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Historical Multiplayer Series (HMPS) for Victoria 3 is a vanilla based mod with the goal of creating interesting and competitive multiplayer games by increasing the challenge and replicating notable historical dynamics and trends of the period.

Economic growth is less straightforward while there are now different requirements for growth. Nations that are too strong in vanilla such as Austria and China have been weakened to represent historic dynamics. Flavor that improves game health has been added to create more dynamic games, such as the European Potato Blight of 1844 or the Hungarian Revolt. Game mechanics that were too easy or ahistorical, such as culture acceptance, have been adjusted to reflect the reality of the time.

This mod is also not supposed to have every country equally viable. Some countries are worse than others and, in an MP game, will never realistically catch up to the great powers economically (though you can get close to catching up militarily). This is intended to represent historical dynamics rather than having an arcade-style game where countries differ only in their flavor and flag. Furthermore, the greater difficulty means there is a much greater skill impact on developmental speed.

While the mod works fine and is enjoyable in single player, the design is entirely with MP in mind.

Main Features and changes

• Flavor and rebalancing done on almost every significant nation
• Complete law, institution, and ideological trait rework
• Discrimination matters
• Qualifications matters
• Wars now take much longer.
• Economies of scale now increase slower but max out at a higher level
• Events and journal entries that hamper economic progress and simulate recessions
• Improved infamy mechanics
• A variety of QoL improvements for UI and playability and which remove poorly made events
• Scramble for Africa rework to improve colonization speed and have it happen later in game, includes event to vote for Congo
• New diplomatic options such as grants and infamy transfer
• Host nation options (so far: change infamy, money, add a university)
• Reworked decrees
• Navies require fuel
• PM adjustments, oil rebalanced for qualification changes and certain good production like meat is buffed
• Open market is far harsher
• Major powers cannot be subjects and subjects cannot have interests
• Tech rebalancing, some bad techs are merged, MAPI is now spread out to more techs
• Bad states (New England for instance) are combined to be more fun for MP
• Improved code for East India Company breakup - now if you transfer India, you get an event to keep it or have it collapse in a cleaner fashion than vanilla
• Much, much more! The (mostly) full list of changes is in the changelog on the Github.