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Japan Expanded

@513k0m0r1 Please feel free to do so!

日本語に対応させて欲しいです
I want it to be compatible with Japanese

What about to add the possibility to create historical protectorates?

@ Portal#0 Well if I gave you any good ideas then I'm glad for that. I would say though that I'd be interested in just working it on my own. I'm interested in learning how to mod the game (I enjoy design and balance). If you like anything I come up with, we can just be integrate. I would just like to use what you have as a start point. Maybe I could help out with those other mods once I figure it out.

Just FYI, it looks like the North/South Resource Area focuses (foci?) require that the states be owned, not controlled. This seems like an oversight, considering those can only be owned by winning the war (and by that point the game is effectively over).

Sorry for the belated response guys but thank you for your thoughtful discussions. I'll make a small update to the mod with some of the easier suggestions before I consider how to implement the more technical ones.

@vengefulscorpio Thanks very much for your interest. It may be slightly difficult for me currently though as I'm a dev for the Second Sengoku and Hagakure mods, so I'm usually committed there. As for your colonial police suggestion, I was considering a special native police law that utilized the Nanyo Kohatsu company (which historically aided in Indonesian logistics too). I'll try to get that balanced and added soon.

@kucsidaveee I've changed the decisions to now work on puppet controlled states. While I tried to implement your Showa Steel works idea, the downside is how detrimental it is for Manchukuo to lose so much steel, since resource rights grant all of the resource in a state. I'll see if there is alternative that would work better.

One thing I noticed is that you need direct control over the territories in the prospect for resources decisions. Could you also make those being able to do so if your puppet has them like the focuses?

@Portal #0
I realize it is incredibly presumptuous to just talk about overhauling your mod. However, I would be genuinely interested in helping develop something like this. I really do like how elegant and lightweight this sort of expansion is.

@kucsidavee
Sure it can be any sort of combination of those mechanics. Yes, part of my idea is that with each focus it expands the given bonus to each region. My real point is that "Exploit the Southern Resource Area" and "Develop Chinese Resources" are quite anticlimactic endpoints for the tree.

So as an example: "Strike on the Southern Resource Area" unlocks "Enforce Indonesian Liberation": [Allows the use of "Colonial Police" (or equivalent) in Indonesian cores]; and related ones for other territories ("Enforce Philippines, Enforce Burma, etc.) follows suit. And then they can build up to like a capstone "Prosperous Integration" which boosts the mechanic and some other things. And then this would dovetail with "Pacific Dominion": [Gain Claim on all previously unclaimed Pacific States.] to lead into "Empire of the Rising Sun", which would be some sort of big (but not broken) buff.

@vengefulscorpio
Now claims are a good way to help an integration process considering they give a 5% compliance growth, and a -5% to resistance target.
That is not an overpowered bonus at all, and can even be useful on already owned territories.
Maybe the Southern Colonies tree could also give a claims on the islands you already have for this bonus.
Using a claim not for the purpouses of expansion but stabilisation is something I have never seen, and would be unique.
Also special occupation laws like the Italian colonial police could also be a solution, and I like that better because it is a toggle you can flip on/off, and it is easier to read than clicking on each state one by one to see which one has the bonus. You can also gradually improve garrison laws and could easily expand which territories can have those laws.

I can certainly appreciate the history, but the game flow should also be rooted in the players actions. Though I can agree that coring something like Java is admittedly a little intense, in both a historical and game balance way. (I really like the dev's idea to have Exploit North/South do some coring as well.)
Perhaps something instead like the local modifiers that boost manpower and resource gain like Expanded Corporatism/ Novus Ordo from the Italian Tree. With a capstone of something like Pacific Dominion, which just gives claims on all land in/bordering the Pacific (and maybe some other bonuses).