Easier Confederation (Updated)
The only purpose of this mod is to make confederation easier when you have good relations. If I was to give an estimation, it should be around 30% easier to confederate someone. All conditions still apply, like the relative strength of your faction compared to the one you are trying to confederate, diplomatic traits, etc. This mod only gives more weight to relations when you are friendly, very friendly or a trusted friend of the other faction. It doesn’t change anything else than confederation in the diplomacy system.
I made this mod because I always find it annoying that I can’t confederate some allies late game that I protected too much. Ironically, it makes them far less likely to accept a confederation because they don’t feel threatened enough.
While I want confederation to be easier to achieve with high relations, I don’t want it to be too easy though. In some cases like major factions, you should still need to also give money for them to accept.
If you want a mod that makes it even easier to confederate, use this more powerful version instead :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2698306694
This mod is save game compatible and can be activated/deactivated mid campaign without any issue.
Regarding the AI :
Unfortunately, this kind of changes to modifiers seem to affect both the AI and the player.
That being said, it probably doesn’t benefit the AI that much compared to without the mod because they already have big bonuses related to confederation anyway.
In conjunction with my mod, you could use this mod that removes the AI confederation bonuses to counterbalance things :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1184881032
