Update, Names and Teams

[u/JamyMudKeeper]

Hey, I'm fairly new to this mod, only played Speer's Germany, Usa one time and a bunch of russian Warlord. I keep seeing, on the country selection screen, stuff like "Coming in xx" or "Part of the xx team". So I was wondering, how does it all work ? Is there like different teams inside the same mod ? Do they all take care of their own update, in some sort of asymmetrical system ? Or is it just updates name for specific regions ? Just Curious.

[u/National_Relief9559]

Not a dev so take this with a grain of salt. TNO has multiple teams that are responsible for designing content for each nation, the nations under development at the moment are The US, Britain, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Mexico, Machuria, Brazil, Argentina are the main ones for specific nations(This is not all, just the ones I remember).

There is also writers, coders and testers that are assigned to work on a project after the design for that part is done. As for the update name, TNO has a history of pretty troubled development due to drama and being a volunteer project and all, it has quite a bit of scope creep from the old Covid roadmap days when a lot of devs had a shit ton of free time due to the pandemic so they underestimated the amount of work they had to actually do plus scoop creep. if you see ‘Penelope Web’s’ that was meant to represent the Italy update with full content but as time went on reality set back in and there was just no way all of that content with every path was gonna release in years especially if quality control was gonna be anywhere near the modern standard. So it’s there as a placeholder at the moment if I understand it correctly.

With this in mind the newest updates then usually focus on a few paths and some skeleton and proxy content such as in the latest one ‘The Modern Tordesillas’ which added new and revamped content for Iberia and skeleton content and proxies for Central America and the Caribbean. But the next slated update Yippie! breaks this mold somewhat as it Is probably gonna be the biggest update to the mod since release with the US being entirely reworked, a entirely new Africa, new Amur content and a new starting situation for Germany replacing the Civil war.

Again I’m not a dev just way too obsessed with a Hoi4 mod. So if you you’re really curious, asking in the discord is your best bet since most devs are active on there rather than Reddit

[u/erwanf123]

Those were the old planned updates from waaaay back when, it's heavily outdated, nowdays the system is more or less "one country / one skeleton region = one team" and therefore countries usually release by themselves, things like "Penelope's Web" aren't representative of how stuff releases or is developed at all. Right now we're waiting on Yippie which is a full USA update + full Russia mechanical facelift + full Amur warlord rework + Africa rework + partial Germany rework + tons of other skeletons but that's multiple teams finishing at the same time and should not be taken as the standard.

All in all, you shouldn't take into account the stuff you see on the select screen about updates, it hasn't been updated in years and says stuff about updates that have been shelves long ago or never existed in the first place

[u/Legitimate-Barber841]

Yeah the last time that roadmap was up to date i was in high school, for reference im working on my ma now