I don't know if many people truly follow my collection page but this essentially is the hub where I collect my thoughts and expand on what the goal is. I can see my stats but im not sure if any of those people keep tabs on what this collection is up to.

Im at a huge cross-roads in my modding journey and would like to share what ive done and what im toying with.

The main purpose of this collection is to be immersed into the world and to feel the impact of your decisions on a very strategic level, character focused campaigns with some historical flavor, and to have a sense of anything can happen (also replayable).

In short I wanted:

1. Slow campaigns with high level of strategy
2. Character centric focus however certain nerfs present new challenges
3. Unpredictable events, domino effect where decisions lead to more outcomes


For the most part this collection achieves all 3 and i was happy until..... I got kind of far into a campaign and noticed a ton of generic generals were spawned, almost too much.
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The recent updates to some of my mods has lead to the Ai prioritizing retaining characters and allocating more budgets to this. Way less historical characters were dying in the recruit pool however an unintended consequence of generically generated generals were absorbing a large amount of ai factions character employment.

I have found a few fixes to this however im not sure what direction to go. On one hand, i found a way to completely eliminate generic general spawn minus the nanman and yellow turbans who need generics to thrive. After testing for 30 turns, this lead to some factions not being built properly for awhile (Liu Chong and Kong Zhou both had only 3 generals after 25 turns).

Some factions were absolutely fine such as Liu Biao, Cao Cao, etc.

The other unintended part with not allowing generics into the game is, the ai was able to hoard alot more gold thus leading to somewhat broken economies and the impact nature of choice was lost.

The other thing i can do is to allow generic spawns but drastically reduce the number of generics dropping into the campaign. I have a sample pack file created where generics can only drop so many characters into the pools every 5 turns, and then after 220 no more will spawn in since historical characters will dominate the world. (assuming you have timeless characters ON and a mod that disables executing characters and adds lives/resilience)

Im leaning towards allowing generics but only a few to han factions. The only way i have found to completely eliminate generics is to do the following:

1. Disable generic generals
2. Alter the spawns of the of all TUP, MTU, WuKing, and Vanilla historical characters to produce historicals much sooner. (Almost like a heroes across time scenario from ROTK)
3. Ill need to rework the economy if i go this route, by tweaking several categories:

Character Salary
Budget Allocation Tables
Army Upkeep Costs
Tax Tables
Building economy but only the yields not the foundation

And if i can find out how, alter family estate income.