Press gang, Patron of arts, shrewd commerce practice, military drill, battle field commissions and Church attendancy duty are great NI. As initial one, I mostly pick drill, shrewd or patron of arts.
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Shrewd commerce is good if you are trade lackey, NTP is better for those that want to gain realy big trade income. But as trade lackey, i think it is better to take military decision, or cultural(for advisors).
The best thing about national ideas is that you can choose which one suits you 
The more people disagree about what is 'the best' the better the design was.
The more people disagree about what is 'the best' the better the design was.
I cant stress enough how strong CAD is, even if you only take it as the first idea and swap it out immediately. Guilded Iconography is one of the best decisions in the game, it gives you enough CT to keep you at ~70 at all times. It also enables you to later on get Iconoclasm after you got some Fine Arts accedemies up (preferrably through patron of the arts) and get a very nice boost to both your treasury and your tax income.
If you find this is an issue in D&T then take church attendance duty which opens up gilded iconography.
The best thing about national ideas is that you can choose which one suits you
The more people disagree about what is 'the best' the better the design was.
Spot on. There is usually a 'best' first national idea, but after that it really is just what suits your nation.
On the contrary, I think it's very appropriate that you can't spam paintings to get better advisors.
I know, that wasn't my point, my point was the only real way to get cultural tradition is through CaD>GI or PotA.
So in D&T you can't spend magistrates on anything atb? Splendind.
Well you can, it just costs a bit of prestige and money. Also, how about buildings?
I used to use National Bank all the time but I've started using it less. It slows your tech, has a terrible event attached to it, and I feel like it acts like a crutch.
Slows tech? What are you talking about, it does not. It prevents inflation. And inflation slows tech.
The more you put on minting, the less you have on tech. And having NB without minting is quite useless.
My favorite early national idea is easily Press Gangs. -50% ship cost to build. You can build double the amount of ships as someone for the same price! After all, you need to defend with your navy against everyone who is not your neighbor.
I like Patron of the Arts (strong advisers are amazing), military drill, and if you have a lot of colonies, viceroys. Press gangs, viceroys, and land of opportunity all go hand in hand together.
I like Patron of the Arts (strong advisers are amazing), military drill, and if you have a lot of colonies, viceroys. Press gangs, viceroys, and land of opportunity all go hand in hand together.
Year: 1577
Country: Germany
Religion: Protestant
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I adoptet Church Attendance Day
But I can't find anywhere this Guided Iconography...
My first Idea is National Bank.
It gives you the ability to mint at 0% increase of inflation, and no need to pay adviser sallary. One may think minting slows down your tech, bui it is the opposite since you can get much more buildings early on, when money are the limiting factor for most nations, not magistrates.
It can become needless after ~100-200years, but it gives a huge boost to early game for middle sized countries.
CAD, everyone explained why. Stab cost is always an issue for large nations, glider iconography and iconoclasm are also good.
Burocracy, NTP, are good for countries the size of France, when you do not feel any real need to make you strong military even stronger.
Patron of arts is good.
military and colonisation NIs are only usefull for either really small nations, or in Multiplayer.
It gives you the ability to mint at 0% increase of inflation, and no need to pay adviser sallary. One may think minting slows down your tech, bui it is the opposite since you can get much more buildings early on, when money are the limiting factor for most nations, not magistrates.
It can become needless after ~100-200years, but it gives a huge boost to early game for middle sized countries.
CAD, everyone explained why. Stab cost is always an issue for large nations, glider iconography and iconoclasm are also good.
Burocracy, NTP, are good for countries the size of France, when you do not feel any real need to make you strong military even stronger.
Patron of arts is good.
military and colonisation NIs are only usefull for either really small nations, or in Multiplayer.
Culural decision.Year: 1577
Country: Germany
Religion: Protestant
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I adoptet Church Attendance Day
People panic too much about a little inflation and bank is vastly overrated. having your armies not killed (military drill) or getting merchants in all CoT is much more important. Bureaucracy seems quite useless to me as most of your income will be production or trade anyway.