Hi, I'm Jane. Here's the latest news:

New on EU4 Strength Score:

• Cockpit - sign in through Steam to see your past calculations and your unlocks per week next to other players
• Focus - track up to three achievements and they show at the top of your profile
• Follow - follow players and watch their unlocks and calculations in a timeline
• Search - press F anywhere to find an achievement by name or description

And another sibling app, the EU5 Tech Tree. Like in Vic3-Tech-Tree, everything comes from the game files.

What's inside?

• Advances - the complete tree per age and what every country has at the start of the game
• Countries: comparison of development, population, treasury and armies. Hover your mouse over a country (for preview) or click to select.
• Units and Buildings: sorted per age

Let me know if anything is missing.

There's now a Steam guide for Vic3 Tech Tree: the 1836 start in numbers — who leads in tech, the biggest armies and navies, and which laws are common or rare — plus how to look up any country yourself.

Since the last post, the site reads your own save (melted on pdx.tools), so every tab can show your campaign instead of 1836, and you can share it as a link. There are also two new tabs: Trade, with treaties, world market prices and trade centers, and Laws, with every country's laws, checked against a save made at the start of a new game.

Here's the Reddit thread for this update.

New sibling app: Vic3 Tech Tree. I started another Victoria 3 campaign and wanted something like EU4's ledger — a way to see which countries have what, without clicking through every country in the lobby. So I built it, with everything pulled straight from the game files:

• Technology — the full tech tree with prerequisite arrows. Hover a country to see what it starts with.
• Armies & navies — starting battalions and ships for Europe or the whole world.
• Units & mobilization — every unit, ship and mobilization option, laid out by era.
• Economy — each country's 1836 buildings and resources.

A few fun facts: Russia has the biggest army in Europe but only 11 of 58 military techs, and Britain has a small army but more ships than Russia and France combined.

It's open source — the code is on GitHub.

Here's the Reddit thread if you want to join the discussion, and if you'd like to see how your own Victoria 3 achievements stack up, there's Vic3 Strength Score too.

Quick update on EU4 Strength Score, the score/recommendation tool that links back here for chains. Some of you may have seen the version of this I posted on r/eu4, but since it connects directly with achievement chains, figured it's worth sharing here too.

Some stats I feel proud of, since last Friday:

• the tool was used for 1020 calculations
• by 827 distinct users
• 129 achievements were unlocked after the first time using the tool, 35 of which were suggested by the tool directly

These changes were introduced:

• switched to EU4 wiki's difficulty instead of Steam achievement rarity, as requested by almost everyone
• "Suggest something harder" button that recommends three more achievements of a higher difficulty (on the result's page)
• "Request recalculation" button on the results page, an easy way to trigger a new result, e.g. if you unlocked something new and want to see new suggestions
• leaderboard page (calculations from before switching to EU4 wiki difficulty grading aren't counted in; some people share a score, so treat it as sharing a spot rather than a tiebreak)
• a bug report page (available once you've made a calculation)
• deeper linking with achievement chains here -- create a chain straight from a result page, or click any achievement icon on eu4.jane.berlin to jump to its page on this site
• fixed a few cases where suggestions were too easy or jumped too far ahead in difficulty -- thanks to those who flagged those