I love this mod but please for the love of god allow extremists to be appointed to be prime minister if the head of state is extremist and add an opinion modifer for the head of state being in government because my french run got completely ruined because the communists won the election and then I couldnt appoint any prime minister and the communists revolted for no reason whilst I was trying to pass their laws

If you don't find yourself resonating with this mod from the get-go, do not keep going with it, it will only feel worse to you the more you interact with it. There is so little you can do to influence anything other than hoping for the right momentum-related events to play out during an election. Like if you have a cabinet with low-synergy, you're screwed, but also there's literally nothing you can do to influence synergy once you hire out your cabinet positions. Need to pass a law to get out of the grid-lock? You can't. So you have to either accelerate a death-spiral and hope for a good revolution or (once again) just wait for something to change.

Lots of fun ideas in this mod, but very poor implementation and quality control. It's not a dig on the modder(s), it's just a fact of limited resources and time. I would love to see a hard look at the features this mod has and some reworks implemented based off that.

This mod is a waste of time to learn. The scope is too big to be balanced correctly and it’s better at inhibiting the player than adding opportunities. There are way too many dead-ends where you can get stuck. For example, if you're playing an underdeveloped nation and end up with armed-neutrality with a huge land-owner class, you're going to just sit around and wait for the game to happen at you and pray that something changes so you can actually play the game. You're not rewarded for playing well because you need radicals and movements to make changes. There's a difference between more realistic political machinations and more interesting political machinations. No one wants to play a stagnant back-water and actually be forced to be stagnant for decades. It's insane that your own monarch will veto legislation that the player tries to get passed. Who is "swaying" the different parties then? Am I the ruler, the prime minister, the nation's spirit, or some god? Give us some agency!

To add to a previous comment, once fascism gets unlocked it just explodes - completely without reason. All other conservative, traditionalist and authoritarian IGs arent popular at all, the socialists and liberals win every election, theres next to no negative radicals (i forgot the word, the ones with the red fist icon). I think this really needs to be worked on? Theres also just no answer to it. The crisis of the state fires again and again, and you cant get rid of them.

Also I do like the "true secularism" and "true Cosmopolitanism" Laws, however, I'm currently in a situation where I have a socialst country ruled by the typical Communists, Agrarians socialists, and Trade Unionists. My communists dominate the party having 30% clout, and the others have roughly 8% collectively.

My journal for the true cosmopolitanism law is not progressing simply because I have one party in government which happens to be internationalist and another which is nationalist.

The progress should get weighed by amount of clout too rather than just the number of parties who believe in internationalism vs nationalism. A 2% Agrarian socialist party should not be able to hang up progress on adopting cosmoplitanism.

Are there any conditions by which Austria can be unified to make super germany while playing as prussia? Do they just need to get knocked down from Great Power?

I am having an issue with a law getting to the voting phase and at 100% success and just repeating the cycle indefinitely so it never gets passed.

what the ♥♥♥♥ is that overtuned springtime of peoples? i've got the most liberal country on earth, all freedoms you can get in 1848 and they're still 100% militant with ~50% support??? cmon it's way too overtuned, i appreciate your work and i can't play without bpm but that's ridiculous

The author overlooks an issue: by simplistically designing the legal system of autocracy to directly deduct the political power of the common population, the author causes the political power of the common population in some small countries to drop to zero once subsistence farmers are eliminated. As a result, political influence is evenly distributed among various interest groups.

@Jolc3r It increases political attractiveness for labor movements along with the socialist and communist movements.

What does labor consciousness target do? I tried looking up what this modifier is but I don't see any mention of what this is.

@Gnarlycuga that's what I did. changes I posted are already integrated in BPM 2.5

I am having a weird issue where the Fascist IG explodes in my country and they get up to 70% or higher clout, but then when they get in government their clout and membership numbers dramatically drop by 40% clout and 4+ million members. I am not sure what is causing this.

i was abused while play testing for 2.5

@Ignatich if you want to help contribute to improving the mod and post bug reports, the devs are way more active on the BPM discord and your posts are more likely to be seen there, you could become a contributor if you wish :)

Does anyone else have the issue that the failed radical fighting journal entry gives me Unified Executive law and a permanent interim government synergy penalty because I can't appoint a PM? Is there a quickfix for this?

I've fixed borken culture triggers and added missing functionality from new update like separatism, cultural awakening and fervor. Most of the work is with movements. This fixes stramge movements with wrong ideologies and super stable ottomans with fervor and support separatism having no effect.

Here's mini-mod with the fixes:
https://www.sendspace.com/file/blsrem

Is it normal that Argentina's color changed to dark blue?

Here's fixed version of zzzz_bpm_cultural_movement.txt. I added movement_minority_rights and fixed most of obvious problems trying to keep it close to vanilla while keeping BPM changes.

https://pastebin.com/H7uVg2cg

Untested!

it seems this mod wasn't properly updated for 1.10. Political movements code doesn't have code for support nationalism diplomatic action and triggers weren't updated for new culture system. For example:
culture = { has_discrimination_trait = heritage_group_south_asian }
should be
culture = { has_discrimination_trait_group = heritage_group_south_asian }

Old code (from BPM 2.4):
shares_heritage_and_other_trait_with_any_primary_culture = root.owner


New code from vanilla 1.10:

AND = {
shares_heritage_trait_with_any_primary_culture = root.owner
OR = {
shares_language_trait_group_with_any_primary_culture = root.owner
shares_tradition_trait_with_any_primary_culture = root.owner
}
}

Use of old triggers resul in minority revolts demanding national supremacy for example.

I'll try to patch locally but hopefully maintainers will see this post and address the problem.

are we play 1.11.0 ?

Is Economic and Financial Mod (E&F) work normal with this mod ?

or at least Steam is screwing me over with not updating stuff correctly

You have typo in building group: "bg_artillery_foundaries"

Does anyone know how to selectively boost trade unions over revolutionary socialists? I'm trying to get the syndicalism journal entry done and they seem way too similar to boost just one over the other.

Ottomans are way too stable now.

Do interest groups no longer have traits?

Not sure if its cause of the mod but when playing bolivia i am attacked by Chile, Brazil and most of the time New Granada in early 1837, before i can build a single barrack

Why is france trying to Annex Hungary or Croatia or other countries during revolution time?

Why does Austria keep becoming a republic?

Heyy, I get significant lag when opening overview page of politics menu... I play on my megacampaign and would like to try vicky 3 with it, but with such lag in overview menu I think I cant enjoy it :( To better describe it, when I click overview in politics, I need to wait like 5 seconds to unfreeze the game.. with 7800X3D :/

Imposibble to play with ottomans

Can be launched with Cold war?

Could you please fix the U.S., Texas, Hudson's Bay Company, The Colombia District, The East india company, and the Dutch east indies starting as atheist?

Does this Mod remove corporatism ?

Love this mod! As an avid reader of late 18th century history, the added flavor and political depth really makes this a game changer for those who are a fan of historical playthroughs. just enough railroading to incentivize playing in accord with the countries material and social conditions, but still feel like you have agency and can steer the ship. Keep up the great work!!!

This is the best mod ever made for this game! I can't play Victoria 3 without it. Keep up the amazing work!

Is it possible to make the Two-Party system thing happen on every American election, not just the ones on the 4 year cylce?

The mod is amazing, it may lack some polish, but makes up for it in the ever increasing amount of mechanics and flavor, it adds a new level of complexity to the political system. They're dropping a new interest group and laws in the near future on the beta branch, news on updates can be found on their discord.

Yeah it's a very good mod. Sometimes there need some hotfixes but the team responds quickly and they are fixed. Great mod of course.

All I'm seeing here is criticism. The mod is beautiful guys, thank you so much. Literally can't play the game without it. Not to discredit others' experiences but I'm not seeing any issues with the frequency of revolutions in my run

For some reason there is always like 10 revolutions in majors all at once in like 1840

way way way too many revolutions in AI nations. Unplayable for me currently

so many revolutions from the start of the name in every state in the german region

Still can't see revolutions

Is it only me or does forming germany require 5% national liberals and they are impossible to get?

Can we design a mechanism to allow political parties to dissolve and recombine? In a direct election system, if the Lowland Federation is established and certain laws are enacted, the legislative capacity will always be zero. This is simply because of ideological conflicts. How can there be conflicts and yet nothing can be done while still forming political parties?

The mod is interesting the first 50 years.
After that, once you settle in your preferred laws, you just have to keep the supporting IGs happy and you will not see any revolutions.

Also, with rigidity increasing, I found it almost impossible to adopt any other opposing laws when a group of IGs become entranched.

Staple countries have external events that stir things up, but more "common" countries are more like auto pathing by 1870 :).

Monarchy should give +100 authority imo

So the fascists support „advisory body” and „appointed on advice” which is an ISSUE because this way a fascist PM can never be appointed by the king because he is „anti-establishment” and „extremist”. Essentially when there is a high support for the fascists the governemnt becomes impossible to form! please fix