Comments - Xylephone

The mod description itself says "A comprehensive patch for HPM (or most HPM-derivative mods; see mod readme for details)." It's not standalone, it needs the base mods to function.

Yeah, struggling to form Germany is one of the consequences of the sphere changes. The P&E patch was also integrated into EEM and I've played a half-dozen test runs with it since, and Germany DOES form, and rarely later than 1900, most often around 1880-85. That seems late, and is by Vicky standards, but is often closer to the actual historical formation date than vanilla or HPM's lightning-fast formations were.

IMO - and I've discussed this with EEM as well - I think that representing the First Italian War against Austria during the Hungarian crisis would help to severely damage Austria and make it more likely that Prussia can secure sphere dominance over them with a successful Brother's War, or even just by them dropping out of GP if they were beaten severely enough. Austria from '48-'50 was historically on the verge of collapse, and representing that is probably the single most important element to properly modeling their sharp decline beginning in the 1850s which as-of-yet isn't present (in any mod, so far as I'm aware).

The current 6.0 release seems to have problems with provinces becoming monopolitical everywhere. I've seen multiple provinces that have 95%+ support for liberals, particularly. I'm not sure what the cause could be, but I did notice that events for the Springtime of Nations and Liberal Revolutions seemed to be firing more regularly than usual for me.

I also released a mod here that fixes nations' starting political reforms, which you can take a look at and integrate if you'd like.

Glad to hear it, let me know if you have any questions about anything in the pastes. There were some replies HPM gave to me about his ideas for how to implement some of them, particularly in the first paste related to the Ottomans and China. I'm not sure how tightly you want to adhere to his ideas (if you want to implement them at all), but I can tell you what he told me if you care.

Hey, I'm not sure if these will be of interest to you at all, but I wanted to share the pastebins which I had originally written for HPM including some bug reports, suggestions and thoughts. The first pastebin was shared with HPM and while there were some elements from it he agreed with but didn't get to work on before leaving (Ottoman rework and China rework mainly) he was able to implement many of the other suggestions/bugfixes, and unfortunately I'm not fully sure of what he did/didn't get a chance to work on--sorry. I have edited it to remove what parts I know he did get to, as well as to update some of my thoughts and suggestions, but there's probably still a lot there which he did address that I don't know about.

The second paste he also saw but it was right before he left permanently so I believe only a handful of small changes from it were ever implemented. The third and fourth pastes he never saw.

I know this is a ton of stuff, some of it likely doesn't apply at all since many of the economic issues I discuss might not even be present in HPMP due to the changes to AI, and I'm not sure of the exact goals you have for HPMP so I don't know how much of it is something you'd actually like to work on if at all. Even so, I thought I'd share it since this mod looks promising.

First Paste (HPM saw and implemented parts of this): Controlc.com

Second Paste (HPM saw this and replied to it but to my knowledge implemented only a few, if any, of its suggestions): Controlc.com

Third Paste (HPM never saw): Controlc.com

Fourth Paste (HPM never saw): Controlc.com

I have to be honest, I will probably not remember to check back here regularly if you have comments or questions, but I will take a look eventually. Either way, I hope in some capacity these suggestions are helpful to you.