Heart of Iron 4 mod: Adding Industry and research branches

So this past week progress has been slowed down by me catching Covid but I still made progress this week.

So, I started fleshing out the focus tree more, partly by setting out the focuses so I can add the rewards and localisation in later and partly adding in the rewards for some of the focuses.

As I started going down the path that went into padding out the player’s industry I realised I was making the focus tree too linear, having most of the path locked behind the same few focuses meant they had to follow that path through every play through. So I decided to split the rearming and combat research on another tree similar to how they are in the vanilla game. This way it gives the player the option to add more military factories earlier in the game which will affect the number of civilian factories working on construction slowing down the player building queue but it allows them to stockpile equipment early on if they choose to.

I also added an industry tree that will be based on which ideology path the player has chosen. Each path will have slightly different effects and benefits to diversify the industry path slightly as the vanilla version remains the same regardless of ideology which considering having a focus with the name “royal ordnance factories” doesn’t quite make sense if the player has chosen to complete the focus “the fate of the royal family” and ousted them from the country.