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The answer is simple. This mod gives what the people want.

And the people want pirates with parrots and peg legs and cannons! Yarrr Matey!
 
You know, all this fuss about cores on Ukraine/Belarus/etc. could be averted if the cores were awarded like the way they are to Qing China - no cores during combat, but once the country is defeated, a core-adding event fires. Or something.

Also, speaking of what people want, I think I said earlier that it'd be nice to see some Nanjing Government events. So, I wrote some up. I'm not exactly the most experienced event writer ever, so I'd like a second opinion: do these look functional, plausible and workable?

Code:
event = {
id = ########
country = CGX
style = 0
picture = "urbanwarfare2"
trigger = { 
		AND = {
		war = {country = JAP country = CSX}
		war = {country = MAN country = CSX}
		war = {country = CHC country = CSX}
		war = {country = MON country = CSX}
		NOT = { 
			war = { country = JAP country = GER }
		}
	}
}

date = { day = 1 month = january year = 1936 }
offset = 12
deathdate = { day = 30 month = december year = 1990 }

name = "The End of the Qing?"
desc = "The Qing Empire is currently in a three-front war against the forces of Mongolia, Japan and the Shangqing rebels. Additionally, the Kaiser has refused to intervene directly on the side of the Qing. Few believe that they will survive for long against this onslaught. Alexander von Falkenhausen, however, has recommended to the AOG leadership his plan for an intervention – he suggests that we use the AOG’s security forces to seize the industrial heartland in and around Nanjing, to prevent it from falling to hostile hands.

action_a = {
ai_chance = 80
name = "We must seize the Nanjing area"
	command = { type = dissent value = 5 } # some citizens see this as a backstab
	command = { type = trigger which = ######## }
	}
action_b = {
ai_chance = 20
name = "There is no need, the Qing will survive"
	command = { type = dissent value = 10 } # citizens angry that Germans do absolutely nothing
	}
}

Code:
event = {
id = ########
country = CSX
style = 0
picture = "urbanwarfare2"
name = "The AOG are moving north!"
desc = "The treacherous Germans believe that we are now doomed to fail in our war against the aggressors, and have begun to seize our southern industrial zones in and around Nanjing in order to ‘protect’ them. This insult cannot go unanswered, yet can we really afford a fourth front?”
action_a = {
ai_chance = 95
name = “Leave them for now; their time will come"
	command = { type = dissent value = 10 }
 command = { type = relation which = GER value = -20 }
command = { type = relation which = CGX value = -100 }
	command = { type = secedeprovince which = CGX value = 1234 }
	command = { type = secedeprovince which = CGX value = 1235 }
	command = { type = secedeprovince which = CGX value = 1236 }
	command = { type = secedeprovince which = CGX value = 1219 }
	command = { type = secedeprovince which = CGX value = 1220 }
	command = { type = secedeprovince which = CGX value = 1221 }
	command = { type = secedeprovince which = CGX value = 1233 }
	}
action_b = {
ai_chance = 5
name = "The Germans must be punished! Their land is rightfully ours; mobilize!"
	command = { type = war which = CGX }
	#Guangxi		
	command = { type = addcore which = 1258 }
	command = { type = addcore which = 1310 }
	command = { type = addcore which = 1311 }
	command = { type = addcore which = 1309 }
	command = { type = addcore which = 1319 }
	command = { type = addcore which = 1325 }
	#Guangdong
	command = { type = addcore which = 1312 }
	command = { type = addcore which = 1313 }
	command = { type = addcore which = 1249 }
	command = { type = addcore which = 1248 }
	command = { type = addcore which = 1317 }
	command = { type = addcore which = 1318 }
	#Hubei
	command = { type = addcore which = 1231 }
	command = { type = addcore which = 1232 }
	command = { type = addcore which = 1253 }
	command = { type = addcore which = 1264 }
	command = { type = addcore which = 1266 }
	#Zhejiang
	command = { type = addcore which = 1238 }
	command = { type = addcore which = 1240 }
	command = { type = addcore which = 1241 }
	#Hunan
	command = { type = addcore which = 1255 }
	command = { type = addcore which = 1256 }
	command = { type = addcore which = 1257 }
	command = { type = addcore which = 1259 }
	command = { type = addcore which = 1260 }
	command = { type = addcore which = 1261 }
	#Jiangxi
	command = { type = addcore which = 1242 }
	command = { type = addcore which = 1250 }
	command = { type = addcore which = 1251 }
	command = { type = addcore which = 1252 }
	command = { type = addcore which = 1254 }
	#Fujian
	command = { type = addcore which = 1243 }
	command = { type = addcore which = 1245 }
	command = { type = addcore which = 1246 }
	command = { type = addcore which = 1247 }
	}
}

Code:
event = {
id = ########
country = CGX
style = 0
picture = "urbanwarfare2"
trigger = { 
		AND = {
		control = { province = 1234 data = CGX }
		control = { province = 1235 data = CGX }
		control = { province = 1236 data = CGX }
		control = { province = 1219 data = CGX }
		control = { province = 1220 data = CGX }
		control = { province = 1221 data = CGX }
		control = { province = 1233 data = CGX }
		NOT = {
			exists = CSX
		}
	}
}

date = { day = 1 month = january year = 1936 }
offset = 7
deathdate = { day = 30 month = december year = 1990 }

name = "The Qing have fallen"
desc = "The Qing Empire has been completely overrun, though our forces managed to secure and protect the heavily industrialised Nanjing area early in the conflict. However, now that the war is over, what should be done with this territory? It may be possible to re-establish a provisional pro-German Republican Chinese government in Nanjing. This may prove somewhat popular with the Chinese Nationalists under our authority. However, certain members of the Board of Directors have begun to press for the territory’s full integration into the AOG administration.
action_a = {
ai_chance = 70
name = "Establish the Nanjing Government"

command = { type = independence which = MEN value = 1 when = 1 }
	command = { type = dissent value = -2 } 
	command = { type = trigger which = ######## }
	}
action_b = {
ai_chance = 30
name = "Full integration!"
	command = { type = dissent value = 25 }	
	command = { type = addcore which = CGX value = 1234 }
	command = { type = addcore which = CGX value = 1235 }
	command = { type = addcore which = CGX value = 1236 }
	command = { type = addcore which = CGX value = 1219 }
	command = { type = addcore which = CGX value = 1220 }
	command = { type = addcore which = CGX value = 1221 }
	command = { type = addcore which = CGX value = 1233 }
	}
}
 
Russia gets cores on Belarus and Ukraine. Hell, I remember in one run, after Ukraine went Syndicalist and broke her alliance with Mitteleuropa, Russia got an event a little while later giving her cores on all of Ukraine, including Ukrainian Slovakia and Galicia. And if Belarus goes through with Sigismund's plot and the Germans decide that punishment is in order, Germany can partition it between Lithuania and Russia, giving Russia cores on Minsk and other parts of the east of the country.

But if Ukraine and Belarus are still in MittelEuropa, no events for Russia and no cores, although, if I read the event correctly, you can still have cores in Ukraine releasing it as puppet and then an event will let you got to full or partial conquest. The problem is that there is no event to make Ukraine a Russian puppet, so the AI or a player who haven't looked in the db folder can't do this trick.

Anyway, the problem are not the cores, but an event for the AI to decide to attack if Germany is dying. Quite plausible if the Realpolitick chain has been choosen.

The answer is simple. This mod gives what the people want.

And the people want pirates with parrots and peg legs and cannons! Yarrr Matey!

A really important point: Kaiserreich is a sandbox scenario or a plausible alternate reality? If it's the first, then I will let you have comu-nazi aliens allying with zombies to conquer the world and I won't say anything, but, if memory serves me correctly, I don't recall that being the goal of the creators of this mod.

Really guys, I wanted my critique to be constructive, but if everybody is happy to have pirates (just an example, there are other things quite pointless IMHO), then enjoy this mod. :(
 
But if Ukraine and Belarus are still in MittelEuropa, no events for Russia and no cores, although, if I read the event correctly, you can still have cores in Ukraine releasing it as puppet and then an event will let you got to full or partial conquest. The problem is that there is no event to make Ukraine a Russian puppet, so the AI or a player who haven't looked in the db folder can't do this trick.

Anyway, the problem are not the cores, but an event for the AI to decide to attack if Germany is dying. Quite plausible if the Realpolitick chain has been choosen.

That's a good point. I think it'd be good to see something like that implemented.

A really important point: Kaiserreich is a sandbox scenario or a plausible alternate reality? If it's the first, then I will let you have comu-nazi aliens allying with zombies to conquer the world and I won't say anything, but, if memory serves me correctly, I don't recall that being the goal of the creators of this mod.

I think it's both, in a way. It's mostly a plausible, if highly unconventional, post-Central Powers Win scenario set in the 1930s, 1940s and beyond. Yet, at the same time, history is so inherently unpredictable that people want to experiment with the scenario as much as possible, hence the sandbox treatment.
 
This is a good point. No Allied win means no league of nations means Swedish Aland and a potential point of war between Finland and Sweden :)
According to the Kaiserpedia:
Sweden invaded the Åland islands during the Finnish Civil War, which caused a lot of bad blood between the two nations. The crisis was solved with Germany acting as the middle-man, favouring the Finns quite openly and giving them the control of the islands.
 
What event causes Patrice Lumumba to take over Mittleafrika? Was playing a game as Russia and noticed that had happened, but I didn't notice when, and I can't seem to find the relevant event in the history.

It's only early 1939, and I've played Mittleafrika up to at least mid-1938 before, and I can't remember anything that would have made that happen. Just curious.
 
What event causes Patrice Lumumba to take over Mittleafrika? Was playing a game as Russia and noticed that had happened, but I didn't notice when, and I can't seem to find the relevant event in the history.

It's only early 1939, and I've played Mittleafrika up to at least mid-1938 before, and I can't remember anything that would have made that happen. Just curious.

}

event = {
id = 55619
random = no
country = CON
style = 0
picture = "goringdead"

name = "The New Governor"
desc = "We must find a new governor after the German government got rid of Goring, but who will be his replacement?" #Only two ministers, one left, one right

action_a = {
ai_chance = 50
name = "Ernst Junger, the famous writer!" #Right, More Likely to stay German
command = { type = domestic which = political_left value = -1 }
command = { type = domestic which = democratic value = -1 }
command = { type = headofstate which = 574049 }
command = { type = headofgovernment which = 574050 }
command = { type = dissent value = -1 }

}
action_b = {
ai_chance = 50
name = "Joseph Kasa-Vubu Will Lead Mittelafrika From this Day Forward!" #Left, More Likely to Seperate from Germany
command = { type = set_domestic which = political_left value = 6 }
command = { type = domestic which = democratic value = -1 }
command = { type = headofstate which = 574012 }
command = { type = headofgovernment which = 574014 }
command = { type = dissent value = -3 }
command = { type = leave_alliance }
command = { type = trigger which = 908042 }
}
}

Could it be this? Maybe Lumumba is KasaVubus HoG or something.
 
Aww, come on man. I'm just goofing around.

Kaiserreich can't really fall apart at some point because the main point of the mod is following what people before did.

So don't worry, pirates won't be here. Not in the way I described them. ;)

Sorry, but the emoticons I know don't allow me to explain really good facial expressions so that was the one most similar. :)

I know that some crazyness like pirates will never go in the mod, and I know you were joking, but I still think that instead to add things we should focus on fixing the work already done. Example, preventing Germany to declare war on Siberia as soon as it is formed, or remove some silly countries like Perù-Bolivian Confederation (do you really think that one day the Bolivian president woke up and said "Hey Pedro, we should renounce to our indipendence to come back under Peruvian controll, isn't this a great idea?").

I know that many of you like the sandbox idea but, as said by another forum user who unfortunately I don't remember his name, "The randomness, it hurts!". ;)
 
According to the Kaiserpedia:

Sweden invaded the Åland islands during the Finnish Civil War, which caused a lot of bad blood between the two nations. The crisis was solved with Germany acting as the middle-man, favouring the Finns quite openly and giving them the control of the islands.

Yeah but if Germany loses or they are in fully war, Sweden can see it's chance to re-take the island :D
 
Yeah but if Germany loses or they are in fully war, Sweden can see it's chance to re-take the island :D

I agree, if Germany is at war with the CoF or Berlin or the north sea coast is controlled by someone other than Germany or something like that Sweden should be able to get a kinda "The Germans aren't watching" thing if they went with one of the extreme government.
 
(do you really think that one day the Bolivian president woke up and said "Hey Pedro, we should renounce to our indipendence to come back under Peruvian controll, isn't this a great idea?").

It was the other way around actually. It was Peru that get out of the confederation in the first place. And I don't realy know what are the premises of the federation going back to life in Kaiserreich.

I know that many of you like the sandbox idea but, as said by another forum user who unfortunately I don't remember his name, "The randomness, it hurts!". ;)

Wasn't that said on one of TRPs AARs?

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And about Sweden. Waging full blown war for useless islands is not smart. I agree that if the CoF controls some important cities like Essen, Munich and Hamburg or something like that, Sweden could get an event like "Germany isn't watching". But it wouldn't be about Aland. It would be about outright annexing Finland. They would get cores on the northern most provinces and cores on the south after a few years to show the nationalism dying down.

But a war for Aland? Nah.
 
It was the other way around actually. It was Peru that get out of the confederation in the first place. And I don't realy know what are the premises of the federation going back to life in Kaiserreich.



Wasn't that said on one of TRPs AARs?

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And about Sweden. Waging full blown war for useless islands is not smart. I agree that if the CoF controls some important cities like Essen, Munich and Hamburg or something like that, Sweden could get an event like "Germany isn't watching". But it wouldn't be about Aland. It would be about outright annexing Finland. They would get cores on the northern most provinces and cores on the south after a few years to show the nationalism dying down.

But a war for Aland? Nah.

Maybe they could just ask for Åland but if the Finns refuse they could use it as an excuse for a full-scale war?
 
Maybe they could just ask for Åland but if the Finns refuse they could use it as an excuse for a full-scale war?

A la Danzig or war? If the far-right takes power in Sweden it could be a quite good casus belli.
 
Could it be this? Maybe Lumumba is KasaVubus HoG or something.
Lumumba was born in 1925, so having him in the 30's and 40's is uh, too young. Albert Kalonji or Moise Tshombe would be better choices.
 
Lumumba was born in 1925, so having him in the 30's and 40's is uh, too young. Albert Kalonji or Moise Tshombe would be better choices.

While Lumumba is definitely way too young, neither Tshombe nor Kalonji could be simple replacements, seeing as Tshombe held very different political positions and Kalonji was much more moderate. Plus, I can't figure out from Wikipedia whether Kalonji was born in 1919 or 1929, which would make him even more inappropriate.

If either of those suggestions were used, we'd have to either change the government type that results, or just say screw it and say they just have different politics, which wouldn't be a first.