Comments - KobraMaster

Good to see that the fixes are rolling in nice and steady. Naturally, no one is pushing you to pump out fixes and updates ASAP. Most mod developers only make mods in their free time.

Depending on what expansions this mod can run, you might also want to do fixes for DoD countries as well (Romania has Divide Yugoslavia focus and Hungary I believe gets an event where they demand Vojvodina from Yugoslavia - which doesn't exist). Balkan Strategy for UK is also a bit useless, but that one is not important, since all it does is increase relations. French Little Entente focus should also be tweaked to ask Serbia to join or just remove that part of the tree altogether (the part where they invite Yugoslavia).

If you are adding new generals, then adding new names might not be necessary. Although it would be appreciated, especially when it comes to admirals. The new naval game encourages multiple, specialized admirals, so hiring generic ones in the naval game is pretty much mandatory. I am not aware of any distinguished Serbian admirals or fleet commanders of that time though.

Ah, I can see the reasoning behind the different tag. It's completely understandable. It just surprised me when I was doing some testing and tag switching when SER didn't work, but it's good to know now.

Harder mods are very much appreciated. Kaiserreich version of Serbia is also pretty hard and requires some luck in order to succeed during the Weltkrieg. I've lost two games with your mod and won just a single one. Most people would find this mod unfair due to its difficulty, but this is actually what separates good players from casuals.

I'm interested in that project of yours, it's good to play alternate history mods in this game.

Also, pardon my late response, final college year eats my time away so much that I can barely check my messages.

A couple of things (NOTE: I am using all DLC's with the latest patch):
- You should probably do a spell check for a couple of things: replacing "nacional" with "national" and putting a space after punctuation marks.
- Forming the Serbian Empire decision does give cores as intended, but the decision doesn't go away. It just refreshes and stays there indefinitely, no matter how many times I click on it. Not a huge dealbreaker, but something to consider.
- I am interested in hearing the reasoning behind two new parties exclusive for Serbia. While it is a nice idea, it creates a few issues: puppet countries which have either of those two ideologies end up in most cases having a blank flag and even a missing name; . There should either be a workaround for this or just leave them in the scope of Fascist and Neutral ideologies respectively, but just give a national spirit that will change ideology rules (things like justify war goal tension limit etc.).
- Focuses of other countries which deal with Yugoslavia need to be tweaked, because they can leave some countries stuck.
- You need to set default generic names for new generals. I literally got Adam Jones as a new general and he doesn't sound very Serbian to me.
- Naval tech tree and focuses are pretty much unusable in gameplay perspective. Serbia starts with no naval tech (understandable) and doesn't get a chance to even defend the Adriatic or sink a few ships, considering that by the time Serbia gets access to sea, it's going to be around 1940, and having one of the only 4 available research slots allocated to any naval tech is not justifiable. You could try to do a Kaiserreich thing where the focus gives you at least the second tier destroyers, submarines and cruisers with few complementary techs. Without that, a hope for a naval game cannot exist.
- An expansion to industrial part of the focus tree would be nice. For example: building up Bosnia, Southern Serbia or Macedonia specifically. Those focuses could be a part of another part of the Expansionist Industrial tree, where you develop retaken lands. I found myself mostly just bloating the starting two states, because the economic crisis is a spirit that players should put a priority on for removing in hopes of even trying to build something.
- Not really a gripe, but just a question: Why does Serbia have a tag SRB instead of vanilla SER? Not really a dealbreaker as well, but I guess that the peach color of vanilla Serbia isn't appealing to you as well.

But all in all, this is a very ambitious mod. Considering that this is the very first version of it, it's very well made. Lots of options, which adds to replay value. Fixing the things I mentioned above, as well as adding some adjustments to Balkan countries that would reflect the alternate history aspect of the mod, would probably even garner a lot of attention on Steam Workshop. Not every day you see a mod that isn't just about "Conquer the world with +20% manpower and +50% attack generals" as minor, insignificant nations that using a common sense could never manage to even conquer a single neighbor (looking at pretty much every Albania, Tannu Tuva and *insert country which exists now but didn't exist during WW2 but it's a mod because **** it, it's my country* focus tree mod). You can definitely fail as Serbia here, if you don't play your cards right.

I am looking forward to seeing more updates to this. Good luck to your team, if you continue developing this mod. Cheers!

Apart from the missing Tank designer and Chief of navy for Serbia, everything seems to be alright. A couple of grammar errors here and there, but nothing too noticeable (it's just that I'm a grammar nazi).
Looking forward to more updates. Great work.

Wow, how long was this in the making? I haven't noticed it until just now. Quite impressed with what you did there. I can see some obvious inspirations, but I am sure the execution will be more than good. I was wondering how it would influence the Historical AI focus, and I was even more impressed to see that you have tweaked the existing focus trees. A lot of work was definitely put into this mod, it's very admirable. Can't wait to see this in the Workshop.
Just make sure to fix some typos here and there in the focus tree.

Can you fix somehow the place where rivers are connecting a bit to the south from there? Whenever I play Yugoslavia, my OCD kicks in when I see that the rivers are not connected well.

Right above Bulgaria, the Legionary green one is Romania.

My body is SO ready.

If you are getting crashes when trying to go into diplomacy screen with other countries, than you should try deleting the mod completely and extracting it again. Those crashes happened to me when I just tried overwriting the existing files in the mod folder.

You mean when you want to see a diplomacy screen of any other country other than yourself? Try deleting the mod altogether, and then extract it again. I had the same problem a few times. You just overwrote the existing mod, didn't you? That might be the problem. Just put a fresh download in.

Serbian ArmA... SARMA!