If there's one thing HOI4 players like to do, it's suggest improvements to the game. I have quite a few of my own, but most of them have already been stated by others. Here's my attempt to synthesize a structured representation of what I've seen recently.

• I'm selectively omitting suggestions which I don't perceive to be QOL suggestions, including some annoying bugs like broken focuses, active wars interface suddenly not working, or army front lines not rendering
• To reiterate, QOL suggestions should not affect the actual gameplay from a fundamental level (no stat changes, new units or focuses, etc)
• Bolded items are ones that I've seen multiple times, strongly agree with (this is my list, after all 😉), or otherwise seem to garner extra attention
• If the description starts with "fix:" it is a (perceived) bugfix rather than new feature
• I did my best to cite references for particular suggestions so that you can read more where I found them, however I know I forgot to grab the link to some posts so I apologize in advance if I didn't cite your suggestion
• If you'd like me to add additional entries, I'd be happy to do so if I can

Common Themes:

• More queues: queues for production lines (mainly ships), intel agency upgrades, state buildings, research, focuses, and more
• Fewer notifications: calls to arms, lend lease, etc.
• More (prominent) notifications: intel operation completion, troops out of supply, partial trade orders
• Navy management (although I think I added most of these)
• Equipment variants and MIOs: lots of complaints and suggestions around managing the huge variety of equipment variants between selling them easier, choosing what equipment is used, or automatically deleting them

As germany i invade the soviet union with about 80 divisions 56 infantry 4 calvary 8 motorised infantry and 12 panzer divisions with medium tanks and help from allies such as poland and romania how can I improve on this to defeat the soviet union better ? Any help Is appreciated!

The naval invasion stuff I'm trying to get used to...

But is it even worthwhile taking all the islands before mainland Japan, (historically) or just go straight for the jugular?

Some islands right next to each other need a new invasion requirement, rather than just hopping one to another.

Left side sucks ass only pays off if you think you can live till 42 without dying. For it to pay off you need to int your reaserch getting tools 5 and your early eco will be awful cuz of consumer goods and you delay Anschluss and Czech. Also if you look from a strictly output perspective right side gives you 6 mills and 5% cap super early. Also you get tools 3 faster and rubber 3. As well as more civs early. Also there is no reason to build civs on war eco as Germany, you should build mills as soon as you have war eco + schacht once you have tolt industrial concern you have the only 3% less mill construction speed as before. Also once Anschluss happens you have enough civs to get your research slot

Edit: you also get 3 mills from tolt early so 9 mills and 11 civs if you don’t do the 35 day focuses for 1 civ then it’s 9 mill 13 civ. Also forget to mention the insane +2 rubber and +20% constuction speed to refineres. Also germany loses the mefo debuff if u take casablanca and iraq and swedish resource rights

If I assign my navy patrol task forces all under a single general separate from another general who carries only strike forces. Will they be able to work together?

I was checking the last patch notes regarding Gotterdamerung and except for some little things I haven't seen anything that would change the old MP navy meta from BBA.

I just wanted to know if the ideal navy is still Heavy Cruisers/ Battleships & Roach Destroyers.
--> I tried this out in an mp game with a decent UK (20 docks only did DDs) and I beat his navy with converted HC but then the US (He had 4000 hours or so) came with a 5 Battleship+Carrier navy and absolutely obliterated me

So what is the ideal navy strategy in general but also specifically for Italy in more competitive mp games?

Sorry for my grammar and using words, English is not my native language

I bought Man the Guns (To enhance navy) And I've seen many reddit post said that Mexico Focus Tree is one of the best Focus Tree in this game, should i play as Mexico and what branch should i take?

I want to do a cool run as the DR but hoi4 doesn't have focuses for it. What well done mod do? I know about Kr and nothing else

Hello. I found this game to be incredible, but I'm fairly new to it and my knowledge is lacking. Any help is appreciated.

1. What is the red exclamation (!) mark at the right of an unit?
2. What is the red skull mark on an unit?
3. Whats the difference between what seems to be different fuel marks on an unit?
4. How do I deploy planes on a carrier? And afterwards, how do I use those planes?
5. Any other markings on an unit that I didn't mention?
6. After giving an order to a division, sometimes it stops in the middle of the battleground and does nothing. How to prevent this and remedy it if it happens?
7. Do mods prevent in-game achievements?
8. How do I get the staff trait with a general so he can lead 30 units?
9. TIA

I need to complain:
Even though I've played a lot of HOI4 (1000+ hours, I know some of you have way more, but still), I always have problems after balance changes and with new nations.

As someone who doesn't really engage with the community, I have a big problem: I have no idea how to design good units.
I understand the games systems, but the game gives you very limited abilities to compare your and your enemies capabilities, both through battle and through espionage.

For example: when I design a new tank / plane, I always go for the best possible stats, maybe configure for more armor or more speed. Then it turns out that my support AA rips them to shreds, and while my 5 tanks are great, my production can't keep up with attrition.

Naval warfare is even worse, because you can't rebuild your fleet on the fly.
Sure, I can somewhat predict that I need more range, radar, AA or depth charges, but how am I supposed to judge whether to use more guns or torpedoes, or if I need more armor or bigger guns?
Sure, I can see it once in battle, but then it is far too late.

What I propose is to upgrade the equipment comparison view:
Instead of only comparing old and new designs, make it possible to compare to enemy designs and show stats about penetration chance or spotting chance. Of course, only with sufficient intelligence.

What do you think about this? Am I stupid and overlooking the most obvious things?

Edit: I guess I need to take a closer look at the battle logs, but part of the problem is that I like to play "against all odds" runs, where I need to minmax to be able to survive long enough to be able to adapt. I feel like this change would give you more agency, but of course it needs to be balanced and tested.

We've all been there starting out and having little clue on how the game worked. Some came from Hoi3 and had at least a basic understanding of the mechanics and others like me saw Hoi4 somewhere and wanted to try it. I recently passed 2000 hours played and started looking back on how far I've come, when I started I thought the only way to capitulate a nation was to conquer their capitals in the order they appeared. Most frustratingly capping the soviets by figuring out how to naval land on Vladivostok. Another mistake I made very early on was not understanding capitulation and multiple majors. I remember early on being at war with the UK and it's subjects, I capped the UK and thought I had to keep conquering where ever their capital popped up in order to end the war with the UK, eg random invasions of islands and Africa.

What were your silly misunderstandings or mistakes when you started playing Hoi4?

Just wondering if anyone knows what's going on with these rainbow effect spots on the hoi4 map.

https://preview.redd.it/9la9sz7obe7e1.png?width=523&format=png&auto=webp&s=8b64b7f4c5e365fa956d1aac5ae3b7047bcd632c

cheers

Raven

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If possible would anyone want to hop in a discord call to guide me? Much thanks

Okay, after the new update naval invading UK is such a pain for me, idk if it's just that they're too strong, I am missing something or I'm just dumb. After my last run, when I successfully sunk half of the british fleet, and successfully performed naval invasion, I got, literally raped. Well, I advanced one province, and then, like a truck, I got hit with 15 divisions on one province. The year was 1941, and UK was communist so they lost alnost all of the colonies.