Every screen now speaks your language. Over 3,000 additional strings — sector names, ministries, war strategies, recommendations, tooltips — translated across all 13 languages. Our detection tooling had been missing entire categories of untranslated text (bare labels, chips, mixed-script lines); it has been rebuilt and now verifies Korean and French screen-by-screen, plus it caught two places where raw internal field names were being shown to players.
Industrial competitiveness: excellence in the 90s is now reachable through genuinely good play. Permanent maximum subsidies still breed dependency — that trap is intentional — but strong oversight now weans sectors off it, and each sector tells you exactly what's holding it back.
Rebalancing coalitions make sense. Your long-standing allies no longer join a rival's containment front over a minor dip in relations. Membership depends on alliance history, credibility, and what joining costs them — and rosters vary campaign to campaign. When an ally genuinely does turn on you, the game tells you why.