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Name	Hearts of Iron IV
Developer	Paradox Development Studios
Publisher	Paradox Interactive
Tags	Strategy Simulation Singleplayer Multiplayer Co-op
Release	2016-06-06
Steam	9,99€ 8,74£ 9,99$ / 75 %
News	437
Controls	Keyboard Mouse
Players online	37298
Steam Rating	Very Positive
Steam store	https://store.steampowered.com/app/394360
How long to Beat
Main Story	32 Hours
Main Story + Extras	100 Hours
Completionist	250 Hours
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Peak CCU Yesterday
Owners	1,000,000 .. 2,000,000 +/-
Players - Since release	+/-
Players - Last 2 weeks	+/-
Average playtime (forever)	10632
Average playtime (last 2 weeks)	813
Median playtime (forever)	4402
Median playtime (last 2 weeks)	750
Public Linux depots	Hearts of Iron IV Linux [135.44 M]
DLC	Hearts of Iron IV: Sabaton Soundtrack Hearts of Iron IV: Together for Victory Hearts of Iron IV: Death or Dishonor Hearts of Iron IV: Sabaton Soundtrack Vol. 2 Hearts of Iron IV: Waking the Tiger Hearts of Iron IV: Man the Guns Hearts of Iron IV: Axis Armor Pack Hearts of Iron IV: Radio Pack Hearts of Iron IV: La Résistance Hearts of Iron IV: Allied Armor Pack Hearts of Iron IV: Allied Speeches Music Pack Hearts of Iron IV: Battle for the Bosporus Hearts of Iron IV: Eastern Front Planes Pack Hearts of Iron IV: Eastern Front Music Pack Hearts of Iron IV: No Step Back Hearts of Iron IV - Expansion Subscription Hearts of Iron IV: By Blood Alone

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Developer Corner | Military Industrial Orgs.

Greetings all!

Today marks the first occasion since the release of By Blood Alone where we take a deeper look into what is coming next. As you may recall from the BBA development cycle, we had an early set of 'Development Corner' diaries, which serve as an opportunity for us to reveal a narrow look at a specific mechanic or design without revealing too much about the wider context of future releases. Today's offering, as well as the next couple of diaries, will be in much the same spirit - you'll just have to wait a little bit longer to get the full picture. Scandalous and polarising, I know.

/Arheo

Hello there, it's me, C0rax. Now you can get all excited because it's time for some Dev Corners in which we will show you some WIP looks into the new features we have been working on. So without further ado this week we will be looking at

[h2]Military Industrial Organisations (MIOs)[/h2]

This is all very much WIP, you are going to see WIP mock ups, and some details are still being finalised!

Feature Intent & goals

[h3]Intent:[/h3]

Create a sense of a living organisation the player can interact with rather than a static bonus as with current design companies.

Why is this important you ask? Well previously we had to provide static modifiers and sometimes change them via scripted decisions or focus rewards. By creating a more organic system to upgrade your design companies you the player can now decide what these upgrades are and tailor them to fit your playstyle. Additionally we can now reward the player for using a design company as opposed to simply having you save up a resource and click a button, rewarding you for putting effort into them.

[h3]Goals:[/h3]

Allow the player to define their designer direction.
Integrate design companies into production
Provide a framework for national specialisms that can be used on the world stage

[h2]Military industrial Organisations (MIOs)[/h2]

So first here is a rough structure of an MIO;

[h3]Contains[/h3]

Name
Icon
Size (Level)
funds (XP)
Task Capacity
Departments

[h3]Departments[/h3]

0-1 Design team
3 departments
Max 13 traits each

0-1 Industrial manufacturer
3 departments
Max 13 traits each

[h3]Each departments contains[/h3]

Name
Categorys
Trait tree
Trait icons

[h3]Task Capacity[/h3]

Size determines how many tasks a MIO can handle
-Researching
-Producing
-Designing

[h3]Defaults:[/h3]

2 task Capacity
+ scripted increases
+ trait increases

This structure allows us to represent MIOs in a way that expresses the specialisms of the various organisations that designed and produced war materials during the period. You can now represent a company like Bofors AB who designed and produced anti tank, anti air and naval guns seamlessly and expand each of those specialisms as you see fit. Investing in the right MIO is critical to upgrading those specialist departments in order to gain the bonuses you need for specific stats.

[h3]Task Capacity:[/h3]
An MIO of course cant work on a number of infinite simultaneous projects. For this we have task capacity that limits how many things your MIOs can work on balancing. This is an important thing to balance, since producing too much equipment with an MIO will lock you out from using it for research or designing equipment. For ship production this is actually important for producing ships in parallel so you might want to invest in the manufacturing department for task capacity so you can really ramp up your naval production.

[h3]Levelling & upgrades[/h3]

Research cost and Production cost is used to calculate MIO funds that it gains when it is used.
An amount of MIO Funds is required to increase your size and pick a new trait.

[h3]Skill trees[/h3]

split roughly along the same lines as current design companies.
possibility for country unique trees
possibility for content prerequisites (national focus or decision locking etc)

[h2]Departments and Tasks[/h2]

Industrial manufacturers (IM's)
Assigned to production lines (Task)

[h3]Skill trees provide production specific bonuses[/h3]

Design teams (DT's)
Applied to research (Task)
Applied to equipment both via equipment designers and normal variants
Skill trees provide Stat bonuses
Can be applied retroactively to equipment at cost
A move away from pay mana get reward

So that's a lot of high-level structural talk so you understand the core concepts of the MIO Feature and so I'll now show some of the WIP flows of actually using these structures and systems.

Researching

[h2]Equipment variants[/h2]

[h2]Production[/h2]

Well that wraps things up for this week, I Hope you enjoyed it and as always please leave questions and comments below and I will do my best to answer them. Join me in two weeks for another dev corner showing another feature coming to you in the near future.

[ 2023-05-02 15:09:30 CET ] [ Original post ]