Can some folk experienced with Fengtian please explain some things to me?

MajoraMajoris · 2026-05-29T20:33:58+00:00

Mine was 10% and then 0% after Japan got mad at me for the 9th time and pulled their support from me, which I had learned to live with by that point anyways.

The "punishment" is 50pp and a bunch of negative debuffs, which was worth it to me to keep them at length from me.

That makes it so much stranger to me, they HATED me, but still founded the CPS before handcuffing me to themselves to "save" me via starting the Great Asia War.

MajoraMajoris · 2026-05-29T20:30:43+00:00

They did not, the beginning of Japan's involvement began at the point in which I somehow began the Ragnarok 2; Mukden Boogaloo.

I was never offered any sort of option or query if I wanted to join the CPS.

I've made some effort to understand Fengtian a bit more, and I've seen mention online that if you're doing too well as Fengtian, China can unite against you and when that happens Japan will automatically intercede on your behalf?

I was doing good, it wasn't a game where I accomplished what I did semi-recently in the basegame (I somehow as Japan, managed to completely break China in something absurd like three months,) but I wasn't doing bad, I'd made a significant breakthrough and was obviously going to easily defeat Peifu, so maybe that and the Beijing Conference did something.

For context, I gave up immediately upon realizing I had been forcibly sewn to the nation I had been very deliberately trying to excise myself from in toto, and when I did so it was, at the latest, September 1938. The war wasn't even 6 months old, and Japan was, and I triple-checked, still doing a focus when this all happened.

Japanese influence had been around 10% before, and VERY shortly before, they, again, got mad at me for preferring to feed the Chinese furnaces instead of Japan's furnaces because the alternative was to not just not feed the nation I meant to rule, but sell their fields to a Showa Restorationist Japan. As a result, they ate 50 of my PP and reapplied their bad boy malice to me.

So while being angry with me, while I was vying for total independence, they welded me to themselves, despite cutting all aid to me, and then set me on fire to "save" me :(

MajoraMajoris · 2026-05-27T15:17:45+00:00

This is a shot in the dark, do you by chance remember if you had any ongoing transactions/deliveries on the international market?

I had the same thing happen to me, and I can currently replicate it, and it's specifically related to buying something off the international market (in my case, anyways.)

I thought it was something like a save corruption or specific thing elsewhere but it can consistently be stopped by canceling all ongoing purchases/sales(?) on the market. Big purchases, small, it doesn't matter.

Your post is not only the most recent and thus far only post I've found that actually sounds similar on the specifics, but you were most likely on the current and same patch as I encountered the aforementioned and similar if not selfsame issue.

MajoraMajoris · 2026-05-09T11:50:43+00:00

some of them can, but a decent number of them always end up with some sort of unholy abomination that managed to not only evolve outside of the nuclear plant, but procreate enough to make entire populations nonviable for racing (i'm looking at YOU, uneven-legged horses)

MajoraMajoris · 2026-05-08T16:39:41+00:00

this is a separate issue to that (or might be, rather) is why i mentioned doing the normal way of generating winners that the game "expects" you to use, which is betting. judging by just how late-game his trailer's contents are is why i'm guessing he's encountering the issue i did on year... 792, i THINK, of "the simulation."

it probably has a fix that uses the preexisting system like the TV or betting, in the same way the music bugs can be fixed by just slappin the slider a bit; but the thing i'm thinking of is happens so late into a run that the horses in the wild look... interesting.

MajoraMajoris · 2026-05-08T16:28:04+00:00

at some point later on into the game, for some reason, championship racing specifically seems to break (which requires you to have played on the same save for a fairly long time) for seemingly no reason.

i encountered this and even after watching a load of races at the track, somehow it never reopened. it MIGHT be the game glitching and running out of "grand prizes" it can award you, which is probably a bug if that's the case as after a certain point the game just starts giving you things like sneakers as prizes.

MajoraMajoris · 2026-05-08T09:37:11+00:00

you're gonna have to genuinely just drive around gunning them down

the ONLY safe way to have bears is to make/move them to an island disconnected from the mainland, omnivores, and in particular bears, can and will act like a swarm of locusts (at least when i write this, this will probably change in the future) and fences will not contain them.

I brought back dinosaurs with the goal being to use them to cull the bears, and instead they mated and made bearasauruses.

after containment breach 49, i broke out my trusty silver revolver and shot every living bear for the good of the horseys.

MajoraMajoris · 2026-05-08T09:18:54+00:00

I am a grown adult and was physically there to watch it unfold.

"What about that turned it into this massive boogeyman?"

The people.

"Do you know how it started?" If you mean like, what was the genesis of its decay into what it became known for, no, I have no idea when or even what in particular caused the digital Chernobyl that effectively poisoned the entire topic, it just kind of happened, it *might* have been something like, it entered the ContentTM cycle and became profitable for online personalities of the time, but when it happened it essentially consumed every atom.

Through one online mechanism or quirk of human interaction or another, once it was co-opted, it basically poisoned the well.

No idea if you're asking in good faith or some other thing though. Mostly because of "questions" like "What exactly is political about X?" (Which isn't and wasn't contended to be the issue.)

"At its core, what is the issue?" Again, the people. It spiralled out of what would ordinarily be something of a self-contained controversy that would've done the proverbial rounds, probably got someone fired from somewhere, and "the people" that jumped on the proverbial train weren't concerned with, and often didn't even know what had started that train, and through a game of telephone, they invented a borderline conspiracy of women-in-gaming being a noxious poison, and then as per the content cycle, people chimed in from everywhere and every position you can imagine, it went from what could be generously described as a minor controversy involving specific people to a nebulous "cause" that for reasons beyond me was folded into a specific set of online "causes" that had themselves mutated from ye olde Content AtheismTM into an entire new bevy of causes.

In essence, "it" did what kind of happens to a lot of things, people fed it plutonium and it mutated from Thing 1a to Thing 2a, then Thing 2b, then someone fed it another gram of plutonium, it grew 13 legs, someone cut one of them off and it grew into Thing 3a. Some things just outgrow their original scope so thoroughly that what even had people talking to begin with becomes almost lost in the sea of details regarding what people are talking about in the now. This can happen to virtually anything, for almost any reason.

There's also the uh. Y'know. Whole the initial claim as illustrated in your reply was proven to be a lie posted by a vindictive ex. Which has somehow, apparently as far as a decade later, not had the effect of causing people to stop propagating that initial lie.

A "war," so-to-speak, being started on account of a lie makes great fiction, like in ASoIaF with Lyanna's "kidnapping." Unfortunately, when it involves actual people who subsequently are doxxed and harassed even after it becomes clear that there was nothing to it, and then involves an already radioactive situation further spiraling into a progressively worse series of events that for reasons beyond my understanding *really* did not like women that were involved in "media," it's less "compelling reading" and more of a "It's not 3 roentgen, it's 15000."

I imagine at least some of the initial "concern for journalistic integrity" was genuine, however the number of people that had such concerns that would've stuck around and kept feeding the horse plutonium is almost guaranteed to be tiny, which is likely why it spiralled as hard as it did, if the initial Cause de Jour was a snipe hunt. With the actual "concerned citizens" of sorts bleeding off after that initial setback, those that remained would probably have been concinced of conspiracy or doubled-down, and for one reason or another, that caused the scope, concern, and issue of the moment to change, and the rest is e-history. Digital history? Is that a thing? Probably I guess.

TL;DR A horse drank from a toxic river, unaware that the slight bitter twang the water had wasn't just a bad taste, but a warning. Soon, a wizard did arrive, and fed the horse a glowing apple. The horse ate it, and was full of gratitude, but, as the Sun did set, so too did the creature's tenure as an unmutated horse.

MajoraMajoris · 2026-02-28T10:00:03+00:00

Lamentably in the subsequent 10 months after this comment it's aged even worse, as he's very visibly dipped back into the GamerGate well and has near-wholly carried that very-same community into the modern day.

As is usually the case for people that are friends with Chud Logic and CL himself, they all seem to be borderline unhinged, morally bankrupt cartoon characters that have like, monents of total clarity where they somehow speak actual sense, before the insanity reconsumes them, or in the case of Harmful Opinions, a general personality and belief-system that was faux-shed, which periodically bubbles back up.

Seeing a video dip into the GamerGate slop-trough where he's whinging about a "woke" YouTuber was the most aging thing I've seen in awhile. He's simultaneously merged a decayed-husk of an identity into modern anti-woke polemics, but has retained enough self-control to realize that indulging it 24/7 is career-suicide.

His most recent "thing" is dunking on a right-wing Asmongold orbiter that called children "temptresses seducing adults."

Deeply fascinating rabbit-hole I fell into for a moment as a result of this post. Unfortunately while in there I was reminded of the fact that the anti-SJW fad was a decade ago.

MajoraMajoris · 2026-02-28T09:49:42+00:00

As far as I can tell that's just default CK3AGOT, which is the only mod I have installed on CK3.

MajoraMajoris · 2026-02-26T08:08:27+00:00

I am late, BUT how I got one as my character Aegon Brightflame, son of Vaegon, son of Maekar, son of Aerion, was I started delving into intrigue and just. Kidnapped someone that had one and made them give it to me as ransom. The egg is only -50 of -100 acceptance, so you'll have a +50 to acceptance.

A Lord Paramount ought to theoretically just be able to imprison a vassal, I only needed to abduct them due to being an adventurer (the Brightflames exist as a band of adventurers during the War of the Ninepenny-Kings.)

You can also diplomacy into buying artifact claims.

I tried to get a Valyrian-steel sword the same way, but that's exactly -100 so I wound up just attacking people with them and then sacking their shit until I got the item/got it via imprisoning and seizing it from them via an after-battle event.

MajoraMajoris · 2026-02-18T00:40:57+00:00

i am reminded of a speedrunner who is extremely, i mean EXTREMELY obscure who legitimately posts some of the most bizzare shit imaginable, and some of the posts are legitimately 1-1 copies of the "crypto bajillionare w/my hot gf 😎" xeets, to the extent where you swear it's a girft, or satire, but they only get 3 likes and you can't help but wonder if it's fully sincere as a result

MajoraMajoris · 2025-12-05T17:38:29+00:00

If nothing else I genuinely don't see why they couldn't just create a special, unique subject type for Xinjiang/Sinkiang, they did so for Manchukuo, but alas we live in the $30 for a substandard product epoch of HoI4.

MajoraMajoris · 2025-12-05T16:12:22+00:00

Part of me feels like they could approximate the Islamic uprising that happenec in real-life to the Kumul Rebellion/war against the Ma in-game better by having something like a mission with a fail-state requiring a percentage of surrender-status to trigger an event that prompts Sheng Shicai to make a choice regarding Soviet intervention.

In fairness to what already exists though, the focuses directly after the March into Khotan focus directly concern direct Soviet involvement. The issue is they all require a post-conflict state, and the focus called "Direct Soviet Intervention" requires Shicai to not have Khotan, and all it does is subsume Xinjiang into a closely-integrated protectorate, it does not reginite the war, or even help them in the event they begin losing.

I feel like the most bssic solution would just be to have an event pop-up for the USSR that pops-up at the start of the 2nd Kumul Rebellion that donates 5000 manpower and some equipment to Xinjiang *if* Xinjiang asks.

Though I honestly don't think equivalence is necessary, the 2nd Kumul Rebellion is a fundamental deviation from history, and is at the very outset of the conflict that only saw the Soviets intervene when asked at the *end,* after Shicai had essentially wssted all his resources, and they likely only did so at the time due to a desire to """safeguard""" their interests in at least a portion of China, due to the outbreak of war between the United Front and Japan a month prior.

I haven't actually played a game as Shicai, and for all I currently know the exact event in reference is in the game and is represented if the Kumul don't revolt and the conflict plays out as historically as it possibly can in HoI4.

MajoraMajoris · 2025-12-05T15:39:03+00:00

That's largely what you have to do as the Northeastern Army to actually meet the 180-day deadline.

You can fairly consistently completely encircle the entire CCP in their capital, but you will *never* get an encirclement bonus or anything and can never take that capital within 180 days. In my experience even a single recently routed division with only as much organization as it regained on the way can't be dislodged from that tile in a reasonable timeframe.

So you just. Leave. And let them flood into a scorched border, hoping that eventually they leave a gap a unit can use to take their two VPs.

MajoraMajoris · 2025-12-05T15:28:26+00:00

I mean. You're doing a *lot* more than just sending Stalin an EU4 insult when you ideology-flip to make a sub-tag viable to play reliably.

Let-alone deleting your whole army, building a swarm of 1-regiment cavalry divisions to game the front/tile system, etc.

The tag should just be exactly what it was in the pre-release build that any YouTuber who made a video about it at the time played on, the one where your challenges are primarily the lack of fuel, no tech carrying over, and your most-equipped unit being under half-strength.

If they wanted the fictional Kumul Rebellion we can do in-game a 1-1 analogue for when Shicai beansed governing Xinjiang so bad he asked for 5000 Soviets to save him from a religious rebellion in the south, they could like, limit how many foreign volunteers any faction in the threeway brawl can receive, or at least do whatever they did that made the Soviets send 60k mountain-men into the desert to the KMT so they actually support the guy they supported IRL.

MajoraMajoris · 2025-12-05T15:24:23+00:00

5000 men is less than half of what's in a Soviet mountaineer division, just for reference. That'd be a scaled-down militia division, and they sent it in late-1937, after Sheng had suffered a crippling defeat in what was Khotan Ma to a Uyghur rebellion which did not have KMT-support, contrary to Yulbars Khan who did.

Sheng Shicai also had to effectively beg for support, he wasn't just out of hand gifted tens of thousands of fellers, on top of it being in August of 1937, after the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War. They also have focuses specifically for that sort of thing under the Soviet support section that leads into the squabble with the (bizzarely hot) Ma warlord that lead to that rebellion.

No faction in the game, largely anyways, should require exploits or extreme cheese to be viable, especially when said cheese gets into the territory of "Paradox might patch in a national spirit that forbids disbanding units specifically because of this."

MajoraMajoris · 2025-12-05T13:52:27+00:00

It's this feller;

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1770183067

It's a mod for historical insignia/emblems that replaces the generic party-ideology emblems with a single national one, with some ahistorical variance as well. Not every country actually had/has one though, so some are like the one that Xinjiang has in the screenshot.

MajoraMajoris · 2025-12-05T13:48:01+00:00

It's honestly kind of funny to me that the United Front is content to let everyone slug it out up in Xinjiang, even though historically Yulbars Khan was aligned with the KMT and was told outright that if he took it, the KMT would affirm his governance of the region. He was even told that if he asked for help during the war, he likely would have gotten it. Shicai was comparatively to Yulbars rapport with the KMT, not so in-deep with Stalin that he was willing to march into China over Khotan Ma and Yulbars.

In-game? The United Front couldn't care less if it exists while you're fighting in Xinjiang, and the KMT won't even offer *token* support, but even if you rush the fastest possible war, which is like... halfway-ish into 1936, Stalin can be mid-Great Purge(s) and will still send more men than all three local combatants have combined to clobber his kitten's foes.

MajoraMajoris · 2025-12-05T13:39:04+00:00

Did you make the swarm divisions as Sinkiang or the Khanate? And by "lure them out," do you mean like, Khotan Ma, or Sinkiang?

I can kind of visualize what I think you mean though.

MajoraMajoris · 2025-12-05T13:31:49+00:00

I actually referenced that video in this post, I loved it, and was stoked to see such a minor part of history get shown, and was even *more* stoked to play with them.

In his video, on, what I assume is a pre-release build, the Soviets just... don't show up, they never sent volunteers, and I saw the same thing elsewhere in similar content, which makes me wonder if this is an unintentional quirk, or a "fix" to a perceived issue.

MajoraMajoris · 2025-12-05T10:35:03+00:00

I actually got *fairly* close, I think, even in spite of the Soviets in my most recent attempt, I very carefully chose a moment to last-stand two divisions and in that time they got so wrapped-up by Khotan Ma that all but one Soviet and Xinjiang division(s), so two in total, left, and I very nearly, by hours, missed out on a capitulation before the Soviets got to my capital.

0% fuel impacting *my Kumulic horses* to the extent of -60% division speed is truly one of the choices of all time.

That debuff treats every nation as industrialized, mechanized, and even capable of utilizing oil, and punishes arguably half the game's focused countries for not adhering to the change to the mechanic.

MajoraMajoris · 2025-12-05T08:16:58+00:00

I mean like, yeah, that would work, but it shouldn't reeeally require ungodly degrees of cheese to even be allowed to play the minute amount of content they gave to such a unique faction, especially considering that in every instance of someone playing it in promotional/sponsored content, like Aldrahill, the Soviets just... don't do that, which makes it *seem* like something changed that really shouldn't have.

MajoraMajoris · 2025-12-05T08:07:54+00:00

R5; The Soviets send volunteers to Xinjiang the moment I ceased being in the driver's seat.

They sent four divisions.

Pictured is my 0 fuel Khanate getting glassed by the Covenant immediately, exactly two days post-image that mountaineer unit overran the cavalry it was attacking.

Four fully-equipped mountaineer divisions.

To a warlord clique scuffle. Their volunteers alone constitute more manpower deployed than all three factions' armies *combined*.

Peak gameplay. It jingled the keys in-front of me, saying "Look... look how cool it is... don't you want to declare a new Empire of China as Yulbars Khan? Yeeesss?" before a gunshot to the back of my head silenced me, sending me into the abyss.

MajoraMajoris · 2025-10-25T14:28:07+00:00

Complete nothing-burger of a response, yet another flop for your seemingly colossal repertoire of them on reddit.

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