r/TheFireRisesMod

Hello! I am u/x_TKN(aka Welcome), the lead developer of the upcoming TFR submod, California Dreamin', which will give unique content to the State of California! I am writing this to talk about the role of AI in HOI4's modding scene, and more specifically how it has no place here. While I do understand developers can have their shortcomings, whether it be they are not experienced at coding or making art or anything else like that, that is no excuse to use AI in your mod. To use AI is to admit defeat and to show cowardice, as you could not even muster up the effort to make art, even if its low quality, or even copy paste code from other mods. I have far more respect for HOI4 mods that have poorly made art that was created by a human, than I do for mods that have art generated by AI. If you're unable to make HOI4 mods without using AI, go watch a youtube tutorial on how to mod, so that you can actually learn how to use such skills yourself without having to give up all your individuality to AI. Which is why, on behalf of the developer team, I am announcing that our submod will use Zero AI generated content anywhere in game. Not in coding, not in art, not in writing, not anywhere. All content will be created by humans, and any attempts by other developers to include AI will not be used within the mod. If any of our developers use AI, and attempt to pass it off as their own, they will be removed. We give you this promise, that no matter how poor quality something in our mod is, we would never stoop so low as to use ai.
Thank you for reading through to the end, and we will see you all in Sacramento.
-The TFR:CD team

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Art created by one of our own developers, who has put their time into creating human made content for California Dreamin'

And for those of you that claim Striner would be pro-those guys:
"I love men too — not merely individuals, but every one. But I love them with the consciousness of egoism; I love them because love makes me happy, I love because loving is natural to me, because it pleases me. I know no “commandment of love.” I have a fellow-feeling with every feeling being, and their torment torments, their refreshment refreshes me too; I can kill them, not torture them. Per contra, the high-souled, virtuous Philistine prince Rudolph in The Mysteries of Paris, because the wicked provoke his “indignation,” plans their torture. That fellow-feeling proves only that the feeling of those who feel is mine too, my property; in opposition to which the pitiless dealing of the “righteous” man (e.g. against notary Ferrand) is like the unfeelingness of that robber [Procrustes] who cut off or stretched his prisoners’ legs to the measure of his bedstead: Rudolph’s bedstead, which he cuts men to fit, is the concept of the “good.” The for right, virtue, etc., makes people hard-hearted and intolerant. Rudolph does not feel like the notary, but the reverse; he feels that “it serves the rascal right”; that is no fellow-feeling."
- Johan Kaspar Schmidt "Max Stirner"

I think we are ALL sick of basic one-note questions that can be answered in a few words being posted here, but, I think there is untapped potential in more dynamic questions, questions that don’t have an objective answer, and which can be discussed from many different angles. What I’m saying is this isn’t just asking a question to farm karma or something that could be answered in Ask-A-Dev, but an opportunity to be creative, and for us to explore the lore and characterization of the mod on a more deep level than what the mod tends to answer directly while having fun and exchanging ideas in the process.

For example, as pictured above, that flag comes from a meme video posted (and presumably made) by a dev about the Boogaloo Boys, and so it’s lead to me coming up with the idea that the Boogaloo Boys would make MLG montages, of the real war footage they capture, as I think that would be disturbingly in character for them.

Thanks to relatively recent post by u/Zeranvor, I've got inspired to see how fast can one actually get Loji on Regular difficulty. So... here we are. I've managed to finish Phase 3 by November 13, 2024 and managed to finish the Project Web by September 16, 2025. All without console commands, glitches or any other unintended exploits by the game.

Honestly, while banking enough PP isn't that big of a deal, because La Resistance and the Agency exists (even with the recent nerf you still can field up to 5 agents, each can earn 25 PP every 100-ish days), it's the economy that gotta keep you on your toes. COVID, Oil crash and then Taiwan war fallout do remove quite a lot of GDP earners, and then you're additionally hit with the New Left economic policies that absolutely destroy all the business-oriented economy that China has - and you can't just watch the GDP debt raise due to the massive debuffs it now gives.

In theory, you can speed the stage 3 completion by 2-3 months as I had to wait for the Academic development and the Project Web by an additional month (I forgot to bank 50 more PP for the last decision). It is worth, though, especially with the new Grand Doctrines for the exoskeletons that you can unlock for 1EW to crush the enemies of the USSR with.

Europunk mod

Basically EU is world hegemon now and some 2077 references for fun.

England: (Based of where the ACG & the UoA are in game)
Union of Britain (Uob) = Union of America
British National Government = American Constitutional Government
East Anglia: (Based of New England)
Antifa = Rose City Antifa & Buffalo Anarchist Commune
British League Of Patriots (BLP) = Patriot Front
The North: (Based Of California)
Northumbria = Cascadia
Wales: (Based Of California)
British People’s Liberation Army (BPLA) = APLA
Welsh National Movement (WNM) = Based of No one
Welsh Loyalists = State Of California
Scotland: (Based Of Texas)
Scottish Loyalists = State Of Texas
Scottish National Movement (SNM) = Texan National Movement
Scottish Red Guards (SRG) = Texan Red Guards
Ireland (Same as it is in the normal TFR universe)
IRA
Royal Ulster Coaliton
Ireland
Islands and Overseas territories: (Based Of the US naval Command)
Royal Naval Command: (RUC) = US Naval Command

Will post some other posts with a super event and more detail

Song: I vow thee too my country

I really want one cuz the actual game content where you do it as the French sucks.

Hi everyone!

My name is Nave, and I absolutely love alternate history; it’s my favorite subject, as it encompasses my favorite genres like sci-fi and fantasy.

I’m currently studying Audiovisual Arts (film), and I’ve come up with several ideas for bringing concepts to the screen—whether for cinema or streaming platforms.

The idea I want to share today revolves around this specific mod. It came to me after watching anime like *Akira* and *Cyberpunk*; I found myself wondering: "Does *The Fire Rises* have a cyberpunk or sci-fi atmosphere?"

Of course, the "elephant in the room" is the controversial and extreme nature of the content ☢️.

But thinking about it, turning this mod into an anime would be an excellent idea—it has just as much potential as TNO.

The idea is still in development, but narratively, it would look something like this:

There would be two narrative lines: one "Canon" and one "Multiversal."

- The "Canon" line would cover the canonical events of this timeline.

- The "Multiversal" line, however, strikes me as the most interesting due to the potential for unique story arcs—for example, Atomwaffen unifying America or the emergence of a Eurasian State.

That’s all for now—I look forward to hearing your thoughts!

I was thinking about what would happen to some French youtuber in different scenario when that question pop up in my mind when thinking about the guy in picture, a French youtuber of Russian descent called Danill le Russe ( Danill the Russian)

You can get decolonized nations by taking the decolonization focus, which you can take if you aren't playing as the jacobins.

I noticed that the nations that can be created through the decolonization focus have wildly different flags, but also some similar ones, so I made them consistent with each other in the Octoberist style.

1. New African

2. Chicano

3. Navajo

4. Sioux

5. Texas

6. Iroquois

7. Sequoyah

8. Blackfoot