Ahoy Victorians!
Hotfix 1.13.5 has just released, featuring some key fixes and improvements to the experience of 1.13, including making the AI less gung-ho about supply ships and ruining their economy in the process, fixing MAPI not changing with tech, state or law changes, added ship crew experience and reduced base literacy even further. Read the full patchnotes below for more information on all the changes.
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.
1.13.5’s checksum is `547c`, and you can check out the full patchnotes below.
The following changes have been made to the game compared to 1.13.4:
Features
Added Ship Crew Experience. Ships will now gain experience while out on a mission, while participating in battles and when sinking ships. Experience will decay over time if a fleet is sitting idle in port. By accruing enough experience ships will increase their Veterancy Rank, which provides a positive modifier to accuracy, critical hit chance and readiness gain, with higher ranks providing larger advantages. The baseline accuracy bonus and critical hit chance for all ship types has been adjusted downward to compensate.
The "Jeune Ecole" and "Capital Fleet" Navy Model Laws now also provide a starting experience bonus to ships
Improvements
The supply ship allocation percentage is now a hard cap on how much ship construction is allowed to be allocated to supply ships
Certain treaties now allow joining diplomatic plays again regardless of interest tier: alliance and support independence as well as guarantee independence and defensive pact when trying to join on the defense
Added 'station in state' to right-click menu for military formations, also supports overseas stationing
AI
The AI is now less gung-ho on supply ships and will not drive their economies to ruin endlessly building them
Made a substantial pass on AI ship construction logic to make them more proactive about replacing obsolete ships gradually, instead of all at once
Added better logic for AI navy composition, governed in the AI strategies database files
Fixed a bug where the AI would select far too small fleets to transport their armies, resulting in the army being split into a myriad tiny stacks
Fixed an issue where the AI was unable to ever pass Jeune Ecole
Made the AI less willing to select event options that would increase Movement Activism if it is threatened by a revolution
Made the AI more inclined to expel agitators with traits that increase Movement Activism
Fixed a bug where the AI could get stuck on very low authority while unable to reduce authority spending
Balance
Halved base literacy growth further, from 0.1% to 0.05%
Abolishing the Edo Status System now requires Japan to abolish Subjecthood
Public Schools now grant literacy growth per level of institution
Philosophical Pragmatism, Central Planning and Analytical Philosophy technologies now grant literacy growth rate
The Political Concessions amendment will now cost Authority proportional to its strength, and will not be available during negotiations if the country has insufficient Authority
Bakufu is now required to enact Shinsengumi
Made Iron-reinforced Hull consume some Iron instead of purely Hardwood
Reduced the movement attraction impact caused by several pulse events - "The Flight of the Battleship \", "Antiquated Words", "Confusion and Delay", "Political Imprisonment", and "Cause Without a Rebel"
Increased the Movement Activism effect of Political Concessions
Ending Sakoku via the button in "The Locked Country" will now increase the Activism of the Sonnō Jōi movement equivalently to if the law was enacted normally
Changed Itō Hirobumi's ideology from Market Liberal to Modernizer leader and interest group from Rural Folk to Intelligentsia
Added a sufficient amount of Naval Administrations to Russia
Reduced the immediate approval decrease from selecting the option to reconsider Sakoku in The Morrison Incident event
Art
Added traditional Japanese female clothing (haori) with additional patterns and color variations to the game
Japanese characters with modernising ideologies will now adopt Western clothing prior to the Restoration
Japanese characters without modernising ideologies will no longer adopt Western clothing if the Restoration concludes with a Bakufu victory
Content
Added Ansei Great Earthquakes event for Japan.
Added events for the Taikyo Proclamation and finishing Shinbutsu Bunri and Elevate Buddhism
Added a decision for Japan to found a modern secret police force based on the Shinsengumi
Added a decision for Japan to abolish the Edo status system upon either concluding the Meiji Restoration or researching Human Rights
Extended effects of and added custom tooltips for some Shinto conversion effects
Added game concept tooltips for Japanese Religious concepts
Made the Abolitionist ideology available to the Armed Forces
Made the Devout ideology available to the Devout
The Legitimist ideology is no longer available to the Petit-Bourgeoisie, and is now available to the Armed Forces
Made the Social Democrat ideology available to the Petit-Bourgeoisie
Added Sinosphere tradition to Ryukyuan culture
Changed Jairam Shivji's ideology from Royalist to Moderate
Changed Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera's ideology from Republican to Modernizer
Changed Lúcio Mansilla's ideology from Radical to Republican
Changed Hasan al-Alawi's ideology from Land Reformer to Moderniser
Changed numerous Landowners character ideologies from Royalist to Moderate
Changed Manuel Ignacio de Vivanco's ideology from Royalist to Authoritarian
Changed José Relvas's ideology from Republican to Radical
Changed Manuel Isidoro Belzú's interest group from Armed Forces to Rural Folk
Changed Euclides da Cunha's ideology from Republican to Positivist, and interest group from Rural Folk to Intelligentsia
Changed Custódio de Melo's ideology from Radical to Royalist
Changed James Longstreet's ideology from Radical to Liberal
Changed Arturo Fernández Vial's ideology from Social Democrat to Reformer
Changed Flavio Alfaro's ideology from Radical to Liberal
Changed Francisco Linares Alcántara's ideology from Radical to Liberal
Changed Victor Bonaparte's interest group from Landowners to Petty Bourgeoisie
Changed Gustave Cluseret's ideology from Radical to Republican
Changed Otto von Bismarck's ideology from Royalist to Authoritarian
Changed John French's ideology from Market Liberal to Moderate
Changed numerous Armed Forces character ideologies from Jingoist to Moderate
Changed Peregrine Maitland's ideology from Jingoist to Ethno-Nationalist
Changed Teofil Lapinski's ideology from Radical to Republican
Changed Santos Acosta's ideology from Radical to Liberal
Changed Ricardo Gaitan's ideology from Jingoist to Liberal
Changed Thomas Bugeaud's ideology from Orleanist to Authoritarian and his interest group from Rural Folk to Armed Forces
Changed Felipe Salaverry's interest group from Armed Forces to Landowners
Changed Rafaël Franco's ideology from Social Democrat to Corporatist
Changed Jefferson Davis's interest group from Armed Forces to Landowners
Changed Victor Hugo's ideology from Republican to Abolitionist
Upon reforming the Daimyō into the Kazoku as Japan, new Daimyō will no longer be generated
Changed Dayananda Saraswati's ideology from Feminist to Reformer
Changed Heinrich Clam-Martinic's ideology from Royalist to Reformer
French Legitimist, Bonapartist, and Orleanist revolutions will now have white, dark blue, and blue map colours respectively
The Heavenly Kingdom will now change names if it's State Atheist or no longer a Kingdom
Renamed "Restoration: End Sakoku" to "Restoration: Achieve Recognition", requiring Japan to become a Recognised Country
Interface
The Company panel has received an update, with added filters and an overall improved layout
Moved the Previous Investments tooltip to be more visible under a label in the Construction panel
Added a list of characters to the population tab of the state information panel containing the characters who call that state their home
Matched the Army upkeep tooltip layout to the new Fleet upkeep tooltip
Added subtabs to the Population tab on the State panel to reduce how much you have to scroll to see the Characters and Pops lists
Added a proper Promote Commander tooltip to the promote button in the Character panel
Grouped "Insufficient Ship Crew" alerts into one
Added map notifications i.e. floating text messages when when ships are constructed/repaired/retrofit
Updated flagship button tooltip to show reason why a ship cannot be designated
Improved the tooltips of the Purveyor of Progress Journal Entry (Pivot of Empire)
Added missing text for when an agitator would not start or join a political movement if invited
Adjusted the tooltip of the "Everyone Disliked That" achievement to match its requirements
Performance
Optimized supply computation
AI countries will recruit Commanders on-demand instead of keeping a pool of them around
Optimized UpdatePartySupport ticktask
Cached modifier names for re-use
Country sea node range distance now updated in parallel
Precomputed Ideology Law Stances
Cached AI's willingness to prepare for war
Cached some expensive Diplomatic Play variables for the AI
Improved performance for AI evaluating Diplomatic Actions
Modding
Added new scopes to can_join_side_in_diplomatic_play and can_start_diplomatic_plays_against
Bugfixes
Fixed formations not receiving supply penalties from production shortages
Fixed an issue where armies could get stuck in exile
Fixed Market Access Price Impact (MAPI) not updating when incorporating a state, researching technology or switching from Traditionalism
Fixed Carlist Spain missing supply centers for their armies
Fixed a bug where the wrong character could get retired by the career end system, resulting in issues such as Metternich retiring before his JE is concluded and interest group leaders retiring shortly after assuming their new job
Fixed an issue that prevented Chartered Company-type subjects from ever being able to be annexed or have their autonomy reduced
Fixed armies getting stuck in some island states, including after invading certain island states
Fixed fleets getting stuck at sea when their transport target becomes invalid
Fixed a bug that could lead to the Iwakura Mission instantly unseating the Emperor by enacting Republic
Fixed a bug where armies were unable to merge outside of its home countries borders
Fixed a bug where, after the end of the war, the country could no longer track formation spam
Fixed an issue causing the game to not tell the player why they or another country can't join a diplomatic play as a result of insufficient interest in the region
Fixed a bug where the Japanese Daimyō could duplicate without limit upon a secession or revolution
Fixed an issue where a coup could remain if the commander executing it ceased to exist
Fixed a bug where Strait wargoals would invalidate when the strait province is occupied
Fixed a bug where we allowed you to decommission ships when a revolution is brewing
Fixed an issue where colonial countries could occasionally get the wrong primary cultures
Fixed an issue where ship crews could still be assigned from a state after its owner had changed
Fixed the Retire from Office interaction possibly resulting in the same character promptly being set as the new leader
Fixed a bug where locality calculations could go over 100%
Fixed a bug where a fleet sometimes could not deliver units to Circassia
Fleets from Gibraltar now properly travels through Mediterranean sea, instead of phasing through land
Fixed multiple instances of broken tooltips in the Iberian Union Journal Entry (Iberian Twilight)
Restoring King Miguel now causes the Reign of the Devourers Journal Entry for Portugal to invalidate (Iberian Twilight)
Federating Australia now properly includes New Zealand
Fixed an issue where Miguelist Portugal would have a default name, and French Legitimist revolutions would purport to be Miguelist
Fixed several issues in coups that could lead to visible null scopes
Fixed supply routes sometimes not following spline network correctly
Corrected the name order of several Japanese characters
The tooltip of The Imperial Sanction will no longer possibly mislead the player as to its outcome
Fixed an unlocalised string in the triggers for whether a country is a Crown Land or not
Finally captured and eliminated Henry Ford's mischievous clone
Fixed an issue where "The Voice of the Nation" could have a null scope in its flavour text
Previous Patchnotes
