Heya mod devs! First off. Great mod. I personally love such mods.

But I do have a couple things to criticise and suggest.

Resource buildings!
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They give too much. Yeah, sorry. But uh... Being able to make 180 steel appear out of nowhere is a bit...Busted but also redundant. Most majors have more than enough steel at the start. (Especially the USSR, Germany, USA and France.) I personally would nerf some of the resource buildings to output only like 50% of their original value.

Or. Even better. Give options in the game setup options that enable/disable resource buildings or that allow the player to choose how much these buildings produce. (Such as choosing in 10% increments from 10 to 100% of the current value.)

Propaganda buildings!
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Leader traits that give things such as permanent ticking war support or stability are already considered some of the most powerful ones around. So being able to set up a building which gives double of what these leader traits give but also in both war support and stability is...overpowered. Not to mention that the limit is only there by how many states you own. For certain nations like the USA where war support is a major bottleneck in them coming online it's going to be...very unbalanced if they deploy 2 or 3 of them and end up with 100% base war support by like mid 37 or early 38. So I'd reduce it down to 0.05% war support and stability per building. Or like I suggested before. Give the ability to regulate if they are even allowed to be used and if they are, decide how effective they are.

I want to remind you, the reader. That once you place it, it will spit out ws and st indefinitely without any future investment needed. See it as a watered down war propaganda and improved worker conditions decision that is permanently active without any downsides or future investments needed.

Research Centers!
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Cool on paper. But busted. At least in their current form. General research boosts are rare and not very powerful for a reason. With the most powerful tech being advanced computing which is by like...42 if I remember correctly and doesn't even give the equivialent of 2 labs. So yeah...I think you can see the issue there, dear reader.
Again. Give people the option to enable/disable them and give them the ability to set their effectivity in the game settings. (20% increments would be fine. So you can choose between a 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5% buff per building.)

Social Complexes!
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With the release of Arms Against Tyranny (AAT), a new system handling consumer goods has been implemented. Splitting consumer goods into a base "Expected Consumer Goods" and "Consumer Goods Modifier" stat.

To not get too much into math, if the modifier governs how strong the effectiveness of "Expected Consumer Goods", say if the modifier is at 70%, the expected goods amount will be multiplied by *0.7 and the value that comes out of that equation will be the percentage that will be how many of your factories will be occupied by it.

So.

Civ economy = 35% expected consumer goods. So 35% of all factories will be occupied in civilian factories. I.e if you have 100 civilian factories and 75 military factories and 25 dockyards, 35% will result in 70 of your civilian factories to be taken.

If you have a spirit or other bonus that gives you a "Consumer Goods Factor -43%", it will set your "Expected" amount down to just 20%.

Math : 100% factor -42% from spirit = 58% factor

35% expected *0.58 factor = 20% expected.

Meaning that in our 100 civ, 75 mil and 25 dockyards example, only 40 of the civs are taken.

Why am I telling you all this?

To understand why the social complex bonus doesn't work anymore/isn't worth building anymore.

To make things clear. PDX themselves multiplied every consumer goods bonus that existed before AAT by 3.

So MEFO bills, which reduced consumer goods by a flat 5% before AAT now reduces the consumer goods factor by 15%. Meaning that PDX thinks that converting every 1% of old consumer goods factor into 3% is balanced.

Here comes my suggestion for the Social Complex.

Instead of the old 1% consumer goods reduction, I suggest changing it to 5%. Why 5%? Mostly so it's cleaner and 3% still would be difficult to justify the investment.

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Industrial Expansions - Suggestion
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This mod would synergize perfectly with the Industrial Expansion mod. As it adds buildings that in total would take up 58 slots in total if I remember correctly. If you built every building of the mod at max level in a coastal state, which would warrant a building that allows you to build more building slots. I honestly can't suggest a much different path from what the mod creator did and add a new tech branch for industrial expansions in the industrial tree. (Just look up Industrial Expansion too see what I mean.)
It would fit right into the mod.

Air achools needing air fields - Suggestion
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I personally am unsure if that suggestion is even possible to implement, but here it goes. I personally liked the fact that naval academies are coastal state exclusive. Which also makes sense. It allows for practical training and is generally more convenient to place a school about ships next to water.

Now it would be cool if air schools could only be built in states where there is an airfield present. It makes more sense to have a school about planes next to an air field. It also limits the placement of schools unless you decide to build more airfields, which is another industrial investment the player has to commit to first.

The idea admittedly has more roleplay reasons than practical ones. But would be cool none the less.

Manufacturing Plants - Suggestion
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With the release of AAT came MIOs came into play. Which take a very long get to speed.
So I suggest a new building. Manufacturing Plants.

Manufacturing plants would give you a global bonus to MIO xp gain. And maybe a small bonus to production efficiency gain. (Which is quite a underused bonus as only 1 technology even bothers boosting it, even though it affects literally every production line you will ever make and use.)

Suggestion would be something around 5% MIO xp and 5% production efficiency gain per plant. It would cost roughly 25k IC and require Advanced or Improved Machine Tools to unlock.

The stats need to be field tested for proper balance.


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To conclude...
It's a cool mod that needs some balance changes or ideally, gives the player the tools they need to customize their experience with said mod.

Hope you have a nice day. Bye!

(I am not liable for any strokes or mental breakdowns caused by types I overlooked.)
(Updated on the 2.11.2023 to accommodate the changes brought by AAT.)