Pops assimilate and retain their religion
Religions spread organically (although the ones with pagan modifiers will not)
They may proselytize within their ingroup and animists being first priority
(This will not always be as such)
Religions (Greek Orthodox and Coptic Pope of Alexandria) get money from their believers, which then is done to proselytize (amongst pagans)
The same religion can have different bishops (could be in conflict)
Assimilation can be done to minority cultures, and is done based on who the Capitalists are
If the Capitalists in the province are not accepted, then assimilation will be done towards them
Melting pots can be created, but not of different races (it's rare to see race-mixing, and most race-mixing that did occur happened before 1836, such as between the American Indians and the Spanish, and it's not too much any further)
Immigration does not discard culture, but creates diaspora cultures
Certain diaspora communities will not assimilate (if they are of different religions, so that there is no assimilation of Armenians in Russia, but there continues to be a diaspora)
Diasporas may repatriate
Genocides occur via expulsions
Conversions of certain religions will not occur
Pop growth is uneven, based on pop income and literacy (higher income is more pops because of higher SOL, and lower literacy is more pops)

To help the development, I'm reporting some bugs.

First of all, it appears that AI in the Alice is much more aggressive towards nearby Great Powers than in the basegame (no mods used). Playing as France 2 times I got repeatedly attacked by UK and Prussia for European states or Algiers.

Major bug I discovered is that I was made automatically to support Hungary in the crisis even though I didn't accept their ask.

Then, some interface things:

1. On Production tab a lot of labourers count are missing

2. On Projects tab buttons with regards to investments are missing

3. The ledger used to show the number of influence point I have against each country, not just stage of the sphering process

There also was a moment when crisis icon has no associated text (lang key shown instead), but I forgot to screenshot that.

Bug: Assimilation speed when core is present is reduced by 0.01X but if there is two core for same culture its 0.0001X so speed is reduced twice.
Request:adjustable assimilation speed reduction when that culture's core is present via defines
Allowing culture conversion in overseas via defines

I run launch_alice.exe, but the ui is just black. The buttons are highlighting correctly and seem to work.

Hey man,

I dont know if this is a false positive, but Windows Defender "detect" a Trojan at the zip file (1.0.9.7z) in the last release file.

Trojan:Win32/Znyonm

In the original Victoria 2, most of the in-game text is generated from image files to which blurring (antialiasing) has been applied. A modder who dislikes blurry text can easily eliminate it by (1) editing the pre-blurred image files in an image editor, or (2) editing the plaintext .fnt files to reference different image files that are not blurred (such as Arial16.tga).

In the current version of Project Alice, all of the in-game text is generated from TrueType font files to which blurring is applied in-game, and there is no way to stop the game from applying the blurring. Accordingly, I would like to request the addition of an option that allows users to stop the game from applying the blurring.

At a glance, it appears that blurring can be removed pretty easily by using "FT_LOAD_TARGET_MONO" rather than "FT_LOAD_TARGET_NORMAL" in src/text/fonts.cpp. But I'm not much of a programmer, so I may be wrong.

Even when the "antialiasing" option is set to zero, the interface text still is quite blurry.

I dont know why but, when i play for example, prussia and a little bit later, randomly France Declares war on me Cuz of rhineland, i played as ottoman Empire and then austria and egypt declared war on me in 1836-1837 and the Armies are just ridiculous. but the other parts of the mod Still Amazing, good job so Far. but fix that please and add some event pause option, like Hoi4 and vanilla Vic2 and HOW THE FRENCH ARMY OF 90K GUYS ARE DEFEATING AN 123K-130K PRUSSIAN GUYS

C:\Users\violi\code\Project-Alice\out\build\x64-debug-windows_deps\catch2-src\single_include\catch2\catch.hpp(2327): error C2220: the following warning is treated as an error
C:\Users\violi\code\Project-Alice\out\build\x64-debug-windows_deps\catch2-src\single_include\catch2\catch.hpp(2327): warning C4388: '!=': signed/unsigned mismatch
C:\Users\violi\code\Project-Alice\out\build\x64-debug-windows_deps\catch2-src\single_include\catch2/catch.hpp(2327): note: the template instantiation context (the oldest one first) is
C:\Users\violi\code\Project-Alice\tests\scenario_building.cpp(304): note: see reference to function template instantiation 'const Catch::BinaryExpr<LhsT,const int &> Catch::ExprLhs::operator !=(const RhsT &)' being compiled
with
[
LhsT=const unsigned __int64 &,
RhsT=int
]
C:\Users\violi\code\Project-Alice\tests\scenario_building.cpp(304): note: see the first reference to 'Catch::ExprLhs<const unsigned __int64 &>::operator !=' in 'C_A_T_C_H_T_E_S_T_55'

I added set(CMAKE_COMPILE_WARNING_AS_ERROR OFF) into tests/CMakeLists.txt but it didn't work. How can I disable the warning as error feature for a dependency library?

Version 1.1.2. Operating system Windows 10. Here are the crash dump:
crash.dmp

On Germany fascist rebels repetitively rose up broke the country and despawned. happened every few months. Facists were always in power

The expenses stated are much too high. projected daily balance doesn't match the balance shown in the preview.
Is also possible that these are real expenses are are not able to be fulfilled.

Compiling Alice in the release configuration gives a buffer overflow warning on Linux with GCC 11.4 (ignore the mentions of clang in the log) so I'm not sure if it's a quirk of this build system, but it doesn't seem like anything is adversely affected as far as I can tell. This warning doesn't pop up when compiling under the debug configuration which is why it doesn't appear in the Github workflow log.

[build] In file included from /usr/include/string.h:535,
[build]                  from /usr/include/c++/11/cstring:42,
[build]                  from [...]/Project-Alice/out/build/x64-release-linux-clang/_deps/datacontainer-src/CommonIncludes/unordered_dense.h:78,
[build]                  from [...]/Project-Alice/src/filesystem/simple_fs_types_nix.hpp:3,
[build]                  from [...]/Project-Alice/src/filesystem/simple_fs.hpp:35,
[build]                  from [...]/Project-Alice/out/build/x64-release-linux-clang/CMakeFiles/Alice.dir/cmake_pch.hxx:36,
[build]                  from <command-line>:
[build] In function ‘void* memcpy(void*, const void*, size_t)’,
[build]     inlined from ‘uint8_t* sys::write_save_header(uint8_t*, const sys::save_header&)’ at [...]/Project-Alice/src/gamestate/serialization.cpp:37:8,
[build]     inlined from ‘void sys::write_save_file(sys::state&, bool)’ at [...]/Project-Alice/src/gamestate/serialization.cpp:1007:37:
[build] /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/string_fortified.h:29:33: warning: ‘void* __builtin_memcpy(void*, const void*, long unsigned int)’ writing 88 bytes into a region of size 24 overflows the destination [-Wstringop-overflow=]
[build]    29 |   return __builtin___memcpy_chk (__dest, __src, __len,
[build]       |          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[build]    30 |                                  __glibc_objsize0 (__dest));
[build]       |                                  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[build] In file included from [...]/Project-Alice/src/main.cpp:21:
[build] [...]/Project-Alice/src/gamestate/serialization.cpp: In function ‘void sys::write_save_file(sys::state&, bool)’:
[build] [...]/Project-Alice/src/gamestate/serialization.cpp:1004:54: note: at offset 4 into destination object of size 28 allocated by ‘operator new []’
[build]  1004 |         uint8_t* temp_buffer = new uint8_t[total_size];
[build]       |                                                      ^

A major problem with Victoria 2 is its treatment of religion and culture as a geological feature rather than a cultural identity: the formation of Taiping, Mormonism and Baha'i; the creation and redefinition of American identity as race or national allegiance; and the creation of civic nationalism in decolonized states is impossible in it.
Some mods like CWE seemed to have tried to use non-existent mechanics like adding an accepted culture or switching religion to create new culture pops, but they've failed because Vic 2 requires a seed population to assimilate to.

Some folks have suggested allowing pops to assimilate to the primary culture of any tag with cores in the same province, others have suggested granular options in event effects.

Heya,

As someone who localized Diablo and Hellfire in Greek for the Devilution project, I would like to consider at some point doing the same for this beloved game and project. Of course that's not an easy task, since this is a mammoth project in terms of text, But At the very least would like to have a go at the UI and characters.

Let me tell you something about Greek: It is very wordy, and the current UI layouts and elements can't fit the unicode texts for the life of it.

Also, focusing on POPs and characters, Greek has genders for many words (as many other languages do). So the generic way it's done for engilsh would be insufficient for many things here, as descriptors have masculine, feminine, and neutral forms.

I'm just posting here to get the discussion started, along with perhaps some proposals from you guys. I know this ain't happening any time soon. I had a look at your documentation but didn't find any guides or ground work for localizers yet - that's ok since this is too early or I just completely missed it.

So post here, or point me to where this discussion is/will be taking place!

Win11
AMD Ryzen 5 7600X
NVidia, driver v.528.24
Vic2 fresh install (steam)
Alice v.1.0.10, files copied to \steamapps\common\Victoria 2\:

assets/
Alice.exe
Alice512.exe
AliceSSE.exe
dbg_alice.exe
launch_alice.exe

launch_alice.exe running successfully
Start game - immediate crash
crash.dmp

Hi

Is playing on Linux (Ubuntu/Pop!_OS) possible? I see that there is only a pre-compiled package for Windows but I saw in the documentation that it is possible to compile on a Debian-based distro. I just want to check the state of the app before I go off to fight CMake.

Thanks!

Greetings!

I have tried building the code on Manjaro Linux using gcc 13.2.1. However, when the compilation process gets to main.cpp
it uses all my available RAM until the compilation itself crashes. Upon looking into main.cpp itself, I have noticed that it is
quite massive, and seems to include most(?) cpp files within the project.

I tried breaking it into different files with only some of the includes, but it would either not work due to some definition not
being found, or would also use all available RAM. It seems that the dependencies amongst the files are quite non-trivial.

It'd probably help development and testing if we could break the compilation into smaller parts.

I was playing with Argentinia and having a sustained increase in literacy from 10% to 20.5% when it went from increasing 0.0200 per month to only being around 0.0010 or less.

Here's the save game: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rNxUEqiIBSOcpG416iD9RFaLq7IYNNiN/view?usp=drive_link

Hi,

I managed to get Project Alice to run on PopOS. I did it by using Lutris and this guide. The setup is the same as for Windows, the new thing is how you run it using Lutris. For the Wine version, I used the one that was already pre-installed, so I didn't fiddle with that.

I also managed to load up the mod Divergences of Darkness. I have not yet tried Multiplayer but I will at some point.

I'd be very happy to make this into a formal commit, if there is an interest. I just wanted to get something out the door before I forget to share.