Fantasia mod version 1.0

[Ciçatrix]

EDIT:

Version 1.5 is up.

Changes since version 1.0:
-Now uncolonised provinces have different native sizes, ferocity, aggresiveness and taxes levels.
-Pirates are more playable (they have a culture and a religion now)
-You now get a Idea slot at government level 0 instead of 1.

Download from same link as before.
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After about three hours of work figuring out how to make nearly all provinces uncolonised without having to spend 20 years clicking through each (I ended up writing a program), I finally completed my Fantasia mod:

http://cisatrix.googlepages.com/Fantasia.zip

You can play as Sweden or the Pirates, and you start off only having explored about three provinces, so you have the whole of the game to explore and colonise the rest of the world.

NOTE TO PEOPLE ON SLOWER SYSTEMS: This mod will make your game run lighning-fast, as there is only one AI nation, so you will probably notice a threefold increase in days per second (At least I did).

Enjoy, and happy colonising.

[Therlun]

While I finde the idea to base a mod on the exploration of the "real" world odd...

Thx.

[rcduggan]

can we have some screenies?

[Ciçatrix]

Here are some screenshots:
Country selection screen:
http://cisatrix.googlepages.com/load...creen-full.jpg
Inital setup as Sweden:
http://cisatrix.googlepages.com/init...setup-full.jpg
One of approximately 1200 uncolonised provinces:
http://cisatrix.googlepages.com/nati...vince-full.jpg

And there are also the Pirates in the Caribbean who are playable. They are slightly overpowered, as the pirate tag doesn't suffer attrition, but hey, this is Fantasia.

[Tri.Will]

This is great. Thank you.

[Ciçatrix]

Version 1.5 is up.

Changes since version 1.0:
-Now uncolonised provinces have different native sizes, ferocity, aggresiveness and taxes levels.
-Pirates are more playable (they have a culture and a religion now)
-You now get a Idea slot at government level 0 instead of 1.

Download from same link as before.

[Arctic-X]

well i takes about 50 years to get 5 colonies.. and i thought that this would have elfs and new techs and stuff.

[Nimic]

It could be worth playing if you only included a few more nations to play. Seems a bit pointless to play completely on your own.

[AdmiralNelson]

It could be worth playing if you only included a few more nations to play. Seems a bit pointless to play completely on your own.

Yes. Couldn't agree more.

If I knew how to do this...I'd replicate the EUII Fantasia scenario myself.

[Lloyien]

I'm with Nimic and the Admiral on this. I played through 1720 by sheer endurance alone, and I still haven't expanded beyond the Russian coast. Personally, I think it may be best if there were at least ten countries in Europe, and probably a sleugh elsewhere, too. As it stands, the Pirates don't seem to colonize at all, so there aren't any developments in the Caribbean, either.

[AdmiralNelson]

I'm with Nimic and the Admiral on this. I played through 1720 by sheer endurance alone, and I still haven't expanded beyond the Russian coast. Personally, I think it may be best if there were at least ten countries in Europe, and probably a sleugh elsewhere, too. As it stands, the Pirates don't seem to colonize at all, so there aren't any developments in the Caribbean, either.

Suggested nations for Europe + Mediterranean: England/Ireland/Scotland (only one, preferably), France (or somebody in that area), Germany (also possibly Netherlands), Italy, Spain/Portugal (two Iberian powers would be too much, I think...Catalunya was the original Iberian power), Hungary, Sweden/Norway/Denmark (preferably Sweden ), Russia (p'raps a northern Russian (Muscovy) and a southern Russian (Ukraine/Crimea) power), Byzantium/Ottoman Empire (I would prefer Ottomans), some North African nation (Tunis would be my pick, Egypt/Mameluks were in the original)

Everywhere else...China's got to be in there...Indian/Persian power (both if you want)...South African nation...Incas were in the original...Iroquois...maybe Aztecs, too...wouldn't mind a Mataram or Indonesian/Southeast Asian power somebody to colonize all those Islands in the Pacific...you can have your Pirates, if you want, just make sure they explore and colonize like they should.

[Bastian_Bux]

Basic math:

1789-153 = 336 years time
~ 1200 unsettled provinces
10 settlers per province minimum

1200/336 ~ 3,6 provinces per year
-> 36+ settlers per year

Catholic or Reformed +2,0 colonists/year
full narrow minded +2,0 colonists/year
full free trade +2,0 colonists/year
full naval +2,0 colonists/year
3 x 5 star colonist specialist +3,0 colonists/year

-> 9 colonists/year

So you need 4 perfect coloniser nations with a 100% chance on ANY colonisation attempt to settle the whole world.

A more pragmatic approach would be like:

20-30 settlers per province
-> 70-100 colonists per year
in average +2 colonists per year and nation
-> 35-50 nations each settling 25 - 35 provinces

Placing all of them in Europe wouldn't be too smart, though if you place non-catholic nations, you'll need more in general.

[AdmiralNelson]

Basic math:

1789-153 = 336 years time
~ 1200 unsettled provinces
10 settlers per province minimum

1200/336 ~ 3,6 provinces per year
-> 36+ settlers per year

Catholic or Reformed +2,0 colonists/year
full narrow minded +2,0 colonists/year
full free trade +2,0 colonists/year
full naval +2,0 colonists/year
3 x 5 star colonist specialist +3,0 colonists/year

-> 9 colonists/year

So you need 4 perfect coloniser nations with a 100% chance on ANY colonisation attempt to settle the whole world.

A more pragmatic approach would be like:

20-30 settlers per province
-> 70-100 colonists per year
in average +2 colonists per year and nation
-> 35-50 nations each settling 25 - 35 provinces

Placing all of them in Europe wouldn't be too smart, though if you place non-catholic nations, you'll need more in general.

The EUII Fantasia scenario provided a colonist every month regardless of your nation, I think.

[Bastian_Bux]

Yeah, but also there you couldn't hope to settle all of the world.

I'll look into this mod, and if its easy work get it done with 50 civs on all continents. Don't expect complete fairness though.

[Bastian_Bux]

Well, I replaced Sweden with 23 nations... all those that have a CoT in 1453.

Its not balanced, its not fair, its probably still not enough to settle the world. Its for sure buggy (I made this late at night in 1 hour). But its a start.

Download can be found here

[Nimic]

Well, I replaced Sweden with 23 nations... all those that have a CoT in 1453.

Its not balanced, its not fair, its probably still not enough to settle the world. Its for sure buggy (I made this late at night in 1 hour). But its a start.

Download can be found here

Excellent! I'll give it a go right away. Doesn't matter if it's not perfect, always more time to fix it.

Edit: That is, if I could get it to work. There seems to be something wrong with the launcher. Register and Check for update are grayed out, and Fantasia isn't under mods.

[AdmiralNelson]

Excellent! I'll give it a go right away. Doesn't matter if it's not perfect, always more time to fix it.

I'll try this later tonight (maybe). Maybe sometime Sunday, maybe some other time completely...but probably tonight.





Possibly.

[Ciçatrix]

Excellent, people are building on this mod. I guess I laid the groundwork by making blank provinces, but if anyone wants that script, I can upload it as well.

Personally I don't mind being alone in the world, but I guess I will try the 23 nation version.

[Duuk]

It could be worth playing if you only included a few more nations to play. Seems a bit pointless to play completely on your own.

I made a fantasia mod for EU2. Might have to make one for EU3.

I think I had 16 playables spread across the whole world.

[Bastian_Bux]

Nimic, I can't reproduce your problem. The mod runs well for me, with two bugs I've found yet:

- Venice uses Genoa as CoT. But in the file it HAS its own CoT. No idea whats wrong
- The Timurid Empire owns both Samarkand and Hormuz. Easy repaired: replace the ownership TIM in Samarkand with SHY

Away from this it seems that the AI is not able to play appropriately. So its probably necessary to add even more nations to save this mod from being boring.

What I need is input about the basics. For now I assume that you in average need 20 settlers per province. With an average of 2 settlers a year you need 10 years per province. So to settle all 1200 provinces, you need 12000 nation years, or 36 nations. If you wish to have earlier conflicts, you'll need more nations.

I'd say 36 is the minimum number of nations needed. The maximum would be reached when every nation that has a tag in the game is represented.