Overview of Features
- Balanced and expanded economy with new and alternative production chains, including 16 new goods and over 20 additional factories
- Modified POP behavior and domestic and foreign migration – more focus on available jobs and reforms and not just the presenece of “Democracy”
- Entirely re-written promotion system, so that well-off pops promote and poor pops demote
- Research point generation modified and balanced to emphasize literacy and clergy but factor in contributions from bureaucrats, capitalists, and clerks
- Revised and rebalanced tech tree, with over 100 new inventions -- it allows viable alternative paths of development rather than favoring “super techs” and breaks technology rollouts down into smaller advances (e.g., there’s more than one way to get the minimum liferating you need after 1880)
- More important role for National Focus
- Completely reworked political system, leading to greater synergy between the Upper House and government
- Revised rebels and revolutions, including event-based subsystems and "patriots" that reclaim territory
- Revised military units (e.g., distinguishing professional regulars from colonial or mobilized reserve brigades) and military combat system, including terrain combat modifiers
- Revised Casus Belli system and infamy costs, promoting sensible AI use of wargoals and making it impractical to swallow large uncivilized countries in a single bite
- Great Wars & Infamy Wars, increasing the scope of late game wars
- New unification mechanics for many cultural unions such as Germany, Italy, Arabia and Scandinavia to make these realistically achievable
- Over 50 new countries exiting at-start or that can form during the game, including many from the New Nations Mod
- Hundreds of new events and decisions, including the Taiping Rebellion, the Congress of Berlin, the Oriental Crisis, the British Dominions and the Boer Wars among many others
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
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