[MD] Ebby Tweaks

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🛠️ [MD] Ebby Tweaks

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A refinement mod for Millennium Dawn focused on tightening gameplay systems, improving AI behavior, and making key mechanics more consistent and player-driven.

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🧭 Overview

** Ebby Tweaks started as a set of personal adjustments and has grown into a full pass on many of Millennium Dawn’s weaker or inconsistent systems.

The goal is not to overhaul the mod, but to make it play better:

• systems behave more predictably

• AI makes more logical decisions

• player investment and preparation matter more than RNG

• mechanics that should matter actually do

This is a foundation mod. It improves how Millennium Dawn plays without changing what it is.

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⚙️ What This Mod Changes

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🧠 GENERAL

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• Increased base stored XP and command power cap to 9999

• Slightly increased divisional commander XP gain

• Removed mutual exclusivity between army and navy leaders

• Improved underperforming leader traits

• Reworked Air Cavalry XP gain (now based on unit composition instead of paradrop modifier)

• At 80% compliance, collaboration government replaced with direct core

• Increased overall impact of ideology

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🖥️ UI & COSMETIC

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• Expanded aircraft icons available in quick deploy

• Removed “hull type” from ship naming (cleaner variants)

• Expanded brigade-level division naming for all countries

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⚔️ WAR & PEACE

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• War reparations extended by +5 years

• Post-capitulation stabilizer idea:

  • AI ally join/call desire set to -10000

  • removed on peace

• AI favors annexation over puppeting

• Increased total peace conference points

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🤝 DIPLOMACY & TRADE

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• Increased volunteer and air volunteer caps

• Trade laws now reflect actual export percentages:

  • Consumption: 4% → 20%

  • Semi Consumption: 8% → 40%

  • Mixed: 12% → 50%

  • Export: 16% → 65%

  • Globalized: 20% → 80%

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✈️ AIR

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• Slight increase to ace generation chance

• Standardized all air wing sizes to 25

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🚢 NAVY

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• Greatly increased AI desire to build navies

• Carrier stacking adjusted (up to 5 per task force viable)

• All ships can use up to 10 dockyards

• Reduced carrier refit cost

• Carrier deck capacity increased (8 → 10)

• Slightly faster ship repairs

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🚀 MISSILES

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• Integrated faster missile production changes

• Fixed missile stat usage:

  • air_agility and air_defense now properly applied

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🕵️ ESPIONAGE

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• Increased intel gain from recon aircraft

• Increased passive and active decryption effectiveness

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🏭 PRODUCTION & CONSTRUCTION

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• Increased equipment production costs

• Significantly increased resource usage per factory

• Increased max efficiency (50 → 75)

• Improved air/naval equipment conversion

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🤖 AI

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• Increased AI priority on:

  • air superiority

  • fighter production

  • carrier aviation

• Increased AI production of:

  • heavy ships

  • carriers and LHAs

  • carrier aircraft

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🏭 MILITARY INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS (MIOs)

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• Expanded missile-focused MIOs for major nations

• Added functional generic missile MIO fallback

• Added naval-focused MIOs centered around carrier warfare

• Each MIO includes:

  • 5-tier upgrade paths

  • doctrine-based specialization

  • meaningful tradeoffs (cost vs performance)

• Fixed missing localization, icons, and empty trees

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🎯 RAID SYSTEM

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• Rebuilt success, failure, and disaster calculations across all raid types

• Standardized base chances:

  • All outcomes set to 10%

• Adjusted risk modifiers:

  • Low: 0 → 0.1

  • Medium: 0.1 → 0.2

  • High: 0.25 → 0.3

• Radar impact increased significantly

• Air defense importance increased (0.4 → 0.5)

• Interceptor impact increased (20% → 100%)

• Intel scaling improved:

  • 100% intel = +50% success chance

• Experience scaling improved

• Cruise missile adjustments:

  • reference reduced (200 → 150)

  • start_weight reduced (1 → 0.5)

• Fixed broken MD raid configs (weight/start_weight issues)

• Increased raid damage output

• Sanctions reworked:

  • Removed research penalty

  • Added:

    • -25% export revenue

    • -25% foreign investment return

Result: raids now reward preparation (radar, fighters, intel) instead of RNG.

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Updated for: MD v1.12 // HOI4 v1.17