swf541 - Today at 6:31 PM
nice
btw i just made a merc system for hoi4
Greatexperiment - Today at 6:31 PM
Oh? Nice.
swf541 - Today at 6:31 PM
when i get home going to finish it up
and add more historical ones
you can hire them, and they auto disband at end of the war
locked templates as well so they cant be replicated
or edited
Greatexperiment - Today at 6:32 PM
Hmmm
That sounds like something for WoD
The prince of a given territory hires mercs for specific missions.
swf541 - Today at 6:33 PM
yep
that would work
i need it for the cold war due to africa
and the rise of PMC's
im suprised the modern day mods havent done it
Greatexperiment - Today at 6:33 PM
I just capped off the latest patch for 56 - and will be taking a break from it for quite a while. I completely cleared the error logs and I'm burned out from it.
swf541 - Today at 6:33 PM
considering the prevelance of PMC organizations
congrats
Greatexperiment - Today at 6:34 PM
What system do you guys use for organizing your project?
swf541 - Today at 6:34 PM
github
the template i used for mercs
is the Paladin Group
so only hirable by nationalists, fascists and national socialists
lead by otto skorzeny
Greatexperiment - Today at 6:43 PM
I'm jealous.
and admire your team's good work. Seems like you turned what was - kind of honestly - a not very good mod into something quite nice.
I say that with full knowledge of how weird 56 is.
swf541 - Today at 6:44 PM
yea
the mod was absolute shit
tbh
when i joined it
your free to call it bad originally
for fucks sake they og made the map
in MS PAINT
interent is laggy atm
Greatexperiment - Today at 6:46 PM
haha
56 is always going to be kind of terrible, to be honest.
swf541 - Today at 6:46 PM
its the fun sort though
Greatexperiment - Today at 6:46 PM
In the sense that so long as it's just me, I can only do so much.
swf541 - Today at 6:46 PM
mine was just all arround shit
Greatexperiment - Today at 6:47 PM
It did look like it was going to die.
swf541 - Today at 6:47 PM
agreed
honestly im suprised it didnt
Greatexperiment - Today at 6:47 PM
Eh, there's always yet another paradox update to look forward to.
swf541 - Today at 6:47 PM
lol
those dont hurt me that badly
Greatexperiment - Today at 6:48 PM
In some ways I also envy total overhauls like yours, because they're not as beholden to vanilla as 56 is.
swf541 - Today at 6:48 PM
we updated pretty fast
Greatexperiment - Today at 6:48 PM
56 is dlc, basically. Not an overhaul.
swf541 - Today at 6:48 PM
very much so
i couldnt stand making a vanilla hoi4 mod
tbh
Greatexperiment - Today at 6:48 PM
I can't stand it, and I'm the one doing it.
No joke when I say there were more than 450 broken focus references when 1.5 hit.(edited)
swf541 - Today at 6:49 PM
yea i think we had more
but we have over 50 trees
Greatexperiment - Today at 6:49 PM
Yeah, makes sense.
swf541 - Today at 6:49 PM
national unity at least was an easy fix
Greatexperiment - Today at 6:49 PM
The most fun to fix bugs were the broken has_government checks that showed up in 1.5.1
swf541 - Today at 6:49 PM
trying to figure out the lag issue with 1.5
lol what?
Greatexperiment - Today at 6:49 PM
yeah, there were 40 of them all of a sudden
No line numbers or files
Just an error for each one
swf541 - Today at 6:50 PM
has_government broke?
or just false positive errors?
Greatexperiment - Today at 6:50 PM
No, they were always broken - but they were now being reported.
swf541 - Today at 6:50 PM
in your mod or the actual function is broke?
i have a ton of them
Greatexperiment - Today at 6:50 PM
Actually broken in 56.
They just never were reported before.
swf541 - Today at 6:50 PM
strange
Greatexperiment - Today at 6:51 PM
and there are hundreds of those things, so manually going through the code is out of the question.
swf541 - Today at 6:51 PM
they seem to work for me
and my 26 ideologies lmfao
Greatexperiment - Today at 6:51 PM
What I ended up doing was creating a copy of the mod - and then auto replacing all valid has_government checks with "X"
and then just looking at whatever was left
swf541 - Today at 6:51 PM
i see
we got a list of errors of a few hundred(edited)
but most are sound/ model stuff
Greatexperiment - Today at 6:52 PM
So it turned out people has mispelled democratic, or used liberalism as a has_government check. Some others were using fascist vs. fascim, etc.
One person even apparently put in fascism+, which sounds fancy
swf541 - Today at 6:52 PM
welp that would cause it
LOL what was wrong with them
yeesh
even my inexperienced people know better than that lol
Greatexperiment - Today at 6:53 PM
but the best part was that there was one left I couldn't find... and I was mumbling and joking about it with a guy on the team.
...and naturally it turned out to be a broken bit of code he'd written
swf541 - Today at 6:53 PM
LMFAO
Greatexperiment - Today at 6:53 PM
His shame was fairly intense.
swf541 - Today at 6:54 PM
should be
lol
once we got a un system in place i got a plan to do un peacekeepers in civil wars
Greatexperiment - Today at 6:54 PM
To be fair, the vast majority of contributions I get were from people that didn't know any better. That's why the code is so messy and inconsistent.
I don't accept bad code anymore, but it doesn't change the fact that for a long time I wasn't so strict.
swf541 - Today at 6:54 PM
yea we had the same issue