Hi very good mod but I had to mod it to fit my needs.

First during my play on Hard with Russia and England it was almost impossible to get any Alliance. With Great Great Britain I could get a few alliance during the 50 first years but after that no one wanted an alliance with me probably due to my anglican religion and my highly wanted province in Peru and the spices Island (that modifier is overpowered I think). Ottoman had an Hegemony and could get alliances easily while me with no hegemony I couldn't get any. When I played Russia it was the same so I edited the files at this point because I couldn't play with such restriction.

I made this change in the opinion_modifier:
rival = {
opinion = -50
}

enemy = {
opinion = -25
}

allied_to_rival = {
opinion = -50
}

enemy_of_my_enemy = {
opinion = 50
max = 100}

Also I removed the -20 for alliance on hard.

I also modified the defines.lua file:
MIN_RELATIONS_TO_ALLY = 75
CALL_ALLY_DECLINE_PRESTIGE_PENALTY = -50
BREAK_ALLIANCE_TRUST_COST = 10
DISHONOR_CALL_TRUST_CALLER = 30
DISHONOR_CALL_TRUST = 5 --dishonoring a call to arms (with everyone else)

It's not perfect though as it seems to me the AI get alliances too easily so you are still at a disadvantage but it's not impossible to get alliance. I feel it would better if you could restrict the number of alliance if the country is a super power or has more than 300 development or something. For example impossible to be allied to 2 super power at the same time, same restriction for the AI. In my play with England there were small countries near India with 5 alliances with the overpowered Bengal on top, it feels very unlikely that such small country would get so many strong alliance from a realistic point of view. I also feels the hegemony minus stupid in reality it doesn't work that way, if you look at today USA has Naval/Army hegemony and they are a lot of countries willing to ally them so, sure they get a lot of hatred for it but it doesn't prevent them from making alliance.

Also in that file I add more distrust when you refuse call for wars, I feel other country should distrust you if you break alliance all the times. So now in games if I refused a defensive call I get -30 trust with target country and -5 with everyone else. (I hesitate between -5 and -10 for everyone else)



Then about the new development method introduce. I think it's a good idea but there are a few problems in my opinion. First it seems it overpower the small countries a bit too much, end game they can get around 40 or more development while your own capital city struggle to get above 20. So to get around this I would make a lot of small vassal with one province. Though some of my vassal would get stuck at minus 2 stability for ever so it seems buggy since their economy was doing perfectly fine. I think it would be better if the random development would target your capital area more often. If you are a big country the development should target near your capital more often, at a 75% rate for example. In my game when I would see Paris with only 15 development it was laughable when a poor province in the spice island usually around 7 to 10 dev was 40 dev when I took it.
I think you should reduce the amount of dev a one province country can get. The HRE gets overpowered too due to that also, Netherlands get a boost for it's trade power it's like 2 times more than normal because they started as small nations. Also some of the mission for a high dev province is almost impossible due to that.

Also I feel (not sure) since it's imposed development on your monarch points I wonder if it's restraining my ability to get ideas faster or technology, in my previous games sometimes I would neglect development to focus on ideas or tech but now I can't with this mod, if you are in a bad situation I don't want my monarch point going down if it was something I need to recruit a general for my wars. Maybe a switch on off would be a good idea if possible, or the ability to say yes or no when the pop up says new dev incoming.


Then the idea thing it's great but not for my taste personally, it's a good alternative and I can understand the need but I prefer my freedom to choose, maybe if it was less restrictive but I felt it was too hard to get the choice I wanted if not completely random. Maybe if a personality trait would give more choice that would get better, still probably not for me, even while using the command to add the trait it took me a really long time to get the idea I wanted.
Also the colonial idea for every nations is nice but completely unhistorical, an alternative way to play but not something I always want. Due to all that I edited the idea/00_basic_ideas.txt file back to normal.

Can you tell me which files to edit to remove the dev thing and put it back to normal while keeping the others things? It's the only thing I'm having hard time with.