excelmakesbelhappypack

Installation instructions:

• Go to the Releases page and download the latest release.
• Go to %HOMEPATH%\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Europa Universalis IV\mod on your hard drive. The folder named "mod" might not exist. If so, create it.
• Unpack the .zip into the mod folder.
• Enable the mod in your game launcher and enjoy the game!

  Changelog:

V0.30 Latest Patch

• Mod has now been updated with the latest updates and works with 1.30 Austria version

  V0.2.7.3 American Trade

• Development Ideas MTTH modified:
  • MTTH is tied directly to dev cost modifiers
  • -50% dev cost is twice as likely to fire
  • +100% dev cost is half as likely to fire
  • Removed MTTH modifiers: prosperity and stability
• Further minor tweaks to American trade map
  • Added a Pacific Islands Trade Node, rework of East Asia and Pacific trade nodes
• All mission triggers now properly use the new mod buildings

V0.2.7.2 American Trade

• Trade: Major historical rework of American Trade Nodes finished:
  • Nodes shifted, restructured and renamed.
  • Additional connection: Philippines -> Caribbean.
  • Additional connection: Great Lakes -> Mississippi.
  • Trade map reworked with path improvements.
• AI: Hard Mode bonuses now scale with Current Age.
• AI: Hard Mode bonuses redesigned slightly to be have an impact on more areas.
• AI: Fierce Negotiators no longer get -10 impact on peace deals bonus.
• Tech: Tech 30 and 31 grant a new idea group each.
• Events: 'Sack of X' event no longer happens when unsieging your own cities.
• Events: 'Sack of X' event now triggers only below 20% professionalism.
• Features: Decision to grant new subjects the overlord's ideas added.
• Balance: Raiding and looting impact on devastation lowered.
• Other: A reasonable amount of other minor bug and glitch fixes.

  V0.2.7.1 American Trade

• Trade: Added historical trade node connections in the Americas:
  • st_lawrence to chesapeake
  • james_bay to north_sea
  • chesapeake to caribbean_trade
  • brazil to caribbean_trade
  • patagonia to lima
  • caribbean_trade to english_channel (check changelog.txt for a link to a visualization)
• Estates: The Interactions unlocked via ideas now give just flat 10 loyalty.
• Ideas: Republican no longer gives max absolutism. Replaced with Diplomats +1.
• AI: Will now take up to 5 loans to build regular troops if needed.
• AI: Will now do all vanilla Estate Interactions if needed.
• AI: Adjusted logic in building forts.
• AI: Will evaluate Anglican Faith Aspects better.
• UX: Streamlining of the start_of_game experience.
• UI: Fixed Scrollbar for Macro Builder.
• UI: You can now properly save Army Templates.
• Flavor: New text for rebalanced idea groups. Now with 90% more alliteration.
• Other: A reasonable amount of other minor bug and glitch fixes.

  V0.2.6 Estates

• AI will now do the Clergy, Nobility, Burghers, Cossacks Estate clicks.
• Estate Interactions colorcoded based on impact on loyalty and influence.
• Estate interactions sorted by function.
• Estate clicks normalized.
• Recruit from Domain and Ask for Reform Support, will now ADD Influence.
• Impose a Tax now scales with land held by estate, not influence.
• Can no longer Pass a Law with all government reforms.
• AI Hard Mode bonuses nerfed by about 40%.
• AI less likely to abandon republicanism on a whim.
• AI will have a better army composition based on budget and tech.
• AI will be better at assigning tasks for its army.
• AI more likely to hire mercenaries when needed.
• AI will build forts if they can afford it. Not before. Like a dummy.
• Removed the local autonomy increase for number owned provinces pending redesign.
• Everyone now gets a Leader without Upkeep slot for 250 development.
• Institutions screen in tech now has a BACK button.
• New text for rebalanced idea groups. Now with 69% more alliteration.
• Government buildings tooltips now explain the Empowered Edicts.
• Galley Ideas now has a scaling force limit modifiers instead of static.

  V0.2.5.3

• Substantially lowered the increase to cost of buildings caused by development.
• Experimental AI build order implemented.
• Revamp of the mission interface look.
• Fixes for Elective Monarchies - monarch points from ideas apply correctly.
• Fix linux/mac loading bug.
• A reasonable amount of other minor fixes.

  V0.2.5.2

• AI has a decision to dev a lowest cost province when at the monarch cap.
• Arumba changes to the dev idea.

  V0.2.2

• This pack and future versions are now available at github.com/TheDivexz/excelmakesbelhappypack/releases
• also other improvements to ai and development ideas
• Startup events now includes this readme.md file up to 30 lines. Github bot does that for us hopefully be nice to the bot
• New nations get ideas from their releaser, whether by peace deal or by releasing them. Does not apply to nations created by missions.
• Merged the on_actions they now have a unq file

  Important Update

• in order to reduce size of the mod you need to copy the mod file contents to your .mod file

  Update

• plugged in Theatrum Orbis Terrarum graphics pack
• you can get the mod without graphics in the no-graphich branch

  Update v0.26

• Arumba Changes
• UI for Ideas

  Update v0.25

• Idea Variation MP setting
• fixed integrate Moneylenders not working
• -1 stab on reform change removed
• Arumba's changes

  Update v0.24

• fixed the edict duplication bug, probably. I don't know dude, I'm tired I didn't test it. That's y'all's job

  Update v0.23

• removes the scaling difficulty for IV hard mode

  Update v0.22 'Sevy#0769'

• Fixed estates view for bigger UI
• Fixed buildings macrobuilder view for bigger UI

  Update v0.21

• UI fixes
• fixed Arumba's Keyboard Shortcuts
• added missing scripted effects
• made ME missions more compatible with IV
• buffed Display Legitimacy click for republics from -10 republican tradition to -4 republican tradition
• fixed the loading screen

  Update v0.20

• nerfed roads by 50%
• removes Subjects Expanded

  Update v0.10

• Threw in Subjects Expanded
• Minor Arumba Changes

  Update v0.01

• removes nobility estate for peasant republic
• adivasi estate gives 0.15 local production happiness when province is happy
• other minor bug fixes