Newspapers and magazines

What's this mod about?

Adds a publicly available trade resource - newspapers, and a luxury resource - magazines, as well as appropriate buildings, technologies, production methods and balance changes. Compatible with vanilla AI.

Description

Newspapers are the essence of the Victorian spirit. It is strange that Paradox did not add this key product initially. I tried to bring the balance and atmosphere closer to Vanilla. Newspapers are commodities consumed by the population according to their standard of living. Magazines are a luxury item that is consumed together with other "household needs". Develop markets for these resources, balance supply and demand — and you won’t even notice that it’s not part of the vanilla game.

Features:

- "Publishing" building with unique production methods and an expanded multiplier of production

- "Newsprint" technology in the 2nd epoch, opening up the use of paper for production. Rotary printing machine technology in the 3rd era, opening the most advanced production method, increasing production exponentially

- Tailored AI to use newspapers in their development strategies

- The start-up production of newspapers is as close as possible to the historical values of 1836

- New needs of the population: News. In addition to newspapers, it also includes a radio and telephone. Magazines added to home needs

- Beautiful icons wherever you need them

- English-speaking cultures, Japanese and Germans have a passion for newspapers. The French have a passion for journals

Compatibility:

Mostly OK, but sometimes compatibility patches are required.

- Interface modes: OK

- Graphic Fashions: OK

- Event Fashions: OK

- Resource Fashions: OK

- Trading Modes: OK

- Product/Building Fashions: If the mod uses buy_packages or ai_strategies, a compatibility patch will be required. It does not work until then.

- Anbeeld’s Revision of AI: AI is not yet building custom buildings in this fashion.

– Best War: OK

– Improved Automation: OK

Translations:

- All vanilla localizations (from Paramonov)

- Chinese localization (from Destacius)

FAQ:

- Can I use parts of your fashion for my own?

+ Feel free.

- I made a localization, will you add it?

+ Be sure to send it to [email protected]

- How can it be that the demand for newspapers is formed not from literacy, but from living standards? And why don't newspapers improve literacy? That breaks the dive, right?

+ Well, questions to Paradox. They're going to have to come up with a system of dynamic demand, because right now it's a very rigid system, and it doesn't allow much maneuvering.

- Why do newspapers make out of fabric? What nonsense?

+ Until the 1840s, newspapers were mostly made of rag. In 1844, Charles Fenerty invented wood fiber paper. The game will feature a technology that allows paper to be used as raw materials.

- Vanilla was not designed for the additional consumption of cloth and paper

+ Right, so we have made corrections to the way vanilla buildings produce these resources.

- Is this fashion Eurocentric?

+ The leaders of the newspaper business were the British, French, Americans and Germans. That's the story. AI, however, will quickly overwhelm the world with publishers.

- Why are these products available for export? Aren't newspapers a national thing?

+ In fact, it is newspapers and magazines that have the right to be exported, because with their help historically Western civilization imposed the ideology of industrialization on the rest of the world. They were part of a phenomenon that has made us have a huge English-speaking part of the world. So I think it would be unfair to make them a domestic product.

- Will you add new resources like comics?

+ Sounds great, maybe I will do it in the future.