Minimum power base from employment should scale or be reduced (+mod example)

[Todie]

Problem:

Inflation of country powerbase sum

• The fact that every job gives +2 power base ends up watering down the importance of family prestige:
  • The more governorships and deployed tribunes you have...
    • The more inflated the sum of powerbase becomes...
    • Crowding out the importance of:
      • Family prestige
      • Holdings
      • Veterans
      • Commanded cohorts

The problem examined and discussed more closely here:

Balance of powerbase-considerations : Fam-prestige, holdings and veterans / commanded armies

Hey I've loaded up notepad++ to look at some game files for the first time in quite a while, and on my list of things to look at are things that influence character powerbase, as these are used by various game mechanics, character interactions...

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Suggestion:

Reduce the minimum power base from jobs.

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Either:​

• Make the value scale with the number of total jobs
• Reduce the value from 2 to 0.5 or less, while adjusting affected parameters

Example mod:

I have made a mod to illustrate this change.

In the mod, the following values were changed in 00_defines:

NPowerBase = {
    FROM_TITLE = 0.5                    #### Default 2
    LOYAL_VETERANS = 15            #### Deafault 5
    GOVERNOR_POP = 75             #### Deafault 70
    RULER_POP = 25                      #### Deafault 20
}

In addition, the mod changes a number of events and schemes that seek for targets over 1 powerbase or over 5 "title importance"

power_base >= 1_percent_power_base_country_svalue ### default >=1

This variable is defined as 0.5% of total powerbase (total_power_base with divide = 200)

The only change of intended significance in this mod is the baseline powerbase per job being changed from 2 to 0.5. This results in a significant reduction in powerbase sum inflation as countries grow.

mod link:

Steam Workshop::Todie's powerbase fix

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paradox launcher (recomended for anyone having trouble having steam workshop mods load or show uo in launcher, due to onedrive or something)

Todie's powerbase fixmod pdxlauncher - Paradox Mods

changes baseline power from jobs from 2 to 0.5 to reduce powerbase inflation when countries grows its number of governorships and generals / admirals. Note: Localization and compatibility with oth...

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for reference, load the AI-only savegame or any game with and without the mod, and look at the difference in powerbase sum for the large countries. The mod reduces Seleukids powerbase sum by 14% in this example

 

[Todie]

More comprehensive and far-reaching mod here, buikding on the same idea:

Powerbase + AI mod

Goal: Increase the difficulty of the game, both for domestic politicking and challenge from AI-countries. If powerbase and loyalty mechanics are tweaked just right, the challenge of domestic politics can scale in a way that keeps players on edge...

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