Hello Admirals,

A new update is now available, continuing to improve the campaign. Please read:

*v1.6.1.2*
- Army losses mechanics got further optimizations. Now the losses after combat will directly and heavily affect the participating armies in the province and the whole nation. It will take time to fully recover those losses, so now it will be possible to even completely wipe out an army from a province and force victory. Previously the losses applied only in the conscript pool, so the replacements would be instant and it would need tremendous casualties to have impact in large nations. This change will also affect how nations can withstand prolonged wars.
- Minor nations can dissolve similarly as the major nations, when their homelands are conquered. They will not be able to expand without restrictions as before, as they will have to protect their home regions in order to survive.
- Further optimizations and fixes on the mission event mechanics, giving more consistent results for the win chance. There is also a new indication in the UI showing the losses for the Attacker and Defender.
- Fine tuning in tension, to be overall not very harsh but also provide opportunities for going to war.
- Toned down the minor nation's aggressiveness and the interaction of major nations with smaller nations which previously created too many wars against them, resulting in a chain reaction of negative events and subsequent wars.
- Fixed bugs related to the fleet management window and the ship erase system making the game to crash.
- Fixed some rare issues of the refit mode.
- Research logic got a refactoring on how it is affected by the GDP. A new parameter is added (info for modders) called “research_budget_mod_max”.
- A further improvement on how campaign AI manages its research logic and its funds. It will be needed to notice the changes, as the AI should now prioritize heavily on important techs, for example the techs that lead to the Dreadnought era, and so it will be able to construct more powerful ships.
- Increased crew pool re-generation as per player feedback. Players will still have to manage this resource as it can become depleted after too many crew losses in battles or by the construction of too many large warships.
- Minor adjustments to economy to compensate for the research/army cost changes.
- Other minor fixes.

Hello Admirals,

Here it is an update with more campaign improvements. Read below:

*v1.6.1.1*
- Minor Nations which are considered "Medium", those which can ally and interact and trade with the Major Nations, can now organize major offensives against their enemies in adjacent borders. They will also try to expand if they are not allied with a major nation or their major ally is not involved in a war. This feature was among the most desired from the community and will definitely spice up the campaign system.
- Naval Invasion tonnage threshold vs Major Nations reduced from 100,000 tons to 25,000 tons. Basically you can start a naval invasion wherever you have a decent naval force nearby. You will expect a much increased aggression from AI opponents due to this new change.
- Tension minor fixes and improvements. The overall system became more polished.
- The government of Major Nations will now consider more effectively which minor nations to attack, evaluating which other major nations may get negatively affected and want to intervene. This new feature will help to maintain good relations with major nations, and not cause random drops of relations which get out of control and cause continuous wars.
- Fixed some reported issues with rebellions not giving the provinces to the rebels when their attack succeeded.
- Various balances and improvements on the army kills/losses mechanics.
- Fixed a division issue causing one ship to go very far ahead of its main division formation.
- Fixed a minor and rare issue causing transport losses to be shown in the UI at the opposite side.
wars.
- Other minor fixes.

Uploaded optimized version including:
- Fixed potential problem, making it difficult to send Task Forces in port in some areas of the map. Please let us know if you still can anticipate an issue, and what is the resolution you choose to play the game.
- Improvement on the mechanics which are responsible for evaluating all army kills/losses in land battles and mission events. You will notice that Naval invasions will be more costly in soldier losses, and according to the magnitude of invasion needed, they will cost troops as many as major offensives do.
- Initial Relations between major nations are balanced so that there is time to avoid a war if it is wanted.
- Improved Campaign AI to ask for peace when it is becoming weak and try to prolong wars when it has an advantage.
- A minor UI improvement in combat, optimizing the floating UI of ships.
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Uploaded optimized x2 version including:
- Further balances on the army kills/losses mechanics, to give more consistent results. You have to note that mission success is dependent on the losses so if you as an attacker have many more losses than the defender, this will negatively affect the win chance.
- Added tooltip to show the chance of your war reparation proposal to be accepted or not.
- Made text changes to the special events of alliance offers or war declarations your nation makes, clarifying that the effects are for the AI opponent.
- Minor UI improvements for the Task Force movement window, showing the total tonnage of ships that will move and the damage of each ship to appear in the tooltip.
- An improvement on Vsync setting, improving the total fps allowed.
- Various fixes on cases where a save could not be loaded.
- Minor changes in the minimum tonnage allowed for US Large Armored Cruiser and Russian Large Armored Cruiser II allowing them to be built immediately when they are researched.
- Fixed issue making naval invasions to continue to trigger battles, even when there is no longer a fleet in the mission radius.
- Fixed rare issue of major offensives to not conclude when the defender has no army left.
- Fixed issue which could cause ungoverned territories to have no army.
- Fixed Croatia flag to appear correctly.
- Other minor fixes.
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