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

I got the feeling though that the Russians wouldn't be all too happy if there wasn't a path for Russia to position itself as a great power. It would be very uncharacteristic of them to accept a alternate history where Russia is delegated to the role of playground for the Germans, Americans, and Japanese to vie for power
 
No, to quote tvtropes again:
Yuri can attempt to crowdsource nuclear weapons development rather than "centralizing" it with scientists, whereby he aims to create nukes from the collective knowledge of the people at less monetary cost than if it was left to professionals. Unlike some of the other REALLY GOOD IDEAS featured in the mod, this can actually pay off against all odds, although there's a non-negligible chance it will result in catastrophe while the weapon is being transported.
Of course it can explode, the guy is making the bomb cheaper and without professionals, it would be 99% of chance of exploding like a dirty bomb and irradiating the immediate area and 1% of actually working.
Besides, i readed that the only other which can build nukes is the HRE, yes, funny clock man, who persecute intelectuals, will make one of the most complex things in the planet. Maybe Alexei blesses the bomb.
Yeah but they like let gay people exist so that means they can win everything!!!!!
This is what TNO Redux has so far.
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Now that is some juicy lore and not some half assed shit for US Presidents to still justify Eisenhower being President in the 50s and Nixon somehow winning the 1960 election (Only for them to throw him in the mud despite Nixon's primary crookery resulting from his loss to Kennedy in 1960).
I think the biggest lesson from this thread is that you really have to commit to the tone that you want your mod to have. I'm sure that all the questionable shit (Hyperborea/AB, unnecessary Fash incompetence, crowdsourced nukes, even the wholesome 100 Russian LGBT rights, etc) wouldn't be nearly as big of an issue if the mod just didn't take itself as seriously. Equestria At War, Red Flood, Red World, and Thousand Week Reich all work because the content in them is consistent with what the mod wants to be. You can still have a serious tone and interesting events just don't act like your autism map game mod is a legitimate critique about our society.

Nah the US canon is 2 term Bennett and McGovern wins in '72.
Kaiserreich is going in the superrealism direction as well. Can't wait until they decide the Bolsheviks would have won the civil war even with German intervention because it is realistic and Transamur is turned into some new Entente state full of wacky evil paths.
Military commanders are not my cup of tea, but from what I read he was good by Red Army standards.
And thats a problem. Red Army was purged many times. It was infested with NKVD that had duty to remove "traitorous elements".
And as with almost everything under Soviet goverment . Position of power were handed to"good" Commie Party members. Who had no business be on that position.
But Žukov Is not important because he died irl in 1974 and probably dies in TNO as well.
And best part of Canon timeline Is that USA Is going to directly intervine on German side when Russians reach Moscow .
Forcing them to sign White peace leaving Moscow , Petrograd , Volgograd in German hands.
So Russia gets absolutely nothing from a third German war. Wow TNO writing is fantastic!
Someone that asked why this happened had their post deleted
May have been me, may have been someone else. They had a rule on their discord (Not the subreddit mind you) when they announced their retarded canon to justify America Bad! that you couldn't discuss it. No I am not joking.
But hey, unfication would solve all those problems, isn't like rebuilding the nation would take up to the 90's in the best scenario
Yeah but like Sablin is super wholesome and would accept everyone!!!!!

I kinda want to submod in the Sneedclave occupying Buryatia or the SBA or something but I am too autistic to mod HOI4. Enjoy some screenshots of a Tankie on KR Subreddit however.

I swear that subreddit is a bastion of autism for people who follow Syndicalism unironically just because they found it out from the mod and grasp straws trying to define it as both democratic and a worker's democracy (IE Unionized workers only get the vote, indirectly apparently as well).
 

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Can I ask what exact issues do you guys have with this mod?I think it's the best video game mod ever made, sure the community and the devs are a bit irritating but I've never had anymore fun than playing as the US in this mod, seeing the effort they made with the Senate mechanics and elections, how it represents American politics.My favourite President is non segregationist George Wallace,I love how he can get 538 electoral vote landslides just by ignoring segregation.
 
Can I ask what exact issues do you guys have with this mod?I think it's the best video game mod ever made, sure the community and the devs are a bit irritating but I've never had anymore fun than playing as the US in this mod, seeing the effort they made with the Senate mechanics and elections, how it represents American politics.My favourite President is non segregationist George Wallace,I love how he can get 538 electoral vote landslides just by ignoring segregation.
Go read through the first two dozen pages of this thread at least. But a short summary would be: people don't tend to like it because of its intentional design as a heavy-handed political statement. The awful writing hidden by the excellent prose, and obvious bias for the paths that the devs personally like. Characters being written to act in ways they weren't like at all in the real world As well as the nonsensical story elements that exist to say "What I don't like is bad." While at the same time trying to be a serious political commentary. People have also expressed distaste for the highly railroaded story, calling it a visual novel. If you like it that's fine, but why people dislike the mod has been reiterated over and over throughout this thread. Even if it's long as fuck.
 
Go read through the first two dozen pages of this thread at least. But a short summary would be: people don't tend to like it because of its intentional design as a heavy-handed political statement. The awful writing hidden by the excellent prose, and obvious bias for the paths that the devs personally like. Characters being written to act in ways they weren't like at all in the real world As well as the nonsensical story elements that exist to say "What I don't like is bad." While at the same time trying to be a serious political commentary. People have also expressed distaste for the highly railroaded story, calling it a visual novel. If you like it that's fine, but why people dislike the mod has been reiterated over and over throughout this thread. Even if it's long as fuck.
I understand but to be fair it's their mod,their choices.
 
Can I ask what exact issues do you guys have with this mod?I think it's the best video game mod ever made, sure the community and the devs are a bit irritating but I've never had anymore fun than playing as the US in this mod, seeing the effort they made with the Senate mechanics and elections, how it represents American politics.My favourite President is non segregationist George Wallace,I love how he can get 538 electoral vote landslides just by ignoring segregation.
Please put spaces after commas, full stops, etc.
 
Can I ask what exact issues do you guys have with this mod?I think it's the best video game mod ever made, sure the community and the devs are a bit irritating but I've never had anymore fun than playing as the US in this mod, seeing the effort they made with the Senate mechanics and elections, how it represents American politics.My favourite President is non segregationist George Wallace,I love how he can get 538 electoral vote landslides just by ignoring segregation.
Grooming on their discord, heavy handed politics, censoring wrongthink like people who disagree on things like every -ist and -ism, general bullshittery, lying countless times, crunching their staff for a FREE mod as a result of one man's ego, etc.
 
Grooming on their discord, heavy handed politics, censoring wrongthink like people who disagree on things like every -ist and -ism, general bullshittery, lying countless times, crunching their staff for a FREE mod as a result of one man's ego, etc.
I imagine his question came with the implication he wants to hear complaints about the mod itself. Not the creators and community.
 
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I imagine his question came with the implication he wants to hear complaints about the mod itself. Not the creators and community.
Fair enough. In that case lack of polish in many areas (Japan or Italy for example), ugly UI, bizarre devotion to certain thinks (IE 40 event long chain for two lesbians or some shit in some shithole country as opposed to polishing said countries mechanics), and overall brokenness in some regions, see the SBA never suffering worker revolts.
 
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Fair enough. In that case lack of polish in many areas (Japan or Italy for example), ugly UI, bizarre devotion to certain thinks (IE 40 event long chain for two lesbians or some shit in some shithole country as opposed to polishing said countries mechanics), and overall brokenness in some regions, see the SBA never suffering worker revolts.
It takes time and they have the right to prioritize whatever.Give George Wallace a try, his Presidency is very fun and very rewarding especially sticking it to segregationist trash.

Fair enough. In that case lack of polish in many areas (Japan or Italy for example), ugly UI, bizarre devotion to certain thinks (IE 40 event long chain for two lesbians or some shit in some shithole country as opposed to polishing said countries mechanics), and overall brokenness in some regions, see the SBA never suffering worker revolts.
There are tons of updates to come too,I'm writing a book series that will take time too and I can prioritise whatever I want.
 
It takes time and they have the right to prioritize whatever.Give George Wallace a try, his Presidency is very fun and very rewarding especially sticking it to segregationist trash.
Given they have dozens of teams working various areas there is no reason they shouldn't be fixing bugs relating to England, Italy, etc. Of course this would be the case if 90% of a respective team did squat because they felt it was below them.
 
Can I ask what exact issues do you guys have with this mod?I think it's the best video game mod ever made, sure the community and the devs are a bit irritating but I've never had anymore fun than playing as the US in this mod, seeing the effort they made with the Senate mechanics and elections, how it represents American politics.My favourite President is non segregationist George Wallace,I love how he can get 538 electoral vote landslides just by ignoring segregation.
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Given they have dozens of teams working various areas there is no reason they shouldn't be fixing bugs relating to England, Italy, etc. Of course this would be the case if 90% of a respective team did squat because they felt it was below them.
Coding,writing,programming etc all done by part time,unpaid modders, it will take a while and they can go at whatever pace they like.
 
Not according to dev-team leads, it's crunch time or it gets the hose again.
They'd be going somewhere if the dev leads weren't lazy pieces of shit and actually got their teams in line so it's not a third of the team at most doing any work.
 
Don't know about but I mean it's their mod,they can do what they want.
A lot of what the mod is today was created mostly because of people in the dev team bullying each other and deliberately shitcanning content (it is common for some devs to be kicked along with their work getting removed). Politics plays a bigger role in its creation than a genuine desire to make something engaging to play.
 
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