Prince of terror bug?

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For "ethnic focus" the effect of is stated as being -10% from foreign IC. In game terms that is -10% from your effective IC after the effective IC otherwise normally calculated. So if you control Paris, and your effective IC is 2.9 without "ethnic focus" it would be 2.61 (2.9 - .29) with "ethnic focus" applied. Ok, ethnic focus is different than ministers, so it's calculated differently. It's a more minor effect on your ability to use foreign IC.

In testing I discovered the same is the case for minister of security (prince of terror). This is surprising and I don't think it's working as intended. In HOI2, Prince of Terror made 15% more of the IC in a occupied province available. So if you control paris and it has 10/10 IC, normally you'd get 2 effective, with Prince of Terror you would get 3.5 effective IC.

I'm not sure if this is a bug, but I preferred Minister of Security to work in the old way. The effect is so minor now as to almost never make Prince of Terror worthwhile.

IC in HOI2:
http://www.paradoxian.org/hoi2wiki/index.php/Conquering_-_What_do_I_gain?

 

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Here's a quick fix I worked out.

In the file: db\ministers\minister_modifiers.txt

Search "foreign_ic_mod" and each number that appears, multiply it by 2.66, so line 481 (for example)

modifier = { type = foreign_ic_mod modifier_effect = 0.150 }

is replaced with

modifier = { type = foreign_ic_mod modifier_effect = 0.400 }

You can also do this with the compassionate gentlemen and whatever mnisters give the 5% and 10% foreign IC bonuses.

It's not the same thing exactly... a province with concentration effect and high infrastructure will end up giving you more than .15 of the base IC of the province, and many provinces will be a bit less. It's good enough though.

 

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What's you AoD patch level ?
1.02/1.03/1.04RC3/1.04RC4 ?

 

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What's you AoD patch level ?
1.02/1.03/1.04RC3/1.04RC4 ?

1.03, I looked through both the current bug list and already fixed list in the 1.04 patches and this was never mentioned, so I assume the problem persists there as well. It's pretty systematic to the way IC is calculated. So I doubt it was just a syntax error that someone fixed without making any further note of.

 

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I did some more testing:

1. By default in AOD you seem to get about 10% of the IC of non national provines which you do not legally own.
2. Legal ownership gives a huge bonus in not only available resources but also in IC. Too much of a bonus (in my opinion). As Germany without prince of Terror, effective IC in Paris when you do not own it but just occupy it is 18.2. When you own it, it is 35, when you own it and have a prince of terror it's 44.5 (confirming prince of Terror indeed is a 115% multiplier after IC is calculated, not 15% of the base IC of the province).

The effect of legal ownership on available IC should be reduced a bit. 35% without a prince of terror is much too high. And the prince of terror needs to be fixed so that he really is a 15% bonus of the base IC instead of a 115% multiplier.