Alright people, I'm delaying the release of the focustree version, because I need the Battle for Bosporus update in order to fix crucial stuff. Also I need more time to implement all the mechanics that I want in, especially the resistance mechanics, which are a pain to code, and I really dont have the time to sink myself into that, because I have my final exams in 1 week and in 1 month respectively which I direly need to pass, so I'm only making slow progress on IEA.

Yes that is possible, but gameplay-mechanics-wise, claims do pretty much nothing. Any ideas how to solve that? Maybe border conflicts? I mean... why die for Djibouti? (says France)

Would it be possible - cores may be excessive - for IEA to pursue claims on the surrounding colonies? Historically Djibouti and Somaliland were sought after to consolidate the grip on Ethiopia, as well as Italy having entertained thoughts on annexing parts of Kenya and Sudan as well. Of course, all you have described sounds very good as well, I am excited to see what comes of this.

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Right now i'm working on ironing out bugs and coding last bits of planned features.
Paradox is making me a bit antsy because with the new DLC, they change the map AGAIN which is surprisingly tedious to deal with as a modder. (but i like what they do to yugoslavia, so i approve of the map change)

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For multiplayer and shenanigans purposes, you can ask Mussolini to give you control over the entire Italian navy (so that the italy player does not have to deal with that).
I severely nerfed IEA's starting industry (because my whole server said it is OP a.f.), but it can be built back up using the italian corporations focuses.
Of course, the massacre of addis abeba will also be featured, as well as the General Nasi's and prince Amedeo's famous last stand. You will also be able to close the strait of Aden/Djibouti if you control that land on both sides (not possible in vanilla)

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First iteration of the tree will be historical only, but after that is done, i'll start doing ahistorical stuff to backstab italy and do some anti-imperialist pan-african stuff. For now, you can decide which direction your military will expand into, settle italian corporations to boost the economy of your newly acquired colony (italy WAY overspent of this historically, in 1937 even spending more on it than all of italy earned in that year, iirc). you can promote Idris Awate to general, who fought for IEA historically as an officer, both in ethiopia also as in WW2, and later on, after WW2, formed the eritrean independence movement and is still venered as a hero there.
You will be able to expand IEA's capacity enormously, getting a focus to urbanize aka to increase building slots via decisions.

I know the description says you will be replacing it with the focus tree version later on when the next DLC drops, but could you give us some kind of teaser for what it will include as a focus tree / events?

everything fixed :)

thank you very much for the bugreport. i think i know what the problem is. do you own together for victory?

please fix id love to play it out

im super bummed, i played a year inn and iea was never my puppet. also triumph in africa wouldnt bypass so icouldnt start down that side of the tree. great base though please improve. in general i love the idea and i think it would make italy more enjoyable to play