Modern Day Scenario, towards Armageddon

[Ithron]

Hi guys

IC Russia seems too low 147 against 800 for U.S.A and China .....
Which is the file to edit to increase IC Russia?
Thank you.

147 is already possibly too high. GDP of USA is 8 times higher than Russian and 2 times higher than Chinese. Russian GDP is smaller than Brazillian and barely higher than Italian one. Or go to military budgets: USA 682 billion $; China 166 billion and Russia 90 billion.

 

[JRHINDO]

GDP is the representation of all the produced wealth in a nation, and since the rise of the tertiary sector it doesnt represent much the militaro-industrial power anymore (which is what IC represents). Past the 1970s-80s, GDP should be looked into with precision to find the true industrial and military ouput.

 

[Ithron]

Thats why I also wrote their military budgets . IC's could easily be based on them with some additional coefficient added to represent consumer goods - if needed. Though, just as well could be 1 to 1 military budgets.

 

[daLok1nho]

That ruins the whole balance of game and makes this unplayable. Good luck fixing that, then I'll be playing it once again.

 

[Paolo68]

All very interesting, but I believe that the third military power in the world after the U.S.A and China should have more IC. Clearly does not like the U.S.A but at least 300.
Also to make the game more balanced for those players who like me love to play with Russia.

 

[Paolo68]

Hi dalok1nho

You can find Provinces.csv in MDS2_RC3_v2.2\map\Map_1

 

[Ithron]

How does Russian IC break the balance? It's not a Cold War scenario. Also, Russia already has one of the largest standing armies in the world, capable of conquering most of nearby countries in a very short time without any build-up whatsoever. So, it's not like they "need" IC to build their "realistic" army - they have the army at the start of the scenario. Also, just like in real life Russia has the potential, also in game, you have the option to increase the IC yourself.
And after all, MDS Russia players have had no difficulties conquering whatever they wanted so far, has something changed and it has become undoable?

 

[Asalto]

How does Russian IC break the balance? It's not a Cold War scenario.

+1

Also, MDS focus is on war between big blocs (SCO and NATO plus proxies of both), so Russo-Chinese combination against Western alliance is pretty ballanced setup. Russia operates in Europe, China in Pacific, they nicely cover backs of each other. And Russia itself also gets nice boost by anexation of core areas like Belarus trough the game events. And you can still build industry on your own as well.

 

[JRHINDO]

Also theres to remember the huge demographic problem that Russia is having. The population is getting older and lowering, lots of places east of the ural is getting less and less populated. It would not be good for the AI to get too much IC either, so they wont use all their mp and then have units that die off for lack of mp..

 

[Asalto]

Not sure if this was solved yet, but I found what is wrong with Australian cabinet. Minister files are okay, but in Australia scenario file minister IDs are wrong.

It is like that:

headofstate = { type = 9 id = 3501 }
headofgovernment = { type = 9 id = 3502 }
foreignminister = { type = 9 id = 3503 }
armamentminister = { type = 9 id = 3504 }
ministerofsecurity = { type = 9 id = 3505 }
ministerofintelligence = { type = 9 id = 3506 }
chiefofstaff = { type = 9 id = 3507 }
chiefofarmy = { type = 9 id = 3508 }
chiefofnavy = { type = 9 id = 3509 }
chiefofair = { type = 9 id = 3510 }

It should be like that:

headofstate = { type = 9 id = 3500 }
headofgovernment = { type = 9 id = 3501 }
foreignminister = { type = 9 id = 3502 }
armamentminister = { type = 9 id = 3503 }
ministerofsecurity = { type = 9 id = 3504 }
ministerofintelligence = { type = 9 id = 3505 }
chiefofstaff = { type = 9 id = 3506 }
chiefofarmy = { type = 9 id = 3507 }
chiefofnavy = { type = 9 id = 3508 }
chiefofair = { type = 9 id = 3509 }

This way, Her Majesty is back on position of HoS and Prime Minister is again HoG as he should be. All other starting cabinet ministers are also back in their real places this way.

 

[daLok1nho]

You're probably right but it completely destroyed gameplay for small countries. I am not really interested in playing for terrorists just because they have the highest IC in the mod.

 

[Ottoman Master]

You're probably right but it completely destroyed gameplay for small countries. I am not really interested in playing for terrorists just because they have the highest IC in the mod.

There's no terrorist nation in the mod. Except the Taliban if you can even count that, but they have no major amount of IC.

 

[daLok1nho]

There's no terrorist nation in the mod. Except the Taliban if you can even count that, but they have no major amount of IC.

I get it that YOU did not get it, but that's all right.

 

[Ottoman Master]

I get it that YOU did not get it, but that's all right.

Oh, you meant the United States.

Hah. Edgy, 10/10 political joke skill.

 

[daLok1nho]

Oh, you meant the United States.

Took you a little while.

Anyway Novapaddy I hope you'll do something about it, or at least give me the earlier Province.csv file

 

[zostic]

I've noticed an option to claim provinces/regions with a right click - what is the coding for this if possible - for use in other mods?

 

[unmerged(174159)]

It's a DH function that you can activate in your misc.txt - but you also need to be a non-democracy IIRC

 

[Oggys]

Good day,

i got one question regarding the unification of the European Union.
If it annex some country via event (Romania, Baltic states, Turkey etc.), their army is gone.
Is it possible to keep their divisions, ships etc.?

Friendly Greetings
Oggys

 

[Ottoman Master]

Good day,

i got one question regarding the unification of the European Union.
If it annex some country via event (Romania, Baltic states, Turkey etc.), their army is gone.
Is it possible to keep their divisions, ships etc.?

Friendly Greetings
Oggys

You can add "value = 1" to the inherit command. Unfortunately, you have to do this for each event.

 

[zostic]

Excellent - found the option (this will be interesting to say the least )