Most of their future content is more or less planned already, so I'd say that they currently have slightly more provinces than vanilla, but the province limit has led to many changes in development. Nordikon (the bunch of AIs that were around Calgary back in 3.0) got cut because of it
There used to be a tag limit as well, but pdx removed it in an update.
I will always love how Hoi4 is both an extremely rigid game with tons of absurd limitations and an extremely flexible tool where you can make different economic simulators and re-create basically every media franchise ever
I love/hate modding hoi4. It's stupidly easy a lot of the time, but then there are times that stuff doesn't work for bizarre reasons.
Damn we are never going to get a fully developed North America if this is true. How the fuck am I going to rebuild America from the ashes of Chicago now?
Worry not, all of America will come out eventually (where the fuck is Minnesota, I want a ghoul Rekieta submod)
I want the East Coast just out of hope there is some Ghoul Amish Ethnostate.
Hopefully I can destroy them as the Enclave.
It's my weakest field, granted, but there's a reason most mods just use the default map with the provinces changed around. Map modding is EXTREMELY finicky. Alter one pixel in the province bmp file, and you're getting guaranteed insta crashes. Minor adjustments require manipulation of several different files, none of which follow the standard scripting of everything else in hoi4. The built in nudge tool is supposed to help you with this, but it's busted to Mesopotamia and back. It might work, but it might also just crash the game. Oh, and good luck finding out what's wrong with the map files. The error log puts out diddly squat in terms of map errors, so enjoy digging through crash logs and xml files idiot!
Well to be fair, it might have been like that on launch, but these days making completely new maps is not hard at all with the tools we have. Of course, it still takes time and effort, it's still creative work and all that, so you wont get it done in a day unless you're making some sort of meme mod.
Mapgen is very useful don't get me wrong, but it doesn't do absolutely everything for you. Building positions, weather positions and stuff like that you still have to do yourself, along with any bug fixing. Additionally, further alterations to the map will have to be done manually.
Cores really don't work that way. For example, the state of Rub' al-khali has 42 people there, and Yukon has 10, and both are cores of Saudi Arabia and Canada respectively. The US can also core Attu Island and it has 12 people at game start. The grievances are mostly due to, obviously, extreme nationalism
excited to see the UK Teasers next, Can't remember where exactly, but i'm pretty sure one dev said there's imperialist or Authoritarian paths, wonder what they'll do for those. curious also if there'll be Far left paths as well
Red Dusk is shaping up to be TNO but good. I mean that unironically. It has a lot of the same features: proxy war and volunteers, minigames for the proxies and for the nations you puppet with them, each leader gets their own in-depth focus tree, long narrative events, etc. Yet somehow unlike TNO its not cancer both the mini-games and even its narrative events and how it presents itself. Honestly I chalk it up to them not moral grandstanding like TNO. You don't get told you are bad as America or the USSR, or China for your foreign policy.
