Hovering over the EoC mission "Form the Depots" crashes the game.

Makes it impossible to play in Asia if you want to go for the Mandate of Heaven at some point.

Is it working in 1.37?

are you still planning on updating this mod? really liked it

A lot of cool ideas modifier-wise, but currently the military ideas are just too strong across the board. For example, +1 artillery fire is essentially a must-have, and every group could do with having its numbers brought down by a significant margin. Additionally, feels bad locking mercenary focused ideas behind government type, especially with there being common tier 5 reforms regarding mercs

Yeah but the dynamic of trade and production becoming dominant is what encourages the colonial empires that defined the time period. It's sort of required otherwise the incentive to colonise is lost. I agree some buffs to tax are needed but if trade and production aren't your dominance source of income then the game becomes less dynamic.

Thanks for the feedback, Mike!

First of all, you’re absolutely right about the integration idea! It will be fixed next patch! Thanks for that, great thoughts!
Secondly, the Bureau of Administration is a bit tricky. I really want to fix the mid and late game mentality towards taxation. Nowadays it’s completely useless, unfortunately. I agree that it’s too much right now, but there’s a fine balance where it becomes useless once more if nerfed too much. Since trade and production is the mid/late game heavy hitters.

the "Bureau of Administration" Idea set:
is BY FAR the best early game idea to pick. the overal +75% increase in tax is really big. perhaps the max total (you get from the completed idea set) could be set at 50%? the 5% AE is also to big i think, perhaps change this to 2 or 3%

Integration:
I get the idea of what you wanted to do with this one, that is to change all the cultures to your primary one. but i think you missed the mark here. Currently is is both "accept other cultures" and "change other cultures" when talking about the idea of this idea group. I reccomend you change it so that is gives 40 or 45% manpower in primary cultures, and change the other ideas to reflect this "my own culture FIRST" idea of a idea set. I also reccomend here you add a NEGATIVE thing to it, like in the "Battlefield support" idea set

Thanks for the feedback, Tirpio!

Yes, I’m fully aware what you mean concerning especially those two ideas. The hard part however is to make all the ideas (at least the majority) attractive to take. So making some of them powerful (which one otherwise wouldn’t pick) means that there still must be an active choice to pick those instead of something else. A so called “Alternative Cost” to them. Meaning your pick actually replaces something else that you could have taken, like manpower, trade, and so on.

With that said I will look into them, I had plans to probably nerf them somewhat after playtesting them thoroughly myself. But I do like the idea of something giving many small “overall” bonuses. If you have any specific suggestions let me know.

Regards!

Some of the ideas could probably use some balancing. Especially collectivism and Imperial influence