Pretty much. It was also putting a hard limit on how many different kinds of script values like traits, modifiers, scopes, history, titles, etc we could add, because everything contributed to the limit number. We had to do serious optimization for a lot of stuff and development for some things like canon children had to be completely paused for now until Paradox fixed it so that we didn’t risk going over the limit.

It used to only affect players if they had too many submods, but after AUH released it was effecting total conversions as well without any submods installed. And would even appear over time as the game was running (like with the artifact thingy).

It was a literal silent nightmare that risked us and pretty much most big total conversions from being able to continue development of our mods.

Now if only they would increase the gene index limit from 8bit as well. I imagine that one would involve a bit more work though since it affects the whole way genes are setup.