Plagued /r/TNOmod and the Reddit HOI4 modding community - When a subreddit for a video game mod turns to utter insanity

Stupid and nonsensical wars? I would never!
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TNO is integrating Débrouillez-Vous, a submod that reworks a lot of if not all of Africa. This will include removing all content and adding skeleton content for the Congo. This is an internal leak.
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Below is a map of the submod's Africa.
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We need to protect his smile!
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According to their own teasers: Irrelevant border skirmishes copy-pasted from Wikipedia inspired by real events where you likely won't have any impact other than maybe affecting who some tinpot dictator will be aligned with. And of course, no gameplay. Maybe you'll get to invest political power via the proxy war interface - if you're lucky, chud.
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Yes, because managing a fictional version of the real life border dispute between Cameroon and Nigeria is the reason why we play hoi4 mods. So exciting, so fun.

We need to protect his smile!
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No one can take that away in our hearts.
 
Hey i looked at the france focus free thing and is it true that they are going to REMOVE burgundy?
Why do they care so much about realism when the mod makes no fucking sense un the first place?
Germany explodes into civil war and is in a cold war with japan and italy for litterally no reason and a random russian war lord can beat Germany but CLEARLY Burgundy and Atlantropa are the things ruining the immersion
 
Germany explodes into civil war and is in a cold war with japan and italy for litterally no reason and a random russian war lord can beat Germany but CLEARLY
Well, they're planning to cut the German civil war too. The only reason they haven't done this is because their rework is in dev hell.

Speaking of dev hell, their plan is that the russians can only push as far as Muscowien. The rest they have to get through minigames. Can't let the player have too much fun oh no no no!
 
Well, they're planning to cut the German civil war too. The only reason they haven't done this is because their rework is in dev hell.

Speaking of dev hell, their plan is that the russians can only push as far as Muscowien. The rest they have to get through minigames. Can't let the player have too much fun oh no no no!
3 wasted years on reworks award
 
Speaking of Africa . I wuz German Kang and shit. Bokassa Frederick Napoleon Charlegmagne II.
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There is more "historical" route where you larp as Napoleon instead of Germans , but only German route have option to core most of Africa.
Here is thread about irl exploits of this guy :
 
Hitler?!?! 😲
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TFR allows you to set policies to include minorities for non-core manpower and monthly population.
That's right, you can send racial minorities and women to the meat-grinder as cannon-folder. (since they're presented as hecking wholesome beneficial policies by TFR devs for some reason? Or is it some forgotten remnant of Millennium Dawn UI that got in?)
So you could imagine the Fuhrer saying: We need ze.. nigor for zheir representation in ze army...
Sub-mod that allows minor nations to have focuses is Forgotten Nations by the way.
 
Yes, because managing a fictional version of the real life border dispute between Cameroon and Nigeria is the reason why we play hoi4 mods. So exciting, so fun.


No one can take that away in our hearts.
No one pointing out how its very concerning that at this point TNO IS the redux. Like, they are just absorbing and cannibalizing submods. The actual devs are not making content. They are just hoping and waiting for people to make their shit for them and add it in. Which they can't do that, that is MY brand of laziness and intellectual dishonesty!
 
I've been trying to flip fascist as America and the devs could have put a focus branch dedicated to the NPP with a sub-branch to get yockey BUT NOOOOO you need to look up a online guide win some wars but lose some hope that your allies don't rape south africa in 2 seconds and just bad RNG fucking you up
I think you may have gone into TNO looking for something akin to RT56, ultimately TNO isn't that.

are they stupid
Perhaps, but also with a hint with malice.
 
The code for the Iberian wars is... rather strange. It works fine in some regards but figuring everything out has been a challenge.

Aside from that, here are some changes I made.
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Portugal gets taken over by monarchists before the wars get started proper. They remain the Estado Novo if the Iberian Divorce happens, but I have not added content for the that. Iberian divorce is redundant anyway
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Socialist tags work differently from other contenders. First off, I changed the code so that they can actually unify Iberia (Austurias and CNT* were considered separatists for some reason). I made it so that they also don't attack each other, and they win if only socialist tags are remaining. At this point they all get merged into one tag, but there isn't any post-war content for that. Socialist tags start off much smaller to counterbalance their alliance.

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Speaking of winners, factions have proper names after they take over. Here's the Falangist's, but there are others as well.

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Here's the ETA coup tree if they takeover the Basque Republic

Finally, I made it so that iberian war contenders can attack separatists regardless of war exhaustion. Otherwise there were situations where tags were softlocked out of finishing the wars. As of now, I am trying to figure out why Madrid is impossible to take as long as there's a division on it.

*Well, I do know why for CNT. To my understanding they were always supposed to be just Greater Catalonia, but what's the fun in that? That and CNT also breaks other tags if they survive as a splinter. It's weird how they didn't get content on release despite being one of Pacifica's project's.
 
Someone should make a Kiwi Farms warlord TFR submod, where the Farms is portrayed like how lolcows think we are (chaotic evil cyberbullies). Your goal is to turn the US into a totalitarian surveillance state where everyone lives in a Truman Show style nightmare for the amusement of a bunch of trolls.
You could have some fun stuff like:
A balance of power mechanic between Beauty Parlor and A&E.
Focuses like ‘The Alogs HAVE Won’, ‘Record Their Screams’, and ‘Make them Cope. Make them Sneed’.
Subtrees for appointing lolcows (Chris, Bossmanjack, Nick Rekieta, or DSP) as leaders so their terrible decisions bring more amusement.
Back from a 20 day ban after posting about Bharat too much, Jai Hind. like I mentioned way earlier I'm gonna be adding Jewsh as leader of a right-lib Association of the Freed leader, replacing McAfee. Problem is I gotta figure out how to make TFR style icons. On the topic of the GDR mod, my PC screen problems have gotten worse to a point where easy modding or even just web browsing is unfeasible. I'm forced to use my phone as a second display which when combined with how choppy it is and how small the display is just makes modding a chore. I'm gonna put the mod on hiatus until I can resolve this issue.
 
The code for the Iberian wars is... rather strange. It works fine in some regards but figuring everything out has been a challenge.

Aside from that, here are some changes I made.
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Portugal gets taken over by monarchists before the wars get started proper. They remain the Estado Novo if the Iberian Divorce happens, but I have not added content for the that. Iberian divorce is redundant anyway
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Socialist tags work differently from other contenders. First off, I changed the code so that they can actually unify Iberia (Austurias and CNT* were considered separatists for some reason). I made it so that they also don't attack each other, and they win if only socialist tags are remaining. At this point they all get merged into one tag, but there isn't any post-war content for that. Socialist tags start off much smaller to counterbalance their alliance.

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Speaking of winners, factions have proper names after they take over. Here's the Falangist's, but there are others as well.

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Here's the ETA coup tree if they takeover the Basque Republic

Finally, I made it so that iberian war contenders can attack separatists regardless of war exhaustion. Otherwise there were situations where tags were softlocked out of finishing the wars. As of now, I am trying to figure out why Madrid is impossible to take as long as there's a division on it.

*Well, I do know why for CNT. To my understanding they were always supposed to be just Greater Catalonia, but what's the fun in that? That and CNT also breaks other tags if they survive as a splinter. It's weird how they didn't get content on release despite being one of Pacifica's project's.
In old TNO lore Himmler supports the Austrias commies for some reason. You gonna do anything with that or is it just as stupid that you agree with the TNO-fags? Actually what is Bruhgundy like in your mod?
 
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