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Simple Planes Back
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Simple Planes Back

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Simple Equipment Back Modpack
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Description
This mod makes the pre-designed planes available again. The tech tree has been altered so that both the old simple system and new designer-based system live peacefully side-by-side. The old upgrade system is also back. The AI also uses the simple planes again.

Check out this submod by GJC to apply the 3D models that came with BBA to the simple planes!

Updated For 1.15.*/Götterdämmerung/Kaiser
Not achievement compatible.

Mod Compatibility
- Compatible with Kaiserreich and Kaiserredux. Technically playable but some of the newer features of the mod do not apply to nations that are not in vanilla. I am working on submods to address this.
- Not compatible with mods that add new branches to ANY tech tree (not just the plane one).
(This counts for Road to 56 as well unfortunately).

Notes:
- Because this mod breaks which techs are marked as starting techs in the edited tree, I implemented my own dynamic system for assigning starting techs (which sounds a lot more fancy than it is, but ok). It is not perfect since it makes a couple of assumptions but it suffices.

Credit
Thanks to Jigsaw for making this mod sligtly less broken

Want to use this in your own project?
The full source code (+promotional materials) is available on GitHub under an MIT licence.
In short, this means you can use my work more or less however you want as long as you include the licence mentioned above in your own project

link[github.com]

Most Recent Update:
4.0: AI + 1.15 Support!
- Now works with 1.15 and the new expansion. if there are any bugs let me know!
- The AI now uses the simple planes. They will upgrade them too. Let me know how the balance feels as I had to make my own logic for upgrades. The vanilla behaviour is hard-coded and unavailable to modders.
- Simple planes now spawn on the map as if BBA was not installed.
- Production methods are now set with the simple planes as well.
- compatibility with kaiserreich/redux is still pending. the changes made in this update mean that I'll have to make submods for compatibility now instead of having it integrated.
94 Comments
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ZeseMore 22 May @ 6:32am 
Update!
Snippps 13 Mar @ 5:38am 
It seems like the AI isn't really using the upgrade system for Simple Planes. I tagged to UK in 1945, and they are sitting on 500 air XP with maxed doctrines, yet their Fighters only have one of each upgrade (when they have enough XP to max everything except Range and make really strong planes).

Still, it's nice to see the AI using the Simple system and at least trying to upgrade them, this is a lot better than the old model of the AI just using modular equipment. It's a shame they are still doing this for tanks and ships though.
More's the Sniper 24 Feb @ 9:57am 
This is one of my favorite MOD's; I am a big fan of the aircraft of that time. I usually play as the United States. However, a while after going to war with Japan in the early 1940's, if I exit the game (really, I have to sleep sometime) it encounters a fatal error when trying to load. This occurs after I select "CONTINUE" from the main menu. Selecting "LOAD" doesn't help. This still happens if Simple Planes Back + models are the only MOD's in use. Please take a look & repair as needed. Thank you.
RM_Blkn 4 Jan @ 4:40am 
简单飞机（警觉）
GJC 23 Nov, 2024 @ 2:55pm 
Welcome back to the modding community! I hope school is going well
joris327  [author] 23 Nov, 2024 @ 1:12pm 
Hi all,

Sorry for the long wait, school has been keeping me plenty busy but I managed to devote some time to modding recently.

As was much requested, the AI now uses the simple planes again, completing one more piece of the puzzle. Making a version of the mod that removes removes the modular planes completely will now be a lot easier, so stay tuned!

Regarding support of Kaiserreich/redux, they are fully playable with this mod enabled, but for nations that are not in vanilla some of the features do not apply (instead defaulting to BBA behaviour). Therefore Kaiserreich and redux are currently not officially supported. I am working on separate submods to address this. Having support integrated is probably not possible. (maybe i'll finally get on that RT56 submod though).

@GJC I'm happy to report the latest update does not break compatibility with your mod. also, using the Italian bomber as a transport is a nice touch.
PAIMON 18 Nov, 2024 @ 11:02pm 
maybe it's time to update, this and other simple tech mods keeps crashing on vanilla.
GJC 14 Nov, 2024 @ 5:15pm 
I have updated the model addon mod to include the italian transport plane, check description for the Ju 52 model mod
GJC 7 Apr, 2024 @ 9:58am 
I've managed to set the Italian interwar bomber model to be also used as the model for their transport plane with a working supply delivering animation!
GJC 6 Apr, 2024 @ 5:08pm 
Glad it does work! I'm totally okay with it being added to the modpack, thanks for the attention!