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Victoria 3 - Dev Diary #58 - Interest Revisions

Wizzington, Game Director (Victoria 3)

Hello and welcome to yet another Victoria 3 development diary. Today is going to be a fairly brief dev diary discussing some design changes in diplomacy that happened as a result of internal playtesting and feedback, specifically to the mechanics of Interests and their significance in the game.

大家好啊，歡迎來(lái)到另一篇維多利亞3開(kāi)發(fā)日志。今天這一篇會(huì)比較簡(jiǎn)短，討論由內(nèi)部測(cè)試和反饋而導(dǎo)致的一些外交方面的設(shè)計(jì)變化，特別是利益存在Interests機(jī)制及其在游戲中的意義。

Interests, as you may recall from Dev Diary #19, are essentially a country having a diplomatic presence in a particular Strategic Region, either as a result of owning territory there, having a subject that owns territory there, or through a Declared Interest. Back then, Interests merely limited where you start Diplomatic Plays and Establish Colonies, and acted as a guide for the AI in terms of which countries it needed to care about

正如你從開(kāi)發(fā)日志#19中回想的那樣，利益存在本質(zhì)上是一個(gè)國(guó)家在一片特定的戰(zhàn)略區(qū)域中的外交存在，或是因?yàn)樵诖藫碛蓄I(lǐng)土，或是因?yàn)橛性诖藫碛蓄I(lǐng)土的附庸，或是因?yàn)樵诖诵Q了利益存在。之前，利益存在只是限制你能在哪里開(kāi)展外交博弈或者建立殖民地，也是對(duì)AI需要關(guān)心哪些國(guó)家的指導(dǎo)。

With so many Great Powers maintaining Interests there, Europe is a perilous place to start a Diplomatic Play in

有這么多列強(qiáng)在此維持利益存在，歐洲是開(kāi)展外交博弈的危險(xiǎn)之地。

So, what has changed between then and now? Well, basically, playtesting revealed two principal issues with Interests in the game. The first was that they simply didn't feel significant enough, because they only tied directly into colonization and diplomatic plays. The second was that the number of declared Interests a country had available to them was based solely on rank, which meant that Austria with its miniscule navy was able to maintain almost as global a presence as the British with their, well, definitely not so miniscule navy.

所以，和那時(shí)相比，現(xiàn)在有哪些改變？嗯，基本來(lái)說(shuō)，游戲測(cè)試揭示了游戲中利益存在的兩個(gè)最重要的問(wèn)題。第一，這一機(jī)制看起來(lái)無(wú)足輕重，因?yàn)樗麄冎慌c殖民和外交博弈直接相關(guān)。第二，一個(gè)國(guó)家可宣稱利益存在的數(shù)量只與國(guó)家等級(jí)有關(guān)，這意味著海軍微不足道的奧地利能和不列顛維持差不多的全球存在，而后者的海軍，顯然并非微不足道。

To solve the first problem, we decided to do a little experiment - what if instead of just limiting colonization and diplomatic plays, Interests were required for all forms of diplomacy, up to and including trade? This was an idea we’d kicked around previously, but the concern was that it'd simply be too limiting, particularly where trade was concerned, because as mentioned, the only way to get more Interests was to increase your country rank, and once you were a Great Power, well that was it. No more trade partners, at least not of your own choosing.

為了解決第一個(gè)問(wèn)題，我們決定做一項(xiàng)小實(shí)驗(yàn)——如果除了殖民和外交博弈，所有形式的外交，乃至貿(mào)易，都需要利益存在呢？這是我們之前提出的一個(gè)想法，但擔(dān)心這一限制太大，特別是貿(mào)易被牽扯其中，因?yàn)榫拖裰罢f(shuō)的，唯一獲得更多利益存在的方法是提升國(guó)家等級(jí)，而一旦你成為列強(qiáng)，那就到此為止了。不會(huì)有更多貿(mào)易伙伴了，至少不是你自己選的。

The solution to the second problem, then, turned out to also be the key to the first one: tying the navy directly into declared Interests. The number of declared Interests from rank were reduced, and instead, Naval Bases now produce declared Interests, with one declared Interest provided per 10 flotillas that a country has. In other words, while Austria can now maintain a handful of declared Interests around Europe to look out for its national interests (pun intended), the size of Britain's fleet allows it to poke its nose into the business of just about any corner of the world that it wants to.

第二個(gè)問(wèn)題的解決方案，也是解決第一個(gè)問(wèn)題的關(guān)鍵：把海軍和利益存在的宣稱數(shù)量直接綁定。由等級(jí)而來(lái)的利益存在宣稱的數(shù)目減少了，取而代之的是，海軍基地現(xiàn)在會(huì)生產(chǎn)可宣稱的利益存在，國(guó)家每擁有十個(gè)艦隊(duì)就提供一個(gè)可宣稱的利益存在。換句話說(shuō)，奧地利現(xiàn)在能夠在歐洲維持一些些利益存在以維護(hù)其國(guó)家利益，另一方面，不列顛的艦隊(duì)規(guī)模能讓它窺探世界的任何一個(gè)角落，只要它想的話。

Spain's navy may not be what it once was, but it's still large enough to allow the Spanish a greater diplomatic reach than their Major Power rank would otherwise allow

西班牙的海軍也許已經(jīng)不復(fù)從前，但仍然足夠大，讓西班牙的外交能觸及比其主要大國(guó)等級(jí)所允許的更遠(yuǎn)的部分地方。

With this change made, our experiment truly came together, and allowed us to greatly expand the scope of the Interest mechanic. Instead of just being a requirement for taking over land, Interests now signify a formal diplomatic presence in a region without which you simply do not have the ability to interact with that region at all - no French diplomats in Southeast Asia means no French diplomacy in Southeast Asia.

有了這一改變，我們的實(shí)驗(yàn)真正地結(jié)合到一起，允許我們極大地?cái)U(kuò)展利益存在機(jī)制的范圍。利益存在不再僅僅是奪取土地的前提，現(xiàn)在它意味著在一個(gè)地區(qū)的正式外交存在，沒(méi)有了它你就不能和這個(gè)區(qū)域進(jìn)行哪怕一點(diǎn)互動(dòng)——法國(guó)在東南亞沒(méi)有外交官就意味著法國(guó)在東南亞沒(méi)有外交。

In no particular order, here are all the mechanics that now tie into Interests:

以下是所有和利益存在相關(guān)的機(jī)制，排名不分先后：

Diplomatic Plays & Colonization:?As before, a country must have an Interest in a region to start a Diplomatic Play or begin colonizing there.
外交博弈與殖民：和之前一樣，國(guó)家必須在一個(gè)地區(qū)有利益存在才能在這里開(kāi)展外交博弈或殖民。

Diplomatic Actions:?To conduct diplomacy with a country, you must now have at least one overlapping Interest - meaning they must have an Interest in any strategic region where you also have an Interest. For example, Texas can conduct diplomacy with Britain if Britain maintains an Interest in the Dixie Region, even if Texas has no Interests outside the Dixie region.
外交行動(dòng)：要與一個(gè)國(guó)家開(kāi)展外交，現(xiàn)在你必須至少有一處重疊的利益存在——這意味著他們必須至少在任何一個(gè)你有利益存在的地區(qū)也有利益存在。舉例來(lái)說(shuō)，如果不列顛在迪克西地區(qū)維持利益存在，德克薩斯就可以和不列顛開(kāi)展外交，即使德克薩斯在迪克西地區(qū)之外沒(méi)有利益存在。

Trade:?To establish a trade route between two markets, one of the two market owners has to have an Interest in any region where the other market is present. For example, if the USA maintains an Interest in La Plata where the Argentine market is present, then Argentina and the USA can trade with each other, even if Argentina doesn’t have an Interest anywhere in North America.
貿(mào)易：為了建立連接兩個(gè)市場(chǎng)的貿(mào)易路線，兩個(gè)市場(chǎng)的所有者之一必須在另一市場(chǎng)存在的任一地區(qū)擁有利益存在。舉例來(lái)說(shuō)，阿根廷市場(chǎng)位于拉普拉塔，如果美國(guó)在此宣稱利益存在，那么阿根廷和美國(guó)就能互相貿(mào)易，即使阿根廷在北美洲沒(méi)有任何利益存在。

Notifications:?You will only be informed about diplomatic going-ons between countries with which you have an overlapping Interest, and in states where you have an Interest in the region.
通知：你只會(huì)被告知有重疊利益存在的國(guó)家，或者有利益存在區(qū)域中的地區(qū)的外交消息。

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As much as the Sikh Empire might desire European allies against Britain, their landlocked position limits their options - without a coast they will have to wait for one of those powers to take an interest in North India

盡管錫克帝國(guó)迫切地渴望歐洲盟友來(lái)對(duì)抗不列顛，但他們深處內(nèi)陸的地理位置限制了他們的選擇——缺乏海岸線的他們必須等待其中一個(gè)列強(qiáng)對(duì)北印度宣稱利益存在。

Ultimately, the result of these changes were threefold: It made Interests a far more central mechanic to the game, it increased the need for maintaining a large fleet-in-being for empires with global ambitions, and it increased immersion by having who you could and could not deal with simply make more sense. An isolated Bhutan in the Himalayas now truly feels isolated, rather than inexplicably being able to send embassies to Paraguay at a whim.

最終，這些變化有三重影響：它讓利益存在成為了游戲核心的機(jī)制；它增加了讓有全球野心的帝國(guó)維持龐大艦隊(duì)的需求；它通過(guò)讓你能和誰(shuí)或者不能和誰(shuí)打交道變得更有意義的方式增加了游戲的沉浸感。喜馬拉雅山上與世隔絕的不丹現(xiàn)在真正感到孤立，而不是能莫名其妙隨心所欲地將大使派到巴拉圭。

That's it for today! I'll be back next week with another Dev Diary on a hotly anticipated topic: The AI of Victoria 3.

今天就是這樣！下周我會(huì)帶來(lái)另一篇開(kāi)發(fā)日志，話題備受期待：維多利亞3的AI。

翻譯：Yakuky

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