Thanks for your feedback, I agree with the Faction Tree, I just wanted to include it as I wanted to play another Robot nation in the area with some friends. But I agree that they mostly get eaten up immediately and there aren't many other candidates nearby,

Regarding the tech tree, I'll take a look into reworking it, maybe having the techs require a Certain amount of Cola to research.

this shit is fire
my only gripe is that half of the focus names are kind of shit lmao
its just "nuka-whateveriscurrentlyrelevant"

i like the faction tree but it doesnt seem like anything REALLY of value comes of it + warden and robot city usually get eaten by the hangdogs by the time you get around to it
also most of the tree requiring tech beforehand is a little obnoxious
also also the scavenging for tech decisions are kind of useless; if you want to keep both that and the focus tree requiring technology to progress you should just put those together and make it so you can spend nuka-cola or whatever to pick up the researches you need

pls continue to update

It is a nation run by an AI, so you would think! I would have loved to commission some custom art, but alas, I don't have the funds required to do so.

tons of ai slop images, eh

Hay Mr. Zoat, thanks for linking my video. I really enjoyed playing this mod. I hope kbg' gets more opportunities to create in the future.

Overall really interesting submod, I think the focus tree could do with some tidying for sure, some overlap in their effects, the ones with upgrades for tech levels, you can get tech for stuff you can't even make, like vertibird/xian aircrafts, you also get a lot of "random" techs like airborn ghouls and others (if it is the idea sure), some are bugged description wise and some could do with descriptions (mostly the one about decyphering a special tech, saying what you will get), last thing idk if this is possible as some focuses specially the starting ones require X amount of resources it is hard to anything until you do the focuses so you don't mistakely restart them, would it be possible if you click the focus it consumes on the spot? Also might be the mod or OWB problem, seems when people join a faction the img is broken?
I have to say you did very well for your first mod. Continue to improve.

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Someone on YouTube did a playthrough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC8Ky1EfIrQ

With regards to early expansion, the Plaguelands nations auto-war with each other since they don't have unique focus trees. If the factory had to expand there first, that would probably result in some defensive wars.

Coffee - NukaFlood - bug (last option dont reacheble)
NukaColaTrade - NukaCola Quantum - bug (trading is only allowed once)

Nice mod, but i think too many focuses are locked behind prerequisites. Also, i believe that decision to buy prewar designs should be repeatable.

as soon as RBR updates I will be doing a full conquest of North America!

Thanks for the feedback and love! I agree that I want to add more in terms of balance and such, but its tough as its in a, like you said, static area. I also realize that the nation is pretty strong in relativity to everyone else around them, I'll have to look into maybe tuning them down a bit. Producing a certain amount of Nuka Cola every month would be a different problem I'd have to figure out entirely if I wanted to implement that. Maybe have it in the decisions or what not. Thank you for the input and feedback.

I'd also love to see some more mechanics around the Nuka-Cola! I think the existing ability to sell it and get some bonuses from having lots of money and Nuka-Cola, as well as having a couple branches of the focus tree require Nuka-Cola is super cool. But I'd love to see something like a ticking timer - maybe you have to produce a certain amount of Nuka-Cola every month to prove the Gigafactory is remaining efficient? That would also help incentivize the player to expand early - right now, you have nothing stopping you from sitting in one place and building up a robust army of robots before you really need to expand at all, especially because your main expansion targets (Newton, Livewire, Plaguelands area) are very static and won't ever initiate their own conflicts.

Outside of that weird situation - it definitely feels unintentional - the rest of the experience was pretty fun, although very, very easy. Robots are generally pretty strong, and the ability to get a lot of factories and a safe space for the first several years to build up is super good. I'd love to see some additional midgame challenges (maybe something after conquering the Plaguelands - an expansion into some extra content about Colorado/Dakota, or Nuka-Cola production requirements)

This is a super fun mod!
I did have a couple times where I ran out of focuses to do - especially because I ended up having to fight Lanius. I didn't get to fighting the Iron Alliance until they had already helped Lanius conquer Colorado (although they didn't join Cesear's Legion so it was an easy fight) - and I decided to go ahead and create puppets of Hangdogs and Robot City to get all the faction bonuses. This resulted in Lanius declaring war pretty quickly.

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It is really fun, and I hope you do continue it! It definitely is a lot more fun with a friend or two, or three to play to really take advantage of the faction.

Fantastic mod, it was a unique experience I enjoyed playing. Looking forward to its future growth and hopefully it won't, 'fall out', of continuation with future updates.

Very surprised how well made this is. 10/10, love the focus tree

Hay you did a great job making this submod, Thank you for the content and experience. Have a good day.

Thank you.

WARDEN didn't want to join my faction again, and when I released him as a puppet WARDEN wasn't the nation leader any more. I think the issue there is that the first focus WARDEN does after defeating the Hangdogs creates a faction, so if he loses to Hangdogs and you later liberate him, his focus trumps yours. I think the only thing to do is wait until after he does the focus and do your focus afterwards.

I'll add in some fixes for that and some bypasses as well.

Getting Xian schematics is pointless. You need Jet Engine technology to research them, which you can't get.

Might also be worth putting in a focus bypass for wargoals when you already own their territory.

I did rather like how simple the process of selling cola was.

"So, Costa Cafeinada, how do you sell your drinks?"
"Well, we do spy missions, and persuade them to take our drink, until they decide not to for no reason or they get conquered, which means we've got fewer customers even though the same number of people live there."
"And how about you, Gigafactory?"
"I press a button."
"Genius!"

Its supposed to be a 30% chance that they say yes. I had the same thing happen, where Robot City and Iron Alliance, just went nuts over the map. I agree as well a bit, that the first Newton and Live Wires take a bit long to get to.

Hah! What exactly is the chance of Iron Alliance saying 'yes'? Because they did for me and basically ruined me. After our war with Caesar's Legion, they took most of their territory, and provoked a war with the entirety of Mexico that we couldn't hope to win.

I would prefer it if the first couple of wargoals had fewer prerequisits. No complaints otherwise.

Reme? the rat from rattaotuie idk im not french, glad to see him expanding his business to the soft drink

This is your first mod?!??! This is insane quality!!! I’m extremely humbled to have my work be an inspiration to this project. And I seriously look forward to any future projects you have planned. This is some pretty insane talent on display if this is what you’re producing this early on in your modding journey!!

Huge congratulations on getting a project like this done!!