Charters of Commerce
Charters of Commerce is the first mechanics pack for Victoria 3. It was announced on 2025-03-31[1] and was released alongside patch 1.9 on 2025-06-17[2].
Game features[edit | edit source]
Build a financial and trade system to enrich your nation and overwhelm your rivals in Charters of Commerce, a new Mechanics Pack for Victoria 3. Charters of Commerce adds more depth and new options to Victoria’s sophisticated trade model, including new ways to regulate company expansion, new diplomatic tools, and new unique goods variants that your nation will be known for.
Features of Victoria 3: Charters of Commerce include:
- Company Charters: grant charters to your nation’s companies to give them an advantage in the cutthroat game of international trade.
- Trade Charters let companies trade their manufactured goods on the world market
- Investment Charters allow companies to establish regional headquarters and invest in foreign markets
- Colony Charters make it possible for companies to govern colonial regions
- Industry Charters give companies permission to expand their field of business into other types of production.
- Monopolies: Encourage monopolistic industries in your country, whether it be a highly efficient but costly state monopoly, or a private company monopoly that crowds out competitors in the production of vital goods.
- Diplomatic Treaties: Sign new types of diplomatic agreements, including imposing uneven trade deals and setting limits on colonization.
- Prestige Goods: Let successful companies branch out into the production of high quality goods like champagne, establishing your unique cultural imprint on a good type and gaining an edge on your competitors.
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Grant specialized charters to your companies, allowing them to invest in foreign markets, run their own colonies in distant lands or expand their business to diversify their goods production. Create monopolies to dominate your opponents and sign profitable diplomatic treaties with potential partners. Lastly, prove your own economic dominance by producing unique prestige goods, recognized and craved for all around the world.
Leverage your Companies' productive power to flood the world with your goods, spreading your influence and captivating their markets, and cajole or threaten lesser nations into submitting to your trade treaties. Create monopolies to secure critical industries from foreign interference and produce unique Prestige Goods by establishing your own brands of products.
Dev diaries[edit | edit source]
All developer diaries about the Charters of Commerce mechanics pack and patch 1.9 (aka Lady Grey).
| No. | Title and Link | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | Hotfix 1.9.7 is now LIVE! | Patch notes | 2025-07-17 |
| — | Hotfix 1.9.6 is now LIVE! | Patch notes | 2025-07-10 |
| 152 | What's next after 1.9 | Update to post-release plans following patch 1.9 | 2025-07-03 |
| — | Hotfix 1.9.5 is now LIVE! | Patch notes | 2025-06-27 |
| — | Hotfix 1.9.4 is now LIVE! | Patch notes | 2025-06-26 |
| — | Hotfix 1.9.3 is now LIVE! | Patch notes | 2025-06-25 |
| — | Hotfix 1.9.2 is now LIVE! | Patch notes | 2025-06-19 |
| — | Hotfix 1.9.1 is now LIVE! | Patch notes | 2025-06-18 |
| 151 | Charters of Commerce & Update 1.9 now LIVE! | Patch notes for patch 1.9 and Charters of Commerce | 2025-06-17 |
| 150 | Charters of Commerce & Update 1.9 "Lady Grey" Changelog | Preview of patch notes for patch 1.9 and Charters of Commerce | 2025-06-12 |
| 149 | Other Changes | Overview of various changed and new features in patch 1.9 and Charters of Commerce | 2025-06-05 |
| 148 | Prestige Goods | Overview of prestige goods in Charters of Commerce | 2025-05-29 |
| 147 | Everything Companies | Overview of new company mechanics in patch 1.9 and Charters of Commerce | 2025-05-15 |
| 146 | Diplomatic Treaties | Overview of new diplomatic treaty mechanics in patch 1.9 and Charters of Commerce | 2025-05-01 |
| 145 | Military Improvements | Overview of changes to military gameplay in patch 1.9 | 2025-04-17 |
| 144 | Charters of Commerce & Expansion Pass 2 | Announcement of Charters of Commerce mechanics pack and full details of Expansion Pass 2 | 2025-03-31 |
| 143 | Trade Rework: The World Market | Introduction of trade rework, focused on the world market and autonomous trading | 2025-03-27 |
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Forum: Victoria 3 - Dev Diary #144 - Charters of Commerce & Expansion Pass 2, 2025-03-31.
- ↑ Forum: Victoria 3 - Dev Diary #151 - Charters of Commerce & Update 1.9 now LIVE!, 2025-06-17.
