Love this mod! IMO, the Leadership ideas bonus should give either +4 or +6 Max army size instead of +5, because 29 divisions is such an unsatisfying number to have in an army. Otherwise this is great!

@Dark Star: There is a scripted trigger called calculate_right_national_ideas_id , in that a temp var is set to the ID of the national idea set depending on conditions. You would simply look for the idea set ID that you need, go the if/else_if that has that ID and edit the trigger to include the tags you want.

@limonenzitrone - how easy would it be to add eligible country tags to use national ideas, specifically the american civil war factions in KR, so that they dont default to the generic groups. The custom setting to pick any national idea group at the beginning doesnt refire later, so it isnt helpful to repick in mid 1937. Love you mod.

@Dark Star: Replacing individual modifiers wouldnt be too hard for a KR version/compatibility patch. You would just have to change the modifier in the idea and change the localisation (so the right modifier is displayed). For making some idea groups require others, you can add triggers in the scripted gui for selection, but adding some kind of visualization like a tree diagram would be more work and would probably require to change more about the mechanic itself.

@limonenZitrone - how easily could a version of this be ported for Kaiserreich? Ideology effects would be the only thing to be changed.

And how easily could a version with additional idea groups be added? Im thinking something along the lines of mini tree's, requiring one baseline idea group before options of advanced idea groups would be available.

@Blazer: Never tested it. It probably won't crash, but there most likely are incompatibilities.

Dose this work with MD

Great! Thanks!

@Amanfreed: The AI decides mostly based on vanilla game rules for the ideology idea groups for whether it should keep them or not. I added a game rule to disable the AI being able to remove idea groups now.

Would it be possible to turn off the A.i.'s ability to deselect/refund ideas in the game rules? I noticed that the A.i. makes some questionable decisions when playing with Kaiserredux, and attempted to fix them, but as soon as I went back to the nation I was playing I found that it had refunded all of the ideas and used the political power on decisions and government appointments instead.

@ИعşŞ: I dont know how the loading of game rule saves works tbh, but can't you just select it in-game? If it was saved without this mod, I assume the game rules from it get the default settings.

@LimonenZitrone how I can change the game rules if I have a game_rules.txt in my Document\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron IV and I want to apply to my save game.

Please update to World Ablaze mod. You can choose ideas but they don't add any stats.

A small thing that I would really like is a Kaiserreich version of this mod with traditions, national ideas and formables more fitting for the countries in that mod (So maybe the MinGan Ins would have increased resistance at first, Germany could have reduced consumer goods to deal with Black Monday, the US factions could all get their own nat ideas and so on)

It is working as advertised. Mega-kudos to you for adapting this to accommodate this request! I Think 2x/year at 9 ideas per national idea is the right tempo!

testing!

@Dark Star: Alright, game rules should be in now. Of course you need to start a new save game for any changes there to apply, though on going save games should also still work (with the previous settings used).

Sounds good, i'll look for your notice of an update. Excited to try this with 2/year!

@Dark Star: Separate version probably not. But I can see if I can make it a game rule.

@LimonenZitrone - would it be easy to release a 2idea/year varient of this, then? Tag me whenyou do and i'll prioritize playtesting it. I think something as simple as 2/year would feel much more satisfying (with the number of ideas neededto unlock each nationalidea scaled to 6 or 7...). I appreciate the response!

@Dark Star: Those are variables, set in on_startup in common/on_actions depending on the date you start in and selected game rules. Actually looking at the code again, it seems a bit easier to make 2 unlocked groups per year work than I thought originally.

Been fishing around in the mod files, and it looks like you have a dynamic date set to trigger unlocking each one "global.unlock_date_for_idea_group_1.GetDateStringNoHour", 2, 3, etc. Where are these unlock_date's defined? The above is from the scripted_triggers.txt but I searched every other file in the mod and there is no other specified place. Was looking to make my own little submod trying to have:

Two starting idea groups in jan1 1936, and 2 unlocked each year. The only other thing to balance the number of ideas selected per national idea unlocked. Probably scale that down to 5-6 ideas per national idea unlocked.

Really loving the vibe of your mod, but wish it was possible to get more like 6-8 ideas unlocked by 1940 instead of just 3-4. Ill keep looking. Cheers!

@limonenZitrone - after several play-throughts, I think there is a real pacing problem. You have a fantastic idea here, but the actual chance to utilize a full idea group by 1939 when PP is in competition with so many other things is very, very low. The chances you'll finish a war by 1944 and never had the chance to use a policy or two is also high.

I think you need to have 2 ideas per year unlocked, and you need to start them in 1936. I think you also need to have an option that they cost 25 PP each. The combinations are powerful, but even at 50 as a player its impossible to finish a full idea and still be playing the game with all the other things PP costs.

I'd be happy to playtest this variant, but as it stands its not particularly impactful unless you're playing rt56 and skipping the action in 1939 for some bigger war in 1942-1944. I love your mod, and I could imagine several other policy combinations.

@limonenZitrone, thanks for the reply, really respect your perspective on the amount of work. Ill give it some more play testing and look around in the guts of the mod. Cheers.

@Dark Star: The reduction of policy cost shouldn't be too complicated, since I already made a game rule for that just not with those values. But the other is quite a lot more work, because everything is set up to 1 idea group per year. Changing that to allow more would be too much work imo.

Fantastic mod @limonenZitrone - i wonder if the following might be possible:

Option to have two or three idea groups available each year, instead of one
Option to reduce policy cost to 40, 30, and 20 Political Power.

With the above reductions, balances to require 5 or 7 complete ideas per national idea, so that most are still being finished in the early-mid 1940-1942 era. I looked in the mod files if there was an easy Define to edit the above (the way there is in eu4 for such things) but it didnt leap out at me. Thanks again - really fun mod!

You should add a game rule option that doesn't allow the AI to choose the scientist advisor. It seems to be the AI's first choice of advisor and prioritizes it over other ones.

@Moonman: If you have suggestions for national ideas, sure, do tell.
@Mr.Manga: Those are not generic advisors that everyone has, so not sure how good that would be as a reward for every country (potentially).

hey man , any plan of expansion? i can help with examples (not to use word ideas)

For the extra ministers you get from the end of the minister group, would it be possible to add quartermaster general and financial expert?

@رضا شاه روحت شاد: It should theoretically work. Might be that some modifiers don't work with R56, depends what they add, change or remove. But most stuff should work.

Is this meant to be R56 compatible or not?

@LimonenZitrone Thank you sincerely friend, I'm on my way to the Discord now! :)

@Buford: There were a few changes over the time, e.g. PDX adding loc string inserting without scripted loc. So if you use the current version on an old game version like that, you may not see any idea effects in the tooltips. And then some modifiers have changed over the years as well, mainly naval ones but also stuff for resistance. If you join the discord server and ask there, I can send an older version for 1.8 there.

@Lazy Invincible General Hey thanks for the feedback! I'm not really knowledgeable when it comes to modding this game so I'm a little out of luck on that point... I appreciate the feedback though! Hopefull the mod author can give us some insights soon as I would really like to use this mod again!

but then again I don't check the code every update so take my words with a grain of salt as limonen probably knows better than me

I don't think theres been any major changes since then, so you probably would only have to edit any idea that touches carriers (pdox changed the modifier since then for deck size)

Is there anyway I could get a version of the mod when it first came out in 2019 to run on my 1.8.2 Fork server with friends please? :)

@yonihakam: You can use the set_position_idea_open_button console command to reposition it, if you want. You type that followed by a number in the console, that number will be how many pixels the button will be moved from its original position, so e.g. -50 for 50 px to the left. Alternatively you would want to edit the position of the open_ideas_window window.

Hi, I would like to move the window_idea symbol (the light bulb) to another location on the screen.
it interferes with another mod's symbol.

Where can I find the values of X and Y in the mod folder?
thank you

@Soviet Union: What exactly doesn't work? Does nothing new show up? Have you tried unsubbing and resubbing and then starting a new save with the mod active? Possibly also disabling and enabling it a few times in the launcher before starting the game, because sometimes it shows inactive mods as active.

some reason the mod doesn't work..I have the newest update and no other mods.

Report! Gotterdammerung is now officially released!

There might be an update on this mod as well since Belgium, with its focus tree, is now included

We need Chinese plz！！

@fabio.speroni: There is a game rule for that. "No Time or Type Limit" option for the "Idea Group Limitations" game rule.

Beautiful Mod, but is there a way to unlock all the slots at the beginning of the game? maybe with cheat commands?

Hi LimonenZitrone! I've tested this with many other mods in my playset, and the only issue I have is with Road to 56. No matter what order or if I use other mods or not, R56 and this mod make the game crash during boot up. Any hopes for a compatibility patch? Really wanna use this mod in my ongoing campaign!

@Immortal2: I think it does. But not 100% sure.

does this mod work with The Great War Redux?

I wish there was a way to change the once a year thing