NSB Update

I know I've been saying NSB compatibility was going to have to wait until I'd met certain development milestones, but I got so sick of switching between game versions that I decided to just go ahead and put in the work to make Solus Rex run in 1.11. There's basically no new content in this version, just compatibility and bug fixes, although the switch to characters did prompt me to name two of the AWR's theorists that had previously used randomly-generated names.

Guns of the Patriots Preview 5B

Just a quick patch to the version I uploaded only a few minutes ago. I realized I broke the Blizzard Plan path by removing the option to clear the agricultural crisis by owning Nebraska, so I fixed it. Other than that, this version is identical to the previous upload.

Guns of the Patriots Preview 5

- Continued work on the AWR focus tree, this time focusing on the Chaplin Plan branch, which had basically just been a series of placeholders up to now.
- More or less finished implementation of the decisions needed to clear the agricultural crisis as AWR, though they may still need some balancing work.
- Toned down the Great Game decisions a bit--subjugation targets now have to have a core state in reach, not just any state.
- Fixed a few small bugs.
- Made several cosmetic changes.

Guns of the Patriots Preview 4

- Added a custom game icon.
- Continued work on the AWR focus tree.
- Added several events for the AWR invasion of the Great Plains.
- Added a propaganda decision to convert war support into stability during wartime.
- Added a portrait for Charles Maurras.
- Added description text for the last news event in the German federalization chain.
- Made a few small map tweaks.

Guns of the Patriots Preview 3

- Retooled the generic focus tree.
- Continued work on the AWR focus tree.
- Implemented a mockup system for the German Confederation to become the German Federation.
- Added a few news events.
- Removed cores for Transylvania.
- Made a few cosmetic changes.
- Fixed various small bugs.

Guns of the Patriots Preview 2

More updates to the AWR. A few updates to the Russian SSR. Updates to economics and expansion mechanics (Great Game / International Revolution). Moving toward Kaiserreich-style factions that can only be joined and left by event.

Guns of the Patriots Preview
The first public update in over two years. There are too many changes to name. Compatible with 1.10.8. Full of gaps and missing localizations. Guns of the Patriots focuses on the USA and American Workers' Republic. Guns of the Patriots will be considered finished when the following criteria are met:
- The revamp to partisans and civil wars is finished.
- The revamp to the generic national focus tree is finished.
- The focus trees and events for the USA and AWR are sufficient to give both countries multiple paths to either reuniting the former United States in their own image or accepting Balkanization and finding their place in a post-US world.
- There are no missing localizations.
Once Guns of the Patriots is done, the current plan is to move to South America for a bit. Regional conflicts are taking priority at this phase of development so that global conflicts will have more of a context to work within.

Surprise Bonus Update
- When the coup system was added in the previous update, progressives and liberals were left out of it, because I wasn't sure exactly how to implement their relationship with each other and with conservatism. In light of recent events, I've gone ahead and added couping for progressives and liberals, because it felt awfully silly not to let them do it.
- Made some tweaks to how coups work, to make them easier to pull off (requires 33% party support instead of 40%, but no longer works if any other party has >50% support).
- Made some slight tweaks to Prussia's focus tree (starting to work in the appease/offend mechanic introduced in the previous update).
- Filled in California's missing leaders.
- Made some updates to the starting OOBs for California and the Pacific Union.

Guns of the South (Part 2) Update

CSA-Specific Changes
- Added generic "appease [ideology]ists" and "offend [ideology]ists" scripted effects, which are macros for a series of if-thens that relieve or increase partisan pressure to varying degrees. These were designed for the CSA focus tree, to replace a long series of complicated if-thens, but they'll be worked into other focus trees in the future and could also be used for decisions, events, etc.
- Made some other small tweaks to CSA focuses.
Non-CSA Country Changes
- Changed Tuscany's starting government to integralist and made Tuscany start as a puppet of Austria-Hungary.
- Changed the map colors of Prussia, Norway, and Denmark.
- Buffed the starting OOB for texas so it has some prayer of surviving a civil war.
- Scrapped the old national focus tree for Britain. Britain will use the generic focus tree until a new one is made.
- Fixed some minor national focus bugs for Japan, the Ottoman Empire, Prussia, and the Russian SSR.
Generic Decision Changes
- Created a new category for generic decisions ("state security actions") and reshuffled some decisions into it.
- Added a decision to coup the government under certain circumstances ("[ideology]ist coup").
- Slightly nerfed the "close unprofitable factories" decision, because it was making "austerity measures" pretty much useless.
Other Gameplay Changes
- Removed R56/ETaT from the mod. There may still be a few scattered remnants I missed. I'd like to re-add it later if we get all our stability issues fixed, they get all their stability issues fixed, and we get permission from ETaT.
- Added options to the events that add/remove ideology pressure, allowing the player to spend 10 political power to increase or decrease the ideology popularity by 1%.
Cosmetic Changes
- Renamed "communism" (ideology) to "vanguardism."
- Created new ideology icons to replace the old ones.
- Fixed some missing localizations.

Planned Future Updates:
- Guns of the Patriots - Focusing on the USA
- Untitled - Focusing on the AWR

Guns of the South (Part 1) Update

- Greatly expanded the CSA's focus tree.
- Slightly expanded the AWR, Austria, and Mexico's focus trees.
- Added an event chain for the AWR to buy Hispaniola from the CSA.
- Added an event chain for Texas to secede from the CSA.
- Changed the starting political situations of the CSA, Spain, and Catalonia.
- Deleted all starting naval units and production that were incompatible with 1.6.
- Added 1.6/MtG starting naval units and techs for the CSA.
- Made major changes to generic decisions, including making most of them cheaper.
- Turned off unscripted civil wars, because they cause CTDs in 1.6 for some reason.
- Changed the country politics window back to vanilla's.
- Made numerous other bug-fixes and cosmetic changes.

Planned Future Updates:
- Guns of the South (Part 2)
- Guns of the Patriots - Focusing on the USA
- Untitled - Focusing on the AWR