AI Estonia going down the Soviet puppet path with Historical focuses on?

[eastcoastceojam]

I've been playing a lot of Latvia today, going for the Cheesy achievement, and in four separate saves, all with the "Historical Focuses" box checked, AI Estonia immediately goes for the focus that leads to them becoming a Soviet puppet.

Here are the focuses listed in the "EST_historical_strategy_plan.txt" document, where they are supposed to take the "Era of Silence" focus that is mutually exclusive with the Soviet path:

ai_national_focuses = {
        EST_era_of_silence
        EST_fight_the_vaps
        EST_ismaaliit
        BALTIC_rejoin_the_railways
        BALTIC_renew_allied_trade
        EST_establish_the_rahvuskogu
        EST_national_council
        EST_chamber_of_deputies
        EST_modernize_capital
        BALTIC_attract_workers_to_capital
        BALTIC_modernize_industry
        EST_exploit_the_banks
        EST_support_independent_militaries
        EST_republican_defence_league
        BALTIC_ford_motors
        BALTIC_crossley_motors
    }

Latvia already starts in a pretty tough position, it doesn't need a Soviet puppet forming on it's northern border in early 1936. Has anyone else seen behavior like this in the latest NSB patch?

I never saw AI Estonia willing become a Soviet puppet in 1936 until today.

 

[Jays298]

Eh if so that would have been great in my USSR game. They went fascist, joined Axis, then went communist, joined Comintern.

Would have much rather had them as a puppet

 

[MattZed]

Speculation: I think the issue for both is that they have TWO plans called EST_historical. For some reason, their fascist plan has the same name. (Latvia has this same issue AND the Balkan communist path is called "LAT_historical" , for what it's worth)

 

[Jack65]

Speculation: I think the issue for both is that they have TWO plans called EST_historical. For some reason, their fascist plan has the same name. (Latvia has this same issue AND the Balkan communist path is called "LAT_historical" , for what it's worth)

Bruh

 

[eastcoastceojam]

Speculation: I think the issue for both is that they have TWO plans called EST_historical. For some reason, their fascist plan has the same name. (Latvia has this same issue AND the Balkan communist path is called "LAT_historical" , for what it's worth)

Thanks for the lead, @MattZed I think the below screenshot is what you are talking about.

The EST strategy plan files have different names, but the code inside these files have the same "EST_historical = {" code block, and seem to check for the same "is_historical_focus_on = yes" condition. What's odd about my experience is that AI Estonia isn't going fascist, instead they seem to be following the Communist focus path listed in the "BLT_alternate_strategy_plan.txt" file.

I'm not very adept at interpreting all these conditions, so I can't say if this the cause of the Communist puppet flip for Estonia in 1936, but it certainly looks problematic.

Let me know what you think.