Toolbox Theory (update)

This article is about the v. 1.2.0 update for The New Order. For the song in the OST, see Toolbox Theory (OST).

Toolbox Theory is the v. 1.2.0 update for The New Order. The update was released on November 20, 2021 and introduced several major features, including complete overhauls for the mod's economy and foreign policy mechanics.

Major Additions[edit | edit source]

Entirely reworked the economy mechanic, including but not limited to production, construction, and trade
New laws menu, adjusted to TT changes (remade into smaller rectangles and with added sliders about policies effectiveness)
Added a Foreign Policy mechanic to all Superpowers
Added Proxy Conflicts to the Philippines, West Africa, the Maho campaign, Congo, Angola, Madagascar, Gazaland, and Malaysia
Added the Oil Crisis conflicts, South Africa, the Iberian Wars, the Iranian Civil War, and the Indonesian Civil War to the Foreign Policy mechanic
Added in new buildings and satisfaction and coverage mechanics for them
Implemented over 100 subideologies for all ideologies
Reworked the World Tension meter
Reworked the Industry Research Tab
Implemented a new Policy Effectiveness mechanic, denoting the effectiveness of a nation’s laws
Reworked Long Yun content, and facelifted Lu Han content
Added several new mechanics to Long Yun and Lu Han
Added new endings to the Western Insurrection
Rework and content expansion for Kaya
Added a shared bills mechanic for all Japan PMs
Order 44 has been heavily reworked
Iberia now has a new, reworked economic tree
Added a wartime and post-war devastation mechanic to the English Civil War
Added wartime focus trees to the English Civil War
Reworked pre-war trees to the English gov't and HMMLR
Added 100 days of content to Arthur Chesterton's England and David Stirling's England
Facelifted SBA content across the board, including a new collapse and facelifted mechanics
Facelifted Burgundy’s content, including new mechanics and a new AI Collapse scenario, with unique responses for Germany and America
Added a new Arcade Mode feature for completed campaigns
Added a mechanic between America, Collaborationist England and Germany to determine which faction England joins
Bennett has received a major facelift, rethinking how he personally feels about the Civil Rights Act and changing his foreign tree to establish the "Community of Free Nations"
Reworked Brazil's Military trees, expanding the Sorbonne elections and adding two hardliner paths
Totally facelifted the Comintern mechanic to no longer consist solely of spam for economic investment
Added uranium deposits to the world map

Minor Additions[edit | edit source]

Added Scotland and Norway to the country select screen
Igor Shafarevich is now a wholesome condem leader in Komi
Added new trees for democratic election of radical candidates in Komi
Added new Ultravisionary succession mechanic for Komi
Implemented new party popularity system for Vyatka
We have removed Aldan, Berezniki, and Kostrama. God rest their eternal souls
Added a "Far East Development" mechanic to Russia in order to strengthen Far Eastern states and stop them from becoming irrelevant in Russia
New deccat for the Russian Central-Siberia unifier to develop the northern Siberian region
New naval development deccat for the Russian Far-East to begin rebuilding a fleet
Used the Foreign Policy System to add new features and decisions to Brazil's fight in the South African War
Added extra events and flavor to Brazil's Hundred Days
Replaced Ikeda's coalition mechanic with a factions relation mechanic for all Japanese PMs
Added new decisions for Japan to deal with the Yasuda Crisis, as well as to recover following its aftermath
Takagi's North Borneo reforms now properly split the tag
All Japanese governments can now collapse, assuming they become too unstable
Restructured Ikeda's first focus tree to allow him to deal with the Yasuda Crisis much quicker
Added vast amounts of new flavour to proxy conflicts
Added vast amounts of new flavor to Lu Han
Added skeleton content to Argentina
Added skeleton content to Chile
Added skeleton content to Peru
Added skeleton content to the Central Asian states
Added skeleton content to Mexico
Added skeleton content to Manchukuo
Added skeleton content to Guangdong
Added skeleton content to Canada
Added skeleton content to Thailand
Added skeleton content to the Gulf
Added skeleton content for Turkey, including two elections and 11 possible leaders
Added skeleton content to Greece, including two possible resistance groups taking over and four democratic leaders
Added skeleton content to the Levante, and cut old content
Added skeleton content to all West African nations
Added skeleton content to Moskowien, as well as a new collapse setup
Added the Khanate of Kalat and the Frontier Provinces Civilian Administration as Afghan Puppets
Reworked Afghan Mapping
Reworked skeleton content to the Chinese warlords
Added the Christmas War
Added a new mechanic and GUI for South Africa
Bormann’s Großraum mechanic has been facelifted and slightly expanded, pending for further changes coming in Europas Narben
Bohemia's starting situation has been altered: it now starts annexed into Germany, but will split off during the civil war. It may join either one of the four contenders or stay neutral during the conflict, depending on certain conditions
A revamped Batov Insurgency mechanic, with a Scripted GUI instead of a simple Decision Category
Revamped the collapse of the Divine Mandate of Siberia, with new tags spawning
Slight revamp of the Omsk Insurgency collapse, with some new additions
Revamped the Five Year Plans mechanic for TT
Changed the way England's "State of the Nation" mechanic works
Reworked England's Econ system
Implemented a simple polling system for the English elections
Cornwall is now named "Garnison Cornwall"
Cornwall will now begin with only the Port of Plymouth under its direct control
Added new decisions to raid army bases as HMMLR depending on which focus you took in the three-way decision early in their tree
Reworked the effects of HMMLR's reconstruction tree to be more engaging and less abrupt
You can now switch to any one of the African OFN Mandates as South Africa in a total victory scenario
The following nations have new and/or adjusted tech icons: Germany, France, England, Iberia, Mexico, Canada, South Africa, Free France, Japan, Hungary, Turkey, Brazil, Cameroon, Finland, Free England, Ireland, Scotland, Slovakia, Wales, Romania, Venezuela, Croatia, Colombia, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Chile, Egypt, Iraq, Paraguay, Iran, Poland, Afghanistan, Angola, Australia, Congo, Denmark, Ukraine, Mozambique, Italian East Africa, Italian Middle East, Norway, New Zealand, Ulster, Cuba, India, Oman, and Yemen, 200+ in all
Copied Germany's Oil Crisis mechanic to Japan and America
Minor changes to Norwegian laws (public meetings are now outlawed and Free Norway is now a multiparty democracy)
Added some icons to some of Göring's decisions/decision categories
Added several potential leaders to Syria
Added extra flavor events for Ireland
Added several icons and event pictures to England
Added 200+ 3D models for infantry, armor, aircraft and landmarks.
Added City Descriptions to many major cities across the world
Removed a lot of depreciated icons and implemented many icon reworks
Reworked Nixon's "CALM THE HELL DOWN" description
Added several decision icons to decisions and categories that didn't have them
Added several bios to different nations in Asia
Changed the flag and name of North Borneo
Added unique icons to technology sharing
Facelifted Race for the Urals mechanic
Added new bills, events, and tooltips to LeMay's presidency
Added transition events between a few US presidents
Reworked the Brazil Development GUI to be TT integrated
Brazil's Megaprojects are now displayed separately from the Development GUI
Added South African War decision category to Brazil
Goldwater now no longer has to be a goldbug for his econ tree (e.g., prereqs removed that required him to have gold standard)
Heydrich no longer cares about debt once the nuclear struggle with Himmler starts
Changed Speer decisions/effects for Moskowien reintegration
Skeleton content for Bormann Moskowien reclamation
Revamped HMMLR operations mechanic in pre-ECW England
Revamped ministers and national spirits for Moskowien
Revamped the collapse (now called "Moskowien's Dissolution"). Version present in TT is not the version that will be in EN since major spoilers were not included
Removed the Two State Solution completely
Added news events for Gorbachev, Kaminski, Saucken and Helldorff unification of Moskowien, as well as if none of the above unify Moskowien
Added post-unification portraits for Saucken and Gorbachev
Tukhachevsky-Zhukov power struggle to succeed Voroshilov now has a Scripted GUI in the decision category
Speer's Oil Crisis start is now actually a crisis
Added several decisions to reduce the rate of Social Tension decrease every 2 weeks
You can now place nuclear weapons in Mauritius and Reunion
Added Economic Leaning tracker to State of The Reich. Your decisions will affect several aspects of the economy
Extra events and flavor to the 100 Days Crisis for Brazil
Added city terrains to Brazil
Added small amounts of new flavour events to Japan, Germany, and America
Changed Magnitorsk's decisions from vanilla
Added "anarchy banners" for nations that have no authority. (i.e., North and Northeastern Siberia)
Improved the look of capitulation popups, now including flags of respective nations
Added capitulation quotes for Finland, Mengjiang, Indonesia, Free Indonesia, the Generalgouvernment, Plesetsk, Ukhta, The Ural Four Nations, Reichskommissariat Zentralafrika, Wales, Scotland
Added skeleton governments to England and Wales when Scotland beats England in the reunification war
Visually facelifted the Armed Forces Paranoia, English Minority and Election decision categories
Added 70s portrait for Sergey Bunyachenko, along with an accompanying epilogue event and bio
Added 70s bio for Dmitry Yazov
Added new Oil Crisis events to Germany, the US and Japan
Re-Addition of four Gulf endings (Zayed, Shakbut, NUC, Workers Uprising) and new flags for said paths
Added a decision to the Narodnik investigation decision category to gain command points for political power, thus allowing for an easier time handling it.
Made Slave Revolt's invasion of Schorner slightly easier with extra decisions
Added railway mechanic to Speer
Gave meaningful effects to German Great Game decisions
Gave descriptions to several African ministers
Removed remnants of outdated lore (i.e. world events) from the Republic of India and Azad Hind
Added partial skeleton content up to 1965 for both Indias, including new leaders and world events
Added a few decisions for Onega to coordinate their attack with AI Finland
A Southern Urals buffer state will appear if Omsk collapsed while owning a part of Southern Urals
Implemented a more competent AI for Hüttig who actively tries to stabilize the Reichstaat, enabling the country to collapse in a less predictable manner
If the CIA operation that encourages Ireland to side with OFN succeeds, Ireland will receive a small bonus if they actually pick that choice
All GCW contenders will receive a dynamic daily compliance gain depending on their legitimacy, while the chosen successor of Hitler will receive an additional 0.05 daily compliance gain
Added a separate tag for RK Hindustan instead of re-using the India tag
USA will now receive an event if the Indonesia war ended in stalemate
AI Italy will put more divisions on Dodecanese before the Italian-Turkish war begin
Both AI Turkey and AI Levant will prepare for the Italian-Turkish war
If Turkey annexed Lebanon after the Italian-Turkish war, Lebanon will gain independence after a year and a civil war will erupt there half a year later
The result of the border conflict on Dodecanese is now independent form the result of the Middle East theatre
The victor of the Iranian civil war will now gain cores on all Iranian states and move their capital to Tehran
Nuclear ultimatums will be issued when Mongolia people's front / PRC if they managed to capture any Korean / Japanese core states