Better Ideological Unions

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You think Ideological Unions are currently illogical, not useful and boring?
– The aim of this mod is to improve exactly that.

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• Gaining new members now slightly strengthens cohesion.
  Reasoning: After all, this is a community of like-minded people.
• Power Bloc Leader now needs 25% less enactment time
• Non-leaders now gain a 50% law enactment success bonus

All Power Bloc Members now gain:

• 25% less radicals from dropping standard of living
• 25% more loyalists from rising standard of living
• -50 % revolution progress
• -50 % secession progress
  Reasoning: Even if the population suffers, they know in their hearts that they are doing it for a just cause.

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The focus here is on economic and human rights issues.

Depending on the relationship and the power of the nation in question, regime change can be peaceful with little international diplomatic repercussions or lead to a major conflict (the latter being a work in progress).

The target country gains two modifiers to represent the impact of the regime change

Positive Modifier for 5 years:

• 20% success chance for imposed laws.
• +5 approval of the interest groups in the government
• +20 base legitimacy

Reasoning: The installed government is backed by the ideological union.

Negative Modifier with 5 year cool down:

• -25% prestige
• +50% radicals from dropping standard of living
• -50% loyalists from rising standard of living

Reasoning: The population is critical of the new government.

Depending on the size and power of the target country and the power bloc leader, this leads to more or less major international diplomatic entanglements.

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If diplomatic relations with a power bloc member of your ideological union are good and close, it is possible to turn this country into a protectorate in a diplomatic process.
The proposal of a power bloc member to strengthen the diplomatic ties can be answered in three ways:

• Start of the diplomatic process to establish a protectorate
  (this may trigger an Anxious Resistance)
• Guarantee of the sovereignty of the member state
• Guarantee of the sovereignty of all member states
  (For example, this increases the likelihood that other countries will accept an invitation to join the power bloc.)

As part of the diplomatic establishment of a protectorate in the power bloc, other countries that are distrustful of the power bloc leader can trigger a debate within the power bloc. This debate can jeopardize the cohesion of the power bloc.

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Foreign Investment is now scaled, giving a higher leverage bonus for economic dependence with every Tier.

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• Generals can be made the leader of an interest group under certain conditions. Since a leader with a particular ideology is needed to establish certain forms of government.

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Here you can find a mod for an authentic Chinese translation.
Feedback on localization is greatly appreciated!

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• Implemented paradox’ new method of overwriting and fixed multiple bugs related to this
• Removed scaled principles to improve mod compatibility and moved them to a new mod

Please note:

• Due to the new treaty mechanics, the "Guarante Independence" article is not automatically removed when beginning unification with a country. This article must be removed manually during treaty negotiations to avoid penalties to the integration process.
• If a treaty containing the "Guarante Independence" clause is still in effect, forcing the annexation of a nation will count as a treaty violation and result in penalties. It’s best to adjust the treaty accordingly beforehand.
• Due to the new treaty system (and the resulting new bugs), unexpected errors may occur. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to test every possible scenario yet.

Bug fixes:

• The JEs "A Kindred Spirit" and "Anxious Debate" should now close correctly as invalid if the target nation becomes a subject by any other means. Thanks to lucocarvalho for the bug report! 🙂
• Power Bloc Mandates are now calculated correctly gain. Thanks to Kelgran for the bug report and to Okan for testing! 🙂
• Adjusted all principle modifiers to fit the new mechanics in 1.8.6 (e.g. promoting IGs becoming promoting movements)