Devastating Occupations
This mod hijacks the devastation system to make occupations during wars more impactful and realistic.
In vanilla, occupations tend to have very little effect on the economies of the occupied countries. They continue to collect taxes even from fully occupied states and the states will remain within their "Market", thus contributing to, among other things, the military industry where applicable even after years of occupation by a hostile power.
With this mod, occupation will increase devastation rapidly, to a point where the state’s owner can no longer tax the population, nor will the state be able to access the owner’s market. I’ve also tweaked devastation to leave agricultural output largely unaffected to (hopefully) avoid automatic famines in occupied states, and devastation (no matter the source) will now tick down a lot faster as well.
I made this mod for personal use along with a number of other simple tweaks, with realism and historical accuracy as my goals. But since I couldn’t find any existing mods that alter occupation I thought I’d share this. If you decide to try it out, I’d appreciate any comments and/or feedback.
