LRB aims to mitigate needing to lead your country in one direction only in order to ‘swerve’ to your true political goals. And to allow a cultural legacy in which ideas can lead to further development and even entrench itself against unorthodox opposition. While also maintaining reactionary effects to the world.
The Problem:
In vanilla, the chance for many leader ideologies to be selected depends on your current laws being totally opposed to it. This is to promote high volatility and dynamism where ideologies emerge when “relevant”, i.e. as a reaction to the current political landscape.
The problem is this results in some ideologies being difficult to attain without cheesing your laws to ‘zig-zag’ to it and neglects the development of a cultural legacy in political thought. In vanilla, ideas like humanitarianism are unlikely to appear in egalitarian countries, and only interest groups in illiberal, backwards countries will find themselves led by humanitarians. Most leader ideologies work this way.
The Solution:
This mod adds three game rules for leader ideologies, modifying the weights to encourage a less reactionary or entrenched political landscape.
Game rules make the mod highly customizable so you can control how each ideology behaves. The default settings are some of my preferences.
Leader ideologies are chosen by a weighting system, which start at 100 and are added to or subtracted from based on different factors:
'Vanilla’ makes no changes to vanilla weightings. Weights listed are for comparison purposes and are likely not the only weights; check the Victoria 3 wiki for full information. Any weights listed there but not here are present under all rule sets.
‘Less Reactionary’ typically halves the reactionary weight values.
‘Entrenched’ often increases chance if relevant laws are already enacted, particularly for content Interest Groups ‘in government’. Can also reduce chance if there are no/few active laws supporting this ideology (i.e. opposing ideologies are entrenched and new, unorthodox ones are met with resistance)
Modified leader ideologies include:
Nihilist, Republican, Radical, Feminist, Pacifist, Jingoist, Social Democrat, Communist, Vanguardist, Ethno-Nationalist, Market Liberal, Authoritarian, Protectionist, Humanitarian, Positivist, Land Reformer and Enlightened Royalist.
(some ideologies are left untouched such as fascism because their essence is inherently reactionary)
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