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National Ideas Extended

This mod is intended to give unique national ideas to many nations throughout EU4 that seem to have only "filler" idea sets, or simply could use an actual set of unique national ideas based on the history surrounding the nation itself. I do not intend to make them over-powered and as such will be balancing them as time goes on. This mod does not currently seek to do anything else other than give unique national ideas to certain nations.

Update and Release History

< Update 3.2 - Pretenders and Usurpers >
- Reworked a number of idea sets across Europe ranging from the French region to the Russian region; examples include Lorraine, Cleves, Lithuania, Croatia, and many more
- Added in semi-dynamic versions for Germany if formed with Baltic German or Gothic primary culture; also added in semi-dynamic versions for France and Russia if formed by sub-cultures from their respective cultural groups

< Update 3.1 - Saophas and Sultans >
- Fully updated to 1.37.5
- Reworked a number of ideas sets across the Indian Subcontinent, like the set for Gujarat and the set for Vijayanagara
- Added in semi-dynamic versions for Scandinavia if formed with Karelian or Norse primary culture, and if Spain is formed with Andalusian culture
- Special thanks to RedPanda for helping test out the mod before releasing!

< Update 3.0 - Legacies and Memories
- Fully updated to 1.37.4
- Refined and remade some old idea sets of mine ranging from the Livonian Order to Tafilalt to Syria
- New NI set for Brazil, nations in the Kongo region, and new semi-dynamic sets for Malaya
- This mod now requires certain DLC due to having to edit certain mission tree files so that they do not have certain triggers that crash the game (Ming, France, Byzantium, Lan Xang, Hungary, and Venice)

< Update 2.9a, Sheikhs and Emirs >
- Fully updated to 1.37.2
- Added in the new idea sets from the newest update, "Winds of Change", like the NI set for Austria-Hungary and for the VoC
- Added in Eranshahr's NIs that were accidentally missing in the NIE files
- Modified one line in the Ming Mission Tree so that it no longer crashes the game when the mod is enabled

< Update 2.9, Sheikhs and Emirs >
- Fully updated to 1.36.2. Several nations had their national idea sets reworked such as Arabia, Aden, Yemen, Malwa, Rajputana, Delhi, and others. See the changelog for exact detail.
- Old formation decisions for Arabia, and a couple others that were in NIE have been either taken out or updated to what they should be in vanilla, plus a little extra.
- Modified one line in the Byzantium Mission Tree from "King of Kings" so that it no longer crashes the game when the mod is enabled

< Update 2.8, Authority and Virtue >
- Fully updated to 1.35. Several nations had their national idea sets reworked such as Austria, the Papacy, Tunis, and others. See the changelog for exact detail.
- Several minor changes and tweaks to existing idea sets, see changelog for exact detail.
- Special thanks to Macky527 for contributing sets for the Siberian tags!

< Update 2.7, Honor and Devotion >
- Fully updated to 1.34. Several nations had their national idea sets reworked such as Byzantium, Poland, Ming, Holy Roman Empire, and others. See the changelog for exact detail.
- Special thanks to Lawrence for helping me a lot when i was working on steppe nomad changes!

Feel free to join my own Discord, the Silver Knight Keep[discord.gg] if you want updates on when i make exact progress on the mods i work on!


National Ideas Extended will very likely NOT work completely with mods like: Europa Expanded, Extended Timeline, and Ante Bellum. Part of this mod is already integrated into some mods like Doge's Shattered Europa.