1836 Improved

[Ayetach]

Any plans on releasing a new version for this mod? I'm intrigued by the map changes.

[Andrelvis]

Patagonia is once again terra nullius, as even in the 1870s it was considered to belong to no-one. I’ll write a decision for Argentina and Chile that gives them the techs to colonize the place if they haven’t got them by 1870.

AFAIK it isn't possible to give techs by events or decisions.

[Arcvalons]

Hi. I think most of north Mexico should be up for grabs too. Mexico should probably only control the coast of California, and the Southern halves of Arizona and New Mexico.

[raney875]

And they shouldn't be states either when the US wins them, maybe throw in a Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo event say during the war with Texas for the US, say war score 70 or better?

[Ayetach]

AFAIK it isn't possible to give techs by events or decisions.

Hmm.. What about awarding territories based on decisions or events? One could even have cores applied to those territories so it maintains the original countries status there.

[Andrelvis]

Hmm.. What about awarding territories based on decisions or events? One could even have cores applied to those territories so it maintains the original countries status there.

Both are possible.

[raney875]

I've been playing the mod with 1.3 patch, everything seems to work fine except Seward's Icebox causes the US to annex all of Russia. I copy/pasted the decision and events from 1.3 incase something had been mistyped but it does the same thing regardless, any ideas on what could be the cause?

[CaptRobau]

I've paid little attention to this mod for a while, but since so many of you are playing it, I'll try to get a new version out.

I'll have to look into your problem raney. It probably has something to do with the Alaskan provinces being rearranged and the decision conflicting with it.

[Hashoosh]

Does Canada still have a core on Labrador? Because they really shouldn't, it was added OTL in 1947, being a British colony and then independent country until bankruptcy.

[Arcvalons]

And they shouldn't be states either when the US wins them, maybe throw in a Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo event say during the war with Texas for the US, say war score 70 or better?

In any case, they should be colonies. They were not Mexican states, they were Mexican territories.

[raney875]

In any case, they should be colonies. They were not Mexican states, they were Mexican territories.

+1

[CaptRobau]

I'm currently working on a second beta release. I've got most of it done. All that I need to do is fix/create events. I plan to release it somewhere this week. To get you excited I've posted a changelog and a map with most of the changes that the mod makes on it.

Beta 2 Changelog:
-American Mexico except Texas are now territories
-Beefed Egypt's military techs
-Fixed Seward's Icebox
-Fixed liferating in Tarfaya, Pogobi and Longreach
-Halshenhai is now empty, Chinese cores remain, events changed accordingly
-Acre is now empty, Peruvian and Bolivian cores
-Tasmania now British
-New countries have armies
-Norway given techs and a small navy
-Removed Canadian cores in Labrador and Newfoundland
-Increased relations to stop 1836 wars

Map (click to enlarge):

[CaptRobau]

I'm busy with my bachelor thesis but I've made some progress in the last two days. A lot of fixes. Relatively big news (in that I tried a lot of other ways on how to do it) is that I managed to find a way how to get Patagonia and Araucania colonized by Argentina and Chile respectively. I've added big weights that will result in both countries diverting a lot of research attention to the liferating techs. I'd say it's now at least a fifty-fifty chance that those countries get their areas instead of the UK or other Great Powers. Which is better than the 0-100 it was before.

Also, I'm thinking of incorporating OHGamer's Region Mod into the mod. Anyone got any experience with the mod? Does it disrupt balance much?

EDIT: I also made Colorado and Oklahoma City into colonies instead of terra nullius. There was never much dispute over who owned it, at least not on the scale of the V2 provinces. Mexico claimed parts of Colorado but that's not representable without redrawing the map. The regions were pretty empty but not really up for grabs. Allows the US to focus on getting her 49th Parallel border with Canada.

[ZomgK3tchup]

Also, I'm thinking of incorporating OHGamer's Region Mod into the mod. Anyone got any experience with the mod? Does it disrupt balance much?

Unfortunately, the defense bonus for rivers applies to almost every province with this mod.

Besides, the river mod is more of a graphics thing. If somebody wants it, they can put it in themselves. It's like when everybody was putting those country color changes into their gameplay mods for no reason.

[Kalelovil]

Region mod, not River mod.

[CaptRobau]

Kalelovil is right, I meant this one:

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/...12Oct10)/page5

The river mod is something people need to download themselves.

[Camara]

Portugal also owned Solor and had influence in the other nearby islands, but I don't know if that's enough to include all of Alor, it was sold to the Netherlands in 1851.

[oberstbrooksy]

Looks great!

Also this may be of interest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_Coast

[CaptRobau]

I won't do Solor because it's indeed too small a presence.

And the Mosquito Coast I would add if not for the fact that they controlled only a small part of the province I would have to give them.

Thanks to both of you for the info though.

[oberstbrooksy]

Yeah, some aspects of the regions layout has something to be desired.