1.3 Beta Flavorium Universalis – Balance
An optional re-balance submod for Flavorium Universalis.
Subscribe to this alongside the base mod if you want these balance tweaks. Skip it to keep vanilla culture capacity and literacy values.
Vanilla culture capacity bonuses are broadly reduced to make cultural integration a meaningful constraint.
Advances — Cultural Acceptance, Vibrant Court, Persian in the Court, Millets: 1.0 → 0.5 cultures capacity
Government Reforms — French Feudal Nobility, Legacy of the Ottomans, Mughal Diwan, Legacy of Kublai Khan, Bohemian Commonwealth, Mandala System, Iroquois Reforged Law of Peace, Partitio Reform, Restored Rule of the Latins: reduced by 33–67%
Laws — Allow Foreign Rituals: changed from flat +1 to +20% cultures capacity modifier
Literacy is class-stratified — nobles, clergy, and burghers have more avenues to high literacy than peasants, soldiers, and laborers.
Advance overrides
- Written Alphabet: global +5 → +2
- Printing Press: global +10 → +5 nobles / +5 clergy / +5 burghers
- Innovativeness: global +5 → +5 nobles / +5 clergy / +5 burghers
- the various Buddhist sects had their literacy reduced by similar ratios as above 10 -> 8/3 5-> 5/2
- unique country advances like Novgorod’s birch bark manuscripts had a similar ratio reduction.
Library — class-split bonuses: +3 nobles, +3 clergy, +2 burghers (replaces flat +5)
Regional catch-up advances — four new advances provide partial offsets for Western Europe, Colonial powers, and East Asia
Ship costs no longer balloon across the ages. Flat gold prices are unchanged — the runaway expense came from a mix of the doubling flat gold cost and the market goods each hull demanded, which spiked hard in the Absolutism age. Those curves are now smoothed.
The flat gold doubling could not be tuned easily – costs still double each age but the transport and light ship base costs are greatly reduced for accesibility.
- Light & transport ships — build-material cost grows by gentle, consistent increments with the Age-5 spike removed (light-ship lumber 4 → 6 → 8 → 11 → 14 → 18 instead of …10 → 16 → 20).
- Heavy ships & galleys — rescaled to stay clearly the expensive hulls without the exponential late-game jump.
- Maintenance — upkeep goods reduced and de-spiked for all four hull types; heavy ships remain the priciest to keep afloat.
- Unique flagships — Ship of the Line and Cakradonya rescaled to track the new curves.
A social-mobility system for dharmic realms.
- Brahmin Ritual Primacy, Kshatriya Martial Order, Jati Occupational Order — caste privileges granting order, martial steadiness and revenue at the cost of frozen social mobility.
- The Varna Order reform codifies the hierarchy for an extra avenue of rule, trading away mobility and flexibility.
- Reform the Caste Order event — loosen gradually, abolish caste outright, or uphold it; reform triggers a Caste Upheaval settling into a Reformed Social Order.
A bureaucratic-advancement system for keju realms.
- Scholar-Gentry Examinations and Examination Lineages — an able, studious administration whose narrow, costly path keeps office in gentry hands.
- The Imperial Examinations reform makes the keju the spine of the state for an extra avenue of rule, throttling mobility and recruitment.
- Reform the Examinations event — broaden the curriculum, abolish the exams, or keep them; reform triggers an Examination Upheaval settling into a Reformed Bureaucracy.
Requires: Flavorium Universalis | Compatible with EU5 1.3.* | Multiplayer synchronized
