Balance & Flavor Mod
The Balance and Flavor Mod aims to introduce more flavor for the great powers in Europe during the time period of Victoria. Changes have also been made that will hopefully lead to less of France and Austria completely dominating Europe for the entire game and make way for the rising power of Germany.
Features
General Features
-Liberals are now nationalists, and the ability to pass multiculturalism/cultural exclusion is locked behind the assimilationist leader ideology. The ideology appears when Civilizing Mission is researched.
Austria
-Rework of Austria’s starting laws to be more regressive. (Serfdom, Land-based Tax and Agrarianism)
-Event chain for Austria’s involvement in the revolutions of 1848 and the Hungarian Revolution.
-Austria-Hungary formed via a new journal entry that is obtained after the Hungarian Revolution is defeated.
France
-Starts the game with National Supremacy instead of Racial Segregation.
-Modifier on French homelands to represent France’s slow population growth in the period.
-Journal entries to remove modifiers for players.
Russia
-Journal chain revolving around the death of Tsar Nicholas I and the reforms of Tsar Alexander II
-Landowners stronger and reforming is more difficult in Russia whilst Nicholas I is alive.
-Alexander III and Nicholas II as rulers of Russia if the reforms fail.
-The death of Nicholas I in the event that Russia loses a major war.
Prussia
-Journal chain for the Ruhr Boom and establishment of the German military-industrial complex
-Population growth modifier upon unifying Germany to allow for historic population growth.
-Now the only continental European nation that starts with Skirmish Infantry.
Italy
-Population growth modifier upon liberating Lombardy and Venice to allow for historic population growth.
Japan
-AI Japan will have the Meiji Restoration in 1868. This may or may not also cause the Boshin War (by pissing off the Landowner IG).
Planned Features
-Danubian Federation formation for Austria
-Some flavor for the British
-Flavor for the USA (that hasn’t already been covered by an existing mod)
Recommended Mods
Better Population Growth
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2896311277&searchtext=growth
Balancing of France’s population growth was done with this mod. France has negative population growth for the first few years in vanilla otherwise.
Compatibilities
(Mostly) compatible with Norton’s Flavor Mod. Load my mod after NFM.
Soft incompatibility with Community Project Mod (as both mods have an event chain for the Hungarian Revolution. They theoretically should work together as my mod only overwrites one vanilla file, but you are likely to get weird things like the Hungarian Revolution firing once via my mod and another via CPM.
Soft incompatibility with any mod that modifies on_action capitulate. The death of Nicholas I will not occur if you lose a major war as Russia, but the event chain will continue to function as normal when the journal entry expires.
