MP Balance & Essentials

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Authors: rickchangedhisnameagain, Altys, proce3d

Last revision: 3 Oct, 2025 at 19:38 UTC (6)

File size: 15.42 MB

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Description:

MPBE, or Multiplayer Balance & Essentials (formerly proce3d’s modpack), aims to improve the multiplayer experience of Victoria 3. The mod includes a number of useful tools specifically for multiplayer games as well as a lot of QoL and UI improvements. A variety of balance changes are designed to allow for multiple sessions up to 1900 and beyond.

• UI & QoL Improvements: Improved Topbar Info, Headlines, Improved Company List. Some minor improvements are added manually.
• Laws & Better Character Interactions: Character interactions cooldowns decreased to 2 years.
• Tech Spread, Universities: Technology spread from literacy is increased, universities are cheaper to build and have their pm’s reworked.
• Better Population Growth: Increased base values for birthrate and mortality. Some society techs now affect mortality and birthrate. Charity hospitals and private health insurance buffed.
• Better Decrees: Better Decrees Reworks decrees and adds several others. Balance changes for multiplayer were made.
• Country Balancing: Infamy scaling, migration attraction and interest rates are now more linear than just favoring Great Powers over others like in vanilla. Added more starting technologies to some major and minor powers like Sardinia-Piedmont, Spain, Netherlands, Sweden, Ottoman Empire, Japan, Brazil and more. Further individual improvements to Sardinia-Piedmont, the Ottoman Empire, Japan, Canada and Australia.
• Military: Now all unit upgrades can be done properly. War exhaustion scales better with high occupation. Attrition rates are reduced. Winning defensive battles are less effective when it comes to occupation progress. Gas, Guns, Garb, and Grub has been included giving meaning to more military technologies by adding more mobilization options.
• Some minor changes and improvements to low and very low taxes, wages, hiring process, and job satisfaction.
• Power bloc overhaul: Power blocs now have 6 mandates slots and are more viable for countries not Great Powers.
• Culture grouping: Similar cultures not important to game mechanics are grouped, to help performance.
  Detailled description

  A detailed list of changes can be found here:

  MPBE – description[docs.google.com]

  The latest changes are available on this workshop page in the "Change Notes" tab.

  Feedback and suggestions

  Join this discord for feedback, suggestions and regular multiplayer games:
  The War Room: https://discord.gg/zvrafTfcWE

  Other servers for multiplayer games

  Join these discords for multiplayer games that use the modpack in most of their games:

  PB’s PDX Discord: https://discord.gg/wnAMSvYY7u (dead)