Hello and welcome to this new update of Orbi Universo, which covers the Industrial Era matching roughly our 1820s to 1920s. This is an important update adding no less than 80 new nodes and new mechanics.
The new heart of your civilization is Industry. Discover the steam engine, then push it to 50 and beyond to start your first factories. Maintain the flow of raw materials and secure a workforce with large cities to generate a large flow of manufactured goods for trade, civilian use or war.
Technological advancement allows you to unlock modern Agriculture and Medicine. Together, they enable what is known in history as the demographic transition, allowing your population to boom.
The arrival of an Upper or Lower House will create the Parliament. Parliament is elected at regular intervals according to the popularity of the various ideologies among Conservatism, Reactionarism, Liberalism, Socialism and Communism. A lower house tends to reflect the interests of the people, while the upper house tends to favor the interests of the elites, especially conservative and reactionary ideas.
The party elected to power will have control over some of your nodes depending on its party type. Conservatives will prevent you from downgrading religion, liberals will prevent you from passing restrictive trade measures, reactionaries will want to keep a strong military... etc.
Industry will create a working class, historically favorable to unionism and Marxist ideas. It is important to quickly contain working class discontent if you don't want to see your parliament covered with socialists and communists who could even start a civil war if you show a sign of weakness.
You are not alone in this world. With the industrial revolution, a rival to world hegemony appears with attributes of its own, such as size, army, fleet and industry. If the world tension rises too high, expect a world war against this merciless rival.
A new screen is available by clicking above the speed buttons. It will show you some information about your current era but also hints on how to proceed to the next one.
If you didn't notice it on the previous screenshots, the nodes can now have different sizes. While there is a default setting to help you understand the importance of some nodes over others, you can change it at any time. Your change will be common to all your games.
A new type of window has appeared. Some nodes, like Military Efficiency or Devotion will now show you how they calculate their value.
Finally, a small button now allows you to save and load a node group template, so that you don't have to redo the same groups again and again if you keep your habits in your different games.
The update comes with 2 new Challenges, one in the United States, another in the British Empire, each one at a different moment of the industrial era, allowing you to test the new features as soon as possible if you wish.
Other additions have been made and I'll just cover the basics here, we've also fixed some bugs, translation errors and done a lot of balancing. On the other hand, we are aware that a small percentage of players (about 0.5%), experience an unreasonably slow launch due to under-qualified hardware. Despite several researches and attempts on our part, we still don't have any other solutions for the moment, but we are still looking for a solution.
That's all for this time, see you in January 2022 for the 2 years anniversary of Orbi Universo with hopefully a big 2.0 patch containing the Atomic Era.