question, i think theres an error with the education funding as it has the error text Max_recursive_depth

Hi! Does this mod fundamentally alter the base happiness values?
Somehow, despite utilizing literally every positive happiness bonus I could find,
I'm still having an extremely hard time maintaining stability and happiness for even the easiest to please demographics.

how does this mod play with gestalts

For Religious Policies maybe have Unity vs Tech(/Consumer goods?) for Materialist vs Spiritualist. With levels adding more bonus on the side they chose but more malus for higher levels i.e. lv2 Spiritualist policy gives more +% bonus for Unity but also adds a -% for Research or Happiness

Hi
I just noticed that Light education gives a plus 5% increase however moderate only gives a 1% and high gives a 1.5%

I'll look forward it!

This is just beatiful news!

Hey guys! The next update is making good progress. I'm also proud to announce I'm working on two other mods, one of which will add some new civics in, as well as another that will add some new origins in. The next update will feature all the religious policies of my older mod, 'By Their Will' as well as bugfixes for existing policies. It will also feature 4 additional new policies which I think you guys will enjoy. Hang in there! The new update will likely drop at the beginning of next month sometime, and will be 3.0 compatible. The two other mods won't drop until later this year, but hope you are looking forward to them!

These are features which should absolutely be in the base game, but of course are not, because PDX either doesn't care, is stupid, is lazy, or possibly all three. Very promising sounding mod, I look forward to trying it out!

yay great mod! thank you!

Thank you man! i love your mod

Not yet. Will be near the end of this month though! Along with a few new additions!

so.... i am going to be "that guy"...

is 3.0 compatible?

Any chance this will in future add the Inter-species relations rights toggle from the start of the game or from the moment it detects you have more than one species in your empire?

Hey, it's great to see you've come back to work on this again! thank you!

now that the final peice has been added, it is now time to fulfill Tim Curry's dream and conquer space for COMMUNISM.

One of Technologist's issue with title "TECHNOLOGIST_BMW_STATE_ATHEISM" has wrong trigger. should be changed into "has_policy_flag = bmw_state_atheism"

I do hope AlphaAsh is looking at this mod for some inspiration >_>

@Keukotis Hey thanks! Life is MUCH better now. 'By Their Will' is going to be merged into the next update, which should release at the end of this month. (Planning on the 20th)

Hey, it's great to see you've come back to work on this again! I hope that means life is going better for you. Out of curiosity, does the inclusion of Religion tenants in this 2.0 release now mean that this replaces "By Their Will" as well?

religious policies ideas; enforced religious doctrines, religious education mandate, eliminating opposing religions, or suppressing other religions, promoting all religions, spreading the word of (fill in blank), state funding of religious institutions. All of these policies could also spawn factions.

I think of living standards more as the 'cap' or highest level that the citizens can reach. Welfare is more related to money given to the elderly, ill, or disadvantaged.

Isn't welfare already covered by living standards?

Market Regulation would be a neat idea

Agreed. That will be something I'll consider for the next update.

Thats why i feel it'd make more sense if having multiculturalism in a xenophobic empire would decrease happiness, but having multiculturalism in a xenophilic empire would increase happiness.

I suppose there is a difference between multiculturalism as a fact - in other words, an empire ruling over diverse cultures - and multiculturalism as an ideology or worldview.
You can be fanatic xenophobe and still have a thousand different species working as indentured servants or with residency, in other words.

Well it might be noted that the main issue with muliculturalism is when a state identifies and tries to promote one culture over another, or when the minorities in said state start to threaten the power of the majority. For example, Austria-Hungary and the Ottomans both were multicultural states, but that didn't mean that they promoted all cultures equally.

but i can also see how it's strange for that to be the case for xenophilic/egalitarian/pacifist/materialistic empires, as it'd make more sense if it was with a xenophobic/authoritarian/spiritualist/militarist empires. perhaps these ethic/government based policy differences could be a future feature i dont know, but it's something to think about

@Birbology i'd probably say it's because super multicultural societies tend to build tension among each others cultures, and possibly sparking cultural rivalries. their disagreements can tend to make them all more unhappy overall. (look at the united states of america for example) multicultural societies = more diverse opinions = more disagreements = more fussing against each other = less overall happiness

at least thats how i see it

One question: Why would multiculturalism reduce overall happiness? This especially doesn't make sense if you're playing a xenophilic empire.

First of all I would like to say that this mod is really cool, and you did a great job on it, it helps to bring a lot of life to your empire. I just want point out 3 bugs I found.

Just as someone said before me, the research policies seem to be bug, the Moderate, High and Very High Funding have their values wrong. Besides this, the Police State option has it's description bugged and the crime reduction is appearing red even if it's a good thing. Lasty on the Steam page, "Drug Policy", is suposed to reduce miner and technician output, but in game both the description and the effects appear to be empire wide (aka "Monthtly Minerals").
You might also want to look into the values of some policies as some are quite overpowered
Sorry if this felt like a rant or me just nitpicking, I really like your mod and I will use it on my next playthrough I just feel like it needs a bit more tweaking on some values, even if it is mostly RP focused.

@SargR Thank you very much for the kind comments!
Yikes! That's something I'll fix in the next update! Typo in the code!

I Love this new mod, please keep up the great work!

There is a bug i'd like to address though
The effect values on education funding seem to be a bit messed up. I can do light funding and get -5% monthly influence for +5% research which seems right. But for very high education funding i get -20% monthly influence for only +2% research? that doesn't seem right, as it would make more sense if it was +20% research, so i can assume it must've been a typo or something in the values