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Solus Rex

NOTE ON DLC COMPATIBILITY
Most of the crash reports I get from users result from combining Solus Rex with a different DLC setup than the one I use. When the game and the mod were both new, it was easy to make sure the mod was fully compatible with all DLC setups, but both have grown massively in complexity, and it's no longer feasible for me to maintain that level of unconditional support. The mod will work best with the recommended DLC setup, and I will try my best to ensure it runs with other setups, but I am no longer able to make any guarantees in that area.

For the mod to work as intended, I highly recommend you have the following DLC enabled:
- Together for Victory
- Man the Guns
- La Resistance
- No Step Back

I do not have the following DLC, consequently cannot test the mod with them, and believe they are likely to crash the game if combined with the mod:
- By Blood Alone

Cosmetic DLC should not matter and can be enabled or disabled as you wish.

ELEVATOR PITCH
It's 1934, and the age of kings may be coming to a bloody end. France and Austria dominated Europe for decades after Prussia lost the Franco-Prussian War, but their defeat in the Great War at the hands of Britain and its allies threw the old order into disarray, and the new British-led order is now threatened by global economic collapse. This chaos has led to the rise of both socialist and nationalist forces across the world, bitterly opposed to one another as well as to the old powers.

OFFICIAL LINKS
Discord: https://discord.gg/DbgDUuz
Music Submod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1694338575
Legacy Build (1.5.*-compatible only): https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1699961610

STATUS Alpha.
- Map: Done, apart from a few things that require changes to provinces.
- Gameplay Mechanic Changes: Very far along.
- Scenario: The broad strokes are basically there. Only a few countries have been heavily developed so far.

COUNTRIES WITH FOCUS TREES
- American Workers' Republic
- California Republic
- Confederate States
- United States

COUNTRIES WITH PLACEHOLDER FOCUS TREES
(By "placeholder focus tree," I mean something like "the generic focus tree with an extra branch stuck on," or an original focus tree that's woefully incomplete)
- Austria
- Brazil
- British Empire
- British Republic
- France
- Japan
- Mexico
- Ottoman Empire
- Russian SFSR

POLITICS
Ideology-flipping is more difficult and more costly in Solus Rex compared to vanilla, and navigating internal politics is intended to play a larger role in the game. There are nine ideologies:
- Anarchism (Anarcho-communism, anarcho-syndicalism)
- Syndicalism (De Leonism, democratic socialism, left communism, Sorelianism)
- Vanguardism (Marxism-Martovism, Marxism-Martovism-Berianism, Marxism-Martovism-Trotskyism)
- Progressivism (Social democracy, social liberalism)
- Liberalism (Classical liberalism, market liberalism)
- Conservatism (Christian democracy, national conservatism, traditionalist conservatism)
- Integralism (National Catholicism)
- Social Nationalism (Ba'athism, falangism, national Bolshevism, national syndicalism)
- Radical Nationalism (Fascism, national socialism, Salafi jihadism, Strasserism, Showa Statism, Volkism)

DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
(I.e., how is this mod different from the zillion other alt history mods?)
- More interactive and immersive politics and economics: Without attempting to replicate the actual feel or mechanics of Victoria II, Solus Rex should expand Hearts of Iron IV to approach Victoria II's depth in handling these aspects of country management. There should be decision-making and trade-offs involved in achieving political and economic goals.
- Replay value: Some outcomes are more likely than others, but the overall world situation should be unique from playthrough to playthrough, as much as possible.
- The center cannot hold: Solus Rex is meant to portray a world in which the rise of liberalism had little effect on the old order, but in which that order is quickly unraveling in the aftermath of the Great War. There should be a mood of crisis, and the rise of far-left and far-right political factions should be near-universal (although they will not always manage to seize power).

A NOTE ON OTHER MODS
You combine Solus Rex with other mods at your own risk. The mod is intended to work as a standalone package and is not tested with any outside files enabled.

Some components of Solus Rex are derived from components of other mods. All credit for these components belongs to their respective mod teams.
- Kryo's RGFX Border Overhaul is incorporated into Solus Rex.
- Pepin the Hunchback's Spicy Generic Icons mod was the basis for the change to generic equipment icons.

I don't mind if you use my work as the basis for components of your own mods, but if you do, I ask that you give me credit, and point people toward Solus Rex.