User interface upgrades:
-Mousewheel zoom
-Optional message box closing delay - no more accidently closed events
-general reminders - for example if slider move is possible..
-New message notefier system - get all important events without cluttering the screen. Messages that are marked for this system are shown in an icon on the right screen an can be expanded by clicking on the corresponding icon.
-Full Screen / windowed selectable in settings.cfg
-Resolution freely selectable in settings.cfg
-Multi deployment of units now possible - quick and easy to place large batches of units.
-New Trade tab to improve speed and overview of all trades.
-More advanced trade options, like setting an import target, or block import / export of specific resources
-improved supply mode map: province ESE ,convoys and prioritized provinces are shown.
-New statistics page in ledger to compare losses / kills
-New espionage UI - no more micro - just select priority and mission.
-New espionage mission ( naval espionage - on succes, ship composition and mission is shown and ships are visible on map for xx days)
Production system rework:
-New advanced autosliders with Min/Max setting for each slider.
-New expense slider to control all domestic and foreign expenses like spies / research / Salaries.
-New buildings like Synthetic oil plants / synthetic rare plants.-All conversions are user controllable with sliders determining the amount of resources converted.
-Most advanced production system ever implemented in a grand strategy game:
--Production is now ordered in production lines:
---They can be shortened / lengthened at will
---More IC can be thrown at them to increase speed.
---Can be paused to preserve gearing bonus without closing the line
--Ability to upgrade units in production to newer models.
--Refit and retooling times included.
--Gearing increase speed and max gearing attainable increasable through research.
-AI now takes advantage of this system and knows the value of gearing.
new Logstical system:
-Decentral production - use resources and produce supplies at offshore IC, no need to ship resources to capital if IC is nearby.
-Ability to produce units offshore if enough IC is present offshore (100% moddable in misc.txt)
-Units receive supplies / oil through provinces, the supply effectivity is determined by the infra and terrain of the provinces it routes through.
-Unit Supply consumption now variable with unit activity and 100% moddable
-Units have each local stock levels. Units with high activity and low supply efficiency or units cut off from supplies use the local stock until they run dry. Out of stock modifier now slowly increases with stock levels.
-Ships automatically return to port for resupply and depart afterwards.
Entirely new land combat mechanics:
-New plan ahead system.. plan your offensives months in advance.
-All combat mechanics have been revamped.
-now realistic combat durations and losses are ingame.
-Land units speed is affected by combats. Slow enemy down by bombardments or feints
-New bombard mission - use artillery to soften the enemy before an assault.
Air Combat Mechanics:
-All missions are selectable for Province/Area/Region
-Planes are now coordinated with each other, to maximize damage and to prevent all planes / rockets to target the same province.
-runway cratering now damages planes on land.
-Air war has been reworked, planes now can miss each other and radar now has many uses and is vital for air superiority in defensive missions.
Naval System rework:
-All missions are selectable for Province/Area/Region
-Totally revamped combat mechanics and brigade system.(all ships now depend on brigades)
-Ability to refit ships with different brigades.
-Revamped combat positioning system: Watch out for small hard hitting high leader fleets in combat.
-Units will have to increase distance to attacker before escape.
-All combats now behave realistically and automatically retreat if no hope of victory exists.
-Convert unused Destroyers to escorts
Provincial additions:
-Province now has an effectivity value. this replaces the hidden natonal non national ic modifier.
-Infrastructure affects province effectivity value, so its possible to expand resource and IC production in that province.
-Infrastructure build time now terrain dependant
-Provinces can be prioritized for repair. New visibly shown on supply map
General improvements:
-Collected manpower gets older with time and will retire, limits the endgame MP availible.
-Added 60 more user defined countries (from 00-99 to A0-F9)
-Added 20 User defines brigades
-All STR/ORG combat modifiers now exported to misc.txt and 100% moddable
-New Techs
-A LOT of new modefiers to play with (misc.txt is many times larger as vanilla)
-Totally New attriction alghorithms
-4 new Battle scenarios
-Resource production rebalanced for the majors according to real world production figures
-IC limited techteams ( up to 10 teams dependent on ic)
-3 National Ideas / Country - also fully moddable ideas and effects
