Why do I have different National ideas for my Roman Empire?
Rachel Hickman
Published May 07, 2026
According to the EU4 wiki I should expect the following National ideas:
But when I loaded up the game I found the following:
I understand that I should have the seven going from "Pax Romana" till "Imperium Sine Fine", but apparently I got the ideas of Bali.
Also, wiki states that:
If the average technological advances in the entire realm passes a certain point, the Empire's technology group will be Western instead of Eastern after transfer to EU4.
and I was quite surprised to find out that I was in the Muslim group:
Has the above ever happened to anyone else? What are the conditions that made this happen?
The following disclaimers apply:
- it was not an ironman game
- it was actually quite an heavy-console game played for fun and giggles (the roman empire controls all the available world in CK2 by year 1000, everyone is orthodox and italian, all provinces have maxed tech)
- I converted before the endgame date
- I converted before most of the territories got included as de-jure
1 Answer
After much searching around, I finally found a (partial) answer:
The empire was assigned the tag Z00 instead of the standard ROM, by reassigning the ideas in the "!_roman_ideas.txt" file to the Z00 tag (as suggested on the paradox forums) solved the issue.
I still do not get why this tag problem, but I suspect it has to do with me renaming the empire to "Imperium Romanun" at the beginning.