V1.2.1 "Toolbox Theory

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Toolbox Theory version 1.2.1 was released on January 21 2022.


Major Additions[edit | edit source]

Added compatibility with HoI4 version 1.11 and the No Step Back DLC

Minor Additions[edit | edit source]

Introduced two new mapmodes -

Moved city descriptions from city custom terrain to a window GUI, coupled with map icons that shows all the states containing city descriptions

Added custom news headers for several nations including Germany, Amur, Brazil, England, Ireland, Japan, Communist Russia, Red Army Russia, Tsarist Russia, and USA. More custom news headers will be implemented as time goes on.

Made it possible for the USA to stage a rebellion in Mali during WAC Scenario 3

New 1960s general portrait for Remer

The Pakt Commission for the Congo established if Leopoldville wins the Congo Civil War has a new unique flag and ruling party name -

Replaced existing "Canadian" culture with region specific cultures for Canada

AI England will now do the reconstruction decisions - Ported various features from the base game. These changes include: -

AI strategies for intel agencies and operative missions - Level 2 operatives - Unit leader getting wounded / sick (they will recover faster than vanilla with the medical advancements in the past two decades) - Agents being captured / killed / turned

AI now knows to construct utility buildings when the demand is not 100% satisfied

Göring will now prepare for his world conquest by building lots of Railway guns and floating harbours

USA's dark blue cosmetic tag will also be applied if US is defeated by Göring

Added a bunch of decisions for Göring to conquer Egypt, Sudan and East Africa after the capitulation of Italy

Added an RK for China called RK Großchina with Oskar Munzel as country leader.

This country will spawn if Göring defeats China in WPC

New armour system adapted to work with TNO techs of IFVs and MBTs

Bug Fixes[edit | edit source]

Yorubaland will now join the war immediately in the WAA vs FMA vs PALF scenario

Kayes will no longer peace out separately when capitulated

Mali and Kayes will annex each other respectively

'A Devastating War' national spirit is now removed after the English Civil War ends

Aichi Kiichi will now have Corporatism appear instead of Fascism for ideology text

Allowed Aramburu to take power after Rojas' Interim Presidency

Félix Estigarriba's portrait will now display correctly

Fixed Azandeland Peace Deal so they can join the Japanese Economy Sphere

Fixed states in Congo not being cored - Fixed Germany adding the Cabal Statelet to the Pakt

Fixed Post-Mandate Reconstruction Discontent - Fixed CAR Collapsing Twice

Fixed Angola going into Civil War during CAR Collapse

Fixed an infinitely looping C.A.R World Event

Fixed Burgundy not collapsing

The "oil for food" idea in Amur should now display properly

Fixed a decision that should give a prison for Amur

Fixed a wrong policy effectiveness change in a focus effect for Amur's regional tree

Fixed the Deficit/GDP ratio tooltip when mousing over the GDP value at the top of the screen (was always 0% before)

Shiina Etsusaburo will no longer be erroneously displayed as having the Corporatism subideology instead of the Reform Bureaucracy one

Fixed several misleading options and tooltips for Kaya events

Fixed the wrong ending firing after failing the Dai Li Conspiracy

Fixed Léopoldville Verwaltung not leaving the Pakt during the Congolese civil war

Paraguay no longer gets 60% esonaz popularity when the FdG wins

Speer's reorganization of Ostland will no longer give Belorussia a core on Nordstern. Additionally, Reichsland Baltikum/Baltischer Bund will lose the Ostland tag cores on the Belorussian states after the reorganization

The Second Philippine Republic winning over the USFIP and the AFRSR will now count as cold war victory points

The LNPP outcome in the Grapes of Wrath event chain no longer locks MCS out of taking any national foci

Madagaskar no longer becomes an empire if the Malagasy Civil War finishes during the German Civil War

Deutsches Freikorps now have the correct national spirits during the slave revolt

Removed split-second lag when clicking on a state due to a code issue

RFK should no longer implement UBI out of nowhere -

The CIA may no longer fund Hawaiian partisans when Hawaii is apart of the United States

CAR should get its African Crisis victory tree if it wins - Boer elections should fire now

Fixed the heightmap around Iwo Jima

Fixed US postal service being infiltrated by Kempeitai agents and sends equipment to the Republic of Indonesia instead of Free Indonesia

Fixed Tver Republic get cores on Herat instead of Rybinsk

Fixed England's monthly influence not increasing in the "An Atlantic Battleground" mechanic -

Fixed England's econ sphere being called "no sphere"

Fixed Thatcher's Fair Employment Act being stuck in the parliament forever

Possibly fixed England joining a faction after they stayed independent in the faction mechanic

Fixed a blank regiment spot in the US infantry template

Hopefully fixed Nixon not resigning sometimes

You can no longer win and loose the Guyana war simultaneously

Fixed USA event "War in Russia", "The Battle for Russia: Eastern", and "The Conclusion of the Battle for Russia" having no available option sometimes -

Various behind the scene Margaret Chase Smith fixes

LBJ no longer tries to support South Africa by sending volunteers to Italy

Added a missing level 3 fort in Bechuana Land

The lowest temperature will no longer be higher than the highest temperature in the Eastern Canada region -

Fixed a province in Ardahan having an invalid terrain type

Fixed Japanese sabotage decision targets MPLA instead of UNITA during the Angolan Civil war

Fixed Japan being able to send technicians to Madagascar during the Congo Civil war

Fixed Japan being able to start bombing campaigns against Göring and Göring's subjects in the Pakt during the oil crisis

Attempt to dismiss an operative will no longer cause a CTD

Answering requests for garrison manpower support from foreign countries will no longer cause a CTD

Fixed various misspellings of "independence" as "independance" (again)

Thermal Nuclear wars should no longer trigger once it's disabled in arcade mode

Fixed various clipping issues in the intel ledger

SAW and Burgundy volunteers now gets cleared properly upon the conclusion of the conflict

Fixed countries puppeting non-existing countries at game start

Further cleaned up some deprecated events

Fixed various GUI issues

Guided missiles and modern battle tanks will no longer cost oil to produce (seriously... after all these years, we still haven't finished the MTG integration)

The Partisan Republic of Buryatia should capitulate properly now

Fixed Kamchatka fleet disappearing

Fixed various instances of the loc being indecisive about whether the city should be called Sverdlovsk or Yekaterinburg

Fixed PRC decision Empower Civilian Faction decreases the loyalty of citizenry

Fixed several PRC focuses increasing GDP in Eastern Mongolia

Fixed Omsk's custom regional development decisions being unavailable after putting down the old guard

Fixed some weird issues during Göring's conquest of RK Moskowien

Fixed Göering focus from Paris to Madrid not being available even after the conquest of France

China will no longer join the Pakt if Göring's at war with them

Fixed an incorrect display in the description of the "Crack the Sphere" decision category

Fixed Göring mission "Conquer the Balkans" and "Conquer Scandinavia" stop reactivating once one of the nations in that country has been conquered

Bug Fixes (cont.)

Fixed some incorrect decision names in the congo civil war decision

Iranian civil war contenders that have been capitulated will be annexed immediately upon the collapse of the coalition

Fixed a socdem wales unable to take nationalization decisions when having exactly 50% socdem popularity

Sudwestafrika focuses now properly apply "Incoherent Bookkeeping" national idea

Focuses with US_has_no_bill_in_senate trigger now can't be taken if there's a bill in the Senate

BRA_maintain_business_connections and BRA_connection_with_the_corps now no longer give you 2 civilian factories

If you sell APCs as Brazil in the SAW, you no longer lose money

In the ILP focus tree, land forts no longer vanish somewhere in construction in Lothian

Fixed Iberian Wars contenders endlessly re-declaring war on breakaway states after losing to them

Fixed "Airlift" and "Identify Insurgents" decisions

Temporarily disabled the Magadan Conference event chain and replaced the focus outcome with a generic Comintern founding so Sablin can access the Comintern properly


Balance Changes[edit | edit source]

Extreme (>10%) real GDP growth will lead to inflation and in some circumstances to reduced growth

Scotland should no longer get a GDP Multiplier of -3.369 when the english get repatriated -

Lowered the requirements for the Gulf of Guinea Campaign -

Lowered various decisions costs during the WAC -

Made the Philippine Reconstruction easier for both Japan and the USA -

Various proxy war rebalancing in the Philippines -

Ferdinand Marcos now removes socialist national spirits after his coup -

Slightly buffed AFRSR - Increased all base supply (from VPs, population, infrastructure), as well as supply hub range, to hopefully make the low-supply war situations in TNO playable -

Removed Division Attrition from states without administrators for the Second Northern Expedition - Reduced Südwestafrika's GDP by 90%

Changed some effects that add infrastructure to instead build SocDev buildings or railways as appropriate -

Iberia's National Infrastructure Plan focus will construct additional railway lines

Free Indonesia will now receive the same tech as the Republic of Indonesia at the start of the civil war

Yunnan decision that invites countries to the United Front will be removed immediately once the GAW

The battle of Sichuan will last for 112 days, and the clash will trigger once every 7 days

Reduced the player campaign time from 6 days to 5, AI campaign time from 11 and 21 to 10 and 20, respectively, in England

Halved the monthly influence gain from the decision "Denounce the Superpowers in Parliament" so that England wouldn't stay independent all the time - Ported various balance changes from the base game. These changes include:

Weather penalties

Difficulty settings

Operations will no longer require transport planes if there is none in the stockpile

Effect of leader skills - XP needed for field marshal/unit leaders to level up

Effect of various unit leader traits

Effect of various ship modules

Increased cost of building naval bases

Increased the naval invasion capacity gained from landing craft research

Reduced / Removed the manpower bonus at game start for some countries

Doubled the cost of building an infrastructure and doubled the effect of building infrastructure

The cap of the infrastructure remains to be 10, but reduced the infrastructure level on every state by approximately 25%

Natural Orator trait will now increase the effect of propaganda operative mission (since it isn't allowed to boost ideology/launch coups in TNO)

Tweaked Onega to make it more playable

Kazakh warlords now start with power and TT buildings

Several tags around the map now start with transport planes in their stockpile

Changed Tyumen's 5 Year Plans to have dynamic decision costs and have more diverse effects

QoL Improvements[edit | edit source]

Removed civilian and military factories to overlord modifiers from all autonomy types, making subjects more playable

Other Changes[edit | edit source]

Leclerc will now succeed de Gaulle

Improved Miguel Ángel Soler's portrait

hanged Manchukuo to "State of Manchuria" or "Manshukoku" if they are a Republic

Added a generic decision icon for CIA Decisions - Added Effects to McGovern's FREEDOM Act

Pierre Gaxotte now properly displays as having the Interim Government Despotism Subideology

Che will now get owned by the triple Alliance like God mandates

Added the possibility for coups to happen in Chile

Added the OFN Theme to the OST

Samara now changes economy types/subtypes depending on its path

Fixed Samara having Planned Economy as it's Economy Type

David McDonald is replaced by Robert J. Fleming as country leader of the Panama Canal Zone

New Sakharov portrait in Tomsk using a more period accurate source

Loc changed to make clear the deficit and surplus is yearly, not monthly

Changed names for Administrative Efficiency Socdevs

Updated Icons for the Aryan Brotherhood

New Portraits for Jellicoe and Wilson Second Term

New Cultures for the Philippines

Character-integrated has_country_leader triggers for ease of translation.

Added daily army and air xp based on Army RnD funding

Added daily naval xp based on Navy Funding

England is now allowed to build convoys, transport helicopters, and transport planes before the ECW begins

Reduced the chance of AI attempting to elect Chesterton / Stirling from 33% to 20%

ncreased the likelihood AI actually Chesterton / Stirling if it attempts to do that

AI is less likely to complete the focus Cash Out before completing all other focuses related to the Dover conference

Delayed the assassination of JFK by a month

Rebalanced the AI factors of the Nixon tree, which means that AI Nixon may choose to go neutral on CRA

Improved generic urban terrain gfx

RK Canada will move their capital to Winnipeg once Ontario is given to USA after the defeat of USA ]

Moved RK Amerika's capital to New Orleans

Moved RK Feuerland's capital to the actual Buenos Aires

Moved RK Brasilien's capital to the actual Rio de Janeiro

Moved RK Quebec's capital to Montréal (I know Québec City would be a better candidate but that's a base game issue)

Moved RK Pazifik's capital to San Francisco

The time it takes for Göring's economy to collapse is now re-calculated once a new war is declared

AI Scotland will now attempt to stockpile some equipments so that they could send them to HMMLR during the ECW

AI Scotland will now prioritize completing focus related to ECW

Iran now joins the German economic sphere if the Monarchists win the Iranian Civil War

AI PRC will now assign states to citizenry/military and keep a dynamic equilibrium between the number of the states owned by the military and citizenry

Number of civilian factories and military factories on a state / in a region will no longer be displayed on the intel ledger since the number is always 0

Burgundian geographers have now realized that they had their maps on the wrong side the entire time, and that Ost-Paris is actually located north of Paris