I always found it odd how a game that has the lead up to WW2 doesn't have the League of Nations. Sure, it didn't do much, but this game also loves its Alt-History and it could be a fun challenge to make it work. I could see its use during war justifications, demanding of land in focus trees, etc where countries in it can choose how to react. The feature could be rebranded as the United Nations with more features like the security council being added which would allow for some Post-War content.

NOOOOOOOOOO but we haven't got the Tuvan focus tree yet in a £20 DLC!!!!!!

Adding the interwar period to the game timeline would open so many new possibilities

HOIV will release without HOI4 features, then they will add it as DLC

I agree with all the points. One extra I would want is more domestic politics. How to get your population to be more supportive of war or change ideology. Or an economy system if your economy fails maybe radical ideologies gain popularity.

Adding an actual economic system affecting the army and not just building 60 gazzillion divs

Especially like the idea of the flipped focus tree (actions determine foci, rather than as it is currently) Slightly bigger map would be shiny

I would like post-war content. Once ww2 ends, within a few months to a year, allied Germany invades allied Poland because it is repeating the focus tree it has. It would be nice if there was some mechanical ism to handle the world after the peace treaty.

I like the idea of actions determining the focus tree, and flexible focus trees. One of my earlier games, I was playing Finland (before rhe Nordic expansion) and I chose the fascist tree and allied with Germany and we were about to cap the Soviet Union when England invaded Yugoslavia and pushed up for Berlin in about 2 months ending the war in 1943. Finland became a puppet of the Soviet Union and we got a Communist government in the peace deal. I, being a roleplayer, decided to play the communist government, but I was still locked into the fascist tree. One of the focus I had taken early in the playthrough caused a growth in Fascist support. So even though I was a Soviet puppet, fascism grew until my government flipped back to fascist, while remaining a Soviet puppet. Not sure how that works. But no matter how things changed, I was locked into something that was not really appropriate anymore.

Navy: I want to be able to micro naval battles, I want design and operation of different ships to make sense to how it performs.

„Size isnt everything“ Thanks Hovelax, that really means a lot to me 🥺

I agree that the start date needs to be pushed back to 33. I think Paradox themselves are aware that the setting and political intrigue is a massive reason why Hoi4 managed to gain such interest. It would also enable more organic feeling alt-history paths.

Paradox player money milking spree must continue

My wishlist for HOI5 is quite simple. I just want the AI to be able to do more than just fill a frontline with divisions and wait until they get an arbitrary planning bonus before they attack. Imagine, a HOI5 frontline AI capable of... - Using the environnement (rivers, forets, mountain ranges) to establish fall back lines to which it can retreat - Keeping mobile reserves near the front to contain breakthroughs - Actually escaping encirclement by retreating from a pocket - Amassing tanks for a concentrated breakthrough and potentially an encirclement In such a game, you wouldn't have to give a country like France a massive (ahistorical) handicap to ensure their defeat in 1940. Instead, you could just make the French AI retarded (make France have no mobile reserves behind the front, so a German breakthrough could easily crush them).

As far as focus trees in the future go.. many mods have shown just how versatile and interesting focus trees could be, ranging from dynamic foci, hidden trees and even so far as to engage in various systems, some of which are unlocked by them, and paradox could easily learn from them without even dipping into other games.

Shadow factories that you can build that only come into play during war would be an interesting option. You build a civilian factory that cost more but spawns a mill when war is declared. The is what the UK did, subsidising civilian factories that can be converted to war production.

something id love in an ideal world is the ability to actually draw borders

We have focustrees of nations that didnt participate in any war. Yet nations like south africa, australia Raj and specially Belgium and Malaya have dating focustrees or none at all. I cant imagine HOI5 without any of these nations getting some form of love

As long as they don’t implement the war system from Vic3, I’ll be happy. I love Vic3 but I really don’t like how war was designed. I understand that war wasn’t the primary focus but it made Victoria 2 so much fun

What I would like to see, is the implementation of some of the lost mechanics from DH and Hoi3. The return of the cabinet system, the training of officers as a second pool of manpower, more in-depth diplomacy system and trade system, expanded tech tree similar to DH, a the reintroduction of the HQ system from Hoi3 but that last one is pushing it because I don't know how that would work, in a Hoi4 like system. Hoi4 is still "lacking" in the some that mechanical depth like Eu4 and Ck2 has.

I’m so happy someone said something about focus trees. When HoI4 first came out the focus trees were a good substitute for not having a fully developed diplomatic/political/character/intelligence system. But now it’s become a development obstacle to developing those systems (which are the ones I most want to see). We can’t have dynamic politics because politics are controlled by the focus tree, likewise for diplomatic. Focus trees basically would make a robust diplomacy system obsolete. We can’t make appeasement a gameplay mechanic because that part of the story is handled by the focus tree. Imagine having a dynamic political system inside Germany where Hitler hast to worry about keeping public support by fulfilling his campaign promises and keep Quality of life high. Imagine sending your diplomatic ministers to negotiate and how the negotiation goes is based on their diplomacy score. I would love for the focus tree to the series of historical missions that you go on by making your military/economy/diplomats do different things instead of just a series of buttons to click. Gosh I wanna make a video like this

If we push the atart date back, we should push it back to 1932. This is when FDR was elected. Changing the outcome of that election would be hugely impactful on any alt-history run.

1 thing I'd like to see is "passive research", say 1 slot you can't interact with and the AI randomly chooses something (like how citizens irl can come up with something then sell it to the government) but if you like what is being researched you could research it yourself for maybe a x2 research speed buff

HOI5: You have to buy each unit type and country while the game costs $70 and requires a subscription that's $30 a month.

2:12 Equestria at War mentioned, video is immediately peak

What I'd like to have in hoi5 are more expanded politics. More iedologies and subideologies. It'd actually matter which subideology you have and you could end up in some conflict with some other subideology within your main ideology. Also the ability to make a peace with country without the need to 100% capitulate them... There is already such mod that allows that in hoi4.

The two things i would like to see in HOI5 are expanded peace deal mechanics so that not every war ends in total capitulation, and a prisoner of war system, where divisions overrun or destroyed in encirclements have a portion of their manpower killed and the rest held in camps. If you liberate a tile with a camp in it that holds manpower from your nation you could then get a boost to your available manpower based on how many soldiers are being held in that camp. The only 2 things I potentially have a problem with that is suggested in this video is the extending of the end date to something like 1958 and the more open ended focus trees mentioned at the end of the video. Increasing end date content would mean that paradox HAS to address the fact that the game runs terribly post 1943 for a majority of people to bother playing this new endgame content. And I don’t really have a problem with the idea of open focus trees like EU4, but I only wonder how well they can be implemented when HOI4 has such a restrictive timeframe compared to paradox’s other games.

I have an idea, which may not be popular, and that is a map, that is globe, not just a map on table, but big circle.

I would like to see more focus on the internal politics of the country, and not just the goal of the game to conquer the territory. For example (job creation, unemployment, protests and so on.

Yes, a bigger map scale would be so much better. The pacific islands would actually be interesting to fight on and terrain would matter more, especially urban terrain because now you would fight on multipke urban tiles rather than one. Smaller countries like belgium or luxembourg would also be more enjoyable

Also civilian economy system that gives actual purpose to consumer goods to make people happy and not just number to remove civs

this was a great list! very thoughtful, especially the longer timeline that better sets up reconstruction and the cold war

I agree with everything here, but I agree especially with the focus tree section. I really want to see more modular focus trees, that would add so much more depth to the game.

Some compelling ideas here, I like it - probably the best ideas I have seen for a 'new version' of the game! Nice work, I look forward to the day we find out if you are correct in your predictions / Wish list!

i actually liked the approach of HOI3 with battalion level and from there combining and structuring armies.

I think that a revamped version of research and development where the gdp of the nation determines how much research points they have, and they can then be devoted to researching techs. Eg, investing 50 research points into tank research leads to new tank models being available after a period of time, with more points leading to it being researched quicker.

I hope they keep the frontline system. That's literally the only reason I play hoi4. My dumbass cannot control the troops in vic2 and etc

now this might not seem that important, but I would love if hoi5 had some kind of transitionary mechanic for stellaris, even though stellaris is far more fictional.

Offtopic but your voice is so soothing. It's a joy to hear it

A better white peace or truce system should be essential!

2:35 The problem with this is that it took them 8 years to make this amount of content for HOI4, god knows how long it would take them to do it for another game.

6:43 Map scale also affects 2 other very important things: Division speed, and combat width. Smaller tiles means lower combat widths which means lower combat width divisions must be used which gets hard to balance very quickly. Divisions with low width tend to have the problem of running out of strength before organization. This means you’re either going to have to pump out tons of smaller divisions that will just die on the frontline with no hope of ever being reinforced (because strength and organization can’t be regained during battle or while in reserve), or have to worry about divisions simply not being able to reinforce a tile quickly enough because you can only fit two divisions in the combat. Smaller tiles also mean divisions of the same speed will traverse them much more quickly than on a larger tile. This isn’t much but it’ll make microing units much more difficult along with the larger frontline.

no tiles, no national focuses, no scripts. separated map for underground resistance as it is for planes and ships. Artillery shells which would be counted and produced like oil

They need to add more tiles and increase map size, but what they should really do is instead of a flat world map they should make it a globe view.

I have some ideas for HOI5: - a proper replay UI where you can analyze and rewatch the playthrough, with stats about wars and such. So many games lack this and its so frustrating if you want to document what you did. - a peace deal system with more options, such as making proper occupation zones, annexations being restricted to cores and claims, negotiated peace, armistices, etc - civilian casualties. Yes i said it. If paradox doesnt have the stones to adress war crimes at all, they shouldnt have made a game about the war that probably included more of them than all other wars combined. World war games *should* be grimdark, violent and depressing, because that was how that time period was. That war was bad to the point where the self-declared good guys thought firebombing hospitals and using delayed timer bombs to blow up firefighters was a war winning strategy, and they endet up being right, so that should be pretty telling of what a dark time that was. HOI4 is just too damn colorful for a time where in a single decade 100 million people were murdered. - add a war economy and mobilization system. Currently, you never have an incentive to demobilize after a war. This is just not accurate, war economies are expensive and ruin countries in the long run, the extended maintenance of a full war economy was what killed the ww1 german empire and the cold war soviet union. Honestly the Great War Redux mod kind of gets it, but its bound by the mechanics of hoi4. - cut back on the unneccessary fat that hoi4 accumulated. There doesnt need to be a designer for every kind of equipment, nationally unique tech trees wouldve been sufficient. The system of upgrading the spy agency is absolute hell, tedious and frankly offensive. This couldve been streamlined and relegated to the decisions tab. Army/navy/air force XP should be cut alltogether, im fact, political power too. - extend the timeline. It should run from 1912 to 2000. This would be perfectly achievable if they werent so focused on being faux PC hack frauds. - for fucks sake, rework nukes. The AI should use them only in the last resort, and there should be a MAD-type system where another nuclear power *will* nuke back if nuked. There should be a more transparent way to see the other country's nuke stockpile, and a way to mount them on missiles to negate enemy air superiority. - add alternate history techs like zeppelin battleships, floating fortresses, land cruisers. None of these are realistic for the time but they really are cool.

I just want a world map with an Arctic Ocean and normal continent shapes. The top of alaska shouldnt be missing

Yea and they still need to update like half of the countries so they won't drop it anytime soon. The main problem is the price. Their model keeps getting worse and that's why they are having issues.

I think the biggest thing is negotiated peace. At the moment it is a redundant option that never works. But when you get in a situation where one side has conquered half the world but needs one last province to cause a surrender it’s a bit silly. Same when the war becomes a stalemate and neither side can make any progress. Surely war weariness would eventually cause internal conflict

I really don't want agencies / spy mechanics in HoI 5 to be honest. Or at least give us more options to turn off features we do and don't want.

Only thing we need is focus tree for Belgium, Peru and Thailand.

one thing i would to be implemented is for cores to be more dynamic. Maybe they could add the culture mechanic from other paradox games and cores are based off that. it kinda sucks that you get cores based on events or focuses. it just sorta ruins the immersion.

Id really like to see the addition of underground factories, fortress networks... something of that nature, that could really add to the depth and difficulty. Maybe Tech facilities or location you can build and have to defend like a Peenemunde or shared tank design factories in Russia that shared with Germany early on.

I mean, Vicky 3 has already proven what will happen: Hoi5 will release as a barebone mess to be patched as a premium afterwards. So the game releases as husk, and after one or two years and 50$ of DLCs maybe there will be some actual content in it. That's the business model by now, it's ridiculous to expect anything else

Major things id like to see a revamp of ww2 adding more onto the base. A 1910-1914 start date and a 1945 start date for cold war

My only wish is that they release a full game this time. HoI4 came out as a glorified demo, and it eventually became totally unplayable without DLCs. I don't want to see that happen again.

Well first things first, add minor focus trees on nations that actually partook in the war, like is it so hard to put a similar focus tree like the Baltics to South East Asian Nations? What the hell paradox? I've been waiting for the Philippines, Indonesian, Thailand, Malaysian, and Vietnam focus trees, so apparently one of the major theatres of WW2 should just be forgotten and be given the most generic ass focus trees while they are busy adding Mr. Cornelius who is politically irrelevant in WW2 start overthrowing and putting a Monarchical-Communist hybrid government in power to oompa loompa ville. Like ffs Paradox give us the Southeast Asian DLC!

Seaports should sometimes have a max level of less than 10 in very cold environments. For example, if building a seaport on the Hudson Bay, which due to ice in the Hudson Strait most of the year was open to large merchant ships from other continents only in August and September and October, the seaport should not be allowed to advance beyond a level 3 seaport. Also, the resource system has a too discrete feel, rather than a continuous feel, and also copper should be added as a resource, for ship propellers and for electrical wiring in warships and for electrical wiring in medium and large airframes. Regarding a too discrete feel for the resource system, a 0 to 12 system should be used instead of a 0 to 8 system. Resource requirements for factories can initially be multiplied by 3/2 (with for example a basic infantry equipment factory needing 3 steel instead of 2 steel), resource locations can have their resources multiplied by 3/2, and civilian factories can buy 12 at a time of a resource rather than 8 at a time, and 0% production can happen when a factory is short by 25 or more of a resource rather than being short by 20 or more of a resource. Short version: Seaports in areas that are frozen in for most of the year should have a maximum seaport level that is less than 10. Also, the resource system needs to have a more continuous feel, and copper should be added as a resource.

Germany DLC no other country would anyone want a major rework than Deutschland for das fatherland

Since 3D character models and maps are a thing in Paradox Interactive games, you can bet that Hearts of Iron V would have them and resemble Crusader Kings III/Victoria 3. The same applies to submods like Kaiserreich and TNO as well.

All my suggestions about HOI V: FIRST AND ABOVE ALL - USING AS MANY PROCESSOR CORES AS THIS GAME NEEDS No more provinces-states 1. GDP/Budget system at some level 2. Reworked naval warfare, deathstack battles is still a thing 3. Possibility to modify captured ships 4. Possibility to have multiple doctrines - you can choose what doctrine your divisions / generals / army groups use 5. Possibility to control batallions in divisions of you scale up the map, also expansion of support companies 6. Improved multiplayer so there will be much less desyncs that leads to a possibility to have more people on big nations to play a full rp/semihistorical game with generals ministers heads of the state 7. Extended government system, that shit that we have now worse than Vicky 3's system 8. Improved convoy system 9. Using more than one processor please pdx I'm tired of lagging not cause my PC bad but cause engine is trash 10. Merging MIO's and obtaining new ones by conquering countries, Škoda, for example, was integrated into Reichswerke Hermann Göring 11. Supply improvements: storing supplies in depots (example - Italy's ethiopian front in WW2), supply spread from railroads/roads, level of roads (Barbarossa autumn was stopped due to extreme extent of supply chains and roads that turned into mud) 12. Artillery preliminary bombardment 13. Proper resistance mechanics, I mean improved intelligence agency, it's trash and you need it only for two things - stealing blueprints from Canada in MP game and collab government 14. Infantry squad designer 15. Germany's wunderwaffe projects (will be a thing in a new DLC I suppose) 16. Reserve soldiers, I mean when you delete an air wing it's experience goes nowhere as well as infantry division and ship's crew 17. General's/Fieldmarchal's traits and amount of divisions you can apply to them reworked, it's questionable how commander of a division can jump straight into commanding of 24/30 divisions 18. Reworked stat stacking, it's braindead that you can stack bonuses on top of each other and have x5-x10 stats. I suggest to make some of them additive instead of multiplicative 19. Gun caliber separation, I mean heavy/regular/pack artillery/anti-air/anti-tank 20. Proper paratrooper mechanics (it's shit now) 21. Rocket interceptors rework 22. Reworked construction (completely), can u imagine that 15 factories are working to build a port on an unlinked state? 23. Remote supply from local factories / farms (rations mechanics), also improvements to air supplying 24. Supplying through lake/frozen lakes (road of life) and possibility to have ports in Caspian sea 25. Reworked production 26. Sweden for Germany have no purpose cause instead of raw iron Germany have steel. From where?! Addition of metal refineries and raw resources (bauxites, hematite, chromites, COAL, etc). 27. Energy consumption I want more immersion in the game, I want it to be much harder

Something I would add to your point about appeasement is making wars less total. Many of the recent updates have already started to explore this with being able to white-peace the Soviets as Finland in the Winter War and the Peruvian-Ecuatorian War. This has definitely been said so much by now but I find it stupid how because the Soviets declared war on me as Romania, I now have to go all the way to Moscow to be able to bring the Soviets to the negotiating table. It’d make more sense that whenever you start an offensive war against a minor nation you’re on a timer, if you take too long to end said war, or take too many casualties (this is another point one could get into, about casualties being completely inconsequential) then the enemy has the chance to offer a peace. Depending on how badly the offensive side performed they could push for some harsher punishments. Such as war reparations, or the demilitarisation of the border.

I like your ideas, something i like to see would be a return of features from HoI3 like some sort of chain of command that ties into organisation. I dont need the brigade level of detail that hoi3 has, but actually having individual, "physical" headquaters that cause loss of organisation of subordinate unites if captured/destroyed through decapitation strikes and alike would be nice. Also it doesn't need to have micromanagement requirements of hoi3, dynamically moving with the frontline, mostly setting up in victory points or something like that. Also I'd wish for a more economy focussed war that we have in Victoria. Heavy machinery, factories and such is a huge part of a war and id like to see a better (also localised production) impact representation in hoi

I think if they lean into alt history like they did with IV, they need to make the game more playable when historic is turned off, so the AI can reliably navigate the alt history trees in a reasonable time, and group up into large factions so world wars reliably happen.

a hoi5 game would make the army a dlc

i had this video on a loop all night long oops

Might as well make the start date September 1929 then. This is when the Great Depression began, so if you choose your path well and lead your nation through the rough times, you could become the next great power (i.e., think H!tler). Choose other paths, and it could lead to alternate history, aligning itself to other ideology (i.e., think Kaiser, Lenin, Chamberlain, etc).

Another idea I have for alternate history paths in hoi5 is the idea of some being selectable before the game begins. For example, instead of Germanys democratic and communists paths being caused by some super unrealistic short civil war, why not have ot be that X side actually won the 33 election. So you are Communist or Democratic at the very start of the game. Not all alt-history paths need to be like this though. But one version of this that would be really cool would be a Monarchist or Capitalist Republic Russia at day 1 (what if the bolsheviks lost the civil war)

i kinda don't want hoi 5 just yet, i would prefer that they clean up hoi4 a bit first, becousse i do not want hoi5 to go the victoria III route

Minimaps for cities - that i was proposing to add. Taking city is too fast compared to real fights.

it would be ridiculously difficult for paradox to remove focus trees (or do earlier start dates), imo. that's essentially like the ck3 style of sandbox approach, which is somewhat controversial. it would become a feature question of how much the game should be sandbox-like versus being a representation of ww2.

7:01 taking paris as one random tile is pretty much historical though

I had the same idea (like everyone else) but If you expand the length of the game even just by 5 years you’ll have to make the economics way more complex and difficult to manage else countries will snowball even more than they currently do and it’ll be pretty immersion braking. The issue with making the economy more complex is the fact that this isn’t Victoria 2 it’s a war game

Knowing that Vicky 3 had spheres of influence as part of an entire DLC, paradox will probably make the division template designer as part of a full price DLC. And probably mess up the combat system and make it more hands-off like what they did with Vicky 3.

Crusader Kings II, Europa Unerversalis IV, and Vic 3 were all made more than 10 years ago and that's why they're getting next gens. Hoi4 4 is only 8 years old and holds up much better than those other games did so it's likely we won't see Hoi5 until 2026 at least

You Sir, are an absolute genius.

I would definetely want to see HOI expand to consoles as a mostly console player.

I agree with the map point, especially given how there isn’t really anything remotely like the American island hopping campaigns

All the features in hoi4 with all DLC at base game release as a minimal. That’s my standard

In the means of states and borders I would like to see a combination between Vicky 3 and eu4 tile system, having split states but also having the capability to choose which provinces you want in a peace deal. Maybe it would be hard to develop, but the sole idea of not depending on states for a peace deal is intriguing.

Mate what a video! Firstly, your animaton and editing on this one is so good On your points, I agree with all of them! Having the majority of features being brought across to Hoi5 would also be a huge incentive for people to buy it and get into it. So many people still lack a lot of the DLCs, and buying them all at full price can be over 100$ easy even with sales. But compare that to buying a new game with most of the features included can be a huge initial boost to player count for PDX and ensure that Hoi5 has a long life like it's predecessor Expanding the timelines is a great idea, I think that being able to have more play before WW2 would be super fun, once you get to 1942-44 most nations get so strong and bloated that wars drag on so much. Having some kind of demilitarisation feature would make the game way more enjoyable, maybe even limit the number of divisions to some multiplier of world tension, war support and ideology? Map scale: I love this so much, especially in the larger cities which had famous extended battles like Stalingrad, Berlin, Kyiv or Singapore. It would be more dynamic and tactical to be able to fight battles in terrains like this. With the VPs you get more/less control depending on how much of the city you control MP priority: I am all for this so long as it's not at the detriment of the singleplayer experience, which is an unfortunate trend other games seem to take Focus trees: I actually agree with you on this! One thing I love is player agency and creativity being able to be explored. Being able to start a run as a particular idology then pivot to another late on is a must have in the next game for me A couple of other ideas I would love to see: - More options for the kind of proxy wars and clandestine operations which had set objectives beyond just taking territory. Volunteers exist of course, but I would love an expansion of this, and also ways to have smaller scale wars take place without it always escalating into a wider conflict. Think Vietnam war or Malayan Conflict. And in terms of the operations, things such as commando raids or smaller scale invasions for the purpose of destroying facilities or other things which have an affect on the wider war - More freedom in the peace deals. I would love to be able to create fully unique puppet states from scratch, or at the very least, be able to give land to a puppet I create in a peace deal beyond what is their core territory. Again this goes back to player freedom and creativity! Awesome video mate, hope PDX sees it and takes some ideas on board!

I would love to see more localization and a full map projection. Why cut off the map in the north and south?

Map Size increase and OOB should return to HoI3 with the improved HoI4 Interface. You still manage primarily Divisions, but the Battalions will order themselves appropriately according to what's in them. The dream, would be that Historical Divisions should be achievable, and Divisions displayed on map appropriately according to Doctrine.

A November 11th 1932 start date would allow for great althist paths

We definitely do not need a hoi5 for at least another 4 or 5 years. It still very much holds u in the modern day and if hoi5 released within the next couple years, everyone would just stay on hoi4 anyway because hoi5 would be quite different

About map scale: I will implement mechanics for "city siege". Now we have plans, and we just click one button aaaaand BOOM we won the campaign. But cities like Leningrad, Stalingrad, Moscow, Berlin or Warsaw are their own campaing, not just province with "big city terrain". They should have loupe near it, and armies should capture big cities, district by district. Imagine Warsaw Uprising in a close up city map with 20 districts? Imagine Stalingrad siege with historical clash in tractor production hall? Imagine special scenario in "endsieg", starting with succesfully defending Berlin in 1945? Would be amazing.

A 1929 start date could be even better as the 1929 economic crisis is assumed to be one of the main trigger of WW2. It could allow to explore the reactions and the constraints this crisis generated across the globe.

I love your ideas. I also would like to see every Bundesland (state) independently in germany.

I would love to see 2 scenarios a ww2 obviously and extended as said but also a like 1910 or earlier option. I know there is the Great War mod but it would be cool to see in base game

Hoi4 still has a bunch of good years left in it I don't think it's about time we start talking about Hoi5

Hoi5 that’s exactly the same as hoi4 with more detailed map (with maybe more details in making infantry divisions + adding brigades as independent units) so they can continue adding on the present content

All good stuff, but I think my #1 wish for Hoi5 (even Hoi4 still) is the ability to peace out without total victory and unconditional surrender. The inability to peace out can turn many games an unfun slog to finish, especially when having to defeat the late game Allies. With how peace scoring works in Hoi4, there could be limited / conditional surrenders implemented like in EU4. I would also appreciate being able to form nations without controlling EVERY province required. I should be able to form Rome if I own literally all of Europe but someone else snagged Gibraltar in the peace deal. Again, this makes many games turn into a world conquest since formable nations are often split between multiple factions. If you combine that with the limited peace deals, it could make formable nations much more fun and reasonable to achieve.

I also hate focus trees. Makes the game too strict and boring without them.

I think Paradox should look at the mods (black ice, Kaiserreich, etc) and incorporate some of their best ideas (and throw them some profit sharing for keeping players engaged for a decade or more) and incorporate those ideas into HOIV. HOI4 has some good functions built into engine now, keep them. Have a menu to choose how you want to play using features and research from the mods. Check a box in start up to add black ice like features for instance. I'd love to see doctrines actually effect division building or ship and aircraft design. The US building 5x5 space marine divisions is just silly since they were, by doctrine, 3x3 with support historically. Some functions from Strategic Command are good: research is based on resource allocation and not on 'slots' . Slots are good but some ability to pay for increased speed would be nice. Like one point is standard but you can apply and extra one or two for some sort of additional cost. Spies could use some love. Having them based on civ factories is a bit odd - they should be under production because they are generally an arm of the military. Build spies and assign them around the world or to decryption or sabotage or whatever just like a military unit.

honestly amazing ideas

I really hope most of your ideas are implemented, or at least 6 major ideas are implemented

How about make it so you can have a unified command instead of a bunch of minor armies chaotically running around doing nothing but sucking up supply. This goes for aircraft as well.

Give option to make letters bigger. We have huge screens but tiny letters

Time flies

I think it would be cool if there was a feature where you could go into your battles and expand the cities and control officers which could add a system for more in depth battles and it would be way cooler without having to remake the entire map

I agree with all your points and feel like they also be applied to project ceaser as well (the appeasement time political shenanigans taken as more options to negotiate what you want instead of needing to always resort to war). Paradox has already adressed some of them but I feel like especially multiplayer needs to get more love in Paradox titles in general!