I used to write outstanding mod features... But then I took an arrow to the knee and my mod writing career ended :(

Sorry to hear you hurt your wrist! That shit sucks

@Kate the Sibyl Hey, could you rework or remove Development Fund (+30 construction for every minor member) principle. It's completly broken for Great Britain and Prussia.

I was actually working on doing a big update with new features when I injured my wrist, now I'm a bit stuck

No worries, mod dev and big fixes take time, hopefully this can help make it easier for you. For now I'm just using a cheat mod to manually add the legitimacy

I’ll add that to the list of issues. I’m working when I can on a proper update to this with other bug fixes.

I'm having the issue where the Mandates that add legitimacy are not adding legitimacy. This includes the two from Ideological Power Bloc, the IOC and the Direct Oversight Mandates. They add legitimacy differently but neither adds it. I'm unsure if any others are broken, but that is the only one that I have noticed. I do use other mods, but it was working fine in the previous version with the same mods enables.

I hope that didn't come off as sarcastic lmao

"Yep. Have fun optimising that! Hope you’re familiar with the basics of calculus!"

lol, seems like a great update! Good ideas all around!

can you add some different form of casus beli to religious war, I did a religious war on China as Russia, and it was just a "humiliation" war. Some territory taking or something? Or force them to change religion?

It’s save game compatible in theory

What happens if I add it to my current campaign?

please dont remove the religious wars mandate.

@Hoskobopoulos <--- boo this man. boo!!

Hi, would it be possible to add the link for the russian loc?
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3572543318

is there any way to remove the religious wars mandate? makes the end game super volatile and weird, with countries randomly declaring war all the time

@nestor did u ever play vic 3??? form the power bloc, wait till u get a new mandate and then ull see

@Nestor you need the DLC

does this work? there are only two mandates to choose from: internal trade and external trade

its not only subjects but all members it seems

does this mod allow subjects to increase there convoy contribution?
one of my subjects keeps trying to increase its contribution, goes into negative, breaks the contribution and start it all over again, each time pausing the game

Update: The hiring bug when adopting level sovereign wealth fund ONLY APPLIES to the companies you have at the time of adoption. Newly founded companies will hire properly.

Bug: When selecting level 3 of Sovereign Wealth Fund, company HQs have their clerks and bureaucrats frozen and the HQs will not hire even though the UI says there are 2.5m+ qualifications available.

@Excel.exe. Me, son. Where you at

who I gotta tug off in a parking lot to get this updated

[19:20:03][jomini_script_system.cpp:247]: Script system error!
Error: Failed to fetch variable for 'holy_war_target' due to not being set
Script location: common/scripted_effects/kates_power_bloc_scripted_effects.txt:100
common/on_actions/kates_power_bloc_on_actions.txt:21

[19:20:03][jomini_script_system.cpp:247]: Script system error!
Error: Event target link 'var' returned an unset scope
Script location: common/scripted_effects/kates_power_bloc_scripted_effects.txt:100
common/on_actions/kates_power_bloc_on_actions.txt:21

[19:20:03][jomini_script_system.cpp:247]: Script system error!
Error: Invalid left side during comparison 'var'
Script location: common/scripted_effects/kates_power_bloc_scripted_effects.txt:100
common/on_actions/kates_power_bloc_on_actions.txt:21

I understand nerfing the subjugate but you completely made it irrelevant, even taking the leviathan option now gains infamy plus the malices included from the principle. Why? completely ruined the ability to play as sovereign.

Whats the point of the soverign wealth fund ?
It just replaces shopkeepers with bureaucrats.
Is that all ?

I noticed strange principles in the original blocks. For example, in Britain.
They don't have icons, instead there is a smiley with a letter and very strong bonuses.

Is this some kind of idea to strengthen the majors or do I have a mod conflict?

Also I seem to be running into an issue where when I disable the "Mandate Overhaul" to make it the Vanilla system, it still uses the overhauled version instead. I cannot figure out why and I have tested with and without the Superpower mod.

I'm not sure if the
33% Mandate Progress from Cohesion" buff from the "Propaganda III" principle is working, could someone else concur?

why im not able to use creative legilature in a Trade league?

deregulation with the investments doesnt work

I have a problem with Power Blocks, but I don't know if it's a bug or intentional.

VG.

Here's a method I've been using to make playing with both Super Power and Power Blocs Expanded more enjoyable. The addition of Super Power slows down the authorization speed—authorization only calculates national rankings, and often by 1870, less than half of the authorization slots can be filled.

We can go into the "common" folder in Power Blocs Expanded, find the "power_bloc_identities" folder inside, copy the txt files within it. Then, use the same method to locate the txt files in Super Power, paste the copied files there. Remember to delete the original files and make a backup first.

I haven't tested this method in depth, but it's clear that the authorization speed has improved significantly. In the test, Britain's weekly authorization speed increased from the original 5 to over 20. If you're troubled by this issue, you can give my method a try.

Some of the effects dont seem to be working i.e. Economic Imperialism 3 - no additional company, Unity 3 - no additional cohesion.

I am seeing this mod in my crash log:

[20:54:30][pdx_data_callstack.cpp:130]: Trying to access non-const context pointer from a const context for type 'Country'
[20:55:10][jomini_script_system.cpp:247]: Script system error!
Error: Failed to fetch variable for 'holy_war_target' due to not being set
Script location: common/scripted_effects/kates_power_bloc_scripted_effects.txt:100
common/on_actions/kates_power_bloc_on_actions.txt:21

on 1.9.6.
None of the power blocks have a mandate related to holy war.

I love this mod. Really great work adding depth and balance to the system. I love the new mandate calculation, and especially the 'late start' mandate drop, very well done.

I just have one suggestion, apart from the various bugs and goofs others have mentioned. Make creative legislature an open principle again, don't tie it to ideological unions. That -33% stall chance for all bloc members is universally useful, it REALLY helps the member countries make constructive progress on reform - something that the AI is incredibly bad at. The AI also likes it for their own blocs, so letting them grab it more often leads to a more interesting world with more challenging opposition, as I have found personally having made this change myself using your mod.

That's my only major suggestion, though. In general I think you've done a great job giving the blocs more depth and unique character, and I very much agree with this design philosophy in general.

[11:07:13][jomini_trigger.cpp:721]: Inconsistent trigger scopes (power_bloc vs. country) incommon/script_values/kates_power_bloc_script_values.txt:741

This repeats for every line where is_subject = no is present

[11:07:13][jomini_eventtarget.cpp:299]: Invalid scope types for event target link, link: overlord at common/script_values/kates_power_bloc_script_values.txt:834

also for lines 851 and 852.

It seems the Deregulation Principle isn't actually granting investment rights between members. It does seem to create the treaty, as after editing it to notify me and removing the Principle I get approximately 2983059 notifications of the treaty breaking, and when I re-add the principle I do see the treaty type reappear in my save between members in the bloc, but I still can't invest in my Bloc Members. I don't have any major mods that touch Principles other than this one, and even moving this mod to the very bottom of my list didn't change that, so I don't think this is a Mod Conflict. Great mod other than that though.

the innovation cap modifier is set to country_weekly_innovation_add = 5, if you could change it to country_weekly_innovation_max_add = 5 would be very cool thank you Kate!

When having a Ideological union bloc, using the bloc regime change has no effect on laws- I could be mistaken but I have little mods, and don't see any overlap with other mods regarding diplomacy/blocs

Hey one minor thing I have noticed is that the number of possible countries to invite to the bloc is in the wrong position it is on the left almost between the buttons, but otherwise this mod is perfect

Sovereign Wealth Fund makes company HQs more efficient. Lower wages and higher relative investment, so your investment pool is buffed.

What's the point of sovereign wealth fund? Company throughput bonus is very small, and employment of bureaucrats and clears instead of shopkeepers do some weird things: bureaucrats have higher SoL than capitalists although they get almost all their wealth through wages not dividends

Also, this mod is the best power bloc mod out there , no doubt! thank you for creating this, i look forward to playing with it for a while.

Dev, Please add the innovation cap back to the education instead of just innovation, it slows the game down too much, thank you for reading!

Could we get the new 5% birth rate for religious convocation included in the mod? I like pop growth max strategies. Love the mod :)

I feel like making Subjugate and Religion/Regime Change cost infamy, even at a 50% discount, is too steep and kinda kills the reason you'd go for those types of Blocs in the first place.

The whole reason I go SE is to be able to vassalize the likes of the Netherlands without blowing up my infamy score. If I was okay with the infamy, I would just puppet them thru war and be a Trade League bloc instead.

@QAnon Update your mod update your mod update your mod update your mod update your mod update your mod

You're complaining about a bug I fixed yesterday and a bug I fixed a whole week ago. Is it really so hard to verify your mod is up to date first?

Two bugs:
First, the map mode for power bloc leverage doesn't work. Makes it hard to expand your bloc.

Second, the External Trade principle is broken. The "Influential Trade Center" modifier removes all employment from trade centers. This makes trade impossible.