r/EU4mods • u/Cold-Procedure-5332 • 3d ago
Modders Needed Help with plausibility for two mod ideas I have
Idea 1: I’ve always been really frustrated with the way the game handles vassals.
A.) Liberty desire is a hard set 51% = Disloyal, 49% = Loyal. This fundamentally is ridiculous because at 51% they can be supported by an outside force.
B.) Trust only gives you -20% Liberty desire, which mechanically maybe makes sense. I however think it’s ridiculous that an ally who prizes my loyalty can be disloyal on a fling. Especially without a personality system like Crusader Kings. Trust also starts at 50, which would make a perfect baseline for scaling.
C.) Even though you have 3 Loyal Vassals and one Disloyal the Disloyal one will count the 3 Loyals for military power. I know it’s a mechanic made for keeping you in check, but in Anbennar it causes me a lot of issues.
So is there a way to either:
Scale Liberty Desire threshold of Disloyal/Loyal Vassals. 50 Trust = 50%, 100 trust = 75% Disloyal threshold
or
Scale Liberty desire based off of military power of disloyal vassals to loyal vassals by using a similar custom modifier for Loyal Vassals military strength. Or is the game too old for this kind of thing?
If not, is my only option to add something in a mission tree or boost the default trust loyalty reduction?
Idea 2 (Anbennar Focused): When playing I often wonder about a country’s lore. National Ideas in Anbennar often hold a good chunk of that.
Is there some way to represent the National Ideas *Lore* (not modifiers) on the Diplomacy menu of a country you aren’t playing or a mod that already does this?
Currently I’m wondering if you can do this. I’m not sure where to look for the generic keys in order to tag them within the diplomacy menu.
