[TUTORIAL] Europa Universalis III - How to edit the national ideas

**ForteS** · June 21, 2011, 05:59 AM

Hello everybody I'm going to wright a small tutorial that will help you change the effects of the national ideas.

First of all you need to open the ideas file, it is located in [...]\Europa Universalis III\common

Now as you can see the line no 6 says "naval_ideas" this means that the following lines are the naval ideas:

Code:

naval_ideas = {
	press_gangs = {
		global_ship_cost = -0.5
	}	
	grand_navy = {
		naval_forcelimit_modifier = 1.0
	}
	sea_hawks = {
		navy_tradition = 0.01
	}
	superior_seamanship = {
		naval_morale = 1.0
	}
	naval_glory = {
		prestige_from_naval = 1.00	#100% extra prestige  from naval battles
	}

	excellent_shipwrights = {
		trigger = {
			naval_tech = 7
		}
		leader_naval_manuever = 2
	}
	naval_fighting_instruction = {
		trigger = {
			naval_tech = 30
		}
		blockade_efficiency = 0.5
	}
	naval_provisioning = {
		trigger = {
			naval_tech = 53
		}
		sea_repair = yes
	}

Now I'm going to give you a example editing the exploration ideas, I'm going to add more colonists to the colonial ventures:

Code:

}

exploration_ideas = {
	land_of_opportunity = {
		global_colonial_growth = 0.33	# more people per year in colonies.
	}
	merchant_adventures = {
		merchant_cost = -0.33		#1/3rd cheaper merchants
	}
	colonial_ventures = {
		colonists = 5		# 5 extra colonist each year.
	}
	
	shrewd_commerce_practise = {
 		merchant_compete_chance = 0.1
  	}
	vice_roys  = {
 		global_tariffs = 0.33
 	}
 	

	quest_for_the_new_world	= {
		trigger = {
			trade_tech = 7
		}
		may_explore = yes	#may recruit explorers/conquistadors
		range = 0.5		#can colonist 50% further.
		colonists = 1		

	}

	scientific_revolution = { 
		trigger = {
			trade_tech = 30
		}
		technology_cost = -0.1
		papal_influence = -0.05;
	}

	improved_foraging = {
		trigger = {
			trade_tech = 53
		}
		land_attrition = -0.5
	}
}

As you can see all I've done was change the 1 to 5, this means that from now on you will get 5 colonists instead of only 1.

Also you can do more than just raise the effects, you can add them, e.g: if you want land of opportunity to give you colonists, just add the code below it:

Code:

exploration_ideas = {
	land_of_opportunity = {
		global_colonial_growth = 0.33	# more people per year in colonies.
                colonists = 1		# 1 extra colonist each year.
	}

So that's all, now you shall be able to do it your self, if you have any doubt just post asking for help