First, I want to preface that I'm loving all the balance changes so far in 1.34. This is the only personal fix that I think should be done to go alongside the new changes.
Across the board, idea groups have had their force limit and manpower modifiers reduced. For national manpower, Aristocratic/Indigenous has been reduced 33% to 15% and Quantity from 50% to 25%. For force limit, Offensive has gone from 33% to 15%, and Quantity from 50% to 25%.
On the other hand, national ideas have not changed. Russia, for instance, still gets +33% to national manpower and +50% to force limit. This makes the relative power of Russia's already strong national ideas even more so. For instance, in the old game, everyone taking quantity would mean Russia would have 2x it's force limit vs 1.5x for other nations that don't have those buffs. Now, it would mean 1.75x vs 1.25x. Russia can simply take ideas that focus on quality instead, because their national ideas are strong enough that Offensive + Quantity (+40% force limit) would not match that base +50% force limit buff.
My suggestion would be to move all the national ideas down one tier to follow these changes. So Russia's force limit modifier goes from 50% to 33%, nations with 33% force limit go to 25%, etc. and the same thing for national manpower. This should put the relative difference back on par to what it was before between national ideas and idea groups.
Across the board, idea groups have had their force limit and manpower modifiers reduced. For national manpower, Aristocratic/Indigenous has been reduced 33% to 15% and Quantity from 50% to 25%. For force limit, Offensive has gone from 33% to 15%, and Quantity from 50% to 25%.
On the other hand, national ideas have not changed. Russia, for instance, still gets +33% to national manpower and +50% to force limit. This makes the relative power of Russia's already strong national ideas even more so. For instance, in the old game, everyone taking quantity would mean Russia would have 2x it's force limit vs 1.5x for other nations that don't have those buffs. Now, it would mean 1.75x vs 1.25x. Russia can simply take ideas that focus on quality instead, because their national ideas are strong enough that Offensive + Quantity (+40% force limit) would not match that base +50% force limit buff.
My suggestion would be to move all the national ideas down one tier to follow these changes. So Russia's force limit modifier goes from 50% to 33%, nations with 33% force limit go to 25%, etc. and the same thing for national manpower. This should put the relative difference back on par to what it was before between national ideas and idea groups.
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