HOI4 Dev Diary - MTG - Bag of Tricks

[Havebeard]

Please add a mis-click guard of some kind for events, too. Some other Paradox games have this, whereby event options will not be clickable until two or three seconds after they pop up; I've lost count of the number of times I've missed an event or taken the wrong option due to clicking something else on the screen when the event had just popped up unexpectedly.

This would be a huge quality of life improvement @podcat !

As well as stopping them from being dismissed by pressing "Escape"

The number of times I've pressed "Esc" to get out of the Supply/Trade/Logistics/Other tabs and ended up dismissing an event/news pop-up is too damn high

Pretty sure we already have that, but the timer might be too low. I can see how this can be frustrating.

Great idea, Balesir.

Such a feature (choosing which planes to use for training) would mimic the way pilots trained on older aircraft in order to familiarize themselves with the basics. The USA's Stearman Kaydet is one such example:


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Perhaps there'd be a limit to how much experience a unit could get based on the model of equipment.

E.g. Using interwar planes would only allow advancement to Experience Level 2: Trained.

It seems weird that you cannot become an expert pilot in a gw_fighter if that is the newest model available.
The system is also an abstraction. Putting a limit on that doesn't add any interesting gameplay imo.
If I really wanted to model this kind of thing I would add a minor experience loss when upgrading to a newer equipment type.

 

[Balesir]

It seems weird that you cannot become an expert pilot in a gw_fighter if that is the newest model available.
The system is also an abstraction. Putting a limit on that doesn't add any interesting gameplay imo.
If I really wanted to model this kind of thing I would add a minor experience loss when upgrading to a newer equipment type.

Fully agree with the last sentence; coolest would be if experience was lost similarly to the efficiency loss switching a production line to a new equipment type. If this allowed air units to switch between plane classes, all the better - switches from CAS to Tac or the reverse were quite common, and fighter to fighter bomber (or CAS, if you don't have FB modded in) or the reverse was also a thing.

 

[N3UTR0N]

@podcat

Will we expect more faction features such as faction options when you create an faction as any leader?

Like enabling more options for faction will cost mor PP, speciality faction powers that give more powers to the faction creator (Leader)

It would be cool to create different kind of factions, like purely economic pact to pure militaristic faction.

 

[Mercia]

Looking amazing as ever, I'm rather excited! A few questions though, if I may be a pain!

I see there is talk of governments in exile, huzzah! I wonder if, on your great long Christmas list of things to add in to the game eventually, you might have some shiny gifts for the poor, defeated country?

A couple of features I believe could be rather fun, and make fighting on until independence is restored more engaging, rather than switching countries, include:

1) A more directly controlled form of partisans for capitulated countries, such as F.France, Yugoslavia, Greece, Norway, Poland, maybe for the Soviets too (especially if the USSR has the option to be split into the constituent republics, mmm, juicy Belorussian partisans, ohhhh myyy!), in order to allow them a little more gameplay instead of running off to North Africa and crying to mama Britain.

2) The option to switch sides (or perhaps drop out with separate, dishonourable peace with consequences!) without having to rebuild everything from scratch would be marvellous, if certain conditions are met (perhaps having 50% of victory points lost?). Yes, I'm looking at you Bulgaria, Romania and Finland! This sort of leads into the next point.

3) Political intrigue / infighting between the various groups vying to restore independence in their own image! If we take Greece or Yugoslavia, for example, there was considerable infighting between the left elements and the right elements, so some form of PP decision tree where you're slowly giving support to one of the ideologies / leaders (if multiple options for each) would be great! Perhaps you could even have a mini civil war represented as opposing sides take different provinces whilst still both at war with, in this case, the Germans.

The choice of supporting the US favourites Giraud or Darlan over De Gaulle, or as Free France, trying to convince Laval or Pétain to switch sides through focuses (see above), or having Frachon, Thorez, Duclos, etc fighting against Déat / Doriot while surrounded by Germans and Allies on either side, would be quite entertaining!

Just an engaging event chain that you could unlock further as you regain more of your victory points, or, as a capitulated country, taking VPs from the enemy (e.g. helping in NAfrica). I recognise this one might be going a bit far, so is the least likely suggestion!

4) The ability to form a very limited number of units in the service of allied countries. For example, Poland and Czechoslovakia being able to form some Soviet, French and British equipped (and maybe modelled) units, to represent how these lovely units came to the aid of these countries after their defeat at home. Represented, perhaps, by your allies granting you a more generous 'Lend-Lease' of equipment, and you being able to built a up to a cap in Moscow, London, Paris, etc, maybe using their unit models to show that it's using their equipment, or alternatively, the ability to lease out some of their factories in exchange for some manner of reparation, like PP, XP, CP, maybe territory, or just a progressively higher debuff to show how in debt you are to them. Of course, this could be very OP, but if restrictions were put in place, much like the volunteer system, I think it could work very well!

5) Not particularly related, but a feature where we tricksy players might be able to filter our mods panel on the startup menu further would be golden. A checkbox for filtering mods that are currently active would speed up the long scrolling process of horror and lag, when you have hundreds of mods in the list as I do!

I realise that was quite the ramble, in hindsight, but I hope you might draw some inspiration, if you have not already considered these options ! I recognise some people might not agree with certain suggestions, but I'd hope that you, my fellow HoIers, might enjoy a fleshing out of capitulated / Government in Exile countries in general! Thank you for your excellent work thus far, Podcat and co!

 

[F.A.T.H.E.R.]

Where was the spoiler for exiled government mechanics?

 

[blue_yonder]

The air training feature isn't half as good as a pool of pilots would be, but it's a big advance in its own right and a whole lot better than the current nothing.

 

[pvt.conners]

Where was the spoiler for exiled government mechanics?

In the dev diary about the British Focus tree

In one of the screenshots you'll notice there is a tab labelled Exiled Governments next to the Manage Subjects tab.

 

[billcorr]

A few questions

Great suggestions!

Each idea might deserve its own, dedicated thread.

Consider posting each idea (in the suggestions forum) so that other players might build on your ideas.

Who knows? Something grand might emerge from the exchange of ideas.

Keep the good ideas coming!

 

[F.A.T.H.E.R.]

In the dev diary about the British Focus tree

In one of the screenshots you'll notice there is a tab labelled Exiled Governments next to the Manage Subjects tab.

I was so blind.

 

[Ben_Shapiro]

What about changing the faction name?

 

[Covfam]

Please add a mis-click guard of some kind for events, too. Some other Paradox games have this, whereby event options will not be clickable until two or three seconds after they pop up; I've lost count of the number of times I've missed an event or taken the wrong option due to clicking something else on the screen when the event had just popped up unexpectedly.

This would be a huge quality of life improvement @podcat !

I agree, i cant say how many times ive accidently clicked off the foreign advisers ive sent because 19 different countries spam me with disaproval for having advisers in germany and italy or japan!

 

[him_15]

Can't wait to see what benefit a faction leader would gain.

 

[Stug_Life]

@Havebeard So does Imperial Federation simply annex all Commonwealths?

 

[Havebeard]

Fully agree with the last sentence; coolest would be if experience was lost similarly to the efficiency loss switching a production line to a new equipment type. If this allowed air units to switch between plane classes, all the better - switches from CAS to Tac or the reverse were quite common, and fighter to fighter bomber (or CAS, if you don't have FB modded in) or the reverse was also a thing.

We went with a simpler model, both in terms of coding and explaining to the player.

@Havebeard So does Imperial Federation simply annex all Commonwealths?

You want @Bratyn for that =)

 

[Bratyn]

@Havebeard So does Imperial Federation simply annex all Commonwealths?

We'll be showing the updates on the British focus tree in a future dev diary. Short answer: "Not simply, but yes, that's a part of what it does".

 

[Fulmen]

@Havebeard So does Imperial Federation simply annex all Commonwealths?

To my understanding it makes their autonomy tick down and you still have to pay PP to diplo-annex. You also won't get cores on SAF or RAJ. You should read the dev posts in this thread.

 

[James Hale]

Pretty sure we already have that, but the timer might be too low. I can see how this can be frustrating.

Someone has already suggested what I mentioned before; it would be great if you could add a 1 or 2-second mis-click timer, as described here: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/event-missclick-problem-fix.1109312/

 

[Fulmen]

This deserves its own thread, I think.

Yesterday already saw three threads on it locked. Discussing modern German censorship law is banned on these forums.

 

[Garfieldkubb]

Gib Siam update

 

[Stug_Life]

We'll be showing the updates on the British focus tree in a future dev diary. Short answer: "Not simply, but yes, that's a part of what it does".

OOOOOO that sounds even more interesting. Also I appreciate your response