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32.71% of all games run with at least one mod enabled
25.67% of all games are Ironman.
10.72% of all games run, have at least 3 mods enabled.
12.48% of all games are multiplayer games.

So what mods are most popular?
  1. extended timeline --- 6.71%
  2. eu4 russian localisation lite --- 5.26%
  3. bigger diplomacy view --- 3.59%
  4. tbarw extra: transparent political mapmode --- 3.47%
  5. thick borders and recolored water ver. 1.3 --- 2.85%
  6. eu4 rus provinces --- 2.39%
  7. bigger peace view --- 2.16%
  8. mapmodebuttons --- 2.12%
  9. graphical map improvements --- 2.05%
  10. eu4 rus font bold --- 1.88%

Other famous mods are..
#23 - commonwealthball 0.12 --- 1.03%
#85 - veritas et fortitudo - 2.0.3 --- 0.19%
#107 - meiou and taxes v1.19 --- 0.14%
 
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It should probably be noted that neither VeF or MEIOU had been updated to 1.12 (VeF still isn't, MEIOU for 1.12 came out last week). This is something we've seen consistently throughout EU4 development, though: graphical and language mods consistently top the lists of popular mods, while gameplay/total conversion mods are very lucky if they push 1%.
 
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25.67% are Ironman?

I only play ironman, and I thought I was an oddball for it... I guess more people use it than I thought :p

EDIT: Any way we could get breakdowns on 1444 vs. non 1444 starts, and custom nations vs. historical?
 
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It should probably be noted that neither VeF or MEIOU had been updated to 1.12 (VeF still isn't, MEIOU for 1.12 came out last week). This is something we've seen consistently throughout EU4 development, though: graphical and language mods consistently top the lists of popular mods, while gameplay/total conversion mods are very lucky if they push 1%.
Considering how much the playerbase has been widened 1% is still huge though. Not as dominant as mods were with EU3's more niche base but still a lot. The percentages would have somewhat more meaning if we knew the total number of games started though, I think, so that we'd know roughly how many games that 1% corresponds to.
 

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Considering how much the playerbase has been widened 1% is still huge though. Not as dominant as mods were with EU3's more niche base but still a lot. The percentages would have somewhat more meaning if we knew the total number of games started though, I think, so that we'd know roughly how many games that 1% corresponds to.

There was no value judgement in my post, just an interesting difference between CK2 (where total conversion/gameplay mods absolutely dominate) and EU4.
 
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There was no value judgement in my post, just an interesting difference between CK2 (where total conversion/gameplay mods absolutely dominate) and EU4.
As if you're not happy that people enjoy the vanilla experience enough to play it so much. ;)

I still think that knowing the raw numbers would be useful.
 

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You may think otherwise from the statistics but Meiou and Taxes is a very very good mod; trust me. You should play it if you have a good hardware.
 
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I think that's because CK2 really lends more to personal storytelling than EU4.

I think that is one reason, yes. There's also factors like CK2 lending itself very well to some highly popular settings like A Song of Fire and Ice. Regardless it is interesting/useful data for us.
 
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I actually think that is really high, over 30% of games have a mod enabled. Modding and the use of it is generally very niche, but it is hard to call 30% niche.
 
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It tends to hover between 30-50%, so overall mod usage is quite high yes.
 
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Can you clarify a little thing, Wiz, please? Are the mods percentages taken from the total games or from just the modded games?

Total games
 
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Johann/Wiz, since the stats show that people like both mods and iroman mode, what about the "copper-man" mode that will allow to play mods on ironman settings (basically ironman without achievements)? This is a long time request supported by the stats you just gave and would make a lot of people happy. :)

Also, you probably need to localise in Russian at some point. ;)
 
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Perhaps one of the reasons that those mods don't get over 1% is that they are not compatible with Ironmode.

I am one of the players who only uses Ironmode
 

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I would like to see some stats about in wich country is the highest play rate, i bet in the top 3 are all european countries, or maybe the US is in there?