Paradox

Meshes and illustrations now stream instead of loading at startup, cutting time to the main menu from 84 seconds to 16 on the team's slow test machine. Video memory is down by a third to a half and system memory by roughly a sixth a decade in.

• —Streaming meshes and illustrations cut time to the main menu from 84 seconds to 16 on the team's slow test machine.
• —Video memory is down by a third to a half depending on texture quality; system memory a decade in by roughly a sixth.
• —AI decision-making accounts for a bit over a quarter of each simulated day.
• —The day-to-day target is to MATCH the earlier Scribe patch, not to beat it.

Update 1.4 adds a free campaign timeline that replays a save day by day with population, economic base and tax base charted, and marks the Black Death, the discovery of America, the Columbian Exchange and the Little Ice Age.

• —The timeline replays a save day by day and charts population, economic base and tax base.
• —It marks the Black Death, the discovery of America, the Columbian Exchange and the Little Ice Age.
• —Paradox is aiming at ticks 40 to 50% faster than 1.3, largely from parallelising AI work.
• —It ships free with update 1.4, not as part of the Across the Pillars expansion.

Paradox sketched Industrial Parks, a building tied to a corporation and to the state it sits in, producing only equipment matching its profile and drawing bonuses from local resources. The follow-up answers feedback on the earlier military production diary.

• —Industrial Parks come in Military and Shipyard variants, each tied to a corporation.
• —A park draws bonuses from the state it sits in, including cheaper production from locally sourced resources.
• —Its factories form their own production sub-section, separate from the national pool.
• —Names, systems, balance and art are all explicitly placeholder.