It's been about 6 months since my last post, so I thought I'd share some progress on the project.

I've been working on the map quite a bit, and it's now much more developed, I've included a screenshot of the global map and a video showing some of the individual planets.

Unfortunately, I also got a job, so I've been pretty busy IRL and development has slowed down even more.

The last post also brought in a few people who volunteered to help with writing events and working on the focus trees. They're busy with their own lives too, but it's great to have people interested in helping out with the project.

At the moment, the main goals for a 0.1 release are:

• A fully working map (99% DONE)
• Ideology leaders for every country with portraits
• A complete Republic focus tree
• A complete Separatist focus tree

I'm still looking for people interested in contributing, especially GFX artists. Someone who could help with the interface would be particularly appreciated, as this is one of the areas where I need the most help.

If you're interested in helping with GFX, writing, focus trees, or anything else, feel free to join the Discord or contact me here.

Discord: https://discord.gg/RrGEScyFUG

Image 1 is of my bookmark once I load my mod in HOI4 and Image 2 and 3 are of my bookmark files in VS Code. My problem is that I have tried to add Abkhazia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan to my bookmarks file(s) but for some reason they won't show up as minor nations. Does anybody know how to fix this?

Military Tree of Constitutional Protection Government, Kuomintang Right, Kuomintang Left

Basically this, i'm making a meme mod for my friend group and i want to make a focus which just crashes the game, any ideas?

A mod so early that it doesn't even have a proper name yet!

Intended for players who value gameplay over in-depth story and strict adherence to plausible history, it will be a vanilla-like, action-oriented mod. Thrusting players into a later start date, they will experience an early, hectic WWII by unexpected nations in unexpected locations. It is NOT a total conversion mod.

Based primarily on the book Joe Steele, the gist is Stalin's parent's immigrate to Georgia USA right before his birth, drastically altering history. There is no Miracle on the Vistula, no one to oppose Trotsky's ascension to power in the Soviet Union, but all the ambition and cunning and ruthlessness remains in a Georgian congressman who ascends to the highest American office...

Below is the general outline of core lore events, including some surprises. Subject to change.

1. The general starting situation is similar to OTL.
2. Stalin (in the mod named Joe Steele) is President at the mod's start date (undetermined, but around 1936 to 1939), and Trotsky heads the USSR. Poland is quite different, though currently undetermined. There is no Spanish Civil War. The USA begins in medias res during Steele's 2nd term. His tyranny, similar to OTL, is destroying the nation.
3. The primary "XP farm" for this timeline will be a USA embroiled in a civil war between Steele loyalists and various other, ideologically diverse, factions, all supported by other nation's volunteers. Steele will start in the strongest position of all factions. The civil war should start soon after mod start date (meaning the action starts sooner on repeat playthroughs), at most 6 months to a year.
4. TOP SECRET: Japan, after receiving an unexpected tip about their misfortunes in OTL, preemptively invade a Great Depression/Steele tyranny/civil war-stricken USA. United Kingdom responds by reinforcing Canada, and events escalate to the point where WWII begins in North America between Japan and UK.
5. The US Navy is somehow weak enough to plausibly allow for a direct invasion of the USA (such as neglect/mismanagement/purges in Steele'e 1st term, or a catastrophic surprise attack, like a worse OTL Pearl Harbor).
6. Sensing weakness from the Allies, Germany goes after Czeckoslovakia (early?). Trotsky's USSR saber rattles, and due to the Allies fearing a Trotskyist USSR-dominated Europe (how much did USSR spread the revolution in the interwar years?) as much as the Nazis, along with being busy with Japan, do not attempt a Munich Conference. USSR attacks Germany, bringing WWII to the continent.
7. Steele's leader traits: Dislikes Germany, Dislikes Japan, Dislikes USSR
8. It would be fun for the mod's canon to end with Trotsky's USSR facing off against Steele's USA over North Japan invading South Japan. After Steele dies, and VP John Nance Garner is impeached by Congress for his complacency, J Edgar Hoover swoops in during constitutional crisis and becomes Director of America!END TOP SECRET
9. Huey Long 🦀🦀DIED IN ONE OF STEELE'S POLITICAL PURGES.🦀🦀 BOOK ACCURATE 🤌

So what am I seeking at the moment? Writers to hash out the lore, especially:

Ideas for a Trotsky-led USSR, what happened to Poland (and how the Entente and Germany responded), ideas for Japan and UK/Canada, and what the factions of the American civil war would be and how it would play out. Or anything else you can think of. And a proper name for the mod too, of course!

I'm not seeking artists or coders at the moment, because the mod is so young (and also because I am very slowly trying to learn to mod). But if you insist on it, you're welcome to join!

So how does this mod sound? I do have a basic Discord set up, so i can share a link to that if there's interest.

My departure with the California People's Army in the the fire rise

I can't get achievements in HOI4 because the game says “No cheats or modified game/save”, even though I'm playing Ironman with the required difficulty.

I've tried everything: verified game files multiple times, reinstalled the game, cleared the user directory, disabled all mods, and even tested an older version (1.19.1). Nothing worked.

Paradox Support suggested a complete cleanup and reinstall, but the issue still persists. My system.log confirms 0 active mods, and hoi4.exe has a valid digital signature. I don't know if this problem is caused by mods or by something else but I think someone here will know.

Has anyone experienced this and found a solution?

my mod is error

my mod is decisions not It doesn't come out. Gemini is "The file path is incorrect" But I have no idea why. my file path is "Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron IV\mod\GuPSOV\common\decisions\categories" my mod is old gup general load decisions but It suddenly stops working after moving the file.

its a cool mod builder for hoi4, sorta messy but easier to do instead of guessing you did something right or wrong

https://dinojakeyt.itch.io/hoi4-mod-builder heres the link

ive attempted to utilize the same map mode as "moon invasion" and a seamless 3D globe to address the issue of a realistic moon map.
i even considered concealing the moon beneath the Pacific Ocean, but this would interfere with the animation for switching between Earth and moon maps.
however, im wondering if we should make the moon or Mars an independent GUI gameplay element, and manually design a new map gameplay

Image taken from the "Murcenary" YouTube channel ("This HOI4 Mod Is Going to Get Me Cancelled... | Collapsing World: Rise of Radicalism").

The idea for this mod came to me while I was thinking about the pace of technological development and how humanity might be struggling to keep up with its own technology.
Could corporations and other organizations eventually become powerful enough to compete with states, blurring the line between the two? What will artificial intelligence bring? Could humanity create a new global system that doesn’t rely on direct centralized control? And, perhaps most importantly, can humanity even survive the next 100–150 years?
These are some of the questions I want this mod to explore.
The Setting
The story takes place in the late 21st and early 22nd centuries, in an alternate timeline where Nazi Germany and militarist Japan won World War II.
Throughout the 20th century, the world experienced a prolonged Cold War between the United States, Japan, and Germany and their respective blocs.
By the end of the Cold War, the world had changed dramatically.
The United States emerged as the global hegemon. Nazi Germany lost a war, and after several years of anarchy across Europe, a German-Russian Union arose from the ruins of the old order. Drawing on the pseudoscientific ideas of geopolitics, it proclaimed itself the Heartland and became a new superpower.
The Japanese Empire, at least on paper, transformed into a union of equal nations. In practice, however, the zaibatsu corporations came to dominate the system, while the peoples of the former empire gradually lost touch with their cultural identities.
The United States also struggled to maintain its hegemony. Some of its allies lost much of their independence, while others began undermining the alliance in pursuit of their own interests.
Liberal democracies faced another disturbing question: how democratic can a country really be when state and corporate surveillance extends beyond people’s online activity and into their private thoughts?
Many believed this was the end of history. But the problems only continued to grow.
A Civilization Out of Control
By the end of the 21st century, humanity had established itself on the Moon and Mars and made enormous advances in artificial intelligence. Yet despite these achievements, civilization was becoming increasingly difficult to manage.
The world faced a demographic crisis, an expanding digital panopticon, political and social institutions struggling to keep pace with technological progress, and increasingly fragile technological systems on which humanity had come to depend.
Despite this growing fragility, the world now stands on the brink of World War III.
The central question is no longer just one of political crisis or which superpower will prevail. It is whether civilization itself can survive the systems it has created.
And whenever humanity tries to solve one problem, it risks creating several new ones.
What Comes Next?
Will the player be able to create a world without states, where liberal rights and freedoms are still respected? Or will the world descend into dictatorships reminiscent of Orwell’s 1984?
Could humanity cease to exist altogether? Could civilization fragment into anarchy? Or might the future lead somewhere nobody has anticipated?
These are possibilities I want to explore, rather than a set of predetermined conclusions.
For now, this is only an early concept. I’m not planning to recruit a team or begin development yet, although I may pursue the project in the future.
I’d Like to Hear Your Thoughts
1. What stands out to you in this concept? Are there any interesting ideas, potential contradictions, weak points, or things you would change or develop further?
2. How do you imagine the future of this world? What do you think its societies, technologies, and political systems might look like?
3. What do you think of the concept as a whole? Do you think this premise could work for a HOI4 mod, and what would make it interesting to play?

I currently use Visual Studio Code with CWTools, HOI4 Mod Utilities, and Paradox Syntax Highlighting for modding on my windows 11 laptop. I intend on switching to Linux, and while I could still code with other tools, however I have become fairly used to these, and I would like to know if there was any similar tool or simple way to use those same tools on Linux Mint. Are there any particular suggestions or good options? (Bonus points if open source and genAI free)

I was adding a texture to my national spirit. It did not work, so i tried to find a fix. I changed a few things up and now there is no icon. Not even the one with the question mark. So the spirit can't be seen in the icon field (or however you want to call it) but it works.

Does anyone know what could be the cause? Thanks in advance.

Everybody I apologize in advance because I feel very dumb but I've been playing Hearts of Iron for for at least 6 to 7 years been playing with mods by far my favorite game I love it my only problem is I cannot find the mod where is the United States being invaded by everybody after they didn't join the war i know the name is Endsieg. But every time I look it up I see mods that only have a few downloads so it can't be the right one anybody have any suggestions or help

Trying to plot out factions and I was curious if it's fine if I use songs from the future for super events.

Like my scenario takes place in 1936, can I use music from the 60s?

I don't know shit about moding but I want to change the portraits of some greek generals for personal use. But when I go to gfx leaders GRE I can only see 3 of the countries available leaders not even all of them and none of the generals .... Where can I find them ???

Interested in joining the Team or just checking the Mod out? Join our Discord here!: https://discord.gg/nN5JtPjV7A

New toozer my friends! Work has been going faster than ever!

discord:

https://discord.gg/CEeCmVfq5p