Divergences - Download Thread

[Athalcor]

Divergences - An AlterVicky mod

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According to the quantum theory, every decision made in the universe creates an alternative universe where all the following events take a different way. The first decision that diverged the timeline is called the Point of Divergence.

In the Divergences mod there are PODs that are not bound to each other:

• The duke of Burgundy decides to continue his support for Plantagenets in the Hundred Years' War
• The personal union of Denmark, Norway and Sweden survives and evolves to a unitary state
• One of the descendants of Timur the Great manages to re-unite the Chagatai under his control
• The Chenghua Emperor does not stop Ming China's explorations, but decides to pursue them with greater zeal than before

But that were not all the changes. The timeline began to diverge more and more and after 400 years the very world as we know it looks absolutely different...


Download & Installation

Version 0.7.2 - 30.8.2011
This version is compatible with the patch 1.3.
Important Bugfix! - just put into Victoria 2/common after mod installing, yes to overwrite.

Version 0.802 - 10.9.2011
This version is compatible with the latest 1.4 beta patch.

Version 0.803 - 6.10.2011
This version is compatible with the latest 1.4 beta patch.

As the mod folder system apparently has issues, duplicate a vanilla 1.3/1.4 install and unrar the mod file in the main folder. It should ask if you want to replace files, say yes.
You then need to go to the map folder and delete the "cache" folder within it. It will be recreated by the game on the first launch. Because a lot of people using Win 7/Vista have problems with this step, HERE is a quick explanation what to do. The Steam users sometimes also have difficulties with this.

The Discussion thread is here: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/...AlterVicky-mod


Other Announcements
The version 0.801 is in development and I really need feedback for it.
Political
The development of the Ottoman civil war, Ethiopian civil war and Chinese warring states period.
Military
The size and composition of AI armies.
Economical
The lack or overproduction of goods during time.

The Team

Athalcor - acting mod leader/master coder
LAF1994 - coder
Itzcolotl - coder

Contributors
aeriic
Dutchemperor
Dyranum
Ambitione Terna
Fryz
Elias Tarfarius
Alexspeed

Thanks
KonradRichtmark - warfare overhaul
Naselus - westernization system, integration of PDM's economy
Rylock - Great Wars mechanisms
NNM crew - some tags and Africa add-on
Thoughtful Punk - flags
Google, Wikipedia and the wonderful vexillologists of AH.com for a lot of flags

and Kinniken, the spiritual leader of this mod .

[Athalcor]

Is the Divergences mod better than Vanilla?
Well, no. It is just...different.

Why should I play it then?
This mod provides a refreshing change to the still-same vanilla game. It will make Victoria 2 a new game to you.

But what exactly is different? Won't I get bored with it as well?
The alternative history setup grants us another very powerful tool to adjust the scenario. We have to face only small obstacles when we want to make the world balanced.

Are there any changes in gameplay?
Yes. Because the Americas are not homogeneous, in Europe countries have unsolved claims against each other and the world is overall less colonized, the Divergences setup is much more dynamic, the wars are more frequent, the colonization has many possibilities and the GP-post competition is much tougher.

Is the world plausible?
It is not absolutely plausible, many people will complain that the Chinese would never make it to the Americas and the Incas would never be able to survive but... Every country of this world has its own story, none is just a blank tag.

[Athalcor]

0.601 BETA release - 16/02/2011:

• New westernization system
• Reworked some CBs
• Coalition system for 'badboy wars'
• Balancing of manpower and starting OOBs of European countries
• Cores of American native revolters readjusted
• Many new flags
• Reworked Ottoman civil war starting setup
• Added simple version of African Scramble
• Tuscany changed to Etruria
• New setup for South East Asia
• Fiji substituted by the Tonga Empire
• Fixed the Aragon-Italy and Flee to Sicily scenarios for Aragon
• Added possibility to form the United Arab Republic
• Other minor changes and bug fixes
• Added possibility of easier AI Russia-forming
• Various region changes throughout Asia and America

0.6.1 release - 06/03/2011:

• Fixed the missing maneuver value of Planes
• Football now starts in the Dual Monarchy, the first cup is in Amazonie and hockey in Vinland
• New Gran Colombian re-unification setup
• Resurrected the glory of Angkor Wat - the capital of the Khmer Empire
• Catalan minorities in Italy, Spanish minorities in Lisboa and Porto
• Many Soldier POP and OOB rebalancement primarily in South East Asia and North Africa
• New country - the Hafsid Dynasty starts the game as SoI member of Aragon and at war with Egypt
• New Boshin War setup for Japan in the beginning - four new tags
• Haiti is now Ayti, Guyana is now Essequibo
• All references to Panama changed to Andagoya
• It is now required to have only 250,000 people for NF point. The NF gain through teching doubled
• Renamed Lusitanian provinces + many others
• Two new native revolters - Zapotec and Purupecha
• Cores of Vinland, Seven Republics, Plantagenia readjusted
• Some new flags
• Reworked Ottoman-Egyptian war starting setup
• New Champa culture
• Hesse-Darmstadt removed, instead there is Hesse-Nassau
• New system for the Inca modernization and expansion, renamed Inca to Tawantinsuyu
• 4 new religions - Inti, Teotl, Midiwiwin, Fetishist
• Redrawn and renamed Siberia
• Added a lot of missing localisation
• Fixed the Unification CBs
• Many typo and bug fixes
• Various region and map changes throughout Asia, America and Africa

0.7 release - 16/05/2011, probably the biggest release ever:

• New Persian setup
• Ottoman Civil War mechanics
• Party lists, technologies, prestige, literacy adjustments
• Addition of Turkmenistan and Palestine
• Removal of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Lubeck, Danzig, Hamburg
• Corsica merged with Sardinia
• More successful nationalist revolts
• Formation of Westphalia for Lippe-Detmold
• Formation of Kazakhstan for Khiva
• Possible Spanish cores on Catalonia when they conquer (= Iberian union)
• Better Colombian Congress events + some stuff about it
• Better Romania formation
• Fixed Russian AI unification
• Greater Euskadia decision for Euskadi (small core gain), some Basque things changed
• English cores on Wales
• When Lithuania exists, it gains cores on her historical lands
• Cleaning event for Chinese dynasties when they fall
• Chinese stuff readjusted
• Nobel prize event chain will now work
• More than 100 changed flags
• New Zhourao setup
• Continents renamed
• Officers are capital only
• Sokoto split, is formable
• Many province and state renaming
• Some state border changes, position readjustments
• Added the option for uniting Nusantara, Bharata, Hindustan and Dravida
• Tondo freed
• Two new Aborigine playable countries
• Playable Rhonnst
• Extended the cores of Arcadian countries
• Edited CBs a bit
• Partition of Venice possible event mechanic
• French outside formation of Italy
• Finally fixed the Flee to Sicily and Form Aragon-Italy
• Revamped the conservative support for reforms under militancy to make it less exploitable
• Treaty decisions to deal with Aotearoa and Aborigines diplomatically
• A small decision for p-ds to make them possible to reform
• Fixed the Afro-integration decisions
• Burgundian decisions to relocate capital, renounce cores and some more
• And more things which I do not remember (btw, my opinion is that you should play the mod itself and then be surprised by seeing the new stuff)

0.7.1 release - 16/05/2011:

• Ported to 1.3
• Added starting Arcadian colonization
• Decision for CLM/LST to claim the Pueblo region
• Edited CBs a bit more

0.7.1f quickfix - 22/05/2011:

• Fixed many bugs pointed out by the community, compatible with 0.7 and 0.7.1 save games

0.7.2 release - 30/08/2011 (only a fragment of the changes):

• Hainan granted to Spain
• Created the mechanism of modifiable difficulty
• Integrated the PDM economy
• Integrated the Great Wars mod
• Integrated the PDM political addon
• Integrated the NNM Africa population addon
• Added some minor revolters from NNM
• Many bugs fixed
• Added the appropriate POPs to each populated state of the world (added missing aristocrats, etc.)
• Reviewed the Middle-eastern setup - Herat is now Tajik cultured
• Readded Kalat
• Removed the Aborigine nations
• Polished the OOBs of all countries
• Removed the Inca and Amazonie from the DM's sphere
• Addition of many strait-crossings
• Addition of some African colonial revolters
• 'Berlin' Conference now grants Savoy control over the protectorate of South Adamawa
• Added Belfast as a country
• Redid the Lotharingian/Amazonian setup

0.801 release - 30/08/2011

• Ported to 1.4 beta
• Removed the Irregular unit type

0.802 release - 10/09/2011

• Ported to latest 1.4 beta
• Fixed some bugs

0.803 release - 06/10/2011

• Fixed the ideologies bug
• Fixed some minor bugs
• Added Catalan culture to the Italian group
• Included the Arcadian Native System

[Itzcolotl]

You forgot to mention all of the new regions in the changelog

[Forkis]

Downloading right now. Very excited to see what's new.

[Athalcor]

A request: Hello, everyone who are playing this mod. Could you please contribute to it by uploading your save games somewhere (it would be best if you could save every 5 years). Then Innocent Beard would be able to evaluate DVG economy and we would see if the scenario changes (like the absence of UK) create some sort of economic changes compared to vanilla game. Thanks.

[Athalcor]

New version is up.

[TsarevichAlexei]

Link appears broken - when clicked, it takes you to '2-shared' when link clicked upon (blue download button) you get the following ' link is not valid'. Do these 2-share chaps have a download limit, as I was downloading a second copy as a back-up?

[Athalcor]

Link appears broken - when clicked, it takes you to '2-shared' when link clicked upon (blue download button) you get the following ' link is not valid'. Do these 2-share chaps have a download limit, as I was downloading a second copy as a back-up?

It appears that 2-shared is very bad hostserver. I will change it.

[TsarevichAlexei]

I hate to be insolent, but when will this be? So far, the situation appears have worsened - now clicking 'download' merely causes the screen to refresh.

[Athalcor]

Added another download mirror at filesmelt. Disclaimer: The file uploaded there is not identical with the 2Shared one but they *should* be the same.

[wexer9]

Added another download mirror at filesmelt. Disclaimer: The file uploaded there is not identical with the 2Shared one but they *should* be the same.

What are the differences between the two files?

Btw, the 2Shared download worked fine for me a couple days ago.

[Athalcor]

What are the differences between the two files?

Btw, the 2Shared download worked fine for me a couple days ago.

When I upload, I simply WinRar the Divergences 0.6.1 folder. Then I upload it and then I delete it. So it means that archive uploaded is not the same as the former one but *should* include the same files.

People were often complaining about 2Shared (not only in DVG but also PDM) so I changed it.

[Vaderi]

Athalcor do you still want save games? I'd be happy to but I don't know where/how I'd upload save games.

[Athalcor]

Athalcor do you still want save games? I'd be happy to but I don't know where/how I'd upload save games.

Wow, it could be great if you offered them. It would be even better if you offered them month ago but still..
You should pack them using WinRar/7Zip and then upload it somewhere, like Filesmelt and then give me a link for the files. Use the best possible compression for it because the save files are often quite big.

[Vaderi]

Alright, I've used up my trial of Winzip and don't have the cash right now to buy it so I'll upload the saves as soon as possible but no guarantees :/.

I have downloaded 7zip and things look good so hopefully I can give the save games to you soon.

[Vaderi]

here they are, I didn't know what to choose for Filesmelt so I'll give you these.
<a href="http://filesmelt.com/dl/save_games.7z" target="_blank">save_games.7z</a>
<a href="http://filesmelt.com/dl/Poland-Lithuania1868_02_19.7z" target="_blank">Poland-Lithuania1868_02_19.7z</a>

save_games.7z
Poland-Lithuania1868_02_19.7z

If these don't work I'm happy to try whatever you think might work.

note: the first of the two zips is 6 save games that got zipped together.

[Vaderi]

It appears that Stuffit does not work with either of 2shared or Filesmelt :/. This isn't extensively tested but my friend (while I was watching) was unable to unzip .6.1 with Stuffit repeatedly.

[quetzilla]

Can you just install 0.6.1 over 0.5.7, or do you need a fresh V2 first?

[Athalcor]

here they are, I didn't know what to choose for Filesmelt so I'll give you these.
<a href="http://filesmelt.com/dl/save_games.7z" target="_blank">save_games.7z</a>
<a href="http://filesmelt.com/dl/Poland-Lithuania1868_02_19.7z" target="_blank">Poland-Lithuania1868_02_19.7z</a>

save_games.7z
Poland-Lithuania1868_02_19.7z

If these don't work I'm happy to try whatever you think might work.

note: the first of the two zips is 6 save games that got zipped together.

Thank you... I will have a look at it.

It appears that Stuffit does not work with either of 2shared or Filesmelt :/. This isn't extensively tested but my friend (while I was watching) was unable to unzip .6.1 with Stuffit repeatedly.

Stuffit...I have never heard about it - it is a variant of WinRar? What is exactly the problem - you couldn't unzip .rar file?

Can you just install 0.6.1 over 0.5.7, or do you need a fresh V2 first?

IMHO you could install 0.5.7 over 0.6.1 but I would rather create a new vanilla copy.