[Extension] Semper Fidelis -- Ideologies Expansion Pack

[hokath]

@pyroflare77 Thanks for the report of Communism not working as intended (haha), will fix.
The other stuff sounds a bit strange, like Autocracy not changing to Might and still having things like Gunboat Diplomacy. Perhaps you have some mod conflict or other issue, can you send database.log?

Freedom also appears to have code (for the tier 3 tenets at least) that differs from the picture in the OP.

This is a modularity thing. These tenets are rebalanced first and then when (if) Prosperity is loaded they get replaced in Prosperity/BaseIdeologyChanges.sql

 

[pyroflare77]

Aaaah okay. So it's just Volkeshalle mysteriously missing. For the life of me I can't even find it in the code in the first place (not that it necessarily means anything since I couldn't find that part lol).

But upon peeling the mods back to only base VP, religious victory, and this... it's still Co-Prosperity Sphere. Database can't find Volkeshalle either.

Edit: Almost wasn't thorough testing; I took out religious victory and it's still missing. This is 4.21.1, too. Database from that test looks identical to the attached one.

 

[hokath]

It sounds like the Might.sql file isn't loading -- though I don't see why in the database log.
If I resync the dropbox files can you redownload?

 

[pyroflare77]

At work atm but I did look in the Dropbox and if you resynced it then whatever was available to download like two weeks ago was outdated. I can already tell the might.sql is different than the download i have (it seems like I was at least correct in might existing only on your PC, lol). Should be all good at this point, but I'll verify later when I get home.

 

[pyroflare77]

Yeah, I didn't even have a Might.sql in what I downloaded, actually. Everything looks to be in working order now, thanks!

 

[hokath]

Ok nice. Not sure where the file went on the dropbox but glad it works now.

 

[sandeyes]

Works with CAYM's future age mod. No infinite loading screen.

 

[hokath]

After a tense Order game have done another tweak of their tenets, addressing some long running issues like how Dictatorship of the Proletariat somehow comes after instituting full-blow Communism.
Replace a lot of City connection bonuses (which at this point are almost always just per-City bonuses) with yields/X military units. I think this is a better place to use that table than Authority.
See OP for screenshot, changelog entries are as follows

  People's Army
  -- Public School changed for Factory
    I don't like Policies that buff buildings you already have everywhere, feels boring
    This is a slight nerf, but the bonus was already very strong
    Now there is internal synergy with Workers Faculties also

  Double Agents
  -- renamed Indigenization (Korenizatsiia) and removed previous effects
  -- -2 Illiteracy
  -- +2 Science Snow/Tundra/Desert and Unimproved Features (think Atolls, Oasis, etc)
    scales well with wide
  -- +5 Gold and Culture from Courthouses

  Patriotic War
  -- Moved to T2
   Historical timing
   T-34 are later
   Patriotic War is extremely strong (too strong for T1)

  Five-Year Plan
  -- Moved to T1
   Historical timing
   The Five-Year Plan improvement-boost is T1 in other ideologies
  -- Swapped 20% Production to Buildings with 20% Invest in Buildings discount
    Moved from Communism (and nerfed slightly)
    Diversify away from pure Production
    15% already exists in Progress, it's a bit boring

  Communism
  -- Removed 25% Invest on Buildings reduction
    there are too many bonuses like this, let's make a non-infrastructure tenet
  -- +1 Culture in every City per 15 Military Units
    generalist but with military flavor
  -- Removed yield from non-Specialists
  -- Added +2 Happiness to Courthouse
  -- Renamed to Dictatorship of the Proletariat

  Resettlement
  -- +10 Food from City connections removed
  -- +1 Food in every City per 5 Military Units

  Academy of Sciences
  -- Removed +6 Science from City connections
  -- +5 Science and Tourism from Academies
  -- +50% Great Engineer Rate
   looking towards the T3 policy

  Atomic Spies
  -- 100 Spy Points added

  Dictatorship of the Proletariat
  -- Renamed Communism

  Cultural Revolution
    -- changed science to tourism
     there's enough science, and it didnt really make sense given the tenet name
     this kinda plays down Specialists so its a bit double-edged for Order who have GP tenets, but then it is an edgy tenet

  Iron Curtain
    -- +5/+5 Production/Gold from City Connections changed to +1 Prod/Gold per 10 Military Units in the Empire
      This is more befitting a T3 Ideology Tenet power level, the ultimate wide bonus

Edit: Second, further update following previous comment.

 

[Satv9]

The M22 Locust feels like a placeholder asset, using the same model as the Light Tank it replaces, and the 2D art clearly depicting a Sherman. Could use a little update, I'm pretty sure the abandoned mod Civ R.E.D. WWII Edition and/or its equally abandoned successor R.E.D. WWII Edition Revived has got a suitable M22 model somewhere in there... Or even just change the 2D art only, because seeing an M4 labelled as an M22 gets on me nerves!!!

 

[hokath]

Yes it's placeholder. If you could help find a model that would be terrific.
The icon is on my list to do.

 

[Relatyve Mind]

I'm noticing that with all these, there's 3 of every victory type except Diplomatic (with 4) and Cultural (with 2). For some reason, the imbalance is bothering me...I guess you could argue that two of the Time victories are essentially Cultural-->Time victories, so should be compatible with a "Cultural Victory" approach?

 

[hokath]

No, there are 3 Diplo (Freedom, Devotion, and Harmony) and 3 Cultural (the original three).
The Time in Autocracy (Might) replaces the Diplo. The other 2 original ones aren't changed w.r.t. victory focus.
You might be conflating the old Harmony version, before Prosperity was a thing, where that change to Autocracy hadn't happened.

 

[hokath]

Updated to include these amazing new civilopedia icons from @gwennog

We also have them at font icon size so

[ICON_IDEOLOGY_HARMONY],

[ICON_IDEOLOGY_PROSPERITY], and

[ICON_IDEOLOGY_DEVOTION] can all be used in text strings.Hopefully in the future we can get the font icons hooked up to the ideological pressure tooltip!

Bonus update:
"Non-Aligned Movement" yield bonus significiantly increased, as it was far too weak for a T2 tenet.

Edit:
The future is now!

I was also able to remap the ICON_IDEOLOGY_AUTOCRACY to ICON_IDEOLOGY_MIGHT to fix that tooltip also, thanks to @azum4roll for checking
Here are some alternative icons for the old ideologies from the vanilla Policy Branch Icons for Communism, Fascism, and Free Speech. I think they look a lot nicer than the BNW versions that are currently used.

 

[Karlos_BR]

I have to admit that I was a little skeptical at first when I saw your new ideologies proposals, but after playing a few games with them (and Religious Victory), I can happily say that I was wrong. This is a great addition, I had a lot of fun playing it, it really renews the late game. Amazing work @hokath!