Unlike titles such as Civilization, which take a roundabout approach to slavery, this one expresses the “pros” and “cons” in more than just a basic cost/risk format. Slaves can only work in certain types of building – and manufacturing jobs are beyond their scope.Īnd you can’t just choose the slavery civic to gain a blanket benefit to production either. You can’t, for example, cover your land in factories and fill them with slaves so you can pump out a thousand tanks using free labor. You, the player, or more specifically the nation you control, don’t receive a direct benefit from slavery. The other, and most important reason, is that through our Pop system we are trying to represent every individual human on the planet from 1836, so what statement would we be making if we simply wrote all enslaved individuals out of history, or reduced them into an abstract set of modifiers?īackground: The blog post is really long and detailed, but there’s a few points that matter: The first reason is … it was an important political issue of the day and was a major catalyst for several significant conflicts, most notably the American Civil War which would be bizarrely contextless if slavery did not play a significant role in the game. Slavery is, obviously, a horrific crime against humanity and precisely for this reason, many games that have a slavery-related setting or mechanics will either leave it out of the game or abstract it into something that’s less ‘on the nose’ … For Victoria 3, we don’t think these options work for us for two main reasons. It’s a complex sandbox that attempts to imitate real history as accurately as possible so that players can then see how things would play out if they (or the nation they control, to be more specific) did things differently.Īnd this is not the first time a slavery simulation system has appeared in a video game – a similar system existed in Victoria 2. Up front: It needs to be said that Victoria 3 is not a slavery simulator. It also means you could play through as the British and re-embrace slavery or choose not to intercede in the Atlantic slave trade, thus allowing it to prosper. This means you could play through as the US and attempt to abolish slavery immediately as a means to both free people and avoid the civil war. ![]() These policies can be changed and, at least theoretically, it should be possible for any nation to embrace or eschew various forms of slavery. Players who choose to play as the US, for example, will inherit a policy wherein existing slaves remain enslaved but new slaves are no longer imported. At the beginning of the game, a given nation’s historically accurate polices on slavery will be in effect. Total War’s 20th anniversary has just passed, so we thought we would take some time to sit down and tell you about some of our upcoming plans.Victoria 3 is a historical nation simulator where you take control of an entire country and try to shape its destiny. While we are working well from home and still releasing updates and working on games, it’s not all smooth sailing and things are naturally moving around and ending up a little later than we thought. ![]() So while 2020 has thrown us all for a loop and we’ve had to put a few of our plans on hold, we thought we’d take the opportunity to have a chat and give you some detail through a blog instead. Troy’s still on track for release on 13th August but don’t forget, it’ll also be available to claim for free within the first 24 hours – and we have just fourteen days to go! We’ll have lots of reminders nearer the time, this is an opportunity that we hope you don’t miss out on. Right now, the team’s focused on creating the best campaign experience we can as we get ready for release but post-launch we have a lot of plans for Troy, and some of those will be taking advantage of new features as they come online with the Epic Game Store and we activate functionality on our backend. Our focus is on getting you that opportunity to grab it for free first and foremost, but after that here’s some detail on what’s coming up. You’ll see from the roadmap below that Amazons will be joining the game in September as our first DLC alongside EGS Mod Support (though you can still mod TROY the old fashioned way from launch), and what’s more you can grab Amazons entirely for FREE if you’re a Total War Access account holder (although this will be a limited time offer!). ![]() We’ll add multiplayer in November and Blood & Glory in October, and plenty more before the end of the year – and we’ll have even more detail on Amazons to share with you next week.
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