Hello all!
I join you to once again talk about peace conferences. This time we have more info on our changes and features that I was not able to go into last time. Most of these are coming as part of By Blood Alone.
Previously I talked about mostly the structure of the new Peace Conference system. If you have not read that Dev Diary, I recommend checking that out first. The short version is that we are reworking the old peace system into a new one that features simultaneous and blind turns, all conferences actions being contestable, and limited points to use in the conference.
Before we cover new stuff I also want to address some changes to the jargon we introduced last time. We considered changing “demands” to “bids” to fit with the new system. The previous dev diary talked at length about bids. We are instead now referring to all of these as “demands.”
Now for some new stuff! Firstly, I would like to show off our nearly complete UI with a comparison to the old UI.
Nearly Finished PC UI
Old PC UI
In the new system we have expanded the “Demands” portion to the entire left of the UI while moving all relevant information about victors or beneficiary nations to the right. Part of this was to make the menu more presentable, but another part of this was to handle what is now a more complex system of demands.
As part of By Blood Alone, we are adding five new types of demands to the peace conference. Four of these are a new type of “Additional Demand” which I will go into shortly. The other new demand is “Take Navy.” This will allow participants in the conference to use their participation points to demand enemy capitol ships as they would a single state. This means that players requesting the same ship will result in a contested claim. When the conference finishes, screen ships will be divided up amongst those who claimed capital ships based upon the ratio of capital ship industrial cost claimed. We attempted to find solutions to allow more precise claiming of non-capital ships, but were unable to arrive at a satisfactory interaction flow or a good way to fit it into the larger peace conference system.
Naval Demands being issued for the mighty Scharnhorst
As mentioned previously, we now have “Additional Demands” These options all require an underlying demand of puppet or change government to have been applied to a state first. Secondary demands can be applied over the top of a normal demand during the same turn or any subsequent turn.
The first secondary demand we have is “Demilitirized Zone.” this prevents the target nation from placing troops in the selected state. This is a pretty classic part of many historical peace conferences and serves as a way of keeping troops off of borders.
DMZ option
The next two secondary demands are both economic. These are “Resource Rights” and “War Reparations.” To make resolving contested demands fit into our system, both of these demands target single states. Resource Rights gives access to the resources in a state. War Reparations gives control of local civilian factories in a state. Both of these last for a period of time the length of which is still TBD.
Resource Rights and War Reprations options
Our final new demand, coming with BBA, is “Dismantle Military Industry.” This will remove military factories from the targeted state. This can be used to tear down a heavily militarized state’s mic and help slow down re-militarization postwar.
Dismantle Miltiary Option
That’s all we have for today and I thank you for stopping by. Next week, we will be talking about modding. Stay tuned! o7
