Victoria 3

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GDP Growth Rate: Improved

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Description
GDP Growth Rate: Improved
Formerly GDP Growth Rate Fixed

A fork of Sena Lee's GDP Growth Rate Mod.

GDPGR:I tracks four (or eight, depending on how you count it) data values for every country, updated monthly or annually:
  • GDP growth last month
  • Rolling average of monthly GDP growth in the last 12 months
  • Moving window annual GDP growth, shown between the start of the current month and the same month last year
  • Fixed window annual GDP growth between the start of the current year and last year
    • This is the only data point the original GDPGR mod provided, and it behaves the same way here.
For all four, both the absolute difference and the relative/percentage change is calculated and displayed.

These data points paint a more clear picture about the GDP trend of your country, allowing you to see your progress both holistically on a year-to-year basis as well as more granularly month-to-month. This better informs you about how your country is doing in the long-term as well as how your most recent developments are affecting your economy.

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The original mod has some disagreeable implementation details that made it incompatible with existing saves and was overall not very programmer-friendly or flexible.

This is a clone of the mod that should provide the same core functionality, but written in a better way that's (A) compatible with existing saves, and (B) much more simple in execution.

Created originally as a proof of concept so I could show it to the mod author.

This does NOT require the original mod. Please place this mod below (closer to the bottom than) the original mod in your playset if you happen to have both for some reason.
26 Comments
1230james  [author] Jun 1 @ 12:04pm 
Something like that would be out of scope for this mod.
Vantila Jun 1 @ 6:54am 
Should have beenin the base game. Thank you!

Suggestion: Yearly news event pop-up that looks like a Financial Times newspaper page that tells you that your GDP grew X amount this year.
1230james  [author] Mar 17 @ 1:16pm 
...what compatibility patch?
dada416 Mar 17 @ 10:35am 
why it dont work??? im using the comptabbility patch
1230james  [author] Nov 11, 2024 @ 6:17pm 
😐
MasterOfGrey Nov 11, 2024 @ 3:01pm 
FYI, for some reason Better Construction Queue, and Dense UI 1.7 both overwrite this, even though they shouldn't need to.
Georg3mx Nov 7, 2024 @ 3:30am 
does it work with the global gdp share mod?
Tosun Paşa Nov 6, 2024 @ 4:14am 
Thanks for explanations and mod.
1230james  [author] Nov 4, 2024 @ 7:10pm 
@Tosun Paşa
The author of the Global Stats mod says the compatch has been updated
1230james  [author] Nov 2, 2024 @ 3:37pm 
The growth rate in the GDP tooltip (the main one, not the one with the 4 trends in it) is now derived from the 12-month monthly rolling average. Specifically, it's whatever that is multiplied by 12.

I did this because it offers the most smooth [projected] annual growth rate on a monthly basis.

The original behavior was to just show the fixed window annual growth, which I think is inappropriate considering that the data gets stale as the year goes on, and much can change about your growth trend within a year. You can see in some of the examples in the thumbnail (e.g., France, Qing, Korea) that their GDP growth based on the fixed window annual growth showed a decline in GDP, but the graph generally shows an upwards trend, which the rolling average correctly reflects.

I decided against using the moving window annual growth since that is still susceptible to drastic, one-off swings like the fixed window stat. Using the rolling average dampens the effects of outliers.