Seeing how there were already cery cosmetic DLCs such as advisor portraits, ship models, national monuments etc. I will suggest one more idea:
optional replacing loading screen tips with historical quotes fitting the game's atmosphere.
I have created a mod doing exactly that and so far it has 2500+ downloads. It seems there are people who agree with my opinion that once you know most of game mechanics and tips become very obvious, you would prefer to contemplate cool quotes and thoughts on a loadingscreen.
It would also require minimum amount of work - all I did was scaling down font (works fine for 90% of quotes, few go a bit outside of frame) and adding following quotes in my mod you, Paradox, can obviously use in such DLC
optional replacing loading screen tips with historical quotes fitting the game's atmosphere.
I have created a mod doing exactly that and so far it has 2500+ downloads. It seems there are people who agree with my opinion that once you know most of game mechanics and tips become very obvious, you would prefer to contemplate cool quotes and thoughts on a loadingscreen.
It would also require minimum amount of work - all I did was scaling down font (works fine for 90% of quotes, few go a bit outside of frame) and adding following quotes in my mod you, Paradox, can obviously use in such DLC
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LOADING_TIP_0: "How smooth must be the language of the 'civilized' people, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.\nBlack Hawk"
LOADING_TIP_1: "White brother, you say there is but one way to worship and serve the Great Spirit.\n If there is but one religion, why do you white people differ so much about it?\nWhy not all agreed, as you can all read the Book? - Sogoyewapha"
LOADING_TIP_2: "What experience and history teach is this — that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.\nGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel"
LOADING_TIP_3: "Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die!\nMustafa Kemal Ataturk on the battlefield"
LOADING_TIP_4: "War is a highly planned and cooperative form of theft.\nJacob Bronowski"
LOADING_TIP_5: "Never think that war, no matter how necessary, no matter how justified, is not a crime.\nErnest Hemingway"
LOADING_TIP_6: "Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.\nBertrand Russel"
LOADING_TIP_7: "As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination.\nWhen it is looked upon as disgusting, it will cease to be popular. - Oscar Wilde"
LOADING_TIP_8: "You can build a trone with bayonets but you can't sit for long on it.\nBoris Yeltsin"
LOADING_TIP_9: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.\nSamuel Johnson"
LOADING_TIP_10: "The ink of scholars is weighed on the Day of Judgement with the blood of martyrs and the ink of scholars outweighs the blood of martyrs.\nMuhammad"
LOADING_TIP_11: "The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture for wild beasts to fight in.\nVoltaire"
LOADING_TIP_12: "It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.\nVoltaire"
LOADING_TIP_13: "From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared. Since love and fear can hardly exist together,\nit is far safer to be feared than loved. - Niccolo Machiavelli"
LOADING_TIP_14: "Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.\nUesugi Kenshin"
LOADING_TIP_15: "Alas! I have civilized my own subjects; I have conquered other nations.\n Yet I have not been able to civilize or to conquer myself. - Peter the Great of Russia"
LOADING_TIP_16: "If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another...\nI would not propose it to my prince, because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French. - Montesquieu"
LOADING_TIP_17: "Discipline is the art of inspiring the soldiers with greater fear of their officers than of the enemy.\nBut this fear cannot prevail against valor of people animated by patriotism. - Helvetius"
LOADING_TIP_18: "Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.\nCatherine the Great"
LOADING_TIP_19: "One cannot think that blind bravery gives victory over the enemy.\nAlexander Suvorov"
LOADING_TIP_20: "I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.\nJohn Adams"
LOADING_TIP_21: "The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.\nCarl von Clausewitz"
LOADING_TIP_22: "War is too much a serious thing to be left to military men.\nCharles-Maurice de Talleyrand"
LOADING_TIP_23: "About Partition of Poland, the Empress Catherine and I are honest robbers.\nBut Maria Theresa cried when she took land; the more she cried, the more she took! - Frederick II the Great"
LOADING_TIP_24: "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.\nAnd if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche"
LOADING_TIP_25: "Ultima Ratio Regum. (The final argument of kings.)\n Inscription on French cannons, by order of Louis XIV"
LOADING_TIP_26: "Make your enemy believe that there is a road to safety, and thus prevent his fighting with the power of despair.\nAnd when he tries to escape, you may crush him. - Sun Tzu"
LOADING_TIP_27: "When a white army battles Indians and wins, it is called a great victory, but if they lose it is called a massacre.\n Chiksika"
LOADING_TIP_28: "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.\nArthur Schopenhauer"
LOADING_TIP_29: "In victory, you deserve champagne; in defeat, you need it.\nNapoleon Bonaparte"
LOADING_TIP_30: "Men should either be treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injures - for heavy ones they cannot.\nNiccolo Machiavelli"
LOADING_TIP_31: "We went there to serve God, and also to get rich.\nBernal Diaz del Castillo"
LOADING_TIP_32: "Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.\nScottish proverb"
LOADING_TIP_33: "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, you should first dig two graves.\nConfucius"
LOADING_TIP_34: "It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.\nVoltaire"
LOADING_TIP_35: "Any soldier worth his salt should be anti war. And there are still things worth fighting for.\nGeneral Norman Schwarzkopf"
LOADING_TIP_36: "Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.\nVaclav Havel"
LOADING_TIP_37: "Bravery is to defend yourself from another, and the humanity is to defend the other from yourself.\nMarko Miljanov"
LOADING_TIP_38: "History can predict nothing, except that great changes in human relationship will never come about\nin the form in which they have been anticipated. - Johann Huizinga"
LOADING_TIP_39: "A single general achieves fame on the rotting bones of ten thousand.\nTsao Sung"
LOADING_TIP_40: "Be cheerful while you are alive.\nPtanhotep"
LOADING_TIP_41: "Death, go somewhere, get lost! I'm not done as yet, as Joy still flows\nfrom the amphora of colors into my cupped hands. - Abdul Ghani Khan"
LOADING_TIP_42: "The sun will shine on those who stand, before it shines on those who kneel under them.\nChinua Achebe"
LOADING_TIP_43: "A person doesn't die when he should, but when he can.\nGabriel Garcia Marquez"
LOADING_TIP_44: "A person who has no enemies is not a human being.\nUtendi wa Tambuka"
LOADING_TIP_45: "I am no pirate or robber - my name is Sin Samudr, and I am the son of Phra Abhai, a scion of kings!\nAnd I am on a journey through the sea - do you wish to live, or die? - Sunthorn Phu"
LOADING_TIP_46: "Emergencies are necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp,\nthe fog that produced the compass, the hunger that drove us to exploration. ― Victor Hugo"
LOADING_TIP_47: "You can outrun what is running after you, but not what is running inside of you.\nRwandan proverb"
LOADING_TIP_48: "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.\nThomas Jefferson"
LOADING_TIP_49: "Have courage to use your own understanding! – that is the motto of Enlightenment.\nImmanuel Kant"
LOADING_TIP_50: "He is still alive because he cannot afford a funeral.\nPersian proverb"
LOADING_TIP_51: "When future generations look back to my time, it will probably be similar to how I now think of the past.\nWang Xizhi, 361 AD"
LOADING_TIP_52: "While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.\nLeonardo Da Vinci"
LOADING_TIP_53: "Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.\nTheodore Roosevelt"
LOADING_TIP_54: "People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.\nMarguerite de Navarre"
LOADING_TIP_55: "In Borgia Italy they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced the Renaissance.\nSwiss had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. - Orson Welles"
LOADING_TIP_56: "I shall Authorize and give up my Right of Governing my selfe, to that Leviathan\n or of that Mortal God of Government, to which we owe our peace and defence. - Thomas Hobbes"
LOADING_TIP_57: "The instinct of conventionality, horror of uncertainty, and vested interests,\nall militate against the acceptance of a new idea. - Bertrand Russell"
LOADING_TIP_58: "The object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.\nGeorge Orwell"
LOADING_TIP_59: "There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages,\nand to magnify the evils, of the present times. - Gibbon"
LOADING_TIP_60: "Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.\nTolstoy"
LOADING_TIP_61: "I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.\nLouis XIV"
LOADING_TIP_62: "Let justice be done, though the world perish.\nFerdinand I"
LOADING_TIP_63: "Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.\nCharles V"
LOADING_TIP_64: "Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it,\nthe Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry - Elizabeth I"
LOADING_TIP_65: "History has been too often a picture of the bloody river. The history of civilization is a record of what happened on the banks.\nWill Durant"
LOADING_TIP_66: "We, soldiers, all have one Sister guarding our craft - it is Death, hitting down those pointed by the God Himself.\nJozef Pilsudski"
LOADING_TIP_67: "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.\nCardinal Richelieu"
LOADING_TIP_68: "Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.\nIbn Battuta"
LOADING_TIP_69: "The person who asks for little deserves nothing.\nMexican proverb"
LOADING_TIP_70: "We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.\nHumphrey Gilbert"
LOADING_TIP_71: "The excessively kind-hearted person becomes a slave.\nBurmese proverb"
LOADING_TIP_72: "A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.\nFrederick the Great"
LOADING_TIP_73: "Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.\nFrederick the Great"
LOADING_TIP_74: "I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king,\and of a king of England too. - Elizabeth I"
LOADING_TIP_75: "There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.\nLouis XIV"
LOADING_TIP_76: "Doesn't God Himself give humans different religious beliefs, wishing to receive praises in various ways?\nThomas Moore"
LOADING_TIP_77: "British officer: You French fight for money, while we British fight for honor.\nAnswer of Robert Surcouf, French corsair: Sir, a man fights for what he lacks the most."
LOADING_TIP_78: "Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard\n before starting a war - Otto von Bismarck"
LOADING_TIP_79: "As there is but one God in heaven, so should there be but one ruler on earth.\nTamerlane"
LOADING_TIP_80: "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.\nBhagavad Gita"
LOADING_TIP_81: "Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.\n William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar"
LOADING_TIP_82: "German Kaiser: What a militia of half a million Swiss men would do if he invaded with an army of a million Germans?\nAnswer of Swiss diplomat: Shoot twice and go home."
LOADING_TIP_83: "He who wants to be an eagle can fly, he who wants to be a worm can drag himself on the floor,\nbut he should not scream when he is stepped on. - Emiliano Zapata"
LOADING_TIP_84: "A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay\nSimon Bolivar"
LOADING_TIP_85: "Extreme justice is an extreme injury as are those terrible laws that make the smallest offences capital,\nGod has commanded us not to kill, and shall we kill so easily? - Thomas More"
LOADING_TIP_86: "The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to procure the largest quantity of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.\nJean-Baptiste Colbert"
LOADING_TIP_87: "Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.\nThomas Malthus"
LOADING_TIP_88: "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse.\nJohn Stuart Mill"
LOADING_TIP_89: "He will have true glory who despises it.\nLivy"
LOADING_TIP_90: "We shall count them after we beat them.\nJan Karol Chodkiewicz, general"
LOADING_TIP_91: "The constellations this year seem unfavourable to rebels.\nCesare Borgia"
LOADING_TIP_92: "I'd rather betray the whole world than have the world betray me!\nCao Cao, Chinese general"
LOADING_TIP_93: "Cruelty is the power of the cowards\nPersian proverb"
LOADING_TIP_94: "Give her the dick\nRene Descartes, French baroque philosopher"
LOADING_TIP_95: "Politics is when you promise to do one thing, while intending to do another,\then do neither what you promised nor what you intended.\nSaddam Hussein"
LOADING_TIP_96: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.\nMao Zedong"
LOADING_TIP_97: "This shall from now on be my music.\nKarl XII of Sweden, on the first time he heard the sound of a musket volley"
LOADING_TIP_98: "I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but to end all just ones with my victory.\nKarl XII of Sweden"
LOADING_TIP_99: "I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women,\nFrench to men, and German to my horse.\nCharles V"
LOADING_TIP_100: "A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.\nNapoleon Bonaparte"
LOADING_TIP_101: "The most ferocious beast knows pity;\nI do not, and therefore am I not a beast\nShakespeare, Richard III"
LOADING_TIP_102: "Fuck their mom, hit 'em hard!\nYuan Chonghuan, Chinese general (1584-1630)"
LOADING_TIP_103: "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.\nThe last words of Union General John Sedgwick before being killed"
LOADING_TIP_104: "You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.\nDavy Crockett, American soldier and politician"
LOADING_TIP_105: "My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack\nMarshal Ferdinand Foch"
LOADING_TIP_106: "It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.\nMark Twain"
LOADING_TIP_107: "I come in peace, I didn't bring artillery.But I am pleading with you with tears in my eyes:\nIf you fuck with me, I'll kill you all.\nGeneral James Mattis"
LOADING_TIP_108: "The Marines have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale,\n and the lowest morals of any animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the Marine Corps!\nEleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the USA"
LOADING_TIP_109: "I hate luxury and exercise moderation. It's easy to forget your purpose once you have fine clothes,\n fast horses and beautiful women. Then you will be no better than a slave, and you will lose everything.\nGenghis Khan"
LOADING_TIP_110: "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere,\ndiagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.\nGroucho Marx"
LOADING_TIP_111: "To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.\nCharles de Montesquieu"
LOADING_TIP_112: "Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some\nuseful hints for the better ordering of the universe.\nAlfonso X, King of Castile"
LOADING_TIP_113: "Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because\neven your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.\nAhmad ibn Taymiyyah"
LOADING_TIP_114: "This agglomeration which still calls itself\nthe Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.\nVoltaire"
LOADING_TIP_115: "And them that take the sword shall perish by the sword.\nThe Bible, Matthew"
LOADING_TIP_116: "It is not the strongest of the species that survive,\nbut the one most responsive to change.\nCharles Darwin"
LOADING_TIP_117: "Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?\nPope Julius III"
LOADING_TIP_118: "The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of empires has come.\nJoseph Chamberlain"
LOADING_TIP_119: "Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first, best country ever is, at home.\nOliver Goldsmith"
LOADING_TIP_120: "The true test of civilization is, not the census,nor the size of\ncities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.\nRalph Waldo Emerson"
LOADING_TIP_121: "The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.\nEugene McCarthy"
LOADING_TIP_122: "Do not wait to strike 'til the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.\nWilliam Butler Yeats"
LOADING_TIP_123: "If you become a prince and I become a prince then who rides the donkeys?\nArabian proverb"
LOADING_TIP_124: "A single blow of a blacksmith is equal to a hundred blows of a goldsmith.\nIndian proverb"
LOADING_TIP_125: "As to what happened next, it is possible to maintain that the hand of heaven was involved,\nand also possible to say that when men are desperate no one can stand up to them.\nXenophon"
LOADING_TIP_126: "Diversity in counsel, unity in command.\nCyrus the Great, statement summarizing the reasons for his successes"
LOADING_TIP_127: "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.\nFyodor Dostoyevski"
LOADING_TIP_128: "I've burned my own house down, the torch is in my hand.\nNow I'll burn down the house of anyone who wants to follow me.\nKabir"
LOADING_TIP_129: "Optimism is true moral courage.\nErnest Shackleton, explorer"
LOADING_TIP_130: "It is lack of confidence, more than anything else, that kills a civilisation.\nWe can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.\nKenneth Clark"
LOADING_TIP_131: "The great man is the one who does not lose his child’s heart.\nMenzi"
LOADING_TIP_132: "As to what happened next, it is possible to maintain that the hand of heaven was involved,\nand also possible to say that when men are desperate no one can stand up to them.\nXenophon"
LOADING_TIP_134: "Diversity in counsel, unity in command.\nCyrus the Great, statement summarizing the reasons for his successes"
LOADING_TIP_135: "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.\nDostoyevski"
LOADING_TIP_136: "As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted,\nthe cause for doubting one's own right is laid.\nAdolf Hitler"
LOADING_TIP_137: "Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God,\nsince the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.\nAlcuin, medieval scholar"
LOADING_TIP_138: "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane\nby those who could not hear the music.\nFriedrich Nietzsche"
LOADING_TIP_139: "Now, now my good friend, this is no time for making enemies.\nVoltaire, asked by a priest on a deathbed to renounce Satan."
LOADING_TIP_140: "Well, now I must go to meet God and try to explain all those men I killed.\nLast words of general Bernard Montgomery."
LOADING_TIP_141: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.\nJohn Bradshaw"
LOADING_TIP_142: "We must judge of a form of government by its general tendency,\n not by happy accidents.\nThomas Babington Macaulay"
LOADING_TIP_143: "You cannot see the future with tears in your eyes.\nNavajo proverb"
LOADING_TIP_144: "Surrender before you all die by the sword,\nfor I do not wish you to perish.\nImad ad-Din Zanghi"
LOADING_TIP_145: "It's better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.\nJohn Milton, 'Paradise Lost'"
LOADING_TIP_146: "Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power,\nfor he may afterwards become your friend.\nMoslih Eddin Saadi"
LOADING_TIP_147: "It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.\nApache Proverb"
LOADING_TIP_148: "All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.\nLuo Guangzhong"
LOADING_TIP_149: "The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.\nAnd who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?\nAlexander Solzhenitsyn"
LOADING_TIP_150: "Laws are never as effective as habits.\nAdlai Stevenson"
LOADING_TIP_151: "Being against evil doesn't make you good.\nErnest Hemingway"- 4
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