Victoria 3

Victoria 3

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Grey's Urban Synergy Unleashed
   
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Grey's Urban Synergy Unleashed

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Description

(and onwards)
[github.com][discord.gg]
Please consider rating this if you like it! It really helps out.
Originally made for: Version 1.8.2

The Community Modding Framework is Required.
The others are Recommended.

*MUST have a new game - your save will explode if you either add or remove this mid-game.

This mod started as a compatibility patch designed to make 11 different mods work together. At a certain point it ended up becoming its own thing.
So, this reworks the whole urban buildings environment, and a few related touch points, to create a system with in-built synergies. Urbanization gradually increases the total construction capacity (without necessarily costing the government), railways are profitable throughout the game and have additional options, ports can now be privately owned and contribute to the transport economy, rivers can now have portage, power plants have more diversity and can be extended to powering a distribution grid (this adapts content from 'Power Plants+').

All in all, it is a system that has been designed to round off some of the sharp edge-case corners in the urban economy, and to ensure that the AI can naturally benefit from the same things the player can.


Features:
Logistics Services
Ports and railways now produce a new good called 'Logistics Services'. Rather than transport, which is of course the capacity to move goods locally, it represents the ability to organise goods to be transported - which can be done locally or coordinated from afar. Trade Centers in states without Ports use Logistics Services instead of Merchant Marine.

Urban Center & Electricity Rework
Urban Centers require twice as much urbanization per level now, and the primary PM has been rebalanced and now produces a small amount of construction. Streetlighting has been expanded to also infer general urban electricity supply and these PM's are designed to interact with the Power Plant rework to ensure that the AI can transition to a distribution grid for electricity successfully. The Power Plants are effectively the ones from 'Power Plants+', but the structure of the PM's has been reworked to ensure the AI can understand them.
Urban Centres also have mixed impacts on construction based on size and employment. See the FAQ.

Transportation Rework
Railways, Ports, & River Ports are all profitable providers of transport throughout the game, and both contribute to MAPI. Additionally, the transport economy no longer starts from 0. Subsistence farms provide transport, and basic road cart pm's consume it, so right from the start there is some transport floating around the local market. This greatly smooths out the initial industrialisation via rail. Pops also cannot switch en masse to automobiles in the late game, as the amount of their transport need that can be met by automobiles has been limited to a mere 12.5%.

Services Rework
In addition to the rebalance of Urban Centers - Government Admins now produce a small amount of services, have reduced workforce needs, and extra PM's. A new Public Green building is available to provide services. This building uses arable land, so it is naturally limited and competes with agriculture for arable land.
As part of this, Manor Houses now directly reduce state tax capacity as they use their position to try and evade taxation, and financial districts contribute to urbanization which helps to produce the services their pops consume.

Construction Rework:
PM's for construction sectors have been scaled down to 40% of their original sizes. So, in the early game it's much easier for small AI nations to maintain at least 1 wooden construction sector - which is critical to enabling the autonomous investment queue. A dynamic country modifier increases the maximum number of construction sectors to compensate so that total capacity is unchanged and no compatibility issues are introduced with technologies.

Extra Consumption:
Some buildings now consume additional goods: Naval buildings consume additional supplies to represent the specific goods in excess of pop consumption that the government would fund to support the crews while they maintain a fleet at sea. Ports also consume groceries as supplies proportional to the modernness.

Subsistence Changes:
Subsistence farms now produce small amounts of transport, services, & logistics to smooth out the economic demand shifts. This also contains an experimental boost to pop growth from empty subsistence farms that helps global population reach its intended target.


This tries to be self-contained and avoid conflicting with things it doesn't need to.
However, it's a decent sized mod so compatibility is an issue in lots of cases.
For full details on compatibility go to the discussion post here: Full Compatibility Notes
#Safe for: #KAI #PDT #TTS

Use my compatches for:
Other available compatibility patches:


Can you change <insert language> localisation?
If you send it to me I will add it.

My power plants aren’t producing power?
-> Read the Full Compatibility Notes

Re: Cheap Transport, Urban Centres, Construction, Trade Centers, etc.
-> Read the Full FAQ


Many thanks to nahantelhe, Ferrous, ovnxize, Starry Inori, 1230james and Grimhat for their works which inspired this.

Major Thanks to BrokenRobot, without whom my sanity would never have endured long enough for this to be published.

Language Support:
Most Localizations are done by Machine Translation!
-> Replacements are welcome from anyone!

Credit will be given to to providers of localisation content:
  • French: Zhikan

Other Translation Mods:
Independent Vietnamese Translation: [Vietnamese] Grey's Mod

#Rework #Services #MAPI
#Electricity #Urbanization
#Trade #Economy #USU #GUSU
You can support me on Patreon: [patreon.com]
Popular Discussions View All (2)
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19 Sep @ 7:33am
PINNED: Frequently Asked Questions
MasterOfGrey
254 Comments
Kaiser AVH 29 Sep @ 1:27pm 
Hi! Is this mod compatible with the latest patch?
If not, could you please let us know if/when you plan to update it?
Thanks in advance and great work!
MasterOfGrey  [author] 28 Sep @ 5:01pm 
Yeah I haven't made a compatch yet
Arc 28 Sep @ 3:00pm 
IDK if this mod is every intended to be compatible with Tec & Res but I realized Tec seems to override the logistics production of ports and railways with buisness data. It also messes with the urban center's so maybe these will just always be seperate mods. They actually dont work too bad together if you also have river ports that you can provide logistics with otherwise they don't work well.
MasterOfGrey  [author] 26 Sep @ 10:27pm 
I see, clearly something about that modifier type has changed in 1.10
I'll sort it out as soon as I can
NANI? 26 Sep @ 10:24pm 
1. No, not from the start, but when researching certain technologies. The values ​​constantly jump up to 5 digits depending on the technology.
2.I disabled all mods (except this one) and started a new game.
all social tech researched
https://i.ibb.co/G3G4qYcX/image.png
starting tech
https://i.ibb.co/fdt2NTS6/image.png
british start
https://i.ibb.co/7tZYbX2N/image.png
MasterOfGrey  [author] 26 Sep @ 6:15pm 
Uh, ok, couple of questions:
1. Does this happen straight away on game start?
2. Does this happen when this is the only mod loaded?
NANI? 26 Sep @ 11:50am 
For some unknown reason, a bug appeared, I can't determine the cause, but it removed city centers.
https://i.ibb.co/nsYStc8L/image.png
MasterOfGrey  [author] 19 Sep @ 7:34am 
I have updated the description, as it had indeed become outdated, and added a pinned and linked FAQ thread with additional explanations.
WaterMeloncholy 19 Sep @ 6:46am 
I'm just playing your mod and some random mod for flavour and smaller cities. "Overdeveloped" is what happens when you add +150% birthrate to random subsistance farms and then all those people mass migrate to you when the SOL increases. "Overdevelopment" is the literal direct result of how your mod functions and how it multiplies the world population by 5x compared to the real world by 1900.
MasterOfGrey  [author] 19 Sep @ 6:45am 
Actually look at the size of your population centres, this game allows you to go far beyond what occurred historically.