"Blut und Eisen" - A Balance Improvement Mod for Vicky II + AHD

**GAGA Extrem** · 05-02-2012 00:30

Nicht durch Reden oder Majoritätsbeschlüsse werden die großen Fragen der Zeit entschieden – sondern durch Eisen und Blut.
Not through speeches and majority decisions will the great questions of the day be decided - but by iron and blood.

This should fix the most important issues with AHD and improve balance quite a bit.

Current Version: 0.9c
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How to install:
(1) Download the .rar file.
(2) Unpack the file into your Victoria II\mod folder.
(3) Start the launcher and select the AHD Blut und Eisen Mod.
(4) Enjoy the game!

Changelog:

Version 0.9c:

Version 0.9b:

Version 0.9:

**GAGA Extrem** · 05-02-2012 11:30

Version 1.0 is up, including some hotfixes for unprofitable goods.

**thegerman2008** · 05-02-2012 11:38

seems like its coming together nicely. gonna wait before i download tho, as some things are still not fixed.

If you could find someway of fixings the discrepencies when promoting different pops using the national focus, it would be much appreciated.
For example, Soldiers, Officers, bureaucrats, craftsmen (not sure about aristocrats or capitalists) can all easily be increased with the national focus, which is fine.

However, clerks and clergy have either very low promotion rates or the National focus isnt effecting them. The problem is much mroe acute in clerks. maybe they have the same demotion problem the clerks have/had?

**GAGA Extrem** · 05-02-2012 12:11

General demotion due to lack of everyday needs has been reduced, thus all pops are a bit less likely to demote.

Clergymen are fine atm - in fact, they were too plenty in 1.0b, so I had to increase demotion a bit again.
Clerks will receive a slight demotion prevention in 1.1.

**thegerman2008** · 05-02-2012 12:13

Originally Posted by GAGA Extrem

General demotion due to lack of everyday needs has been reduced, thus all pops are a bit less likely to demote.

Clergymen are fine atm - in fact, they were too plenty in 1.0b, so I had to increase demotion a bit again.
Clerks will receive a slight demotion prevention in 1.1.

ooh nice. at the moment, there are nowhere near enough clerks, so a nice large incraese in them woud be welcomed.

any comment on fixing the National Focus? because it has very little effect, unless that was to do with the needs, in which case never mind.

**GAGA Extrem** · 05-02-2012 12:14

But please not that this is just a hotfix mod.

I will release a small "Balance Improvement Mod" next week or so that will include major changes.

This one here is just to fix the crudest problems with 2.1.

**thegerman2008** · 05-02-2012 13:15

i would suggest then, in relation to the population problem, tweaking the base population growth and experimenting.

At the moment its set at 0, which causes obvious problems.

As i'm not a modder, i dont have the confidence to go fiddling with files, but i think the ideal number for the base pop growth would be somwhere between 0.01 and 0.1. However i dont know all the other fcators that effect pop growth to be able to bug test it properly, so i'm making this little request.

This would also reduce the impact emigration has on core countries.

**GAGA Extrem** · 05-02-2012 13:31

Version 1.1 is up.
Clerks should now be a bit more plenty, esp. before they make up 1% of your pops.

Pop growth will require intensive testing. It will be part of the Balance Improvement mod.

**Naselus** · 05-02-2012 13:31

You haven't reduced clergy demotion chance when education spending is over 75%, as that's not possible to do. You've just added a minus into all of their direction tables, so that particular modifier is having no effect whatsoever - it's making a promoting/demoting clergyman equally less likely to select all the different POPs he can pick from, and so does nothing. Always remember that promo/demo is a two-roll system - first a POP uses the poptypes.txt table to decide if it IS demoting, and then it uses it's own pop file tables to determine what it demotes to. The only way modding the individual pop files can effect the rate of demotion is by breaking the code, in which case they behave semi-randomly.

Their rate of demotion is entirely controlled in poptypes.txt, and you can't pick specific poptypes in there.

I'd suggest you drop the colonial migration base factor from 1 to 0.25.

Be careful tweaking the prices of goods and reducing their inputs - most of the factories in AHD produce about £20 profit at base, so you can mess up Capi build logic by adjsuting that (you'll end up with a bajillion canned food factories, and they'll be even more unprofitable).

On the prestige from colonies thing - I'd reduce it all the way down to 1, and then buff up the Culture techs than increase it to give a 300% bonus. This prevents the USA from gaining ludicrous prestige totals early on.

Base population growth doesn't need to be higher than 0.001, and is probably better at half that. Otherwise you'll get excessive population growth.

**GAGA Extrem** · 05-02-2012 13:44

Originally Posted by Naselus

[...] You've just added a minus into all of their direction tables, so that particular modifier is having no effect whatsoever - it's making a promoting/demoting clergyman equally less likely to select all the different POPs he can pick from, and so does nothing. [...]

Do same tier pops not count as valid demotion targets?

Be careful tweaking the prices of goods and reducing their inputs - most of the factories in AHD produce about £20 profit at base, so you can mess up Capi build logic by adjsuting that (you'll end up with a bajillion canned food factories, and they'll be even more unprofitable).

Well, I played a few handsoff games with the changes, so far it seems to work. But yes, I will be vigilient.

On the prestige from colonies thing - I'd reduce it all the way down to 1, and then buff up the Culture techs than increase it to give a 300% bonus. This prevents the USA from gaining ludicrous prestige totals early on.

Base population growth doesn't need to be higher than 0.001, and is probably better at half that. Otherwise you'll get excessive population growth.

Probably better used for the Balance Mod.

Oh and: thanks.

**thegerman2008** · 05-02-2012 13:49

Originally Posted by Naselus

I'd suggest you drop the colonial migration base factor from 1 to 0.25.
Base population growth doesn't need to be higher than 0.001, and is probably better at half that. Otherwise you'll get excessive population growth.

I was thinking that something between 0.01 and 0.001 was the best bet, as even 0.5 was too high as it still meant hundreds of thousands each month.

**Naselus** · 05-02-2012 14:21

Originally Posted by GAGA Extrem

Do same tier pops not count as valid demotion targets?

Yes. A POP can demote sideways or down, and promote sideways or up. However, when you say:

Reduced clergyment demotion chance when education spending is 75% or more.

You're inaccurate; clergy demotion chance (the poptypes.txt value) is exactly the same. Just as many clergy will demote as without it, and because all of the possible targets have the malus, it's not really influencing what they pick to demote to, either. This is why VRRP and PDM have promote-to-self as an option for most POPs, for when sliders are at middle-range. Promo/demo is a tricky beast, which most people have no understanding of at all, which is why it took literally months for modders to start producing decent systems for it - no-one is capable of just tweaking a couple of numbers in the tables and making everything better.

**GAGA Extrem** · 05-02-2012 14:32

I already wondered where self promotion had gone. So it was VRRP... I thought that Pdox had changed the mechanic into something more hardcoded.

Anyway, pops will overall demote a bit less due to minor shortages in everyday goods - a few handsoff showed decent (if not too decent, but that needs more testing) numbers of clergymen and clerks.
Colonial emigration should be significantly reduced for core provinces due to less impact from own culture.

Do you have the chance to make a few testing runs by yourself? Because I am terrible short on time, and way over scedule with my today PC usage anyway. :<

**Naselus** · 05-02-2012 16:13

Hell no, I'm writing a new economy for PDM, combining it with the new interface files and all that jazz. :P I gave up on the idea of quick-fix mods for V2 a long while back anyway, the systems are always more complex than you first think and are so embedded in one another that you can't just tweak one thing. That's why the last quick-fix I worked on turned into PDM.

**GAGA Extrem** · 05-02-2012 16:19

Yeah, same happened with my EU3 Balance Improvement Mod.
Started out as a quick balance and bug fix, but ended up changing the gameplay to a large extend. *g*

**nigo** · 06-02-2012 14:55

another fix:

error in BRZ core

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/...1#post13387844

**birdboy2000** · 07-02-2012 01:01

What's changed in the country files in this mod? I'm working on a flavor mod that messes with political parties, and I'd like to know how to merge the two because I like this hotfix.