Paradox Studio Thread

[Lurking no more]

I live in hell. I have been working with Claude on what I want for my mod and I have ran into a roadblock. I want to give the first person to discover the Cape of Good Hope the ability to choose whether the area becomes a colonial or trade region. I have the feeling it will take a while before it works, but I don't want to give up on it. If anyone has seen this work in the past with other mods, please let me know.

I haven't modded EU4 in a while, but I think what you'd have to do is make it a trade region, and then make a custom event fire if a European country owns enough provinces in the region to create a new subject. The problem is that while you could have a custom name and color for the colony based on who the overlord is, I don't think there's a way to give it a custom colonial flag based on who the colonizer is. Not to mention you'd also have to custom code events so that this fake colonial country gives the overlord the proper bonuses when it reaches certain sizes.

I can ask around and see if there's a way to do it more properly, but I don't think so.

Edit: Also, if you want some custom tags for post-colonial nations, I have some files still floating around from an old abandoned mod I was making, and I can dig them up if you want. Think things like a proper New England tag (making Vermont more like an Iceland style formable) or the CSA. However, it's old enough that PDX has added in a decent amount of the countries I made tags for, like Sonora or Cuba.

 

[Sooty Soot]

Had my first modded vanilla HoI4 run in a while, played as France with ahistorical AI but I set the USSR to go Trotskyist and America fascist.

 

[Edward "Caesar" Sallow]

I haven't modded EU4 in a while, but I think what you'd have to do is make it a trade region, and then make a custom event fire if a European country owns enough provinces in the region to create a new subject. The problem is that while you could have a custom name and color for the colony based on who the overlord is, I don't think there's a way to give it a custom colonial flag based on who the colonizer is. Not to mention you'd also have to custom code events so that this fake colonial country gives the overlord the proper bonuses when it reaches certain sizes.

I can ask around and see if there's a way to do it more properly, but I don't think so.

Edit: Also, if you want some custom tags for post-colonial nations, I have some files still floating around from an old abandoned mod I was making, and I can dig them up if you want. Think things like a proper New England tag (making Vermont more like an Iceland style formable) or the CSA. However, it's old enough that PDX has added in a decent amount of the countries I made tags for, like Sonora or Cuba.

I have it troubleshooting right now. I'm testing if having both a colonial region and a trade company in South Africa in the files will allow for a player to choose via an event. I want to get a majority of vanilla nations reused before I start working on custom nations. I have a few, and I plan on giving an update on what I have actually implemented on Thursday. I still need to find where the code for nation-specific units, like the man-of-wars are so I can do the balance part of my mod. When I feel I am in a comfortable position, I may reach out; it really depends on where I want to go with this at that moment. Thank you anyway.

 

[SHITTAHS CLOGGED!]

The fact you have a genius son waiting in the wings and all ready to take over is the most historically implausible part of all that.

I've learned the hard way that the AI likes to bend the RNG to kill off genius characters. You have to breed more than one. Tanistry is my favorite succession law in the game for this reason. As long as you have the gold to bribe the voters, you're free to put your least retarded child next in line.

I wish there was a way to rename adult characters without save editing, regionalizing a name upon taking the throne seems like it should be a political consideration. I wanted to gaelicize "Euginia" but being known forever as "Eóganin Eóganacht" sounds like a crueler fate than Karl Karling.