First of all, each country will have access to two special bonuses of own tradition that it starts the game with and which do not need to be unlocked.
Levée en Masse: National Manpower Modifier +50%īonus: Land Force Limit +33% National ideasĪn additional element is the special national ideas, which are different for each country. Standardized Artillery: Artillery Cost -10% The Old and Infirm: Land Maintenance Modifier -10% The Young Can Serve: Manpower Recovery +20% penalty to stability for attacking a country without Casus Belli.īenefits for Horseowners: Cavalry Cost -10% Revolution & Counter Revolution: Permanent Casus Belli against other Government Types.ĭiplomatic Influence: +3 Diplomatic Reputationįlexible Negotiations: Unjustified Demands Cost -33%īonus: Lowered impact of Diplomatic actions on Stability, e.g. War Cabinet: Cost of Reducing War Exhaustion -33%Ĭlaims Fabrication: Time to Fabricate Claims -50% Resilient State: National Spy Defense +25% Mercenary Recruitment: Available Mercenaries +50%Īdministrative Efficiency: you can select from among four advisors instead of three. Organized Mercenary Payments: Mercenary Cost -25%īenefits for Mercenaries: Mercenary Maintenance -33% Smithian Economics: Production Efficiency +20%īonus: May reduce inflation by 1% for 200 AMP, if higher than 3%. National Enthusiasm: Military Maintenance Modifier -10% National Bank: Yearly Inflation Reduction -0,10 Additionally, each idea is connected with a random event that occurs every five years.īureaucracy: +10% National Global Tax Modifier After you unlock the whole group, you will receive a special bonus. cannot select the third and leave out the first two. Ideas are unlocked one after another from left to right, you e.g. If the last one are a commonalty that you face every day, taking up additional administrative expenditures makes no sense, and it will be better to take the military or diplomatic group. But you also need them to unlock higher technology levels, core provinces and regain stability. Administrative ideas, for example, use up the administrative points. Make sure that you can spend them on the idea and you are not going to need them elsewhere. The base cost of unlocking an idea is 400MO of the corresponding type. While choosing ideas, you should turn your attention to where you need the most points. This will provide you with access to conquistadors and explorers.
if you are planning to establish a colonial empire, the "Exploration" group is mandatory for you. Which groups you select, should be the result of the of your general strategy, e.g. So, as you can see, it will never be possible to acquire all of the ideas. You can select new ideas after you reach the following levels of administrative technology- 4, 7, 10, 14, 17, 22, 26, 29. administrative, diplomatic and military), and each of them uses up the corresponding MP points. There re, in total, 15 idea groups, 5 of each kind (i.e. These are mighty tools which it is good to account for in your plans at the beginning. Ideas are specific permanent bonuses of a given kind. IdeasĪpart from the development of technological levels, Monarch Power can be spent also to develop ideas. The highlighted type will be improved with each next level. Additionally, these are indicated by the elements highlighted I the screenshot. You will unlock detailed information about what will get improved, if you hover your pointer over the appropriate icons to the right of the technology tab. Still, these are single exceptions from the rule.Īs you progress for higher levels, you will unlock further ideas, buildings and improvements. if you want to develop and idea that makes it possible to colonize, or if you want to perform westernization and take advantages of the discounts to make up for your losses. Sometimes, it is worth it to lag behind n purpose. Still, if your neighbor's technological advancement, for a technology, is higher, you will receive a discount of 5% for each level higher. The more ahead of your times with a technology you are, the more expensive the next levels. The base cost to improve a technology is 60 MP but, it is modified by your neighbors, ideas and the current year. You develop each one of the trees by spending the corresponding MP points.
There are three basic technology trees - administrative, diplomatic and military. The MP points determine when you can develop. First of all, Monarch Power points are the most important again. Technological development in EUIV may seem complicated, at first, but after you give it a closer scrutiny, it will turn out to be quite simple.
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