Application (not mod) that permutates the resources in the world
- 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
- 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
###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
Intermediate/Pro players
- 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
- 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:
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- on the left side, either select a certain preset OR you can be picky about the resources you want to shuffle;
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- 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
- 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
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game\map_data\state_regions
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game\common\history\buildings
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game\common\company_types
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and configure resources.ini
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Then you can add new permutable resources, e.g. uranium;
- 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
- 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)