Victoria 3 Resource Shuffler

What?

Application (not mod) that permutates the resources in the world

How?

• Parses the game's files so that it extracts each states' resources, including the discoverables
• It also extracts information about initial buildings and companies
• It shuffles the resources you specify

Why?

• I do not like this side of meta where you secure certain states for the long-term economy of your nation.
• (i.e. I do not like securing for gold states like Vrystaat, the nation of Peru or Borneo)
• The AI is dumb, it does not learn from plays, about best places to expand to, unlike players. Nor it reads the game's files

...Why?

###Because it's FUN:

• Make new strategies every play
• Seek the moved resources
• Pay attention to notifications of discoveries of gold, oil and rubber
• Might make you wage war over another countries
• A more interesting diplomacy emerges

Who for?

Intermediate/Pro players

Snapshot of the application

Features

• Makes a back-up
• You can choose precisely the set of resources to be shuffled
• Or you can select a certain preset, e.g. only shuffle gold, only shuffle gold & oil, only shuffle the discoverable resources, etc.
• If you choose to shuffle resources like iron, lead, sulfur, then expect new emergences of MAPI combos
• Buildings in 1836 are protected - there are guaranteed specific resources for every state, so that the initial buildings work (as opposed to there being no resource thus the buildings vanish)
• Companies that require certain states are protected - you'll still be able to found them
• Can show the top 5 states for each resource (includes discoverables) - you have to enable the "Spoiler: Best states" switch
• The app remembers the versions of the worlds you generate
• You can easily go back to play the original game or previous new worlds
• When you have selected a version - you're done and you can close the app - the game is loaded with the corresponding set of resources

How to use?

• Prevent the anti-virus from interfering with the executable file. I've seen online that python executables are prone to be considered viruses. Yes, what your anti-virus thinks is fake news.
• Provide the path to the Victoria 3 folder. It must contain the folders bin, game, launcher; (You will only have to do this once, since the path is persistent)
• If the path is corect, then you will see a green tick icon and you will unlock the rest of the interface. (The app will start unlocked from now on)
• If you want to generate a new world:
• 1. on the left side, either select a certain preset OR you can be picky about the resources you want to shuffle;
• 2. Click the 'Shuffle' button. If you want, you can rename the new world version. You're ready to play
• If you want to go back to a world, then select it from the version dropdown box - and that's it, you can close the app and play the game

You can play multiplayer:

• In the app you can press the button which opens the folder for the version, and put it inside a mod folder, with the path game\map_data\state_regions

If you provide a path to a mod instead, that contains:

• game\map_data\state_regions

• game\common\history\buildings

• game\common\company_types

• and configure resources.ini

• Then you can add new permutable resources, e.g. uranium;

Initial motivation

• https://www.reddit.com/r/victoria3/comments/1bs0z48/825_hours_in_and_i_just_learned_how_insane_the/?ref=share&ref_source=link
• https://www.reddit.com/r/victoria3/comments/1bsmizw/mod_for_random_gold_oil_spawn/?ref=share&ref_source=link
• Seeing pro players go for the same set of states

Ways the application can improve:

• Shuffle agricultural goods (while also, of course, protecting initial buildings & companies)
• Protect all companies: For every company that requires a set of resources in a certain region, give a random region's state the set of resources
• Dynamically show good icons next to each name (tried, but loading .dds files makes it boot very slowly)