OPEN BETA | Patch 1.16.5

Generals!

For the next several days you’ll be able to test some things and give us all your feedback in this thread[forum.paradoxplaza.com].

You can play around, test and give feedback on anything you like, but our focus will be on these points:

• Equipment Designer - We’ve added functionality to save your designs across game sessions. Save a tank/ship/plane design in one playthrough, and load it up in another.
  
• Also added is the ability to share designs with friends using the import/export feature.

• Saadabad Pact Branch - Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey are getting a shared branch that allows them to cooperate more with one another.
  
• Iran is getting some extra characters and focuses, including scientists and generals.
  
• Afghanistan is also getting some extra characters in the form of a communist country leader and some new advisors.
  
• Iraq’s Kurdistan branch is being expanded upon

We’re working hard on polishing Graveyard of Empires content on multiple fronts with the addition of new focuses, characters and events. We’ll continue to work on fixes, content and balancing as the beta progresses, and we may want to update the beta content during this time to make sure you have the opportunity to give us specific feedback relevant to the state of the game at that time.

The equipment designer persistence feature is something we might want to extend in the future towards other parts of the game as well, so please give us feedback on that! (The import/export feature is available in the equipment designer that comes with MTG, NSB or BBA)

- Gorion and AveeBee

Open Beta Patch 1.16.5
Shareable Equipment Designs - Tank, Plane and Ship designs can now be saved between playthroughs
- Tank, Plane and Ship designs can now be exported to and imported from clipboard

Balance - Soviet AI will now make use of Heavy Tanks
- Added an extra event as part of the Fight For Iran branch where allies of the faction leader will peace out if the leader chooses to accept the peace negotiations
- Added more places in the alt-history branches for Germany to lower the Consumer Goods Factory Factors if they have either the MEFO Bills or Economy of Conquest
- Germany: Reduced chance of AI Lithuania and Poland giving up territory to Germany in the Brest-Litovsk Path
- Added historical Generals Haj Ali Razmara and Assadollah Hosseinpoor to Iran
- Added political advisors Abdolsamad Kambakhsh, Rokneddin Mokhtari and Karim Buzarjomehri to Iran
- Iran: Focus "Clash of The Titans" is now visible from game start, and is available even if Greece hasn't formed Byzantium yet, but doing so while Greek Byzantine exists will offer a healthy attack bonus
- Added two new focuses to give democratic Iran the chance to get scientists, facilities and breakthrough progress
- Lowered the chances of the more obscure paths being taken by GoE countries if the game rules are set to non-historical or the country is set to random
- Adjusted 24 Iranian focuses from 70 to 35 days, with minor tweaks to some of them as a result of the time being lowered
- India: "Rally the Indian Left" now takes 35 days (down from 70)
- India: "Reds in the Shadow" now takes 35 days (down from 70)
- India: "League Against Gandhism" now adds 30 Political Power
- India: Removed War Support modifier, reduced Party Popularity and added 60 Political Power to the focus "All Indian Kishan Sabha"

Gameplay - Added a joint focus tree between Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan to represent the Saadabad Pact, updated some content for Turkey to account for the new joint focus tree
- Afghanistan: Added a country leader to the communist path, as well as a Field Marshal and German General to the fascist path
- Added more resource variety in GoE nations, such as Chromium, Steel, etc.
- India: the Princely Breakaway State can now get more territorial concessions during the Mughal uprising, subdivided into Southern, Eastern, Northern, Central and Western India. Controlling all states in an area will let the Mughal side keep them at the end, instantly coring them.
- Added bypass to Revolt of the Princes if you already control all of India. Bypass gives the manpower and War Support you would normally get
- Added a way to core the princely states with the Akhand Bharat decisions
- Added the United Maghreb as a new formable nation
- Added custom agency icons for British Raj, Pakistan and Bangladesh
- The Turkmen and Tajik states in Afghanistan are now cores of their respective tags
- Afghanistan: Added a new focus for the Afghan Democratic branch to gain more democratic support as well as unlock two new advisors
- Iraq: Added Ma'ruf al-Rusafi as an advisor
- Iraq: Added four focuses to the Kurdistan path for Iraq, allowing Kurdistan to go communist and join the comintern
- India: Reworked how to flip communist as India. Now unlocks infiltration decisions to undermine the independence movement and the British, which reduces threshold to flip communist and boost communist support, instead of using the Autonomy system
- India: Renamed Train Robberies to the Peoples Railways, it no longer gives Train Robberies spirit, instead adds an optional decision and alters the railway focuses
- India: Subhas Chandra Bose can now become an advisor for Communist India if he is swayed
- Added formable "Mesopotamia" for Kurdistan, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt, to allow for the restoration of the Cradle of Civilization
- Afghanistan: Reworked the tooltip for the focus "Retire the Uncles" to be more readable

Modding - Modding: Fixed CTDs when attempting to scope to non-existing states
- Modding: Fixed dynamic scopes parsing for the fighting_army_strength_ratio trigger

Bugfix - Fixed spelling issue for Uruguay focus "Pay Off All External Debts"
- Fixed rare CTD when removing advisors
- United Kingdom: Expand the Secret Intelligence Service typo fix (it's no longer the Greta War)
- India: Removed advisor Jim Corbett from the Rally the Indian Left focus, as he is actually unlocked by Lobby Parliament
- If Germany chooses to setup Bourbon France after capitulating France, Free France will now get its Focus Tree with the DLC La Résistance
- Iran: Updated the available triggers for the "Promoting Resistance in " to be more clear
- Iran: Added tooltip explaining what Generals are unlocked from the focus "United Progressive Parties"
- Iran: Added more restrictions to when certain Iranian characters can be hired based on for example ideology or focuses completed
- Iran: Added small portraits for Jafar Kavian and Fazlollah Zahedi
- Iran: Resource rights are now reclaimed upon entering war with a country that bought resource rights to Khuzestan Oil
- Fixed bug where more equipment got recovered than lost
- Fixed a bug where spy network modifier was applied to countries, even if they are not at war with the country
- India: Fixed an erroneous tooltip that stated you had 1 year to finish the Mughal uprising, when in fact it was 255 days
- Iran: The focus "Soviet Alignment" now has an effect even if the Soviet Union isn't in a faction
- Iran: Removes state modifier "Promoting Resistance Here" applied by Iran in states that can be ceded to them if Iran gains control of the state
- Iran: Fixes a tooltip to avoid "Iraq declares war on Iraq"
- Added missing states to the formable nations the Macedonian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Turan, the Aksumite Empire, Al-Andalus, the Persian Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Roman Empire and the Holy Roman Empire
- Ethiopian focuses targeting Yemen now also correctly target the Province of Aden
- Iran: Fixes mutually exclusive branches under "Dig and Defend" and "Force Them Back" not collapsing
- Iran: Fixes focus branches collapsing no whether the rule was set to hide or not hide obsolete branches
- Fixed an OOS related to using random in Rajs history file
- Planes created with Iraqi focus "Purchase Alternative Aircraft" no longer give you non-functional fighters
- Fixed a minor typo in the description of indian focus "The Mughal Uprising"
- Fixed missing focus filters in Iraq
- Indian focus "Lobby for Increased Polling Responsibilities" no longer gives a non functioning bonus to militia attack
- Afghanistan: Bonuses from Mohammad Hashim Khan, Abdul Hai Habibi, and other historical characters will now be displayed correctly with the character name in tooltips.
- India no longer stays as a colony after Britain decolonizes
- Afghanistan: Bonuses from the generic advisor Sher Ali Sherkhanzai (fascist writer) and other non-historical characters will now be displayed correctly with the character name in tooltips.
- Fixed Dams built via the Afghanistan Focus Tree not showing up on the map with their 3D models.
- Fixed Purchase Dreadnoughts decision tooltip always stating payment to the United States, even when ships were bought from a different country.
- India: When GoE is disabled, the focus Institute of Fundamental Research will grant one scientist level to nuclear scientist Homi J. Bhabha
- India / Madras: Fixed Chithira Thirunal Balarma Varma not showing up with his unique portraits as Country Leader, Political Advisor and Army Leader.
- India: Fixed Princely Breakaway State using the wrong small flag on unit counters
- Afghanistan: Reform Quami - Support companies will now be added to template if the technology is researched after the focus is taken.
- India: Princely Breakaway State will now show the appropriate country flag
- India: Added advisors to the East India Company focus "Lobby Parliament" effect and tooltip
- Afghanistan: Afghanistan and the Soviet Union now join a tech-sharing group when 'Soviet Research Cooperation' focus is taken.
- Afghanistan: Chak Dam focus for Afghanistan now builds in a different state
- Adds Lebanon and Kuwait to the Mesopotamia formable
- Afghanistan: No longer tries to join the Axis from focus "Into the Plains of the British Raj" if they are already part of the Axis
- Afghanistan: The focus "Linchpin of Global Defense" now correctly modifies the Quami national spirit.
- Iran: Clarifies that only Main Instigator gets resource rights if Iran does "Push for Negotiations", but adds extra effects for other attackers and makes sure all attackers can peace out, added new flavor event for all parties
- Iran: Fixes branches not hiding when they should in the Iranian focus tree
- Iran: Making sure the non-aligned party actually take over if the Islamic Revolution happens
- Iran: Added a capitulation progress requirement to 'Swear Fealty to the Invaders' to ensure the AI doesn't surrender when it is winning the war.