Better Ideologies
Update 2.0
Added new subideology icons for each subideology in base game. Adjusted colours of the ideologies, bit less saturated now. Redone the workshop pictures.
A rebalance of the four base game ideologies, aiming to make each slightly more independent and unique while nerfing and buffing where needs be. Overall, this is a nerf to fascism and communism in some aspects, such as improving relations and stability. Democratic nations now have the ability to either puppet a nation or just change their ruling party. Should help with peace deals, such as changing Italy’s government or Japan’s. Non-aligned nations now have their restrictive debuffs removed.
Democracy
Volunteer Forces Now has the ability to send volunteer forces.
Justify War Can now justify war on nations that haven’t generated WT.
Subversive Activity Efficiency Since democracies are mostly founded on a strong and stable footing, many in the population do not wish for this to change, thus making boosting ideologies for example slightly harder.
Trade Deal Opinion Factor Improved trade relations from trading with other nations. Hopefully will increase incentive to use trade laws such as Free Trade or Export Focus early game to build up diplomacy.
Tension Limits Most have been adjusted to fit when WT will become a major point for the player, the game will usually hit between 40-50% after Danzig or War, when the democracies should be able to use most of their power without restrictions.
Justification when at war with a Major Originally only unique to Germany, this allows justification of wars 30% quicker for democracies. Should hopefully make playing a democracy more fun, such as invading Saudi Arabia to get more Oil.
Drift Defense Similar to Subversive efficiency, drift defense will make flipping a nation even harder now. Should prevent cheese strats such as boosting fascism in US & UK to win as Germany.
Force Government Can now, instead of puppetting a nation, can release them as a democracy, completely independent. Should give more options in democractic peace deals.
Fascism
Force Government Cannot force a government in a peace deal, however, this doesn’t prevent Fascist nations from puppetting, which would make more sense in-game and historically anyway.
Population Recruitable population and monthly population has been reduced, to show how fascist nations enacted reforms on people they disliked. Jewish people in Germany weren’t allowed to serve if found Jewish and Communists in the nation were killed for following said ideology. Overall this lowers the manpower from laws by -10% and monthly growth by -10%. Many nations already have focuses which increase recruitable population, so this will be a nerf, but something the player can work around.
War Support Due to being highly militaristic, fascist nations now get a stock +5% War Support buff.
Relations Both improving relations via the political tab or through trade is now -10% less effective, due to the poor opinion of fascist nations at the time and their nationalistic focuses.
Annex Cost Annexing states in peace deals is now 15% cheaper, allowing for expansion of your empire quicker and easier.
Justification when at war with a Major Lowered from 90% to 60%, as 90% was way too high, and allowed for fascist nations to easily expand whilst other ideologies didn’t have this ability. Lowering will provide target nations to build up easier.
Non-Aligned
Debuff Removal The main benefit to Non-aligned nations is that they now lose their crazy debuffs that are on them in base game. Now, they aren’t limited by WT like a democratic nation and can actually join a war.
Political Power Gain This has been added to reflect the state of how power is established in most non-aligned nations, authoritarian or a monarchy. This is noticeable but not massively impactful.
Influence Factor This has been lowered from 30% to 10%, allowing for them to be realistically flipped, but not too quickly that it’s very easy.
Stability & War Support This has been added to reflect the stability of most of these nations, while there will be some outliers with how big of a scope non-aligned ranges over.
Trade Deal Opinion Factor To prevent non-aligned nations from being too powerful trade wise, they now lose 10% opinion through trading, making it a little bit harder to improve relations via trading as these nations.
Communism
Force Government Cannot force a government in a peace deal, however, this doesn’t prevent Communist nations from puppetting, which would make more sense in-game and historically anyway.
Consumer Goods Under a communist government, many nations encountered food and goods shortages as the government was either inept at fixing said issues or were preparing for larger, more militaristic, ideas. This trait represents how the population rely on less to survive, for the good of the revolution.
Stability Due to being a very volatile type of government, communist nations are hit with a small -5% stability modifier, this won’t matter too much as a minor but will be quite important to watch out for as playing as the Soviets or Communist France.
Trade Deal Opinion Factor Due to being an extreme ideology, trade deals are harder to improve relations over for communist nations.
Puppet Cost Spreading the revolution is one of the main proponents of a communist system, so the puppet cost % has been increased from -15% to -30%.
Justification when at war with a Major Added this factor in to 60%, which is now equal to fascism’s newer percentage.
Overall, this mod attempts to rebalance each ideology to make them uniquely distinct as well as make them more historically accurate.
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
