The Idea Variation 2

Uploaded · Published November 5, 2025 · Updated June 3, 2026

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Author: flogi

Last revision: 2 Jun at 16:24 UTC (12)

File size: 66.94 MB

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Description:

Updated for 1.2

Main Features

Customize your country to your liking again away from only some Advances or situations. Brings back the replayability different idea setups offered.

– Reintroduced EU IVs Idea System to EU V
– 4 categories of Ideagroups: Admin, Diplomatic, Army and Navy
– Fully Customizable Number of Ideagroup Slots and Idea Cost
– Unlock Ideagroups and new Idearoup Slots by spending Innovation points
– At least 15 generic different Ideagroups per category
– Over 30 special religious Ideagroups
– Unique Government Type and Government Rank Ideagroups
– Automatic changing of Religious, Government Type/Rank Ideagroups
– Hire Researchers to boost your generation of Innovation Points
– Unique Ideabonuses like new Casus Belli, new Buildings and new Modifiers
– New Units: Guard Units and Marines
– Custom Alerts (needs the Community Framework Mod!)

The popular UI Mod "Glorp UI" has now built in compatibility for this mod.

Supported Languages: English, German (at this point I would advise playing in English though), Chinese with this mod or another Chinese translation and French

Note: My other mods "Generic Conquest CB" and "Better tacitical Mapmode" are also integrated in this mod. If you dont like the Generic Conquest CB, you can deactivate that in the game options.

Bugreports
Please keep the comment section clean of issues and report bugs on my discord or on the discussion.

Useful links
You can discuss this and my other mods on my modding discord.
Discord Channel[discord.gg]

My Patreon Page[www.patreon.com]

Thanks
– Special thanks to Stiopa who helped a lot with trouble shooting and purging the error log
– Thanks to the PDX guys who helped with designing the interface of the mod
– Big Thanks to Ceasar Vincens for designing the Idea Icon of the main menu
– Big Thanks to Glorp and Gleep for helping out with the evil interface!

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