5 Factories "PER_LINE" – HOI 3 Style Building! More Construction Projects

This is my favorite little Mod! It changes the amount of Factories you can construct with to 5! Which means finally more construction projects at the same time!

Its for people who want to have more flexibility in their construction efforts. Its Compatible with Save-Games & all other Mods.

I was playing with this change for about a week now myself and thought others might enjoy it as well so here it is packaged in a little mod! ^^

As some people were requesting a faster overall speed as limiting the Factories to 5 does slow down Construction time so if you dislike that fact I just made 2 Companion Mods that are compatible with this Mod:

"Construction Speed +50%":
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2106360006

"Construction Speed +100%":
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2106360386

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For other versions please see here:

"10 Factories "PER_LINE" – More Construction Projects"
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2128800851

"25 Factories "PER_LINE"
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2126676299

"50 Factories "PER_LINE"
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2125821227

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Effects of the Change:

-Limiting Building to 5 Factories per Construction Project enables you and the AI to build more buildings at the same time which is especially nice for nations that do not have 100 Civ factories to start with.

– Even for big countries it is not really making them weaker because they can build more stuff at the same time which balances things out quite nicely.

-It improves the value of having high infrastructure across more states(compared to the 2 – 3 states where normally nearly all construction is concentrated) as the construction speed buffs become more meaningful.

-It spreads Construction over a longer period which prevents the rediculously fast construction speeds late game with high tech, national modifier and adviser which makes the big countries often suddenly explode in power and end the game too soon.

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Overview:

The game sadly does not allow you to allocate how many factories you want to be using for construction and forces you to use all factories on one project even if you would like to split them up between projects so this mod had to be made!

I had to furiously look through the game-files how to be able to change it and I found it in the end in the defines.lua file and it is awesome! 😀 (From experience I can say it feels a bit more like HOI3-Style building but not THAT slow. ; ) ) More choices/options for the player and the AI!

But don’t take my word for it just try it out and see for yourself!

-context for the building duration shown in the pictures: This is early mobilization law & absolutely no Industrial technology or advisers so it will go quite a bit faster later in the game! As you can see with 5 factories everything still builds reasonably fast considering its only 5 factories with no construction boni except for the one from export focus.

I put it under Historical because well I think it is not very historical that you cannot allocate your construction efforts between projects! Also late-game with full tech and modifiers from national foci, adviser etc you can build a factory in a mere month and road systems in about a week which is pretty a-historic even with good tech and a competent workforce.

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Some further notes regarding balance:

I have playtested this change already quite a bit and also am playing a lot with this change already (actually I only play with this setting now ^^) Balance wise I compared among how the countries were progressing in the world war, the factories that countries have 1936 and what they had after 1939 from 15 factories games and 5 factories games and from my experience it didn’t alter the amount of factories countries had much and it didn’t seem to gimp any countries or make any OP.

The war also went like you would expect it to go pretty much. It seems to possibly make Russia a bit more stable as I did not see the Ai bumrush the Russians to capitulation like it sometimes does in Vanilla.

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Full Changelog:

– MAX_CIV_FACTORIES_PER_LINE = 5 (Instead of 15)

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Compatibility:

This mod is compatible with most (if not all) other mods!
All it changes is the "MAX_CIV_FACTORIES_PER_LINE = 5" that you can find in the 00_defines.lua file. (but it does not replace that file I created a new file that only contains that 1 line of code so even if another mod replaces something in the 00_defines.lua as well it should still be compatible!) As long as the other mod does not change this particular line of code the mod will be compatible!

Feel free to integrate the code of my Mod into your own Mod/Mods as you see fit!

Take Care and Have Fun!