lets make a thread of focuses you think should be buffed or changed to 35 days

[alexman]

for example new trade deal for usa or generic 10 xp starting military steps for most minors.
connect railroads for hungary. bled agreement. rhineland, the starting focuses for china. that gives just 5 stability. army reform.
netherlands super project should probably be cut from 230 days to 190, the minor colonies step could be 35.
hungaries king otto hapbsburg have 0 traits looking at his wikipedia page he was against the "baddies" and could have a negative opinion of axis. maybe 20% trade opinion factor a stability modifier of +10 stab in defensive war. +0.05 compliance. nothing too op.
maybe a diplo trait for allies.

 

[marcelo r. r.]

Germany "diplomatic friendies"(japan, turkey, spain) focuses, theyre almost useless are there for RP or anotther reason.

 

[Dead One's Blood]

Every railroad focuses, unless they actively fix your supply (of which there are few, if any).

 

[alexman]

Every railroad focuses, unless they actively fix your supply (of which there are few, if any).

railroads should either give lvl 3 to all connections or give u a 20% build bonus for 2 years. wasting 70 days for one pointless lvl 1 route is wasted time.

 

[GothiousRex]

Hungary having two focuses for Austria. You get the wargoal anyways if diplomacy (ie. attempt at referendum) fails yet if you just want the wargoal without diplomacy, it's also 70 days?!?!

 

[alexman]

Hungary having two focuses for Austria. You get the wargoal anyways if diplomacy (ie. attempt at referendum) fails yet if you just want the wargoal without diplomacy, it's also 70 days?!?!

thats not a bug thats a feature. failing the refferndum gives a instant wargoal and no justifying time so they never build up defenses. so u can sneak attack and u can get war economy if u time things right and its removes treaty and bypass bled agreement. its the best event. it lets u double ur pops and factories

 

[PorkchopSandwiches247]

thats not a bug thats a feature. failing the refferndum gives a instant wargoal and no justifying time so they never build up defenses. so u can sneak attack and u can get war economy if u time things right and its removes treaty and bypass bled agreement. its the best event. it lets u double ur pops and factories

Yeah but in that scenario youd still have picked ‘demand referendum’. Theres no point in picking the ‘publicly declare war with forewarning’ one unless you want to guarentee a war scenario but in a worse situation (since they now know youre declaring war and will have entrenched units at your border).

Itd prob be nice to have this crappier focus to be 35 days since its pretty much putting yourself in a disadvantageous position compared to other other 70 day focus.

 

[KubiG37]

90 % of Poland's plan West/East focuses? xD

Silesia Fortified Area -70 days Focus that adds 2x level 1 fort , it takes about 5 days to build them manually.

 

[alexman]

90 % of Poland's plan West/East focuses? xD

Silesia Fortified Area -70 days Focus that adds 2x level 1 fort , it takes about 5 days to build them manually.

man i hate all of them. its so dumb. and for the future getting a lvl3 fort is then more expensive. make a 35 day focus giving fort building 20% for a year do this for all nations that have some similar

 

[Lamartine]

Keep in mind that even if one focus in isolation has a bonus too small to warrant a 70-day focus, it might still be important to have a 70-day focus because:

1. It synchronises the overall focus tree with the key dates of WWII. Speed a focuses up and you might end up with Germany invading Poland in '38
2. It balances out the focus tree as a whole. Sometimes a powerful focus needs to be at the end of a few less powerful 70 day focuses for balance

 

[russkiegeneral]

All african union focuses for ETH. Some even do nothing but give debuffs to things you already lack of (pp gain and civ factory speed)
Should give a large PP buff for one of them at least. Id say whole system should be fixed/revisited/rebalanced. Sometimes you cant use the on map decisions that focuses give because of TAG already having existed for example
Also should really rebalance a single prospect for resources focus giving you decisions to get resources instead of making it lack based.
There is really more ETH is a mess

 

[Casko]

Keep in mind that even if one focus in isolation has a bonus too small to warrant a 70-day focus, it might still be important to have a 70-day focus because:

1. It synchronises the overall focus tree with the key dates of WWII. Speed a focuses up and you might end up with Germany invading Poland in '38
2. It balances out the focus tree as a whole. Sometimes a powerful focus needs to be at the end of a few less powerful 70 day focuses for balance

1.
This is true, in particular to some of the older focus trees.
But the more the game advanced, the bigger the focus trees get, and makes the older focus trees feel very old and dated, the British Commonwealth trees in particular tend to be rather lacking in many many ways.

2. Oh I do agree also on the fact that some focuses are fine with being 70, or even longer if need be. However, you also have weird ones like French having +5stab from a 70 day focus. Or various Military research buff focuses being generally not worth it half the time when you much rather rush through either political or industry trees. The ones that give a 1time research speed buff for 70 days are always my personal gripe. (tho I admit this is my personal bias). Those focuses could do well being 35, or if you want to be silly, 45 rather than 70 days.

 

[alexman]

All african union focuses for ETH. Some even do nothing but give debuffs to things you already lack of (pp gain and civ factory speed)
Should give a large PP buff for one of them at least. Id say whole system should be fixed/revisited/rebalanced. Sometimes you cant use the on map decisions that focuses give because of TAG already having existed for example
Also should really rebalance a single prospect for resources focus giving you decisions to get resources instead of making it lack based.
There is really more ETH is a mess

eth needs a crutch endgame in 43. u spend entire game just coping.

 

[billcorr]

This Australian Focus could be improved:

 

[alexman]

lvl 2 railroad is not equal to pre patch 2 inf in all areas. tbh inf should get maxed all over for 70

 

[billcorr]

This South African focus should be buffed or changed to a 35 day focus:

 

[billcorr]

This Australian focus should be buffed or changed to a 35 day focus:

 

[billcorr]

This Australian focus should be buffed or changed to a 35 day focus:

 

[billcorr]

This Australian focus should be buffed or changed to a 35 day focus:

 

[billcorr]

This RAJ focus should be buffed or changed to a 35 day focus: