SuperPower 3
SuperPower 3 Release Notes - 16.01.2023
Feature
- Domestic use of military. This will use your land units to raise stability in your country, but lower approval
Behavior
- Internet user % will go drop to 0 only if the budget in telecom is at 0.
- Personal Taxes change the support in a range of [-42.5%, 7.5%]. The Government approval starting values are modified between -9.5% and 5% depending on the country.
- Raising tax use cooldown and maxstep indicated in the action it uses.
- Some iterations weren't running causing variables to get stuck (mainly economic ones)
- InternationnalCommerce: fixed displays of new private import/export
- InternationnalCommerce private: do not trade with country who has an embargo with you
- Smaller effets for Random events
- Private economic sector will not reduce import with a public sector of another country
- Reduced the impact of the private economic sector who reduces expensive import from country with high taxe level
- The desirability of illegal private economic sector A is reduced when legal private economic sector B seeks an exchange partner
- Private Import/Export: Reduce the attractiveness of a economic sector based on the taxe of the private sector (caused some economies to fall in tailspins)
- Countries keep less surplus of an economic sector
- Countries reduces expensive import from country with high taxe level
- Economic Sector: Investment increases productivity, laborForce(Unemployment) and crops used (expected effects displayed in UI)
UI
- fixed legend for trading resources
- fixed a bug if there was only one positive country it would appear as negative on the thematic map
- Countries are in grey if illegal when checking the product balance thematic map
- Fixed top 10 thematic map that would be empty after either loading a game or returning to main menu
- Modified description of CriticalApproval warning
- taxes widget correction
- fixed issue where the minimap would disappear after a combat
- Added warning icon and tool tips for strike in economic sector
- Changed low stability message for strike frequency
- Add Labor Unemployed in empty economic sector
- When trading resource, country with that resource illegal will be white. Mouse over will also indicate that the resource is illegal. Top 10 also reflect that change
- Close trade window when switching tab in economy
- added thematic button in economy resource menu to show active trades and needs/surplus
- random events effects are displayed to the player when they occur in his country (english only for now)
Data
- Changed submarine to surface ship in Caspian sea
Stability
- Fixed a data issue where some floats would get stuck to 0
- fix of some crashes while loading assets
- Many crash fixes and other stability corrections
Superpower 3 Release Notes - 14.12.2022
we are happy to provide you with a fresh new update today, including new features, thematic maps, AI behavior improvements and multiple bugfixes, with a strong focus on the economic sector.
== version 1.0.7 ==
Feature
- Occupy country action like in SP2 - for land units, will disperse to occupy all empty connected regions to the current region of the unit
- New thematic maps to show economic sector trades and needs/surplus
- Countries with low stability will see periodic economic strikes
- Countries with very low stability will potentially have popular revolutions that topple the government
- secret service actions that messes with stability works with the population towards that goal
Behavior
- Tweaked crops management equations
- Source country of random events now see a popup of the event
- Income trade in the budget includes taxes from exported private resources
- stop taking taxes from illegal economic sectors
- 1st tier economic shortages lowers government stability, surplus raises it
- The imported quantity is reduced by the taxe rate of the economic sector
- When trading ressources, player can use world map to chose the partner country
Fixes
- Multiple crash fixes
- Immigration and Emigration rates are not doubled
Superpower 3 Release Notes - 01.12.2022
== version 1.0.6 ==
Economy
- Added inflation and Prime Interest Rate
- Displays monetary income from sector private taxes
- Added unemployment for the sector alongside the national unemployment
- Modified economic sector needs equations - into account unemployment
- Connected inflation and Prime Interest Rates
- AI invests in budget sector only if the economic balance is positive. Follow the continent average with a tolerance of +- 25%
Behavior
- Plane will get stuck way less often
- Plane can get shot down by ground unit if they are in Airport
- Removed tax impact from productivity (created GDP drops)
- Refactor of equations for region and country population health
- Transfer education budget into mExpectedSchoolYears at max speed of 0.68 ExpectedSchoolYears par game year
- Transfer new adult(1/15 population 0 14) with an mExpectedSchoolYears into mMeanSchoolYears
- The education of the population slightly influences the demand for healthcare
- The modification the the healthcare budget influences the gouvernment approval
Combat
- Unit cant be on top of each other at the start of a combat. (Making them unable to move)
- increased possible targets of units to help prevent stuck combats
UI
- Added more sources and concequences in the budget menu
Fixes
- No more flashing Battle areas
- Prevents units from being added more than once in neutral mode
Optimizations
- Fixes on memory leaks caused by dynamic UI elements
- Cleanup in UE UI code. This should see fewer memory leaks, and better performance. Further cleanup in upcoming builds
Superpower 3 Release Notes - 18.11.2022
Behavior
- Beta - new UI representation of paths, based on unit types
- Coups will now lower government stability and approval. If government approval is low (<25% )when mission finishes, the government is overthrown
- Added the concept of neutral units to war zone.
- Neutral units wont be able to attack or be attacked if in peace with both parties. However they can still be hit but area of effect damage if they are close enough. They are free to leave the war zone whenever they feel like it.
- Declaring war to a country while being a neutral unit in a war zone will make them join the fight and start shooting.
- Declaring peace with a country will make your unit neutral if you aren't in war with any of the party involved in a fight. War zone will also be dissolved if a side is no longer at war.
UI
- Continued adding decimals in UI
- Changed the Popup that appears when a player connects or disconnects the game. It now shows information in it
- Modified DoctorDensity and HospitalBedsDensity to be represented / 1000 people
- Added text to Annexation popup
- Multiplayer game list: identify the games where the player is banned
Art
- More props in world (Nessie, Eiffel tower, Great wall of China, Machu Picchu...)
Data
- Corrections in scenario objectives for S12_Penuries and S14_VenezuelaCrisis
- Correction of map allocation for Guam
Fixes
- Fixed a bug where population drops to 0
- Fixed a bug where sometimes country wouldn't send unit to stop Annexation if they had some.
- Fix Selecting another UI without saving in Options brings the player back to the Main Menu
- Quick Menu fails to disappear after moving around the map
- Fixed a bug where unit build by AI wouldnt be visible
- Fixed the display of the balance of a selected country when negative
- Fixed a bug where plane could go further than their engine range when using the attack command
- Fixed a bug where units bought from the Market can remain stuck while moving
Superpower 3 Release Notes - 04.11.2022
New Feature
- Time speed control
UI
- Button to see private sector trades
- The RateArrows are now positioned to the left or right of the text box depending on the justification of the text to avoid the text being over the arrows
- Added top 10 of the best countries of the currently selected thematic map.
- Fixed a bug where annexation from others would not show in UI
Art
- more props in world
Behavior
- Private sector trade with other country private sector NOTE - needs some balancing, right now trades are too easy between AI countries
- Now show units of every country present in a country at war
- Countries at war build more units
- The source of an agreement in a treaty can always refuse the treaty
- Fixed a bug where regions wouldn't be contested at the start of the game
Data
- Fixed invalid region names, languages, religions, nuclear level, continents in various countries
- Names added for Uralic, Dzongkha and Native Dialect.
Fixes
- Fixed a bug where battle wouldn't be saved. The visual would be there but the units wouldn't fight. Note that this fix will only be applied to all future saves.
- Fixed a bug where war zone UI would be displayed improperly after loading a saved game
- Fixed an issue with system monitoring not reverting back client warnings in certain conditions
- Properly connect names of leaders according to their language
- Fixed a bug where regions that were being annexed wouldn't display the progress bar upon loading a saved game
- Fixed a bug where Aktobe region of Kazakhstan fails to be marked for annexation
- Bugfix where nuclear range thematic map wouldn't show until player as selected another country
- Fixed a bug where boat could go on land in certain condition
- Fixed a bug where unit status would always be displayed as moving in the Military UI after moving once
- fixed crash when trying to move the entire USA army
- Fixed bug where successful terrorism missions were having no effect.
- Fixed bug where popup was not shown on successful Coup missions.
- Fixed bug where Sabotage missions failed to affect the production of the target country
- Fixed a bug where bringing units home causes nearby units to lose interaction
- Fixed a bug where War zones would rapidly appear and disappear
SuperPower 3 Release Notes - 28.10.2022
New Feature
- Data History window that enables historical comparison between countries of data
UI
- Added the average corporate taxes in the Economic - Sectors (details) window when a sector is under private control
- Resources on thematic map are more accurate
- When in thematic map view, mouse over a region will give a quick glimpse of the thematic map value.
- Nuclear range thematic map now shows the range of the selected country.
- Thematic for "relation with me" now properly shows other countries' relation with me instead of the my relation with the other countries.
- User is now notified in the UI when the server network is overloaded - either from CPU or Network
- Demography, Support : Land percentage with 2 decimals, budget environment with 1 decimal
Art
- Added more props and monuments on the globe
Behavior
- Reconnected random events
- 10k units is no longer the maximum to be built
- North Korea and Trinidad and Tobago regions correctly marked in correct continent
- Can now disband unit(s) from the military menu. Doing so will refund 50% of the unit(s) value to the available funds.
- Prevents the AI from selling nuclear-capable units
- Corrected server console reporting of overdue tasks (was showing all planned future tasks as well as overdue tasks)
- Increased max CPU allocation for routines handling messages to/from server (increase responsiveness under duress)
- Changed AI initiated trades behaviour to reduce money gifts spamming
- Environment Budget convert other land into Arable Land and Forest
- Objectives value modification for Algeria in S15_PanArabistUnion
Fixes
- Fixed bug where units in the market would show worth of 0 $ after loading a game
- Build and Deploy was displayed improperly after 1 million units or reaching certain costs
- Confirm Order button would become unavailable if the quantity gets rounded down
- Fixed an issue where the server would eventually go into a feedback-loop during combat, causing the server to become unresponsive after a time
- Small performance increase with battle actions
- Fixed bug where you couldn't merge units after loading a saved game, or after they were moved multiple times
- Fixed a bug where units ordered and ready to deploy are not being saved properly
- Relation between countries are successfully recalculated after the loading of a save file. Old save file are fixed.
- Fixed an issue where the server attacking planes would not complete their mission and get stuck.
- Bugfix where after deleting a design, the checkbox wouldn't become white when clicking on it.
Superpower 3 Release Notes - 20.10.2022
== version 1.0.2 ==
Features
- Added the option to select Political Party when starting a game.
- added word descriptions of country philosophies for the 4 spheres in the tooltips from the main area
UI
- Added a line of text that notifies the player how to see more information about the region on which the cursor is placed above.
- A disconnection reason screen is now shown to the user when removed from game / banned / host ended the game
- Every text showing number simplified (With, K, M, B or T at the end) now have a tooltip showing the whole number.
- No Arrow : Modified the color of the icon.
- Country borders and Region borders are of a different color
- Popup tutorial help upon first login with a profile
- Added 3D props on globe
- Demography + Country Selected Demography : Added a decimal to numerical values that related to monetary amounts and added "rate arrows" in multiple areas
- Now we can select regions on thematic maps without unselect the thematic map
- Selecting Political Parties also change the Approval in the main menu. The current party in power is selected by default and They are also sorted by Approval.
- RegionUnderMouse popup (when clicking on left-ctrl while over a region) is expanded with more info
- NOTE - if the left ctrl key doesn't bring up the Region popup, check in settings/controls for the key mapping
- Demography-Population-Growth Rate: Show population growth rate instead of Birth rate
- fix: Movement paths remain present after issuing a new movement command
Behavior
- Declaring a war breaks all relation treaties except Embassy
- Country target of nukes will react rapidly(300 ms), before the nukes sent reach his nukes.
- Emigration Rate is impacted by the percent of population(social group) illegal. e.g.: 100% of the population illegal modifies the Emigration Rate by 11.11%
- Close Emigration modifies the Emigration Rate to 0%
- Being the target of a nuke temporary increase the Emigration Rate. A jump of 15% who will exponentially decrease during 5 years. Receiving nukes from multiple countries will raise the Emigration Rate to a maximum of 25%
- Fixed a bug where Nuclear bombs would go around the earth instead of traveling across the Pacific Ocean when it is the closest route
- Using the Move command from the Military UI on aircrafts now display the range
- Fixed achievement "Solid Growth"
- Fix some conditions for Units stuck when entering war zones and Ghost units and battle zones remain on the map during or after War
- Fixed crash that would randomly occurs when using bombers
- Fixed Random Crash in Delete character
- Reconnected Government Stability iteration
- Corrections of paths in Siberia region
- Modification data Cities NearWater to prevent building boats on cities that are bordering center lakes or inner seas
- Population growth is now evaluated more frequently
- Boats will always move to the closest coast instead of not moving when trying to move them on land
Data
- Modification SCity mNameShort "Kansas City", Kansas changed to "Fairfax"
Stability
- Fixed a bug where some units would still be visible with a number of 0 after nuking.
- Removed a server networked timeout when shutting down the server in multiplayer games
- Crashfix on rare occasions when user accounts did not sync properly
- Bugfix where the visual of the controls wouldn't change until reaccessing the options menu.
- When you change language, you're brought back to the main menu to insure consistency
- social group in South Africa were not translated
- Fixed bug where you could park units that aren't planes in airport.
- Fixed bug where available actions would be displayed for enemy and neutral units during war
Superpower 3 Release Notes - 13.10.2022
Optimizations
- removed most logs from client
Behavior
- correction - mBudget.mInTrade for taxes of private sector (exports and imports)
- correction - smaller effect of taxes on sector productivity and employee mobility
- correction - smaller effect of having a sector illegal on productivity
- AI reactions delayed and progressive
- Made AI decision time quicker
UI
- The refresh of some texture arrays wasn't done in certain contexts, giving a blank texture
- unit texture in the marketplace weren't being updated in some contexts
- fixed placeholder icon encountered after clicking on the unit icon during the session
- Bugfix Couldn't click on the MilitaryButton of MainControls when the cursor was on the 2/3 right of the button
- Reduce the size of background blur of MainControls so it's not above the Minimap
- Having over 100k units in simple group only shows 100/Fixed
- default key bindings not set/Fixed
- Modified windows restore when changing language
- Fixed some cases that were showing main menu instead of loading screen
- Typo in characters' names/Fixed
- The borders of regions and countries are visible in the selection and thematic maps
- Popup Trade has been adjusted to fit within the Economy Window
- No more black thematic map when we call the nuclearRange thematic map until we select a country
Scenarios
- Removed an objective from China in the WWIII scenario
Stability
- fixed crash on some computers when the initialization process wasn't done in order
- fixed crash on delete of character
- Closes game on improperly modified or corrupted data files
- Crashfix after return to main menu in GResearchProgressButtons
- Crashfix - Better synchronization handling on high latency connections
- Crashfix when unable to create profile directory
- Fixed a bug where regions would have more border regions than indented in data
- Fixed a bug where autosave wouldn't show in the "Continue saved game" menu.
- Added AutoSave on quit.
== Build 9676588 ==
Optimizations
- Increased processing CPU allocated to server by up to 20%
Behavior
- Modified reactions when doing a peaceful annexation
- Changed ControllingCountryID to PoliticalID
UI
- Nuclear ranges was displayed incorrectly
- Game Manual link in main menu points to correct URL
- visual revision of thematic maps component
- Adjusted the size and position of the option buttons because the play / pause buttons were pixelated
You've Got the Power: Geopolitical Simulation SuperPower 3 Out Now!
You've Got the Power: Geopolitical Simulation SuperPower 3 Out Now!
Vienna/Austria, Sherbrooke, Canada, October 7th, 2022: Time to show the world, what kind of a leader you are: SuperPower 3 is out today for PC and puts you in charge of one of the 194 nations in the world. SuperPower 3 is based on contemporary real-world data and simulates international geopolitical decisions for each and every country in the world. There are 14 pre-defined scenarios to choose from - or the completely free sandbox mode, where you achieve exactly the goals you are making for yourself and your chosen nation.
Additionally to the content delivered today, SuperPower 3 is super-mod friendly and allows players around the world to adjust the game to their taste.
Watch the SuperPower 3 Launch-Trailer on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9IDGrmJJ6F8
Check it out!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1563130/SuperPower_3/
Stay tuned!
Money Makes the World Go Round: SuperPower 3 Sheds Light on Economy
Money Makes the World Go Round: SuperPower 3 Sheds Light on Economy
Vienna/Austria, Sherbrooke, Canada, September 29th, 2022: Investing in infrastructure is critical. And education, of course. And Healthcare, and research ... and hey, what about the environment? There are many ways a country can spend its money, but the trick is to balance your budget. Of course, you receive money from taxes - but how can you make more without making your people pay for it? As a leader, it is up to you to grow the economy, and to provide income for your citizens and goods to trade to other nations. A country’s economy is the key to success in many other areas, and is essential to consider if you want to lead your nation to prosperity, happiness, and glory.
Watch the Economy Trailer on YouTube: https://youtu.be/cS4_roQ4jqQ
SuperPower 3 is in development for PC and will launch on October 7th, 2022 for an SRP of $ 29.99 / € 29.99 / £ 24.99.
You can wishlist the game here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1563130/SuperPower_3
Enjoy & stay tuned!