identity, and persists through movements being disbanded and refounded.

• Reworked Command Limit so that regulars or raised conscripts, whichever is higher, is compared against command limit rather than being added together. This removes the need to mass-promote commanders when you raise conscripts.

• Most instances of flat negative Authority and Bureaucracy modifiers, such as Political Concessions, are now treated as Authority or Bureaucracy costs

• Fronts now track which (if any) side has made gains in the last few months, and displays this in the Front panel

• Involvement level in a country's capital region now impacts leverage generation as follows: -50% at no interest, -25% at Observant, +25% at Pervasive and +50% at Hegemonic

• Added unique localisation to the Shogunate Regency, with "Shōgun Kōken-Shoku" as a title for the Regent

• Trade Centers now gain Trade Advantage from Prestige Good input (ie, Prestige Merchant Marine), up to 25% at 100% prestige input

AI

• Fixed a bug where the AI would calculate the predicted construction sectors in their construction queue with the full cost of their input goods, leading to spontaneous and overzealous budgetary cuts in other spending areas

• Fixed an issue where the AI would queue more barracks than it actually wanted due to not correctly counting barracks already in the queue

• Countries will no longer break treaties that were signed before game start until their binding period ends

• Fixed another bug which was causing the AI to generate duplicate ship templates

• The AI now has reduced peace acceptance for the first year of a war, and then starts to accumulate white peace acceptance, instead of getting white peace acceptance from the very start

• The AI now considers war goals that are located on fronts where it is decisively advancing to be achievable, making them less interested in a peace which does not involve ceding that war goal

• Fixed a bug where the AI could disband its entire army because it was trying to get rid of unwanted marines that didn't exist

• Fixed a bug where AIs with Economic Imperialism would not try to open up non Japanese isolated markets due to incorrect script checks

• Fixed the AI underinvesting in innovation in .7

• Portuguese AI will be more likely to invest in Railways for as long as Regeneration: Public Works is active

• The AI is now much more eager to construct canals

Balance

• Reduced output of Fruit Plantations by a fair bit, especially using slaves. We will keep an eye on the situation to see if we need to tweak this more.

• Law Enactment Time modifiers have been reworked into Law Enactment Speed modifiers to make it more difficult to stack them for instant or almost instant law enactment. A minimum of 10% speed has also been set so that it's not possible to negatively stack speed modifiers to 0% or below.

• The impact of Prominence and Movement Pressure is now additive rather than multiplicative on the ideology selection weight. This means that both will have a more consistent impact that neither overpowers all other factors nor simply becomes noise.

• Ship critical hits have been reworked. They now ignore 100% of the enemy target's armor. Reduced critical damage increases across the board in compensation.

• Adjusted technology requirements for Military Aviation and Seaplane Tenders to make them usable when built. The previous tech tree layout could lead to you developing them, while not being able to have airplanes in your market yet.

• Reduced some of the modifiers that rebellions get based off of their popular support

• War Goals that are considered contested if you control the enemy capital are now generally also considered contested if you control 50% of the enemy's incorporated states

• States which are at least 50% occupied are now considered occupied for the purposes of war goal control, rather than requiring full occupation.

• Added a check to breaking Ship Transfer treaties to ensure only ship receiving countries could get a penalty from breaking it early

• Supremacists movements will now gain up to 25% activism after researching "Nationalism" scaled by the number of primary culture homelands that are not owned by a nation of the same primary culture

• Readjusted Ship Gun Modules to be in roughly 25% bounds of each other relative to the base module, previously this was closer to 50%

• Increased the construction time and cost of capital ships, particularly the Dreadnought family significantly - up to two times as much on the highest end

• The Arc Welding and Concrete Dockyards technologies now grant a bonus to Capital Ships Max Construction Progress, meaning unlocking these techs will increase the speed at which capital ships are constructed

• Passive Electoral Confidence maluses will no longer apply below 25% Electoral Confidence

• Rio de la Plata no longer requires Patagonia to be formed

• Reduced activism gain from most sources for the Utilitarian Movement

• Provided School Supplies amendment now gives a small increase to dependent wages to simulate lower expenses for children

• Civil wars now split ships with construction points in mind to try and avoid them sinking

• Swapped the first and second level effects of the Construction Power Bloc principles

• Increased all 1 or 2-level Coal, Iron, Sulphur, or Lead potentials to 3 levels

Art

• Added new visual effects for the Port Bombardment interaction (Requires The Great Wave)

Content

• Gave Italian minors the Banking technology from the start

• Adjusted the Supply Network tutorial mission conditions to ensure it requires the player doing something to fix it

• The Companhia de Moçambique now has Millet Farms as a base building, rather than Wheat Farms

• Added dynamic hispanophone state and hub names for Puerto Rico

• Fixed and improved a few tooltips by clarifying the presented data and fixing typos

• John Stuart Mill is now always present in British India at game start

• Renamed Land Logistics Centers to Army Logistics Centers

Interface

• Updated Ship Veterancy Tooltip to also show whether experience is gained or lost, as well as the weekly increase or decrease

• Updated supply information on the army panel to better showcase when there is a supply or goods shortage

• Supplies now show whether they are being sent from supply ships or via land route

• Added Supply to Logistic Centre outputs and made it easier to spot a shortage due to input goods shortage

• Multipliers are now accounted for in army supply breakdown

• Added icons for goods shortage to the army panel and the supply tooltip

• Added a building widget to the Fleet buildings tab

• The wargoal tooltip now shows much more clearly that a wargoal costs no maneuvers because it is the first wargoal

• Added more in-depth breakdowns of all Formation stats, especially connecting Commander Traits & Orders directly to the affected stats' tooltips

• Added right-click station formation in state back

• Added a tooltip for when you cannot decommission ships

• Changed supply text to show actual and maximum stockpile, rather than percentage

• Naval missions now show supply raiding/protection and port bombardment details directly in the fleet panel and tooltips

• The state devastation tooltip now reflects ongoing port bombardment and breaks the daily change down into recovery and bombardment

• The tooltip for forming a Power Bloc now shows a breakdown of requirements

• Added a repair icon to mission map markers and adjusted their visibility to highlight whenever a mission is paused due to the fleet being docked for repairs

• Army Battalions and Conscripts counts are now displayed separately against the Command Limit, making it clear the limit applies to whichever is higher rather than the two combined

• Added proper tooltips and explanations to Company Categories

• When filtering for companies by building type, the filter now also accounts for building types granted by company charters

• When filtering for companies by building type, the selected building type is now also highlighted in the company panel

• Updated Company Filters Button Order and adjusted descriptive texts

• Made it so we no longer show formations that are currently not mobilized in the naval invasion panel

• Added additional info to shipping lane efficiency and its tooltip, showing the current trend and reasons for reduced efficiency

• The precise interest tier required to colonize is now explained in the map tooltip

• Strategic Region Map Mode Tooltips now correctly generate at the mouse hover point

• Make it so when a magnate has 0 holdings we do not show the holdings

• Added Ship Modifications to Ship Panel and Ship Tooltip

• Hid the national cast button for foreign nations, it would open your own national cast before

• Added a new alert for Merchant Marine shortage which also explains impact on shipping lanes

• The number of idle generals and admirals is now visible on the assign leader panel

• Recruit general / admiral button now correctly disables when above the idle limit

• The Location Finder now has non-English characters searchable by corresponding basic ISO characters, so you can e.g. find Göteborg by typing Goteborg

• Naval Fortification buttons are now clickable and open the building detail panel

• Added sorting by assigned ships to the country supply ships tooltip

• Put strategic region involvement due to Power Bloc members into a paged sub-tooltip as that list can get quite large

• Added a go-to button with the name and logo of the company at the bottom of the character panel for executives

• Added clearer indication if a tooltip is locked and what button to press if you use Action Lock

• Flagged the colonial administrator change notifications as ruler group so they get correctly caught by the according notification settings

• Cost of market goods is now calculated in the breakdown of the cost of war

• Added custom icons to the Hidden Domain Journal Entry progress bar

• Building panel and tooltips now display if the building is the holding of a magnate

• Updated Bankruptcy button and added progress bar

• Added a missing icon reference for the Disgraced Technocrat modifier

• Remove extra line breaks in law endorsement tooltips

Performance

• Reduced memory usage by around 7-10% and total allocations by 15%

• Various improvements to overall tickspeed

Modding

• Added a new character role type "other" that groups special characters together in the outliner

• Added capacity cost modifiers for authority, bureaucracy and influence

• Added support for excluding specific states from being targeted in unification plays via a should_target_state_in_unification_play trigger in country formations

• Added new effect set_movement_defeated

• Added on action for when a commander is promoted

• Added new triggers days_since_movement_defeated and days_since_movement_type_defeated

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where fleets whose supply ships were under attack would be considered 'in battle', preventing them from functioning normally

• Fixed a bug where sometime diplomatic actions (such as improve relations) that were not available would always be hidden instead of showing why they were not available (for example due to lacking mutual interests)

• Fixed piracy causing country relations to reset on save load

• Combat units now add supplies to their formation when mobilized based on availability from the logistics center. This fixes an issue where the supply ratio would drop dramatically for armies with large amounts of conscripts.

• Fixed a bug where you could decommission ships carrying formations, this would silently kill them

• Fixed a bug where supply lines would break due to straits blocking the passage, now it will try alternative routes

• Fixed slaves being freed when fired from their jobs

• Fixed a bug where 'make this work' could sometimes add mutually incompatible articles, such as Alliance and Guarantee Independence

• Prevented the AI from overflowing transport capacity during naval invasions

• Fixed where an event for loaning an army leader in exchange of an obligation would end up swapping the leaders without setting correct country causing broken fronts

• Switching from Social Monarchy to Monarchy will no longer end regencies

• Spain can no longer declare wars whilst fighting the Carlist War

• The Change Language of Administration and Spread Primary Culture interactions now covert pops to the actor country's most populous primary culture, rather than its least

• West Virginia will no longer join the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War

• Fixed issue where trade advantage in a local market could go haywire when privateering

• Fixed a bug where AI could use threaten naval hostilities when it should not be possible

• Fixed a bug where market goods sell orders from piracy would stack infinitely in states without trade centers

• Farmers should no longer be politically motivated twice by having a variant of peasant proprietorship active. They now get higher values by having either proprietorship or homesteading active.

• Fixed several events that could lead to a notification showing a new leader spawning with a null ideology. Affected events are as follows: "Freedom Without Distinction", "Mutual Aid", "A [Culture] Voice", "The Vanguard Advances", "From the Ground Up", "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "Joining Our Cause", "Open Succession", "The Blazing Chowki", "Tribal Gesture", "Nothing Ends", "Into Oblivion", "Condemnations of the Children", "The Wedge in the Academia", "A Revolutionary for Our Time", "The Interpretation of Dreams", "Indisposed", "The Yellow International", "The Weapon of the Enemy", "[Culture] Leadership", and "Society of the Godless".

• Fixed an issue in the calculation of port connection distances

• Fixed an issue where naval invasions targeting non-negotiating participants could be blocked

• Fixed an Out of Sync that could happen when playing cross-platform multiplayer

• Independence war goal is now controlled if the capital of the opposing country comes under control

• Fixed bug where a war being inherited (like after civil war) could cause hostilities to not be set correctly preventing naval invasions

• Law enactment speed now correctly reduces enactment time

• Frosts, Ice, Tropical Storms, and Heatwaves are now properly limited to their applicable geographic regions

• Fixed some cases in which France or Hungary could not have their pre-Springtime voting, free speech, and internal security laws reverted by a reactionary victory in Red Summer

• Fixed restriction for naval invasion defenders to the invaded and neighboring states

• Fixed a bug where you could not get an investment rights treaty with a country of equal rank in your power bloc when Foreign Investment III principle is active

• Fixed a bug where the invasion panel would display a NULL_OBJ

• Fixed an issue in the Manifest Destiny trigger for the USA

• Fixed an issue where Spain could never panicked-retreat from battle

• Fixed articles being added to a treaty as a part of a renegotiation not actually being applied when coming into force

• Fixed issue where rehoming an overseas army would not actually change home HQ

• Unincorporated state effects should now list all effects they have as intended. Previously some of their effects were tucked away in other categories, meaning they would only show in that wrong place.

• Fixed a bug where Power Projection check for naval invasions did not respect fleet transport capacity

• Fixed a bug where abandon piracy treaty would not cancel active piracy missions

• Fixed a bug where the player could embark multiple marine formations surpassing the marine fleet capacity if done at once

• Fixed a bug where merging fleets would give only the supplies of 1 fleet instead of merging the supplies too

• Fixed pure conscript armies being unable to re-station when there's a land connection

• Make this work' now works properly when renegotiating proposed treaties

• Fixed a bug where Treaty Ports ceded during war would not end up in the correct market

• Fixed issue where it would show N/A travel time when planning naval invasions

• Treaty Port treaties with China will no longer automatically break when the Heavenly Kingdom appears, only if they actually win

• Fixed an issue in Moroccan scripted succession, in which Muhammad V could not spawn due to a typo

• Fixed trigger descriptions for political_strength_share and wealth_share to show correct information

• Fixed a display issue in the state requirements for the Tashkent Railway company

• The Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij now has Coffee Plantations available by default, with Tobacco Plantations available as an additional industry

• Fixed some cases where wargoals in the Mutiny! event for the East India Company could invalidate

• Fixed a bug where commander career was considered to have started when they were spawned into the recruitment pool rather than when they were actually recruited

• Ship List Modifications now show the actual ship modifications, not those of the template

• Fixed AI using invalid fleets when evaluating what missions it can do

• Fixed AI evaluating ship transfer treaty with countries without a port

• Fixed an issue where loitering formations could not merge

• Fixed issue where it could appear as if foreign company was investing in their own land in your investor intents if you had treaty to let you invest in said company land

• Fixed bug where you could not privateer someone because you weren't at war with both importer and exporter

• Fixed a bug where a revolution would have a null_state in it preventing it from triggering a war

• Fixed a bug where revolutionary Interest Groups would become marginalized if a secession broke out

• Fixed a bug where Interest Groups could get stuck in a party they no longer wanted to be part of, resulting in high ideological incoherence

• Fixed a bug where parties that disband and reform would keep stale voting data from old elections, resulting in a sudden drop of legitimacy when they reformed

• Fixed a bug where IGs who want to leave parties outside of the election cycle would leave instantly instead of waiting for the next election

• Cancelling a naval invasion before the army has embarked onto the fleet will now no longer teleport the army to the fleet

• Marines transferred between ships will no longer perform minor miracles (walking on water, the occasional teleportation).

• Fix general swap not working between two armies

• The Legitimist Movement will no longer fail to recognise late-game Carlist claimants to the French throne as legitimate

• Removed randomly appearing and flickering thin vertical line on Army map markers

• Fixed the 'everyone disliked that' achievement to correctly only fire when a single promotion annoys every other interest group

• Fix issue where slave pops would immediately become employed on the first tick and break some history scripts

• Fixed several issues where unintended countries could get national unification content if given additional cultures through the Spread Primary Culture interaction

• Stop split armies from merging back while waiting to be transported

• Fixed a bug where the map context of the country panel would not switch when clicking around unless the diplomacy tab was open

• Fixed inheritable construction not working for civil wars

• Removed Arms Industries as a requirement for Rheinmetall

• Countries that cannot form the Japanese Zaibatsu will no longer see them in the Attainable/Potential Companies list

• Fixed the Chieftain of Ngāti Toa's home state being displayed as a null scope

• The Fundição Ipanema company for Brazil no longer requires iron mines in São Paulo

• Various pieces of narrative content that activate Republic laws will now activate Stamp Out Monarchism

• Fixed incorrect Utility Modification Icons being shown in panels and tooltips

• Fixed an issue where the Merge Formations button did not show the condition message

• Enacting isolationism will now update the average trading distance accordingly

• Fully assimilated cultures no longer remain in the culture list

• Fixed a bug where commanders marked busy were sometimes not unassigned from their formation

• Fixed a bug where canal straits were created during construction instead of after completion

• Fixed a null scope in "The Entrenched Front"

• Fixed several issues where unraised conscripts were counted as mobilized

• Added factoring in dividends when calculating wage rate

• Pinning the Emperor (of Japan) character will now correctly display it on the outliner

• Fixed a bug where the Unification play for Federation of the Andes could be started with no war goals due to only targeting countries which did not have valid states

• Fixed some ship modifiers not showing when hovering ship utility modifications

• Fixed a bug where null_obj could appear in the construction queue if you had foreign investments in a split state that got annexed

• Fixed an issue with merchant marine costs being truncated

• Fixed an overflow in Ulta's colour code

• Fixed an issue where "Doctrine of Lapse Invoked" could have no description

• Fixed a loc issue related to the Strait of Gibraltar in the Spanish Africa content

Previous Patchnotes

1.13.0 | 1.13.1 | 1.13.2 | 1.13.3 | 1.13.4 | 1.13.5 | 1.13.6 | 1.13.7 | 1.13.8