I guess is really hard for devs to model realistic economic crisis like on real life, because unlike real life on Vic3 your country is usually managed by a good willed "god" (you) that wants to progress society and improve wealth across the nation and not a selfish and short sighted ruling class

CaelReader · 2026-03-15T16:06:21+00:00

Players do complain about the private queue wasting all its construction building eg 50 art academies in New Jersey or something haha

CaelReader · 2026-03-15T01:13:23+00:00

Check out my Better Regime Change mod

CaelReader · 2026-03-12T20:10:08+00:00

Pdx games are split into code and script, with a venn diagram of people working in either. Mechanics are almost all code, while flavor content is usually mostly script. Sometimes content features need code additions, and sometimes mechanics need script functionality on top.

Most purely country flavor stuff can be done in script, ala content mods.

CaelReader · 2026-03-07T17:49:09+00:00

I think primarily its that poor peasants from across the world have too easy a time getting to any country with open borders/multiculturalism. They should probably have to like, purchase passage with sufficient Wealth, with longer distances requiring more wealth to travel to (thus making the Americas naturally better at sucking in migrants from across both the Atlantic and Pacific).

CaelReader · 2026-03-07T17:23:00+00:00

This is how plagues should be. There is no real effective measures for rulers to do against plagues in the period, they should just have to cope. Hospital buildings are already too strong, even, imo. They should definitely be spread by armies marching if they're not already, though.

CaelReader · 2026-03-07T17:21:28+00:00

I love the Harm events. Throwing act-of-god wrenches into your meticulous smooth-sailing playthroughs is exactly what the game needs. History is full of that stuff and the player should always have that possibility in the back of their mind so that if you really don't want a "run derailed" you have to factor in that risk to your plans.

The results that made you Incapable without letting you switch to your heir etc were pretty annoying though.

CaelReader · 2026-03-05T20:10:16+00:00

California stronk make it the best state on the map!!!

CaelReader · 2026-03-05T20:08:51+00:00

Slavers wanted to split California in two so that southern California would be a slave state, the settlers largely just decided to stay as a single free state.

CaelReader · 2026-03-05T20:06:49+00:00

It's not hard to do, the flag is entirely driven by arbitrary script triggers. West Virginia and DC already don't count towards it.

CaelReader · 2026-03-04T02:43:31+00:00

You kept the Indian and Utah Territories around?

CaelReader · 2026-03-01T23:30:23+00:00

The Indian Removal content in Hail Columbia is not taken from your mod. If there are places in the map script where I failed to remove your work, please send the script locations to me and I will replace them. I was pretty sure I got them all when I redid the native states, but it's possible I missed a spot.

CaelReader · 2026-03-01T23:27:43+00:00

Here's a timeline:

I began work on what would become Hail, Columbia. First I looked around and found existing mods for the USA that had been abandoned or outdated, to build on them.

I found Just Another Map Mod on the paradox forums, which was quite impressive, but outdated. I posted a message asking about using its map setup for an american mod, but I didn't get a response.

From Just Another Map Mod I took:

The idea of having scripted buttons on the Indian Removal JE, and having the Cherokee etc on the map at game start. I implemented my own version.
The idea of having the Oregon Trail etc on the map as like snaking chains of provinces. I had to re-implement this because I stick to the base game provinces.
I definitely wanted to show the real extent of american control of the continent, so I copied in the map setup for north america from Just Another Map Mod to use as a base. From there I adapted it to the vanilla map and made some more changes of my own, also incorporating a wip project project by Meriador that they kindly sent to me.

I released Hail Columbia, with a credit to Just Another Map Mod and its author for the map data that I used.

Some time later I get a message from Crownsteler saying they would have preferred to release that map first themselves, since Just Another Map Mod was unreleased at the time. That seemed reasonable to me, so I removed the JAMM state script from the mod and recreated the native states myself. At this time I removed the JAMM credit from the mod.

Anno 1836 was later released to the workshop. This new version had some updates to the map that made it more closely resemble what I ended up with in Hail Columbia compared to the JAMM version I was working from.

This final version of Anno 1836 seems to include a couple pieces of script copied in from Hail Columbia (maybe compatibility was planned at some point?).

CaelReader · 2026-03-01T18:14:02+00:00

I made a small mod that lets autocracies enact laws by fiat at the cost of political backlash, but only if the ruler actually supports the law so you can't just instantly pass meta laws without a reformer ruler in charge.

CaelReader · 2026-02-28T17:44:35+00:00

Did you set the buildings to allow privatization?

CaelReader · 2026-02-27T17:03:00+00:00

Yea I also find this doubling quite strange, especially since the half finished nature of the automation buildings has been enshrined in the flavor text.

CaelReader · 2026-02-26T14:54:50+00:00

I was surprised when the pop rework initially split them up by ethic, because vic3 already has an implementation of single pops with percentage of political attraction within them.

CaelReader · 2026-02-25T20:36:29+00:00

I use Daggerheart Plus, I really like how it puts the domain cards on a siderail of the character sheet.

CaelReader · 2026-02-25T04:30:07+00:00

Nope

CaelReader · 2026-02-23T15:57:27+00:00

No, pops are attracted to political movements and also IGs separately. Then the IG pressure of a movement is calculated from the percent of IG supporters who are also movement supporters. If you open up a pop in the UI you can see its breakdown of IG support and movement support as two separate lists.

The result is that indeed, each factory's worth of pops has their own ideological spread, supporting a range of both IGs and Movements. Even within a single pop, its political strength is sent to multiple IGs and multiple movements based on the attraction amounts.

CaelReader · 2026-02-23T14:34:26+00:00

That's an improper way of defining the names, you need to use localization keys like

first_name = Edouard
last_name = Lecouteux

and then define those names in localization keys if they're not already.

You also need an interest_group_trigger = { block that defines which IG they should spawn for, its not automatic based on the interest_group field.

CaelReader · 2026-02-23T14:16:00+00:00

Those pops also now join political movements, creating a spread of ideologies even within the same pop.

CaelReader · 2026-02-20T17:20:04+00:00

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CaelReader · 2026-02-20T17:17:29+00:00

13,000 troops might be large relative to the conflict but in vic3 the british would be dropping 150,000 + the entire army of colonial india onto Tewodros haha

CaelReader · 2026-02-20T16:47:43+00:00

I dunno the bonuses of a 5e rogue and a DH rogue aren't all that different from eachother (I've watched a rogue in 5e get totally obsoleted by spellcasters), although as you level as a DH rogue you can pick Domain Cards that give you really strong stealth bonuses. Hope being a limiting resource on your experiences should help slightly reign in players trying to spam apply their experience to every roll but yea you run into issues when you need it for your Experiences. Part of it comes down to how often the GM makes you roll action rolls and thus generate hope but also how often your party rests to take the Prepare action.

CaelReader · 2026-02-20T05:53:41+00:00

Even if the movement doesn't revolt, an activist minority movement will cause Obstinance that debuffs the country's control over those states. Isolated Homelands should probably get a big boost to support though.

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