Dynamic History Mod [BETA]
Are you tired of every country playing the same? Of building your entire economy in a single state? Of trade barely mattering as volume is too low and everyone is self sufficient in everything anyway? Of not truly feeling like you’re industrializing in a victorian simulation? Then this mod is for you!
DHM is designed to drastically increase the depth, performance and accuracy of the base vanilla mechanics with little need for railroading, along with being fully compatible and tested for Multiplayer. It mainly focuses on improving economics and politics across the board, though a better starting map and country specific flavor is in the works.
- The industrial revolution is now truly here! Urban factories, especially textiles, now need machinery and fuel to operate at a large scale PM, which only Britain will have an established base of in the start. On the other hand, urban centers now have different levels of artisanship, which will cover the early demand for most consumer goods. As technological progress makes automation both more efficient and far outpaces artisans, however, the processes of industrialization will slowly spread across Europe and become crucial for every Great Power! It also creates a dillema for the industrialized countries: should they export the building blocks of industry to developed countries for short term profits or try to maintain the international division of labor? (Some aspects are still WIP)
- Some production techs have had their dates tweaked to more accurately represent the stages of the first and second revolutions. Countries such as France, Russia and Austria and China will find themselves still very powerful before the 1850s, though should they fail to overcome their challenges and modernize, might find themselves losing space to Prussia, Belgium and the USA as economic competitors to the birthplace of the first revolution!
- The most complete state traits overhaul in the workshop! Existing traits have been made much more accurate and impactful (with some base building outputs have been reduced to make up for it), and various new, thoroughly researched traits have been added across the globe. This not only adds regional flavor and variety to each country’s playstyle, but also significantly dynamizes geopolitics and trade, as certain regions will be much better or worse for some goods than others.
- Fuels in general such as coal and oil will become increasingly essencial for any modern economy. Nations without significant reserves of those must secure them through trade or war, lest they have to resort to the new but inefficient charcoal PM on logging camps or dedicate themselves to handcrafted luxuries and/or commodity exports!
- In sinergy with that, trade route calculations have been greatly improved so that volume actually reaches as high as it should. Trade thus becomes a much more important part of the game, and strategies such as staying protectionist to prevent the extraction or flooding of goods in your economy must actually be considered.
- Slavery is much more well rounded, as plantations that use slave labor (especially cotton) will be significantly more productive. Beware the blow it does to your migration attraction, though.
- A stimulant needs category being added that can be met with coffee or tea, and both clothes and food having more demand.
- Missing historical dynamics like the USA cotton export economy, its post slavery crash, Central American Banana Republics and the Brazilian coffee cycle thus arise naturally.
- Several added obvious cultural obsessions such as coffee to western europe, tea to Asia, wine to Spain, small arms to USA, Luxury Clothes to Italy and France, liquor to Russia and Germany and fish to Japan.
- Nonsense pop need weights have been fixed, such as pops not eating certain basic foods other than grain even at a lower price. Instead, most basic food weights have been made equal, though since grain will usually be much cheaper it’s still the primary food for poor pops. Richer pops will want better foods, however, with meat and fruits being a viable option rather than only groceries.
- Serfdom gives -0.3 subsistance farm output rather than ahistorically increase it, and serfs earn much lower wages in general.
- Qualifications actually matter as requirements for certain professions are increased.
- Political and trade capitals are more impactful, though cost much more to change.
- Ports now give market access, univesities give qualifications to the entire country on top of just the state.
- Price range increased from 75% to 85%.
- Pop IG attraction makes more sense, such as being a totalitarian autocracy leading to increased intelligentsia support if you’re literate, and workers with low SOL being much more likely to join Trade Unions.
- Decreased unincorporated barracks output from 50% to 90%.
- Reworked secessions to be much more likely as nationalism and pan nationalism increase radicals from discrimination by +125% combined, though only on incorporated states.
- Monarchy vs democracy choices is more impactful as democracies can’t ignore elections anymore, though they get more migration.
- Some laws have been tweaked such as laissez-faire being divided into the more moderate liberal capitalism and a more radical laissez faire in itself.
- Urban centers and Ports now give market access, though base access has been reduced to 65% to compensate.
- Conscription techs now give much more conscription to allow for larger, more destructive late game wars.
1. Cold water ports https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2997299912
2. Save your CPU and pop consolidation
3. Discolored Decentralized Contries https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3192164352
4. GORA UI: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2984472884
5. GDP plotlines minimized: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3261478691
6. Transfer cash: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2881548032
7. GDP ownership mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3290552216
8. Historical Population Growth & Resources: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2881364019
-Fix incomplete localizations
-Improved performance
-Overhaul USA civil war
-Improve accuracy of IG group ideology and revolutions
-Further balance industrial PMs and buildings for an even funner, more accurate and complete industrialization
-Overhaul German formation
-Add Balance of Power mechanic to prevent early European death wars and a (non-railroaded) Great War mechanic for once that system breaks
-Further flesh out state traits of Africa, Asia and the Middle East
-Infamy and war exhaustion rework
Be sure to recommend new features, especially state trait ideas!
Come join us for suggestions, bug reports and to play weekly multiplayer campaigns with the mod:
https://discord.gg/FqyE3ASDRg
DHM is a passion project from a single, very busy student. If you would like to show appreciation or support the development of more original features, leave a small a tip!
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Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
