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Subideology Decisions

Hearts of Iron IV divides each ideology group into subideologies. In vanilla gameplay, these ideologies don't do much, but some mods might decide to make them a little more interesting. However, HOI4 doesn't allow you to manually change subideologies by default, even with commands.

That's where Subideology Decisions comes in. SD will add decisions for all countries making it possible for you to swap to a different subideology within the same ideology group as the ruling party, allowing you to finally switch around without much fuss in exchange for political power and some time.

For a comprehensive explanation, see the Detailed Rundown at the bottom of the description.

I am planning one addition feature: events that are triggered upon decision completion to let you know when a subideology change was finished.

I highly recommend trying this mod out with the Ideology Rework for HOI4 mod!

I made this mod after switching my ruling party to communism gave me a random leader with anarcho-communism, tanking my stability (the 25% recruitable pop is nice, though). Upset without a way to change the subideology since there's no command for it and no other mod seems to be out there, I made this. Try them out yourself for some neat bonuses!

No, this mod IS NOT ironman/achievements-compatible.

This mod uses its own files and changes NO files provided by the game. It should be compatible with literally everything that doesn't change the ideologies.

Conversely, this mod ONLY has decisions for the default subideologies. If you have a mod which adds more ideologies, this mod will NOT have decisions for you to handle the custom ones. That said, feel free to use this mod as a base to make your own version that is compatible with the mods of your choice!

This mod should cause no problems for mods that only ADD new ideologies. If you run mods that change the vanilla ideologies in any way internally, you may run into issues.

None of the mod features should be relying on DLC-specific content, so you do NOT need any DLCs for this mod.

• 汉化 (Chinese)

• YES, you may include this mod in any modpacks/collections/whatever.
• YES, you may use this mod as a base to create your own, especially for compatibility with custom ideology mods. Credit and a link back here would be very much appreciated!
• YES, you may translate this mod into other languages. DO upload your translation as a separate submod to the Steam Workshop - I don't like maintaining translations in the main mod. I will link translations here if you make them and post them to the workshop.

The HOI4 Wiki page on ideologies[hoi4.paradoxwikis.com] will tell you that each ideology contains multiple types. For example, democracies include conservatism, liberalism, and socialism. We will refer to these as subideologies. Subideologies are a trait associated with leaders and cannot normally changed by any other means, meaning that once you get one (either from it being hard-coded or from a randomly generated leader), you're stuck with it. Subideology Decisions changes that by adding decisions to all countries that allow you to change the subideology of your leader to any other one within the same ideology group.

Democracies get decisions to change to conservatism, liberalism, or socialism. These decisions will cost you 200 political power and 90 days to switch to a new subideology, the high cost and lengthy time representing the slow, relatively decentralized nature of liberal democratic governments.

Communist countries can switch between Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism, Anti-Revisionism, Anarcho-Communism (called Anarchist Communism in-game). These decisions will cost you 100 political power and 60 days, the reduced costs reflecting the more centralized and authoritarian nature of communist governments. You'll notice that communist countries do not share decisions with democratic countries. If your nation's ruling party changes, so will the subideology decisions available to you!

Fascist countries get the choice between Nazism of both flavors (there's a German one and a generic one), generic Fascism, Falangism, and Rexism. These also cost 100 political power and 60 days. However, the Nazism ones come with a catch: you can only adopt the German Nazism if you are Germany or are in a faction with an independent Germany. Conversely, you can only adopt the generic Nazism if you're not Germany, are not in a faction with Germany, or are in a faction with Germany that has been subjugated (i.e. Germany became someone's puppet). This was done due to some potential confusion caused by the localization of subideology names; if you have HOI4 modding experience, you can mod this behavior away with little effort and the game will run perfectly fine. There is no real technical reason behind needing this limitation.

Non-aligned countries can choose between Despotism, Oligarchism, Anarchism, Moderatism, and Centrism. These have varying political power and days requirements (a mixture of 100, 150, or 200 PP and 60 or 90 days, depending on the subideology) to represent the different possible political capital and time requirements to implement the chosen subideology.

All decisions also cost extra political power in the form of a daily political power cost of 1 per day for the duration of the decision, meaning you will pay an additional 60 or 90 PP depending on the subideology you're switching to. Changing the political trajectory of your government isn't cheap, so plan ahead!

The AI does NOT use these decisions. They exist only for player utility.

This mod is strictly for adding decisions that let you change between the vanilla subideologies.
This mod does not add ideologies. That is feature creep.
This mod does not support modded ideologies. That is feature creep.
I will not have unwarranted feature creep in my mods.
Please look elsewhere for mods if you are interested in new ideologies.